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HP 33120A Repair - Shutting Down the Eye of Sauron Introduction Opening Up an HP 33120A A Walk Through the Block Diagram Bug Hunting Zener...
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Introduction Opening Up an HP 33120A A Walk Through the Block Diagram Bug Hunting Zener Replacement Staring at the Eye of Sauron FLIR IR Imaging To Destroy a PCB in Order to Save It Circuit Reconstruction Success! Trust but Verify Conclusion References Introduction When the...
Liz Denys
Switching to Pelican Until today, my website was fragmented across a number of static pages and two WordPress instances....
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over a year ago
Until today, my website was fragmented across a number of static pages and two WordPress instances. To simplify my life, I decided to unify them into one content management system instead of keeping that somewhat unwieldly mess around. I had never really put a lot of thought into...
Making software...
Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links 2019-06-14 When designing medium to large sized menu...
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Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links 2019-06-14 When designing medium to large sized menu navigations on the mobile web the default go-to, for some time now, has been hamburger menus. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but there is a simpler alternative for certain use...
TheCollector
Which Archeological Finds Support the Bible? undefined
2 months ago
Max Rozen
OnlineOrNot Diaries 7 In which I pay for people to check out OnlineOrNot to test my landing pages.
a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Bozo and His Rocket Ship -Capitol Record-Reader (1947) Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called...
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Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called "records," there were children's record-readers. My mom had some of these from here childhood so I actually read some of them. You would put a stack of records on (this one had 4...
Astral Codex Ten
Open Thread 360 ...
2 weeks ago
Good Enough
Our ChatGPT Mission Statement What follows is an edited transcript of my interaction with ChatGPT to help craft a mission...
a year ago
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a year ago
What follows is an edited transcript of my interaction with ChatGPT to help craft a mission statement for Good Enough. The resulting mission statement was surprisingly good and I had some literal LOLs along the way. Though I think we'll leave out the haiku. You are an expert at...
Old Structures...
Look, Ma! No Hands! There is absolutely nothing unique about a masonry flat arch serving as a window head, but it’s...
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8 months ago
There is absolutely nothing unique about a masonry flat arch serving as a window head, but it’s relatively rare on steel-frame buildings like this 1920s apartment house on the Upper East Side. There are two tip-offs that it’s a real arch and not just a cleverly-hidden lintel:...
Diaries of Note
The century of Voltaire Eugène Delacroix, born in 1798, was a profoundly influential French Romantic artist who came to be...
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Eugène Delacroix, born in 1798, was a profoundly influential French Romantic artist who came to be renowned for his dramatic, emotive works, his use of bold colour and brushwork setting him apart. But his influence extended beyond the canvas, as at the age of twenty-three he...
Vitalik Buterin's...
In Defense of Bitcoin Maximalism
over a year ago
macwright.com
Recently Well, I missed a Recently post on January 1st, so scratch any other resolutions, I’ll just live my...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Well, I missed a Recently post on January 1st, so scratch any other resolutions, I’ll just live my life. Reading In loving memory of the square checkbox is the kind of UX rant I’m there for. Interfaces that have different behaviors should look different, and familiar styles are...
TheCollector
Why Bother Being Good? A Philosophical Exploration of Morality undefined
a month ago
Dominik Sobe's...
I tried the "Coding for Marketing" growth hack and the results are...
over a year ago
Willem's Blog
Health and fitness data Exploring the balance between health data and intuition, this blog post delves into how personal...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Exploring the balance between health data and intuition, this blog post delves into how personal well-being and fitness goals shape our relationship with technology and self-awareness.
NeuroLogica Blog
Diamond Batteries Again Why does news reporting of science and technology have to be so terrible at baseline? I know the...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
Why does news reporting of science and technology have to be so terrible at baseline? I know the answers to this question – lack of expertise, lack of a business model to support dedicated science news infrastructure, the desire for click-bait and sensationalism – but it is still...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Against overuse of the Gini coefficient
over a year ago
A Smart Bear
Legacy Humans have always tried to live forever. Maybe you can, but not in the way you imagine.
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Humans have always tried to live forever. Maybe you can, but not in the way you imagine.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
“Easier and More Convenient” They Said… The other day in our morning rush before school my wife asked for help figuring out how to put lunch...
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The other day in our morning rush before school my wife asked for help figuring out how to put lunch money on our kids’ school accounts. For some time she’s been doing it “the hard way”: talk to the people in the front office of the school every few months and swipe a credit...
Don Melton
Our long national nightmare is not over I have faith in Joe Biden. And Kamala Harris. They’re good people. They and the team they’ve...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I have faith in Joe Biden. And Kamala Harris. They’re good people. They and the team they’ve selected know what they’re doing. It’s obvious just listening to them. So I can barely wait for them to take over the White House tomorrow. Because real governance will be back in...
TheCollector
The Wizard of Oz: 9 Things That Made It Great undefined
6 months ago
A Smart Bear
Moats: Durable competitive advantage Industries commoditize over time, delivering similar products at similar prices resulting in low...
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over a year ago
Industries commoditize over time, delivering similar products at similar prices resulting in low profit. Like entropy, this is the inevitable fate of a company, unless it exerts intentional force to the contrary. Moats are this force, and your strategy must identify how to create...
