Londonist
Dad's Army Museum: Go On A Classic Sitcom Pilgrimage On This Day Trip From London
"Now pay attention..."
a year ago
Londonist
Where To Watch The Six Nations 2024 In London
Watch rugby greats battle it out at these pubs and bars.
11 months ago
Watch rugby greats battle it out at these pubs and bars.
HTMHell
#11 The trigram for heaven
Bad code
<span class="nav-toggle"> ☰ Menu </span>
Issues and how to fix them
A screen reader may...
over a year ago
Bad code
<span class="nav-toggle"> ☰ Menu </span>
Issues and how to fix them
A screen reader may announce this as trigram for heaven menu, because ☰ is the unicode character for the trigram for heaven.
The purpose of the icon is decorative, it should be hidden from screen...
Noahpinion
Happy fun Cold War 2 update
It's getting a little warmer out there.
6 months ago
It's getting a little warmer out there.
Classical Wisdom
Chariot Racing in the Ancient World
...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
a year ago
...and History's Highest Paid Sports Star!
Citation Needed
Follow the Crypto
FollowTheCrypto.org: A new project to track cryptocurrency industry spending to influence 2024...
5 months ago
FollowTheCrypto.org: A new project to track cryptocurrency industry spending to influence 2024 elections in the United States.
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 23-29 October 2023
Things to do for under a fiver.
a year ago
Things to do for under a fiver.
The Honest Broker
How Virtual Reality Died
Meta, Microsoft, and Apple lost billions trying to convince us to live in the Matrix. Can you guess...
a month ago
Meta, Microsoft, and Apple lost billions trying to convince us to live in the Matrix. Can you guess what they're doing next?
Unpacked
NVIDIA Explained: Origins, GPUs and AI stock bump | EP8
NVIDIA has seen their valuation 5x over the last 5 years and is now worth more than $2 trillion. In...
8 months ago
NVIDIA has seen their valuation 5x over the last 5 years and is now worth more than $2 trillion. In the latest episode, we dive a few layers deep into the company. We start with the origin of the company and the launch of their first GPU in 1999 which unlocked several...
TheCollector
How Did Carl Jung’s Dream Birth “Man and His Symbols”?
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8 months ago
On Test Automation
On ditching hourly and productizing my services
In the last couple of weeks, I’ve spent much more time commuting than normal. I mostly work remotely...
2 weeks ago
In the last couple of weeks, I’ve spent much more time commuting than normal. I mostly work remotely these days, for clients both in the Netherlands and abroad. And I like it that way. Don’t get me wrong, I like to drive, but commuting takes up a lot of time, time I would rather...
abdz.do - Have you...
By Wind — Printing By Wind
By Wind — Printing By Wind
abduzeedo0210—23
To meet future...
a year ago
By Wind — Printing By Wind
abduzeedo0210—23
To meet future demands on quality, specialization, and sustainability, two of Sweden’s (and Europe’s) foremost printing companies joined forces to create a unique and comprehensive offering:...
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
In late 2022, the independent bookstore Jetlag Books, based in Beijing, approached us with a collaboration opportunity with the Swire...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Death Is Not Far From Me'
It’s in the
nature of most writers to come up with their own rules and obey them when it
serves...
9 months ago
It’s in the
nature of most writers to come up with their own rules and obey them when it
serves their purposes. Even the strictest formalist bends a little in the
service of what works aesthetically. The byproduct of that decision-making
process is “style.” Good work can come out...
The Rational Walk
The Dividend Signal
Mature technology companies are establishing regular quarterly dividends. Is this a positive or...
7 months ago
Mature technology companies are establishing regular quarterly dividends. Is this a positive or negative development for shareholders?
Daniel Miessler
Twitter’s Blue Checkmark Strategy Reduces Trust in Pursuit of Revenue
When I heard that Twitter was going to open the blue checkmark up to anyone willing to pay $8/month,...
over a year ago
When I heard that Twitter was going to open the blue checkmark up to anyone willing to pay $8/month, I was happy. As a legacy holder of the checkmark there’s a slight band-aid-sting of the check indicating specialness—who doesn’t want to feel special?—but I’d much rather see a...
Making software...
Width or Flex-Basis?
Width or Flex-Basis?
2018-11-28
Creating rows and columns of elements that adapt dynamically can be...
over a year ago
Width or Flex-Basis?
2018-11-28
Creating rows and columns of elements that adapt dynamically can be a little tricky depending on the desired outcome. Let's breakdown how to solve this issue using both inline-block paired with width and flex-basis.
Width
Setting the width of the...
CONTEMPORIST
Wood Lines The Length Of The Gable Vaulted Ceiling In This Home
Architecture firm The Ranch Mine, has designed a new home in Flagstaff, Arizona, that’s inspired by...
a year ago
Architecture firm The Ranch Mine, has designed a new home in Flagstaff, Arizona, that’s inspired by the landscape of the surrounding San Francisco Volcanic Field. The surrounding landscape is reflected in the decision to choose a black exterior for the home, while the interiors...
Probably...
How Many Books?
If you like this article, you can read more about this kind of Bayesian analysis in Think Bayes....
11 months ago
If you like this article, you can read more about this kind of Bayesian analysis in Think Bayes. Recently I found a copy of Probably Overthinking It at a local bookstore and posted a picture on Twitter. Aubrey Clayton replied with this question: It’s a great question with what...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Past Is Alive and Stirring With Objects'
Published in
the January 1821 issue of London Magazine
are thematically linked essays by two...
11 months ago
Published in
the January 1821 issue of London Magazine
are thematically linked essays by two friends, Charles Lamb and William
Hazlitt: “New Year’s Eve” and “On the Past and Future,” respectively. Lamb’s is
better known, and I'm aware of several readers who, like me, read it...
TheCollector
Just How Christian Was the Kingdom of Kongo?
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9 months ago
One from Nippon
A peek into Japan’s Hot Springs (Part 3)
Editor’s note: This is the third of a three-part article. Part 1 and Part 2 painted the history of...
a year ago
Editor’s note: This is the third of a three-part article. Part 1 and Part 2 painted the history of onsens and the science behind them. In this article we take a deep-dive into the business of onsens.
Onsen as a Business
Despite all the hype in Part 1
Castles in the Sky
13 Lessons from 37 Years
My Gift to You for my 37th Birthday
2 months ago
My Gift to You for my 37th Birthday
Artificial Ignorance
Workshop: Enough GPT To Be Dangerous with Sairam Sundaresan
Have you ever wondered what’s actually happening inside ChatGPT and Claude, but found “explainers”...
a month ago
Have you ever wondered what’s actually happening inside ChatGPT and Claude, but found “explainers” too complex or technical?
SOCKS
Constructing Knowledge through Geometry: Ramon Llull’s Figures in Ars Magna, 1305
Catalan polymath, Ramon Llull was the first person to conceive a device able to externalise the...
over a year ago
Catalan polymath, Ramon Llull was the first person to conceive a device able to externalise the human mind. In his seminal opus, the Ars Magna, Llull conceived a series of figures that could replicate the mental ability to connect information in order to acquire knowledge. Thanks...
The Marginalian
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating: An Uncommon Meditation on Presence and the Aperture of Wonder
"Survival often depends on a specific focus: a relationship, a belief, or a hope balanced on the...
a year ago
"Survival often depends on a specific focus: a relationship, a belief, or a hope balanced on the edge of possibility."
Julia Evans
Reasons I still love the fish shell
I wrote about how much I love fish in this blog post from 2017 and, 7 years
of using it every day...
3 months ago
I wrote about how much I love fish in this blog post from 2017 and, 7 years
of using it every day later, I’ve found even more reasons to love it. So I
thought I’d write a new post with both the old reasons I loved it and some
reasons.
This came up today because I was trying to...
haseeb qureshi
Why Decentralization Isn’t as Important as You Think
If you’ve spent any time at all on crypto Twitter, you’re familiar with the web3 narrative. It goes...
over a year ago
If you’ve spent any time at all on crypto Twitter, you’re familiar with the web3 narrative. It goes like this: in the beginning, the web was “truly decentralized.” Against all odds, the World Wide Web won against the corporatist designs of companies like Microsoft, and cyberspace...
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...
a year ago
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)...
Seth's Blog
The Beatles and Taylor Swift
When we’re in the middle of a cultural swirl, it’s normal to believe that everyone else is too....
a year ago
When we’re in the middle of a cultural swirl, it’s normal to believe that everyone else is too. That’s part of the magic of a cultural swirl–it’s our friends, our work, our world. Most of these moments are actually tiny pockets. An episode of the much-talked-about TV show...
History Today Feed
The Election That Caused the Boer War
The Election That Caused the Boer War
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:19
6 months ago
The Election That Caused the Boer War
JamesHoare
Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:19
One Useful Thing
Power and Weirdness: How to Use Bing AI
Bing AI is a huge leap over ChatGPT, but you have to learn its quirks
a year ago
Bing AI is a huge leap over ChatGPT, but you have to learn its quirks
Rest of World -...
