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The Age of Discord: Fragmented politics and unhinged discourse Today I attended in New York, at Columbia University (which still looks a bit like a fortress...
13th Sep 2025
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The Age of Discord: Fragmented politics and unhinged discourse

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

13th Sep 2025
Today I attended in New York, at Columbia University (which still looks a bit like a fortress because of the students protests that took place there about 1.5 years ago) a conference at the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Institute for Policy Dialogue.
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Blogging to learn People blog for all sorts of reasons. For me, it is mostly about learning. This wasn’t my original...
10th May 2012
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Blogging to learn

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

10th May 2012
People blog for all sorts of reasons. For me, it is mostly about learning. This wasn’t my original intention – it evolved over time. Now I…
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Proper UI Hierarchy Proper UI Hierarchy 2019-02-05 I often feel like an old man when I complain about flat design and...
5th Feb 2019
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Proper UI Hierarchy

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

5th Feb 2019
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...
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Luxury for everyone: thoughts on Vision Pro and Apple's DNA In 2009, Microsoft released an enormous 200lb coffee table with an embedded 30-inch touchscreen...
21st May 2024
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Luxury for everyone: thoughts on Vision Pro and Apple's DNA

from Dustin Curtis [alt+shift+b] in startups

21st May 2024
In 2009, Microsoft released an enormous 200lb coffee table with an embedded 30-inch touchscreen called Surface. Although the iPhone had been around for a little while, the larger screen made Surface feel absolutely futuristic: in the Photos app, you could toss around pictures...
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Don't ask me to embarrass myself. Or: Please Lucy, stop asking me to kick the football.
18th Jul 2024
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Don't ask me to embarrass myself.

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

18th Jul 2024
Or: Please Lucy, stop asking me to kick the football.
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Jennifer Angus An endangered dinner party The post Jennifer Angus appeared first on The American Scholar.
a week ago
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Jennifer Angus

from The American Scholar [alt+shift+b] in literature

a week ago
An endangered dinner party The post Jennifer Angus appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Emoji Griddle
30th Oct 2024
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Emoji Griddle

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

30th Oct 2024
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Cross-post to Bluesky Cross-post to Bluesky
1st Sep 2024
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Cross-post to Bluesky

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

1st Sep 2024
Cross-post to Bluesky
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How I design ‘mobile first’
10th Feb 2014
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How I design ‘mobile first’

from Koos Looijesteijn [alt+shift+b] in design

10th Feb 2014
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Driverless Pizzas How self-driving vehicles and algorithms will change cities
21st Apr 2019
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Driverless Pizzas

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

21st Apr 2019
How self-driving vehicles and algorithms will change cities
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Becoming an adult, one toddler tantrum at a time. A letter from a father
5th Apr 2024
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Becoming an adult, one toddler tantrum at a time.

from Charlie Becker [alt+shift+b] in life

5th Apr 2024
A letter from a father
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Balancing cube This cube manages to balance itself on a corner, and can simultaneously rotate around its axis in a...
10th Feb 2024
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Balancing cube

from Willem Pennings [alt+shift+b] in science

10th Feb 2024
This cube manages to balance itself on a corner, and can simultaneously rotate around its axis in a controlled manner. It does so using clever controls and a set of three reaction wheels. The original idea for this device comes from researchers at ETH Zürich, who demonstrate...
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Daily run, part two In my previous post, “a daily run” — (please read it first) — running was a metaphor for whatever...
28th Oct 2022
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Daily run, part two

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

28th Oct 2022
In my previous post, “a daily run” — (please read it first) — running was a metaphor for whatever actions you take in your life. The story is about how we choose beliefs because they’re useful, not true. Beliefs make emotions. Emotions make actions. Actions come from...
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Barefoot Sprinting Up a Grassy Hill, & Kettlebell Swings Introduction A few months ago, maybe in November, certainly by December, I began this ‘barefoot...
12th Mar 2025
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Barefoot Sprinting Up a Grassy Hill, & Kettlebell Swings

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

12th Mar 2025
Introduction A few months ago, maybe in November, certainly by December, I began this ‘barefoot sprinting up grassy hills’ thing I’m going about to talk about in detail below. Shortly after I started, I began making use of the kettlebells I’d usually ignored at the gym(s) I have...
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The Problem with Too Much Fairness We care so much about fairness that we are willing to sacrifice economic well-being to enforce it....
7th Oct 2021
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The Problem with Too Much Fairness

from Abhishek Chakraborty [alt+shift+b] in life

7th Oct 2021
We care so much about fairness that we are willing to sacrifice economic well-being to enforce it. Research shows that just to ensure shirkers get what they deserve, we are prepared to make ourselves poorer.
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What do we lose moving from Reason to mlx? Explain which nice syntactic features we had in Reason that we won't be able to keep if we migrate...
12th Sep 2025
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What do we lose moving from Reason to mlx?

from sancho.dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Sep 2025
Explain which nice syntactic features we had in Reason that we won't be able to keep if we migrate to mlx
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Building rbenv on OpenBSD 7.5 Building rbenv on OpenBSD 7.5 2024-06-02 I use Ruby (specifically with Jekyll) for a lot of my...
2nd Jun 2024
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Building rbenv on OpenBSD 7.5

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

2nd Jun 2024
Building rbenv on OpenBSD 7.5 2024-06-02 I use Ruby (specifically with Jekyll) for a lot of my clubs/projects while using my personal laptop (X220 ThinkPad) which is runs OpenBSD. Since I recently upgraded to OpenBSD 7.5 I thought it could be helpful for others if I shared my...
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Winner, Name that Ware July 2026 The structure in question for last month’s ware are a pair of NPN transistors that form the core of...
30th Aug 2026
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Winner, Name that Ware July 2026

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

30th Aug 2026
The structure in question for last month’s ware are a pair of NPN transistors that form the core of a bandgap voltage reference circuit. As its name implies, a bandgap voltage reference generates a near-constant voltage for use inside chips. The voltage is intended to be fairly...
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Repair Fail One of the most underappreciated, least talked about aspects of repair is the hierarchy. There are...
6th Dec 2023
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Repair Fail

from Luxagraf: Topographical Writings [alt+shift+b] in life

6th Dec 2023
One of the most underappreciated, least talked about aspects of repair is the hierarchy. There are repair wizards and there are newbies and there are the rest of us, somewhere between those two poles. This hierarchy of skill and experience requires that you earn your way to the...
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Rethinking work and HR for 100-year lives Laetitia@Work #86
9th Oct 2025
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Rethinking work and HR for 100-year lives

from Laetitia@Work [alt+shift+b] in life

9th Oct 2025
Laetitia@Work #86
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How Movies Make Money After Leaving Theaters: The Economics of a Film on Streaming Unpacking a film's financial afterlife once it leaves theaters.
6th Nov 2025
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How Movies Make Money After Leaving Theaters: The Economics of a Film on Streaming

from Stat Significant [alt+shift+b] in creative

6th Nov 2025
Unpacking a film's financial afterlife once it leaves theaters.
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From Thought to Entry
5th Mar 2026
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From Thought to Entry

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

5th Mar 2026
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OnlineOrNot Diaries 17 On learning screencasting, cleaning up tech debt, and focus
17th Dec 2023
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OnlineOrNot Diaries 17

from Max Rozen [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

17th Dec 2023
On learning screencasting, cleaning up tech debt, and focus
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2025 Advice to my old selves I turned a birthday recently and it was so busy (DataCouncil + sg flight) that i never really got...
15th May 2025
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2025 Advice to my old selves

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

15th May 2025
I turned a birthday recently and it was so busy (DataCouncil + sg flight) that i never really got the chance to sit and reflect. a lot of things are going well, lots more could be better. I'm the only person responsible for preserving the good and fixing the bad. I'm now back on...
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A Road Trip Along Mississippi's Blues Trail
7th Jan 2025
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A Road Trip Along Mississippi's Blues Trail

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

7th Jan 2025
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Git Merge 2024 GitButler is organizing the 2024 Git Merge conference, Sep 19/20 in Berlin!
22nd Jul 2024
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Git Merge 2024

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

22nd Jul 2024
GitButler is organizing the 2024 Git Merge conference, Sep 19/20 in Berlin!
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Lenovo ThinkCentre M900 Tiny: how does it fare as a home server? My evenings of absent-minded local auction site scrolling1 paid off: I now own a Lenovo ThinkCentre...
6th Jun 2025
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Lenovo ThinkCentre M900 Tiny: how does it fare as a home server?

from ./techtipsy [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th Jun 2025
My evenings of absent-minded local auction site scrolling1 paid off: I now own a Lenovo ThinkCentre M900 Tiny. It’s relatively old, being manufactured in 20162, but it’s tiny and has a lot of useful life left in it. It’s also featured in the TinyMiniMicro series by...
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Responsive video is (almost) easy now
20th Jul 2025
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Responsive video is (almost) easy now

from Koos Looijesteijn [alt+shift+b] in design

20th Jul 2025
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Roundup #81: Back to our regular programming National debt; AI cyberattacks; Phone bans; AI and coding jobs; Millennials vs. Boomers; Public...
1st May 2026
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Roundup #81: Back to our regular programming

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st May 2026
National debt; AI cyberattacks; Phone bans; AI and coding jobs; Millennials vs. Boomers; Public order; California YIMBYism
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Robot Slide Whistle Orchestrion [Hardware] Army of Robot Slide Whistles
1st Apr 2024
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Robot Slide Whistle Orchestrion