Josh Thompson
`ls` command to show directory contents I like to use the tree command on my local machine when trying to peek into the structure and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I like to use the tree command on my local machine when trying to peek into the structure and contents of a given directory. tree -L 2 will [L]ist recursively everything [2] levels deep from your current directory. The output is nicely formatted like this: > tree -L 2 . ├──...
Many Worlds
Many Worlds Archive is Available I had the pleasure of reporting and writing the Many Worlds column — sponsored by NASA’s NExSS...
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I had the pleasure of reporting and writing the Many Worlds column — sponsored by NASA’s NExSS initiative and the Lunar & Planetary Institute — for almost eight years. But the run came to an end in October. Now an archive of the more than 400 columns is easily available at...
TheCollector
When Was the Battle of Iwo Jima? undefined
8 months ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
How we’re making PostHog deployments easier When PostHog was born in 2020, it was a simple Python application (Django + Celery) backed by a...
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over a year ago
When PostHog was born in 2020, it was a simple Python application (Django + Celery) backed by a PostgreSQL datastore. Troubleshooting was easy, while…
Jonas Hietala
Groar Download Linux 64bit Windows So I actually finished Ludum Dare 33. I can’t believe how hard it was...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Download Linux 64bit Windows So I actually finished Ludum Dare 33. I can’t believe how hard it was to actually make something! It continues to amaze me what fantastic stuff everyone manage to make in just 48 hours. This is what I came up with for the theme You are the Monster....
Flashbak
Édouard Manet’s Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’, 1875 The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French...
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The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French readers in 1847. Baudelaire, who saw Poe as a  “sacred soul” and something of a kindred spirit, translated many of the American writer’s words into French, including Poe’s poem The...
HTMHell
Design pattern for custom tooltips by Jan Hellbusch Should we use tooltips to convey information? Hints and descriptions are often...
a year ago
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a year ago
by Jan Hellbusch Should we use tooltips to convey information? Hints and descriptions are often included on web pages through tooltips – but not everyone has access to them. A tooltip is a short text that usually appears as a popup when a user hovers a mouse pointer over an...
Notes on software...
Interpreting TypeScript In addition to providing a static type system and compiler for a superset of JavaScript, TypeScript...
over a year ago
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In addition to providing a static type system and compiler for a superset of JavaScript, TypeScript makes much of its functionality available programmatically. In this post we'll use the TypeScript compiler API to build an interpreter. We'll build off of a...
Rozado’s Visual...
The Prevalence of Prejudice-Denoting Terms in Spanish Newspapers Published paper Twitter summary Introduction Previous scholarly literature here and here has...
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over a year ago
Published paper Twitter summary Introduction Previous scholarly literature here and here has documented a pronounced increase in the prevalence of prejudice-denoting terms in American news media content. Some have referred to this shift in journalistic discourse and related...
diamond geezer
Stratford & Bow All the candidates for the upcoming General Election are now in place, so I thought I'd have a look...
6 months ago
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All the candidates for the upcoming General Election are now in place, so I thought I'd have a look to see who mine are. approximately equal electorates, which is terrible news for Wales (which is losing eight MPs) and good news for London (which is gaining two). Tower Hamlets...
Escaping Flatland
Morning ritual + reading recommendations
11 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'They Are Wary of My Plain-speaking' A reader alerts me to a parlor game proposed by The Guardian in 2017: Which books do I wish my...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
A reader alerts me to a parlor game proposed by The Guardian in 2017: Which books do I wish my younger self had read? Julian Barnes suggests volumes devoted to “the true nature of war, empire and race,” which sounds a bit like retrospective virtue-signaling. William Boyd’s...
./techtipsy
ASRock DeskMini X300: the future form factor of desktop PC-s? I wasn’t happy with my “one machine that does it all” setup, which is why I finally bit the bullet...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I wasn’t happy with my “one machine that does it all” setup, which is why I finally bit the bullet and got myself an ASRock DeskMini X300 bare-bones kit. This is a fantastic little desktop PC kit that is very small, quiet and can still be configured to have ridiculous amounts of...
Ognjen Regoje •...
Lie still in bed I found it very difficult to switch to a regular sleep, and wake, schedule after university. I even...
a year ago
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a year ago
I found it very difficult to switch to a regular sleep, and wake, schedule after university. I even started using one of the loudest and most annoying alarm clocks I could find. (That sound still gives my university housemate flashbacks.) In my search for ways to fix my sleep...
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Chickamauga? undefined
10 months ago
Writing - Andreas...
It’s hard to grow without trust Trust is a key enabler of growth (and conversely, lack of trust a key inhibitor).
5 months ago
Londonist
Around London In 10 Foxes Including the one who got up the Shard.
9 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Day I Became A Software Engineer A single mindset shift that changed my entire attitude to software.
over a year ago
The Rational Walk
A Mind at Play Claude Shannon is most famous for his groundbreaking work related to information theory, one of many...
a year ago
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a year ago
Claude Shannon is most famous for his groundbreaking work related to information theory, one of many subjects discussed in his fascinating biography.
diamond geezer
Bow Street BOW STREET £160   London's Monopoly Streets BOW STREET Colour group: orange Purchase price:...