Why thousands of Chinese young people use a pink dinosaur as their alias
Users adopt the alias “momo” as a way to speak more freely, evade harassment and protect personal...
a year ago
Users adopt the alias “momo” as a way to speak more freely, evade harassment and protect personal privacy on Douban and Xiaohongshu.
Old Structures...
Four Months Later, I Finish The Thought
I wrote a blog post in April about the grotesques in the lobby of the Woolworth Building. As I...
3 months ago
I wrote a blog post in April about the grotesques in the lobby of the Woolworth Building. As I mentioned then, they are grotesques because they are purely decorative figures; gargoyles are decorative figures that are generally water spouts and are part of a roof drainage system....
Josh Comeau's blog
Demystifying styled-components
For so many React devs, styled-components seems kinda magical. It isn't at all clear how it uses...
over a year ago
For so many React devs, styled-components seems kinda magical. It isn't at all clear how it uses traditional CSS features under-the-hood, and that lack of clarity can cause real problems when things go awry. In this post, we'll learn exactly how styled-components works by...
TheCollector
What Countries Joined the Axis Powers?
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10 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Kept
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Sure he's on an unrendered background but the angle...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Sure he's on an unrendered background but the angle on the shoes is perfect.
Today's News:
Stretch goals are being revealed faster than I had expected and I should've planned more!!
Math Is Still...
Mathematicians Prove Hawking Wrong About the Most Extreme Black Holes
For decades, extremal black holes were considered mathematically impossible. A new proof reveals...
4 months ago
For decades, extremal black holes were considered mathematically impossible. A new proof reveals otherwise.
The post Mathematicians Prove Hawking Wrong About the Most Extreme Black Holes first appeared on Quanta Magazine
TheCollector
Who Are Russia’s Old Believers? The Raskol in Russian History
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a year ago
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Inland Northwest, Day 7 (Abrupt End)
What should have been a ten day trip ended unexpectedly on the seventh day. The previous evening our...
2 months ago
What should have been a ten day trip ended unexpectedly on the seventh day. The previous evening our kid who was watching the house called to tell us about our soaking wet basement carpet. Our ancient boiler was leaking. So we immediately contacted our insurance provider, a water...
NeuroLogica Blog
The Exoplanet Radius Gap
As of this writing, there are 5,573 confirmed exoplanets in 4,146 planetary systems. That is enough...
10 months ago
As of this writing, there are 5,573 confirmed exoplanets in 4,146 planetary systems. That is enough exoplanets, planets around stars other than our own sun, that we can do some statistics to describe what’s out there. One curious pattern that has emerged is a relative gap in the...
Christopher Butler
Sub-Second Orientation
When a visitor encounters a web-page for the first time, they will ask and answer three questions...
a year ago
When a visitor encounters a web-page for the first time, they will ask and answer three questions within about one second:
What is this content?
Is it relevant to me?
What should I do next?
Realistically, for a human to ask and answer three questions about...
ntietz.com blog
Affirmations for bloggers
Every software engineer can have a great blog, if they want to.
Many of us start blogs, but most of...
6 months ago
Every software engineer can have a great blog, if they want to.
Many of us start blogs, but most of those blogs lie abandoned or sporadically updated.
It's okay if you start blogging and figure out it's not really for you.
But there are also some common issues that block people...
Adventures In...
Boost the Human Footprint in Imagery
The World Imagery Basemap is a lovely resource spanning the Earth in all directions at all scales....
3 months ago
The World Imagery Basemap is a lovely resource spanning the Earth in all directions at all scales. If you want to add a level of context you can always add a reference overlay. But what about baking a reference overlay into the imagery in a way that makes it look, like, sort of...
Probably...
Density and Likelihood
It’s another installment in Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with Python. Previous...
5 months ago
It’s another installment in Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with Python. Previous installments are available from the Data Q&A landing page. If you get this post by email, the formatting might be broken — if so, you might want to read it on the site. likelihood Density and...
TheCollector
Why Visit Aqaba? Jordan’s City of Contrasts
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Elton John Collection Goes on Sale After 21 Years
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11 months ago
Julia Evans
New playground: memory spy
Hello! Today we’re releasing a new playground called “memory spy”. It lets you run C programs
and...
a year ago
Hello! Today we’re releasing a new playground called “memory spy”. It lets you run C programs
and see how their variables are represented in memory. It’s designed to be
accessible to folks who don’t know C – it comes with bunch of extremely simple
example C programs that you can...
Oxide Computer...
Reflections on Founder Mode
Paul Graham’s Founder
Mode is an important piece, and you should read it if for no other reason
that...
3 months ago
Paul Graham’s Founder
Mode is an important piece, and you should read it if for no other reason
that "founder mode" will surely enter the lexicon (and as Graham grimly
predicts: "as soon as the concept of founder mode becomes established, people
will start misusing it"). When...
Seth's Blog
When in doubt, look for the fear
When someone acts in a surprising way, we can begin to understand by wondering what they might be...
a year ago
When someone acts in a surprising way, we can begin to understand by wondering what they might be afraid of.
AFAR Media - Travel...
4 Outdoor Adventures Near Marriott Hotels in Florida
5 months ago
History Today Feed
The UN Declaration of Human Rights
The UN Declaration of Human Rights
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:05
a week ago
The UN Declaration of Human Rights
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/10/2024 - 09:05
journal – Winnie Lim
some scenes from chiang mai
Sharing some straight out of the camera and phone shots from Chiang Mai. It is known for the coffee...
2 weeks ago
Sharing some straight out of the camera and phone shots from Chiang Mai. It is known for the coffee scene, but what I didn’t expect was that it has excellent matcha too,...
The Great Discontent...
Demar Matthews
Emergence Issue: TGD’s fifth issue features a dynamic group of 15 creators who are deeply committed...
over a year ago
Emergence Issue: TGD’s fifth issue features a dynamic group of 15 creators who are deeply committed to addressing systematic challenges in their communities through creativity and emerging ideologies. Buy Now How do you explain your work? I am specifically interested in...
History Today Feed
Free French Bombers Over France
Free French Bombers Over France
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 07:00
3 months ago
Free French Bombers Over France
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/16/2024 - 07:00
Julia Evans
The "current branch" in git
Hello! I know I just wrote a blog post about HEAD in git, but I’ve been
thinking more about what the...
9 months ago
Hello! I know I just wrote a blog post about HEAD in git, but I’ve been
thinking more about what the term “current branch” means in git and it’s a
little weirder than I thought.
four possible definitions for “current branch”
It’s what’s in the file .git/HEAD. This is how the git...
Classical Wisdom
Nature in Greek Myth
Magical and Medicinal
9 months ago
Louwrentius
The kind of sound you never want to hear from your computer
The sounds of hard drives that have perished
These sounds are only frightening or scary if you...
over a year ago
The sounds of hard drives that have perished
These sounds are only frightening or scary if you imagine your precious data
only exists on that failing drive. If you make consistent and frequent backups
and/or you run a fault-tolerant RAID flavour, it is but a nuisance.
Anecdotal Evidence
'Maintaining a Stable and Orderly Civilization'
On the same
day I removed all the books from one of the bookcases, dusted the shelves...
6 months ago
On the same
day I removed all the books from one of the bookcases, dusted the shelves and
reorganized the volumes, one of our cats leaped into an open cupboard in the
kitchen. One of the four pegs supporting the middle shelf was missing and Trane’s
weight tipped it enough so a...
./techtipsy
Oversimplified guide into snapshots on the btrfs filesystem
Friday afternoon. You’re trying out a script that you wrote to mass-rename and
move some files...
over a year ago
Friday afternoon. You’re trying out a script that you wrote to mass-rename and
move some files around. You finish the script and test it out.
Oops.
All the files now have all the wrong names, and some have been randomly moved
10 folders deep. It’s a mess.
And you didn’t make a...
./techtipsy
ThinkPad as a server: third time's the charm
This is a follow-up to my two previous attempts on this topic:
Can a laptop from 2012 be a viable...
2 months ago
This is a follow-up to my two previous attempts on this topic:
Can a laptop from 2012 be a viable home server?
ThinkPad as a server: the follow-up
Since then, I’ve had quite a few changes to my home server setup:
I put my home server stuff on an IKEA pegboard
I tried the...
The Modern House
How the realities of self-building in the Outer Hebrides produced a new home distinctly reflective...
11 months ago
Max Countryman
Publish Your Drafts
When does something become valuable to someone else? I've struggled with this question, hesitating...
a year ago
When does something become valuable to someone else? I've struggled with this question, hesitating at times to share unfinished work because it hasn't reached a level of polish that satisfies me. But the truth is, our unpublished work has no value to anyone.
diamond geezer
Whitechapel Road
WHITECHAPEL
ROAD
£60
London's Monopoly Streets
WHITECHAPEL ROAD
Colour group: brown
Purchase...