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

1st Apr 2024
[Hardware] Army of Robot Slide Whistles
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Clouds below my floor Building a little datacenter in my basement utilising a very fast internet connection.
30th Aug 2017
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Clouds below my floor

from Willem's Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

30th Aug 2017
Building a little datacenter in my basement utilising a very fast internet connection.
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We Live in the Dependently Typed Future Now We Live in the Dependently Typed Future Now In the thirty-four days between the fourth of September...
8th Oct 2026
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We Live in the Dependently Typed Future Now

from Stephen Diehl [alt+shift+b] in startups

8th Oct 2026
We Live in the Dependently Typed Future Now In the thirty-four days between the fourth of September and the seventh of October, the following things happened. Claude formalized Fermat's Last Theorem in Lean. OpenAI announced a finite-time blowup for the Navier-Stokes equations,...
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Unblogged August 31 unblogged things I did in August Fri 1: I ummed and ahhed about doing another month-long series...
1st Sep 2025
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Unblogged August

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

1st Sep 2025
31 unblogged things I did in August Fri 1: I ummed and ahhed about doing another month-long series about the River Fleet, because maybe it's best to only do things once, but once I was stalking through the woods at the top of Hampstead Heath hunting for muddy rivulets it all...
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Vibe Coding Grossing over $48K a month, the flight simulator game by Pieter Levels spurred a whole flurry of...
14th Apr 2025
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Vibe Coding

from Willem L. Middelkoop [alt+shift+b] in technology

14th Apr 2025
Grossing over $48K a month, the flight simulator game by Pieter Levels spurred a whole flurry of innovation. Without detailed knowledge of 3D game engine technology, he 'vibe coded' his game using AI. Critics of his work pointed at security and scalability issues, while...
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How To Use AI for the Ancient Art of Close Reading Experiments in reading with LLMs
20th Jan 2026
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How To Use AI for the Ancient Art of Close Reading

from fast.ai [alt+shift+b] in AI

20th Jan 2026
Experiments in reading with LLMs
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'Linux RAID level and chunk size: the benchmarks' Introduction When configuring a Linux RAID array, the chunk size needs to get chosen. But what is...
23rd May 2010
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'Linux RAID level and chunk size: the benchmarks'

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

23rd May 2010
Introduction When configuring a Linux RAID array, the chunk size needs to get chosen. But what is the chunk size? When you write data to a RAID array that implements striping (level 0, 5, 6, 10 and so on), the chunk of data sent to the array is broken down in to pieces, each part...
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Haunted by the ghosts of materialism Is philosophy real? We sent our correspondent to find out.
3rd Oct 2026
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Haunted by the ghosts of materialism

from lcamtuf’s thing [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Oct 2026
Is philosophy real? We sent our correspondent to find out.
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Building a Visceral Understanding of Quantum Phenomena A great childhood memory that I have comes from first playing “The Incredible Machine” on PC in the...
6th Aug 2024
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Building a Visceral Understanding of Quantum Phenomena

from Quantum Frontiers [alt+shift+b] in science

6th Aug 2024
A great childhood memory that I have comes from first playing “The Incredible Machine” on PC in the early 90’s. For those not in the know, this is a physics-based puzzle game about building Rube Goldberg style contraptions to achieve … Continue reading →
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🔵 TREND RADAR #20 :: TECH DRIVERS Soft Optimization in a Surveillance State
3rd Aug 2026
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🔵 TREND RADAR #20 :: TECH DRIVERS

from WHAT'S ANU [alt+shift+b] in creative

3rd Aug 2026
Soft Optimization in a Surveillance State
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IKEA Bekant Standing Desk: Personal Review Since the lockdown, all of us at thoughtbot have been working from home. I took the opportunity to...
21st Sep 2020
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IKEA Bekant Standing Desk: Personal Review

from Luke Mitchell | Product Designer [alt+shift+b] in design

21st Sep 2020
Since the lockdown, all of us at thoughtbot have been working from home. I took the opportunity to upgrade my home setup. The biggest change was a new desk. I’ve wanted a sit-stand desk for a long time, this gave the perfect oppurtunity to try one. I settled on the IKEA Bekant,...
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After 6m web apps, Bubble's ready to dominate the mobile landscape 📲 Featured: Exclusive interview with Emmanuel (CEO of Bubble) on the 10-year journey and why he's...
10th Jun 2025
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After 6m web apps, Bubble's ready to dominate the mobile landscape 📲

from Build In Public Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

10th Jun 2025
Featured: Exclusive interview with Emmanuel (CEO of Bubble) on the 10-year journey and why he's excited about the public beta launch of native mobile app builder
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I deleted my favorite feature, and the image got better: Direct Binary Search (DBS) in OpenDithering When I created OpenDithering back in June, the feature I was proudest of was the Auto-tune button....
6th Oct 2026
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I deleted my favorite feature, and the image got better: Direct Binary Search (DBS) in OpenDithering

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

6th Oct 2026
When I created OpenDithering back in June, the feature I was proudest of was the Auto-tune button. It did the slider work for me: it compared the dithered result to the original image, nudged the settings, and repeated until the image stopped improving. Over the summer it grew...
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Gear Review: Hilleberg Akto Tent TL;DR version: If you want a reasonably lightweight, bomb-proof solo shelter that will last years,...
25th Feb 2025
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Gear Review: Hilleberg Akto Tent

from Luxagraf: Topographical Writings [alt+shift+b] in life

25th Feb 2025
TL;DR version: If you want a reasonably lightweight, bomb-proof solo shelter that will last years, the Hilleberg Akto is the tent to get. Also worth considering is the Hilleberg Enan, which is discussed in the review below. Most of the best days I can remember, I woke up in a...
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The Boot.dev Beat. May 2025 Our biggest content release ever just dropped: the complete backend learning path, but now in Python...
11th May 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. May 2025

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

11th May 2025
Our biggest content release ever just dropped: the complete backend learning path, but now in Python and TypeScript! This is a massive update that we’ve been working on for a year, I hope you enjoy it!
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Respect The Social Wild While most foragers had great respect for nature, our farmer-era ancestors had less resepct.
3rd Mar 2025
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Respect The Social Wild

from Overcoming Bias [alt+shift+b] in history

3rd Mar 2025
While most foragers had great respect for nature, our farmer-era ancestors had less resepct.
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July 4, 2024 Happy Independence Day my dear American friends. We are very lucky to have this country. Let us...
5th Jul 2024
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July 4, 2024

from The Map is Mostly Water [alt+shift+b] in life

5th Jul 2024
Happy Independence Day my dear American friends. We are very lucky to have this country. Let us always be grateful for it. And let us always remember that good things are created not when people decide they have claims against an institution or a society, but when they have...
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Human Intervention as a Competitive Advantage The listening algorithm A year after I started CD Baby, when it was still just me in my bedroom,...
21st Mar 2013
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Human Intervention as a Competitive Advantage

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

21st Mar 2013
The listening algorithm A year after I started CD Baby, when it was still just me in my bedroom, the CEO and VP of a hugely-funded Silicon Valley online music company contacted me, saying they wanted to fly out to New York to meet me. I said OK, and we met a week later for...
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Outbreak Harry Stevens at The Washington Post recently published a very elegant simulation of how a disease...
17th Mar 2020
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Outbreak

from Melting Asphalt [alt+shift+b] in science

17th Mar 2020
Harry Stevens at The Washington Post recently published a very elegant simulation of how a disease like COVID-19 spreads. If you haven't already, I highly recommend checking it out. Today I want to follow up with something I've been working… Read more ›
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Catalytic Converter Catalyst is in some ways a miraculous technology – just click a check box and instantly have a...
8th Oct 2019
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Catalytic Converter

from Three Letter Acronym [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

8th Oct 2019
Catalyst is in some ways a miraculous technology – just click a check box and instantly have a working Mac version of your app. And, given the source code of a relatively modern iOS app, it certainly works. Even PCalc’s About screen worked out of the box. But that is just step...
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Book Review: Capitalist Realism Book Review: Capitalist Realism Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism is 81 pages long and will rearrange...
5th Aug 2023
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Book Review: Capitalist Realism

from Stephen Diehl [alt+shift+b] in startups

5th Aug 2023
Book Review: Capitalist Realism Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism is 81 pages long and will rearrange your brain. It is the most important political book of its generation, and it was published by a tiny press, written by a further education lecturer, and reads like a blog post...
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Fujifilm X100 vs Leica Q vs Ricoh GR Notes on three fixed-lens camera lines
18th Jul 2026
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Fujifilm X100 vs Leica Q vs Ricoh GR

from The Map is Mostly Water [alt+shift+b] in life

18th Jul 2026
Notes on three fixed-lens camera lines
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This inexpensive adapter brings Apple Universal Control to vintage Macs In the distant past of about two decades ago, one would need to use a KVM (Keyboard, Video, Mouse)...
4th Aug 2025
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This inexpensive adapter brings Apple Universal Control to vintage Macs

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

4th Aug 2025
In the distant past of about two decades ago, one would need to use a KVM (Keyboard, Video, Mouse) switch to control multiple computers with the same mouse and keyboard — and even then, it would take a button press to move from one to the other. Today, Apple’s Universal Control...
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How to create a digital Suica card in Apple Pay (2024 Update) Suica is a smart card used to pay at train stations and convenience stores in Japan. In 2016, Apple...
6th Nov 2017
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How to create a digital Suica card in Apple Pay (2024 Update)

