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NeuroLogica Blog
Update on AI Art It’s been a while since I discussed artificial intelligence (AI) generated art here. What I have...
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It’s been a while since I discussed artificial intelligence (AI) generated art here. What I have said in the past is that AI art appears a bit soulless and there are details it has difficulty creating without bizarre distortions (hands are particularly difficult). But I also...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Last Day Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Please click the annoying ad so I can make more...
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Please click the annoying ad so I can make more books and then make more annoying ads. Today's News: <3
xkcd.com
Log Alignment
11 months ago
Rest of World -...
TikTok follow-up Lemon8 is flopping in the U.S. Users complain the ByteDance app feels inorganic and curated, prioritizing the needs of influencers...
a year ago
TheCollector
Edward Longshanks & the Conquest of Wales undefined
11 months ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Titan Disaster and Risk vs Benefit There has been a lot of discussion regarding the recent disaster of the Titan submersible. Was the...
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There has been a lot of discussion regarding the recent disaster of the Titan submersible. Was the risk justified? Who should be responsible for the safety issues? Who should be on the hook for the millions of dollars the rescue effort took? And why did this tragedy garner more...
Classical Wisdom
Why Did Rome Fall? & Which Lesson Should We Take Away?
a year ago
Laetitia@Work
Artist vs Artisan: what's the difference? Laetitia@Work #44
over a year ago
The Map is Mostly...
School is Not Enough Learning is a consequence of doing
a month ago
Josh Comeau's blog
A Friendly Introduction to Spring Physics Of all the little tips and techniques I've picked up over the years about animation, spring physics...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Of all the little tips and techniques I've picked up over the years about animation, spring physics remains one of the most powerful and flexible. In this tutorial, we'll learn how to harness their power to build fluid, organic transitions.
TheCollector
The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies? undefined
7 months ago
TheCollector
The Mexican Escape of European Surrealists During World War II undefined
2 months ago
The Modern House
Inside the light-filled rural hideaway of legendary artists Langlands &amp; Bell
6 months ago
Dominik Sobe's...
You want everything at once – me too
11 months ago
samwho.dev
Load Balancing .simulation { width: 100%; display: flex; justify-content: center; align-items:...
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.simulation { width: 100%; display: flex; justify-content: center; align-items: center; margin-bottom: 2.5em; } .load-balancer { color: black; font-weight: bold; } .request { color: #04BF8A; font-weight: bold; } .server { color:...
ntietz.com blog
Names should be cute, not descriptive A long-standing debate between me and a peer at work has been how we should name services. His...
a year ago
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a year ago
A long-standing debate between me and a peer at work has been how we should name services. His position was always that services should be named something descriptive, so that you can infer from the name what it does. My position is that the name should definitely not be...
Arduino Blog
5 ways to use Arduino with kids One of the great things about making is that it really is for everyone — every budget, every skill...
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One of the great things about making is that it really is for everyone — every budget, every skill level, and every age group. Children are one of the groups that can benefit the most from Arduino. Getting exposed to making and home automation from an early age can be enormously...
Patterns in Humanity
Mental Health and Social Stratification In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and...
a year ago
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a year ago
In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and discuss some of the implications for social stratification.
computers are bad
2024-04-26 microsoft at work I haven't written anything for a bit. I'm not apologizing, because y'all don't pay me enough to...
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I haven't written anything for a bit. I'm not apologizing, because y'all don't pay me enough to apologize, but I do feel a little bad. Part of it is just that I've been busy, with work and travel and events. Part of it is that I've embarked on a couple of writing projects only to...
Castles in the Sky
To go and lay down in that sense of it. Castles in the Sky #45
10 months ago
bt RSS Feed
Schools Should Be Using Open Source Software Schools Should Be Using Open Source Software 2022-05-30 I firmly believe that proprietary software...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Schools Should Be Using Open Source Software 2022-05-30 I firmly believe that proprietary software has no business in any school environment. Educational institutions lean heavily on Windows systems in the name of “security” or “easier platform management”. This approach forces...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Unsupervised Learning: Randomized Optimization Hill Climbing, Simulated Annealing, Genetic Algorithms, oh my!
over a year ago
Blog posts of...
Peter Thiel’s Startup Class Notes as PDF @bgmasters created an awesome series of blog posts covering his notes of Peter Thiel’s startup class...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
@bgmasters created an awesome series of blog posts covering his notes of Peter Thiel’s startup class CS183. Personally i try to re...
Maps Mania
AI Map Markers
a year ago
Liz Denys
Liz rides the subway on May 31, 2016: 'innocent until proven guilty' gives cover to abusers Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment to get me to write more. The ride home after yet another day hearing someone famous has been abusing a woman in his life: Content warning: abuse, rape Johnny Depp has allegedly been...
Seth's Blog
The ghost in the machine “The computer wants you to click this button.” “It thinks you asked for something else.” “He’s mad...
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a year ago
“The computer wants you to click this button.” “It thinks you asked for something else.” “He’s mad at you.” Thousands of generations ago, we evolved our way into a magnificent hack. It turns out that we can more safely navigate the world by imagining that other people have a...
Contemporist...
Rough And Rugged Materials Are Combined With Modern Forms On This Home Arno Schuurs and Paulien van Noort of design-build firm GetAway Projects BV, has shared photos of a...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Arno Schuurs and Paulien van Noort of design-build firm GetAway Projects BV, has shared photos of a new home they designed in Gorssel, The Netherlands.
Making software...
Write HTML Like It's 1999 Write HTML Like It's 1999 2019-06-06 I am sure it's safe to say that most developers love to use the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Write HTML Like It's 1999 2019-06-06 I am sure it's safe to say that most developers love to use the latest and greatest web tools available. Helpful resources such as preprocessors, template engines, syntax formatters - you name it - can all make a developer's life easier....
Laetitia@Work
Back-to-school impostor syndrome Laetitia@Work #50
over a year ago
Cheese and Biscuits
The London Shell Co., Highgate The first time I went to the London Shell Co., I hated it. This was nothing to do with the food, and...
a year ago
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a year ago
The first time I went to the London Shell Co., I hated it. This was nothing to do with the food, and everything to do with my aversion to anything boaty, and being trapped on one for the best part of 2 1/2 hours as it punted around the dark, damp Regent's canal in the middle of...
Open Culture
Hear the Very First Adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984 in a Radio Play Starring David Niven (1949) Since George Orwell published his landmark political fable 1984, each generation has found ample...
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4 months ago
Since George Orwell published his landmark political fable 1984, each generation has found ample reason to make reference to the grim near-future envisioned by the novel. Whether Orwell had some prophetic vision or was simply a very astute reader of the institutions of his...
Old Structures...
Not Extremely Enough The New York Times recently published “An Extremely Detailed Map of New York City Neighborhoods” and...
a year ago
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a year ago
The New York Times recently published “An Extremely Detailed Map of New York City Neighborhoods” and an accompanying “Extremely Detailed Guide to the Extremely Detailed Map of New York City Neighborhoods.” They are not information about the neighborhoods themselves, but rather...
TheCollector
11 Greek Mythological Creatures undefined
11 months ago
Build In Public...
Build In Public: Spotlight Edition (Nate Washington) Hi everyone, welcome to the latest spotlight edition of the Build In Public newsletter. Every week,...
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Hi everyone, welcome to the latest spotlight edition of the Build In Public newsletter. Every week, I interview one prolific creator or founder and unpack insights, strategies, and actionable advice from their story that can be helpful in your own journey.
Cheese and Biscuits
The Terrace, Yarmouth, Isle of Wight The Terrace restaurant in Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight is situated not just handily near the ferry...