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7 months ago
BOW STREET £160   London's Monopoly Streets BOW STREET Colour group: orange Purchase price: £180 Rent: £14 Length: 200m Borough: Westminster Postcode: WC2 n.b. This is Bow Street in Covent Garden which is nowhere near Bow Road in Bow, nor close to the church of St-Mary-le-Bow...
The Marginalian
The Art of Withstanding Abandonment: The Patience of the Penguin and How Evolution Invented Faith “Let us love this distance which is wholly woven of friendship, for those who do not love each other...
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4 months ago
“Let us love this distance which is wholly woven of friendship, for those who do not love each other are not separated,” Simone Weil wrote in her soulful meditation on the paradox of closeness and separation. To be separated from a loved one — in space or in silence, by choice or...
Citation Needed
Video: The Cryptocurrency Industry's Unprecedented Election Spending Let's talk about where the money came from, where it went, the cryptocurrency industry's political...
a month ago
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...
a year ago
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a year ago
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.
Jonas Hietala
2015 in Review Previous reviews: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014. 2015 Geek Achievements Finished my university...
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over a year ago
Previous reviews: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014. 2015 Geek Achievements Finished my university studies and got a Master in Computer Science. Discovered a new boardgame love: Android Netrunner. Finished top 4 in my first Netrunner Store Championship. Won a small local Netrunner...
ToughSF
Inter-Orbital Kinetic Energy Exchanges: Part I Electrical power can be transferred between planets using high velocity masses. Kinetic Energy...
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over a year ago
Electrical power can be transferred between planets using high velocity masses. Kinetic Energy Exchanges are an efficient concept that can output more energy than it consumes and only gets better with distance. Guest writer Zerraspace (Zach Hajj) works out the details and...
TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Buenos Aires undefined
7 months ago
Astral Codex Ten
H5N1: Much More Than You Wanted To Know Don't give your true love a partridge, turtledoves, or (especially) French hens
2 days ago
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Using global memoization in React When our React apps get slow, we usually turn to useMemo to avoid useless job on re-render. It’s a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When our React apps get slow, we usually turn to useMemo to avoid useless job on re-render. It’s a hammer that often works well, and makes it hard to shoot yourself in the foot. But useMemo is not a silver bullet — sometimes it just introduces more useless work instead of making...
The Honest Broker
Why Are Huge Tech Companies Getting Into the Book Business? Do they want to help writers or destroy them?
3 weeks ago
Steve Klabnik
Marx, anarchism, and web standards
over a year ago
Escaping Flatland
Becoming perceptive This is the second part of an essay series that began with “Everything that turned out well in my...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
This is the second part of an essay series that began with “Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design process.” It can be read on its own.
GitButler
Why GitHub Actually Won How GitHub _actually_ became the dominant force it is today, from one of it's cofounders.
3 months ago
TheCollector
New Exhibition Examines Rembrandt’s Relationship with Star Pupil undefined
2 months ago
Liz Denys
My favorite secret to baking healthier: white whole wheat flour Replacing white bread with wheat bread has been becoming more and more popular recently, and people...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Replacing white bread with wheat bread has been becoming more and more popular recently, and people seem to be wondering how to generally add more whole grains to their diets. This doesn't come as much of a surprise: whole grains haven't had their bran and germ removed through...
TheCollector
A Complete Guide to Fresco Painting undefined
2 weeks ago
./techtipsy
techtipsy, now hosted on k-space! This site is now hosted on infrastructure provided by k-space, a friendly hackerspace in Tallinn,...
a year ago
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a year ago
This site is now hosted on infrastructure provided by k-space, a friendly hackerspace in Tallinn, Estonia. If you’ve been reading any of my previous posts, you might be wondering why I made that move, especially since I was quite proud of hosting my website over a residential...
lcamtuf’s thing
Dispatches from the farm upstate Middle-aged computer expert opts to escape civilization, offers dubious life advice.
5 months ago
Josh Thompson
Robert Moses - The Most Important Person You've Never Heard Of this was originally posted a few years ago, republishing as a blog post as I organize an...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
this was originally posted a few years ago, republishing as a blog post as I organize an increasingly large number of links and resources here. Here’s a big dumping ground for some resources on robert moses I’ve got floating around. Obviously, this has grown to an unwieldy sizy...
TheCollector
How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking? undefined
9 months ago
The Last...
Ten Extra Seconds Would Have Saved True Detective's Finale what could it mean? You just watched a historical TV moment: never before has the audience for a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
what could it mean? You just watched a historical TV moment: never before has the audience for a show been smarter than its writer.   I submit as second evidence the season finale for The Bachelor that was on yesterday, for three hours, drawing ten million "people".  Just...
Open Culture
The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist Photograph, Dalí Atomicus (1948) With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks,...
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With his cane, his famous waxed mustache, and his habit of taking unusual animals for walks, Salvador Dalí would appear to have cultivated his own photographability. But taking a picture of the man who stood as a living definition of popular surrealism wasn’t a task to be...