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

6th Nov 2017
Suica is a smart card used to pay at train stations and convenience stores in Japan. In 2016, Apple added support for Suica to Apple Pay on iPhone 7 devices sold in Japan. In 2017, Apple added support to all iPhone 8/X and later, regardless of where they’re sold.1 Virtual Suica...
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Functional Energy Maintenance Are you as glad as I am that December is here? November did its best to bring me down. A pinched...
3rd Dec 2017
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Functional Energy Maintenance

from Adrian Hanft, III: RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in life

3rd Dec 2017
Are you as glad as I am that December is here? November did its best to bring me down. A pinched nerve derailed my running. There was an unexpected death in the family. Then there was the typical stress of interstate travel over Thanksgiving. And just as the worst of it seemed to...
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Smile Smile Be thankful Resist the pressure to own things Be good to yourself, but no more than...
11th Sep 2018
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Smile

from Sometimes It Works :: simonhamp.me [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Sep 2018
Smile Be thankful Resist the pressure to own things Be good to yourself, but no more than necessary Be a friend Reflect; don’t regret Fail, learn, repeat Stop. Think. Speak Exercise your mind, your body, and your soul Work hard Be true Respect others Value life Give openly Love...
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An Open Letter about Golden 2022-06-15 Update I wrote this document the first time in a very small number of minutes, three...
24th May 2022
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An Open Letter about Golden

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

24th May 2022
2022-06-15 Update I wrote this document the first time in a very small number of minutes, three weeks ago, on my way out the door on a particularly busy day. I follow “write it now”. I’ve gotten to discuss this letter with a few different people, because I mentioned it in email....
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Kishore Mahbubani: Has the West Lost It? Can Asia Save It? In Kishore Mahbubani’s view, global power is shifting from the West to the Rest—from Europe and...
1st May 2018
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Kishore Mahbubani: Has the West Lost It? Can Asia Save It?

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

1st May 2018
In Kishore Mahbubani’s view, global power is shifting from the West to the Rest—from Europe and North America to Asia and Africa. He argues that changes will be required both in the West and the Rest to manage the shift gracefully for long-term stability. The rest of the world...
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Fun, Fellowship, and Fractures On the downside of activity-based friendships
23rd Jun 2024
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Fun, Fellowship, and Fractures

from Passing Time [alt+shift+b] in life

23rd Jun 2024
On the downside of activity-based friendships
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St. Mary’s (and Calvert), Maryland County counting becomes increasingly difficult as I continue my glacially slow progress. Now it...
18th Nov 2023
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St. Mary’s (and Calvert), Maryland

from Twelve Mile Circle – An Appreciation of Unusual Places [alt+shift+b] in cartography

18th Nov 2023
County counting becomes increasingly difficult as I continue my glacially slow progress. Now it takes more than five hours to reach the closest unvisited county from my home. Fortunately I found a workaround by shifting my focus to overnight county visits. There are plenty of...
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Happy New Year: Settlers of Catan in SQL One of the best New Year presents I've ever got was a copy of the German-style board game, The...
31st Dec 2017
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Happy New Year: Settlers of Catan in SQL

from EXPLAIN EXTENDED [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Dec 2017
One of the best New Year presents I've ever got was a copy of the German-style board game, The Settlers of Catan. This game has brought me and my friends many an hour of good entertainment. The game is played on a hexagon field with 19 hexagon tiles (3 + 4 + 5 + 4 […] The post...
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Colorful Spectrum Analyzer
11th Sep 2009
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Colorful Spectrum Analyzer

from Matt Keeter [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Sep 2009
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the reality that exists in me I just had my period, so I am feeling a little more fatigued than usual. Every month around this...
3rd Nov 2024
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the reality that exists in me

from Winnie Lim [alt+shift+b] in life

3rd Nov 2024
I just had my period, so I am feeling a little more fatigued than usual. Every month around this time I tend to wonder why the body finds it so difficult to...
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#26 HTMHell special: tasty buttons The second HTMHell special focuses on another highly controversial pattern in front-end...
25th Oct 2021
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#26 HTMHell special: tasty buttons

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Oct 2021
The second HTMHell special focuses on another highly controversial pattern in front-end development: 🔥 the burger button. 🔥 The burger button and his tasty friends (kebab, meatball and bento) usually reveal a list of links when activated. According to our studies, these buttons...
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Films + Books, Q1 2023 What I watched and read
6th May 2023
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Films + Books, Q1 2023

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

6th May 2023
What I watched and read
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A fresh new start: Investing in myself towards financial freedom and sharing my personal and... <p> <i>This is the first of many updates in the <a...
1st Sep 2022
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A fresh new start: Investing in myself towards financial freedom and sharing my personal and business finances publicly!

from Val Sopi [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

1st Sep 2022
<p> <i>This is the first of many updates in the <a href="https://valsopi.com/financial-freedom">Financial Freedom</a> series, where I hold&nbsp;myself publicly accountable for my big challenge ahead!</i> </p> <p> <i><b>TLDR:</b>&nbsp;Towards the end of this article,...
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The film had killed me On the morning of 27th August 1945, shooting commenced on La Belle et la Bête, a French-language...
1st Jun 2023
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The film had killed me

from Diaries of Note [alt+shift+b] in life

1st Jun 2023
On the morning of 27th August 1945, shooting commenced on La Belle et la Bête, a French-language adaptation of the 1757 fairy tale Beauty and the Beast. Directing this grand endeavour in his 57th year was poet and artist Jean Cocteau, a multi-talented creative force known for his...
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Builder.ai did not “fake AI with 700 engineers” The claim that the AI startup “faked AI” with hundreds of engineers went viral – and I also fell for...
12th Jun 2025
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Builder.ai did not “fake AI with 700 engineers”

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

12th Jun 2025
The claim that the AI startup “faked AI” with hundreds of engineers went viral – and I also fell for it, initially. The reality is much more sobering: Builder.ai built a code generator on top of Claude and other LLMs; it did not build a so-called “Mechanical Turk.”
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Collections: Why Archers Didn’t Volley Fire This week we’re looking at a specific visual motif common in TV and film: the arrow volley. You know...
2nd May 2025
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Collections: Why Archers Didn’t Volley Fire

from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry [alt+shift+b] in history

2nd May 2025
This week we’re looking at a specific visual motif common in TV and film: the arrow volley. You know the scene: the general readies his archers, he orders them to ‘draw!’ and then holds up his hand with that ‘wait for it’ gesture and then shouts ‘loose!’ (or worse yet, ‘fire!’)...
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Efforts and Goals and Joy There was joy in concentration, and the world afforded an inexhaustible wealth of projects to...
31st Dec 2023
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Efforts and Goals and Joy

from The Map is Mostly Water [alt+shift+b] in life

31st Dec 2023
There was joy in concentration, and the world afforded an inexhaustible wealth of projects to concentrate on. There was joy in effort, and the world resisted effort to just the right degree, and yielded to it at last. People cut Mount Rushmore into faces; they chipped here and...
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What I Want to Do in Apple Vision Pro Still frame from Hello! by Goro Fujita, created in VR using Quill Today’s the day to pre-order Apple...
19th Jan 2024
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What I Want to Do in Apple Vision Pro

from Prolost [alt+shift+b] in creative

19th Jan 2024
Still frame from Hello! by Goro Fujita, created in VR using Quill Today’s the day to pre-order Apple Vision Pro, Apple’s first “spatial computing” device. It’s an expensive VR headset that either represents an opportunity to beta-test the future, or double down on past failings...
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Copying is the way design works CC-BY SA 4.0 (more on that in a bit). You can download, copy, remix, excerpt, ...
28th Oct 2020
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Copying is the way design works

from The personal website of Matt Ström-Awn [alt+shift+b] in design

28th Oct 2020
CC-BY SA 4.0 (more on that in a bit). You can download, copy, remix, excerpt, change, and repost it however you see fit. I Charles Eames said it best: “We don’t do ‘art’ — we solve problems.”1 2 They...
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Interaction20 Round-up Summary of all the amazing, curious and challenging ideas from last week's IXDA Interaction 20...
13th Feb 2020
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Interaction20 Round-up

from Interaction Magic - George Cave [alt+shift+b] in science

13th Feb 2020
Summary of all the amazing, curious and challenging ideas from last week's IXDA Interaction 20 conference.
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Buffett Completes Succession Plan Warren Buffett has completed Berkshire's succession plan as he steps down as Chairman.
18th Sep 2026
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Buffett Completes Succession Plan

from The Rational Walk [alt+shift+b] in finance

18th Sep 2026
Warren Buffett has completed Berkshire's succession plan as he steps down as Chairman.
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Jenny Ming An intimate interview with the co-founder and first President of Old Navy, Jenny Ming.
1st Jul 2025
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Jenny Ming

from Hyphen Nation [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Jul 2025
An intimate interview with the co-founder and first President of Old Navy, Jenny Ming.
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Testing MacOS on the Apple Network Server 2.0 ROMs It's time for another save point in the continuing saga of the various ROMs for the Apple Network...
3rd May 2026
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Testing MacOS on the Apple Network Server 2.0 ROMs

from Old Vintage Computing Research [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd May 2026
It's time for another save point in the continuing saga of the various ROMs for the Apple Network Server, Apple's first through-and-through Unix server (previously, previously). The Apple Network Server was only ever officially able to boot AIX, IBM's proprietary Power...
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How - and Why - To Read... ...in a World That's Giving Up On It
4th Jan 2025
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How - and Why - To Read...

