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Chickadee 0.6.0 released I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.6.0 has been released! Chickadee is a game development...
19th Nov 2020
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Chickadee 0.6.0 released

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Nov 2020
I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.6.0 has been released! Chickadee is a game development toolkit for Guile. Chickadee aims to provide all the features that parenthetically inclined game developers need to make 2D and 3D games in Scheme. As Chickadee is still alpha software,...
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[RIDGELINE] Walk and Talk — The Portuguese Costal Camino Ridgeline subscribers — We were lucky. Maybe the luckiest group walking the Portuguese costal...
14th Apr 2026
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[RIDGELINE] Walk and Talk — The Portuguese Costal Camino

from Craig Mod — Writer + Photographer [alt+shift+b] in literature

14th Apr 2026
Ridgeline subscribers — We were lucky. Maybe the luckiest group walking the Portuguese costal Camino. (Certainly the second luckiest.) All the things conspired in our favor: The weather, the food, the quality of the path (lots of great seaside boardwalk walking for miles and...
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Hack some bokeh into your ArcGIS Online map You know how you can crank up the sense of drama and studio photography professionalism by switching...
4th Apr 2025
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Hack some bokeh into your ArcGIS Online map

from Adventures In Mapping | John Nelson Maps [alt+shift+b] in cartography

4th Apr 2025
You know how you can crank up the sense of drama and studio photography professionalism by switching over to portrait mode on your phone’s camera? It just looks…cool. The subject is in focus and the peripheral background content is blurry. It’s actually how our eyes and brains...
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Another Of My Essays In French. "C’est quoi cette « guerre » dont vous parlez ?"
4th May 2025
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Another Of My Essays In French.

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

4th May 2025
"C’est quoi cette « guerre » dont vous parlez ?"
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RWC 2016 Lightning Talk Today I had the pleasure of talking on stage for ~2 minutes at the Real World Crypto 2016 conference...
7th Jan 2016
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RWC 2016 Lightning Talk

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Jan 2016
Today I had the pleasure of talking on stage for ~2 minutes at the Real World Crypto 2016 conference in Stanford, CA. This is a pseudotranscript of that lightning talk. I'm Mahmoud Hashemi and I work as a Lead Developer at PayPal. I mostly focus on Python frameworks and software...
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How we handle team emails at our startup: Defaulting to transparency * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s an exciting...
5th Dec 2013
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How we handle team emails at our startup: Defaulting to transparency

from Joel Gascoigne [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Dec 2013
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s an exciting time for Buffer. Toby Osbourn [https://twitter.com/tosbourn] just joined and we’re now 16 people. Toby joined us as a Backend Hacker [http://jobs.bufferapp.com/backend-hacker],...
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Bob and Van For the first half of my childhood in suburban Ohio, we lived next to Bob. Bob and his wife were a...
3 weeks ago
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Bob and Van

from Marco.org [alt+shift+b] in programming

3 weeks ago
For the first half of my childhood in suburban Ohio, we lived next to Bob. Bob and his wife were a kind, reserved older couple who decorated their home mostly with crucifixes and talked about Jesus a lot. Bob helped my mom with a lot of common household tasks after my dad died....
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Full-Stack Ops: Back-end and DevOps Roles are Merging It’s time for some speculation on my part 🔗 I believe that the job duties of “back-end” and...
10th Oct 2022
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Full-Stack Ops: Back-end and DevOps Roles are Merging

