GitButler
Git Merge 2024
GitButler is organizing the 2024 Git Merge conference, Sep 19/20 in Berlin!
6 months ago
GitButler is organizing the 2024 Git Merge conference, Sep 19/20 in Berlin!
Cheese and Biscuits
The Audley, Mayfair
I ended up in the Audley, newly refurbished and reimagined gastropub in Mayfair, rather by accident...
over a year ago
I ended up in the Audley, newly refurbished and reimagined gastropub in Mayfair, rather by accident on Saturday, and I'm afraid I didn't set out with my usual forensic (ha!) bloggery attitude to proceedings. I wasn't planning on having lunch out at all, but walking down Mount St...
Ben Borgers
Best Type of Bathroom Lock
over a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Why There Aren't More Googles
over a year ago
Seth's Blog
The clamp and the mallet
While building a project, I found that a key part was stuck. I tapped it with a mallet, then harder,...
a year ago
While building a project, I found that a key part was stuck. I tapped it with a mallet, then harder, and eventually whacked at it. No luck. Then I got smart and put three clamps around the part, gently turning each one, increasing the pressure, until it simply popped out....
HTMHell
The underrated <dl> element
by David Luhr
The Description List (<dl>) element is useful for many common visual design patterns,...
3 weeks ago
by David Luhr
The Description List (<dl>) element is useful for many common visual design patterns, but is unfortunately underutilized.
It was originally intended to group terms with their definitions, but it's also a great fit for other content that has a key/value structure,...
TheCollector
Why do People Believe Britons are Descended from Israelites?
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a year ago
History Today Feed
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
JamesHoare
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10 months ago
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
JamesHoare
Fri, 03/22/2024 - 09:20
the singularity is...
Influence Agents
Check 1, 2 is the mic on?
Most AI doom scenarios are nonsense. The idea of a rogue computer behaving...
2 months ago
Check 1, 2 is the mic on?
Most AI doom scenarios are nonsense. The idea of a rogue computer behaving in a way no humans want never made sense to me, only to Hollywood who doesn’t know all that much about computers.
Paul Christiano has one of my favorite takes, that the creation...
Steven Scrawls
You Are Not Incompressible
You Are Not Incompressible
can be summarised as: walking, walking, walking, bit of fighting...
7 months ago
You Are Not Incompressible
can be summarised as: walking, walking, walking, bit of fighting with
orcs, walking, walking, walking, anguish, walking, walking, walking, bit
more fighting with orcs, walking, walking, walking.
—Goodreads review of “The Lord of the Rings”
Im returning...
charity.wtf
The Future of Ops is Platform Engineering
First published on 2022-09-30 at https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/future-ops-platform-engineering. Two...
over a year ago
First published on 2022-09-30 at https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/future-ops-platform-engineering. Two years ago I wrote a piece in The New Stack about the Future of Ops Careers. Towards the end, I wrote: The reality is that jack-of-all-trades systems infrastructure jobs are slowly...
fast.ai
A New Chapter for fast.ai: How To Solve It With Code
fast.ai is joining Answer.AI, and we’re announcing a new kind of educational experience, ‘How To...
2 months ago
fast.ai is joining Answer.AI, and we’re announcing a new kind of educational experience, ‘How To Solve It With Code’
Society's Backend
Backend Biweekly #1: Important AI Developments and ML Learning Resources
Updates on Apple, Mistral, and Microsoft and resources to build the GPT tokenizer, use MLX to train...
10 months ago
Updates on Apple, Mistral, and Microsoft and resources to build the GPT tokenizer, use MLX to train models, and benchmark LLMs
TheCollector
What Is Hermeneutics? Explaining the Theory of Interpretation
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4 months ago
Open Culture
Google Creates a Career Certificate That Prepares Students for Cybersecurity Jobs in 6 Months
In 2023, Google launched several online certificate programs designed to help students land an...
2 months ago
In 2023, Google launched several online certificate programs designed to help students land an entry-level job, without necessarily having a college degree. This includes a certificate program focused on Cybersecurity, a field that stands poised to grow as companies become more...
Both Are True
The self is a gut-hole - the first podcast ever made
Are Both True?? - The Podcast is a new form of media entertainment that is making studio execs go...
a year ago
Are Both True?? - The Podcast is a new form of media entertainment that is making studio execs go 'oh....ok.'
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Magic, Marcus Aurelius, and the End of the World
8 months ago
Magic, Marcus Aurelius, and the End of the World
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Why is the Boston Marathon So Slow?
The perception is that the Boston Marathon is a fast race. True, the winners always post blazing...
over a year ago
The perception is that the Boston Marathon is a fast race. True, the winners always post blazing fast times, but what about everyone else? It might surprise you to learn that that the majority of Boston participants perform far below their capabilities.
abdz.do - Have you...
Pixel Art Delight: art direction and illustrations for Foxbat Five
Pixel Art Delight: art direction and illustrations for Foxbat Five
...
a year ago
Pixel Art Delight: art direction and illustrations for Foxbat Five
abduzeedo0509—23
Renowned artist Margarita Solianova has embarked on a creative journey, shaping the visual identity of the indie arcade game, Foxbat Five. Solianova's...
The Roots of...
Who regulates the regulators?
IRBs
Scott Alexander reviews a book about institutional review boards (IRBs), the panels that review...
a year ago
IRBs
Scott Alexander reviews a book about institutional review boards (IRBs), the panels that review the ethics of medical trials: From Oversight to Overkill, by Dr. Simon Whitney. From the title alone, you can see where this is going.
IRBs are supposed to (among other things)...
The Elysian
Substack could create the future of books
Here’s how that could look.
8 months ago
Here’s how that could look.
TheCollector
What Is God? Theism, Pantheism, and Panentheism
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6 months ago
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 17
Highlights TinyPilot’s sales jumped to $57k, and it might be sustainable. I’m just about to launch...
over a year ago
Highlights TinyPilot’s sales jumped to $57k, and it might be sustainable. I’m just about to launch TinyPilot’s new product and branding. I reduced Google Cloud Platform fees by 90% on my side projects. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish....
TheCollector
Bordeaux Wine in France: A Historical Primer
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Frost
Everyday objects, but cold.
a year ago
Everyday objects, but cold.
Quanta Magazine
How Many Microbes Does It Take to Make You Sick?
Exposure to a virus isn’t an all-or-nothing proposition. The concept of “infectious dose” suggests...
a year ago
Exposure to a virus isn’t an all-or-nothing proposition. The concept of “infectious dose” suggests ways to keep ourselves safer from harm.
The post How Many Microbes Does It Take to Make You Sick? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Escaping Flatland
Relationships are coevolutionary loops
Looking for Alice, part 3
a year ago
Looking for Alice, part 3
TheCollector
Fenrir: Who Was the Norse Wolf Destined to Kill Odin?
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9 months ago
Quanta Magazine
She Studies How Addiction Hijacks Learning in the Brain
Erin Calipari works to understand how drugs like opioids and cocaine alter learning circuits and...
a year ago
Erin Calipari works to understand how drugs like opioids and cocaine alter learning circuits and neurochemistry in one of the country's epicenters of substance use disorder and addiction.
The post She Studies How Addiction Hijacks Learning in the Brain first appeared...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Then Came the Barbarians'
“Prose
poetry” suggests transfusing a patient with a blood type not his own. You’ll
kill him or at...
4 months ago
“Prose
poetry” suggests transfusing a patient with a blood type not his own. You’ll
kill him or at least make him sick. When I confront a prose poem I run, though
sometimes I pause to laugh and then run. The question becomes, which is worse:
the poet’s ineptness or his...
AI Snake Oil
Four more things we worked on in 2022
We had a busy 2022. Here are a few things we worked on but didn’t cover here.
over a year ago
We had a busy 2022. Here are a few things we worked on but didn’t cover here.
Stephen Wolfram...
The New World of LLM Functions: Integrating LLM Technology into the Wolfram Language
This is part of a series about our LLM technology.Other parts of this series: ChatGPT Gets Its...
a year ago
This is part of a series about our LLM technology.Other parts of this series: ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram Superpowers”!Instant Plugins for ChatGPT: Introducing the Wolfram ChatGPT Plugin Kit Turning LLM Capabilities into Functions So far, we mostly think of LLMs as things we...
Anecdotal Evidence
'I Read You As I Listen to Rare Music'
Rare is the
writer who captures our imagination when we’re young and still assembling our
personal...
5 months ago
Rare is the
writer who captures our imagination when we’re young and still assembling our
personal canons, and remains rereadable for the rest of our lives. For me that
would include Swift, Defoe and a third English novelist, a rather exotic import
from Poland: Joseph Conrad. I...
Noahpinion
Who's afraid of the Huawei Mate 60 Pro?
Export controls were never going to make China's semiconductor industry vanish.
a year ago
Export controls were never going to make China's semiconductor industry vanish.
Alex Meub
Building a 3D Printer Enclosure
Earlier this year, I purchased a 3D printer and it’s been a blast! I had no idea how easy it would...
over a year ago
Earlier this year, I purchased a 3D printer and it’s been a blast! I had no idea how easy it would be to create high-quality prints with such little effort. I’ve printed raspberry pi cases, kids’ toys, ceiling hooks, custom parts, electronics enclosures, curtain rod holders,...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
useLayoutEffect is a bad place for deriving state
Today we'll talk about updating state inside useLayoutEffect in reaction to prop changes. Will it...
over a year ago
Today we'll talk about updating state inside useLayoutEffect in reaction to prop changes. Will it work? Is it safe? Are there better ways to implement such state changes? TLDR: it works, but leaves you with an extra DOM update that may break stuff.
As we all know, useLayoutEffect...