from The Ruffian [alt+shift+b] in life

4th Jan 2025
...in a World That's Giving Up On It
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The Metagame of Applying Machine Learning How to go from knowing machine learning to applying it at work to drive impact.
2nd May 2021
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The Metagame of Applying Machine Learning

from Eugene Yan [alt+shift+b] in AI

2nd May 2021
How to go from knowing machine learning to applying it at work to drive impact.
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AI’s metrics question With every platform shift, we want to measure the growth but we’re confused about what to measure....
9th Jun 2025
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AI’s metrics question

from Essays - Benedict Evans [alt+shift+b] in startups

9th Jun 2025
With every platform shift, we want to measure the growth but we’re confused about what to measure. That’s partly a problem of data and definitions, but it’s really a question about what this is going to be.
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Fraud Investigation is Believing Your Lying Eyes The financial industry has paid tens of billions of dollars in tuition on fraud detection. Here are...
6th Feb 2026
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Fraud Investigation is Believing Your Lying Eyes

from Bits about Money [alt+shift+b] in finance

6th Feb 2026
The financial industry has paid tens of billions of dollars in tuition on fraud detection. Here are some observations for investigators with badges, press cards, or GoPros.
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Protest Laws Should Be Viewed As Efforts To Ban Criticism Of Israel Reading by Tim Foley:
1st May 2026
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Protest Laws Should Be Viewed As Efforts To Ban Criticism Of Israel

from Caitlin’s Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st May 2026
Reading by Tim Foley:
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Human-First Interaction (in a Machine-Driven World) As artificial intelligence (AI) agents increasingly mediate our digital experiences, the role of...
10th Jan 2025
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Human-First Interaction (in a Machine-Driven World)

from Christopher Butler [alt+shift+b] in design

10th Jan 2025
As artificial intelligence (AI) agents increasingly mediate our digital experiences, the role of human interaction with information is evolving. Machines are becoming our primary intermediaries for searching, synthesizing, and summarizing information, often performing these tasks...
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Play YouTube video from firefox on mpv YouTube on Firefox skips frames and neither Google nor Firefox seem to have the incentive to fix it,...
13th Aug 2024
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Play YouTube video from firefox on mpv

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

13th Aug 2024
YouTube on Firefox skips frames and neither Google nor Firefox seem to have the incentive to fix it, let's do it ourselves. When this is done, we can watch YouTube videos in the browser with smooth playback using mpv as the video player backend. Note: This guide is for Linux...
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Camille, Borough Market Some restaurants just make it look so easy, don't they? The menu at Camille is so enticing, with...
7th Oct 2024
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Camille, Borough Market

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

7th Oct 2024
Some restaurants just make it look so easy, don't they? The menu at Camille is so enticing, with unusual eye-catching ingredients prepared in exciting and distinctive ways, that it's almost enough to spoil any other dining experience by default, and it makes you wonder if they...
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I Hereby Disqualify Myself from the Olympic Pizza Luge Team A Very Special Mailbag
5th Jul 2022
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I Hereby Disqualify Myself from the Olympic Pizza Luge Team

from Haterade [alt+shift+b] in creative

5th Jul 2022
A Very Special Mailbag
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Traction Heroes Ep. 33: Perceptions Here’s a tricky situation: you start reading someone through a negative lens, which changes how you...
6th Apr 2026
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Traction Heroes Ep. 33: Perceptions

from Jorge Arango [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th Apr 2026
Here’s a tricky situation: you start reading someone through a negative lens, which changes how you interact with them. They respond in kind, which seems to confirm your negative views. Cue vicious cycle. In any situation, you are both observer and participant, whether you...
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What the Internet Was Like in 2002 KaZaA, one of many P2P file sharing services in 2002. In June 2002, Pew Research Center released a...
2nd Dec 2025
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What the Internet Was Like in 2002

from Cybercultural: Internet History [alt+shift+b] in history

2nd Dec 2025
KaZaA, one of many P2P file sharing services in 2002. In June 2002, Pew Research Center released a report on broadband uptake. It stated that 21% of all Internet users in America — 24 million adults — now had broadband in the home, up from just 6% two years ago. Of course,...
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Telling the Essential Stories of Everyday Places A talk with Gabrielle Bendiner-Viana, author of The Cities We Need.
3rd Dec 2024
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Telling the Essential Stories of Everyday Places

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

3rd Dec 2024
A talk with Gabrielle Bendiner-Viana, author of The Cities We Need.
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Press release: Is this the ugliest building in America? Architects and Urbanists Unveil 2025’s ‘Ugliest Buildings in America’ Ignominious winners to be...
11th Apr 2025
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Press release: Is this the ugliest building in America?

from THE ARCHITECTURAL UPRISING [alt+shift+b] in architecture

11th Apr 2025
Architects and Urbanists Unveil 2025’s ‘Ugliest Buildings in America’ Ignominious winners to be ‘dishonored’ at the International ‘Aesthetic Atrocity’ Awards this May (New York, NY) An international panel of architects and urbanists has determined that Simmons Hall at MIT is...
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Fetching remote web pages with curl and PHP This is a very brief example of how to use PHP's curl Library to retrieve the source of a remote...
8th Apr 2008
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Fetching remote web pages with curl and PHP

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

8th Apr 2008
This is a very brief example of how to use PHP's curl Library to retrieve the source of a remote webpage. $c = curl_init(); curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com/"); curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); $data =...
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Design explained using pie charts again Design is hard. If only the process could be explained using simple pie charts again. Unfortunately,...
1st Apr 2024
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Design explained using pie charts again

from Coffee with an Architect [alt+shift+b] in architecture

1st Apr 2024
Design is hard. If only the process could be explained using simple pie charts again. Unfortunately, this still isn’t that: More Design in charts – HERE, and HERE and HERE and HERE
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How researchers reversed polarization on X with a simple change to the algorithm A new study offers evidence for what we’ve long suspected: rage bait is distorting our politics....
2nd Dec 2025
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How researchers reversed polarization on X with a simple change to the algorithm

from Platformer [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Dec 2025
A new study offers evidence for what we’ve long suspected: rage bait is distorting our politics. PLUS: The David Sacks discourse, and Claude Opus 4.5 debuts
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eBPF Documentary eBPF is a crazy technology – like putting JavaScript into the Linux kernel – and getting it...
9th Mar 2024
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eBPF Documentary

from Brendan Gregg's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Mar 2024
eBPF is a crazy technology – like putting JavaScript into the Linux kernel – and getting it accepted had so far been an untold story of strategy and ingenuity. The eBPF documentary, published late last year, tells this story by interviewing key players from 2014 including...
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Build-Measure-Learn is a Dangerous Idea Tonight I had a chance to talk with one of my personal heroes,...
6th Apr 2012
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Build-Measure-Learn is a Dangerous Idea

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Apr 2012
Tonight I had a chance to talk with one of my personal heroes, [Eric Ries](http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/). While talking to him, I realized one of the pitfalls of [the...
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Weeks 22-25: It’s A Growth Hacker’s Paradise Growing and monetizing the email list is what these weeks were all about. Plus, things I would do...
31st Mar 2023
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Weeks 22-25: It’s A Growth Hacker’s Paradise

from Scott DeLong [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

31st Mar 2023
Growing and monetizing the email list is what these weeks were all about. Plus, things I would do differently. The post Weeks 22-25: It’s A Growth Hacker’s Paradise appeared first on Scott DeLong.
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I finally found an use case for my Raspberry Pi Model B+ You have probably heard about the Raspberry Pi. It’s a nice little affordable single-board computer...
1st Nov 2022
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I finally found an use case for my Raspberry Pi Model B+

from ./techtipsy [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Nov 2022
You have probably heard about the Raspberry Pi. It’s a nice little affordable single-board computer with a huge community using it for all sorts of projects. I got my first Raspberry Pi, the Model B+, during my first year at university, which was around the winter of...
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A random man walks into my office and asks if I'm single... It's almost a joke now, how I expect comments from men on my videos for work. When I go to check the...
14th Nov 2021
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A random man walks into my office and asks if I'm single...

from The Web Witch's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Nov 2021
It's almost a joke now, how I expect comments from men on my videos for work. When I go to check the comments, because I genuinely care about feedback or asks from developers, my heart sinks and my stomach drops when I see comments about my appearance or inquiries about my...
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Make things with your hands let this season of slowness return you home to yourself
8th Dec 2025
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Make things with your hands