11 months ago
WHITECHAPEL
ROAD
£60
London's Monopoly Streets
WHITECHAPEL ROAD
Colour group: brown
Purchase price: £60
Rent: £4
Length: 1 kilometre
Borough: Tower Hamlets
Postcodes: E1
Whitechapel Road would be the first square. Instead it's the second brown, the more expensive of the...
xkcd.com
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
9 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
Lewis H. Latimer: A Life of Lightbulb Moments
James Weldon Johnson’s hymn “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” adopted by African Americans as the...
a year ago
James Weldon Johnson’s hymn “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” adopted by African Americans as the unofficial “Negro National Anthem,” includes the line, “We have come over a way that with tears has been watered,” which sums up how Black Americans have found ways to thrive under...
CONTEMPORIST
The Post And Beam Structure Is On Display Around This Home
Magarao + Lindenberg Arquitetura has shared photos of a modern home they completed in Rio De...
a year ago
Magarao + Lindenberg Arquitetura has shared photos of a modern home they completed in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, that has its post and beam structure on display throughout the interior. The clients wanted a house with personality and practicality, which would be spacious but without...
computers are bad
2024-09-08 private lines
I have been meaning, for some time, to write about common carrier switching
arrangements (CCSAs)....
3 months ago
I have been meaning, for some time, to write about common carrier switching
arrangements (CCSAs). These could be considered an early form of products like
"virtual private ethernet:" a private telephone network that was served by the
same switching machines that handled the...
Seth's Blog
Elites (vs. elitism)
Tom Brady is an elite athlete. Few have even approached the stats he had playing football. And...
2 weeks ago
Tom Brady is an elite athlete. Few have even approached the stats he had playing football. And Catherine Walker, NSTA Science Teacher of the Year, is an elite, because her pedagogy and understanding give her the ability to create better outcomes for her students. There’s a...
The Convivial...
The Pathologies of the Attention Economy
The Convivial Society: Vol. 3, No. 16
over a year ago
The Convivial Society: Vol. 3, No. 16
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Pseudoscience
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Take that, 100 year old method largely no longer in...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Take that, 100 year old method largely no longer in use!
Today's News:
David Heinemeier...
We’ve resubmitted the HEY Calendar app to Apple
Apple waited until end of business on Friday to send us the formal rejection of the HEY Calendar...
11 months ago
Apple waited until end of business on Friday to send us the formal rejection of the HEY Calendar app. It seems they love to play these little games to try to drown any controversy with the cover of a weekend. But we don’t roll over that easy, so the team worked through the...
Posts on Nikita...
Writing JIT Compiler on the Plane
Feel free to join the discussion on HackerNews.
Compilers always seemed a little bit like magic to...
over a year ago
Feel free to join the discussion on HackerNews.
Compilers always seemed a little bit like magic to me. You write the code in some language and then it spits out bitcode that a small crystall inside your computer understands.
Some databases ship with a specialized compiler inside...
Londonist
20+ Cheery Things To Do In London In January 2024
Events to get you through the dark winter days.
11 months ago
Events to get you through the dark winter days.
Classical Wisdom
Classics Friday
Gifts for Wisdom Lovers
a year ago
Patterns in Humanity
The myth of the Nordic rehabilitative paradise
Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
6 months ago
Interpreting recidivism rates and understanding their causes
Classical Wisdom
Who cares about Homer, anyway?
What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
2 weeks ago
What the legendary blind bard tells us about ourselves in the here and now
Dreams of Space -...
Gumby and Pokey Coloring Book (1966)
Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey....
a year ago
Since part of this blog is reliving the joys of my childhood I need to talk about Gumby and Pokey. Gumby was a television show for children that ran (at least for me) from 1953-1969. It was stop-motion animated adventures of two figure made of "clay." It was a highlight of my...
Anecdotal Evidence
'I'd Walk in Heaven With My Feet on Earth'
“If love of
beauty were the same as faith, / I’d walk in heaven with my feet on earth.”
The...
12 months ago
“If love of
beauty were the same as faith, / I’d walk in heaven with my feet on earth.”
The late
Terry Teachout once described himself as a “Midwestern aesthete,” an identification I
have happily claimed. I sense that a love of beauty has grown scarce and too
often earns contempt...
Citation Needed
Issue 52 – I am Sam's low-level culpability
Bitcoin prices are spiking. Are we in for another round of crypto mania? Also, Sam Bankman-Fried...
9 months ago
Bitcoin prices are spiking. Are we in for another round of crypto mania? Also, Sam Bankman-Fried doesn't want to go to jail for 100 years.
diamond geezer
London Commonwealth Walkway
A Nice Walk: London Commonwealth Walkway (1½ miles)
Sometimes you just want to go for a nice walk,...
10 months ago
A Nice Walk: London Commonwealth Walkway (1½ miles)
Sometimes you just want to go for a nice walk, nothing too taxing, a bit of a stroll, lots to see, centrally located, historic buildings, an international frisson, royally approved, multiple refreshment opportunities, entirely...
The Modern House
Living well, together: a breathtaking mews house that is a calm, creative sanctuary for four
a month ago
Londonist
Expect To Hear Lots More Buskers In Tube Stations Over The Next 2 Weeks
It's the X Factor of the London Underground.
9 months ago
It's the X Factor of the London Underground.
One Useful Thing
It is starting to get strange.
Let's talk about ChatGPT with Code Interpreter & Microsoft Copilot
a year ago
Let's talk about ChatGPT with Code Interpreter & Microsoft Copilot
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Bedrock programming
“Bedrock programming” is a phrase used to describe a style of programming that favors building code...
over a year ago
“Bedrock programming” is a phrase used to describe a style of programming that favors building code from the ground up versus reusing…
Marco.org
Introducing Voice Boost 2: Remaster your podcasts
The latest update to Overcast includes a feature that I’m especially proud of that took over a year...
over a year ago
The latest update to Overcast includes a feature that I’m especially proud of that took over a year to build.
Voice Boost 2 is an all-new audio engine that includes professional-grade, mastering-quality loudness normalization.
When I first introduced Overcast in 2014, Voice Boost...
Londonist
St Paul's Lorrimore Square: London's Magnificent Modernist Church
Now THAT's a roof.
a year ago
Wuthering...
The Frogs by Aristophanes - Brilliant! Brilliant! Wish I knew what you were talking about!
The Frogs by Aristophanes is this week’s play. It was performed in what now look like the waning...
over a year ago
The Frogs by Aristophanes is this week’s play. It was performed in what now look like the waning days of Athens, just before their conquest by Sparta, and in particular the last days of Athenian tragedy, with Euripides and Sophocles both recently dead. In what may be the most...
Construction Physics
How to Build 300,000 Airplanes in Five Years
It’s no secret that the Allies won World War II on the back of the U.S.’s enormous industrial...
7 months ago
It’s no secret that the Allies won World War II on the back of the U.S.’s enormous industrial output. Even before the U.S. entered the war, the Americans provided hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of equipment to the Allies, and between 1938 and 1943 U.S. manufacturing...
The Marginalian
Love and the Sacred
"I did not know what love was until I encountered one that kept opening and opening and opening."
11 months ago
"I did not know what love was until I encountered one that kept opening and opening and opening."
IEEE Spectrum
Xerox Donates Legendary PARC Research Center
Xerox is donating its legendary research lab PARC to the nonprofit research institute SRI...
a year ago
Xerox is donating its legendary research lab PARC to the nonprofit research institute SRI International. The subsidiary’s pioneering research in the 1970s helped give birth to the era of personal computing. Xerox says the move will allow it to focus on its core business.
The...
TheCollector
11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know
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a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
Lies, damned lies, and benchmarks
While benchmarks (and leaderboards) are useful tools, they are but a small facet when it comes to...
10 months ago
While benchmarks (and leaderboards) are useful tools, they are but a small facet when it comes to evaluating large language models. Often, they're not the best indicators of real-world utility - and I want to dig into why (and what other approaches exist).
TheCollector
Did Anne Boleyn Really Ruin Wolsey?
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a year ago
HTMHell
#20 HTMHell special: close buttons
This first HTMHell special inspects one of the most complicated and most controversial patterns in...
over a year ago
This first HTMHell special inspects one of the most complicated and most controversial patterns in front-end development:
🔥 the close button. 🔥
In modals, ads, and other overlays you often find a button with a close symbol that allows users, or at least some of them, to close...
Old Structures...
Ephemeral Elephant
I mentioned the Colossus of Coney Island once before, but it’s time to expand on that a bit. (The...
11 months ago
I mentioned the Colossus of Coney Island once before, but it’s time to expand on that a bit. (The fact that I mentioned this building three and a half years ago and did not remember having done so until I searched for it makes me wonder if I’ve written too many blog posts.)...
The Honest Broker
“The Only Sensible Person in the World”
10 Perspectives on Joan Didion
a year ago
10 Perspectives on Joan Didion
Arduino Blog
An ultra-affordable DIY underwater ROV
ROVs (remotely operated vehicles) let us explore bodies of water and it is hard not to be excited by...
7 months ago
ROVs (remotely operated vehicles) let us explore bodies of water and it is hard not to be excited by the possibilities. But traditional ROVs cost a lot of money and often require serious expertise to operate and maintain. Luckily there are affordable alternatives, such as this...
Math Is Still...
The Surprisingly Simple Math Behind Puzzling Matchups
If Anna beats Benji in a game and Benji beats Carl, will Anna beat Carl?