TheCollector
Jock of the Bushveld: An Enduring Tale of Friendship undefined
11 months ago
Jake Zimmerman
A trick for invariant generics in Sorbet
7 months ago
Diaries of Note
Industry, Thrift, and Loyalty On 13th September 1840, the day after their wedding and on Clara’s 21st birthday, Robert Schumann...
a year ago
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a year ago
On 13th September 1840, the day after their wedding and on Clara’s 21st birthday, Robert Schumann wrote the first entry in a diary with a difference. Designed to be a shared sanctuary for the newlyweds, the diary was a place for them to alternately record their aspirations, joys,...
Steve Klabnik
How to squash commits in a GitHub pull request
over a year ago
Jason Crawford
Things that can kill you quickly There are things that kill you instantly, like a bullet to the head or a fall from twenty stories....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There are things that kill you instantly, like a bullet to the head or a fall from twenty stories. First aid can’t help you there. There are also things that kill you relatively slowly, like a bacterial infection. If you have even hours to live, you can get to the emergency...
xkcd.com
Matter
5 months ago
TheCollector
Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature undefined
a year ago
Castles in the Sky
Notes Worth Saving #1 From the launch of Notes in April 2023 until December 2023
3 months ago
Rest of World -...
There is no American Ambani A tale of two tech industries.
10 months ago
CONTEMPORIST
A Black Brick Exterior Is Consistent With The Dark Forest Surrounding This Modern Home Architecture and interior design firm GO’C has shared photos of a home they recently completed...
a year ago
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a year ago
Architecture and interior design firm GO’C has shared photos of a home they recently completed northwest of Seattle on the Kitsap Peninsula in Washington. Located on a secluded wooded site, near a small beach town, the home has been designed with dark black brick walls with...
Marcus on AI
CONFIRMED: LLMs have indeed reached a point of diminishing returns Science, sociology, and the likely financial collapse of the Generative AI bubble
a month ago
Musings on Markets
Data Update 2 for 2023: A Rocky Year for Equities! It is the nature of stocks that you have good years and bad ones, and much as we like to forget...
a year ago
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a year ago
It is the nature of stocks that you have good years and bad ones, and much as we like to forget about the latter during market booms, they recur at regular intervals, if for no other reason than to remind us that risk is not an abstraction, and that stocks don't always win, even...
Steve Klabnik
New Beginnings
over a year ago
Working Theorys
24 Working Theorys for 2024 Twenty-four ideas across four major themes: startups & investing, social products, media & creators,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Twenty-four ideas across four major themes: startups & investing, social products, media & creators, and lifestyle
TheCollector
10 Interesting Propaganda Posters from Russia’s Civil War undefined
5 months ago
The Works in...
Issue 16: I dream of genes Plus: how humans are outdoing nature's shiniest creations; the history of measuring price rises; and...
4 months ago
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Plus: how humans are outdoing nature's shiniest creations; the history of measuring price rises; and how America's favourite type of coffee got really, really good.
Left To Write
№ 72: The First Wealth Is Health For most of my twenties, I valued money, women, friends, family and material possessions. But around...
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For most of my twenties, I valued money, women, friends, family and material possessions. But around 28 years old, something in my psychology began to change. Perhaps it was inching towards 30 years old. Perhaps it was being tired of constantly feeling anxious. Perhaps it was...
Paul Graham: Essays
The New Funding Landscape
over a year ago
TheCollector
Residential Schools in the US & Canada: The Lost Children undefined
11 months ago
Musings on Maps
Swing States, Battleground States and Hot Spots Are the maps of President Trump's 2024 electoral evidence of a sudden shift or deep undercurrents of...
a month ago
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a month ago
Are the maps of President Trump's 2024 electoral evidence of a sudden shift or deep undercurrents of disaffection? The sudden partisan shift of voting maps suggest a dark undercurrents in American politics. Continue reading →
bt RSS Feed
Happily Paying For macOS Apps Happily Paying For macOS Apps 2022-06-29 It’s no secret that I am a huge advocate for open source...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Happily Paying For macOS Apps 2022-06-29 It’s no secret that I am a huge advocate for open source software. A solid chunk of my day-to-day workload is done so via FOSS1 systems. I also manage a handful of fun side projects that are normally shipped under either MIT or GPL...
The Great Discontent...
Brad Montague Brad Montague is an illustrator, speaker, picture book author, video creator, and all-around maker....
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Brad Montague is an illustrator, speaker, picture book author, video creator, and all-around maker. He’s a self-proclaimed dreamer and doer. Above all, he’s a storyteller, “working to create a better world for kids with kids” through Montague Workshop, the creative studio he runs...
Seth's Blog
Game design and strategy (Bongo part 3) What’s it for? Making something fun is a good place to start if you’re building a casual word game...
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a month ago
What’s it for? Making something fun is a good place to start if you’re building a casual word game like Bongo. But it’s not enough. Lots of things are fun, for a while, but that doesn’t meant that they’re worth the investment of time and money it takes to build them. From the...
One Useful Thing
Embracing weirdness: What it means to use AI as a (writing) tool AI is strange. We need to learn to use it.
a year ago
One Useful Thing
15 Times to use AI, and 5 Not to Notes on the Practical Wisdom of AI Use
3 weeks ago
Citation Needed
Citation Needed has a new home Citation Needed is no longer hosted on Substack. Welcome to my antifascist bar.
