TheCollector
Here’s What to Know About the Oldest High School in America
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Daedalus and Icarus: What Is the Main Message?
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Rest of World -...
Chinese smartphone maker Transsion’s strategy to win hearts and wallets in small-town India
After big successes in Africa, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, China's Transsion Holdings sets its sights...
9 months ago
After big successes in Africa, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, China's Transsion Holdings sets its sights on India.
Liz Denys
Denim hexagonal teacups, 2024
Starlit sky on a clear night / the milky way / eternity / clarity / raindrops sticking to window...
5 months ago
Starlit sky on a clear night / the milky way / eternity / clarity / raindrops sticking to window glass
diamond geezer
Preparing rail fares for contactless
The cost of travelling by train between London and Southend is changing.
In today's post I'm going...
a year ago
The cost of travelling by train between London and Southend is changing.
In today's post I'm going to focus on fares between Southend Central and Fenchurch Street to keep things simple but similar changes apply to other journeys. Also this kind of model is rolling out on other...
diamond geezer
Five years of new stations
Today it's five years since the day Crossrail was supposed to open but didn't.
three and a half...
a year ago
Today it's five years since the day Crossrail was supposed to open but didn't.
three and a half years to run the first train. People in high places must have been lying their socks off.
• Battersea Power Station, Nine Elms and the Northern line extension
Brent Cross...
Patterns in Humanity
Where parents make a difference
Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
9 months ago
Where is the shared environment effect larger than zero?
Matt Blewitt
Software Sprezzatura
Sprezzatura is “a certain nonchalance, so as to conceal all art and make whatever one does or says...
over a year ago
Sprezzatura is “a certain nonchalance, so as to conceal all art and make whatever one does or says appear to be without effort and almost without any thought about it”, coined by Castiglione in 1528’s The Book of the Courtier.
diamond geezer
It's this blog's 21st birthday
It's diamond geezer's 21st birthday.
I hope we get through the day without entering a period of...
a year ago
It's diamond geezer's 21st birthday.
I hope we get through the day without entering a period of national mourning because that really put a damper on last year's celebrations.
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A story about pivots
PostHog has pivoted a lot . After 5 pivots in 6 months, we got into Y Combinator last year,...
over a year ago
PostHog has pivoted a lot . After 5 pivots in 6 months, we got into Y Combinator last year, pivoted again whilst we were there and have now gone…
Christian Selig
Table of Contents Selector View
I wrote a new little view for a future version of Apollo that makes some changes to the default iOS...
over a year ago
I wrote a new little view for a future version of Apollo that makes some changes to the default iOS version (that seems to be a weird trend in my recent programming, despite me loving built-in components). Here’s some details about it! It’s also available as a library on GitHub...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Double Digit
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
If you get 100% growth you get to give everyone the finger.
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The Review Is the Action Item
2024/05/30
The Review Is the Action Item
I like to consider running an incident review to be its own...
6 months ago
2024/05/30
The Review Is the Action Item
I like to consider running an incident review to be its own action item. Other follow-ups emerging from it are a plus, but the point is to learn from incidents, and the review gives room for that to happen.
This is not surprising advice if...
TheCollector
Who Were the Hessians in the American Revolution?
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computers are bad
2024-08-31 ipmi
I am making steady progress towards moving the Computers Are Bad enterprise
cloud to its new home,...
3 months ago
I am making steady progress towards moving the Computers Are Bad enterprise
cloud to its new home, here in New Mexico. One of the steps in this process is,
of course, purchasing a new server... the current Big Iron is getting rather
old (probably about a decade!) and here in...
Seth's Blog
But it’s included…
Perhaps your wedding package includes a cake. It’s paid for, better eat it. Even if you’re allergic...
a year ago
Perhaps your wedding package includes a cake. It’s paid for, better eat it. Even if you’re allergic to wheat. Perhaps the amusement park includes as many rides as you like, even if you’re feeling sick or have had quite enough for today. The thing about included is that it’s free....
Alex Meub
Hacking Amazon Dash Buttons
The Amazon Dash button is about a year old and has proven to be a pretty great hackable...
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...
Map of the Week
The Alphabet Railway
Radio personality Bill Barry was fascinated with the place names of his native Saskatchewan. So much...
a year ago
Radio personality Bill Barry was fascinated with the place names of his native Saskatchewan. So much so that he wrote a Dictionary of Saskatchewan Place Names, I'm sure you've probably read it already but an interesting item about this toponymy is how many of the towns were...
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Shutting down
I’ve seen a number of situations recently where entrepreneurs decided to shut their startups down...
over a year ago
I’ve seen a number of situations recently where entrepreneurs decided to shut their startups down while they still had cash in the bank…
ToughSF
Space Tethers: Stringing up the Solar System
All the methods we have used to reach space so far have been subject to the Tsiolkovsky rocket...
over a year ago
All the methods we have used to reach space so far have been subject to the Tsiolkovsky rocket equation - propellant must be ejected and more and more of it is needed to go further.
What if we could break that equation with rotating orbital tethers?
The tether
I have worked...
Math Is Still...
How Genetic Surprises Complicate the Old Doctrine of DNA
For over a century, biologists have had to contend with a complicated picture of genetics, which...
a year ago
For over a century, biologists have had to contend with a complicated picture of genetics, which they’ve only recently begun to understand.
The post How Genetic Surprises Complicate the Old Doctrine of DNA first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Old Structures...
A For Effort
I’ve shown a few old train stations with curved steel in their canopies. The picture above, taken...
a year ago
I’ve shown a few old train stations with curved steel in their canopies. The picture above, taken yesterday at the Peekskill station on the MTA Hudson Line – AKA, a local station on the former main line of the New York Central – shows a modern version. I’m not sure when this...
alexwlchan
The Collected Works of Ian Flemingo
On Monday evening, about two hundred Mincefluencers descended on the Fortune Theatre for “Operation...
11 months ago
On Monday evening, about two hundred Mincefluencers descended on the Fortune Theatre for “Operation Human Thermos”, a fan gathering to celebrate Operation Mincemeat, a musical that gives us all the warm and fuzzies.
A lot of people dressed in cosplay to mark the occasion, and I...
Computer Things
What makes concurrency so hard?
A lot of my formal specification projects involve concurrent or distributed system. That's in the...
8 months ago
A lot of my formal specification projects involve concurrent or distributed system. That's in the sweet spot of "difficult to get right" and "severe costs to getting it wrong" that leads to people spending time and money on writing specifications. Given its relevance to my job, I...
julian.digital
List of Goals and Rules for 2021
Publish 6 long-form essays↳ Instead of publishing a new post each week, I want to focus on six...
over a year ago
Publish 6 long-form essays↳ Instead of publishing a new post each week, I want to focus on six in-depth essays this year. Quality over quantity. ████ ██ █████ ██ ████ ██████ Read 20 books ↳ You can follow my progress here Go for a swim at least once per week ↳ If covid rules...
NeuroLogica Blog
Nobel Prize for Attosecond Physics
One attosecond (as) is 1×10−18 seconds. An attosecond is to one second what one second is to the age...
a year ago
One attosecond (as) is 1×10−18 seconds. An attosecond is to one second what one second is to the age of the universe. It is an extremely tiny slice of time. This year’s Nobel Prize in physics goes to three scientists, Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L’Huillier, whose...
Willem's Blog
Tips for Long-Distance Cycling
Embark on your own long-distance cycling adventure by learning from my post-COVID...
a year ago
Embark on your own long-distance cycling adventure by learning from my post-COVID Fietselfstedentocht experience, packed with invaluable tips and tricks.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Allure of Local-First Sync Engines
On the localfirst.fm podcast episode with Kyle Matthews they drew a parallel: jQuery was to React...
9 months ago
On the localfirst.fm podcast episode with Kyle Matthews they drew a parallel: jQuery was to React what REST APIs are to local-first sync engines.
jQuery was manual DOM manipulation. You were in charge of writing the instructions to create, read, update, and delete DOM...
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Organizing Developer Writing Retreats
One of my biggest and scariest projects of 2022 was co-organizing the first-ever **DEV | WRITERS |...
a year ago
One of my biggest and scariest projects of 2022 was co-organizing the first-ever **DEV | WRITERS | RETREAT** in Miami!
African History...
a brief note on the intellectual contributions of African scholars in the diaspora
the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
8 months ago
the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
mtlynch.io
Is It Keto - Month 10
Highlights I sold my first meal plan on Is It Keto. I then tried five different experiments for...
over a year ago
Highlights I sold my first meal plan on Is It Keto. I then tried five different experiments for increasing sales. Is It Keto’s revenue dropped for the month as I redirected resources toward its failing meal plans. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to...
Old Structures...
Bragging Combined With Public Service
I highly recommend the soon-to-be-released book The Elements of Construction: N. Clifford Ricker,...
a month ago
I highly recommend the soon-to-be-released book The Elements of Construction: N. Clifford Ricker, Architecture, and the University of Illinois and not just because I wrote on chapter of it. Marci Uihlein, the editor, an architect and engineer, and a professor of architecture at...
Old Structures...
The Same But Different
This is an 1884 photograph of Broadway looking north from just south of Houston Street. Broadway...
11 months ago
This is an 1884 photograph of Broadway looking north from just south of Houston Street. Broadway runs straight from here until the bend at 10th Street where Grace Church is, and the church is just barely visible at the end of the street. Unlike most photos of Manhattan from the...