Jonas Hietala
Christmas break
So school is on a break and I welcome it with all of my heart. The semester has been pretty fun and...
over a year ago
So school is on a break and I welcome it with all of my heart. The semester has been pretty fun and I really enjoy studying here. We had lisp the whole time which is a pretty sweet little language and if you haven’t, give it a shot. Then we had math and I do like math, although I...
TheCollector
7 Works by Yves Tanguy You Should Know
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a week ago
Explorations of an...
Day Three at Río Bigal: A Rainout, Another Snake, And More Mothing Adventures
Part of the reason why I gave myself five nights to spend at Río Bigal was to mitigate in case I had...
a year ago
Part of the reason why I gave myself five nights to spend at Río Bigal was to mitigate in case I had a couple of days washed out by heavy rain. The eastern Andes of Ecuador receive a high amount of precipitation. Moisture-laden air from the Amazon basin drifts westwards to the...
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Anachronistic
The Falcon and Black Widow above the streets of Manhattan…he’s flying and she’s doing gymnastics in...
2 months ago
The Falcon and Black Widow above the streets of Manhattan…he’s flying and she’s doing gymnastics in mid-air, I guess: The location is instantly recognizable: the building on the far left with the single dormer is the Washington Life Insurance Building at 141 Broadway, the...
Dreams of Space -...
Let's Fly to the Universe (1962)
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012...
a year ago
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012 here:
https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961.html
I think it is Czech, but may be a difference Russian language. I got a Russian reprint of this and still find it a very...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Partner
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a year ago
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Humans are the only social animal that is creating fake partners so they don't have to be social anymore.
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Marian's Blog
3D printed model of my neighborhood
I 3D printed a model of the street where I live. This post will explain how I prepared the data for...
over a year ago
I 3D printed a model of the street where I live. This post will explain how I prepared the data for it.
Update: I have now automated the entire process and published my code. You can find it here.
I worked with aerial Lidar data that is provided by the state I live in to download...
Maggie Appleton
The Knowledge Hydrant
Illustrated notes on the Knowledge Hydrant guide to collaborative learning
over a year ago
Illustrated notes on the Knowledge Hydrant guide to collaborative learning
Stephen Wolfram...
Twenty Years Later: The Surprising Greater Implications of A New Kind of Science
See also: “A New Kind of Science: A 15-Year View”. From the Foundations Laid by A New Kind of...
over a year ago
See also: “A New Kind of Science: A 15-Year View”. From the Foundations Laid by A New Kind of Science When A New Kind of Science was published twenty years ago I thought what it had to say was important. But what’s become increasingly clear—particularly in the last few years—is...
fast.ai
Mojo may be the biggest programming language advance in decades
Mojo is a new programming language, based on Python, which fixes Python’s performance and deployment...
a year ago
Mojo is a new programming language, based on Python, which fixes Python’s performance and deployment problems.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Metrics, Logs, and Traces in JavaScript Tools
The DX of JavaScript Developer Tools could be better if we added Metrics, Logs, and Traces
over a year ago
The DX of JavaScript Developer Tools could be better if we added Metrics, Logs, and Traces
TheCollector
7 Important Works by Cindy Sherman
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a month ago
FIRE v London
April ’24: Juggling cash as new UK tax year begins
The temperature in the Middle East got even hotter in April, with Israel and Iran trading attacks on...
8 months ago
The temperature in the Middle East got even hotter in April, with Israel and Iran trading attacks on each other’s sovereign buildings/territory. Somehow World War III has never really seemed in danger of breaking out but it is a reminder that only change is constant. Over in New...
Blog - Guerrilla...
Vermont's Great Retreat
To begin the process of creating this map, I asked questions. Devoured books. Consumed articles....
over a year ago
To begin the process of creating this map, I asked questions. Devoured books. Consumed articles. Talked to historians and librarians. And read maps. Lots of maps. As I did, I wondered if there was something in the landscape, the communities, the culture that made Vermont...
Paul Graham: Essays
Where to See Silicon Valley
over a year ago
Casey Handmer's blog
It Is Time To Build The Monster Scope
A shorter version of this post was published in Palladium on 10/18/24. This version incorporates...
a month ago
A shorter version of this post was published in Palladium on 10/18/24. This version incorporates helpful feedback from a number of knowledgeable readers. With the recent SpaceX Starship orbital flight tests, it is time to commit to building the largest physically possible space...
Seth's Blog
Freedom of attitude
There are two franchised pack-and-ship shops about equidistant from my home. One has a 4.5 rating...
a year ago
There are two franchised pack-and-ship shops about equidistant from my home. One has a 4.5 rating and is reliably busy. The other has an astonishingly low 1.5 out of 5 rating. The physical plant is virtually identical, and the marketing and promo are the same. The only difference...
Stoic Simple
Stoicism and the Subtle Art of Acceptance
Stoicism is a philosophy that has been practiced for centuries and has more recently been gaining...
a year ago
Stoicism is a philosophy that has been practiced for centuries and has more recently been gaining popularity as a means of promoting mental well-being. At its core, Stoicism teaches us the art of acceptance, that is, the ability to accept what we cannot control and focus on what...
Koos Looijesteijn -...
Why is open source software so badly designed?
“It could have been so great, but why is it so ugly and difficult to use?” people trying open...
over a year ago
“It could have been so great, but why is it so ugly and difficult to use?” people trying open source...
Open Culture
The Junky’s Christmas: William S. Burrough’s Dark Claymation Christmas Film Produced by Francis Ford...
Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation...
a month ago
Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation Christmas film oddly produced by Francis Ford Coppola. And, as you can well imagine, it’s not your normal happy Christmas flick. Nope, this film – The Junky’s Christmas – is all about...
Mazdak
Google Quantum Computer, OpenAI Sora Video Generator and more ...
Google just dropped a bombshell in quantum computing.
a month ago
Google just dropped a bombshell in quantum computing.
Joel Gascoigne
Why I'm helping startup founders
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over a year ago
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Last month I wrote about my discovery that helping others makes me happier
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than spending the time seeing a...
Artificial Ignorance
Tutorial: How to chat with your documents
A step-by-step guide to doing Q&A with your data, using LlamaIndex and OpenAI.
a year ago
A step-by-step guide to doing Q&A with your data, using LlamaIndex and OpenAI.
Notes on software...
Analyzing large JSON files via partial JSON parsing
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over a year ago
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A Smart Bear
Product/Market Fit: Experience & Data
Companies that achieve Product/Market Fit -- both self-funded and VC-funded -- exhibit the same...
a year ago
Companies that achieve Product/Market Fit -- both self-funded and VC-funded -- exhibit the same prototypical metrics curves and subjective experiences.
Entrepreneur's Edge
The Power of Beliefs
The significant role that our beliefs play in our outcomes.
a year ago
The significant role that our beliefs play in our outcomes.
Anecdotal Evidence
'That Judgment Day of Man’s Illusions'
In 1956, The American Scholar asked forty-three
writers, critics and scholars to name the book...
8 months ago
In 1956, The American Scholar asked forty-three
writers, critics and scholars to name the book published in the preceding
twenty-five years they believed to have been “the most undeservedly neglected.”
For this reader, sorry to say, most of them remain neglected. I don’t even...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Rite On
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2 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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Interestingly, SMBC is in fact an erotic fertility behavior.
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TheCollector
Latest Pompeii Discovery is a Rare Blue Room
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7 months ago
Atoms vs Bits
It's Not A Bad Restaurant, It's A Bad Dish
You go to a restaurant with great reviews, but find the food completely mediocre. What happened?
Of...
a year ago
You go to a restaurant with great reviews, but find the food completely mediocre. What happened?
Of course there's lots of options: other people have bad taste, the reviews are fake, the place went downhill.
But I think an underrated explanation is that there's high variance
Old Structures...
More Blatant Fakery
First, a 1908 postcard, issued when the Singer Building was brand new: Second, a photo from about...
11 months ago
First, a 1908 postcard, issued when the Singer Building was brand new: Second, a photo from about the same time: It’s standard practice in New York real-estate glamor pictures to pretend that the buildings between you and the subject don’t exist. Narrow streets and big buildings...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Viking
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6 months ago
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Adrian Hanft, III:...
Pseudo Sacrifice vs. Speculation
Observers are stunned when they witness a queen sacrifice. For a chess player to abandon their most...
over a year ago
Observers are stunned when they witness a queen sacrifice. For a chess player to abandon their most powerful piece seems like a daring risk. The sacrifice is followed by a decisive combo resulting in checkmate. Bravo, the crowd goes wild.
Jonas Hietala
FTL got a new victim
Faster than Light the great game I lost a ton of time on, has found a new victim. It’s not someone...
over a year ago
Faster than Light the great game I lost a ton of time on, has found a new victim. It’s not someone you’d expect, it’s even someone who said: “What a bad game” when she saw me playing it. But nevertheless this Saturday she played it more than 2.5 hours!
I told Veronica I wanted...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Constant
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a year ago
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TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Chancellorsville?
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a year ago
Notes on software...
A database without dynamic memory allocation
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Common Edge
What Do You Say to a Naked Architect?
An architectural fiction.
a year ago
An architectural fiction.
TheCollector
A Colossal Ramses II Statue Pieces Uncovered
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How to conduct a good demo of your SaaS
Photo by Chris Montgomery on Unsplash
Frequently, when we finish a demo session of our HR app,...
over a year ago
Photo by Chris Montgomery on Unsplash
Frequently, when we finish a demo session of our HR app, customers will tell us “Wow, that was a great demo!” when signing off. I never really thought about it, other than the fact that I usually had a good time showing them around, and that...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 073: Music make you lose control
June 28, 2024.
6 months ago
Old Structures...
New And Improved Graphics!
Seven years ago [!] I spent some time looking at the Pearl Street overpass portion of the Manhattan...