The post The...
11 months ago
If Anna beats Benji in a game and Benji beats Carl, will Anna beat Carl?
The post The Surprisingly Simple Math Behind Puzzling Matchups first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - LLM
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Best you can do with cosmos-3.5 is get a universe...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Best you can do with cosmos-3.5 is get a universe that's classical at low speeds.
Today's News:
CONTEMPORIST
Rammed Earth Walls Surround This House In Australia
Luigi Rosselli Architects have shared photos of a home they renovated in Sydney, Australia, that had...
a year ago
Luigi Rosselli Architects have shared photos of a home they renovated in Sydney, Australia, that had rammed earth walls added. The original home, whose design was akin to that of a drilling platform, had two existing floors hovering above, and was entirely disconnected from its...
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: A Busy Intersection
Daredevil battles Stiltman – possibly the most ridiculous villain Marvel has invented – at the...
3 months ago
Daredevil battles Stiltman – possibly the most ridiculous villain Marvel has invented – at the corner of 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue, with the Chrysler Building on the left and the Socony-Mobil Building on the right. Also, per the Landmarks Preservation Commission:
Math Is Still...
How 3D Changes in the Genome Turned Sharks Into Skates
Changes in the 3D structure of their genome gave skates and rays their distinctive winglike fins and...
a year ago
Changes in the 3D structure of their genome gave skates and rays their distinctive winglike fins and pancake flatness.
The post How 3D Changes in the Genome Turned Sharks Into Skates first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Tech and Tea
When your post hits #1 on Hacker News
A behind-the-scenes look at my initial reaction 😬, all the stats, cross-posting to Medium, and...
a year ago
A behind-the-scenes look at my initial reaction 😬, all the stats, cross-posting to Medium, and lessons learned
Remains of the Day
Why Information Grows
It is hard for us humans to separate information from meaning because we cannot help interpreting...
over a year ago
It is hard for us humans to separate information from meaning because we cannot help interpreting messages. We infuse messages with meaning automatically, fooling ourselves to believe that the meaning of a message is carried in the message. But it is not. This is only an...
diamond geezer
Bus stops served by the most buses
Sunday was the 5th best day ever on diamond geezer, visitornumberswise, and came within a smidge of...
6 months ago
Sunday was the 5th best day ever on diamond geezer, visitornumberswise, and came within a smidge of being the 4th. As usual it had nothing to do with something I'd just written, just thousands of people piling onto an old post which just happened to answer a question someone had...
99% Invisible
The Six-Week Cure [EPISODE]
In the mid-1900s, people flocked to Reno, Nevada — not for frontier gold or loose slots, but to get...
a year ago
In the mid-1900s, people flocked to Reno, Nevada — not for frontier gold or loose slots, but to get out of bad marries. The city became known as the “Divorce Capital of the World.” For much of modern history, it has been relatively easy to get married, and extremely difficult to...
TheCollector
The Rise & Fall of Hollywood’s Avant-Garde Cinema
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9 months ago
Old Structures...
A Change of Pace
I’ve done a lot of research over the years, most of it historical, rather than engineering. In other...
6 months ago
I’ve done a lot of research over the years, most of it historical, rather than engineering. In other words, I’ve generally been researching the history of structural engineering, construction, and the built environment, rather than performing analysis on the structures I’ve...
Contemporist...
A Home Designed To Walk Up And Around The Green Roof
AtelierM has sent us photos of a contemporary home they completed in Capilla del Senor, Argentina,...
2 months ago
AtelierM has sent us photos of a contemporary home they completed in Capilla del Senor, Argentina, whose design was inspired by geometry and its surroundings.
David Heinemeier...
Campfire is ONCE #1
With the successful launch of HEY Calendar a week in the rearview mirror, we’re ready for our second...
11 months ago
With the successful launch of HEY Calendar a week in the rearview mirror, we’re ready for our second big launch of the new year: ONCE #1. And... drumroll... it’s a rebirth of Campfire! The original web-based chat system we built back in 2006. Brought back to the future as...
TheCollector
8 Historical Places to Visit in Devon
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Monstrous Births: Artistically Understanding the Mystery of Birth
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a year ago
nanoscale views
APS March Meeting 2024 - coming soon
This week I'm going to be at the APS March Meeting in Minneapolis. As I've done in past years, I...
9 months ago
This week I'm going to be at the APS March Meeting in Minneapolis. As I've done in past years, I will try to write up some highlights of talks that I am able to see, though it may be hit-or-miss. If readers have suggestions for sessions or talks that they think will be...
Common Edge
Buildings Are Not Sacred, but We Can Find Beauty Through Them
There’s no design recipe for it.
5 months ago
There’s no design recipe for it.
Notes on software...
Build a serverless ACID database with this one neat trick (atomic PutIfAbsent)
Delta Lake is an open protocol for serverless ACID databases. Due to
its simplicity, scalability,...
2 months ago
Delta Lake is an open protocol for serverless ACID databases. Due to
its simplicity, scalability, and the number of open-source
implementations, it's quickly becoming the DuckDB of serverless
transactional databases for analytics workloads. Iceberg is a
contender too, and is...
Coding Horror
Updating The Single Most Influential Book of the BASIC Era
In a way, these two books are responsible for my entire professional career.
With early computers,...
over a year ago
In a way, these two books are responsible for my entire professional career.
With early computers, you didn't boot up to a fancy schmancy desktop, or a screen full of apps you could easily poke and prod with your finger. No, those computers booted up to the command
Steve Klabnik
How can I contribute to Ruby on Rails?
over a year ago
Greg Brockman
Leaving Stripe
I originally got hooked on programming because I loved the act of creating something from nothing. I...
over a year ago
I originally got hooked on programming because I loved the act of creating something from nothing. I soon discovered the deep satisfaction of having others actually use my creations. It didn’t take me long to realize I wanted to build a startup.
Startups #
Throughout college, I...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Between failure and Facebook
Recently, a friend was trying to recruit a programmer to join his early-stage startup. The...
over a year ago
Recently, a friend was trying to recruit a programmer to join his early-stage startup. The programmer had just graduated from college and…
Rest of World -...
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...
a year ago
After a rise in shootings, an all-woman group is advising the new Brazilian government on how to deal with radicalization online.
Open Culture
Ray Bradbury Explains Why Literature is the Safety Valve of Civilization (in Which Case We Need More...
Ray Bradbury had it all thought out. Behind his captivating works of science fiction, there were...
4 months ago
Ray Bradbury had it all thought out. Behind his captivating works of science fiction, there were subtle theories about what literature was meant to do. The retro clip above takes you back to the 1970s and it shows Bradbury giving a rather intriguing take on the role of literature...
Josh Collinsworth
Let's learn SvelteKit by building a static Markdown blog from scratch
Learn the fundamentals of SvelteKit by building a statically generated blog from scratch, with...
over a year ago
Learn the fundamentals of SvelteKit by building a statically generated blog from scratch, with Markdown support, Sass, an API, and an RSS feed.
Rest of World -...
AI’s “tech tsunami” is coming for call center workers
The Philippines’ 1.6 million outsourced workers fear they may soon be automated out of a job.
a year ago
The Philippines’ 1.6 million outsourced workers fear they may soon be automated out of a job.
diamond geezer
London Heritage Quarter Summer Trail
What is this bolx?
London Heritage Quarter 'Journey Through Time' Summer Trail and it's bolx. It's...
6 months ago
What is this bolx?
London Heritage Quarter 'Journey Through Time' Summer Trail and it's bolx. It's been organised not to inspire and delight but to drive footfall to four commercial districts. It kicked off last week and runs all summer. It's lowest common denominator art. It's...
brr
South Pole Signage
Please close doors quietly!
a year ago
Please close doors quietly!
AFAR Media - Travel...
Why Lisbon's Culinary Scene Rivals Europe's Best Food Cities
a month ago
alexwlchan
Getting faster Jekyll builds with caching in plugins
This website is a static site built with Jekyll, and recently I overhauled the process for...
8 months ago
This website is a static site built with Jekyll, and recently I overhauled the process for generating the site.
This should be invisible if you’re just a reader, but it makes a big difference to me – like any software project, I’d accumulated cruft and complexity, and it was time...
samwho.dev
Practical Problems with Auto-Increment
In this post I'm going to demonstrate 2 reasons I will be avoiding
auto-increment fields in Postgres...
a year ago
In this post I'm going to demonstrate 2 reasons I will be avoiding
auto-increment fields in Postgres and MySQL in future. I'm going to prefer using
UUID fields unless I have a very good reason not to.
›
MySQL <8.0 auto-increment ID re-use
If you're running an older version of...
Seth's Blog
Living in hyperbole
In the pre-media world, we bumped into fables, or news from across the village, but mostly, our role...
a year ago
In the pre-media world, we bumped into fables, or news from across the village, but mostly, our role models and experiences were based on reality. Now, when it’s not unusual to spend eight hours a day surrounded by media fueled by greatest hits (worst offender, breaking news,...