Ink & Switch
06 · Simple branching
Branches are a powerful concept for source control systems. This Patchwork experiment explores how...
9 months ago
Branches are a powerful concept for source control systems. This Patchwork experiment explores how writers can use branches to try variations on a document.
Anecdotal Evidence
'He Worked His Weaponed Wit'
A reader is
displeased: “Oh my aren’t you witty?” He/she was offended by something I had written a...
a year ago
A reader is
displeased: “Oh my aren’t you witty?” He/she was offended by something I had written a long time ago about Robert Bly. Granted, criticizing Bly is like
shooting fish in the bathtub with a bazooka. I was a little ashamed of myself
but that passed. My consolation is...
African History...
a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
7 months ago
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
The Rational Walk
What I’ve Been Reading
This post is a list of books that I read in the third quarter of 2023, most notably Dominion by Tom...
a year ago
This post is a list of books that I read in the third quarter of 2023, most notably Dominion by Tom Holland and The Path Between the Seas by David McCullough.
Blog - Bitfield...
Will write for food
In the final sizzling chapter of my career exposé, we’ll learn how I went
from self-unemployment...
5 months ago
In the final sizzling chapter of my career exposé, we’ll learn how I went
from self-unemployment to founding the world’s tiniest publishing empire.
Noahpinion
Manufacturing is a war now
And the democracies are losing.
2 weeks ago
And the democracies are losing.
Vladimir Klepov as a...
SemVer: The Tricky Parts
Semantic versioning, is the way to version packages in JS ecosystem. I always thought I understood...
over a year ago
Semantic versioning, is the way to version packages in JS ecosystem. I always thought I understood semver, but that illusion disappeared once I started maintaining libraries myself. Semver has tricky edge cases where it's unclear what the new version number should be:
Should you...
History Today Feed
‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
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‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
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Louwrentius
Smoking coolermaster Silent Pro M 600W TN6M50
So I was just messing around on my work station, when suddenly I smelled the
smell any person...
over a year ago
So I was just messing around on my work station, when suddenly I smelled the
smell any person familiar with electronics fears. The smell of some electrical
component burning.
The whole upper floor smelled like something was smoldering. So I shut down
both my storage servers....
Stoic Simple
10 of the Most Famous Stoic Philosophers Throughout History
Stoicism is a philosophy that has endured for thousands of years, influencing and inspiring...
a year ago
Stoicism is a philosophy that has endured for thousands of years, influencing and inspiring countless individuals. While it has had many great thinkers throughout history who contributed to its development, there are ten in particular whose legacies have left the greatest impact...
Maps Mania
Tracking American Spies in Germany
5 months ago
Computer Things
Be Suspicious of Success
From Leslie Lamport's Specifying Systems:
You should be suspicious if [the model checker] does not...
2 months ago
From Leslie Lamport's Specifying Systems:
You should be suspicious if [the model checker] does not find a violation of a liveness property... you should also be suspicious if [it] finds no errors when checking safety properties.
This is specifically in the context of...
The Honest Broker
Could Any Other Jazz Trumpeter Match Up with Louis Armstrong in the 1930s?
The short answer is no—but these eight horn players came close
a year ago
The short answer is no—but these eight horn players came close
Open Culture
The First “Selfie” In History Taken by Robert Cornelius, a Philadelphia Chemist, in 1839
In 2013, the Oxford Dictionaries announced that “selfie” had been deemed their Word of The Year. The...
4 months ago
In 2013, the Oxford Dictionaries announced that “selfie” had been deemed their Word of The Year. The term, whose first recorded use as an Instagram hashtag occurred on January 27, 2011, was actually invented in 2002, when an Australian chap posted a picture of himself on an...
Steve Klabnik
Contributing to Ruby's documentation
over a year ago
Luxagraf:...
Copper Harbor
After getting kicked out of our site in McLain State Park we weren't thrilled at the prospect of...
a year ago
After getting kicked out of our site in McLain State Park we weren't thrilled at the prospect of more time in a Michigan State Park, but there's not really anything else in Copper Harbor. We pulled in around 3 and asked for a site. The woman at this check-in station was very nice...
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Bottom-Up Idea Exploration
My own content creation philosophy, explored through my own personal story with React
over a year ago
My own content creation philosophy, explored through my own personal story with React
UX Collective
Are you considering the developer’s mental model?
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
2 months ago
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
TheCollector
Edward Longshanks & the Conquest of Wales
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TheCollector
7 Incredible Wartime Advancements From World War I
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Londonist
London Then And Now: Aerial Shots Show City Grow Over Past Two Decades
Our city's put on a bit of a growth spurt since the 2000s...
a year ago
Our city's put on a bit of a growth spurt since the 2000s...
HTMHell
The UX of HTML
by Vasilis van Gemert
Recently when I gave a coding assignment — an art directed web page about a...
a year ago
by Vasilis van Gemert
Recently when I gave a coding assignment — an art directed web page about a font — a student asked: does it have to be semantic and shit? The whole class looked up, curious about the answer — please let it be no! I answered that no, it doesn’t have to be...
The American Scholar
Double Exposure
On our first memories
The post Double Exposure appeared first on The American Scholar.
2 weeks ago
On our first memories
The post Double Exposure appeared first on The American Scholar.
Old Structures...
Tiny and Cute, But Purposeful
This is the lighthouse at the northern tip of Roosevelt Island. The island is two miles long and a...
6 months ago
This is the lighthouse at the northern tip of Roosevelt Island. The island is two miles long and a tenth of a mile wide, cutting the East River into two roughly-equal half-channels. That alone makes the need for lighthouses at its tip reasonably clear, but the conditions are...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Six (More) Healthcare Startup Ideas | Out-Of-Pocket
In collaboration with The Generalist, one of the few newsletters I read end-to-end every time
a year ago
In collaboration with The Generalist, one of the few newsletters I read end-to-end every time
Map of the Week
Terrain Representations from the Atlas of Design
In last week’s post I reviewed Volume 7 of the Atlas of Design. As an occasional cartographer I have...
2 months ago
In last week’s post I reviewed Volume 7 of the Atlas of Design. As an occasional cartographer I have been interested in how topography is represented in maps for a long time. This atlas volume provides many contrasting examples. From the “cartographic realism” of Tom Patterson’s...
Trying to Understand...
Only Connect ....
We are lost in a haunted wood.
2 months ago
We are lost in a haunted wood.
African History...
On Hegel's ignorance of African History
*my article for ROAPE journal
a year ago
*my article for ROAPE journal
abdz.do - Have you...
Letters and ligatures creating intricate logo designs
Letters and ligatures creating intricate logo designs
abduzeedo0428—23
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a year ago
Letters and ligatures creating intricate logo designs
abduzeedo0428—23
Hungarian graphic designer KissMiklós has created a stunning series of typography compositions that showcase the beauty of serif fonts, letters and ligatures. While they may...
Left To Write
№ 79: Allowing Those You Love The Right To Be Wrong
Why you’re getting this: I’m Jason Nguyen. I run Bloomstory.co.uk and The Mailroom. This is my...
7 months ago
Why you’re getting this: I’m Jason Nguyen. I run Bloomstory.co.uk and The Mailroom. This is my newsletter. I used to write this every week, but now I send this out when I can — life got in the way. Updates on what’s been going on in my life are at the bottom of this newsletter.
Renegade Otter
Code Lab - Job queues in Postgres
Introduction
Friendly Fire needs to periodically execute scheduled jobs - to remind Slack
users to...
a year ago
Introduction
Friendly Fire needs to periodically execute scheduled jobs - to remind Slack
users to review GitHub pull requests. Instead of bolting on a new system just for this, I
decided to leverage Postgres instead.
The must-have requirement was the ability to schedule a job...
Simply Explained
ESP32 Cam: cropping images on device
The ESP32 camera is the cheapest microcontroller with a built-in camera that you can buy. The OV2640...
over a year ago
The ESP32 camera is the cheapest microcontroller with a built-in camera that you can buy. The OV2640 sensor has a max resolution of 1600x1200, but sometimes you don't need the entire image.In this post I'll show how to crop the images on the ESP32 itself, before sending it of to...
Rest of World -...
Latin Americans’ social feeds are being flooded with AI-generated ads
Brands and politicians are getting mixed results.
a year ago
Brands and politicians are getting mixed results.
Essays - Benedict...
Who cares about tech regulation?
Tech regulation gets a lot of headlines, and seems like a big deal, but
most people in tech don’t...
9 months ago
Tech regulation gets a lot of headlines, and seems like a big deal, but
most people in tech don’t seem to care much. It’s boring, and years away,
but more fundamentally, it really doesn’t affect what people spend their
time working on.
Flashbak
The 25 Best Bedroom Bands Ever – 1980s Volume 1
For Those About to Rock We Salute You – ACDC, 1981 You had it all – the hair, the sticks, the...
9 months ago
For Those About to Rock We Salute You – ACDC, 1981 You had it all – the hair, the sticks, the pointy guitar, the hair, the band, the drive, the tights, the most piercing scream outside a Pee Wee Herman meets Cher Christmas convention. And you also had the hair. In the 1980s …...
Blog posts of...