3 months ago
Seven years ago [!] I spent some time looking at the Pearl Street overpass portion of the Manhattan approach of the Brooklyn Bridge. The short version is that it’s an 1880s steel truss reinforced in the mid-1900s with a steel arch below. The long discussion is: here and here and...
Infinite Scroll
Infinite Scroll Podcast: Worst Tweets ft. Andrew Heaton
It's possible that we might be too online
a month ago
It's possible that we might be too online
brr
Sunset
Hunkering down for the winter!
a year ago
Hunkering down for the winter!
David Heinemeier...
Five big open source gifts from us in 2023
It’s been an incredibly productive year at 37signals. Perhaps our most productive one yet, in terms...
a year ago
It’s been an incredibly productive year at 37signals. Perhaps our most productive one yet, in terms of total number of product improvements, new product developments, and open source extractions. But it’s only by looking back at the work from a distance that you can really...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
So you think you know everything about React refs
React refs appear to be a very simple feature. You pass a special prop to a DOM component, and you...
over a year ago
React refs appear to be a very simple feature. You pass a special prop to a DOM component, and you can access the current DOM node for that component in your JS. This is one of those great APIs that work just the way you'd expect, so you don't even think about how, exactly, it...
Blog - Practical...
Every Kind of Bridge Explained in 15 Minutes
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The Earth is pretty cool and...
8 months ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
The Earth is pretty cool and all, but many of its most magnificent features make it tough for us to get around. When the topography is too wet, steep, treacherous, or prone to disaster, sometimes the only way...
Jonas Hietala
November Theme: Art Game
Back over at The Experimental Gameplay Project a new theme has come up. My last three themes haven’t...
over a year ago
Back over at The Experimental Gameplay Project a new theme has come up. My last three themes haven’t been “my” themes: I’ve been following their lead and their themes and this month is no exception. This months’ apparently a big theme - Art. It’s even a collaboration with a big...
Patterns in Humanity
Historical Accounts of African Cannibalism
A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
11 months ago
A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
Escaping Flatland
Having a shit blog has made me feel abundant
From Giacometti’s sketch book
4 months ago
From Giacometti’s sketch book
Open Culture
Stephen Fry Explains Why Artificial Intelligence Has a “70% Risk of Killing Us All”
Apart from his comedic, dramatic, and literary endeavors, Stephen Fry is widely known for his avowed...
5 months ago
Apart from his comedic, dramatic, and literary endeavors, Stephen Fry is widely known for his avowed technophilia. He once wrote a column on that theme, “Dork Talk,” for the Guardian, in whose inaugural dispatch he laid out his credentials by claiming to have been the owner of...
Nat Eliason's...
You're Not Struggling Alone
If you're worried you don't have to worry
over a year ago
If you're worried you don't have to worry
Londonist
This Oxford Circus Building Is The Mini Me Of An Iconic Manhattan Skyscraper
Palladium House is a tribute to the American Radiator Building.
11 months ago
Palladium House is a tribute to the American Radiator Building.
./techtipsy
Overcoming hardware limitations: the time-to-sleep script
As some of you might own, I’m still rocking a ThinkPad T430, a laptop model
originally released in...
over a year ago
As some of you might own, I’m still rocking a ThinkPad T430, a laptop model
originally released in 2012.
It’s not the fastest laptop out there, but it is plenty fast for a number of
tasks, even most software development work.
I also try to keep my machines up to date and properly...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Man vs. AI: optimizing JavaScript (Claude, Cursor)
How AI beat me at code optimization game.
When I started writing this article I did not...
4 months ago
How AI beat me at code optimization game.
When I started writing this article I did not expect AI to beat me at optimizing JavaScript code. But it did.
I’m really passionate about optimizing JavaScript. Some say it’s a mental illness but I like my code to go balls to...
History Today Feed
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
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Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
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Man and superman
There are two broad philosophical approaches to explaining the forces that drive world events. The...
over a year ago
There are two broad philosophical approaches to explaining the forces that drive world events. The first one is sometimes called the Great…
Retail Design Blog
Frank Gehry and Louis Vuitton at Grand Palais for Art Basel Paris
For Art Basel Paris 2024, Louis Vuitton celebrates Frank Gehry by bringing his monumental white fish...
3 months ago
For Art Basel Paris 2024, Louis Vuitton celebrates Frank Gehry by bringing his monumental white fish lamp and more inside...
TheCollector
Was Cardinal Wolsey an Animal Lover?
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RhysTranter.com
“When you seek from almost nothing”: Arvo Pärt’s Musical Diaries
In a 30-minute documentary produced in collaboration with the Arvo Pärt Centre, the composer...
over a year ago
In a 30-minute documentary produced in collaboration with the Arvo Pärt Centre, the composer discusses the significance of his personal diaries to the formation and development of his music.
diamond geezer
Midsummer Day
Officially Midsummer Day is 24th June.
And midsummer is also 6th August.
astronomical definition...
6 months ago
Officially Midsummer Day is 24th June.
And midsummer is also 6th August.
astronomical definition of summer is the period between the summer solstice and the autumn equinox. Summer is 94 days long so we're looking for the 47th day after the solstice and that's 6th August....
TheCollector
8 Outstanding Women in the History of Philosophy
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TheCollector
Maccabean Revolt: How the Maccabees Beat the Seleucids
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5 months ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Big Sur-ification of macOS Icons
Here’s an example of some icons that transitioned well in the Big Sur-ification of macOS icons:
And...
9 months ago
Here’s an example of some icons that transitioned well in the Big Sur-ification of macOS icons:
And just for good measure, here’s a few more — I love this stuff.
While some apps made this transition fun (and further infused their brand with character), others did not. They did...
Platformer
The Supreme Court reckoning over content moderation is arriving
Platforms might have a way around Texas's social media law — unless a separate case makes that...
over a year ago
Platforms might have a way around Texas's social media law — unless a separate case makes that illegal, too
Blog - Practical...
Why are the Dutch So Famous for Waterworks?
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
This is the Veluwemeer...
12 hours ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
This is the Veluwemeer (velOOwemeer) Aqueduct in Harderwijk (HAR-der-vehk), Netherlands. It solves a pretty simple problem. If you put a bridge for vehicles over a navigable waterway, you often have to make it...
Posts on Made of...
My Apollo Bibliography
Over the last few years — perhaps not that unusually among the nerds I know — I’ve become...
over a year ago
Over the last few years — perhaps not that unusually among the nerds I know — I’ve become increasingly fascinated by the Apollo program (and early space program more generally), and been reading my way through a growing number of books and documentaries written about it. At a...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
A Reflection in Birds
Last Sunday I needed to make a decision. I was debating leaving my job, unsure which way to go. So I...
over a year ago
Last Sunday I needed to make a decision. I was debating leaving my job, unsure which way to go. So I went for a run in search of clarity. I hit the trail dressed in black, only my white head exposed to the winter wind.
Steve Klabnik
Ember Data: ‘DS’ is not defined
over a year ago
Paolo Amoroso's...
Keeping track of visited URLs in WebCard
<![CDATA[WebCard has very limited control over the web browser of the host operating system.
It can...
3 months ago
<![CDATA[WebCard has very limited control over the web browser of the host operating system.
It can only command the browser to visit a URL when the user traverses a Web link or executes the Visit URL menu command. But with no precautions the browser would open a new tab for...
nanoscale views
Really doing mechanics at the quantum level
A helpful ad from Science Made Stupid.
Since before the development of micro- and...
2 months ago
A helpful ad from Science Made Stupid.
Since before the development of micro- and nanoelectromechanical techniques, there has been an interest in making actual mechanical widgets that show quantum behavior. There is no reason that we should not be able to make a mechanical...
Open Culture
Johnny Cash & The Clash’s Joe Strummer Sing Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song” (2002)
In 1958, Merle Haggard saw Johnny Cash play in San Quentin, and went on to sing honest country songs...
3 months ago
In 1958, Merle Haggard saw Johnny Cash play in San Quentin, and went on to sing honest country songs for country outlaws. In 1982, future Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello saw Joe Strummer play with The Clash in Chicago and went on to play angry righteous rock for...
macwright.com
Val.town
Last week I joined val.town as Steve Krouse’s cofounder. Val.town is a system for programming in the...
a year ago
Last week I joined val.town as Steve Krouse’s cofounder. Val.town is a system for programming in the small, for writing short programs in TypeScript that can link together into something larger. It’s for writing that scheduled web scraper or basic API that you wanted to make but...
Classical Wisdom
Last Chance: The Essential Greeks
Starting Tomorrow
a year ago
Calculated Risk
Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims Increase to 217,000
The DOL reported:
seasonally adjusted initial claims was 217,000, an increase of
14,000 from the...
6 days ago
The DOL reported:
seasonally adjusted initial claims was 217,000, an increase of
14,000 from the previous week's revised level. The previous week's level was revised up by 2,000 from 201,000 to
203,000. The 4-week moving average was 212,750, a decrease of 750 from the previous...
Flashbak
Max Thalmann: Passion, Cathedrals And America In Woodcuts
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black...
3 months ago
Max Thalmann was a German Expressionist (1890 – 1944) who produced three main portfolios of black and white woodcut prints: Cathedral (Der Dom), Passion, and America in Woodcuts (Amerika im Holzschnitt). A bookbinder by trade having been trained as such under Henry Van De Velde...
Classical Wisdom
Religion in the Olympics
The Olympics: Do they Unite or Divide Us?
5 months ago
The Olympics: Do they Unite or Divide Us?
diamond geezer
Losing our marbles
I went to see the Elgin Marbles in the British Museum yesterday.
Greece can't have them back.
This...
a year ago
I went to see the Elgin Marbles in the British Museum yesterday.
Greece can't have them back.