TheCollector
Narmer Palette: Decoding Its Iconography & Importance
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6 months ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Chris Sacca on the implied user contract
Chris Sacca nicely summarized today’s FB vs Google vs Twitter controversy: It comes down to what...
over a year ago
Chris Sacca nicely summarized today’s FB vs Google vs Twitter controversy: It comes down to what each company has promised its users…
99% Invisible
Side Projects [EPISODE]
This week we’re highlighting a couple of series that live inside the 99pi production tent. We’ve got...
4 months ago
This week we’re highlighting a couple of series that live inside the 99pi production tent. We’ve got a preview of a new miniseries for you called Not Built for This, created and hosted by Emmett FitzGerald. It’s a show about climate change, but not in the way you might think....
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Oculus
I've seen a handful of technology demos in my life that made me feel like I was glimpsing into the...
over a year ago
I've seen a handful of technology demos in my life that made me feel like I was glimpsing into the future. The best ones were: the Apple II…
Liz Denys
Shirred eggs
Ramekins aren't just for advanced culinary creations like soufflés and crème brûlées. But as with...
over a year ago
Ramekins aren't just for advanced culinary creations like soufflés and crème brûlées. But as with mathematical proofs, some of the most elegant foods you can prepare in a ramekin are the simplest.
Enter the shirred egg. Don't be intimidated by the word "shirred"; it's just the...
Steve Klabnik
An introduction to economics under capitalism
over a year ago
Prolost
New Photography Shortcuts Using ToolBox Pro
My love affair with Apple’s Shortcuts took a bit of a hit during the transition to iOS 13, but my...
over a year ago
My love affair with Apple’s Shortcuts took a bit of a hit during the transition to iOS 13, but my fascination with this on-device development environment has been rekindled thanks to a new app called ToolBox Pro.
ToolBox Pro is a free iOS/iPadOS app that adds powerful new actions...
Inverted Passion
Usefulness grounds truth
Are LLMs intelligent? Debates on this question often, but not always, devolve into debates on what...
5 months ago
Are LLMs intelligent? Debates on this question often, but not always, devolve into debates on what LLMs can or cannot do. To a limited extent, the original question is useful because it creates an opening for people to go into specific. But, beyond that initial use, the question...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Possible
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
It's one of those unstoppable force immovable...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
It's one of those unstoppable force immovable object things.
Today's News:
The Turn Signal RSS...
The Problem With Digital Instrument Clusters and How to Design a Better One
Since the invention of the car, instrument clusters have largely consisted of a speedometer,...
11 months ago
Since the invention of the car, instrument clusters have largely consisted of a speedometer, tachometer, fuel gauge, and engine…
Tony Finch's blog
Concurrent qp-trie performance numbers
Previously, I wrote about implementing safe memory reclamation for my
qp-trie code in BIND. I have...
a year ago
Previously, I wrote about implementing safe memory reclamation for my
qp-trie code in BIND. I have now got it working with a
refactored qp-trie that has been changed to support asynchronous
memory reclamation - working to the point where I can run some
benchmarks to compare the...
somenice
Whistler High Note Trail
Gorgeous clear day around the back of Whistler Mountain yesterday. Hiked the High Note Trail...
over a year ago
Gorgeous clear day around the back of Whistler Mountain yesterday. Hiked the High Note Trail backwards from Harmony Lake Loop up to the Peak chair.
TheCollector
Modernism vs. Postmodernism: Two Genres Explained in 6 Facts and 13 Artworks
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4 months ago
Fonts In Use: Blog...
Sega logo (1976–present)
Contributed by Stephen Coles
Source: segaretro.org License: All Rights Reserved.
The Sega logo...
over a year ago
Contributed by Stephen Coles
Source: segaretro.org License: All Rights Reserved.
The Sega logo used since 1976, in its official color for the Japanese market.
Source: segaretro.org Image: Scarred Sun. License: All Rights Reserved.
Sega logo used from the late 1950s to...
Mazdak
DOJ Breaks Up Google, Elden Ring Sold, and Windows Goes Meta
The DOJ is swinging a massive hammer at Google, potentially forcing them to sell off Chrome - will...
a month ago
The DOJ is swinging a massive hammer at Google, potentially forcing them to sell off Chrome - will the internet ever be the same?
fast.ai
Deep Learning Foundations Signup, Open Source Scholarships, & More
Signups are now open for Practical Deep Learning for Coders Part 2, 2022. Scholarships are available...
over a year ago
Signups are now open for Practical Deep Learning for Coders Part 2, 2022. Scholarships are available for fast.ai community contributors, open source developers, and diversity scholars.
TheCollector
A History of Alaska’s Indigenous People
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a year ago
TheCollector
What Was the Hanseatic League?
undefined
8 months ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Making your first startup ops hire – what founders should look for
Most founders I talk to approach their first ops hire in a totally sensible but wrong way. Their...
a year ago
Most founders I talk to approach their first ops hire in a totally sensible but wrong way. Their typical approach is to look at the long list of admin…
Society's Backend
Top 10 Machine Learning Resources and Updates 06/21/2024
The fastest way to get up to speed on ML fundamentals, Meta releases new models, NVIDIA releases...
6 months ago
The fastest way to get up to speed on ML fundamentals, Meta releases new models, NVIDIA releases open models, Google generates audio for video, and more
Working Theorys
The Creator Search Fund
Don't buy a company, commercialize a creator.
10 months ago
Don't buy a company, commercialize a creator.
swyx's site RSS Feed
10x-ing Svelte (Svelte Summit 2022 Talk Notes)
Some show notes for my Svelte Summit talk for those who are looking for all the references and cut...
over a year ago
Some show notes for my Svelte Summit talk for those who are looking for all the references and cut content.
Classical Wisdom
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
4 months ago
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
A Collection of...
Collections: Teaching Paradox, Imperator, Part IIIa: De Re Publica
This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox...
4 months ago
This is the first half of the third part of our three-part (I, IIa, IIb) look at Paradox Interactive’s ancient grand strategy game Imperator: Rome, running from the late fourth through the first century BCE, a period that, relevant for today’s discussion, covers the Middle and...
Evan Jones -...
gRPC is easy to misconfigure
Google's gRPC is an RPC system that supports many languages, and is relatively widely used. I think...
over a year ago
Google's gRPC is an RPC system that supports many languages, and is relatively widely used. I think its popularity is due to being used for parts of Docker and Kubernetes. I think gRPC is mostly fine, but it is surprisingly easy to screw up by misconfiguring it. Part of that is...
The Marginalian
The Great Blind Spot of Science and the Art of Asking the Complex Question the Only Answer to Which...
“Real isn’t how you are made… It’s a thing that happens to you,” says the Skin Horse — a stuffed toy...
a month ago
“Real isn’t how you are made… It’s a thing that happens to you,” says the Skin Horse — a stuffed toy brought to life by a child’s love — in The Velveteen Rabbit. Great children’s books are works of philosophy in disguise; this is a fundamental question: In a reality of matter,...
dthompson
Lisp: Icing or Cake?
The Spring Lisp Game Jam
2024 ended one week
ago. 48 games were submitted, a new record for the...
6 months ago
The Spring Lisp Game Jam
2024 ended one week
ago. 48 games were submitted, a new record for the jam! This past
week has been a time for participants to play and rate each other’s
games. As I explored the entries, I noticed two distinct
meta-patterns in how people approached...
Oxide Computer...
A Tool for Discussion
At Oxide, RFDs (Requests for Discussion) play a crucial role in driving our architectural and design...
a year ago
At Oxide, RFDs (Requests for Discussion) play a crucial role in driving our architectural and design decisions. They document the processes, APIs, and tools that we use. The workflow for the RFD process is based upon those of the Golang proposal process, Joyent RFD process, Rust...
This Space
39 Books: 1996
It's a commonplace that in reading novels one can escape the ravages of time. In 1994, I borrowed my...
7 months ago
It's a commonplace that in reading novels one can escape the ravages of time. In 1994, I borrowed my student housemate's innocent-looking hardback edition of Nicholson Baker's The Fermata in which Arno Strine writes about how he can actually stop time. The title refers to the...
Naveen Arun's Blog
Think Excel Can’t Handle PDEs? Think Again: A Chemical Engineering Case Study
Did you know you can solve 2D partial differential equations (PDEs) in Excel without resorting to...
a year ago
Did you know you can solve 2D partial differential equations (PDEs) in Excel without resorting to macros? In this post, we’ll look at how to solve Laplace’s Equation, , in two dimensions using nothing but Microsoft Excel. Introduction Heat transfer is a critical concept in...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Daring to His Own Disadvantage'
“The words
poetic and fatuous ought not to be synonyms; and to encounter a mind which is
against...
5 months ago
“The words
poetic and fatuous ought not to be synonyms; and to encounter a mind which is
against mock society, mock poetry, mock justice, mock spirituality—against any form of enslavement—is a benefit.”
Marianne
Moore could be a soft touch when it came to reviewing. She could...
The American Scholar
Adventures With Jean
Striking up a friendship with an older writer meant accepting the risk of getting hurt
The post...
3 months ago
Striking up a friendship with an older writer meant accepting the risk of getting hurt
The post Adventures With Jean appeared first on The American Scholar.