Managing people 🤯
I believe almost all first-time founders burn out their first employees – maybe this article helps...
over a year ago
I believe almost all first-time founders burn out their first employees – maybe this article helps you avoiding this
Seth's Blog
Good businesses solve real problems
But not all real problems lead to good businesses. There are problems all around us. People need...
a year ago
But not all real problems lead to good businesses. There are problems all around us. People need housing, health care and food. They want delight, belonging and status. When a company shows up in the marketplace with a product or service that people eagerly choose to buy, it’s...
The Ruffian
Why It's Good To Be Biased
When everyone is rational, reasonable and nice, we all get a little dimmer
9 months ago
When everyone is rational, reasonable and nice, we all get a little dimmer
bt RSS Feed
Proper UI Hierarchy
Proper UI Hierarchy
2019-02-05
I often feel like an old man when I complain about flat design and...
over a year ago
Proper UI Hierarchy
2019-02-05
I often feel like an old man when I complain about flat design and how designers these days have lost (or willfully forgotten) the skill to create accessible UIs with proper visual hierarchy. A skill which at it’s core seems so simple - yet is...
The Architectural...
The Classic Planning Herald International: A Window into the Global New Traditional Architecture...
The Classic Planning Herald International is a new quarterly magazine from the Classic Planning...
5 days ago
The Classic Planning Herald International is a new quarterly magazine from the Classic Planning Institute. The project offers insights into what is happening in the New Traditional Architecture community and aims to challenge the modernist dogma. In this article, Michelle Sofge...
Retail Design Blog
AP House by Lissoni & Partners
Swiss ultra luxury watch maker Audemars Piguet continues to raise its profile in Europe‘s leading...
7 months ago
Swiss ultra luxury watch maker Audemars Piguet continues to raise its profile in Europe‘s leading shopping destinations by opening flagship...
Artificial Ignorance
GPT-4o and the illusion of AGI
Why speed and multimodality is becoming the name of the game.
7 months ago
Why speed and multimodality is becoming the name of the game.
TheCollector
The Fate of Jewish Art Collections in WWII: 20 Looted Families
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2 months ago
Commoncog
What’s an Operational Definition Anyway?
Two principles on collecting data, from the field of Statistical Process Control. As with most...
a year ago
Two principles on collecting data, from the field of Statistical Process Control. As with most principles in SPC, this is both simpler and more important than you might think.
ntietz.com blog
Sometimes, I can't talk
Part of being a social animal is that we communicate with each other.
We live in a society, and we...
4 months ago
Part of being a social animal is that we communicate with each other.
We live in a society, and we have to interact with other people.
A lot of that communication happens through language, especially spoken and signed language.
For many of us, this language happens so freely and...
Arduino Blog
A desktop-sized DIY vending machine for your room
Have you ever wanted your very own vending machine? If so, you likely found that they’re expensive...
5 months ago
Have you ever wanted your very own vending machine? If so, you likely found that they’re expensive and too bulky to fit in most homes. But now you can experience vending bliss thanks to this miniature vending machine designed by m22pj, which you can craft yourself using an...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 056: Data deals
March 1, 2024.
9 months ago
Willem's Blog
The birth of a child
Witnessing the birth of a child changes a man, for science and curiosity I wore a biometric sensor...
over a year ago
Witnessing the birth of a child changes a man, for science and curiosity I wore a biometric sensor capturing the impact of birth on yours truly.
Confessions of a...
Marine Ecology or Marine Biology….what’s the difference!?!?!?
A few of you may be wondering why the blog is called ‘Confessions of a Marine Ecologist” and not...
over a year ago
A few of you may be wondering why the blog is called ‘Confessions of a Marine Ecologist” and not ‘Confessions of a Marine Biologist”. After all, if you ask a group of school kids what they want to be when they grow up, more than a handful would happily answer “marine biologist”,...
Londonist
Fitzrovia Chapel - Gloriously Golden Church Is Now Open 3 Days A Week
What. A. Ceiling.
10 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Stop Making Sense.
There are no "why"s in our world.
8 months ago
There are no "why"s in our world.
The Turn Signal RSS...
Why Car Companies Need More Interaction Designers
The Citroën DS was designed by Flavio Bertoni who, together with aviation engineer André Lèfebvre,...
over a year ago
The Citroën DS was designed by Flavio Bertoni who, together with aviation engineer André Lèfebvre, created some of the most influential…
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Foam
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
The guy opens a coat to reveal respectable...
7 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
The guy opens a coat to reveal respectable employment with opportunity for promotion.
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HTMHell
Mini-guide to add an image
Adding an image with HTML is pretty easy, it’s just a simple tag, after all, right?
<img...
over a year ago
Adding an image with HTML is pretty easy, it’s just a simple tag, after all, right?
<img src="path/to/image.jpg" />
But when you start taking into consideration topics such as performance, screen sizes, accessibility, pixel density, or user preferences, you might ask yourself at...
Rest of World -...
The truth behind VinFast’s stunning stock market debut
Beware of EV companies bearing SPACs.
a year ago
Beware of EV companies bearing SPACs.
bt RSS Feed
Simple Accessibility
Simple Accessibility
2018-09-07
Implementing proper accessibility practices can seem a little...
over a year ago
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...
Odds and Ends of...
Nobody knows what the National Data Library is (not even the government)
A policy wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma
a month ago
A policy wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma
bt RSS Feed
February 2022 Update
February 2022 Update
2022-02-23
It’s been a little quiet around here lately and for good reason: my...
over a year ago
February 2022 Update
2022-02-23
It’s been a little quiet around here lately and for good reason: my wife gave birth to our third child last Thursday. Her name is Harmony and she was born in the late afternoon weighing in at 7 pounds 8 ounces.
Besides the lack of sleep, everything...
Diaries of Note
I found myself nervous and tense to the point of tears
On 21st March 1960, the South African Police opened fire on thousands of black protestors in what...
a year ago
On 21st March 1960, the South African Police opened fire on thousands of black protestors in what came to be known as the Sharpeville Massacre, a shocking event which saw 69 people killed, triggered a state of emergency, and led to mass detentions—including that of Hilda...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Prototyping Magic Tricks and Software
In Penn & Teller’s Masterclass (no. 12 “Principles of Performing”) they explain how one of their...
2 months ago
In Penn & Teller’s Masterclass (no. 12 “Principles of Performing”) they explain how one of their favorite ways to design a magic trick is to come up with an idea and then act it out as if they already know how to do it. Here’s Penn:
We still start with an idea for a trick, how we...
Aaron's Essays
Generative AI Might Just Save Venture Capital
Originally published in The Information on November 2.
For the past nine months, nearly every...
over a year ago
Originally published in The Information on November 2.
For the past nine months, nearly every investor with a Twitter account, blog or board seat has been beating a unified and constant refrain: The go-go days are done. Founders were being pushed to build 36 months of runway,...
Blog - Guerrilla...
How AI is changing cartography: A chatbot’s perspective
Artificial intelligence is dramatically changing the practice of cartography, not just as a...
9 months ago
Artificial intelligence is dramatically changing the practice of cartography, not just as a mechanism for extracting and manipulating data, but as a tool for creating, curating, and interacting with geospatial images. A simple web search for “AI in cartography” points to a vast...
AVC
Flooding
I spent a good part of my childhood at West Point, the US Military Academy. I got an email yesterday...
a year ago
I spent a good part of my childhood at West Point, the US Military Academy. I got an email yesterday with photos of the flooding at West Point. My dad and brother used to work in that grey stone building called Mahan Hall. And the same storms that did this to West Point did worse...
Stephen Diehl
Exotic Programming Ideas: Part 4 (Datalog)
over a year ago
alexwlchan
How moving to the cloud took our digital collections to new heights →
I’ve written another article about digital preservation at Wellcome Collection, this time about the...
a year ago
I’ve written another article about digital preservation at Wellcome Collection, this time about the benefits of moving our data storage and processing to the cloud.
Building out this infrastructure is a large part of what I’ve been working on for the last six (!) years.
It’s been...
somenice
Generative 3D Modeling
Recently Microsoft released the open 3D generation software Trellis. I decided to try a few tests as...
5 days ago
Recently Microsoft released the open 3D generation software Trellis. I decided to try a few tests as reviews had been quite favourable with results creating 3D models with “AI”. The website describes the technology as unified Structured LATent (SLAT) representation and there is a...
ntietz.com blog
Books I Read in 2018
Every year, GoodReads has a Reading Challenge, where you set how many books you want to read and...
over a year ago
Every year, GoodReads has a Reading Challenge, where you set how many books you want to read and record them as you go. This year, I got serious about it, and it was a wonderful motivational device. I set a goal of two books per month, and I just eked it out over the finish line,...
TheCollector
When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery”
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a month ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
The Engineering Behind Healthcare LLMs with Abridge | Out-Of-Pocket
What kinds of challenges come up with creating a speech-to-text gen AI product?
3 months ago
What kinds of challenges come up with creating a speech-to-text gen AI product?
HTMHell
Landmarks and where to put them
Heading elements (h1 through to h6) are used to give structure to the content of your page. They're...
over a year ago
Heading elements (h1 through to h6) are used to give structure to the content of your page. They're important for SEO, make your pages more readable and, of course, also help people that use assistive technologies navigate through your page. Somewhat less known are landmark...
diamond geezer
London's highest lettered house
What's London's highest lettered house?
Sorry, that's a bad question. I don't mean the highest...
a year ago
What's London's highest lettered house?