12 months ago
Jonas Hietala
The I'm Great quote A new semester at the uni and so far it looks promising; I got a hold of some new books even though...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A new semester at the uni and so far it looks promising; I got a hold of some new books even though the bookstore had a snakelike queue similar to the Jörmungandr (the snake that encircled the earth in nordic mythology) and our new programming course started. This time it’s Ada’s...
Made by Ollin
Bare-bones Diffusion Models
a year ago
Open Culture
A New Analysis of Beethoven’s DNA Reveals That Lead Poisoning Could Have Caused His Deafness Despite the intense scrutiny paid to the life and work of Ludwig van Beethoven for a couple of...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Despite the intense scrutiny paid to the life and work of Ludwig van Beethoven for a couple of centuries now, the revered composer still has certain mysteries about him. Some of them he surely never intended to clarify, like the identity of “Immortal Beloved”; others he...
Seán Barry
How to test if user access has been revoked in a Meteor application A tutorial to test if user access has been revoked in a Meteor application.
over a year ago
TheCollector
Lost Battlefield of Alexander the Great Discovered in Türkiye undefined
6 days ago
Spoon & Tamago
Director Ryota Nakano to be Special Guest at Japan Society’s Family Portrait: Japanese Family in... this post is sponsored by Japan Society Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan and Japan...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
this post is sponsored by Japan Society Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan and Japan Society are proud to announce the eighth installment of the ACA Cinema Project film series, Family Portrait: Japanese Family in Flux. The series examines the shifting dynamics and...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Midst the Pomp and Toil of War' I learned that General George S. Patton, Jr. wrote poetry from my father, a man who never read...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
I learned that General George S. Patton, Jr. wrote poetry from my father, a man who never read poetry. I was a senior in high school. Days before we went to see the Oscar-winning film Patton, he delivered a lecture on the general’s military prowess, anti-Semitism and desire to...
haseeb qureshi
What explains the rise of AMMs? Imagine a college friend reached out to you and said, “Hey, I have a business idea. I’m going to run...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Imagine a college friend reached out to you and said, “Hey, I have a business idea. I’m going to run a market making bot. I’ll always quote a price no matter who’s asking, and for my pricing algorithm I’ll use x * y = k. That’s pretty much it. Want to invest?” You’d run...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 073: Music make you lose control June 28, 2024.
6 months ago
Old Structures...
Yet Another Blue-Sky Proposal From a magazine I can’t readily find (the February 28, 1891 edition of Architecture and Building),...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
From a magazine I can’t readily find (the February 28, 1891 edition of Architecture and Building), via a scrapbook at the New York Public Library: a very involved railroad and boulevard system that I doubt anyone wanted and had zero chance of being built: This proposal is along...
The Modern House
A Day Well Spent with Skye Corewijn
a year ago
Engineer’s Codex
4 lessons from software teams that ship fast Software engineering provides a lot of leverage. A small team can generate a disproportionate amount...
a year ago
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a year ago
Software engineering provides a lot of leverage. A small team can generate a disproportionate amount of value or impact a huge number of users. For example, Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers, back in 2011. Examples of teams that ship fast
UX Collective
Is “founder mode” a rebrand for micromanaging, top-down leaders? Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
3 months ago
Seth's Blog
Finding the glitch Many moths are attracted to light. That works fine when it’s a bright moon and an open field, but...
a year ago
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a year ago
Many moths are attracted to light. That works fine when it’s a bright moon and an open field, but not so well for the moths if the light was set up as a bug trap. Processionary caterpillars follow the one in front until their destination, even if they’re arranged in a circle,...
Retail Design Blog
INSILENCE store by design by 83 The Insilence Seongsu store, our second flagship store following Hannam-dong, celebrates the theme...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
The Insilence Seongsu store, our second flagship store following Hannam-dong, celebrates the theme of ‘Rebuild.’ This new store showcases Insilence’s...
TheCollector
What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions undefined
10 months ago
Rest of World -...
ShopeeFood drops non-compete clause after Rest of World reporting Drivers for the Vietnam delivery company had used workarounds but feared detection. After Rest of...
9 months ago
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Drivers for the Vietnam delivery company had used workarounds but feared detection. After Rest of World's reporting, the clause was dropped.
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I’ve been doing a bunch of new Terraform recently, and I’ve started using it to document the deployments it’s creating. In particular, I’ve started using Terraform to create README files which describe the exact infrastructure it’s just created. Here’s my latest example: a README...
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A month ago, I decided to publish something every day for at least thirty days. I read a few others who did something similar, and discussed all the benefits. I’ve found myself struggling with creating something and then making it public. (Public here, on another project, or at...
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Adaptable Flexbox Grid 2018-11-22 You can use flexbox for many tricky layout “hacks” and implementing a grid layout is no different. Check out the CodePen below to see how you can implement a flexbox grid system that adapts automatically based on how many items you insert per row...
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Did you know that RDP is as insecure as telnet? Microsoft developed the remote desktop protocol in order to allow remote GUI- based access to hosts....