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over a year ago
The Terrace restaurant in Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight is situated not just handily near the ferry terminal, but literally on top of it, the outside dining area (or Terrace, if you will) regularly enveloped in shade as the giant Lymington ferry pulls alongside. This means that...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Full stack startups Many of today's most exciting startups were tried before in a different form. Suppose you develop a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Many of today's most exciting startups were tried before in a different form. Suppose you develop a new technology that is valuable to some…
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
a year ago
TheCollector
Existential Crisis: What Is It and How Can We Overcome It? undefined
a year ago
Good Enough
TIL: Tapback Keyboard Shortcuts If you use Mac, and you use Messages on your Mac, you will probably know that in the not-too-distant...
a year ago
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a year ago
If you use Mac, and you use Messages on your Mac, you will probably know that in the not-too-distant past, simple reactions to messages were added: what Apple calls Tapbacks. These are great for a quick way to say yes (or no, or WTF!?!), but they are a bit of a pain to actually...
The American Scholar
Last Laugh The post Last Laugh appeared first on The American Scholar.
5 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Quick Notification In Search of Homer
2 months ago
Londonist
Paws On The Wharf: Free Guide Dogs Sculpture Trail Coming To London Another free art trail for a fantastic cause.
10 months ago
diamond geezer
First and last quiz First and last quiz All answers now in the comments box. chemical element 1) Ac 2) Be 3) Ce 4)...
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a year ago
First and last quiz All answers now in the comments box. chemical element 1) Ac 2) Be 3) Ce 4) Cn 5) Cr 6) Fe 7) Gd 8) In 9) Sn  tube station 10) At 11) Ct 12) Fd 13) Hr 14) Ld 15) Mn 16) Ne 17) Rr 18) St 19) Tk 20) Ww   UK city 21) Ah 22) Bt 23) Cd 24) Dr 25) Ld 26) Nt 27)...
The Modern House
Our guide to Herne Hill and Tulse Hill: vibrant markets and outdoor swimming in south London
a year ago
Wanderingspace
Dust Storm On Mars A dust storm in Olympia Planum's north polar dune fields was triggered by a late Martian summer cold...
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8 months ago
A dust storm in Olympia Planum's north polar dune fields was triggered by a late Martian summer cold front. As the northern polar cap shrinks fast, it releases cold air that sometimes moves south, like on Earth. These cold fronts strengthen in late summer and early fall due to...
diamond geezer
Taking the piss In an ideal world every TfL station would have toilet facilities but the truth is you're more likely...
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In an ideal world every TfL station would have toilet facilities but the truth is you're more likely to be caught short. announce "bold plans to grow and improve toilet provision" because that'd be a very good thing. The press release promised "investment totalling £3m per year...
Rest of World -...
“Gig reviewers” are endorsing fake products for quick cash in Brazil For a few dollars, paid reviewers will record a video vouching for anything. Scammers love them.
a year ago
Diaries of Note
I covered my face and wept American nurse Clara Barton emerged as a hero during the Civil War, her tireless efforts in...
a year ago
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a year ago
American nurse Clara Barton emerged as a hero during the Civil War, her tireless efforts in providing medical care and supplies to those on the front lines earning her the title, “Angel of the Battlefield.” After the war her good deeds continued, and she dedicated her time to...
Grow With Less
10 Proven Meta Descriptions Templates Top Blogs Use to Get More Clicks I face the same problem every time I need to write a meta description. I have no idea where to...
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over a year ago
I face the same problem every time I need to write a meta description. I have no idea where to start. Should I first mention the problem the article is solving? Should I use a call-to-action? Is it bad to repeat what I already wrote in the headline? To find out, I analyzed...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Rachael Haggerty Hello, I’m Rachael and I am a printmaker based in Bath, UK. I generally work with linocut and mainly...
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Hello, I’m Rachael and I am a printmaker based in Bath, UK. I generally work with linocut and mainly print in monochrome or bright primary colours. My work celebrates family life, nature and the local area. Describe your printmaking process. I normally sketch out a composition...
diamond geezer
Tractor Tax Protest Thousands of farmers, countryfolk and their supporters were in central London yesterday to protest...
a month ago
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a month ago
Thousands of farmers, countryfolk and their supporters were in central London yesterday to protest against the imposition of inheritance tax on farmland. You could tell something was up by the number of people in Barbour jackets, tweed caps and sensible outerwear milling around...
The Honest Broker
Why Did Social Media Go to War Against Writers? And can we ever get along?
a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
There’s Meaning in the Ordering of the Web’s Tech Stack I was watching Zach’s presentation at JSHeroes 2023, “The Good, The Bad, and The Web Components”,...
a year ago
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a year ago
I was watching Zach’s presentation at JSHeroes 2023, “The Good, The Bad, and The Web Components”, and a subtle point stuck out to me at the ending of his talk. When you run into performance problems, it's [because you tried] to reorder these things or combine them in weird...
Steve Klabnik
On leftist infighting
over a year ago
Open Culture
Explore the World’s First 3D Replica of St. Peter’s Basilica, Made with AI In the trailer below for the world’s first 3D replica of St. Peter’s Basilica, Yves Ubelmann speaks...
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In the trailer below for the world’s first 3D replica of St. Peter’s Basilica, Yves Ubelmann speaks of using “AI for Good,” which isn’t just an ideal, but also the name of a lab at Microsoft. Microsoft and Ubelman’s digital-preservation company Iconem were two of the participants...
Liz Denys
Inbox by Gmail's accidentally abusive algorithm The modern world really loves to use little algorithms here and there to help us speed things up....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The modern world really loves to use little algorithms here and there to help us speed things up. Inbox by Gmail is no exception. Inbox has a concept of "speed dial" - an algorithmically determined set of "frequent" contacts that appears when hovering over the compose button: In...
Retail Design Blog
Day and Night Park by CATS In late 2022, the independent bookstore Jetlag Books, based in Beijing, approached us with a...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
In late 2022, the independent bookstore Jetlag Books, based in Beijing, approached us with a collaboration opportunity with the Swire...
TheCollector
The Rise and Fall of Behaviorism: Are We More Than Machines? undefined
a year ago
History Today Feed
‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review ‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review JamesHoare Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:27
6 months ago
Strange Loop Canon
The agent principal problem "Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome."
a year ago
Liz Denys
A little taste of fall and home: pumpkin muffins I grew up on pumpkin muffins. Every fall, without fail, my mom would make them by the dozens in her...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I grew up on pumpkin muffins. Every fall, without fail, my mom would make them by the dozens in her heart-shaped muffin mold, and I'd eat them for breakfast, sneak them into my lunchbox, frost them for dessert after dinner, and snack on them off courts at tennis meets. But I...
Paul Graham: Essays
Why It's Safe for Founders to Be Nice
over a year ago
One Useful Thing
How to... use AI to unstick yourself We often lose momentum because of something small. AI can help.
a year ago
TheCollector
Ivar the Boneless: History, TV Portrayals, and Viking Legends undefined
2 weeks ago
Londonist
Metro Memory: The Addictive Tube Game You're Going To Be Playing All Week "Just five more minutes..."
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ambition Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You can't see it but he's wiping his eyes on...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You can't see it but he's wiping his eyes on Georgia O'Keeffe originals. Today's News: Of all the compliments on the new book so far, kind words from Jonathan McDowell mean the most. Or, well, anyway, tied with the nice stuff Mary...
Julia Evans
Some miscellaneous git facts I’ve been very slowly working on writing about how Git works. I thought I already knew Git pretty...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’ve been very slowly working on writing about how Git works. I thought I already knew Git pretty well, but as usual when I try to explain something I’ve been learning some new things. None of these things feel super surprising in retrospect, but I hadn’t thought about them...