Sorry, that's a bad question. I don't mean the highest above sea level, not like the highest station I blogged about on Thursday. And letters aren't generally higher than other letters, F isn't higher than E, it's more an alphabetical...
Diaries of Note
Now all is gone
For a period of four years, beginning in 1860, William Henry Brewer travelled the length and breadth...
a year ago
For a period of four years, beginning in 1860, William Henry Brewer travelled the length and breadth of California as part of the state’s first official geological survey, his role as the survey’s principal assistant providing him with a unique vantage point from which to...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Personalized Health Insurance and the Payer Stack | Out-Of-Pocket
Stacks on stacks on stacks
a year ago
Stacks on stacks on stacks
Both Are True
Wacky Guy One: prepping for the audition that coulda changed everything
a raw and unvarnished look at what it takes to make it in hollywood with celebrated commercial actor...
a year ago
a raw and unvarnished look at what it takes to make it in hollywood with celebrated commercial actor Alex Dobrenko
Ed Zitron's Where's...
The Subprime AI Crisis
None of what I write in this newsletter is about sowing doubt or "hating," but a sober evaluation of...
3 months ago
None of what I write in this newsletter is about sowing doubt or "hating," but a sober evaluation of where we are today and where we may end up on the current path. I believe that the artificial intelligence boom — which would be better described as a
The Marginalian
The Value of Being Wrong: Lewis Thomas on Generative Mistakes
In praise of our "property of error, spontaneous, uncontrolled, and rich in possibilities."
a year ago
In praise of our "property of error, spontaneous, uncontrolled, and rich in possibilities."
Seth's Blog
The unwritten rules get written
…when someone decides to selfishly push. There’s an assumption of civility and fairness in all of...
a year ago
…when someone decides to selfishly push. There’s an assumption of civility and fairness in all of our interactions. When a harsh competitor unilaterally breaks unwritten rules (because it’s “not technically against the rules”) the community then writes down a new rule. The best...
The Modern House
Beautiful, useful and sustainably flexible: the hand-crafted, customised and highly experimental...
9 months ago
Dr Alun Withey
The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning...
a year ago
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning my attention to the sorts of things that early modern travellers were fearful of. As a bit of a nervous traveller myself, it’s quite comforting to know that there is actually a...
Left To Write
#7 Writemas: Think Obsession
Someone once called me intense. At first, I thought, is there something wrong with me? But I snapped...
a year ago
Someone once called me intense. At first, I thought, is there something wrong with me? But I snapped out of things and realised it’s what makes me me. No one is making it out alive; death knocks at everyone’s door, so why not be obsessed about the things I enjoy?
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Prompting the Wrong Question
So there I am, working on a bug exclusive to Safari (we’ve all been there). I can’t figure it out so...
2 months ago
So there I am, working on a bug exclusive to Safari (we’ve all been there). I can’t figure it out so I ask AI, “Hey, this piece of code is not working in Safari, what’s wrong?”
The issue might be related to how Safari handles keyboard events, especially for certain keys…
It gives...
Classical Wisdom
Xerxes the Great
More than a Villain
a year ago
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
Cities need more trees
A case for planting more trees in urban areas.
5 months ago
A case for planting more trees in urban areas.
99% Invisible
Roman Mars Describes Chicago As It Is [EPISODE]
A few years ago, at the very start of the pandemic, Roman Mars wrote an episode of 99pi in which he...
11 months ago
A few years ago, at the very start of the pandemic, Roman Mars wrote an episode of 99pi in which he simply talked about design details in his house — realizing that he, like the audience, didn’t have many other places to go. )You should check it out — it’s a real time capsule,...
Diaries of Note
I thought I should have vomited
For three unhappy years, starting in August of 1835 when she was just nineteen, Charlotte Brontë...
a year ago
For three unhappy years, starting in August of 1835 when she was just nineteen, Charlotte Brontë served as a teacher in the Yorkshire town of Mirfield at Roe Head—the same school where she had been a pupil just a few years earlier. With Jane Eyre a decade away, Brontë’s only...
PromptArmor Blog
Slack AI data exfiltration from private channels via indirect prompt injection
Authors: PromptArmor
4 months ago
Old Structures...
The More Things Stay The Same
Above, an article from the Real Estate Record and Guide of October 15, 1910. It speaks for itself to...
a year ago
Above, an article from the Real Estate Record and Guide of October 15, 1910. It speaks for itself to some degree, and, based on the general topic, could have been written pretty much any decade from the 1880s to today. The good news (paragraph three): the case was apparently...
bt RSS Feed
Fixing LocalWP on Fedora 32
Fixing LocalWP on Fedora 32
2020-05-06
I recently upgraded from Fedora 31 to 32 and everything went...
over a year ago
Fixing LocalWP on Fedora 32
2020-05-06
I recently upgraded from Fedora 31 to 32 and everything went very smoothly - except for one application: LocalWP. After the upgrade, all local WordPress builds would fail and complain about two missing packages:
libnettle6
libhogweed4
After...
TheCollector
The Mystery of Crazy Horse: His Life & Legacy
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a year ago
Both Are True
Doing Crimes w my dad
a true story
7 months ago
Open Culture
How Filmmakers Make Cameras Disappear: Mirrors in Movies
If you’ve never tried your hand at filmmaking, you might assume that its hardest visual challenges...
2 months ago
If you’ve never tried your hand at filmmaking, you might assume that its hardest visual challenges are the creation of effects-laden spectacles: starships duking it out in space, monsters stomping through major cities, animals speaking and dancing like Broadway stars, that sort...
Dan Cowell
Software engineers hate code.
This is the best-kept secret of the software engineering profession: engineers hate code. Especially...
a year ago
This is the best-kept secret of the software engineering profession: engineers hate code. Especially code written by other people. It's why they love working on greenfield projects so much. No code, no maintenance, no headaches!
Ever wondered why microservices took off in teams...
Strange Loop Canon
Mind the Gap
from empire to umpire
a year ago
Old Structures...
180 Years
I found myself in Greenport NY for a project and was pleasantly surprised by the presence of the old...
4 months ago
I found myself in Greenport NY for a project and was pleasantly surprised by the presence of the old train station there. It’s not the current station, which is a bare concrete platform off to the right of the picture, and it’s not the original station, but that’s okay. As you...
Marcus on AI
Generative AI’s Continuing Copyright Problems, an Essay in Memory of Suchir Balaji, 1998 - 2024
In early November, I had a stimulating Zoom call with a former OpenAI employee and Berkeley graduate...
a week ago
In early November, I had a stimulating Zoom call with a former OpenAI employee and Berkeley graduate named Suchir Balaji, who had just left OpenAI.
Making software...
Never Do Spec Work for Free
Never Do Spec Work for Free
2022-11-07
Your time is valuable and shouldn't be taken for granted. Let...
over a year ago
Never Do Spec Work for Free
2022-11-07
Your time is valuable and shouldn't be taken for granted. Let me say that again for the people in the back: your time is valuable and shouldn't be taken for granted. Time is the most precious commodity we have as human beings, so never waste...
essay – snarfed.org
Breakfast tour
Like all of you, I got a little stir crazy over the last year. I made it outside plenty, but I still...
over a year ago
Like all of you, I got a little stir crazy over the last year. I made it outside plenty, but I still felt cooped up now and then, and I dearly missed going new places and seeing new things. On another note, I really, really like breakfast. Like, a lot. So naturally, I put these...
Daniel Bourke
Building a garden in the backyard
I started building a garden in the backyard.
It’s a small space but it took almost a year to get...
a year ago
I started building a garden in the backyard.
It’s a small space but it took almost a year to get going.
A year!
Mostly because of laziness and other things going on.
A little dream I have is to one day eat a full feast that consists 100%
Mazdak
Why 2024 will be the year of the Delivery Drone?
For years, drone delivery has hovered on the horizon, a tantalizing glimpse of a futuristic utopia...
11 months ago
For years, drone delivery has hovered on the horizon, a tantalizing glimpse of a futuristic utopia where packages pirouette through the air and land at our doorsteps with clockwork precision. But 2024 marks a pivotal juncture, a year where the sci-fi fantasy transforms into a...
Kagi Blog
Kagi search introduces Team plan
Today we are excited to announce the launch of the Kagi search Team plan.
over a year ago
Today we are excited to announce the launch of the Kagi search Team plan.
Seth's Blog
The digital barback
A barback supports the bartending staff. There are always clean glasses and fresh ingredients, ready...
8 months ago
A barback supports the bartending staff. There are always clean glasses and fresh ingredients, ready to go. Having someone else do your mise en place can dramatically improve your productivity. And now, with a bit of effort, you can train an AI and a few systems to do it for you....
RhysTranter.com
Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life: Telling the Story of Saints
In 'A Hidden Life: Telling the Story of Saints', Mark Cooprider offers an accessible analysis of...
over a year ago
In 'A Hidden Life: Telling the Story of Saints', Mark Cooprider offers an accessible analysis of Terrence Malick's 2019 biopic of the Austrian conscientious objector Franz Jägerstätter—executed in 1943 for his refusal to swear allegiance to National Socialism. Cooprider explores...
TheCollector
Interview With Joseph A. Miller on Figurative Art
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7 months ago
Max Rozen
OnlineOrNot Diaries 21
I was young, and needed to ship...
3 months ago
I was young, and needed to ship...
Christopher Butler
What If Phones Were Actually Designed for Hands?