Atoms vs Bits
Carrot Problems
It's not the crime, it's the coverup.
a year ago
It's not the crime, it's the coverup.
Londonist
Even More Of London's Crappiest Benches
When London's seats fail to bring their A game.
a year ago
When London's seats fail to bring their A game.
Math Is Still...
Math Proof Draws New Boundaries Around Black Hole Formation
For a half century, mathematicians have tried to define the exact circumstances under which a black...
a year ago
For a half century, mathematicians have tried to define the exact circumstances under which a black hole is destined to exist. A new proof shows how a cube can help answer the question.
The post Math Proof Draws New Boundaries Around Black Hole Formation first...
Wuthering...
The Girl from Samos by Menander - I don’t think any one individual is better at birth than any other
It’s our last plays, the last surviving Greek play, The Girl from Samos (315 BCE) by Menander. How...
over a year ago
It’s our last plays, the last surviving Greek play, The Girl from Samos (315 BCE) by Menander. How tastes, or circumstances, had changed in the seventy years since Wealth, our last Aristophanes play. The political and social satire is gone, the sexual and scatological jokes are...
Internal Tech Emails
"I don't want to create a paper trail"
I would prefer that Omid do it verbally since I don't want to create a paper trail over which we can...
a year ago
I would prefer that Omid do it verbally since I don't want to create a paper trail over which we can be sued later? Not sure about this.. thanks Eric
swyx's site RSS Feed
Intro to Node-RED
I dipped into [my automation repo](https://github.com/sw-yx/automation/blob/master/README.md) today...
over a year ago
I dipped into [my automation repo](https://github.com/sw-yx/automation/blob/master/README.md) today and explored Huginn. It didn't really appeal so I looked for alternatives and found [Node-RED](https://nodered.org/). It uses a much more familiar toolchain (JS) and is...
Dominik Sobe's...
Lessons from a “failed” Product Hunt launch
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
What You Can Do with Netlify Build Plugins
Netlify Build Plugins are here! Here's a smattering of thoughts on what you can do with them.
over a year ago
Netlify Build Plugins are here! Here's a smattering of thoughts on what you can do with them.
Kagi Blog
The Age of PageRank is Over
When Sergey Brin and Larry Page came up with the concept of PageRank in their seminal paper The...
over a year ago
When Sergey Brin and Larry Page came up with the concept of PageRank in their seminal paper The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine ( http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf ) (Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, Stanford University, 1998) they profoundly...
Moneyness
It's time to get rid of "crypto"
Call me a pedant, but I'm not a fan of the word "crypto". It may have been a serviceable category...
9 months ago
Call me a pedant, but I'm not a fan of the word "crypto". It may have been a serviceable category back in 2011 when there was only one type of crypto thingy – bitcoin. But it's ceased to be a meaningful term and, if anything, it causes a regression in understanding.
Source:...
TheCollector
Romulus and Remus: The Legendary Founders of Rome
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2 weeks ago
Unpacked
Regulating AI: The case for a mechanisms-based approach
Targeting specific mechanisms mitigates AI risks more effectively, is easier to get consensus on,...
a year ago
Targeting specific mechanisms mitigates AI risks more effectively, is easier to get consensus on, and avoids unintended consequences of brute force approaches
Classical Wisdom
What is the Tall Poppy Syndrome?
Is it good, bad or relative?
6 months ago
Is it good, bad or relative?
Prolost
Log is the “Pro” in iPhone 15 Pro
And I’ve got some free LUTs for you.
The iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max feature log video recording. This...
a year ago
And I’ve got some free LUTs for you.
The iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max feature log video recording. This is a big deal, but there’s already some confusion about it. Where consumer devices and pro video overlap, that’s where the Prolost Signal gleams brightest in the night sky. So...
bt RSS Feed
Basic Gulp Build for Sass
Basic Gulp Build for Sass
2019-01-15
Some designers might shy away from build tools when first...
over a year ago
Basic Gulp Build for Sass
2019-01-15
Some designers might shy away from build tools when first starting out and I can understand the reasoning - task runners like gulp and grunt can seem daunting at first. So, I’ve decided to showcase my go-to setup for gulp and explain what the...
The Forney Flyer
Our Summer Plans up in the Air... And a Motorcycle Adventure from Late Last Year
I mentioned in a recent letter that we sent to many of you, that you should check this blog for the...
over a year ago
I mentioned in a recent letter that we sent to many of you, that you should check this blog for the latest updates regarding our plans to be in the U.S. briefly this summer. Well, as you can imagine, those plans are totally muddled right now because of all the Covid-19 related...
Citation Needed
Become a Wikipedian in 30 minutes
What will we do if Wikipedia falls to the type of AI-generated garbage that seems to be...
10 months ago
What will we do if Wikipedia falls to the type of AI-generated garbage that seems to be proliferating on the web? The number one thing you can do is learn to edit, and I will walk you through how to get started in only 30 minutes.
macwright.com
My favorite books of 2022
This year I read 22 books, which is about the average for the last few years. The
ratio of fiction...
a year ago
This year I read 22 books, which is about the average for the last few years. The
ratio of fiction to non-fiction was skewed toward non-fiction. I think overall
I read fewer amazing books than last year, when I finished 20, but also fewer
duds - though there certainly were some...
Diaries of Note
The century of Voltaire
Eugène Delacroix, born in 1798, was a profoundly influential French Romantic artist who came to be...
a year ago
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...
The Marginalian
Alone Together: An Illustrated Celebration of the Art of Shared Solitude
“One can never be alone enough to write,” Susan Sontag lamented in her diary. “Oh comforting...
a year ago
“One can never be alone enough to write,” Susan Sontag lamented in her diary. “Oh comforting solitude, how favorable thou art to original thought!” the founding father of neuroscience exulted in considering the ideal environment for creative breakthrough. All creative people,...
Adventures In...
How to Make Features Illuminate an Underlying Basemap
Sure, we can make features look like they are glowing. But how can we make them look like they are...
a year ago
Sure, we can make features look like they are glowing. But how can we make them look like they are casting light on the basemap below? Here’s a silly little trick using crafty symbology and blend modes in ArcGIS Pro. In this case we’ll use glorious stork migration paths,...
Stephen Diehl
Facebook Libra is Architecturally Unsound
over a year ago
Val Sopi
Get Lucky
<iframe src="https://share.transistor.fm/e/eb7cbb63" width="100%" height="180" frameborder="0"...
over a year ago
<iframe src="https://share.transistor.fm/e/eb7cbb63" width="100%" height="180" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" seamless="true" style="width:100%; height:180px;"></iframe>
<p>In the past year or so, I’ve been thinking about Luck a lot — in terms of how a chain of random events can...
Blog posts of...
🇪🇺 Dear Europe, please wake up – eu/acc
Europe is special to me as I consider myself a proud European, but damn we need to talk. Europe...
7 months ago
Europe is special to me as I consider myself a proud European, but damn we need to talk. Europe please wake up.
The American Scholar
Hot and Cold
The post Hot and Cold appeared first on The American Scholar.
5 months ago
The post Hot and Cold appeared first on The American Scholar.
Daniel Bourke
Operation zero commute
I’d like to setup a life where my commute time is basically zero.
As much as possible from...
over a year ago
I’d like to setup a life where my commute time is basically zero.
As much as possible from home.
Work from home, gym from home, practice farming from home, community from home.
Everything walking or riding distance, the rest delivered.
I don’t even live in one
Opsbros
The past lives again!
I found a GameBoy Camera for my GBC and thought it'd be a good idea to extract the photos from eons...
over a year ago
I found a GameBoy Camera for my GBC and thought it'd be a good idea to extract the photos from eons ago and bring them to the era of the internet.
Adventures In...
Make this AI-inspired topo landscape please
Many weeks ago I saw an achingly beautiful bit of AI-generated terrain art shared by Esri’s glorious...
a year ago
Many weeks ago I saw an achingly beautiful bit of AI-generated terrain art shared by Esri’s glorious instagram account. Initially I was a bit intimidated by the robots; it was so charming and tactile and wondrous and dreamlike and sinuous. But also…inspiring. I wondered if I...
Seth's Blog
Jump in the lake
The waters of Buck Lake are cool and clear and restorative. All summer, it’s tempting to go for a...
10 months ago
The waters of Buck Lake are cool and clear and restorative. All summer, it’s tempting to go for a swim. But it’s also a hassle. You need to change your clothes, find someone to guard, bring a towel and most of all, gasp at the transition when the cold water hits. And yet… no one...
mtlynch.io
Building My First Homelab Server Rack
Seven years ago, I built my first home server. It made my software development work faster and more...
8 months ago
Seven years ago, I built my first home server. It made my software development work faster and more enjoyable, so I’ve gotten more into the home server scene. I built a custom storage server, another development server, and a dedicated firewall.
At some point, my wife gently...
Rest of World -...
40 companies that are beating the West
Faster, smarter, more adaptable: These emerging market pioneers are outmaneuvering Silicon Valley...
a year ago
Faster, smarter, more adaptable: These emerging market pioneers are outmaneuvering Silicon Valley for global domination.