Classical Wisdom
[Ebook] The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Meditations (or Things to One’s Self) of Marcus Aurelius...
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The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Meditations (or Things to One’s Self) of Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) gives you a prescribed way in which you can actually reduce genuine suffering in your life because Rome’s great “philosopher king” lays out a very compelling, very...
The Rational Walk
American Prometheus The tragic story of J. Robert Oppenheimer encompasses far more than science and politics. It is a...
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The tragic story of J. Robert Oppenheimer encompasses far more than science and politics. It is a cautionary tale of human nature that holds timeless lessons.
The Modern House
Architects Mariia Pashenko and Koen Schaballie on the radical reinvention of their Victorian home in...
a year ago
TheCollector
What Were the Most Controversial Suffragette Protests? undefined
4 months ago
diamond geezer
Notes from the SL1 Notes from the SL1 Route SL1: North Finchley - Walthamstow Central Length of journey: 10 miles, 50...
a year ago
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a year ago
Notes from the SL1 Route SL1: North Finchley - Walthamstow Central Length of journey: 10 miles, 50 minutes • The SL1 is the second new Superloop route, as opposed to a rebrand. It's also the first, numerically speaking, although nobody has ever satisfactorily explained why...
Posts on Made of...
Git in pictures In my previous blog post, I discussed how git is distinctive among version control system in the way...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In my previous blog post, I discussed how git is distinctive among version control system in the way in which it makes the backend model that is being used to store data the most important element of the tool, and that experts use it by having the complete model in their head,...
Irrational...
Measuring an engineering organization. For the past several years, I’ve run a learning circle with engineering executives. The most...
a year ago
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a year ago
For the past several years, I’ve run a learning circle with engineering executives. The most frequent topic that comes up is career management–what should I do next? The second most frequent topic is measuring engineering teams and organizations–my CEO has asked me to report...
Liz Denys
Save your old bio: it stores confidence as well as content I cringe at having to describe myself or write my own bios. No matter how casually an email, site,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I cringe at having to describe myself or write my own bios. No matter how casually an email, site, or form says "introduce yourself, no pressure," I shrink back. How do I convince myself that other people find who I am or what I do interesting? I found myself asking this question...
Diaries of Note
Blood, sweat and tears Sir John Colville served three Prime Ministers as private secretary, most notably to Winston...
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Sir John Colville served three Prime Ministers as private secretary, most notably to Winston Churchill during the tumultuous years of World War II, and in this capacity had a front-row seat to some of the most consequential decisions and events of the 20th century. His diaries,...
Darek Kay
Building a photography website Last year, I started a photography hobby. Soon after, I've created a place where I can share some of...
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Last year, I started a photography hobby. Soon after, I've created a place where I can share some of my work, without any attention-driven algorithms dictating the terms. Here's a technical write-up of my journey. Table of...
On the Arts
The Paradox of the Garden of Eden An Interview with Professor David Fenner
a year ago
Explorations of an...
A Quest Nature Tour To Borneo: Tabin Wildlife Reserve And Danum Valley We left the Kinabatangan River behind and transferred to our next destination, the Tabin Wildlife...
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We left the Kinabatangan River behind and transferred to our next destination, the Tabin Wildlife Reserve. This is the largest swath of protected forest; an area of lowland primary and logged forest that is home to iconic species like the Bornean Pygmy Elephant, the Sun Bear and...
Paul Graham: Essays
A Local Revolution?
over a year ago
Dustin Curtis
Block Carefully A couple of years ago, I posted a slight criticism of Elon Musk that led prominent venture...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
A couple of years ago, I posted a slight criticism of Elon Musk that led prominent venture capitalist Marc Andreessen to block me. Since then, I have been unable to view his posts1, which is a shame because I valued his thoughts and opinions. Today, X engineering announced...
Castles in the Sky
The Best Things I Read or Watched in April 2024 | Castles in the Sky Links These are all the best things I read and watched in April 2024. If you open this in a browser, you...
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These are all the best things I read and watched in April 2024. If you open this in a browser, you can click the link to take you straight to that part of the article. Cosmographia by M. E. Rothwell “On reaching the age of the TV anti-hero” by Erik Hoel
Rest of World -...
How Urban Company built an empire of female gig workers By disrupting the age-old home services industry, the Indian unicorn offered many women a rare...
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By disrupting the age-old home services industry, the Indian unicorn offered many women a rare opportunity for social mobility. Now, they want more.
CONTEMPORIST
Contemporary Japanese Design Blends Seamlessly With Tropical Modernism In This New Home Architecture firm Alexis Dornier Makings has shared photos of a private residence in Berawa, Bali,...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Architecture firm Alexis Dornier Makings has shared photos of a private residence in Berawa, Bali, that they completed which seamlessly blends contemporary Japanese design with tropical modernism. The centerpiece of ‘The Free Bird Project’ is a living room positioned above the...
TheCollector
Who Was Jane Addams? The First Female Nobel Peace Prize Winner undefined
a year ago
Posts on Made of...
Check Plus: An EDSL for writing unit tests in C Check is an excellent unit-testing framework for C code, used by a number of relatively well-known...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Check is an excellent unit-testing framework for C code, used by a number of relatively well-known projects. It includes features such as running all tests in separate address spaces (using fork(2)), which means that the test suite can properly report segfaults or similar crashes...
99% Invisible
Melanie Speaks [EPISODE] Swan Real is in this week for Roman Mars, asking: “What makes you sound the way you do? Maybe you’ve...
a year ago
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a year ago
Swan Real is in this week for Roman Mars, asking: “What makes you sound the way you do? Maybe you’ve been told that you speak like your mom, or that you laugh like your uncle. Maybe you sometimes slip back into an accent that reveals something about your past. Maybe you have a...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
You Can't Make Friends With The Rockstars You cannot make friends with the rock stars...if you're going to be a true journalist, you know, a...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
You cannot make friends with the rock stars...if you're going to be a true journalist, you know, a rock journalist. First, you never get paid much, but you will get free records from the record company. [There’s] fuckin’ nothin' about you that is
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Advice on Blogging In Manuel’s series People and Blogs, he asked me: Given your experience, if you were to start a blog...
a year ago
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a year ago
In Manuel’s series People and Blogs, he asked me: Given your experience, if you were to start a blog today, would you do anything differently? I gave my answer, but I wanted to expand on it. These kinds of questions are interesting to me. As readers, I think the answer we’re...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
What carries you up will also bring you down In Rules of Thumb, Alan Weber quotes legendary venture capitalist John Doerr discussing the original...
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In Rules of Thumb, Alan Weber quotes legendary venture capitalist John Doerr discussing the original business plans for companies he…
The Map is Mostly...
Everything I know about gardening I have been sharing pictures of flowers growing around my house, mostly little things like poppies...
a year ago
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a year ago
I have been sharing pictures of flowers growing around my house, mostly little things like poppies and roses, or my fields, and several people have asked me to write about gardening, or for gardening advice. But this request encounters a ridiculous shortcoming: I know almost...
African History...
Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900) Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus...
a year ago
Retail Design Blog
CIFI Sales Center Park Mansion by Ippolito Fleitz Group Purchasing at the source – CIFI is one of China’s leading real estate developers. The project in...
4 months ago
Retail Design Blog
July James Street Store by In Addition July draws inspiration from the breezy outdoor spirit of Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley, where leisure,...
3 months ago
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July draws inspiration from the breezy outdoor spirit of Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley, where leisure, lifestyle, and experience enrich the built...