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Microsoft developed the remote desktop protocol in order to allow remote GUI- based access to hosts. It is easy to pick on Microsoft and I do respect what they have accomplished, however, it may not come as a surprise that they did it all wrong with RDP in terms of security. By...
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The weather app indicating rain caused an empty bike lane this morning, making me wonder about the power we put into these things.
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When the deal falls apart, or the team loses the game, or a partnership hits the rocks, it’s easy to focus our energy on what just happened. “What if they had called a different play?” This overlooks the real issue. It’s the first move, or the fifth, that led to this problem, not...
Anecdotal Evidence
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The large bay window facing the garden in front of our house is better than television. No commercials, no dependency on internet whims, no bills to pay. That’s where I do most of my reading (best lighting in the house). From the couch I watch the show in the garden. Butterflies,...
The Marginalian
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How, knowing that even the universe is dying, do we bear our lives? Most readily, through friendship, through connection, through co-creating the world we want to live in for the brief time we have together on this lonely, perfect planet. The seventh annual Universe in Verse — a...
Anecdotal Evidence
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Ah my latest game Jonas IceCream Stand is finished and up and running and I’m really proud of it! And thanks for the feedback guys, it’s always welcome. I spent almost exactly fifty hours on this game and that’s by far the most I’ve spent on a 7day project. To be honest it’s...
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James Lohan’s entrepreneurial spirit first came to light in the school dinner queue when he saw the potential for turning a profit on a stack of cheese toasties. A series of successful business ventures followed suit, but it was in 2003 that James and his […]
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At the (surprising) age of “almost 70”, Nigel Slater is “off-the-scale happy.” As our co-founder Matt Gibberd discovers in our latest Homing In podcast, his late Georgian house in north London plays no small part in that contentment. Over the course of their conversation, the […]
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Stoicism is a philosophy that has been around for centuries, with roots that can be traced back to ancient Greece. It is a philosophy that emphasizes personal ethics, logic, and rationality, which are often used to help individuals cope with the hardships and unpredictability of...
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How to Make a Historical Animation with Landsat Here’s how to whip up a three decade animation of deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest,...
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Here’s how to whip up a three decade animation of deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest, using Landsat Explorer. And it only takes a few minutes. … 0:00 Intro0:20 Assembling the animation1:47 Checking the result2:14 Saving an animation as an MP42:44 More animation examples3:33...
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Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects 2021-12-03 With the recent domain switch that took place on this website, I needed to have a dependable setup to forward my old domain URLs to the new one. While using something like “URL forwarding” through your domain provider could work,...
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✍️ Being an Amateur When you’re an expert, you’re so far from the realities of the beginners that your advice might not...
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When you’re an expert, you’re so far from the realities of the beginners that your advice might not be useful. […] The post ✍️ Being an Amateur appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
NeuroLogica Blog
More On Electric Vehicles I recently wrote about electric vehicles, which sparked a lively discussion in the comments. There...
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I recently wrote about electric vehicles, which sparked a lively discussion in the comments. There was enough discussion that I wanted to pull my responses together into a new post. Before I get to the details, some general observations. The conversation, in my opinion, nicely...
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“Every one of the stars in the sky uses fusion to generate enormous amounts of energy. Why shouldn’t we?”
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Agency and Schooling (and gardening) Dear friends, Over at Palladium I have written School is Not Enough. The beginning may be familiar...
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Dear friends, Over at Palladium I have written School is Not Enough. The beginning may be familiar to some readers, the post is an elaboration of my thinking about agency. I speak a bit more about the problem, and potential solutions. I leave it implicit that I find it this very...
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Editor's Note 1: I have no editor. Editor’s Note 2: I would like to assure new subscribers to this blog that most my posts are not as long as this one. Or as long as my previous one. My long break from posting here means that this piece is a collection of what would’ve normally...
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The Experience Machine Thought Experiment In 1974 Robert Nozick published the book, Anarchy, State, and Utopia, in which he posed the...
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In 1974 Robert Nozick published the book, Anarchy, State, and Utopia, in which he posed the following thought experiment: If you could be plugged into an “experience machine” (what we would likely call today a virtual reality or “Matrix”) that could perfectly replicate real-life...
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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...
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6 Things Markdown Got Wrong John Gruber's Markdown is almost a perfect content authoring format. Here are 6 things it got wrong.
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One startup released “the first AI software engineer,” while another aims to build a “superhuman software engineer.” As intimidating as these sound: what if it’s more marketing than reality?
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Normally I spend part of my summer convincing a group of reluctant students that pure research is an essential part of the progress and preservation of civilization. But for the first time in four years, my calendar was blank for the middle weeks of June. I would usually teach a...
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Life’s inconveniences, when they happen to you and me, are just that. Inconveniences. When they happen to some people though they end up becoming multi-billion dollar businesses. This is the story of Japan’s canned coffee. One finds at least one vending machine in almost every...
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Click for printable size. Here’s a quick list of things we can do to get ready for AI’s ascendance. You can click it to get the full size to print out. This is UL Member Content Subscribe Already a member? Login
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Tutorial: Telegram → Logseq quick notes I've long wanted a notes app with an optional chat style interface for append-only notes. The idea...