This whole controversy thing is just a ploy by the British Museum to drum up more visitors. It worked with me anyway, I went yesterday, and their devious marketing strategy deserves to...
Society's Backend
Why Machine Learning Systems Misbehave
And what makes them so difficult to work with
6 months ago
And what makes them so difficult to work with
Society's Backend
What you need to understand about LLM creativity
An simple overview of temperature and its effect on LLM output
8 months ago
An simple overview of temperature and its effect on LLM output
Nothing Human
Metrics, Cowardice, and Mistrust
why we need better ideologies than "data driven decision making"
a year ago
why we need better ideologies than "data driven decision making"
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Chris Sacca on the implied user contract
Chris Sacca nicely summarized today’s FB vs Google vs Twitter controversy: It comes down to what...
over a year ago
Chris Sacca nicely summarized today’s FB vs Google vs Twitter controversy: It comes down to what each company has promised its users…
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.1.0
Major update time (hence the change to 1. 1 .0) - push-based integrations have been introduced! Like...
over a year ago
Major update time (hence the change to 1. 1 .0) - push-based integrations have been introduced! Like what you see and self-hosting? Update your…
Maps Mania
The Best Price Comparison Maps
11 months ago
David Heinemeier...
Forcing master to main was a good faith exploit
I never actually cared whether we call it master or main. So when the racialized claims started over...
9 months ago
I never actually cared whether we call it master or main. So when the racialized claims started over how calling the default branch in Git repositories "master" was PrObLEmAtIC, I thought, fine, what skin is it off anyone's or my back to change? If this is really important, can...
Eric Bailey
Quick Tip: Use the “lang” Attribute for Better Accessibility
over a year ago
TheCollector
Cy Twombly: Get to Know His Sculpture
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a year ago
The Honest Broker
Judgment Day Arrives at the Washington Post
And updates on seven other recent articles at The Honest Broker
a year ago
And updates on seven other recent articles at The Honest Broker
Computer Ads from...
Sundial Systems' Relish
The Premier Workplace Shell Calendar, Phone Book, To Do List, and Program Runner, too
3 months ago
The Premier Workplace Shell Calendar, Phone Book, To Do List, and Program Runner, too
Vadim Kravcenko
Code Reviews
Let me tell you a story. I worked with a client in the early days of my career. It was […]
The post...
a year ago
Let me tell you a story. I worked with a client in the early days of my career. It was […]
The post Code Reviews appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
bt RSS Feed
Introducing Notez
Introducing Notez
2021-01-13
I have always been a fan of simple note taking applications, since I...
over a year ago
Introducing Notez
2021-01-13
I have always been a fan of simple note taking applications, since I tend to take a lot of random notes throughout the work day. Sometimes I reach for simple pen and paper, but other times it’s nice to stay focused jotting down notes on the same...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Grace Gillespie
Hello! I’m Grace Gillespie, a printmaker specialising in reduction linocuts and based in Bristol....
a year ago
Hello! I’m Grace Gillespie, a printmaker specialising in reduction linocuts and based in Bristol. Most days you will find me in my teeny home studio, adding layers of colour to my prints, thinking about future designs or working on the never-ending administration side of running...
Seth's Blog
Design has a language
And it changes over time. You and I know what to do when we see a revolving door, or to speak...
a year ago
And it changes over time. You and I know what to do when we see a revolving door, or to speak quietly in a library. We have expectations of how the world works and what designers are saying with their work. Here’s a photo of a device with two controls. We’ve been taught our whole...
Working Theorys
Love the Mission or Love the Game
Are you a Type I or Type II entrepreneur? (or an unserious third thing)
11 months ago
Are you a Type I or Type II entrepreneur? (or an unserious third thing)
Moneyness
How should money laundering laws apply to DeFi?
Everyone agrees that money laundering laws apply to DeFi. The question is: how to apply them?
DeFi,...
4 months ago
Everyone agrees that money laundering laws apply to DeFi. The question is: how to apply them?
DeFi, or decentralized finance, is an emerging segment of the broader financial industry that delivers traditional financial services, say like trading or lending, using a novel type of...
sbensu
When coordination pays off
Stories about Stripe Link where we have to do a lot of upfront coordination but it was worth it.
3 months ago
Stories about Stripe Link where we have to do a lot of upfront coordination but it was worth it.
42!
Hanging on to 'stuff'
Like most families, we like to start the new year with a bit of a clean slate, which means moving on...
over a year ago
Like most families, we like to start the new year with a bit of a clean slate, which means moving on old pieces of furniture and belongings that are just cluttering our life and no longer needed.
But this is a surprisingly difficult task.
Almost every time we go to get rid of a...
CONTEMPORIST
A Black Kitchen Is A Bold Design Choice For This Home
Photography by Aaron Pocock sense of space [SOS Architects] has sent us photos of a contemporary...
a year ago
Photography by Aaron Pocock sense of space [SOS Architects] has sent us photos of a contemporary home they recently completed, that includes an unexpected all-black kitchen. Photography by Mike Baker The striking black kitchen facilitates the owners’ love for cooking and...
AFAR Media - Travel...
The British Virgin Islands Is Your Ultimate Vacation Destination
a year ago
TheCollector
The Philosophy of Time: Study the Nature of Past, Present, and Future
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a year ago
Maps Mania
I'm Sending You Back to the Future!
a month ago
Seth's Blog
What happened vs. what we do about it
It’s possible to have a useful conversation about what to do about something that’s broken or needs...
9 months ago
It’s possible to have a useful conversation about what to do about something that’s broken or needs improvement. But first, we must acknowledge that it happened. It’s not controversial to understand the facts, the data and the shifts that are happening in the world we live in. In...
ntietz.com blog
Start to finish on self-publishing a technical book
I've been writing this blog since 2015, and my writing picked up pace in 2022.
That year I wrote...
9 months ago
I've been writing this blog since 2015, and my writing picked up pace in 2022.
That year I wrote 37,000 words, more than the 33,000 I'd written up to that point.
It has accelerated since then.
At some point, I realized that I've put in a lot of time and effort writing here, and...
David Gerrells
How fast is rust? Simulating 200,000,000 particles
The challenge, simulate 100,000,000 particles in rust using only the cpu. Let’s go.
2 months ago
The challenge, simulate 100,000,000 particles in rust using only the cpu. Let’s go.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - LLM
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Best you can do with cosmos-3.5 is get a universe...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Best you can do with cosmos-3.5 is get a universe that's classical at low speeds.
Today's News:
Notes on software...
Confusion is a muse
Some of the most interesting technical blog posts I read come from,
and a common reason for posts I...
7 months ago
Some of the most interesting technical blog posts I read come from,
and a common reason for posts I write is, confusion. You're at work
and you start asking questions that are difficult to answer. You spend
a few hours or a day trying to get to the bottom of things.
If you ask a...
Product Identity
Narratives of business models
A meditation on the identity of business models and what can be learned from Telegram
11 months ago
A meditation on the identity of business models and what can be learned from Telegram
Rest of World -...
Domestic work in Vietnam: The 5-star butler who naps on the steps
She cooks, cleans, and has a key. But she also naps in stairwells and eats in hallways.
a year ago
She cooks, cleans, and has a key. But she also naps in stairwells and eats in hallways.
Eric Bailey
Saying thank you
Things are in a really bad place right now. It is difficult to think of any aspect of the world that...
over a year ago
Things are in a really bad place right now. It is difficult to think of any aspect of the world that isn’t being strangled by malignant forces. This includes the web.
It's been a long time since the altruistic early web—putting content out there for the its own sake. The web...
The Modern House
How architect Charlie Luxton built a hidden home into a hillside in Oxfordfordshire
a year ago
Confused bit
Simply explained: how does GPT work?
By now, you have probably heard of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, or any of the alternatives GPT-3, GPT-4,...
a year ago
By now, you have probably heard of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, or any of the alternatives GPT-3, GPT-4, Microsoft’s Bing Chat, Facebook’s LLaMa or even Google’s Bard. They are artificial intelligence programs that can participate in a conversation. Impressively smart, they can easily be...
Escaping Flatland
Authenticity as dialogue
John Stuart Mill, notetaking, rationality, and emotion
a month ago
John Stuart Mill, notetaking, rationality, and emotion
Spoon & Tamago
Japan Quietly Shines at Milan Design Week
Milan Design Week—Coachella, but for furniture—is running this week from April 16-21. All the...
9 months ago
Milan Design Week—Coachella, but for furniture—is running this week from April 16-21. All the biggest names and brands in the design world descend upon the Italian city, which sees its population swell by nearly 25%. Now in its 62nd iteration, the design extravaganza is an...
ntietz.com blog
Why do companies hire people to be idle a lot of the time?
The biggest tech companies employ a lot of engineers.
In 2021, Microsoft employed over 100,000...
a year ago
The biggest tech companies employ a lot of engineers.
In 2021, Microsoft employed over 100,000 software engineers.
That is just mind boggling scale to me.
It's roughly as many people as the whole county I grew up in.
They are paying a lot of engineers.
Some of them do very...
David Heinemeier...
ONCE #1 is entirely #nobuild for the front-end
The dream has come true. It’s now possible to build fast, modern web applications without...
a year ago
The dream has come true. It’s now possible to build fast, modern web applications without transpiling or bundling either JavaScript or CSS. I’ve been working towards this personal nirvana ever since we begrudgingly started transpiling and bundling assets in the late 2000s....
bt RSS Feed
Setting Up a Pi-hole Server with Eero
Setting Up a Pi-hole Server with Eero
2022-03-14
For the past few years, I’ve been using a set of...
over a year ago
Setting Up a Pi-hole Server with Eero
2022-03-14
For the past few years, I’ve been using a set of Eero routers as my home mesh network. It’s worked fairly great in that time and even seamlessly transitioned without any hiccups when my family moved house. During the initial setup,...