A Beautiful Site
The Term "Headless Component" is a Misnomer You've likely heard the term "headless component" tossed around. The idea is you get solid,...
a year ago
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a year ago
You've likely heard the term "headless component" tossed around. The idea is you get solid, accessible components without any styles. A clean slate to style from scratch! But the structure (bones) and logic (head) are there. You're mostly adding styles. They should be called...
swyx's site RSS Feed
My New Startup Checklist some of you may know I've recently started a new company. I'm not ready to talk about -that- yet,...
a year ago
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some of you may know I've recently started a new company. I'm not ready to talk about -that- yet, but I did want to capture some notes on logistical stuff I have had to ramp up on as a first time founder. hopefully this helps somebody out there.
Old Structures...
Half Of A Grand Commercial Palace 380 Broadway has architecture above its station. It was built in 1860 with retail space at the base...
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380 Broadway has architecture above its station. It was built in 1860 with retail space at the base and loft space above, but it’s got that grand marble-veneer facade on the upper floors and some very nice cast iron by Daniel Badger at the first floor. It’s fortunes have followed...
Julia Evans
ASCII control characters in my terminal Hello! I’ve been thinking about the terminal a lot and yesterday I got curious about all these...
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Hello! I’ve been thinking about the terminal a lot and yesterday I got curious about all these “control codes”, like Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-W, etc. What’s the deal with all of them? a table of ASCII control characters Here’s a table of all 33 ASCII control characters, and what they...
The Honest Broker
12 Outstanding New Albums by 12 Artists from 12 Countries These under-the-radar records absolutely deserve your attention
a year ago
Working Theorys
Don't Build a Social Network, Build a Social Utility | Theory No. 21 We often think of “social products” as synonymous with “social networks,” but they’re not. Social...
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We often think of “social products” as synonymous with “social networks,” but they’re not. Social networks are just a subset of social products, though arguably the most popular and lucrative kind that we’ve become used to hearing about. But I think it’s the wrong time to build a...
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Beware value capture Tech apps influence our behaviour through metrics. Don't follow them blindly.
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Noahpinion
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I would like to find and support a slate of candidates for the 2018 California elections, and also to find someone to run a ballot initiative focused on affordable housing in the state.  A team of aligned people has a chance to make a real change. I believe in creating prosperity...
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The purpose of this writeup was to summarize something interesting I learned recently, to make sure I understood it. I figured others might find it interesting, too. ~ ~ ~ Digital signal processing corrects for errors better than its analog counterpart. This is one of the...
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Falling obesity; the red-state boom; U.S. housing supply; men avoiding college; China's economic goals; implicit taxes on the poor; Garcia interviews Krugman and Cowen interviews Scanlon
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The shift to music streaming has led to songs getting shorter, music getting less melodically diverse and lyrics getting more repetitive. Or to put it another way, just as our visual culture has become more homogeneous, so too has the music that accompanies it. Let’s run...
Handprinted - Blog
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Did you know that Cyanotype prints don't always have to be blue? They can be toned and even bleached to alter their colour. The key is to use anything with a high tannin content. Tannins are commonly found in the bark of trees, leaves, buds, stems, fruits, seeds, roots, and plant...
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Physicians and Pharma Marketing | Out-Of-Pocket oh we getting that drug money
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Math Is Still...
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Optical neural networks, which use photons instead of electrons, have advantages over traditional systems. They also face major obstacles. The post AI Needs Enormous Computing Power. Could Light-Based Chips Help? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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One of my favorite views of tall buildings, again: in the fog. New York Bay has more than it’s fair share of fog, and sometimes it creeps back up into the city. We had one of those days last week.
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For a project I with a Raspberry Pi (Zero W) needed a simple and easy input device to change a numerical value. So I bought some rotary encoders off Amazon.If you search the Internet for information/tutorials on how to use a “KY-040” rotary encoder with Linux and the Raspberry...
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The French mathematician spent decades developing a set of tools now widely used for taming random processes. The post Michel Talagrand Wins Abel Prize for Work Wrangling Randomness first appeared on Quanta Magazine
The Modern House
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Walk into an office, and the person behind the desk begins an interaction. You respond (or react). They respond (or react) in turn. Answer the phone. Caller ID tells you who it is–are you smiling? How much enthusiasm or disdain or annoyance or delight comes through? The caller...
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Context Like many businesses operating online, we at Tinloof decided to explore SEO to attract more leads. Seeing the numerous SEO gurus on LinkedIn and Twitter, one might think it's worth a shot to try this approach, hoping to strike gold when search engines place your website...
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Since the beginning of Buffer, we've always shared all of our learnings and failures. Over time this developed into a more defined goal and principle as part of the values of the company [http://www.slideshare.net/Bufferapp/buffer-culture-04]. Since we defined our value of...
Noahpinion
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Apple intelligence and AI maximalism Apple has showed a bunch of cool ideas for generative AI, but much more, it is pointing to most of...
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Apple has showed a bunch of cool ideas for generative AI, but much more, it is pointing to most of the big questions and proposing a different answer - that LLMs are commodity infrastructure, not platforms or products.
Noahpinion
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A Beautiful Site
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I spent some time last week working on a free CSS boilerplate I'm calling Shoelace.css. It's kinda like Bootstrap, but a lot leaner and pure CSS. You don't need a preprocessor like Sass or Less to use it, but it's still highly customizable with CSS variables. I'm calling Shoelace...
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Weekly publications to teach you about the technology that governs our society and how it impacts you. Coming in August!
Seth's Blog
No thank you Failing to acknowledge a favor or a courtesy is a triple mistake, and it’s becoming more common....
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Failing to acknowledge a favor or a courtesy is a triple mistake, and it’s becoming more common. ChatGPT is now promoting the idea that it can write a thank you note for you, and a text is a lot easier than a handwritten note, and yet, the level of ‘thank you’ seems to be...
TheCollector
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Say you were a fan of Steven Spielberg’s moving coming-of-age drama Empire of the Sun, set in a Japanese internment camp during World War II and starring a young Christian Bale. Say you read the autobiographical novel on which that film is based, written by one J.G. Ballard. Say...
Seth's Blog
Blame your tools Blame the clients. And blame the conditions. But then, you’re on the hook to get better tools, find...
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Blame the clients. And blame the conditions. But then, you’re on the hook to get better tools, find better clients and work in better conditions. It’s not convenient, but it’s possible. If it’s not worth the effort, we can simply accept what we’ve chosen and get back to work.
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My 2021 New Mac Setup I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
over a year ago
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Japan’s Stationery Award Offers a Return to the Primitive Early civilizations had it all figured out. At least according to the Kokuyo Design Awards, arguably...
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Early civilizations had it all figured out. At least according to the Kokuyo Design Awards, arguably Japan’s most-influential stationery design award, which this year asked designers to look to the past. “If we return to the idea of ‘primitive’ in order to create the future,”...
Working Theorys
Zero-Sum vs. Positive-Sum Product Theory | Theory No. 25 What kind of product are you building?
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London's Working Class History Celebrated With 8 Exciting New Projects Historic England announces new funding.
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2024-12-04 operators on the front At the very core of telephone history, there is the telephone operator. For a lot of people, the...
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At the very core of telephone history, there is the telephone operator. For a lot of people, the vague understanding that an operator used to be involved is the main thing they know about historic telephony. Of course, telephone historians, as a group, tend to be much more...
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Everyone is doing 1on1s wrong. I think. Our calendars are packed with meetings. We communicate mostly in 1on1on1on1 trains. Nobody is happy....
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Our calendars are packed with meetings. We communicate mostly in 1on1on1on1 trains. Nobody is happy. Nothing gets done. Can we fix this?
The Modern House
Plate in the Sun: London’s best restaurants for alfresco dining
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A digital tool built like a physical product? Does it seem like there's more bad TV these days? More mediocre writing? More low quality...