Phones no longer fit in the hands they were made to be held and used by. How did that...
over a year ago
Phones no longer fit in the hands they were made to be held and used by. How did that happen?
can make is determined by the range of the hand’s capabilities (and in the modern era, of course, extended by technology), and what we make and use serves as something of an...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Words
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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Just 10 days till the big new thing!
Adventures In...
Historical Topo Map Explorer (beta)
The USGS Historical Topographic Map Explorer is getting an update, and you can try out this new beta...
a year ago
The USGS Historical Topographic Map Explorer is getting an update, and you can try out this new beta version, here: LivingAtlas.ArcGIS.com/TopoMapExplorer The United States Geological Survey has a rich history of creating exquisite topographic quadrangle maps. These topo maps are...
TheCollector
What Ancient Rituals Do We Still Celebrate at Halloween?
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a month ago
Asterisk
The Depths of Wikipedians
A conversation about yogurt wars, German hymns, tropical cyclones, and the people who make Wikipedia...
a month ago
A conversation about yogurt wars, German hymns, tropical cyclones, and the people who make Wikipedia function.
Seth's Blog
The Big-O conundrum
In computer science, Big-O notation is a way of talking about what happens to a solution method when...
a year ago
In computer science, Big-O notation is a way of talking about what happens to a solution method when the inputs start to increase. For example, sorting numbers is an easy problem when there are only five or six, but when you have to sort 5,000, a totally different algorithm is...
Making software...
Working with `git` Patches in Apple Mail
Working with git Patches in Apple Mail
2023-05-11
Before we begin: You could likely automate this...
a year ago
Working with git Patches in Apple Mail
2023-05-11
Before we begin: You could likely automate this process in a more streamlined way, but for most use cases this workflow should be fine.
I recently covered how to work with git email patches in Evolution on Linux, so I thought it...
Londonist
The Chelsea Flower Show 2024: A Blooming Brief Guide
The world’s greatest flower show returns.
8 months ago
The world’s greatest flower show returns.
The American Scholar
Braña Curuchu
The post Braña Curuchu appeared first on The American Scholar.
2 weeks ago
The post Braña Curuchu appeared first on The American Scholar.
TheCollector
10 Things to See on Your Artistic Expedition Through Los Angeles
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4 months ago
Christopher Butler
Technology and Moral Responsibility
As I’ve been cleaning up my site, I’ll occasionally read back over something I wrote many years ago....
a year ago
As I’ve been cleaning up my site, I’ll occasionally read back over something I wrote many years ago. Yesterday, I re-read a series of posts I wrote over a decade ago on ethics and technology. Here’s the first one.
What surprised me yesterday was how I could have easily written...
bt RSS Feed
Improving Github's New Design
Improving Github’s New Design
2020-07-07
Like many other Github users, I am not a big fan of their...
over a year ago
Improving Github’s New Design
2020-07-07
Like many other Github users, I am not a big fan of their recent repository page redesign. In my mind it seems like a change just for the sake of change - the original UI worked perfectly fine.
Sigh.
I was planning on recreating the...
TheCollector
Beer Can Art Accidentally Trashed at Dutch Museum
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2 months ago
Archinect - Features
The Longevity & Legacy of the 'Vanilla Architect': How a Monoculture Yields Cycles of...
This Op-Ed explores how unconscious bias of mentors, tokenism, and resultant patterns of system...
4 months ago
This Op-Ed explores how unconscious bias of mentors, tokenism, and resultant patterns of system justification reinforce a status quo that marginalizes women and people of color. These complex and long-lived dynamics are unpacked through personal anecdotes, historical analysis,...
History Today Feed
The KGB After Stalin
The KGB After Stalin
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:36
a year ago
The KGB After Stalin
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:36
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
The chatbot creator
Back in the day my mother created and ran a math tutoring service for underserved communities in...
a year ago
Back in the day my mother created and ran a math tutoring service for underserved communities in South Africa called Dr Math. It was serving tens of thousands of students until bureaucracy shut the project down.
I decided to rekindle it using GPT4 as a socratic tutor and WhatsApp...
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
TheCollector
How George Washington Used the Fabian Strategy During the Revolution
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5 months ago
Math Is Still...
The Tiny Physics Behind Immense Cosmic Eruptions
A new theory describes how particle interactions fuel fast magnetic reconnection, the process behind...
a year ago
A new theory describes how particle interactions fuel fast magnetic reconnection, the process behind solar flares and other astrophysical jets.
The post The Tiny Physics Behind Immense Cosmic Eruptions first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Letters of Note
Live a life worth living
On 19 March 2018, almost five years after being diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer,...
over a year ago
On 19 March 2018, almost five years after being diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer, thirty-eight-year-old Julie Yip-Williams died, leaving behind a husband and two daughters. Her early years had been anything but easy. Born blind in Vietnam, at two months of age she was almost...
journal – Winnie Lim
a hole in my soul
I didn’t actually feel like writing today, but I’m worried if I don’t write I would forget the...
7 months ago
I didn’t actually feel like writing today, but I’m worried if I don’t write I would forget the feelings and thoughts I have at this point in time. It doesn’t seem right...
The Convivial...
The One Best Way Is a Trap
The Convivial Society: Vol. 4, No. 9
a year ago
The Convivial Society: Vol. 4, No. 9
Contemporist...
A 1930s Brick Farmhouse Gets A Contemporary Remodel
SHED Architecture has sent us photos of a 1930s brick farmhouse in Washington State that has been...
a year ago
SHED Architecture has sent us photos of a 1930s brick farmhouse in Washington State that has been redesigned and renovated for today's living standards.
Open Culture
Andy Warhol Hosts Frank Zappa on His Cable TV Show, and Later Recalls, “I Hated Him More Than Ever”...
Had Andy Warhol lived to see the internet–especially social networking–he would have loved it,...
5 months ago
Had Andy Warhol lived to see the internet–especially social networking–he would have loved it, though it may not have loved him. Though Warhol did see the very beginnings of the PC revolution, and made computer art near the end of his life on a Commodore Amiga 1000, he was mostly...
A Beautiful Site
Getting duplicate ids in an HTML document
I needed a way to identify all HTML elements with duplicate IDs. This is a seemingly simple task,...
over a year ago
I needed a way to identify all HTML elements with duplicate IDs. This is a seemingly simple task, but unfortunately, I didn't find anything out there that fit the bill.
I did find a couple functions that returned the duplicates, but they didn't include the first occurrence (I...
Marco.org
Apple is Listening
Something big changed at Apple around the beginning of 2017.
They had encountered significant...
over a year ago
Something big changed at Apple around the beginning of 2017.
They had encountered significant turbulence in the product line over the preceding years, especially Macs. It was a rough time to be a pro Mac user.
The “trash can” 2013 Mac Pro addressed only a fraction of the needs...
Rest of World -...
The entrepreneur trying to make thrifting truly eco-friendly with AI
Nofal Khan is the co-founder and CEO of Swag Kicks, one of Pakistan’s largest online thrift...
7 months ago
Nofal Khan is the co-founder and CEO of Swag Kicks, one of Pakistan’s largest online thrift platforms.
journal – Winnie Lim
from creativity to activity
I started making websites and dabbling in photoshop when I first got my computer at 15. I never felt...
10 months ago
I started making websites and dabbling in photoshop when I first got my computer at 15. I never felt particularly creative as a child and I hated art classes so when that...
Infinite Scroll
Worst Tweets of 2024 - Dishonorable Mentions
All of the most horrifying posts on Twitter that didn't make the final bracket
5 days ago
All of the most horrifying posts on Twitter that didn't make the final bracket
Stat Significant
The Rise of Faith-Based Films: A Statistical Analysis
The economics and origins of the faith-based film industry.
2 months ago
The economics and origins of the faith-based film industry.
Math Is Still...
A New Approach to Computation Reimagines Artificial Intelligence
By imbuing enormous vectors with semantic meaning, we can get machines to reason more abstractly —...
a year ago
By imbuing enormous vectors with semantic meaning, we can get machines to reason more abstractly — and efficiently — than before.
The post A New Approach to Computation Reimagines Artificial Intelligence first appeared on Quanta Magazine
journal – Winnie Lim
thoughts after the 2024 US election
Sometime midway through the pandemic I felt like if I had any hope or optimism for humanity prior, I...
a month ago
Sometime midway through the pandemic I felt like if I had any hope or optimism for humanity prior, I had lost it all witnessing how we responded towards a disabling virus. If...
nanoscale views
Technological civilization and losing object permanence
In the grand tradition of physicists writing about areas outside their expertise, I wanted to put...
2 days ago
In the grand tradition of physicists writing about areas outside their expertise, I wanted to put down some thoughts on a societal trend. This isn't physics or nanoscience, so feel free to skip this post.
Object permanence is a term from developmental psychology. A person (or...
TheCollector
Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony: A New Twist on Old Traditions
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4 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Status
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Buncha people on patreon said the title was on the...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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Buncha people on patreon said the title was on the wrong side of the book but *I* say that's in THEIR in-group.
Today's News:
Beautiful Public...
Aerial Glacier Photographs
A collection of 100,000 striking high-resolution aerial photos of glaciers, photographed over 40...
6 months ago
A collection of 100,000 striking high-resolution aerial photos of glaciers, photographed over 40 years with a 63-pound WW II surveillance camera.