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

8th Dec 2025
let this season of slowness return you home to yourself
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Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse I have never been an "online community first" person. The internet is how I stay in touch with...
6th Mar 2026
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Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse

from matduggan.com [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th Mar 2026
I have never been an "online community first" person. The internet is how I stay in touch with people I met in real life. I'm not a "tweet comments at celebrities" guy. I was never funny enough to be the funniest person on Twitter.
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The Coffee Barista's Maps Aside from maps, I would say my next biggest obsession is coffee. For the last couple of months, my...
1st Sep 2026
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The Coffee Barista's Maps

from Maps Mania [alt+shift+b] in cartography

1st Sep 2026
Aside from maps, I would say my next biggest obsession is coffee. For the last couple of months, my favourite bean, Finca La Bolsa, has been out of season and unavailable from my local roasters. I've therefore been using the opportunity to experiment with beans from different...
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Alain Biltereyst: Traces of Abstraction in the Urban Environment Contemporary Belgian artist Alain Biltereyst works on abstract paintings characterized by bold...
4th Feb 2024
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Alain Biltereyst: Traces of Abstraction in the Urban Environment

from SOCKS [alt+shift+b] in architecture

4th Feb 2024
Contemporary Belgian artist Alain Biltereyst works on abstract paintings characterized by bold patterns and colors. Most of the time, the shapes he depicts are not purely the result of chosen arrangements but act as a sort of “found art”: they are extracted from existing signs,...
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Single Mum By Default Laetitia@Work #45
9th Dec 2021
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Single Mum By Default

from Laetitia@Work [alt+shift+b] in life

9th Dec 2021
Laetitia@Work #45
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One year of cycling One year ago I started recording all my bike rides, including commutes, short grocery trips and long...
30th Dec 2016
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One year of cycling

from Willem L. Middelkoop [alt+shift+b] in technology

30th Dec 2016
One year ago I started recording all my bike rides, including commutes, short grocery trips and long Gran Fondos. I equipped my bicycles with Garmin Edge computers that recorded location (GPS), speed, cadence and my heart rate. I covered more than 7683 kilometers during 320 hours...
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No Man’s Starfield This is a shader I made that renders a flight through a starfield. It’s meant to look like the...
18th Sep 2016
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No Man’s Starfield

from Marian's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

18th Sep 2016
This is a shader I made that renders a flight through a starfield. It’s meant to look like the galactic map that you can see in No Man’s Sky. Here is a link to the project on shadertoy: No Man’s Starfield The cool thing about this is that it runs inside a shader. A shader is a...
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head on the cloud, feet on the ground A conversation with Sari Azout of Sublime
17th Jul 2025
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head on the cloud, feet on the ground

from Product Identity [alt+shift+b] in design

17th Jul 2025
A conversation with Sari Azout of Sublime
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Urban design: Why architects should look beyond property lines This post is brought to you by Sam Fox School at Washington University in St. Louis Linda C....
a week ago
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Urban design: Why architects should look beyond property lines

from Archinect [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a week ago
This post is brought to you by Sam Fox School at Washington University in St. Louis Linda C. Samuels, an architecture and urban design professor at Washington University in St. Louis and author of “Infrastructural Optimism,” shares the impact an urban design perspective can have...
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Anatomy of a Market Crisis: Tariffs, Markets and the Economy! I was boarding a plane for a trip to Latin America late in the evening last Wednesday (April 2), and...
7th Apr 2025
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Anatomy of a Market Crisis: Tariffs, Markets and the Economy!

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

7th Apr 2025
I was boarding a plane for a trip to Latin America late in the evening last Wednesday (April 2), and as is my practice, I was checking the score on the Yankee game, when I read the tariff news announcement. Coming after a few days where the market seemed to have found its...
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What happens when things go wrong The rise of the startup economy – and the abundance of millennial entrepreneurial wisdom it has...
6th May 2014
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What happens when things go wrong

from The personal website of Matthew Ström [alt+shift+b] in design

6th May 2014
The rise of the startup economy – and the abundance of millennial entrepreneurial wisdom it has produced – means you can hardly go a day without seeing Samuel Becket’s words writ large: “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” In celebrating...
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One Definition of Wisdom Charlie Munger’s biggest business mistake, and what it tells us about wisdom.
14th Feb 2024
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One Definition of Wisdom

from Commoncog [alt+shift+b] in finance

14th Feb 2024
Charlie Munger’s biggest business mistake, and what it tells us about wisdom.
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How the 'Diamond of the Plant World' Helped Land Plants Evolve Structural studies of the robust material called sporopollenin reveal how it made plants hardy...
9th Nov 2022
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How the 'Diamond of the Plant World' Helped Land Plants Evolve

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

9th Nov 2022
Structural studies of the robust material called sporopollenin reveal how it made plants hardy enough to reproduce on dry land. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Redwood Trail” by Audionautix.
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OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why? What is “the true cost of a token”?
2 weeks ago
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OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?

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

2 weeks ago
What is “the true cost of a token”?
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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...
2nd Oct 2023
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Why thousands of Chinese young people use a pink dinosaur as their alias

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

2nd Oct 2023
Users adopt the alias “momo” as a way to speak more freely, evade harassment and protect personal privacy on Douban and Xiaohongshu.
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Mapping the Return of Wolves in Europe As I was preparing to resume posting on GeoCurrents after a short hiatus, I decided to examine...
13th Jul 2025
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Mapping the Return of Wolves in Europe

from GeoCurrents [alt+shift+b] in cartography

13th Jul 2025
As I was preparing to resume posting on GeoCurrents after a short hiatus, I decided to examine recent posts on the fascinating but unfortunately named Reddit site called “MapPorn.” As always, I was struck by many contributions, but what really caught my eye was a five-map...
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Indices point between elements If you’re familiar with nearly any mainstream programming language, and I asked you to draw a...
17th Jul 2015
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Indices point between elements

from Posts on Made of Bugs [alt+shift+b] in technology

17th Jul 2015
If you’re familiar with nearly any mainstream programming language, and I asked you to draw a diagram of an array, the array indices, and the array elements, odds are good you’d produce a diagram something like this: In this post, I want to persuade you to replace that image, or,...
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George P. Shultz: Perspective Perspective? No one has a longer or better-informed view of world affairs and America's role than...
2nd Aug 2018
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George P. Shultz: Perspective

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

2nd Aug 2018
Perspective? No one has a longer or better-informed view of world affairs and America's role than George Shultz, now 97. (Henry Kissinger is only 95.) Secretary Shultz was a US Marine Captain in World War II. After becoming an economics professor at MIT and the University of...
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Ramblin’ Rod Long ago, I was in the studio audience of a local PDX TV kids show called Ramblin’ Rod. “Local kids...
12th Jun 2025
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Ramblin’ Rod

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

12th Jun 2025
Long ago, I was in the studio audience of a local PDX TV kids show called Ramblin’ Rod. “Local kids show” is a format that is completely lost to time, which is pretty wild, because it was such a thing. Think Krusty the Clown — kids sitting in a studio, a goofball host, time...
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A Nice (Almost Total) Eclipse of the Moon Aug. 27 How to get information about viewing the eclipse of the Moon Aug. 27 The post A Nice (Almost Total)...
22nd Aug 2026
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A Nice (Almost Total) Eclipse of the Moon Aug. 27

from Andrew Fraknoi – Astronomy Lectures – Astronomy Education Resources [alt+shift+b] in science

22nd Aug 2026
How to get information about viewing the eclipse of the Moon Aug. 27 The post A Nice (Almost Total) Eclipse of the Moon Aug. 27 appeared first on Andrew Fraknoi - Astronomy Lectures - Astronomy Education Resources.
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A Walkthrough of *that* React Suspense Demo Annotated commentary on the code behind the Movie search demo featuring React Suspense
2nd Mar 2018
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A Walkthrough of *that* React Suspense Demo

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

2nd Mar 2018
Annotated commentary on the code behind the Movie search demo featuring React Suspense
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Speeding up Go's builtin JSON encoder up to 55% for large arrays of objects This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
3rd Mar 2022
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Speeding up Go's builtin JSON encoder up to 55% for large arrays of objects

from Notes on software development [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Mar 2022
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How Value-Based Care Contracting Works with Accorded | Out-Of-Pocket With calculators and contracts you can see yourself
19th Sep 2023
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How Value-Based Care Contracting Works with Accorded | Out-Of-Pocket

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

19th Sep 2023
With calculators and contracts you can see yourself
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This Library Is Almost Entirely Built Into The Land Around It Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP has recently completed a new library in Kisarazu, Japan, that has been built...
18th Dec 2023
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This Library Is Almost Entirely Built Into The Land Around It

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

18th Dec 2023
Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP has recently completed a new library in Kisarazu, Japan, that has been built into the earth.
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Preview Ebitengine shaders with Luluka Lately, I’ve been experimenting with building games in Ebitengine. It’s a 2D engine that lets you...
15th May 2026
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Preview Ebitengine shaders with Luluka

from Alice GG [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th May 2026
Lately, I’ve been experimenting with building games in Ebitengine. It’s a 2D engine that lets you create games using the Go programming language. To be able to iterate faster on visual effects, I have created a tool that lets me preview shaders: Luluka. Kage Shaders For those who...
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Hospitalised with MCADD This week our son was hospitalised because a regular illness caused him to keep vomiting, a...
3rd May 2021
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Hospitalised with MCADD

from Willem's Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd May 2021
This week our son was hospitalised because a regular illness caused him to keep vomiting, a dangerous situation if you're diagnosed with MCADD.
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Breaking GPT-5 news To my amazement, I just came back from a trip to Europe only to find an invite to a private GPT-5...
1st Apr 2025
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Breaking GPT-5 news

from Marcus on AI [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Apr 2025
To my amazement, I just came back from a trip to Europe only to find an invite to a private GPT-5 demo, and I tried it.
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1st Sept 2026: An Increase in Membership Prices Commoncog is increasing membership prices on 1st September 2026. If you’d like to lock in the old...
11th Aug 2026
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1st Sept 2026: An Increase in Membership Prices

from Commoncog [alt+shift+b] in finance

11th Aug 2026
Commoncog is increasing membership prices on 1st September 2026. If you’d like to lock in the old prices, you should probably sign up before then.
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Guide to Running While Female in Phoenix Described as a “an absurd guide to the regular wish-it-wasn’t-so paranoia of running as a woman in...
2nd Sep 2026
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Guide to Running While Female in Phoenix

from Map of the Week [alt+shift+b] in cartography

2nd Sep 2026
Described as a “an absurd guide to the regular wish-it-wasn’t-so paranoia of running as a woman in the city“, the Guide to Running While Female in Central Phoenix shows what to look out for along running routes in central Phoenix. This map is produced by Steady Hand Maps. Jen...
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Generating 3D roof meshes from aerial LIDAR data This is my graduation project I did in computer science. The goal was to come up with a method to...
2nd Jan 2018
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Generating 3D roof meshes from aerial LIDAR data

from Marian's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

2nd Jan 2018
This is my graduation project I did in computer science. The goal was to come up with a method to generate 3D meshes of building roofs from point cloud data. The point cloud data was taken with aerial LIDAR scanners and is available online. In addition, I used building layout...
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How 1983 Changed the Shape of the Walkman The year Sony began breaking the Walkman into smaller, stranger, and more personal forms.
7th Apr 2026
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How 1983 Changed the Shape of the Walkman

from Obsolete Sony’s Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in history