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Quest for the best black paint: Gouache, acrylic, india ink, pastel & more compared I love adding black backgrounds, borders, or other large areas of black to my artwork! In the past I...
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I love adding black backgrounds, borders, or other large areas of black to my artwork! In the past I mostly used India ink because it’s affordable, easy to use, and easy to find in stores. But now I'm curious if I can find something better. I tested and compared 14 different...
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You can use almost anything as a key file for your encrypted storage device Imagine that you have an unencrypted drive containing your private data and one day it starts...
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Imagine that you have an unencrypted drive containing your private data and one day it starts throwing a bunch of errors. You have backups of the data so you’ve got that part covered, but would you feel comfortable sending the drive in to be warrantied? You have no control over...
AFAR Media - Travel...
A Guide to Relaxation and Luxury in Al Ain
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Notes on software...
Confusion and disengagement in meetings The quickest way to cut through confusion or disagreement among otherwise amiable and honest folks...
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The quickest way to cut through confusion or disagreement among otherwise amiable and honest folks is to ask questions. Ask early so you don't waste time. But it's not enough to just ask clarifying questions because the answers won't always be clear. Sounds like Human Interaction...
AI Snake Oil
Are open foundation models actually more risky than closed ones? A policy brief on open foundation models
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Backdrop - the Ultimate Challenge
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The Killer 1962 Smog Of London And no, we don't mean 1952.
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Shutting down I’ve seen a number of situations recently where entrepreneurs decided to shut their startups down...
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I’ve seen a number of situations recently where entrepreneurs decided to shut their startups down while they still had cash in the bank…
TheCollector
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Anecdotal Evidence
'They Will Leave Behind Trenches' “You wouldn’t give up utopia it was too nourishing seductive / For mommy’s boys the heirs of fortune...
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“You wouldn’t give up utopia it was too nourishing seductive / For mommy’s boys the heirs of fortune heirs / To the bloody myths of the twentieth city.”  Today is the centenary of Polish poet and essayist Zbigniew Herbert. The Anglophone world has been fortunate. Herbert’s poems...
Rest of World -...
The politics of Africa’s TikTok bans TikTok was recently banned in Senegal and Somalia, and there have been efforts to do the same in...
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TikTok was recently banned in Senegal and Somalia, and there have been efforts to do the same in Kenya, Uganda, and Egypt.
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Recently 37signals published an article titled Some advice from Jeff Bezos [http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3289-some-advice-from-jeff-bezos]. This wasn’t your usual advice, and I found it...
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When Infrastructure Gets Hacked [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] This is a water tower, or as...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] This is a water tower, or as the pros would say, an elevated storage tank. Pretty common here in the US, especially in flatter areas where there’s no nearby hillside to build a ground-level tank. I have a whole...
A Beautiful Site
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In the Web Component world, attribute reflection is commonly used to style custom elements both internally and as public APIs for consumers. If you're not familiar, attribute reflection occurs when an attribute in the DOM is updated due to changes in a corresponding property. A...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Fond of Books and Fond of Reading' A friend has loaned me his copy of Maurice Baring’s Have You Anything to Declare? (1936), subtitled...
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A friend has loaned me his copy of Maurice Baring’s Have You Anything to Declare? (1936), subtitled A Note Book with Commentaries. This is the 1950 edition published by William Heinemann and comes with an indecipherable pencil inscription on the front end paper that may be...
Old Structures...
Two Anachronisms I avoid the use of the word “holdout” in discussing older buildings now surrounded by newer ones. It...
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I avoid the use of the word “holdout” in discussing older buildings now surrounded by newer ones. It implies a drama that may never have existed. In this case, the west block-front of Trinity Place between Edgar and Rector Streets provides a nice contrast of building ages. From...
Rest of World -...
Uber Eats drivers in South Africa are unionizing Citing meager wages, no safety gear, and exploitative working conditions, the country’s drivers are...
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Citing meager wages, no safety gear, and exploitative working conditions, the country’s drivers are organizing to demand better.
lcamtuf’s thing
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We owe computers not to Charles Babbage, but to the invention of electronically-controlled working memory.
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Dynamic Viewports with CSS Dynamic Viewports with CSS 2023-02-08 I think it’s safe to assume most web designers and developers...
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Dynamic Viewports with CSS 2023-02-08 I think it’s safe to assume most web designers and developers are familiar with the standard vh and vw parameters in CSS. These parameters are used for setting an element’s height and/or width, relative to the viewport (v) height (h) or width...
Patrick Kayongo
When You Die the doctors will tell your spouse and they’ll break down in grief they’ll message someone they trust...
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the doctors will tell your spouse and they’ll break down in grief they’ll message someone they trust who’ll rush to see them, as soon the time allows. your workplace will send an email and all your colleagues will be saddened whatsapp broadcasts will flood phones of those time...
Christopher Butler
Link – Paco Coursey's personal website paco.me is a beautifully-designed personal website. Super simple and intuitive to navigate even...
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paco.me is a beautifully-designed personal website. Super simple and intuitive to navigate even without a main navigation menu.
One Useful Thing
Thinking Like an AI A little intuition can help
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“Steve Jobs supposedly said, returning to Apple, that his plan was to stay alive and grab onto the… “Steve Jobs supposedly said, returning to Apple, that his plan was to stay alive and grab onto the...
over a year ago
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How Poor Maintenance Loses Wars - 2022, Ukraine Maintains A new section from Stewart Brand's Maintenance on Books in Progress
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CONTEMPORIST
Green Roofs With Native Plants Enhance This Home Built Into A Rocky Hillside Photography by Ana Santl Athens-based architecture studio Block722, has shared photos of a modern...
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Photography by Ana Santl Athens-based architecture studio Block722, has shared photos of a modern home they have completed that’s perched on the rocky slopes above the Mediterranean Sea on the Cycladic Island of Syros. Photography by George Pappas The client’s brief outlined a...
A Beautiful Site
External popup links using jQuery With the deprecation of the target attribute in XHTML Strict, opening links in new windows has...
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With the deprecation of the target attribute in XHTML Strict, opening links in new windows has become a bit trivial, if not annoying, to standardize. I always look for a consistent, unobtrusive approach that degrades gracefully; and since I use jQuery quite frequently, this is...
Bits about Money
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Tyler Cipriani: blog
Eventually consistent plain text accounting .title { text-wrap: balance } Spending for October, generated by piping hledger → R Over the past...
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.title { text-wrap: balance } Spending for October, generated by piping hledger → R Over the past six months, I’ve tracked my money with hledger—a plain text double-entry accounting system written in Haskell. It’s been surprisingly painless. My previous attempts to pick up...
Retail Design Blog
North53° Beard Oil by Sparrow Design North53° is a Polish brand of natural cosmetics for men. Our studio was responsible for the complex...
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North53° is a Polish brand of natural cosmetics for men. Our studio was responsible for the complex branding and design...
Blog System/5
Porting the EndBASIC console to an LCD In this post, I’ll guide you through the process of porting the EndBASIC hybrid console to the...
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In this post, I’ll guide you through the process of porting the EndBASIC hybrid console to the ST7735s 1.44" LCD, which sports a resolution of 128x128 pixels, a D-pad, and 3 other buttons. I will cover the prerequisite work to make the port possible, dig into the GPIO and SPI...
Common Edge
On Winning—and Not Winning—Design Competitions It’s the Competition Conundrum: You Can’t Lose If You Don’t Play.
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Steve Klabnik
Just the regularly scheduled apocalypse
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African History...
The complete history of Brava (ca. 1000-1900): a Swahili enclave in southern Somalia Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once...