Construction Physics
The Shape of Nuclear Policy
Book review: Nuclear Politics: Energy and the State in the United States, Sweden, and France
6 months ago
Book review: Nuclear Politics: Energy and the State in the United States, Sweden, and France
TheCollector
Who Was Mithridates the Great?
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4 months ago
The Works in...
Whatever happened to the industrial R&D lab?
From the Works in Progress archives.
a year ago
From the Works in Progress archives.
Seth's Blog
Self restaint vs systemic restraint
It’s not hypocritical to help yourself at a buffet at the same time you counsel the owner of the...
a year ago
It’s not hypocritical to help yourself at a buffet at the same time you counsel the owner of the restaurant to limit the number of trips that people take so that the restaurant can become sustainable. It’s possible to argue for systemic changes to cultural systems while also...
FIRE v London
July ’23: Markets up, Coutts down
It’s been a dismally wet July here in London. About 50% more rainfall than normal (which, before ye...
a year ago
It’s been a dismally wet July here in London. About 50% more rainfall than normal (which, before ye scoff, isn’t that much – London is a fairly dry city – drier than Rome and much drier than Sydney). It has been long trousers weather, for the first time in several years. But at...
Flashbak
Painting America’s Great Divide : Horace Pippin And Mr. Prejudice
“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while...
9 months ago
“The pictures which I have already painted come to me in my mind, and if to me it is a worth while picture, I paint it” – Horace Pippin Winston Churchill waved his fingers in a V for Victory and the united British went to war against a common enemy. When the United States …...
Arduino Blog
Adding real-time local voice controls to a SMARS Quad Mod robot with an Arduino RP2040 Connect
Robotics kits like the Screwless/Screwed Modular Assemblable Robotic System (SMARS) are great tools...
3 months ago
Robotics kits like the Screwless/Screwed Modular Assemblable Robotic System (SMARS) are great tools for learning more about how electronics, mechanics, and software can combine to perform useful tasks in the physical world. And in his latest project, Edge Impulse’s senior...
diamond geezer
2X 60Y 60Z
In my quest to find London's highest-lettered house I've already found a U, V and some Ws.
18U...
a year ago
In my quest to find London's highest-lettered house I've already found a U, V and some Ws.
18U Brondesbury Park (NW6 7DL)
55V The Bishops Avenue (N2 0BJ)
1W-51W Rosebery Square (EC1R 4PT)
2X Chesterford Gardens (NW3 7DE)
We're in Hampstead amid the leafy avenues on the...
Vadim Kravcenko
Build vs Buy: age old dilemma
The age-old dilemma that technical co-founders get confronted with: should I build it from scratch...
a year ago
The age-old dilemma that technical co-founders get confronted with: should I build it from scratch or buy some off-the-shelf solution? […]
The post Build vs Buy: age old dilemma appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Nadia Asparouhova
Cultivating agency
I didn’t always know that I wanted to have kids. I wasn’t against it, necessarily – for awhile,...
over a year ago
I didn’t always know that I wanted to have kids. I wasn’t against it, necessarily – for awhile, there were just more reasons in the “why not” column than the “why”: uncertainty about whether I’d be a good parent, fear of losing my identity, a lack of maternal instinct. Those...
TheCollector
What Are Buddhism’s 4 Main Schools of Thought?
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8 months ago
TheCollector
The Walls of Jericho: Biblical Truth or Historical Propaganda?
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11 months ago
The Honest Broker
The Rise and Fall of The Village Voice
A new book reminds us what we lost when the counterculture disappeared
8 months ago
A new book reminds us what we lost when the counterculture disappeared
NeuroLogica Blog
Climate Sensitivity and Confirmation Bias
I love to follow kerfuffles between different experts and deep thinkers. It’s great for revealing...
9 months ago
I love to follow kerfuffles between different experts and deep thinkers. It’s great for revealing the subtleties of logic, science, and evidence. Recently there has been an interesting online exchange between a physicists science communicator (Sabine Hossenfelder) and some...
TheCollector
7 of Elsa Schiaparelli’s Greatest Artistic Collaborations
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11 months ago
TheCollector
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky on Politics & Media
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a year ago
Platformer
What I learned in year three of Platformer
Has the Substack revolution come and gone? PLUS: What's changing in year four
a year ago
Has the Substack revolution come and gone? PLUS: What's changing in year four
Andrej Karpathy blog
Short Story on AI: A Cognitive Discontinuity.
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The idea of writing a collection of short stories has been on my mind...
over a year ago
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The idea of writing a collection of short stories has been on my mind for a while. This post is my first ever half-serious attempt at a story, and what better way to kick things off than with a story on AI and what that might look like if you...
Anarchy Unfolds
May all roads lead to solarpunk
Letters to an anarchist - Part 8
3 weeks ago
Letters to an anarchist - Part 8
Luxagraf:...
Before The Storm
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Londonist
Punchdrunk: Immersive Doyens Return In 2024 With "Moonlit Fever Dream"
Tickets for Viola's Room on sale this week.
9 months ago
Tickets for Viola's Room on sale this week.
Stories by Andrej...
Virtual Reality: still not quite there, again.
over a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Not Movement But Glaciation'
There’s an
art to reviewing a book one doesn’t love but doesn’t hate, especially if the
reviewer...
a year ago
There’s an
art to reviewing a book one doesn’t love but doesn’t hate, especially if the
reviewer prizes the author’s earlier work. How to juggle critical rigor, honesty and
tact? Turner Cassity, writing about Edwin Arlington Robinson’s Amaranth (1934), does it with confident...
Anecdotal Evidence
'There Are No Millers Any More'
I’ve just
learned of the suicide of a woman I knew casually a long time ago. Such news is
always...
9 hours ago
I’ve just
learned of the suicide of a woman I knew casually a long time ago. Such news is
always unsettling, as though a fundamental law of nature had been violated. Given what we
know of the person, and it may be very little, we apply
her circumstances to our own and conclude,...
Old Structures...
A Solution To An Intractable Problem
People usually like regular geometry, and I’d argue that architects like it more than the general...
a year ago
People usually like regular geometry, and I’d argue that architects like it more than the general public. That can create problems with buildings where the reality of construction and the reality of patterns can cause irregular geometry. The most famous example of the problem is...
TheCollector
Russia’s Greatest General? Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov
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2 months ago
Seth's Blog
Multiple choice
“None of the above” is often the best option. We’re regularly confronted with multiple-choice...
4 months ago
“None of the above” is often the best option. We’re regularly confronted with multiple-choice questions. The foundation is already established, the options are already limited, do you want this or that? But the real questions lie in the assumptions that happened before you were...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Changing Seasons
3 months ago
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Makers 2022
We've featured some fantastic makers on our Meet the Maker blog this year! Thank you to all that...
a year ago
We've featured some fantastic makers on our Meet the Maker blog this year! Thank you to all that have been involved and those that are yet to come in 2023! We love reading about your printmaking practices and hearing your beautiful words of advice.
Grab yourself a drink, pop...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Indiana
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a year ago
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Today's News:
Vadim Kravcenko
Going live with your SaaS: The Launch day
This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help...
over a year ago
This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help early-stage founders tackle the […]
The post Going live with your SaaS: The Launch day appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Artificial Ignorance
Blade Runner 2024
Reddit's AI Hunters and the quest for authentic digital experiences.
3 months ago
Reddit's AI Hunters and the quest for authentic digital experiences.
Andrew Fraknoi –...
Caves on Mars
Recently, in social media posts, Dr. Pascal Lee of the SETI Institute discussed the intriguing caves...
4 weeks ago
Recently, in social media posts, Dr. Pascal Lee of the SETI Institute discussed the intriguing caves on the side of the giant martian volcano called Arsia Mons as interesting places for future exploration and even human residences. As it happens, my very first published...
Oykun
Designers, charge more $$$ to help yourself and your clients.
By charging more $$$, you are lifting up the quality of the outcome and satisfaction.
9 months ago
By charging more $$$, you are lifting up the quality of the outcome and satisfaction.
Luxagraf:...
Pensacola History
From Fort Pickens we came around the entirety of Pensacola Bay to a small park on the western edge,...
a year ago
From Fort Pickens we came around the entirety of Pensacola Bay to a small park on the western edge, Big Lagoon. From our campsite there it was a short car ride to Perdido Key, which is another part of Gulf Islands National Seashore. Although it takes the better part of two hours...
Arduino Blog
BrainPatch.AI: How a British neurotech startup built a working prototype fast, using Arduino Nano 33...
The field of neurotechnology has been advancing rapidly in recent years, opening up to safe and...
3 months ago
The field of neurotechnology has been advancing rapidly in recent years, opening up to safe and effective non-invasive interfaces that can deliver tiny milliamp currents to the right stimulation location on the head, neck or body. One example of the new players in this field is...
blag
Recurse Center Day 3: Hammock Driven Development
TIL Hammock Driven Development
over a year ago
TIL Hammock Driven Development
Home on Erik...
The Filter Bubble is Silly and you Can't Guess What Happened Next
I'm at RecSys 2014, meeting a lot of people and hanging out at talks. Some of the discussions here...
over a year ago
I'm at RecSys 2014, meeting a lot of people and hanging out at talks. Some of the discussions here was about the filter bubble which prompted me to formalize my own thoughts.
I firmly believe that it's the role of a system to respect the user's intent.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Free Will
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a year ago
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There, see? From now on at least 18% of SMBC will not be AI jokes.