This Space
39 Books: 2006
My choice for 2003 began with indecision, as I couldn't imagine writing about Robert Antelme's The...
7 months ago
My choice for 2003 began with indecision, as I couldn't imagine writing about Robert Antelme's The Human Race. Instead I wondered if I could say something about Timothy Hyman's Sienese Painting. While I have little or no feeling for art, I am drawn to reading about it. The book's...
Seth's Blog
Grandiosity as a form of hiding
A business that says its mission is to, “reinvent local commerce to better serve our customers and...
a year ago
A business that says its mission is to, “reinvent local commerce to better serve our customers and neighborhoods,” can spend a lot of time doing not much of anything before they realize that they’re not actually creating value. A non-profit that seeks to create “fairness and...
TheCollector
Night Witches: The Female Russian Combat Unions of the Sky
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a year ago
CONTEMPORIST
A Black Interior Gives This Apartment A Dark And Dramatic Appearance
Architecture and interior design firm RA!, has shared photos of an apartment they recently completed...
11 months ago
Architecture and interior design firm RA!, has shared photos of an apartment they recently completed in Mexico that features a monochromatic interior. The 861 square foot (80m2) apartment heavily features black and grey throughout its interior, with the walls showcasing a mixture...
Rest of World -...
Apple finally breaks Android’s grip on Southeast Asia
Rising wealth in the region has young professionals ditching cheaper Chinese smartphones for...
a year ago
Rising wealth in the region has young professionals ditching cheaper Chinese smartphones for iPhones.
Open Culture
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use
Update: The Metropolitan Museum of Art has put online 492,000 high-resolution images of artistic...
a month ago
Update: The Metropolitan Museum of Art has put online 492,000 high-resolution images of artistic works. Even better, the museum has placed the vast majority of these images into the public domain, meaning they can be downloaded directly from the museum’s website for...
Jason Crawford
Reflections on six months of fatherhood
To be fed from a spoon requires three distinct skills. First, you must open your mouth when the...
over a year ago
To be fed from a spoon requires three distinct skills. First, you must open your mouth when the spoon approaches. Second, you must close your mouth around the spoon once it has fully entered the mouth (and not before). Third, you must swallow the food that remains in your mouth...
mtlynch.io
What I've Been Doing Since Quitting My Job
I worked as a software engineer for Google from 2014 to 2018. On February 1st, I quit my job and...
over a year ago
I worked as a software engineer for Google from 2014 to 2018. On February 1st, I quit my job and formed my own single-person software company.
That was four months ago, so I thought I’d share an update on how things are going.
What’s it like not having a job? That’s the most...
James Vaughan's blog
james.land, a place for me to share my scrappy fiddles
a month ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Interview on Will Larson's Infrastructure Engineering
a reprint of my interview on Will Larson's InfraEng project.
over a year ago
a reprint of my interview on Will Larson's InfraEng project.
Platformer
How the Kids Online Safety Act puts us all at risk
Anti-speech laws are spreading from states to Congress, and the future of online speech could hang...
a year ago
Anti-speech laws are spreading from states to Congress, and the future of online speech could hang in the balance
FIRE v London
Mar ’23: Harvesting tax losses
March has been rather a wet month in London. Wet, and cold. This translates into the ski slopes in...
a year ago
March has been rather a wet month in London. Wet, and cold. This translates into the ski slopes in the French Alps (finally) having great conditions – sadly too late for me to enjoy. Further north, it’s been a month of big change in Scotland. Nicola Sturgeon, the...
Steve Klabnik
Random Ruby Tricks: Struct.new
over a year ago
bt RSS Feed
CSS Value: `currentColor`
CSS Value: currentColor
2019-04-13
There are a large number of nuanced and mostly unheard of CSS...
over a year ago
CSS Value: currentColor
2019-04-13
There are a large number of nuanced and mostly unheard of CSS value types, but today we are going to focus on currentColor. So what is the currentColor value type anyway?
The currentColor value type will apply the existing color value to other...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware September 2024
Last month’s Ware was a Cue COVID test reader. It uses LAMP (loop-mediated isothermal amplification)...
a month ago
Last month’s Ware was a Cue COVID test reader. It uses LAMP (loop-mediated isothermal amplification) to perform a fast and sensitive detection of nucleic acid sequences. Thanks again to Curtis Galloway for contributing this ware for me to take apart and photograph! Nobody had...
Alex MacCaw
Nothing matters
I'd just like to take a second to point out how absurd all this is. We're monkeys on a rock flying...
over a year ago
I'd just like to take a second to point out how absurd all this is. We're monkeys on a rock flying through space who've decided to climb down from the trees, put on costumes, and makeup names for each other.
We didn't
Seth's Blog
The seduction of false promises
Why do we buy the pitch of the snake oil salesman, the flim-flam man, the con artist, the demagogue...
6 months ago
Why do we buy the pitch of the snake oil salesman, the flim-flam man, the con artist, the demagogue or the trickster? As our modern world becomes more informed and more rational, we see an increase (not the expected decrease) in scams, hustles, and chaos. There are Jokers and...
Alex Meub
Windows 98 Icons are Great
In my opinion, the UI design of Windows peaked in the late 1990s. The classic, utilitarian icons...
over a year ago
In my opinion, the UI design of Windows peaked in the late 1990s. The classic, utilitarian icons from Windows 98 just look amazing.
Why are they so good?
Rather than some designer’s flashy vision of the future, Windows 98 icons made the operating system feel like a place to get...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Essential Plugins for Gatsby Remark
Gatsby-Remark is one of those fun plugins that have their own plugins - but there are a lot of them....
over a year ago
Gatsby-Remark is one of those fun plugins that have their own plugins - but there are a lot of them. Here's a list I wrote down a few months ago of plugins I think everyone should use.
Old Structures...
Four, Maybe Five, Maybe Six Bridges
Walking along South Street, which is to say along the East River waterfront. First up, the view from...
7 months ago
Walking along South Street, which is to say along the East River waterfront. First up, the view from Rutgers Street and South Street: We’ve got a pseudo-dramatic, badly framed view of the Manhattan tower of the Manhattan Bridge, with the elevated FDR Drive blocking most of it....
The Modern House
MRTN Architects’ garden studios in Melbourne are a place to work – or to not work
8 months ago
The Marginalian
Youth and Age: Kahlil Gibran on the Art of Becoming
A roadmap to the fulfilled belonging on the other side of "the great aloneness which knows not what...
a year ago
A roadmap to the fulfilled belonging on the other side of "the great aloneness which knows not what is far and what is near, nor what is small nor great."
Calculated Risk
Schedule for Week of December 15, 2024
The key economic reports this week are Retail Sales, Housing Starts, Existing Home Sales, the 3rd...
a week ago
The key economic reports this week are Retail Sales, Housing Starts, Existing Home Sales, the 3rd estimate of Q3 GDP, and November Personal income and outlays.
----- Monday, December 16th -----
8:30 AM: The New York Fed Empire State manufacturing survey for December. The...
TheCollector
Danish Unknown Royal Family Discovered Thanks to Ring
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10 months ago
diamond geezer
Denham Green
As unexpected street names go, this is right up there.
n.b. there are four...
7 months ago
As unexpected street names go, this is right up there.
n.b. there are four Denhams.
Specifically Stanley Kubrick Road is in Denham Green.
Three things to see in Denham Green
1) Denham Film Studios
Alexander Korda opened his film studios just north of Denham in 1935. Some...
diamond geezer
Farewell Evening Standard
The Evening Standard, first published in 1827, went to press for the last time on...
3 months ago
The Evening Standard, first published in 1827, went to press for the last time on Thursday.
<insert anecdotes here, including how it used to have competition, and how it used to be good, and how it used to cost money but you'd still buy it, and how it was never the same after...
Retail Design Blog
JETEZO Chengdu MIXC Store
In our exploration of spatial layout, we chose elegant curves as guides to lead visitors into this...
2 months ago
In our exploration of spatial layout, we chose elegant curves as guides to lead visitors into this journey of discovery....
Trying to Understand...
Games Nations Play.
But they forget the people and the Street.
7 months ago
But they forget the people and the Street.
The Works in...
Issue 14: A peasant surprise
Plus: Giving yourself the Zika virus, cut-and-cover railway tunnels, and more reasons to donate your...
10 months ago
Plus: Giving yourself the Zika virus, cut-and-cover railway tunnels, and more reasons to donate your organs.
swyx's site RSS Feed
10 Principles I Learned from Tiago Forte's Building a Second Brain
10 Principles I Learned
over a year ago
Spoon & Tamago
Discarded Tatami Mats are Reborn as Contemporary Furniture
Tatami mats are traditional Japanese flooring made from sewn-together igusa grass. But despite their...
a year ago
Tatami mats are traditional Japanese flooring made from sewn-together igusa grass. But despite their lovely aroma and natural resistance to mold, their usage has consistently declined as modern consumers opt for more contemporary living choices. The Tatami ReFab Project is an...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Buy Something Before You Get Socked in the Eye'
The indispensable
Brad Bigelow of The Neglected Books Page has introduced me to a poet I had
never...
a year ago
The indispensable
Brad Bigelow of The Neglected Books Page has introduced me to a poet I had
never known before, Margaret Fishback (1900-85). Like L.E. Sissman she worked
in advertising and published in The New
Yorker. Unlike Sissman, she wrote light verse almost exclusively and...