7th Apr 2026
The year Sony began breaking the Walkman into smaller, stranger, and more personal forms.
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Architects vs. the Public: A Surprising Study Sheds Light on Aesthetic Preferences Do architects have a different taste in buildings compared to the rest of us? A recent Swedish study...
9th Sep 2023
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Architects vs. the Public: A Surprising Study Sheds Light on Aesthetic Preferences

from THE ARCHITECTURAL UPRISING [alt+shift+b] in architecture

9th Sep 2023
Do architects have a different taste in buildings compared to the rest of us? A recent Swedish study delves into this question, and the findings are intriguing. In the study “Green City Branding – How People Respond to the Built Environment“, people were asked to rate five...
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The Kingdom Hmmmmm.
6th Jul 2021
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The Kingdom

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

6th Jul 2021
Hmmmmm.
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The Subprime AI Crisis None of what I write in this newsletter is about sowing doubt or "hating," but a sober evaluation of...
16th Sep 2024
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The Subprime AI Crisis

from Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At [alt+shift+b] in startups

16th Sep 2024
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
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2024 wrapped This year’s review is going to be shorter than 2023 (and previous years) because I’m in Goa right...
31st Dec 2024
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2024 wrapped

from Inverted Passion [alt+shift+b] in science

31st Dec 2024
This year’s review is going to be shorter than 2023 (and previous years) because I’m in Goa right now for a holiday and I don’t feel like being in front of a screen for long. I mean, just look at this view and tell me that you’d rather be in front of a screen writing… Read...
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7 Lessons Every Blogger About to Quit Should Know As someone who has been blogging for 10 years, I find most articles designed to encourage people to...
11th Mar 2020
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7 Lessons Every Blogger About to Quit Should Know

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

11th Mar 2020
As someone who has been blogging for 10 years, I find most articles designed to encourage people to start blogging infuriating. They paint blogging as this wonderful activity that will free you from your 9 to 5 job and solve all your problems. They show you pictures of happy...
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Not Everything Can Be Feature Detected In the early days of Web browsers, it was extremely common to see user agent checks in JavaScript....
15th Aug 2022
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Not Everything Can Be Feature Detected

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

15th Aug 2022
In the early days of Web browsers, it was extremely common to see user agent checks in JavaScript. Sometimes, you'd write the same code in two or three different ways to support various browsers. Code such as that shown below allowed webpages to work in browsers like Netscape...
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How Estonia, AI gardens, and plywood make designers prolific Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
3rd Nov 2025
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How Estonia, AI gardens, and plywood make designers prolific

from UX Collective [alt+shift+b] in design

3rd Nov 2025
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
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The Soul of the Heart Nebula A spectacular emission Nebula, the Heart Nebula is one of the classics of Northern Hemisphere...
5th Nov 2022
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The Soul of the Heart Nebula

from Light from Space [alt+shift+b] in science

5th Nov 2022
A spectacular emission Nebula, the Heart Nebula is one of the classics of Northern Hemisphere amateury astronomy. In the gallery below, I've highlighted 3 very different areas of the image: Left: Planetary Nebula WeBo-1 Middle: Melotte 15 in the... heart of the Heart...
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Every country ranked from best to worst A report card for the whole world.
2nd Sep 2025
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Every country ranked from best to worst

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

2nd Sep 2025
A report card for the whole world.
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YOUR ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO SHOPPING ANTIQUES Whether you’re a collector or a new devotee, there’s a renewed energy in the industry and an...
8th Aug 2023
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YOUR ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO SHOPPING ANTIQUES

from Melissa Penfold [alt+shift+b] in design

8th Aug 2023
Whether you’re a collector or a new devotee, there’s a renewed energy in the industry and an explosion of interest as online auction shopping gives all the convenience of mass-produced decor without the environmental impact. The benefits of decorating with antiques are almost...
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How to Blow Up a Timeline NOTE: I’d been working on this piece on and off for a few weeks while trying to move to NYC and...
7th Jul 2023
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How to Blow Up a Timeline

from Remains of the Day [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Jul 2023
NOTE: I’d been working on this piece on and off for a few weeks while trying to move to NYC and settle into my new apartment, and just as I was about to publish it, Elon rate-limited Twitter and so, sensing a moment of weakness, Meta pulled up its launch date for Threads to...
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Autistic traits, science and the nerd stereotype There is a stereotype of scientists and engineers being aloof and exhibiting autistic traits. Recent...
4th Feb 2016
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Autistic traits, science and the nerd stereotype

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

4th Feb 2016
There is a stereotype of scientists and engineers being aloof and exhibiting autistic traits. Recent research shows that STEM students are indeed more autistic than the general population.
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Power, democracy, and clarity What does the end of the Voting Rights Act mean?
1st May 2026
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Power, democracy, and clarity

from Can We Still Govern? [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st May 2026
What does the end of the Voting Rights Act mean?
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How can objects interact without touching?  Rethinking the electric field Have you ever wondered what an electric field actually is?  The...
6th Sep 2026
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How can objects interact without touching? 

from Quantum Frontiers [alt+shift+b] in science

6th Sep 2026
Rethinking the electric field Have you ever wondered what an electric field actually is?  The electric field is the foundation of most technologies that we rely on every day. From power grids and electronic devices to radio communication and the … Continue reading →
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The Boot.dev Beat. April 2025 The Lord of the Mire has been the hardest boss yet (by far), weighing it with 150,000,000 HP. The...
27th Apr 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. April 2025

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

27th Apr 2025
The Lord of the Mire has been the hardest boss yet (by far), weighing it with 150,000,000 HP. The community rallied during the event, dealing a whopping 132,282,452 damage in total, but not quite enough to bring him down.
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The Pattern Recognition Machine At some point our work inevitably makes contact with people who won’t be able to match your work...
4th Sep 2016
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The Pattern Recognition Machine

from Adrian Hanft, III: RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in life

4th Sep 2016
At some point our work inevitably makes contact with people who won’t be able to match your work with their mental patterns. Pattern recognition is convenient when we are stocking the shelves but it can be stifling when we interact with concepts that want to change us.
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Belated transport news Belated transport news I missed reporting on several transport stories while I was away so here's a...
1st Sep 2026
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Belated transport news

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

1st Sep 2026
Belated transport news I missed reporting on several transport stories while I was away so here's a brief catch-up. 🚦 This Saturday the gyratory at St Paul's is being tweaked. The southern end of King Edward Street is being pedestrianised (to create Greyfriars Square) so...
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Words and Buttons Online: current hiatus and future plans Hello! I’m Oleksandr Kaleniuk. I do Words and Buttons Online. Just not too often lately. Last night...
2nd Jul 2026
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Words and Buttons Online: current hiatus and future plans

from Words and Buttons Online [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Jul 2026
Hello! I’m Oleksandr Kaleniuk. I do Words and Buttons Online. Just not too often lately. Last night reminded me that I probably owe my subscribers a “still alive” message. Literally still alive. So here it is. I’m still alive. As for the site, I haven’t written a new piece for...
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Webhooks and the programming page Use the Buttondown API to supercharge your newsletter
6th Jan 2021
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Webhooks and the programming page

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

6th Jan 2021
Use the Buttondown API to supercharge your newsletter
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Periodical – 1 This is a semi-daily check-in. Experimental; likely to not actually be daily. Regular and...
11th Nov 2023
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Periodical – 1

from Christopher Butler [alt+shift+b] in design

11th Nov 2023
This is a semi-daily check-in. Experimental; likely to not actually be daily. Regular and short. The kids are in the bath, listening to the Yoto Daily, which aptly describes itself as a “morsel.” The host offers stray thoughts, short learnings, words of the day, fascinating...
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Bruce Sterling: The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole One reason lots of people don't want to think long term these days is because technology keeps...
12th Jun 2004
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Bruce Sterling: The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole

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

12th Jun 2004
One reason lots of people don't want to think long term these days is because technology keeps accelerating so rapidly, we assume the world will become unrecognizable in a few years and then move on to unimaginable. Long-term thinking must be either impossible or irrelevant. The...
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How Video Podcasts Took Over Streaming: A Statistical Analysis The rise of video podcasts, quantified.
7th Jan 2026
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How Video Podcasts Took Over Streaming: A Statistical Analysis

from Stat Significant [alt+shift+b] in creative

7th Jan 2026
The rise of video podcasts, quantified.
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Trying the Software factory pattern. One of the interesting challenges of the AI ecosystem in 2026 is that new, effective patterns emerge...
20th Sep 2026
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Trying the Software factory pattern.

from Irrational Exuberance [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Sep 2026
One of the interesting challenges of the AI ecosystem in 2026 is that new, effective patterns emerge faster than I can adopt them. I’ll find a handful, get back to work, and realize a month later that I’d missed four or five more. The adoption cycle for Imprint this year has been...
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Uncensored Models I am publishing this because many people are asking me how I did it, so I will...
15th May 2023
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Uncensored Models

from Cognitive Computations [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th May 2023
I am publishing this because many people are asking me how I did it, so I will...
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A Horrifying User Experience After years of living in a cramped Tokyo apartment, I'm going to move to a slightly more spacious...
8th Oct 2012
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A Horrifying User Experience