Today's News:
./techtipsy
My trip to the Communication and Laptop Museum in Estonia
While on vacation I went on a small road-trip across Estonia. During the second half of the trip I...
a year ago
While on vacation I went on a small road-trip across Estonia. During the second half of the trip I ended up being in Võrumaa,
and while driving I suddenly remembered a random fact that some people mentioned in a hackerspace Slack channel: there’s
a new museum around here!
The...
TheCollector
Ada Lovelace: Get to Know the World’s First Computer Programmer
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TheCollector
What Happened at the Battle of Kyiv in WWII?
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4 months ago
Nadia Asparouhova
Mapping digital worlds
I gave a talk at The Stoa in February about “Mapping digital worlds to understand our present and...
a year ago
I gave a talk at The Stoa in February about “Mapping digital worlds to understand our present and future.” You can watch the video here; the following is a transcript of that talk.
Peter Limberg asked me to talk about an analysis I did late last year, where I mapped out all the...
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #42: An Elizabeth Line extension, some mad planning law nonsense, and the world's most...
Your regular round-up of interesting links
a month ago
Your regular round-up of interesting links
A Beautiful Site
On Using Web Component Libraries
We tend to think of components as things that belong to a framework. After all, React has...
over a year ago
We tend to think of components as things that belong to a framework. After all, React has components, Vue has components, Angular has components…it's just how we've always used them.
Because of that, people tend to refer to Lit and FAST Element as frameworks, but they’re not....
Old Vintage...
An Apple district manager's Macintosh Portable in 1989-91 (featuring GEIS AppleLink and a look at...
a late prototype Macintosh Portable. But it turns out it's not merely notable for what it is than...
9 months ago
a late prototype Macintosh Portable. But it turns out it's not merely notable for what it is than what it has on it: a beta version of System 6.0.6 (the doomed release that Apple pulled due to bugs), Apple sales databases, two online services — the maligned Mac Prodigy client,...
SOCKS
Matmata: Underground Dwellings for an Extreme Climate
The ancient Berber village of Matmata in South Tunisia, located between the Eastern coast and the...
a year ago
The ancient Berber village of Matmata in South Tunisia, located between the Eastern coast and the desert, is characterised by settlements of dwellings dug into the clay-gypsum layers of the ground. The dating of the first inhabitations is uncertain. In these dwellings, vaulted...
TheCollector
Van Gogh & Gauguin: A Fiery Friendship Between Two Post-Impressionists
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5 months ago
Londonist
Fears Over Redevelopment Of Surbiton Station
Public consultation now open.
a year ago
Public consultation now open.
Vadim Kravcenko
🥇 The unfair advantage
🎙️ I love listening to podcasts. I listen to one of them when I go for a walk or during […]
The...
over a year ago
🎙️ I love listening to podcasts. I listen to one of them when I go for a walk or during […]
The post 🥇 The unfair advantage appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Roberto Vitillo's...
What every developer should know about database consistency
Imagine assigning some value to a variable, reading it back immediately after, and finding out that...
over a year ago
Imagine assigning some value to a variable, reading it back immediately after, and finding out that somehow the write had no effect at all…
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Slosh
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a year ago
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Weirdly, bing ai won't generate this story for me, so we may be OK.
Today's News:
Seth's Blog
The natural size
No matter how many people come over for dinner, you’re only going to be able to engage with a few....
a year ago
No matter how many people come over for dinner, you’re only going to be able to engage with a few. And no matter how big the crowd in the arena, the musicians can only see the faces of a few hundred. An investor can only be engaged and smart about a very small number of […]
Seth's Blog
Gentle Scrabble hacks
Perhaps these might make a great game more fun: Maximize total score: Exactly the same rules as...
a year ago
Perhaps these might make a great game more fun: Maximize total score: Exactly the same rules as regular Scrabble, but focus on increasing the total score of all players instead of defeating the others. It’s subtle, it can be challenging for a good player, and it creates more...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Networking Essentials: DNS
Domain names, you buy them, you sell them, but how do they work?
over a year ago
Domain names, you buy them, you sell them, but how do they work?
High Signal
10 websites for selling your startup
If you are wanting to sell your startup but aren't sure where to do that, here are all your options....
11 months ago
If you are wanting to sell your startup but aren't sure where to do that, here are all your options. There's lots of choice here for you
Don Melton
Waiting four years to exhale
Today is a good day. Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. has been inaugurated as our 46th president. And...
over a year ago
Today is a good day. Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. has been inaugurated as our 46th president. And Kamala Devi Harris as our 49th vice president.
While they cannot immediately undo the American carnage inflicted upon us by the previous administration, at least the vindictive...
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.
Anecdotal Evidence
'It Is Pure Absence, No Place, Nowhere, Not'
I remember
in high school reading Louis Fischer’s The
Life of Lenin (1964), though all I retain of...
4 months ago
I remember
in high school reading Louis Fischer’s The
Life of Lenin (1964), though all I retain of the book is the account of
Lenin’s autopsy, following his death at age fifty-two from atherosclerosis.
When tapped with tweezers, his cerebral arteries pinged like stone. They...
TheCollector
It’s Complicated: Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson’s Scandalous Romance
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3 weeks ago
A Beautiful Site
Querying through shadow roots
Let's say I have a web component with an open shadow root, like this one from...
over a year ago
Let's say I have a web component with an open shadow root, like this one from Shoelace.
<sl-button>Click me</sl-button>
Inside the shadow root is a <button> that I want to target with JavaScript.* Alas, Element.querySelector() doesn't offer a shortcut for traversing shadow roots...
High Signal
Black Friday 2023 deals for entrepreneurs
Here's a list of some of the best Black Friday discounts for entrepreneurs and developers. This page...
a year ago
Here's a list of some of the best Black Friday discounts for entrepreneurs and developers. This page contains affiliate links.
Courses
Grow and Monetize your Newsletter - 60% off
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WesBos - Beginner JavaScript -...
Vadim Kravcenko
How to become a CTO?
Question:
Hey Vadim,
Long-time reader, enjoy your content a lot. I've been a software engineer for...
7 months ago
Question:
Hey Vadim,
Long-time reader, enjoy your content a lot. I've been a software engineer for about seven years now, doing mostly web development and taking over ownership of different modules step by step, expanding my people skills so to speak. Lately, I've been doing some...
CONTEMPORIST
This Renovated 90s Home Includes A New Exterior Made Of Alaskan Yellow Cedar Siding
Architecture firm Blue Truck Studio, together with interior design firm Mary Valaika Design, has...
10 months ago
Architecture firm Blue Truck Studio, together with interior design firm Mary Valaika Design, has sent us photos of a home they renovated in California, that showcases vertical wood siding. The original 90s house had wild geometry, such as octagon-shaped rooms and triangular...
Retail Design Blog
ROTATE flagship store by Thibault Allgayer
Danish womenswear brand ROTATE, created in partnership with leading stylists Jeanette Madsen and...
4 months ago
Danish womenswear brand ROTATE, created in partnership with leading stylists Jeanette Madsen and Thora Valdimars, and part of forward fashion...
Seth's Blog
Later or now?
When we feel like doing something selfish, indulgent, hurtful or short-term, we can simply decide to...
9 months ago
When we feel like doing something selfish, indulgent, hurtful or short-term, we can simply decide to do it later. And when it occurs to us that we might be able to make a useful contribution or do something important, perhaps we could do it now.
TheCollector
Repatriation Efforts Across Europe and the US
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10 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was African American Lawman Bass Reeves?
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a week ago
History Today Feed
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
4 months ago
Why Do Civil Wars Happen?
JamesHoare
Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
Sam Altman
American Equity
I’d like feedback on the following idea.
I think that every adult US citizen should get an annual...
over a year ago
I’d like feedback on the following idea.
I think that every adult US citizen should get an annual share of the US GDP.
I believe that owning something like a share in America would align all of us in making the country as successful as possible—the better the country does, the...
Seth's Blog
Looking for a handle
What if your boots don’t have any straps? Bootstrapping is logically impossible. You can’t pick...
11 months ago
What if your boots don’t have any straps? Bootstrapping is logically impossible. You can’t pick yourself up into the air by lifting on your boots, no matter how hard you try, because gravity isn’t just a good idea, it’s the law. But it’s significantly more difficult if your boots...
The Works in...
Notes on Progress: An Englishman in New York
Reflections on the revolution in Manhattan
over a year ago
Reflections on the revolution in Manhattan
Joel Gascoigne
The maker/manager transition phase
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Paul Graham [http://paulgraham.com] has a fantastic article on the topic of
scheduling work as a maker and as a manager
[http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html], which I’ve drawn insights...
Stephen Wolfram...
Can AI Solve Science?
Note: Click any diagram to get Wolfram Language code to reproduce it. Wolfram Language code for...
9 months ago
Note: Click any diagram to get Wolfram Language code to reproduce it. Wolfram Language code for training the neural nets used here is also available (requires GPU). Won’t AI Eventually Be Able to Do Everything? Particularly given its recent surprise successes, there’s a somewhat...
Ognjen Regoje •...
Don't write
Content farms and AI are doing a great job at producing content that is good enough for most...
a year ago
Content farms and AI are doing a great job at producing content that is good enough for most people.
We don’t need more good quality, niche, carefully crafted content.
So, if you are thinking about starting a blog, a Substack, a Twitter account or something similar, please know...