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Tucked along the southern coast of Somalia, the old city of Brava preserves the remains of a once bustling cosmopolitan enclave whose influence features prominently in the history of the East African coast. Located more than 500 km north of the Swahili heartland, Brava retained a...
High Signal
Making $1m ARR with social media scheduling Davis is the co-founder of OneUp, a tool for scheduling social media posts across a range of...
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Davis is the co-founder of OneUp, a tool for scheduling social media posts across a range of platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn and many more. The business is now doing over $1m in annual revenue! Davis joined me for an interview about joining the...
Old Structures...
On The Spectrum Between Solid and Hole For study, two photos of the elevated structure supporting the 2 and 5 trains in the Bronx. This...
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For study, two photos of the elevated structure supporting the 2 and 5 trains in the Bronx. This piece of the subway system has a slightly odd history. The portion south of and up to 180th Street, at the south end of Bronx Park, was planned as part of the original IRT subway, but...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Seeing Others in Data, But Not Ourselves Stanford psychologist Emily Pronin and her colleagues came up with an interesting study in human...
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Stanford psychologist Emily Pronin and her colleagues came up with an interesting study in human behavior. Subjects were given incomplete words and asked to complete them with the first word that came to mind. For example, you’re given the fragments B__T and CHE__ and you write...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Pensieve: Mar 9 2024 - on Dune 2 the jeff tang vs anton meetup today was a super interesting study in contrasts: Life vs Death
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somethingaboutmaps
On the Practice of Wobbling We live in an era in which maps (and plenty of other graphics) are made with digital tools....
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We live in an era in which maps (and plenty of other graphics) are made with digital tools. Workflows vary, but the end result is that a lot of us base our cartography entirely on clean vector shapes and neat raster grids. For example, I talked earlier this year about a map I...
A Weekly Dose of...
Visualizing the World, Visualizing Change In 1939, Otto Neurath's Modern Man in the Making was released by Alfred A. Knopf. Neurath was...
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In 1939, Otto Neurath's Modern Man in the Making was released by Alfred A. Knopf. Neurath was director of the International Foundation of Visual Information and used the Isotype (International System of Typographic Picture Education) system to "teach through the eye." A recent...
Retail Design Blog
New Location in Frankfurt – Feature Opportunity Dear Retail Design Blog Team, In June 2023, you featured our Hamburg location ( link:...
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A Modern Farmhouse By The Sea In New Zealand New Zealand architecture firm Studio John Irving Architects has shared photos of a modern farmhouse...
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New Zealand architecture firm Studio John Irving Architects has shared photos of a modern farmhouse they completed that's been designed like a collection of linked farm outbuildings.
Escaping Flatland
Thoughts on agency If anyone is in the mood for a video call, I would like to get a few of you together on Saturday at...
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If anyone is in the mood for a video call, I would like to get a few of you together on Saturday at 6 pm CET (9 am PST). Like last time, I’ll prepare a few questions (probably relating to today’s post since that is top of mind) but mostly we’ll just talk about whatever comes up....
TheCollector
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Willem's Blog
The best bike computer app: Cyclemeter Collect advanced bike ride data using your smartphone connected to external Bluetooth sensors and a...
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Collect advanced bike ride data using your smartphone connected to external Bluetooth sensors and a steer mounted display.
Working Theorys
How to Do Business School Right | Theory No. 22 There’s an age-old debate about whether you should go to business school or not. It rarely comes up...
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There’s an age-old debate about whether you should go to business school or not. It rarely comes up these days but yes, I went to business school — arguably to the most business-school-y of business schools, Harvard Business School. Business school isn’t “popular” in modern...
High Signal
Newsletter that make money in 2024 Newsletters are a great way to make money. The humble email list can be monetized through...
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Newsletters are a great way to make money. The humble email list can be monetized through advertising or if you have a seriously big value proposition, paid subscriptions. Most email platforms give generous free plans so you don't have to pay anything for your first 1,000-2500...
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My Fave New Podcasts of 2022 As someone who does a lot of my learning via podcasts, I've been putting up picks lists for 3 years...
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As someone who does a lot of my learning via podcasts, I've been putting up picks lists for 3 years straight (see main [2019 list](https://www.swyx.io/fave-podcasts), then my [2020](https://www.swyx.io/fave-podcasts-2020) and [2021](https://www.swyx.io/fave-podcasts-2021) diffs),...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Go ahead. Remember that moment. Today's News: Remember 20 years ago I started a comic about butts and stuff and now I got a book listed alongside Kip Thorne's? Truly, we're in a weird branch of the multiverse.
Steve Klabnik
Announcing Emoji 1.0
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Hiring Content Writers: Part One - Finding Writers Overview: Hiring Content Writers Part One: Finding Writers (this section) Part Two - Creating a...
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Overview: Hiring Content Writers Part One: Finding Writers (this section) Part Two - Creating a Detailed Job Description Part Three: Screening Candidates Part Four - Working with Writers Part Five - Terminating Writers There are thousands of working freelance writers in the...
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What a Deep Neural Network thinks about your #selfie Convolutional Neural Networks are great: they recognize things, places and people in your personal...
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Convolutional Neural Networks are great: they recognize things, places and people in your personal photos, signs, people and lights in self-driving cars, crops, forests and traffic in aerial imagery, various anomalies in medical images and all kinds of other useful things. But...
A Beautiful Site
Component Machines Components are like little machines. You build them once. Use them whenever you need them. Every now...
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Components are like little machines. You build them once. Use them whenever you need them. Every now and then you open them up to oil them or replace a part, then you send them back to work. And work, they do. Little component machines just chugging along so you never have to...
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New year, new niggles My 2020 niggle arrived during lockdown. It started small. It wasn't much of a niggle to start with,...
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My 2020 niggle arrived during lockdown. It started small. It wasn't much of a niggle to start with, it just came on. They say it happens to most people so I shouldn't have been surprised. It was still a bit of a shock though. The first inkling was several years ago. It's got more...
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Refusing the salon of the refused This week is the 150th anniversary of the most important failed art exhibit of all time. It was...
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This week is the 150th anniversary of the most important failed art exhibit of all time. It was organized by and featured artists who weren’t even among those that had a slot at the runner’s up exhibit for artists who weren’t featured in the real Salon in Paris. Manet didn’t have...
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Kagi Blog
What's next for Kagi? Two years ago, on June 1st, 2022, Kagi introduced ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-orion-public-beta ) a...
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Two years ago, on June 1st, 2022, Kagi introduced ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-orion-public-beta ) a search engine that challenged the ad-supported version of the web.
The Modern House
Zen and the art of mindset maintenance in a former warehouse in east London
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Astronaut Guests
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#3 - The President of Palau Listen now (51 min) | The President of Palau and Balaji discuss how the tiny island country is...
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Listen now (51 min) | The President of Palau and Balaji discuss how the tiny island country is becoming a digital leader, experimenting with everything from on-chain identity to drone delivery. Despite having less than 20,000 citizens, Palau is a full UN member state. Its path to...
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My Robotic Mower Woes My Robotic Mower Woes 2023-05-19 A Brief Background I’m no stranger to robotic lawnmowers. When my...
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My Robotic Mower Woes 2023-05-19 A Brief Background I’m no stranger to robotic lawnmowers. When my wife and I moved into our rural home just over five years ago, we picked up the Husqvarna 450X Automower since I was far too lazy to manually mow my property and the cost was equal...
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Five globally successful Chinese companies you’ve never heard of TikTok and Shein are household names, but ShareIt and Yalla aren't far behind.
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Both Are True
I always (always!) tell people to write like they’re texting a best friend who loves them And now I can basically do just that cuz Substack lets me write posts from my phone.