The Convivial...
Language Under Digital Conditions: Power and Action
The Convivial Society: Vol. 4, No. 1
a year ago
The Convivial Society: Vol. 4, No. 1
TheCollector
An In-Depth History of Health Insurance in the United States
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a year ago
The Rational Walk
The Digest #211
Thucydides, Corporate life cycles, Ben Graham's first big win, Buffett's early lesson in activist...
5 months ago
Thucydides, Corporate life cycles, Ben Graham's first big win, Buffett's early lesson in activist investing, Perils of forecasting, Orwell's 1984, Guy Spier, Ben Thompson, Estée Lauder
Dan Slimmon
Clinical troubleshooting: diagnose any production issue, fast.
Over the years, I've developed a reliable method for harnessing the diagnostic power of groups. My...
10 months ago
Over the years, I've developed a reliable method for harnessing the diagnostic power of groups. My approach is derived from a different field in which groups of experts with various levels of context need to reason together about problems in a complex, dynamic system:...
HTMHell
#30 Bullet “list”
Bad code
<p>
• HTML
<br>
• CSS
<br>
• JavaScript
</p>
Issues and how to fix them
Use <p>...
over a year ago
Bad code
<p>
• HTML
<br>
• CSS
<br>
• JavaScript
</p>
Issues and how to fix them
Use <p> for paragraphs, not lists. The standard way for creating basic lists is <ul> (when the order doesn't matter) or <ol> (when the order matters), and <li> for each item.
The “list”...
symmetry magazine
SAGE Journey program ignites interest in STEM
Three SAGE alumni talk about their experiences with a program meant to broaden gender diversity in...
a year ago
Three SAGE alumni talk about their experiences with a program meant to broaden gender diversity in STEM.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - BAH!
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
The keynote is gonna be reeeediculous.
Today's...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
The keynote is gonna be reeeediculous.
Today's News:
Or click here for info! Tickets are more than half sold and we're still two weeks out, so buy soon to lock yours in!
UX Collective
Are physical buttons going extinct?
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
2 months ago
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
TheCollector
When the Portuguese Met the Chinese: Rediscover the “Age of Discovery”
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2 months ago
Retail Design Blog
Vialto Partners office by Woodalls
The space portrays Vialto Partners passion for new ideas, different perspectives, and collaboration....
4 months ago
The space portrays Vialto Partners passion for new ideas, different perspectives, and collaboration. These core values were the inspiration and...
macwright.com
Hawbuck wallets
There are a lot of companies pitching new kinds of wallets, with lots of ads - Ridge is one of the...
9 months ago
There are a lot of companies pitching new kinds of wallets, with lots of ads - Ridge is one of the most famous. An option that never seems to come up in internet listicles but I’ve sworn by for years is the Hawbuck wallet.
My personal preferences for this kind of thing...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Esquelbecq Is Named France’s Favorite Village of 2023
a year ago
alexwlchan
Getting the path to the note I have open in Obsidian
I have a bunch of Python scripts I use to clean up text files, and I call them by passing the path...
a year ago
I have a bunch of Python scripts I use to clean up text files, and I call them by passing the path to the text file as an argument, for example:
$ python clean_up_text.py /path/to/text/file.md
This is mostly fine, but finding that path is a bit annoying when I want to run them...
TheCollector
Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms
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8 months ago
TheCollector
What Is First Corinthians About?
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2 months ago
Handprinted - Blog
Making a Copper Sulphate Mordant Solution
Copper sulphate is a non-toxic mordant used to etch aluminium, zinc and steel plates for intaglio...
a year ago
Copper sulphate is a non-toxic mordant used to etch aluminium, zinc and steel plates for intaglio printmaking. Copper sulphate is a safer alternative to acids - and we always opt for safer solutions here at the Handprinted studio!
Metal plates are traditionally etched using...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Inside the mechanical Bendix Air Data Computer, part 5: motor/tachometers
The Bendix Central Air Data Computer (CADC) is an electromechanical analog computer that uses
gears...
11 months ago
The Bendix Central Air Data Computer (CADC) is an electromechanical analog computer that uses
gears and cams for its mathematics. It was a key part of military planes such as the F-101 and the F-111 fighters,
computing
airspeed, Mach number, and other "air data".
The rotating...
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Dayton, Ohio Part 4 (Venturing North)
The ultimate destination was Dayton, Ohio and it took about seven and a half hours to get there....
9 months ago
The ultimate destination was Dayton, Ohio and it took about seven and a half hours to get there. However we didn’t just sit in Dayton for an entire week. If I had to drive all that way you better believe I would do some County Counting along the way too. At this point I’ve...
Classical Wisdom
Artemisia of Caria
Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
a year ago
Commander, Queen, and Eva Green
Global Inequality...
Universities as factories
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students...
8 months ago
I have seen, and read about, of many instances when the police would clear universities of students who were demonstrating. The police would come in on the orders of the authorities unhappy with student-created oases of freedom. It would come, armed, beat up students, and end the...
Common Edge
Why Time Is a Problem for Architects
For many, it’s a lurch between copying the past or pretending that time doesn’t exist.
a year ago
For many, it’s a lurch between copying the past or pretending that time doesn’t exist.
Arduino Blog
Ready for SPS Italia 2024? Ready for accessible industrial automation!
Save the date on May 28th-30th, Arduino will be back at SPS Italia in Parma, showcasing how our...
8 months ago
Save the date on May 28th-30th, Arduino will be back at SPS Italia in Parma, showcasing how our open-source solutions are revolutionizing the industrial sector with high performance and accessibility. At Arduino’s booth #C020, hall 7, we’ll be presenting the latest additions to...
TheCollector
Who Are the Major Prophets in the Bible?
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6 months ago
TokyoDev
A Guide to Salary Negotiations in Japan’s Tech Industry
When it comes to salary negotiations in Japan’s tech industry, I’ve been on both sides of the table....
a year ago
When it comes to salary negotiations in Japan’s tech industry, I’ve been on both sides of the table. I’ve worked as a recruiter sourcing candidates from around the world for a Japanese autonomous driving tech company, and have helped hundreds of English-speaking expats in secure...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Special Hell 7, Stasis Crackers
On the hard days I get close to walking away from everything. Goodbye world. So far I have never...
over a year ago
On the hard days I get close to walking away from everything. Goodbye world. So far I have never given in. Except for that very first time.
Seth's Blog
The opportunity for AI formbots
Forms are a convenient way for bureaucracies to collect information. They’re convenient because they...
a month ago
Forms are a convenient way for bureaucracies to collect information. They’re convenient because they offload the work to the patient/customer/taxpayer. The shift in labor led to an explosion of self-serve forms, but the built-in inefficiencies punish everyone. The fundamental...
The Elysian
Hint #3
I'm publishing a new print collection in one week.
4 months ago
I'm publishing a new print collection in one week.
TheCollector
A Greek Hoplite’s Day in Ancient Greece: A Spear of Greece
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a year ago
Archinect - Features
At Tyler’s Urban Workshop, Architecture Students Build With, and For, Underserved...
On November 8th, the Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University will host the...
2 months ago
On November 8th, the Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University will host the Urban Workshop Symposium, the latest iteration of the Urban Workshop's engagements in community-based design and education. The event brings to the fore questions, conversations, and...
The Modern House
Step Outside: six top-tier terraces in London homes for sale
With the sun hanging around until the early hours of the evening and the daffodils’ golden trumpets...
a year ago
With the sun hanging around until the early hours of the evening and the daffodils’ golden trumpets heralding that spring is in full swing, it finally feels like we’re properly coming out of hibernation. And where better to admire the return of the rays than […]
Daniel Bourke
A Learners Fight: Adaptation vs. Education
Education saves time. Adaptation sharpens instincts.
a year ago
Education saves time. Adaptation sharpens instincts.
African History...
a brief note on European and African perspectives in travel literature
A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
11 months ago
A Hausa explorer of western Europe.
The Marginalian
The Poetic Science of the Ghost Pipe: Emily Dickinson and the Secret of Earth’s Most Supernatural...
"That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet."
a year ago
"That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet."
James Cheshire
Atlas des Unsichtbaren
Thrilled to announce the publication of German edition of Atlas of the Invisible: Atlas des...
over a year ago
Thrilled to announce the publication of German edition of Atlas of the Invisible: Atlas des Unsichtbaren. It is published by Hanser, who also did an amazing job with our previous book Die Wege der Tiere, and available in all good bookshops across the German speaking world. Click...
Simply Explained
Analyzing Link Rot in My Newsletter (After 31 Editions)
I've been writing a monthly newsletter for the past 2.5 years. In every edition, I link to...
a year ago
I've been writing a monthly newsletter for the past 2.5 years. In every edition, I link to interesting articles related to science and technology. I thought it would be interesting to analyze how many of those links are still accessible, and how many have succumbed to link rot....
Seth's Blog
Foibles
Our habits, preferences and idiosyncrasies make perfect sense. We each know that we have great...
a year ago
Our habits, preferences and idiosyncrasies make perfect sense. We each know that we have great reasons to embrace our ways and stick with them. Other people’s habits, though, show that they are simply picky, weird or too sensitive. The difference between a preference and a foible...
Diaries of Note
My heroic composure was wasted
Philip Toynbee, born in Oxford in 1916, was an English journalist and author best known for his...
a year ago
Philip Toynbee, born in Oxford in 1916, was an English journalist and author best known for his insightful and often controversial reviews in the The Observer—including, most famously, his 1961 critique of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “dull, ill-written, whimsical and childish” Hobbit novels...
Londonist
See Dozens Of Tube Sketches At Barbican Library
Martin Church's vibrant portraits in free exhibition.
a year ago
Martin Church's vibrant portraits in free exhibition.