The American Scholar
Mortal Coils
We aren’t alone in facing the inevitable
The post Mortal Coils appeared first on The American...
3 months ago
We aren’t alone in facing the inevitable
The post Mortal Coils appeared first on The American Scholar.
Roberto Vitillo's...
The second chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems is out
In the second chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems , I explore the core building blocks at...
over a year ago
In the second chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems , I explore the core building blocks at the heart of many distributed systems…
Stephen Diehl
A Sticky Stringy Quandary
over a year ago
Josh Collinsworth
Converting from Gridsome to SvelteKit
I've been a fan of Svelte for years, but never had the opportunity to use it on a serious project...
over a year ago
I've been a fan of Svelte for years, but never had the opportunity to use it on a serious project before. So when I found myself looking for a new platform for this site as SvelteKit entered open beta, it seemed like perfect timing.
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp
a year ago
Res Obscura
How to use generative AI for historical research
Four real-world case studies, and some thoughts on what not to do
a year ago
Four real-world case studies, and some thoughts on what not to do
TheCollector
A Quick Trip Guide to Washington DC’s Museums
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6 months ago
Explorations of an...
Potrero de Yala - Dippers, Red-faced Guans And More
Laura and I were up early to make the most of our morning at Potrero de Yala. As dawn broke, we...
a year ago
Laura and I were up early to make the most of our morning at Potrero de Yala. As dawn broke, we slowly drove in along the entrance road, keeping an eye out for guans.
We found quite a few guans on and around the road but none were our hoped-for Red-faced Guans; they were all...
Seth's Blog
The network scam
Lana Swartz coined this term in her breakthrough paper on crypto. A scam always involves a...
a year ago
Lana Swartz coined this term in her breakthrough paper on crypto. A scam always involves a transaction. In the traditional fraud, the scammer tells a lie and the buyer, either with or without diligence, believes it and loses everything. You buy the magic beans, but they don’t...
Business Brainstorms
Hard startups, importance of founder-led sales, Netflix for written content
Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
a year ago
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 “I wish I could pay per newspaper article, with only...
Stoic Simple
What Does Stoicism Teach About Money, Wealth & Poverty?
Stoicism is a philosophical belief system that has been around since the ancient times. It aims to...
a year ago
Stoicism is a philosophical belief system that has been around since the ancient times. It aims to promote ethical living and personal fulfillment by closely examining one's values and beliefs. One area where Stoicism offers interesting insights is wealth and poverty. This...
The Works in...
Upzoning New Zealand
How a small country started building a lot of homes
10 months ago
How a small country started building a lot of homes
A Smart Bear
Extreme questions to trigger new, better ideas
It is difficult to brainstorm fresh, transformative ideas. Telling everyone that “no idea is a bad...
over a year ago
It is difficult to brainstorm fresh, transformative ideas. Telling everyone that “no idea is a bad idea” isn’t enough of a prompt. These questions will stretch you beyond your daily experience; if you’re lucky, they could even lead to a unique business model and a long-term...
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 9-10 March 2024
Live comedy, an artisan market, Disney events and more.
9 months ago
Live comedy, an artisan market, Disney events and more.
Seth's Blog
As slow as possible
A six-hundred-year-long organ recital is going on, and today marks a change in notes. If you miss...
10 months ago
A six-hundred-year-long organ recital is going on, and today marks a change in notes. If you miss it, the next one is in two years. We’re used to the rapid increase in speed in just about everything around us. Absolutely positively overnight is mostly too slow for many industries...
diamond geezer
The five smallest parks in Barking & Dagenham
Join me on a journey of data-driven disappointment as I attempt to answer a question nobody else is...
2 weeks ago
Join me on a journey of data-driven disappointment as I attempt to answer a question nobody else is asking.
What are the five smallest parks in Barking & Dagenham?
map.
"We're so proud Barking and Dagenham has 28 brilliant parks and open spaces which are much loved by so many...
Math Is Still...
The Number 15 Describes the Secret Limit of an Infinite Grid
The “packing coloring” problem asks how many numbers are needed to fill an infinite grid so that...
a year ago
The “packing coloring” problem asks how many numbers are needed to fill an infinite grid so that identical numbers never get too close to one another. A new computer-assisted proof finds a surprisingly straightforward answer.
The post The Number 15 Describes the...
Tinloof - Blog
How to create microfrontends with Web Components in React
We often hear about microfrontends, this happens when your company plans to have multiple teams...
over a year ago
We often hear about microfrontends, this happens when your company plans to have multiple teams build a big new web project. The company does not want teams to fight over a single monstrous SPA.
It decides to break the project down into several mini-apps hosted by a parent app....
Classical Wisdom
The Great Debate: Free Will VS Determinism
Heraclitus against Parmenides
2 months ago
Heraclitus against Parmenides
The Works in...
Issue 09: Cheap shots and killer bots
Plus: Why scientific writing is so bad, how to stop snakebites from killing 100,000 people every...
over a year ago
Plus: Why scientific writing is so bad, how to stop snakebites from killing 100,000 people every year, and what science can learn from the fight against global poverty.
Home on Erik...
A neat little trick with time decay
Something that pops up pretty frequently is to implement time decay, especially where you have...
over a year ago
Something that pops up pretty frequently is to implement time decay, especially where you have recursive chains of jobs. For instance, say you want to keep track of a popularity score. You calculate today's output by reading yesterday's output, discounting it by $$ exp(-lambda...
The Ruffian
How To Swear At Your Coworkers
Two Ways To Use Bad Language In The Workplace
a year ago
Two Ways To Use Bad Language In The Workplace
Map of the Week
The Incredible Shrinking Great Salt Lake(s)
NOTE: due to accidental deletions on this platform I have lost some of the original attributions for...
a year ago
NOTE: due to accidental deletions on this platform I have lost some of the original attributions for this post.
Here is a map of the paleo-lakes of the Great Basin from the Pleistocene Era.
The present day lakes are shown in lighter blue though even those have shrunk from the...
Noahpinion
The Democrats' new sunny vibes
Suddenly, the country has an opportunity to leave the madness of the 2010s behind.
4 months ago
Suddenly, the country has an opportunity to leave the madness of the 2010s behind.
Posts on Nikita...
RustLab 2024
I had the chance to speak at RustLab 2024! I will be honest, this was the point I realised that 4...
5 days ago
I had the chance to speak at RustLab 2024! I will be honest, this was the point I realised that 4 conferences in one year was a bad idea. I was exhausted and overwhelmed, but I still had a blast meeting new people and answering the questions after the talk. It had the following...
nanoscale views
The need for energy-efficient computing
Computing is consuming a large and ever-growing
fraction of the world's energy capacity.
I've seen...
over a year ago
Computing is consuming a large and ever-growing
fraction of the world's energy capacity.
I've seen the essential data in this figure several times over the last few months, and it has convinced me that the need for energy-efficient computing hardware is genuinely pressing. This...
Calculated Risk
Realtor.com Reports Active Inventory Up 23.4% YoY
What this means: On a weekly basis, Realtor.com reports the year-over-year change in active...
3 days ago
What this means: On a weekly basis, Realtor.com reports the year-over-year change in active inventory and new listings. On a monthly basis, they report total inventory. For November, Realtor.com reported inventory was up 26.2% YoY, but still down 21.5% compared to the 2017 to...
Londonist
Santa Steam Express: Meet Father Christmas On A Vintage Train In London
The kids will be chuffed.
a year ago
The kids will be chuffed.
Jonas Hietala
First impressions of Pollen
After having consumed Practical Typography I took a look at the library he wrote to create books for...
over a year ago
After having consumed Practical Typography I took a look at the library he wrote to create books for the web called Pollen written in Racket. I’ve only used it a little but I feel I can give my first impressions of it.
What I like
The first thing I really like is Pollen enables...
Joel Gascoigne
Want to be successful? Be inconsistent
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over a year ago
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Recently 37signals published an article titled Some advice from Jeff Bezos
[http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3289-some-advice-from-jeff-bezos]. This wasn’t
your usual advice, and I found it...
Contemporist...
Dyed Cement Shingles Cover The Counter Inside This Bakery
Grizzo Studio has shared photos of MALAU, a new bakery in Pilar Centro, Argentina, that includes...
2 months ago
Grizzo Studio has shared photos of MALAU, a new bakery in Pilar Centro, Argentina, that includes handcrafted pieces of dyed cement in its design.
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Philosopher Kings
10 months ago
Maggie Appleton
Making Programming Visual, Spatial, and Learnable
over a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Climbing the wrong hill
I know a brilliant young kid who graduated from college a year ago and now works at a large...
over a year ago
I know a brilliant young kid who graduated from college a year ago and now works at a large investment bank. He has decided he hates Wall…
Noahpinion
America's semiconductor policy is missing a key piece
A guest post by Steven Glinert.
7 months ago
A guest post by Steven Glinert.
Anecdotal Evidence
'To Build a House for Fools and Mad'
An entry dated
June 15, 1830 in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Table
Talk: “[Jonathan, not Taylor]...
6 months ago
An entry dated
June 15, 1830 in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Table
Talk: “[Jonathan, not Taylor] Swift
was anima Rabelaisii habitans in sicco,--the
soul of Rabelais dwelling in a dry place. Yet Swift was rare.”
Now there’s a
metaphor that sticks in the mind – “dwelling in a dry...
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