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6 suggestions for an aspiring founder * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * This article is...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * This article is inspired by Startup Edition [http://startupedition.com] in response to “What advice would you give young entrepreneurs?” I feel incredibly lucky that I managed to jump on board...
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Reuse, Not Really Adaptive From an elevated subway station in Queens: two generations of roof. Or, if you prefer, a palimpsest...
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From an elevated subway station in Queens: two generations of roof. Or, if you prefer, a palimpsest in steel. The roof over the rather wide platform is supported by two lines of columns. That’s a column in the lower left, with the curves of the lower flange of the built-up main...
Dreams of Space -...
Looking Into Science (1965) Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965...
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Here is a re-post, with new scans, of one of my most popular series of books. There was a 1965 textbook for children call Looking Into Science. They reused the contents in a series of booklets that I would like to share with you. There were a large number of these booklets...
TheCollector
What Are Monads? Leibniz On the Most Fundamental Substance undefined
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Christopher Butler
The Internet Isn't for Humans Anymore Bots use the internet more than we do; use shapes design. As of last year, half of the...
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Bots use the internet more than we do; use shapes design. As of last year, half of the internet’s traffic came from bots. This is a headline that has been repeated many times because it sounds important, but without much in the way of helpful context, it doesn’t carry much...
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Gemini 2.0: speed and deep research impress From The Keyword Google blog: Introducing Gemini 2.0: Our New AI Model for the Agentic Era Today...
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From The Keyword Google blog: Introducing Gemini 2.0: Our New AI Model for the Agentic Era Today we’re excited to launch our next era of models built for this new agentic era: introducing Gemini 2.0, our most capable model yet. With new advances in multimodality —
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Why has U.S. manufacturing productivity stagnated for over a decade? A few hypotheses about a very disturbing trend.
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The Story of the Stone, fairy tale and realism - Not so wonderful, really, is it? I left the characters of The Story of the Stone as they were buying drapes and tablecloths for a...
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I left the characters of The Story of the Stone as they were buying drapes and tablecloths for a party.  I will rejoin the party planning momentarily. The Story of the Stone is a massive domestic novel about an extended family.  The main plot is the teenage love triangle, but...
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Biden should run on a message of abundance Things are going pretty well in America, and Biden's policies have largely helped.
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Passing Time
Pave the 14ers We must democratize access to 14ers.
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Platformer
The consumer AI era has begun OpenAI beat Google to the market with its $42 monthly ChatGPT service. Can it handle the risks that...
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OpenAI beat Google to the market with its $42 monthly ChatGPT service. Can it handle the risks that come with it?
TheCollector
The Luftwaffe Under the Nazis: A Formidable Air Foe & Force undefined
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Artificial Ignorance
The hidden side of Apple Intelligence More than just another keynote recap.
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Rust vs Go in 2024 Which is a better choice, Rust or Go? Which language should you choose for your next project, and...
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Which is a better choice, Rust or Go? Which language should you choose for your next project, and why? How do the two compare in areas like performance, simplicity, safety, features, scale, and concurrency?
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OMA, Borough Market Dave Carter, a big friendly giant of a man with a completely impenetrable Barbadian accent, began...
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Dave Carter, a big friendly giant of a man with a completely impenetrable Barbadian accent, began his London restaurant journey at Smokestak, the hugely influential East London BBQ joint. Smokestak, together with a tiny handful of other brave pioneers around the same time...
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Drowning in Plastic
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Letters of Note
I’ve got a hunch In July of 1938, American novelist Thomas Wolfe was struck down with pneumonia and taken to...
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In July of 1938, American novelist Thomas Wolfe was struck down with pneumonia and taken to hospital. He was soon diagnosed as having tuberculosis of the brain, from which he would never recover. Wolfe died on 15th September, aged just 37. A month before his death, as he lay in...
Seth's Blog
The seduction of “why” It’s classic linkbait. Headlines that explain why something is happening. Questions to AI about why...
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It’s classic linkbait. Headlines that explain why something is happening. Questions to AI about why something happens. Even kids, asking their parents. Why is easy to sell. Why is hard to deliver. Consultants make a good living explaining the why. And media companies try to. But...
TheCollector
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Res Obscura
How to use generative AI for historical research Four real-world case studies, and some thoughts on what not to do
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TokyoDev
Working as an Indonesian Software Engineer in Japan Even though I love Japan, I had never planned to work there. Like many Indonesian children, my first...
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Even though I love Japan, I had never planned to work there. Like many Indonesian children, my first exposure to Japanese culture was through anime on Sunday morning TV broadcasts. At that time, I didn't even know it was called anime, let alone that it came from Japan since it...
The American Scholar
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Society's Backend
Why Machine Learning Technical Debt is Especially Bad And effective ways to mitigate it
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Someone Who Could Never Be a Peasant' I first encountered Robert Alter in 1970 in the issue of TriQuarterly devoted to Vladimir Nabokov,...
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I first encountered Robert Alter in 1970 in the issue of TriQuarterly devoted to Vladimir Nabokov, already one of my favorite writers. Alter’s contribution was “Invitation to a Beheading: Nabokov and the Art of Politics,” which Nabokov later described as “practically flawless.” A...
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Online extremism linked to rise in school shootings in Brazil, researchers find After a rise in shootings, an all-woman group is advising the new Brazilian government on how to...
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Developer Exception Engineering It's time we look beyond the easy questions in developer experience, and start addressing the...
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It's time we look beyond the easy questions in developer experience, and start addressing the uncomfortable ones.
High Signal
Making $6k from a baby AI photo generator Ever wondered, "Is there an AI to see how your baby looks?" Well you're not alone! OurBabyAI is an...
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Ever wondered, "Is there an AI to see how your baby looks?" Well you're not alone! OurBabyAI is an app that shows how your future baby may look.
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 060: Another CEO gone March 29, 2024.
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Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 3: The Scourge
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How to build an Auto-Playing Slideshow with React In this article we'll build an auto-playing slideshow using React. The article is divided into two...
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In this article we'll build an auto-playing slideshow using React. The article is divided into two sections: The trick
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Cargo Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: No giving birth until these planks are perfectly...
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Mazdak
Big Tech Ad Boom Tech giants are raking in cash as the digital ad market explodes!
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Construction Physics
Roman vs Modern Concrete There's a new paper out exploring some of the chemical mechanisms at work in Roman concrete. As per...
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There's a new paper out exploring some of the chemical mechanisms at work in Roman concrete. As per usual, it’s triggered a round of enthusiastic discussion of Roman concrete, and how its ability to last for millennia puts modern concrete (which often fails after a few decades)...
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Know Ourselves? The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
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KITH store Following stores in West Hollywood and Beverly Hills, cult streetwear brand KITH has opened a third...
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Following stores in West Hollywood and Beverly Hills, cult streetwear brand KITH has opened a third outpost in the Greater...
Seth's Blog
What do we owe the future? You are someone’s ancestor. Most immediately, you are the ancestor of the you of tomorrow. That’s...
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You are someone’s ancestor. Most immediately, you are the ancestor of the you of tomorrow. That’s why we don’t spend every penny in our bank account, why we put leftovers in the fridge, why we earn a degree–it’s a gift to the you of tomorrow. Each of us have a way of thinking...
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Google Cloud cuts egress and promotes cloud exits The absurd egress fees charged by major hyperscalers have been one of the biggest impediments for...
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The absurd egress fees charged by major hyperscalers have been one of the biggest impediments for companies to leave the cloud. We’ve been preparing for our own departure from AWS S3 at 37signals, and the price for taking our data elsewhere is in the crazy-land region of...
journal – Winnie Lim
daring to be ugly I was quite vain when I was younger due to a low self-esteem which led to a high level of...