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

10th Oct 2022
It’s time for some speculation on my part 🔗 I believe that the job duties of “back-end” and “DevOps” engineers will coalesce to include almost everything that “the user doesn’t see”. There will still be room for specialization, but these roles will become less distinguishable...
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AI agents can't yet do open-ended AI research Early evidence from two case studies
5th Aug 2026
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AI agents can't yet do open-ended AI research

from AI as Normal Technology [alt+shift+b] in AI

5th Aug 2026
Early evidence from two case studies
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Doctors Shouldn't Be Allowed To Work 28 Hour Shifts Whyever they're allowed, they shouldn't be
2nd Mar 2026
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Doctors Shouldn't Be Allowed To Work 28 Hour Shifts

from Atoms vs Bits [alt+shift+b] in life

2nd Mar 2026
Whyever they're allowed, they shouldn't be
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A new chapter: seven creatively converted homes It takes an especially skilled eye to see the potential of somewhere to call home in a space not...
21st Nov 2024
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A new chapter: seven creatively converted homes

from The Modern House [alt+shift+b] in architecture

21st Nov 2024
It takes an especially skilled eye to see the potential of somewhere to call home in a space not designed with that in mind. But in this country, with its architectural tapestry of period buildings and premium on space, we have become adept at repackaging […]
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Your competitors are using the same AI you are. The edge isn’t the model. It’s what’s built around... Leni is purpose-built for investment teams that can’t afford to be wrong.
5th Jun 2026
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Your competitors are using the same AI you are. The edge isn’t the model. It’s what’s built around it.

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

5th Jun 2026
Leni is purpose-built for investment teams that can’t afford to be wrong.
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How Dairy Robots Are Changing Work for Cows (and Farmers) This dairy barn is full of cows, as you might expect. Cows are being milked, cows are being fed,...
1st Apr 2025
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How Dairy Robots Are Changing Work for Cows (and Farmers)

from IEEE Spectrum [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Apr 2025
This dairy barn is full of cows, as you might expect. Cows are being milked, cows are being fed, cows are being cleaned up after, and a few very happy cows are even getting vigorously scratched behind the ears. “I wonder where the farmer is,” remarks my guide, Jan Jacobs. Jacobs...
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When RAND Made Magic in Santa Monica RAND’s halcyon days lasted two decades, during which the corporation produced some of the most...
1st Jun 2024
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When RAND Made Magic in Santa Monica

from Asterisk [alt+shift+b] in science

1st Jun 2024
RAND’s halcyon days lasted two decades, during which the corporation produced some of the most influential developments in science and American foreign policy. So how did it become just another think tank?
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In Memoriam: Dame Stephanie Shirley, 1933–2025 CHM is saddened to share the passing of 2018 CHM Fellow Dame Stephanie Shirley, who was a pioneer in...
18th Aug 2025
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In Memoriam: Dame Stephanie Shirley, 1933–2025

from CHM [alt+shift+b] in history

18th Aug 2025
CHM is saddened to share the passing of 2018 CHM Fellow Dame Stephanie Shirley, who was a pioneer in embracing remote, flexible work for the thriving software company she founded in the 1960s. The post In Memoriam: Dame Stephanie Shirley, 1933–2025 appeared first on CHM.
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Qvault is moving to Boot.dev We’ll keep this announcement short – we’ve moved Qvault.io to Boot.dev! As you know, we’ve been hard...
7th Apr 2022
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Qvault is moving to Boot.dev

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

7th Apr 2022
We’ll keep this announcement short – we’ve moved Qvault.io to Boot.dev! As you know, we’ve been hard at work bootstrapping on online computer science bootcamp. Qvault (now Boot.dev) is a simple CS curriculum where our students build real projects using modern programming...
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Verge interview at CES 2013 2025 Note - probably the last video of me without a beard!
9th Jan 2013
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Verge interview at CES 2013

from Eric Migicovsky's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in technology

9th Jan 2013
2025 Note - probably the last video of me without a beard!
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Adding a Buttondown subscription form to Webflow Buttondown makes it easy to start collecting subscriptions without having to muck around and...
11th Oct 2019
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Adding a Buttondown subscription form to Webflow

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

11th Oct 2019
Buttondown makes it easy to start collecting subscriptions without having to muck around and changing your CMS.
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Discord considered harmful In the past few years, social media use has gained a bad reputation. More or less everyone is now...
16th Jun 2025
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Discord considered harmful