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Oct 2012
After years of living in a cramped Tokyo apartment, I'm going to move to a slightly more spacious one. Finding an apartment went smoother than I could have imagined, and in half-a-day, I had found a new apartment. The following day I set out to take care of the tasks surrounding...
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Using WordPress is risky It’s been a couple of weeks since I last wrote about WordPress. Stuff’s been happening in the...
1st Nov 2024
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Using WordPress is risky

from anderegg.ca [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Nov 2024
It’s been a couple of weeks since I last wrote about WordPress. Stuff’s been happening in the background, but I’ve been trying to ignore it. This morning I read a story that bothered me enough to require another round of therapy-by-blog-post. First up, a couple of things that...
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learning to swim at 26 I learned how to swim at the age of 26. Or rather, I'm still learning. In my last lesson, I managed...
17th Jul 2026
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learning to swim at 26

from sibervepunk [alt+shift+b] in technology

17th Jul 2026
I learned how to swim at the age of 26. Or rather, I'm still learning. In my last lesson, I managed to swim 50 meters without using any support (and I didn't drown, lol). In the lesson before that, I got dizzy, my leg cramped three times, and I had swallowed half the pool. (you...
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Go and SQLite in the Cloud Why SQLite and Go in the cloud are a great match, getting started, best practices, and more.
4th Nov 2022
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Go and SQLite in the Cloud

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

4th Nov 2022
Why SQLite and Go in the cloud are a great match, getting started, best practices, and more.
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Add metadata to your RSS feeds Add metadata to your RSS feeds
1st Mar 2025
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Add metadata to your RSS feeds

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

1st Mar 2025
Add metadata to your RSS feeds
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The Limits Of Our World. And the prisons we make for ourselves.
5th Aug 2026
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The Limits Of Our World.

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

5th Aug 2026
And the prisons we make for ourselves.
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Awkward Zombie - Structural Corruption New comic! Today's News: INFRA is a game about being an engineer and doing the things that...
1st Sep 2025
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Awkward Zombie - Structural Corruption

from Awkward Zombie [alt+shift+b] in comics

1st Sep 2025
New comic! Today's News: INFRA is a game about being an engineer and doing the things that engineers do, such as saying "that doesn't look safe" and falling down elevator shafts. Come for the municipal intrigue; stay for the charming way the protagonist pronounces...
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Getting the base directory of an sbt project This is a command you can run in a shell script to print the base directory of an sbt project: $...
4th Dec 2022
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Getting the base directory of an sbt project

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Dec 2022
This is a command you can run in a shell script to print the base directory of an sbt project: $ sbt --batch -error "project $PROJECT" "print baseDirectory" | tr -d "\n" For example: $ sbt --batch -error "project ingests_api" "print baseDirectory" | tr -d...
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What is a B2B SaaS? How these software companies make money B2B SaaS is a software business which sells to business customers instead of ordinary consumers....
1st Jul 2025
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What is a B2B SaaS? How these software companies make money

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

1st Jul 2025
B2B SaaS is a software business which sells to business customers instead of ordinary consumers. SaaS is delivered over the internet so users do not have to download any software.
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Guys what is wrong with ACATS Ever transferred assets between brokerages? Impressive, terrifying machinations happened in the...
24th May 2024
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Guys what is wrong with ACATS

from Bits about Money [alt+shift+b] in finance

24th May 2024
Ever transferred assets between brokerages? Impressive, terrifying machinations happened in the background. No cats were harmed.
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Switching to variable fonts Ever since I first learned about variable fonts, I’ve wanted to use them in my own work. After...
3rd Mar 2019
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Switching to variable fonts

from The personal website of Matt Ström-Awn [alt+shift+b] in design

3rd Mar 2019
Ever since I first learned about variable fonts, I’ve wanted to use them in my own work. After learning that Source Serif and Inter both had variable versions, I started switching this site over to use them. Here’s how I implemented the change, and what I learned along the...
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Newsletters that regularly hit my inbox these days Full disclosure: I shamelessly stole this idea from Marc Thiele because I like it so much. Like...
14th Jul 2025
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Newsletters that regularly hit my inbox these days

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

14th Jul 2025
Full disclosure: I shamelessly stole this idea from Marc Thiele because I like it so much. Like Marc, I am also motivated by FOMO. Trying to stay on top of things in a fast-paced industry has been made difficult on account of social media fragmentation. RSS has its own place in...
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Running my ThinkPad T430 with an eGPU in 2024 I probably shouldn’t have written down my notes on the eGPU setup I had years ago. I’d be lying if I...
7th Aug 2024
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Running my ThinkPad T430 with an eGPU in 2024

from ./techtipsy [alt+shift+b] in technology

7th Aug 2024
I probably shouldn’t have written down my notes on the eGPU setup I had years ago. I’d be lying if I wasn’t considering remaking this setup with everything I’ve learned 6 years later. Oops. I got access to an allegedly-faulty AMD Radeon RX 480 and an NVIDIA GTX 1650 for free...
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Introduction
29th Apr 2018
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Introduction

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

29th Apr 2018
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'Syslog: the hidden security risk' People sometimes forget that there are also a number of UDP-based services that may pose a threat to...
18th Mar 2010
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'Syslog: the hidden security risk'

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

18th Mar 2010
People sometimes forget that there are also a number of UDP-based services that may pose a threat to the security of your systems. SNMP is a well-known service, notorious for being configured with a default password (or community string). But there is another service that is...
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Wes Cook and The McDonald’s Mural This post is about a found mural, a lost artist, and a conference talk. It’s the full story of Wes...
11th Feb 2026
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Wes Cook and The McDonald’s Mural

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

11th Feb 2026
This post is about a found mural, a lost artist, and a conference talk. It’s the full story of Wes Cook and The McDonald’s Mural. Grab a beverage, sit back, relax, and thank you for joining me. Ten years after giving my first talk at XOXO, Andy (Baio) and Andy (McMillan) asked if...
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On The Contrary: “Hook” Is A Great Film Hook, the absolutely star-studded film directed by Stephen Spielberg, has received mixed reviews...
7th Jan 2026
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On The Contrary: “Hook” Is A Great Film

from Open for Business [alt+shift+b] in technology

7th Jan 2026
Hook, the absolutely star-studded film directed by Stephen Spielberg, has received mixed reviews from critics since its release in 1991. I still can’t figure out why. One could have given the Academy Award for Best Actor to Dustin Hoffman, and Best Supporting Actor to Robin...
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The future of large files in Git is Git .title {text-wrap:balance;} #content > p:first-child {text-wrap:balance;} If Git had a nemesis, it’d...
15th Aug 2025
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The future of large files in Git is Git

from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Aug 2025
.title {text-wrap:balance;} #content > p:first-child {text-wrap:balance;} If Git had a nemesis, it’d be large files. Large files bloat Git’s storage, slow down git clone, and wreak havoc on Git forges. In 2015, GitHub released Git LFS—a Git extension that hacked around problems...
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Stablecoins are non-fungible, bank deposits are fungible On Twitter/X, I recently suggested that the network effects of the stablecoin market are massive....
14th Jan 2025
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Stablecoins are non-fungible, bank deposits are fungible

from Moneyness [alt+shift+b] in finance

14th Jan 2025
On Twitter/X, I recently suggested that the network effects of the stablecoin market are massive. Tether, which has four times more wallets than all other stablecoins, is locked-in as the stablecoin lingua franca, just like English has been locked-in as the global language of...
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My career and a thought experiment As is the case every year, 2025 is starting off relatively slowly. There’s not a lot of training...
19th Jan 2025
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My career and a thought experiment

from On Test Automation [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Jan 2025
As is the case every year, 2025 is starting off relatively slowly. There’s not a lot of training courses to run yet, and since a few of the projects I worked on wrapped up in December, I find myself with a little bit of extra time and headspace on my hands. I actually enjoy these...
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Data for Decisions Data is a powerful tool that can have an outsize impact on how we develop products and operate our...
1st Feb 2023
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Data for Decisions

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

1st Feb 2023
Data is a powerful tool that can have an outsize impact on how we develop products and operate our businesses. That said, the value of data is rarely the data itself but instead the insights we derive from it. In order to ensure these insights are meaningful and impactful it's...
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Heureka A “heureka” is a surprisingly powerful yet simple solution to a complex optimization problem, which...
20th Sep 2025
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Heureka

from Molson Hart's Blog - Molson Hart [alt+shift+b] in finance

20th Sep 2025
A “heureka” is a surprisingly powerful yet simple solution to a complex optimization problem, which is theoretically inferior to more complicated solutions, but is, in practice, optimal. Example: “I’m a 22 year old Phi Beta Kappa alumnus of University of Iowa and I have this idea...
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Consequentialism Consequentialism became the most popular approach to ethics following the Age of Enlightenment....
10th May 2020
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Consequentialism

from The personal website of Matthew Ström [alt+shift+b] in design

10th May 2020
Consequentialism became the most popular approach to ethics following the Age of Enlightenment. Writers in the late 18th and early 19th century saw how strict, rule-based, duty-bound theories of ethics resulted in contradictory and often destructive behavior. After Napoleon’s...
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When you put your brand's mascot on the enemy's platform Back in February 2024, Xbox held a short podcast where they reacted directly to swirling rumors...
28th Oct 2025
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When you put your brand's mascot on the enemy's platform