TheCollector
6 Women Artists of the Dutch Golden Age You Should Know
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7 months ago
Seth's Blog
Omitting the herbs
Without salt, human beings don’t survive long. But it’s possible to eat for a month without tasting...
3 months ago
Without salt, human beings don’t survive long. But it’s possible to eat for a month without tasting an herb. The food will sustain you. Herbs are an expensive non-obvious addition, while also being a bargain if the goal is to create delight, interest or satisfaction. As we...
Cheese and Biscuits
The Blind Bull, Little Hucklow
A large menu is rarely a good sign, and I have to admit a part of my heart sank when I sat down at...
3 months ago
A large menu is rarely a good sign, and I have to admit a part of my heart sank when I sat down at the Blind Bull and counted 12 items in the starters section, 6 mains, 3 sides and 5 desserts (even if I'm being kind and counting all the ice creams as one) - fully 26 dishes...
Posts on Made of...
Regular Expression Search with Suffix Arrays
Back in January of 2012, Russ Cox posted an excellent blog post detailing how Google Code Search had...
over a year ago
Back in January of 2012, Russ Cox posted an excellent blog post detailing how Google Code Search had worked, using a trigram index.
By that point, I’d already implemented early versions of my own livegrep source-code search engine, using a different indexing approach that I...
Marine Madness
Which countries eat the most seafood per person?
The top 10 seafood-consuming nations in the world, plus trends among the world’s richest countries....
over a year ago
The top 10 seafood-consuming nations in the world, plus trends among the world’s richest countries. Seafood is a vital food group and form of income for millions of people around the world. The seafood industry has more than quadrupled in the last 50 years and is estimated to be...
ntietz.com blog
Making it fast shouldn't be the last step
There's a common quote in the software world that you should "make it work, make it right, then make...
a year ago
There's a common quote in the software world that you should "make it work, make it right, then make it fast."1
This is a catchy aphorism, and it is often taken as a rule.
But in its short form, it misses some crucial nuance.
Let's unpack it to see what's missing, then how to do...
TheCollector
10 Historic Towns in Nevada Worth Visiting
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a week ago
diamond geezer
The beetle
After I boarded my train home from Surrey on Sunday I noticed that a beetle had hitched a ride on my...
a year ago
After I boarded my train home from Surrey on Sunday I noticed that a beetle had hitched a ride on my rucksack. It could have jumped from a bush I'd brushed against, it could have worked its way up from my boots or it could have crawled on when I put my rucksack down on the...
essay – snarfed.org
Socket activation
I’ve spent some time over the last few weeks reading about the various *nix init systems: venerable...
over a year ago
I’ve spent some time over the last few weeks reading about the various *nix init systems: venerable SysV, interim replacement Upstart, controversial monolith systemd, Apple’s proprietary launchd, and niche variants like runit and Epoch. Lots of history, lots of flame wars. One...
Arduino Blog
Create your own affordable Arduino-powered smart glasses
When Google Glass launched in 2013, the public opinion seemed to be “interesting technology, but the...
7 months ago
When Google Glass launched in 2013, the public opinion seemed to be “interesting technology, but the world isn’t ready yet.” Now that more than a decade has passed, the world may finally be ready — especially with the omission of controversial features like video recording. If...
Retail Design Blog
Sandy Liang Store by Almost Studio
Fit into a narrow storefront once occupied by a laundromat on the edge of Chinatown, the Sandy Liang...
2 weeks ago
Fit into a narrow storefront once occupied by a laundromat on the edge of Chinatown, the Sandy Liang Store draws...
Laetitia@Work
The Future of Work & the Sandwich Generation
Laetitia@Work #63
a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was George Eliot?
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7 months ago
Old Structures...
Travelog: Advertising Claims
It’s truly embarassing how much time I spent looking at this old ad painted on a building in Bath...
9 months ago
It’s truly embarassing how much time I spent looking at this old ad painted on a building in Bath and wondering what “richestin cream” was. As a slight consolation, note the drain branch directly left of the word “richest”: if you’re putting interior plumbing drains on the...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Healthcare in Jail | Out-Of-Pocket
How does it work?
a year ago
TheCollector
What Was Jesus’s Religious Background?
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3 days ago
Global Inequality...
Devant la guerre
On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"
2 weeks ago
On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"
TokyoDev
Getting a job at a Japanese startup
At the last [Hacker News Tokyo Meetup](http://hntokyo.doorkeeper.jp/), I met Paulo, who is the lead...
over a year ago
At the last [Hacker News Tokyo Meetup](http://hntokyo.doorkeeper.jp/), I met Paulo, who is the lead software developer at [Crowdcast](http://crowdcast.jp/), a Japanese startup with a product, [bizNote](https://secure.biznote.jp/) that makes small business accounting easier. As it...
Essays - Benedict...
Remaking the app store
The EU has finally made Apple redesign the App Store, 15 years after we
started arguing about it,...
10 months ago
The EU has finally made Apple redesign the App Store, 15 years after we
started arguing about it, and no-one is happy with the result. In the next
few years there’ll be a lot of shouting and some giant fines, but in the
end, nothing much will change.
A Smart Bear
The roadmap to Product/Market Fit… maybe
This eight-step process brought WP Engine from an idea to a Unicorn. While there are other roads to...
12 months ago
This eight-step process brought WP Engine from an idea to a Unicorn. While there are other roads to Product/Market Fit, consider copying some of these ideas.
journal – Winnie Lim
100 days of post-covid infection: state of mind, health & writing
It has been 100 days since I tested negative for covid. I know this because I count it incrementally...
a year ago
It has been 100 days since I tested negative for covid. I know this because I count it incrementally in my morning pages. If I do develop long covid it would be...
TheCollector
Mystery at Cheviot Beach: The Strange Disappearance of Harold Holt
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2 weeks ago
Inverted Passion
Notes on how Supercell is run
Supercell, the company behind the massively popular Clash of Clans game, has one of the highest...
a year ago
Supercell, the company behind the massively popular Clash of Clans game, has one of the highest valuation per employee figures out there: they’re valued at $32mn per employee. That’s insane! How do they do it? 1/ What struck me is the sheer number of games they kill each year?...
Retail Design Blog
QuadReal Offices by Figure3
The QuadReal building at 200 King Street in Toronto showcases a redesigned Green Room lounge by...
2 months ago
The QuadReal building at 200 King Street in Toronto showcases a redesigned Green Room lounge by Figure3, blending 1920s opulence...
Making software...
Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links
Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links
2019-06-14
When designing medium to large sized menu...
over a year ago
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...
diamond geezer
Marlborough Street
MARLBOROUGH
STREET
£160
London's Monopoly Streets
MARLBOROUGH STREET
Colour group:...
6 months ago
MARLBOROUGH
STREET
£160
London's Monopoly Streets
MARLBOROUGH STREET
Colour group: orange
Purchase price: £180
Rent: £14
Length: 300m
Borough: Westminster
Postcode: W1
Great Marlborough Street. To understand why, remember that the orange set of properties were originally all...
Aaron's Essays
Asymmetries in Fundraising
Too often, founders approach fundraising as if they are supplicants to the investors. They...
over a year ago
Too often, founders approach fundraising as if they are supplicants to the investors. They understand that fundraising features many asymmetries, but the founders mostly see the asymmetries that are tilted towards the investors. Here’s the thing - in today’s market, the...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
The Rot-Com Bubble
If you enjoy this post, why not subscribe to my podcast Better Offline? This week's a two parter...
6 months ago
If you enjoy this post, why not subscribe to my podcast Better Offline? This week's a two parter that further expands on the Rot-Com Bubble, coming out Wednesday and Friday.
The noxious growth-at-all-costs mindset of the Rot Economy sits at the core of every issue that I'
A Weekly Dose of...
Rereading the Nineties
Some of the references consulted during the research phase of my 2021 book Buildings in Print: 100...
a year ago
Some of the references consulted during the research phase of my 2021 book Buildings in Print: 100 Influential & Inspiring Illustrated Architecture Books, but not mentioned in the book's "selected bibliography," were old catalogs from the Prairie Avenue Bookshop, the beloved and...
Common Edge
To Address Climate Change, Architects Must Tackle Decarbonization
Focusing only on energy performance is insufficient to the mounting crisis.
a year ago
Focusing only on energy performance is insufficient to the mounting crisis.
diamond geezer
Gridmaps
London in 1
Charing
Cross
London in 2
Westminster
City
London in...
a year ago
London in 1
Charing
Cross
London in 2
Westminster
City
London in 3
Westfield
Oxford
StreetWestfield
London in 4
Harefield
Harold
Hill
HeathrowOrpington
London in 6
M1
A10A12
M4
A3A2
London in...
TheCollector
8 Famous Dada Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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a year ago
Paolo Amoroso's...
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