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Playing Chicken with Eagles
Some _thing_ has dragged a carcass into my path. It isn't the first corpse I've seen by this pond....
over a year ago
Some _thing_ has dragged a carcass into my path. It isn't the first corpse I've seen by this pond. The carp grow huge here and I marvel at the long skeletons strewn along the shore as I run by. Are the bodies discarded by disappointed fishermen or the prize of a lucky critter...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Dispensing True Charm'
Joseph
Epstein turns a sprightly eighty-seven today – “sprightly” because he is still
writing, still...
a year ago
Joseph
Epstein turns a sprightly eighty-seven today – “sprightly” because he is still
writing, still reading, still sending notes of encouragement to those of us who
can use the occasional infusion of sprightliness. In the last month he has
published reviews and essays devoted to...
Platformer
Why I'm having trouble covering AI
If you believe that the most serious risks from AI are real, should you write about anything else?
a year ago
If you believe that the most serious risks from AI are real, should you write about anything else?
The American Scholar
As I Walked Out One Morning
The post As I Walked Out One Morning appeared first on The American Scholar.
3 months ago
The post As I Walked Out One Morning appeared first on The American Scholar.
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
The creative agency of small projects
Since I moved out of the startup world I've exclusively worked on small projects. Niche, simple...
a year ago
Since I moved out of the startup world I've exclusively worked on small projects. Niche, simple tools packed with love and attention to detail. I've written about my approach to building, and how it impacts my life and outlook.
Today, however, I want to write about a less-obvious...
Castles in the Sky
For Richer or Poorer
A Love Letter to Weddings
a year ago
A Love Letter to Weddings
TheCollector
What Came First, Blues or Jazz?
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10 months ago
Common Edge
‘Even If a Project Fails, the Ideas Behind It Don’t Disappear’
A talk with Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin, authors of Atlas of Never Built Architecture.
7 months ago
A talk with Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin, authors of Atlas of Never Built Architecture.
Old Structures...
One Event, Two Views
On July 9, 1776, a bunch of New Yorkers – who maybe or maybe were not part of an organized group...
a year ago
On July 9, 1776, a bunch of New Yorkers – who maybe or maybe were not part of an organized group called the Sons of Freedom – celebrated the publication of the Declaration of Independence by pulling down a six-year-old equestrian statue of King George III at Bowling Green and...
Cheese and Biscuits
The Urchin, Hove
As soon as the sun comes out on a bank holiday, it feels like half of London heads down to the south...
8 months ago
As soon as the sun comes out on a bank holiday, it feels like half of London heads down to the south coast, and Brighton in particular. And though that town certainly has a lot going for it, not least a thriving restaurant and pub/wine scene that can show you a great time at all...
Left To Write
#7 Writemas: Think Obsession
Someone once called me intense. At first, I thought, is there something wrong with me? But I snapped...
a year ago
Someone once called me intense. At first, I thought, is there something wrong with me? But I snapped out of things and realised it’s what makes me me. No one is making it out alive; death knocks at everyone’s door, so why not be obsessed about the things I enjoy?
Build In Public...
Build In Public - Community Edition (Oct 2021)
Hey everyone 👋 Let’s open this newsletter with a powerful quote ⬇️ Luck surface area. Aka...
over a year ago
Hey everyone 👋 Let’s open this newsletter with a powerful quote ⬇️ Luck surface area. Aka serendipity. Aka helping relevant and like-minded people find you through your content. That’s what building in public is all about. With that said, get ready for October’s community...
Quanta Magazine
Why Is This Shape So Terrible to Pack?
Two mathematicians have proved a long-standing conjecture that is a step on the way toward finding...
6 months ago
Two mathematicians have proved a long-standing conjecture that is a step on the way toward finding the worst shape for packing the plane.
The post Why Is This Shape So Terrible to Pack? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Alice GG
A love letter to Apache Echarts
In the world of software development, I believe the 7th circle of hell is called “NPM”.
It’s a place...
11 months ago
In the world of software development, I believe the 7th circle of hell is called “NPM”.
It’s a place where you can find Javascript libraries that make great promises only to disappoint you once you actually import them.
I know this because I even wrote one.
When you find a gem...
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
A case for socks with toes
Yes, I wear toe socks. Yes, they're amazing.
I've exclusively been wearing toe socks for the past...
a year ago
Yes, I wear toe socks. Yes, they're amazing.
I've exclusively been wearing toe socks for the past 8-ish years. Every now and again (say I enter a house which has a no-shoe rule), someone will spot them and find the concept strange, commenting on how weird they look, and if the...
AFAR Media - Travel...
4 Kessler Collection Hotels with Art in the Southern U.S.
5 months ago
macwright.com
Recently
This was a big month of change for me – I announced
that I was joining Val.town
and wrote a big...
a year ago
This was a big month of change for me – I announced
that I was joining Val.town
and wrote a big update about Placemark.
Plenty more to write, but at least here I’ll take a little
breather and just do the usual: what’s new!
Reading
I only finished one book this month - Meet Us By...
Contemporist...
This Tall And Skinny House Also Has A Rooftop Pool
Story Architecture has shared photos of a new tall and skinny home they recently completed in Ho Chi...
10 months ago
Story Architecture has shared photos of a new tall and skinny home they recently completed in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, for a family of four with two sons.
Posts on Made of...
Regular Expression Search with Suffix Arrays
Back in January of 2012, Russ Cox posted an excellent blog post detailing how Google Code Search had...
over a year ago
Back in January of 2012, Russ Cox posted an excellent blog post detailing how Google Code Search had worked, using a trigram index.
By that point, I’d already implemented early versions of my own livegrep source-code search engine, using a different indexing approach that I...
Lighthouse Blog
Browser extensions to add articles
3 weeks ago
Product Identity
The Dumbification of our smart screens
Re: Enshittification: How screens might become dumber
6 months ago
Re: Enshittification: How screens might become dumber
Tinloof - Blog
How to create microfrontends with Web Components in React
We often hear about microfrontends, this happens when your company plans to have multiple teams...
over a year ago
We often hear about microfrontends, this happens when your company plans to have multiple teams build a big new web project. The company does not want teams to fight over a single monstrous SPA.
It decides to break the project down into several mini-apps hosted by a parent app....
Quantum Frontiers
The Book of Mark
Mark Srednicki doesn’t look like a high priest. He’s a professor of physics at the University of...
a year ago
Mark Srednicki doesn’t look like a high priest. He’s a professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB); and you’ll sooner find him in khakis than in sacred vestments. Humor suits his round face better than channeling … Continue reading →
TheCollector
Did Anne Boleyn Really Ruin Wolsey?
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a year ago
Quanta Magazine
Why the Brain’s Connections to the Body Are Crisscrossed
In all bilaterally symmetrical animals, from humans down to simple worms, nerves cross from one side...
a year ago
In all bilaterally symmetrical animals, from humans down to simple worms, nerves cross from one side of the body to the opposite side of the brain. Geometry may explain why.
The post Why the Brain’s Connections to the Body Are Crisscrossed first appeared on Quanta...
diamond geezer
Canteenlessness
I was out in the City at lunchtime, not far from St Paul's, and found myself amid a horde of...
3 months ago
I was out in the City at lunchtime, not far from St Paul's, and found myself amid a horde of businessfolk buying lunch. They were flocking to nearby shops, mainly specialist food outlets, for a calorific haul to tide them over into the afternoon. You could tell it was peak...
TheCollector
Why Is There One Caryatid at the British Museum and Five in Athens?
undefined
6 months ago
mtlynch.io
An Unsuccessful Experiment with Nemotron
A few weeks ago, NVIDIA released Nemotron, a large language model that they derived from Meta’s...
2 months ago
A few weeks ago, NVIDIA released Nemotron, a large language model that they derived from Meta’s Llama 3.1 70B.
NVIDIA claimed at release that Nemotron outperformed GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet on certain benchmarks. That was exciting news, as my experience with self-hostable AI...
journal – Winnie Lim
where i can take off my mask
Recently I’ve been getting some feedback from multiple sources that they appreciate I am able...
a year ago
Recently I’ve been getting some feedback from multiple sources that they appreciate I am able to write it as it is. In parallel I’ve also been thinking about why I share so much...
The Pragmatic...
Layoffs push down scores on Glassdoor: this is how companies respond
Several tech companies face a fresh problem after cutting jobs: their rating on Glassdoor nosedives....
a year ago
Several tech companies face a fresh problem after cutting jobs: their rating on Glassdoor nosedives. But there’s a way they can fix this. I show what companies are doing - and why.
Quanta Magazine
What Is Entropy? A Measure of Just How Little We Really Know.
Exactly 200 years ago, a French engineer introduced an idea that would quantify the universe’s...
a month ago
Exactly 200 years ago, a French engineer introduced an idea that would quantify the universe’s inexorable slide into decay. But entropy, as it’s currently understood, is less a fact about the world than a reflection of our growing ignorance. Embracing that truth is leading to a...
Rest of World -...
How tiny, cheap smart speakers unlocked the rise of digital payments in India
Vegetable carts, flower shops, mom-and-pop stores: Small speakers that read out digital payment...
a year ago
Vegetable carts, flower shops, mom-and-pop stores: Small speakers that read out digital payment receipts are making fintech companies big money.
Identity Designed
Imio
Designed by G—W Studios, Stockholm.
a year ago
Designed by G—W Studios, Stockholm.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Circles and Momentum
I had not come across this graphic from swyx until recently:
I like this reminder.
I know for me,...
a year ago
I had not come across this graphic from swyx until recently:
I like this reminder.
I know for me, it’s often too easy to slip into a kind of cynicism that only sees endless stationary circles rather than ones with directional momentum.