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I was quite vain when I was younger due to a low self-esteem which led to a high level of insecurity. That insecurity made me feel ugly and that I was never...
diamond geezer
Crisp packet colours As you probably know, BBC local radio is currently engaged in rapid strategic contraction in an...
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As you probably know, BBC local radio is currently engaged in rapid strategic contraction in an attempt to save money. Dozens of much-loved programmes are being withdrawn, especially those broadcast in the evenings and at weekends, in favour of syndicated regional content...
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Random objects: Intel Edison A glimpse of the missteps of x86 in the embedded world.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Companionable Room' I had a minor problem with the university library’s catalog. When I requested two books stored...
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I had a minor problem with the university library’s catalog. When I requested two books stored off-site in the Library Service Center I got this message: “No items can fulfill the submitted request.” That made no sense and I couldn’t figure out a way around the roadblock, so I...
Sarah Parmenter
An Event Apart 2017 Discount Code If you’d like to come along, I’ve got a discount code that will get you a cool $100 off the ticket...
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If you’d like to come along, I’ve got a discount code that will get you a cool $100 off the ticket price. Just use the code AEAPARM to redeem at the checkout. I make no secret that speaking at An Event Apart is one of the highlights of my year. I still feel incredibly lucky […]
Wanderingspace
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“This is a view of a ~2,000-km-wide vortex of swirling clouds above Saturn's north pole, imaged in polarized light with Cassini's narrow-angle camera on November 27, 2012. I've processed the original monochrome image to approximate the color of the area at the time.” — Jason...
fast.ai
AI Harms are Societal, Not Just Individual In the west, our ideas of harm are largely anchored to an individual being harmed by a particular...
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In the west, our ideas of harm are largely anchored to an individual being harmed by a particular action at a discrete moment in time. Yet the harms caused by algorithmic systems are often collective and communal.
Daniel Miessler
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Working Theorys
Unbundling Cash & Equity | Theory No. 15 a heretical take on "total compensation"
a year ago
Fonts In Use: Blog...
Gestaltungsprobleme des Grafikers by Josef Müller-Brockmann Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: www.theideaofthebook.com The Idea of the Book. License:...
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Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: www.theideaofthebook.com The Idea of the Book. License: All Rights Reserved. Book jacket (second edition by Niggli, Teufen, 1964) Dan Reynolds, esteemed friend of the site, writes on Mastodon: 125 years ago today – at exactly...
Dreams of Space -...
The Young Adventurer's Pocket Book of Space Travel (1954) Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed...
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Another illustration intensive book. This one is only 3" tall and 2 " wide so you might have missed it :) . It was a premium with Mickey Mouse Weekly magazine. Evidently the magazine came with some pages that you could fold up into a tiny book. The others I have found evidence of...
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Anglo-Afghan Wars: How Afghanistan Became the Graveyard of Empires undefined
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Sam Altman Returns to OpenAI as CEO In a stunning turn of events, Sam Altman has been reinstated as CEO of OpenAI, just days after being...
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In a stunning turn of events, Sam Altman has been reinstated as CEO of OpenAI, just days after being fired by the company's board. The move comes after a whirlwind few days that saw Altman's supporters rally to his side, with many threatening to quit if he was not brought back.
Spoon & Tamago
Myaku-Myaku Footwear, Inspired by the Googly-Eyed Mascot for the Osaka Expo Myaku-Myaku, the unsettling googly-eyed humanoid that was selected as the 2025 Osaka Expo, has...
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Myaku-Myaku, the unsettling googly-eyed humanoid that was selected as the 2025 Osaka Expo, has inspired numerous spinoffs, both official and unofficial. And with exactly 1 year to go before the Expo, we should all expect to see a lot more. The latest iteration comes in the form...
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My first ever app I made and sold... I was digging through a cupboard today, when I came across the package shown below. I was initially...
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I was digging through a cupboard today, when I came across the package shown below. I was initially flabbergasted that I still had a copy on hand, but that soon gave way to feelings of nostalgia that took me back 30 years (yes, that is 3 decades) to when I first created this. It...
The Ruffian
No, Joe Biden Is Not a Hero There's Only One Politician Who Comes Out Of This Well
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TheCollector
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Construction Physics
How We Got the Lithium-ion Battery It took decades of research, performed around the world, before a practical lithium-ion battery was...
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Paolo Amoroso's...
My Common Lisp setup on Linux <![CDATA[Now that I'm back to Lisp I'm actively exploring Interlisp as a Common Lisp environment...
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<![CDATA[Now that I'm back to Lisp I'm actively exploring Interlisp as a Common Lisp environment too. But to code in Common Lisp also on my Crostini Linux system, the Linux container of chromeOS I use on a Chromebox, I'm setting up a suitable development environment. In addition...
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Customizing Neovim Scripting is configuration. Configuration is scripting. TJ DeVries A different take on editing...
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Scripting is configuration. Configuration is scripting. TJ DeVries A different take on editing code I’ve been using Neovim since it forked from Vim almost 8 years ago, and I used Vim many years before that. I feel quite comfortable with Neovim, and I’ve gone down the...
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Making Screenshots of Test Equipment Old and New Introduction Screenshot Capturing Interfaces Hardware and Software Tools Capturing GPIB data in Talk...
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Introduction Screenshot Capturing Interfaces Hardware and Software Tools Capturing GPIB data in Talk Only mode TDS 540 Oscilloscope - GPIB - PCL Output HP 54542A Oscilloscope - Parallel Port - PCL or HPGL Output HP Inifinium 54825A Oscilloscope - Parallel Port - Encapsulated...
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Daniel Immke's Blog...
2018: A year in review It’s the end of the year, and I’ve been reflecting on what I accomplished this year and what I...
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It’s the end of the year, and I’ve been reflecting on what I accomplished this year and what I didn’t, as well as what I can do better next…
Classical Wisdom
Can you REALLY be offended on behalf of someone else?? Lessons from Borat
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Seth's Blog
The amateur presenter Not “amateur” as in the unprepared professional. Amateur as in the passionate individual, untrained...
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Not “amateur” as in the unprepared professional. Amateur as in the passionate individual, untrained but with something to say. If you’re called on to give a talk or presentation, the biggest trap to avoid is the most common: Decide that you need to be just like a professional...
TheCollector
The Incredible Story of Cadmus: The First Hero of Greek Mythology undefined
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Secrets Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Kids, you can literally find ways to annihilate all...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Kids, you can literally find ways to annihilate all humans, but you have to start with algebra! Today's News:
Maps Mania
The X-Files of Paranormal Activity
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Home on Erik...
Nearest neighbors and vector models – epilogue – curse of dimensionality This is another post based on my talk at NYC Machine Learning. The previous two parts covered most...
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over a year ago
This is another post based on my talk at NYC Machine Learning. The previous two parts covered most of the interesting parts, but there are still some topics left to be discussed. To go back and read the meaty stuff, check out
Daniel Miessler
Unsupervised Learning NO. 364 | Reality Headset, BingPT, AI+Cyber If you're not subscribed to the podcast version of the newsletter, please add it with your favorite...
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If you're not subscribed to the podcast version of the newsletter, please add it with your favorite client. APPLE | SPOTIFY | OTHER SECURITY NEWS The FBI is warning people to block online ads due to imposters poisoning search results. They advise users to 1) check ad URLs, 2) go...
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The 4 best HIPAA-compliant analytics tools Passed in 1996, HIPAA (aka Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) defines the legal...
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Passed in 1996, HIPAA (aka Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) defines the legal requirements for securing and handling health…