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I've long wanted a notes app with an optional chat style interface for append-only notes. The idea is that I'll use the simpler append-only interface while on the go, and then use full-featured interface to review, edit, and organize those notes when I'm back at my computer. I...
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Simple Accessibility 2018-09-07 Implementing proper accessibility practices can seem a little daunting at first, but there are a few basic standards you can introduce into your project work-flow that are fairly straightforward: Basic design Test that your project has the proper...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Depending on which AI becomes skynet you might also be able to have a suit with banal political questions. Today's News:
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Using Parent Selectors in CSS 2018-12-19 I recently saw a Twitter thread posted by Tommy Hodgins on implementing highly requested styling features in CSS with only a minimal amount of JavaScript. Many of his examples are great, but the parent selector instantly peaked my...
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Inside versus outside financings: the nightclub effect At some point in the life of a venture-backed startup there typically arises a choice between doing...
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At some point in the life of a venture-backed startup there typically arises a choice between doing an inside round, where the existing…
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Today we take for granted that we can instantly access images of almost any part of the Earth taken from space using an ever growing collection […]
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It’s expensive. Hundreds of people were involved in getting you that simple bowl of rice. It involved countless gallons of water, hours of labor, gallons of fuel. A complex supply chain that ensured you got what you needed, in perfect condition, just as you were ready for it. And...
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Tokyo is busy. The city’s subway caught the eye of photographer Michael Wolf. In ‘Tokyo Compression’, we see people riding the trains. As he writes: “The images create a sense of discomfort as his victims attempt to squirm out of view or simply close their eyes, wishing the...
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Ten years ago, startup financing was an insider’s game. Since then, the topic has been widely discussed on blogs, to the great benefit of…
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Intel; Canada's economy; infrastructure and state capacity; East Asian development; race in America; corrupt nonprofits
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later she experiences true oneness when she's asked to change it by one boss, then to put it back the other way by another boss. Today's News:
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A dozen pseudo-currencies were issued in Argentina in 2002. How did that work? And why are they coming back in 2024?
The Rational Walk
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For the second year in a row, Warren Buffett has made gifts to four family foundations in excess of the annual commitments pledged in 2006.
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a triptych by Toyokuni Utagawa depicting an excursion to gather bamboo shoots (early 1800s) According to Japan’s ancient calendar of 72 microseasons, right now is microseason 21: the time of year when “Bamboo Shoots Sprout.” Known as takenoko in Japan, these voracious plants have...
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Switching away from Debian to Ubuntu LTS Over the last couple of years, Debian Linux has released new stable versions about every two years....
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Over the last couple of years, Debian Linux has released new stable versions about every two years. This pace is great for progress, but there is a serious problem. This problem is related to their support for older Debian stable versions. If you read the quote below from the...
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Pese a prohibición, apps de préstamos depredadores proliferan en la tienda de Google Play Google dice que se toma el problema muy en serio, pero más de una docena de apps continúa disponible...
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Major roadworks at the Bow Roundabout continue to create long queues of traffic. This is a queue of traffic moving very slowly in brief bursts towards the end of Bow Road. On this particular day the back of the queue was around Bus Stop M although often it goes a lot further....
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Before diving into the world of mechanical keyboards, I'd never heard the word "thock" before. But I soon learned that it describes one of those strangely seductive sounds you can produce from pressing the keys on a keyboard tuned for acoustical joy. And now, dammit, I've...
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Like many others, I'm generating a lot of digital data. Constantly taking photos, writing scripts, taking notes, coding projects, and making videos. I'm storing all these files on Google Drive, which has been very reliable but also a bit risky. What if Google closes my account?...
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World Youth Day Pilgrimage, Portugal 2023 In July and August, I accompanied the Archdiocese of Cardiff and the Diocese of Menevia on a...
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In July and August, I accompanied the Archdiocese of Cardiff and the Diocese of Menevia on a two-week pilgrimage to World Youth Day in Lisbon, Portugal. I acted as one of the Team Leaders joining over fifty other pilgrims on the journey, including Archbishop Mark O'Toole and five...
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Confusion about performance The thing that your product or service delivers could be called performance, and it’s made of two...
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The thing that your product or service delivers could be called performance, and it’s made of two components: –The story and expectations and cultural impact of what you do (the story). –The deliverables that are objectively measured (the spec). It helps to have both. Many...
Business Brainstorms
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Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write this email to share the most interesting trends, frameworks, opportunities, and ideas with you. Let's dive in! 💡 Opportunities “An idea for an AI tool I'd love to use — I upload chat...
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The Present You It seems most of the decisions in life are made in favor of the present you, or the future you. I...
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over a year ago
It seems most of the decisions in life are made in favor of the present you, or the future you. I wish the future me could sit beside the present me, and discuss how I was going about my day. Instead, it’s a rather one-sided conversation. There are obvious choices, like food,...
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Magnetism, an Ardor, a Refusal to Be False' “It’s against his nature to be a critic—he is too grateful.”  That’s from one of Elias Canetti’s...