It reminds me of the visualizations of...
Mind Mine
transformations
surrender & renew
a month ago
Old Structures...
Some Peculiarities
This map was sponsored by the “Committee of ‘92” and created by Rand McNally as a guide to the city...
9 months ago
This map was sponsored by the “Committee of ‘92” and created by Rand McNally as a guide to the city for attendees of the Eleventh International Christian Endeavor Convention in 1892. About 40 percent of the index on the right is transportation related – railroads and ship lines –...
Common Edge
Why Gardening Should Be Our Metaphor for Local Development
If your town isn’t cultivating its own economic growth, then it’s being mined for someone else’s...
a month ago
If your town isn’t cultivating its own economic growth, then it’s being mined for someone else’s profit.
Entrepreneur's Edge
Why Leaders Should Start and End With a Map
Lessons I have learned from scaling an organization from an idea to hundreds of people.
over a year ago
Lessons I have learned from scaling an organization from an idea to hundreds of people.
Jonas Hietala
IDA Summer of Code 2014
IDA Summer of Code is Linköping University’s response to Google Summer of Code. Students can send in...
over a year ago
IDA Summer of Code is Linköping University’s response to Google Summer of Code. Students can send in a project of their choice and if selected they get paid to work on it for 4 weeks during the summer. In return the university get to show off the students and their projects in...
RhysTranter.com
The Life of Saint Pambo
Reading Butler's Lives of the Saints, I come across a passage on St Pambo, an Egyptian monk (c.390)...
over a year ago
Reading Butler's Lives of the Saints, I come across a passage on St Pambo, an Egyptian monk (c.390) thought to be a disciple of St Antony. I was struck by the following passage...
Quanta Magazine
‘Species Repulsion’ Enables High Biodiversity in Tropical Trees
Because tree seedlings don’t grow as well when close to their parents, more tree species can be...
a year ago
Because tree seedlings don’t grow as well when close to their parents, more tree species can be packed into tropical forests.
The post ‘Species Repulsion’ Enables High Biodiversity in Tropical Trees first appeared on Quanta Magazine
PostHog's RSS Feed
Why you may not need a sales team
You will need sales, but do you need a sales team to achieve revenue? Let's say you are the founder...
over a year ago
You will need sales, but do you need a sales team to achieve revenue? Let's say you are the founder of a new tech startup. A few months back, you and…
alexwlchan
My favourite books from 2023
I read 75 books this year, which is slightly up on previous years (2022, 2021).
I’m pleased with...
a year ago
I read 75 books this year, which is slightly up on previous years (2022, 2021).
I’m pleased with that number, although overall I found it a slightly disappointing year for reading.
Although I read more books, there were less that I really loved – less of the sort of book that...
TheCollector
What Is the Pauline Epistle Philemon About? Slavery & Forgiveness
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3 months ago
Vadim Kravcenko
Process Debt
I’m sure you’ve worked at companies where you felt that they were moving slowly and it was not even...
a year ago
I’m sure you’ve worked at companies where you felt that they were moving slowly and it was not even worth […]
The post Process Debt appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Blog - Practical...
The Wild Story of the Taum Sauk Dam Failure
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
Early in the morning of...
3 months ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
Early in the morning of December 14, 2005, pumps were nearly finished filling the upper reservoir at the Taum Sauk power station, marking the end of the daily cycle. Water rose to the top of the rockfill...
Simply Explained
Smart lights behind a wall switch (Shelly + ESPHome)
Using smart light bulbs means you can no longer use your physical wall switches because the bulbs...
over a year ago
Using smart light bulbs means you can no longer use your physical wall switches because the bulbs need constant power. I think that's pretty dumb. Using a physical switch can be way faster than using an app to control the lights.Here's how you can put a Shelly in between the...
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: An Impossible View
Above, Iron Man flies past the Chrysler Building. I was trying to figure out if the buildings in the...
a year ago
Above, Iron Man flies past the Chrysler Building. I was trying to figure out if the buildings in the background were realistic, and got part of the way there. The gray building on the right looks like a simplified version of the Socony-Mobil Building at the southeast corner of...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Go to the Bookcase'
I heard an
echo in something I wrote the other day, a dependent clause, inconsequential in
itself....
2 months ago
I heard an
echo in something I wrote the other day, a dependent clause, inconsequential in
itself. It nagged me, like a commercial jingle from fifty years ago playing in my
head. The harder I dredged to recover the source, the deeper it sank. I let go
and an hour later it bubbled...
ntietz.com blog
RC Week 11: Learning is best when multiplayer
As I come up on the end of my batch at Recurse Center, I've been doing some reflecting on my time...
over a year ago
As I come up on the end of my batch at Recurse Center, I've been doing some reflecting on my time here.
One of the standout themes is how much I've learned through struggling with other people.
In particular, this learning together has make some difficult topics approachable,...
diamond geezer
J20 M25
It's the motorway junction of the year, it's J20 M25.
(If the M20 had 25 junctions yes, that would...
2 weeks ago
It's the motorway junction of the year, it's J20 M25.
(If the M20 had 25 junctions yes, that would be better, but it only has 13 so we're off to Hertfordshire instead)
Kings Langley, one stop north of Watford Junction. Unlike J19 and J21 you can actually walk round it, which is...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
"It all blossomed out of this tiny little seed"
Steve Jobs in 1985: I felt it the first time when I visited a school. It was third and fourth...
over a year ago
Steve Jobs in 1985: I felt it the first time when I visited a school. It was third and fourth graders, and they had a whole classroom full…
Simply Explained
ESP32: Tips to increase battery life
Running an ESP32 on a battery is a tricky operation. The chip is a powerhouse, and with power comes...
over a year ago
Running an ESP32 on a battery is a tricky operation. The chip is a powerhouse, and with power comes great responsibility. In this post, I’ll outline how I got an ESP32 to run for over 15 weeks (and counting) on a single 1000mAh battery.
Spoon & Tamago
Creatures of the Echigo Sea Emerge from Straw in the 2023 Wara Art Festival
Autumn is officially upon us. It’s the season of shorter days, brighter moons and bountiful...
a year ago
Autumn is officially upon us. It’s the season of shorter days, brighter moons and bountiful harvests. Niigata prefecture, in Northern Japan, is known for its rice paddies and rice production. Around this time of year the rice harvest becomes a big deal, as well as the tons of...
Flashbak
Great Photos: Le Mariage des Diables Blancs, May 22 1954
On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched...
7 months ago
On May 22 1954, tightrope walkers Berthy Omankowsky and Roger Decugis married on a rope stretched high above the Place du Capitole in Toulouse, France. The wedding of two members of the Franco-Czechoslovakian (Diables Blancs) White Devils Company was overseen by Father Robert...
NeuroLogica Blog
First Mission To Remove Space Debris
I know you don’t need one more thing to worry about, but I have already written about the growing...
a year ago
I know you don’t need one more thing to worry about, but I have already written about the growing problem of space debris. At least this update is about a mission to help clear some of that debris – ClearSpace-1. This is an ESA mission which they contracted out to a Swiss...
Louwrentius
IKEA $50 VINDSTYRKA vs. $290 Dylos air quality monitor
This is a brief article in which I compare the IKEA VINDSTYRKA $50 air quality monitor (PM2.5) with...
a year ago
This is a brief article in which I compare the IKEA VINDSTYRKA $50 air quality monitor (PM2.5) with a $290 air quality monitor made by Dylos to see if it's any good.
Context
If you care about indoor air quality, you may already own a CO2 to determine if it's time to ventilate...
Archinect - Features
Archinect's 2023 Mental Health Survey Results
To create a space that discusses and shares insights on mental health within the industry, Archinect...
a year ago
To create a space that discusses and shares insights on mental health within the industry, Archinect recently conducted our latest Mental Health survey to better understand how our community has navigated the stressors inherent to the architecture industry. On this October 10th,...
Seth's Blog
Compared to perfect
Perfect is useful. It’s an absolute measure, a north star, a chance to improve our work. But it’s...
4 months ago
Perfect is useful. It’s an absolute measure, a north star, a chance to improve our work. But it’s also a shortcut to persistent dissatisfaction. Compared to perfect is helpful when we’re creating something. But it’s also worth noting that perfect is unattainable. What’s on offer...
The DESK Magazine
mymind keeps getting better
We've been hard at work making every aspect of the mymind.com experience better, smoother, faster...
4 months ago
We've been hard at work making every aspect of the mymind.com experience better, smoother, faster and lovelier.
Retail Design Blog
The White Company Office x Millennium Contracts
Commissioned by Household, Millennium Contracts had the opportunity to transform The White Company’s...
2 months ago
Commissioned by Household, Millennium Contracts had the opportunity to transform The White Company’s 32,000 sq ft office based in Shepherd’s...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Consciousness
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Guarantee you AI won't sit around moping around the...
10 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Guarantee you AI won't sit around moping around the nature of qualitative experience - it's just gonna murder your ass.
Today's News:
Eric Bailey
Centerless
My sense of identity and community have been challenged in multiple, overwhelming ways recently. I...
over a year ago
My sense of identity and community have been challenged in multiple, overwhelming ways recently. I don’t know what to do about it.
Some personal events recently transpired, ones that made me extremely aware of my mortality. They’ve also caused me to reevaluate my self-perception...
Fonts In Use – Blog...
Metra tickets, 1990–1991
Contributed by Florian Hardwig
Source: www.c82.net C82 / Nicholas...
a year ago
Contributed by Florian Hardwig
Source: www.c82.net C82 / Nicholas Rougeux. License: All Rights Reserved.
January 1990, ft. an unidentified rounded sans
Source: www.c82.net C82 / Nicholas Rougeux. License: All Rights Reserved.
February...