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

28th Oct 2025
Back in February 2024, Xbox held a short podcast where they reacted directly to swirling rumors about Xbox exclusive titles that were about to go multi-platform, which was giving Xbox fans anxiety. This question from host Tina Amini was right near the start: So when you are...
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what's happened since the human genome project When the human genome project was deemed “complete” in 2003, it was met with incredible fanfare. The...
17th May 2022
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what's happened since the human genome project

from Apoorva Srinivasan [alt+shift+b] in science

17th May 2022
When the human genome project was deemed “complete” in 2003, it was met with incredible fanfare. The entire project leading up to that moment had all the drama to keep its audience enthralled. Fierce rivalry between a public and private institution, multiple countries involved,...
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Big Dill The post Big Dill appeared first on Last Place Comics.
24th Jan 2026
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Big Dill

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

24th Jan 2026
The post Big Dill appeared first on Last Place Comics.
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[Renovated] NURBS is just an acronym NURBS stands for the non-uniform rational basis spline. There are three separate concepts. This...
14th Aug 2020
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[Renovated] NURBS is just an acronym

from Words and Buttons Online [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Aug 2020
NURBS stands for the non-uniform rational basis spline. There are three separate concepts. This guide walks you through these concepts one by one.
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It Looked Familiar: A Promotion From an indie comic called “Bit Torment” – not really my taste, but that’s just an opinion – a view...
1st Aug 2026
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It Looked Familiar: A Promotion

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

1st Aug 2026
From an indie comic called “Bit Torment” – not really my taste, but that’s just an opinion – a view of the Regency Spire, which houses the World Parliament: From Carol Highsmith, a view of the south facade of the Empire State Building:
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AI automatically preps a bottle when the baby cries Bottle prepping machines make life just a little bit less hectic for overwhelmed parents, but they...
2nd Jan 2026
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AI automatically preps a bottle when the baby cries

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

2nd Jan 2026
Bottle prepping machines make life just a little bit less hectic for overwhelmed parents, but they do still need to be started and that is easier said than done when you’ve got a wailing baby in your arms. That’s why Manivannan created this edge AI-powered system that...
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From Mac to Windows From Mac to Windows
12th Aug 2020
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From Mac to Windows

from A Day In The Life Of... [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Aug 2020
From Mac to Windows
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Install Mcrypt PHP Extension on OSX Yosemite After updating Statamic to 1.10.2, I started getting Mcrypt errors. After some Googling, I found...
29th Jan 2015
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Install Mcrypt PHP Extension on OSX Yosemite

from Daniel Marino [alt+shift+b] in programming

29th Jan 2015
After updating Statamic to 1.10.2, I started getting Mcrypt errors. After some Googling, I found some complicated fixes. After some noodling around, here’s a simple way to fix it with Homebrew: First, figure out which version of PHP you’re running. You can do this by opening up...
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Maths is Fun and Useful but Lasers Are More So Way back when, I made a cool but basic paper sculpture (in Maths is Fun and Useful) by hand, using a...
11th Aug 2017
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Maths is Fun and Useful but Lasers Are More So

from axio.ms [alt+shift+b] in technology

11th Aug 2017
Way back when, I made a cool but basic paper sculpture (in Maths is Fun and Useful) by hand, using a perl script for the shape template. For cultural reasons, I wanted to make a gift out of paper and it had to be Heaps Good. I had finally got access to a laser cutter (omgomg)...
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It’s Only When You Look Back I remember talking to my Grandfather shortly before he passed away about the changes he’d seen in...
17th Jun 2026
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It’s Only When You Look Back

from markround.com [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Jun 2026
I remember talking to my Grandfather shortly before he passed away about the changes he’d seen in his lifetime. Born in 1911, the thing he said that really stuck with me was that when he was a child people were barely puttering around off the ground in aeroplanes; A few years...
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The Era Of The Business Idiot Fair warning: this is the longest thing I've written on this newsletter. I do apologize. Soundtrack:...
21st May 2025
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The Era Of The Business Idiot

from Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At [alt+shift+b] in startups

21st May 2025
Fair warning: this is the longest thing I've written on this newsletter. I do apologize. Soundtrack: EL-P - $4 Vic Listen to my podcast Better Offline. We have merch. Last week, Bloomberg profiled Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, revealing that he's either a liar or a specific
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Immigration and crime: Denmark Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
3rd Aug 2024
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Immigration and crime: Denmark

from Patterns in Humanity [alt+shift+b] in history

3rd Aug 2024
Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
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Content debt There’s a nascent trend of releasing ostensibly-private material (changelogs, public wikis,...
4th Jul 2024
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Content debt

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Jul 2024
There’s a nascent trend of releasing ostensibly-private material (changelogs, public wikis, handbooks, etc.) to the public as a bit of a marketing push. This is essentially a form of debt, to the extent that you’re taking a lump-sum payment now in exchange for the implicit cost...
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Who Monitors The Monitor? Monitor The first release of Monitor as an elementary OS default app is here! Monitor is an app for...
5th Nov 2025
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Who Monitors The Monitor?

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

5th Nov 2025
Monitor The first release of Monitor as an elementary OS default app is here! Monitor is an app for monitoring your system resources and running processes, including with optional panel indicators. Since its last release, we’ve completed the port to GTK4, rewrote the settings...
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Baseball on the Moon We want to adapt baseball to be played on the moon. Is there any way to make it work? My first...
18th Mar 2025
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Baseball on the Moon

from The Universe of Discourse [alt+shift+b] in history

18th Mar 2025
We want to adapt baseball to be played on the moon. Is there any way to make it work? My first impression is: no, for several reasons. The pitched ball will go a little faster (no air resistance) but breaking balls are impossible (ditto). So the batter will find it easier to...
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The 6 JavaScript Projects to watch in 2023 We look over some of the JavaScript projects to watch in 2023.
1st Jan 2023
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The 6 JavaScript Projects to watch in 2023

from ByteofDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jan 2023
We look over some of the JavaScript projects to watch in 2023.
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: Cities & Time ### A world made of cities Cities are the human organizations with the greatest longevity but also...
9th Apr 2005
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: Cities & Time

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

9th Apr 2005
### A world made of cities Cities are the human organizations with the greatest longevity but also the fastest rate of change. Just now the world is going massively and unstoppably urban (governments everywhere are trying to stop it, with zero success). In a globalized world,...
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It's Free Real Estate
25th Mar 2024
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It's Free Real Estate

from Matt Keeter [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Mar 2024
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Lava Lakes
2nd Sep 2024
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Lava Lakes

from xkcd.com [alt+shift+b] in comics

2nd Sep 2024
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Call the destination, and ask for directions Most of us don’t know what to do next. We know where we want to be, but we don’t know how to get...
1st Aug 2000
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Call the destination, and ask for directions

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

1st Aug 2000
Most of us don’t know what to do next. We know where we want to be, but we don’t know how to get there. Work backwards. Just contact someone who’s there, and ask how to get there. If you want to play a concert at the biggest club in town, show up on a weekday...
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Congrats to Sunday Robotics for winning the Bronze Medal for Rolling Matched Socks The Bronze event in the Finger Tips Competition
16th Dec 2025
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Congrats to Sunday Robotics for winning the Bronze Medal for Rolling Matched Socks

from General Robots [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Dec 2025
The Bronze event in the Finger Tips Competition
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AGI Is Not Multimodal "In projecting language back as the model for thought, we lose sight of the tacit embodied...
4th Jun 2025
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AGI Is Not Multimodal

from The Gradient [alt+shift+b] in AI

4th Jun 2025
"In projecting language back as the model for thought, we lose sight of the tacit embodied understanding that undergirds our intelligence." –Terry Winograd The recent successes of generative AI models have convinced some that AGI is imminent. While these models appear to capture...
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Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor Keeping my focus has been challenging. It’s not a new phenomenon, and I suspect that there are...
1st Apr 2026
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Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor

from ./techtipsy [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Apr 2026
Keeping my focus has been challenging. It’s not a new phenomenon, and I suspect that there are contributing factors that have lead to the unfocused state dominating. For example, I’ve been that guy who wants to be on top of things, to be in the loop, to respond to urgent issues....
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Jun 2022 updates, $100K ARR, reflections, and a screenshot app! Hello everyone 👋 It’s Tony again with another monthly update! 😄Thanks for reading Tony Dinh’s...
5th Jul 2022
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Jun 2022 updates, $100K ARR, reflections, and a screenshot app!

from Tony Dinh's Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

5th Jul 2022
Hello everyone 👋 It’s Tony again with another monthly update! 😄Thanks for reading Tony Dinh’s Newsletter! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Phu Yen Province, Vietnam Welcome 313 new subscribers since my last issue! 👋 If you are new here: My name is...
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too many birthdays I have a hard enough time remembering to take the trash out let alone the birthdays of my massive...
10th Mar 2021
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too many birthdays

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

10th Mar 2021
I have a hard enough time remembering to take the trash out let alone the birthdays of my massive family. Does this make me a bad uncle?
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Our Great War is a Spiritual War I often come back to the question of why this is happening. Why do people want the centralized...
6th Jun 2026
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Our Great War is a Spiritual War

from the singularity is nearer [alt+shift+b] in AI

6th Jun 2026
I often come back to the question of why this is happening. Why do people want the centralized world? Why do people want the administered reality? Why do people want to be managed? Why do people not want root? The answer is that those people prioritize convenience, safety, and...
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