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“It’s against his nature to be a critic—he is too grateful.”  That’s from one of Elias Canetti’s notebooks, collected in Notes from Hampstead (trans. John Hargraves, 1998). While I admire the work of a handful of critics – Dryden, Johnson, Winters, Cunningham, a few others –...
Joel on Software
Welcome, Prashanth! Last March, I shared that we were starting to look for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. We were looking...
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Last March, I shared that we were starting to look for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. We were looking for that rare combination of someone who… Read more "Welcome, Prashanth!"
Home on Erik...
Learning from users faster using machine learning I had an interesting idea a few weeks ago, best explained through an example. Let's say you're...
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over a year ago
I had an interesting idea a few weeks ago, best explained through an example. Let's say you're running an e-commerce site (I kind of do) and you want to optimize the number of purchases. Let's also say we try to learn as much as we can from users, both using A/B tests but also...
Val Sopi
Work less <p>A friend recently boasted how they're working 15 hour days. To which I replied with a concerning...
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<p>A friend recently boasted how they're working 15 hour days. To which I replied with a concerning "Why?" and was met with a distant look.</p> <p>My friend thought I'd metaphorically pat him on the back.</p> <p>I didn't. No surprise there.</p> <p>Supposedly the industry he's in...
mtlynch.io
Lessons from my First Exit In April of this year, I sold TinyPilot, the bootstrapped hardware company I founded and ran for...
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In April of this year, I sold TinyPilot, the bootstrapped hardware company I founded and ran for four years. I wrote a post in May that told the story of the sale, but I’d like to share more about the practical lessons I learned from the experience. In this post, I’m sharing what...
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Kill the crunch time heroics Crunch time has an allure: it feels like if you just push hard enough, you can get more done. You...
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Crunch time has an allure: it feels like if you just push hard enough, you can get more done. You can push hard and get that next release done on time, get those new features out, earn more revenue for your company. Engineers are under immense pressure to deliver more and do it...
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Mind Quite Vacant Is a Mind Distress’d' I’ll be going halftime at the university, effective July 1, in preparation for retiring later this...
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I’ll be going halftime at the university, effective July 1, in preparation for retiring later this year. I knew a guy in high school who already yearned for retirement despite never having had a job, whereas I’d been working since I was twelve. He wanted to play golf and go...
pcloadletter
Write code that you can understand when you get paged at 2am The older I get, the more I dislike clever code. This is not a controversial take; it is pretty-well...
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The older I get, the more I dislike clever code. This is not a controversial take; it is pretty-well agreed upon that clever code is bad. But I particularly like the on-call responsiblity framing: write code that you can understand when you get paged at 2am. If you have never...
Retail Design Blog
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“2050 coffee problem” ,which is a concern that by the year 2050, we may not be able to enjoy coffee...
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I’m a big fan of the Proxima Nova font and have been using it on Preceden for years: For a long time I was loading Proxima Nova on Preceden via Typekit (a hosted web font service) for $49.99/year, but at some point I decided to self-host it to avoid the third party request which...
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Continuing an annual ritual of long standing, ahead of starting my spring teaching at NYU starting in a couple of weeks, I would like to invite you, if you are interested, to come along for the ride. I know! I know! Most of you are not enrolled at NYU, paying nosebleed prices,...
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Conquest and Liberation of Academia During my graduate studies (’93-97), I looked at the history of prizes in science.
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Winner, Name that Ware January 2024 As I noted when posting the ware, I actually don’t know what its original function was — it’s just a...
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As I noted when posting the ware, I actually don’t know what its original function was — it’s just a gizmo I picked out of a junk bin in Akihabara. Personally, I could not figure out the grabby motion until I actuated the central plunger manually: So, I was impressed that Ian...
NeuroLogica Blog
Student Attitudes Toward AI in the Class Researchers recently published an extensive survey of almost 6,000 students across academic...
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Researchers recently published an extensive survey of almost 6,000 students across academic institution in Sweden. The results are not surprising, but they do give a snapshot of where we are with the recent introduction of large language model AIs. Most students, 56%, reported...
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Hacking Amazon Dash Buttons The Amazon Dash button is about a year old and has proven to be a pretty great hackable...
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over a year ago
The Amazon Dash button is about a year old and has proven to be a pretty great hackable internet-of-things button. It’s got built-in wifi, an onboard battery and best of all, a $4.99 price tag. How It Works The actual “hacking” of dash buttons has really nothing to do with the...
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When you don't have chocolate chips... But you still have large blocks of Valrhona dark chocolate and are craving the flavors of chocolate...
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But you still have large blocks of Valrhona dark chocolate and are craving the flavors of chocolate chip cookies? Turns out that while it's difficult to turn a large block into chip-sized chunks, it's a lot easier to turn it into shavings. Unfortunately, these shavings would get...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 19 Highlights I published my fourth annual retrospective about being a bootstrapped founder. TinyPilot...
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Highlights I published my fourth annual retrospective about being a bootstrapped founder. TinyPilot sales continue running strong despite a delay in launching our next product. I analyze how I’m spending my time and figure out ways to allocate my hours better. Goal Grades At the...
The Marginalian
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"Try to stay passionate, leave your cool to constellations. Passion, above all, is a remedy against boredom. Another one, of course, is pain... passion's frequent aftermath."
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