Marcus on AI
An AI rumor you won’t want to miss
Converging evidence that the core hypothesis driving generative AI may be wrong
2 months ago
Converging evidence that the core hypothesis driving generative AI may be wrong
Asterisk
Looking Back at the Future of Humanity Institute
The rise and fall of the influential, embattled Oxford research center that brought us the concept...
2 months ago
The rise and fall of the influential, embattled Oxford research center that brought us the concept of existential risk.
Seth's Blog
Sincerity is expected
Well, not always. That’s why it’s so important. We don’t expect an actor to tell the truth. That’s...
2 months ago
Well, not always. That’s why it’s so important. We don’t expect an actor to tell the truth. That’s their job. Musicians and other performers are playing a role. And social niceties encourage us to put on a smile and share appreciation, even in situations where it might not be...
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 4-10 September 2023
Things to do for under a fiver.
a year ago
Things to do for under a fiver.
Open Culture
Every Frame a Painting Returns to YouTube & Explores Why the Sustained Two-Shot Vanished from Movies
Video essayists don’t normally retire; in most cases, they just drift into inactivity. Hence the...
4 months ago
Video essayists don’t normally retire; in most cases, they just drift into inactivity. Hence the surprise and even dismay of the internet’s cinephiles when Tony Zhou and Taylor Ramos declared the end of their respected channel Every Frame a Painting in 2016. We here at Open...
Scarlet Ink
The Ideal Manager Exercise — How to Choose and Communicate With Your Current or Future Manager
The reflection exercise that helped me find and cultivate a successful relationship with my manager.
5 months ago
The reflection exercise that helped me find and cultivate a successful relationship with my manager.
Londonist
The Woods At The End Of The Elizabeth Line Where You Can Take A Sound Bath
De-stress among the trees in east London.
11 months ago
De-stress among the trees in east London.
Code Of Honor
Credit where credit is due
I feel fortunate to have been part of Blizzard Entertainment when it started, now over thirty years...
3 months ago
I feel fortunate to have been part of Blizzard Entertainment when it started, now over thirty years ago. I got to work with amazing people; make games players loved; and learn a lot about design, programming, and business along the way. Some of those lessons were hard-earned, as...
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 2-3 December 2023
It's beginning to look a lot like Chr...
a year ago
It's beginning to look a lot like Chr...
SOCKS
The Square and the Circle: The Palace of Charles V in Granada (1527)
The palace of Charles V in Granada was built starting in 1527 as a summer palace for the emperor....
over a year ago
The palace of Charles V in Granada was built starting in 1527 as a summer palace for the emperor. The Renaissance building is located inside the Alhambra, the former Nasrid complex on Sabika hill, a notable example of Islamic architecture. The structure is built in stone and is...
This Space
39 Books: 2013
I reread books like Aharon Appelfeld's A Table for One and Anne Atik's How It Was as if returning to...
8 months ago
I reread books like Aharon Appelfeld's A Table for One and Anne Atik's How It Was as if returning to a particular bench with a view of the sea. On first glance A Table for One promises only banal, coffee-table memories and reflections, and that would be almost right:
Real...
Stoic Simple
Stoic Quotes on Kindness: The Best Stoicism Sayings & Phrases
Previous Next https://youtu.be/YzvbxsGNH0A There's an unfortunate mischaracterization of Stoic...
a year ago
Previous Next https://youtu.be/YzvbxsGNH0A There's an unfortunate mischaracterization of Stoic philosophy that has recently sprung up that implies that Stoicism cares more about overcoming our feelings than it does about showing kindness to others. The truth is that a true Stoic...
sbensu
The secondary market in gift cards
This post by patio11 covers a few things that I learned working with gift cards over the years.
over a year ago
This post by patio11 covers a few things that I learned working with gift cards over the years.
Open Culture
Monty Python’s Michael Palin Presents His Favorite Painting, J. M. W. Turner’s Rain, Steam and Speed
Of all the English comedians to have attained worldwide fame over the past half-century, Sir Michael...
8 months ago
Of all the English comedians to have attained worldwide fame over the past half-century, Sir Michael Palin may be the most English of them all. It thus comes as no surprise that the National Gallery would ring him up and invite him to make a video about his favorite painting, nor...
Noahpinion
Why the U.S. should fight Cold War 2
And what it means to "fight" in this case.
a year ago
And what it means to "fight" in this case.
Words and Buttons...
Lexical differential highlighting instead of syntax highlighting
“Lexical” since it doesn't need true syntax analysis, primitive tokenization and filtering are...
over a year ago
“Lexical” since it doesn't need true syntax analysis, primitive tokenization and filtering are enough. And it's “differential” because it aims to highlight the difference between lexemes. Ideally, the smaller the lexical difference, the greater the color difference should be.
...
Prolost
Linear Light, Gamma, and ACES
Imagine a digital 50% gray card. In 0–255 RGB values, it’s 127, 127, 127.
On the RGB parade scope,...
over a year ago
Imagine a digital 50% gray card. In 0–255 RGB values, it’s 127, 127, 127.
On the RGB parade scope, the card is a perfect plateau at 50%.
Now imagine increasing the exposure of this scene by one stop. “Stops” of light are an exponential scale, meaning that subtracting one stop is...
David Heinemeier...
Apple rejects the HEY Calendar from their App Store
There should at least be a standard of double jeopardy when it comes to the app store monopoly...
a year ago
There should at least be a standard of double jeopardy when it comes to the app store monopoly regimes. If you’ve managed to overturn a rejection of your service once, they can’t come after you on the same service again later. We could have used that today!
But unfortunately...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Enablement vs Ownership Roles
Two ways to approach responsibility in a company.
over a year ago
Two ways to approach responsibility in a company.
Making software...
Aqua UI CSS Buttons
Aqua UI CSS Buttons
2016-06-28
Though it may feel like nostalgia, the old OS design for Mac was...
over a year ago
Aqua UI CSS Buttons
2016-06-28
Though it may feel like nostalgia, the old OS design for Mac was arguably better than the current iteration (as of this writing - High Sierra). I recently designed a quick Dribbble shot showcasing how the older operating system used to have so much...
devonzuegel.com
Part 4: Success is tied to benefiting existing Solano residents
A new city has been proposed in California, and I’ve never been more captivated by a vision for the...
10 months ago
A new city has been proposed in California, and I’ve never been more captivated by a vision for the future of my home state in my lifetime. This post is part of a series I’m writing about this bold proposal.
California Forever’s proposal includes 10 Voter Guarantees that go far...
Eric Bailey
A year at GitHub
I took a job at GitHub a year ago today.
On good days, I help to improve the accessibility of its...
a year ago
I took a job at GitHub a year ago today.
On good days, I help to improve the accessibility of its design system. The hope here is that the work done there eventually makes its way to the site itself.
It still feels surreal to have this job. I still vividly remember learning that...
Koos Looijesteijn -...
Phone is Still the Best Way to Order Pizza
"When ordering pizza for pickup, there is no easier way to do it than using a phone. On average, it...
over a year ago
"When ordering pizza for pickup, there is no easier way to do it than using a phone. On average, it takes no more than 20 seconds: There are many, many websites and apps that partner with local pizza shops. Often these apps require you to sign up or add excess information.
"
Liz Denys
The shape is everything: sun-dried tomato and pesto pane bianco
I've been getting into baking bread a lot lately instead of focusing more on the sweet and pastry...
over a year ago
I've been getting into baking bread a lot lately instead of focusing more on the sweet and pastry side of things. While I've been enjoying making fresh sourdough from fresh sourdough starter and love the end results, I sometimes find that basic breads are a lot of kneading (read:...
Steve Klabnik
Deleuze for Developers: will smooth space/open source suffice to save us?
over a year ago
FIRE v London
From ISA $millionaire to £millionaire
The best tax break in the UK is the ISA tax-free savings regime. Each UK tax-resident adult can put...
5 months ago
The best tax break in the UK is the ISA tax-free savings regime. Each UK tax-resident adult can put £20k per year into an ISA account – use it for a wide range of investing activities – and not even have to report on what happens in those accounts, let alone pay tax on them.…...
Retail Design Blog
Dior store
Dior has had a presence in Japan for many decades, and in Osaka, the fashion house manages no less...
a month ago
Dior has had a presence in Japan for many decades, and in Osaka, the fashion house manages no less than...
Platformer
The AI industry really should slow down a little
This year has given us a bounty of innovations. We could use some time to absorb them
a year ago
This year has given us a bounty of innovations. We could use some time to absorb them
The Convivial...
Chats, Notes, and Patrons
A brief welcome to the Convivial Society and update about new features
a year ago
A brief welcome to the Convivial Society and update about new features
Rest of World -...
The man leading Kenyan content moderators’ battle against Meta
Nathan Nkunzimana claims Meta and Sama fired content moderators for protesting working conditions...
a year ago
Nathan Nkunzimana claims Meta and Sama fired content moderators for protesting working conditions and demanding the right to unionize.
Charles Chen
On Bakers, Ovens, and AI Startup Moats
Are new AI startups "just another wrapper for a 3rd party model"? Does having an oven make you a...
2 months ago
Are new AI startups "just another wrapper for a 3rd party model"? Does having an oven make you a baker?
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Compilers Copout
Today I dropped out of the Compilers course I accidentally registered myself for. I'm not proud of...
over a year ago
Today I dropped out of the Compilers course I accidentally registered myself for. I'm not proud of it but there's too much I want to do and I know I'm just going to do a shit job at everything by spreading my self thin and also putting an intense gun to my head.
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FENDI store
Nine years after FENDI first opened a boutique in Miami‘s flourishing Design District, the iconic...
a month ago
Nine years after FENDI first opened a boutique in Miami‘s flourishing Design District, the iconic Roman fashion house has expanded...
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