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

16th Jun 2025
In the past few years, social media use has gained a bad reputation. More or less everyone is now aware that TikTok is ruining your attention span, and Twitter is radicalizing you into extreme ideologies. But, despite its enormous popularity amongst technology enthusiasts,...
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5 Frames of Kodacolor 100 with the Nikon FM Many years have past since I last shot colour film. Maybe 20 years ago I was using the Lomo Smena 8m...
28th Jun 2026
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5 Frames of Kodacolor 100 with the Nikon FM

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in technology

28th Jun 2026
Many years have past since I last shot colour film. Maybe 20 years ago I was using the Lomo Smena 8m camping. Mostly FujiFilm because I liked the greens. Once I started shooting Black & White and developing the film myself, I really didn’t see the need to have someone else...
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So long, Z80 You can still buy 6502s from Western Design Center and others, but Zilog's getting out of Z80s...
20th Apr 2024
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So long, Z80

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

20th Apr 2024
You can still buy 6502s from Western Design Center and others, but Zilog's getting out of Z80s (PDF), announcing earlier this week that after June 14th you won't be able to buy them anymore (specifically the last-part-standing Z84C00 which comes in various speeds from 6-20 MHz)...
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General Laundry Building Scratchbuilt miniature based on the Abandoned General Laundry building in New Orleans, United...
7th Jun 2019
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General Laundry Building

from Joshua Smith [alt+shift+b] in design

7th Jun 2019
Scratchbuilt miniature based on the Abandoned General Laundry building in New Orleans, United States. Created for the Urban Art Fair in Paris showing with Galerie 42b in Paris, April, 2019. Scratchbuilt 1:24 Scale Miniature created from MDF, Wood, cardboard, plastic card, chalk...
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Fio-plot: creating nice charts from FIO storage benchmark data New release of fio-plot I've rewritten fio-plot, a tool that turns FIO benchmark data into nice...
27th Nov 2019
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Fio-plot: creating nice charts from FIO storage benchmark data

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

27th Nov 2019
New release of fio-plot I've rewritten fio-plot, a tool that turns FIO benchmark data into nice charts. It allows you to create four types of graphs which will be discussed below. The github project page explains how to run this tool. Fio-plot also includes a benchmark script...
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Announcing ‘A Mainline Station Heritage Artefacts Collection’ I have been thinking *a lot* about heritage artefacts at mainline railway stations over the last few...
3rd Dec 2025
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Announcing ‘A Mainline Station Heritage Artefacts Collection’

from The Beauty of Transport [alt+shift+b] in architecture

3rd Dec 2025
I have been thinking *a lot* about heritage artefacts at mainline railway stations over the last few years. They are so important in telling the story of the railway station at which they are located (and quite often the history of the wider railway industry), yet frequently go...
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Car Free Brooklyn Bridge – photos and drawings A Car-Free Brooklyn Bridge Is Possible Images and Illustratons AFTER: Aerial view looking east...
1st Jun 2022
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Car Free Brooklyn Bridge – photos and drawings

from There are two types of architecture—good architecture, and the other kind [alt+shift+b] in architecture

1st Jun 2022
A Car-Free Brooklyn Bridge Is Possible Images and Illustratons AFTER: Aerial view looking east towards a car-free Brooklyn Bridge. Centre Street and Park Row next to the Brooklyn Bridge are reimagined as an extension of City Hall Park. © 2020 … Continue reading → The post Car...
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CSS Variables CSS Variables 2018-03-24 The CSS language is becoming even more awesome and powerful everyday. In...
24th Mar 2018
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CSS Variables

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

24th Mar 2018
CSS Variables 2018-03-24 The CSS language is becoming even more awesome and powerful everyday. In this quick article I’d like to focus specifically on the “new” CSS variable function that you can start using in your projects right now. Getting started is easy Let’s just jump...
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The microbiomes of wildfires, nanoplastics, and roller derby This is part 2 in a series covering surprising facts about the microbiome. Be sure to check out part...
6th May 2024
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The microbiomes of wildfires, nanoplastics, and roller derby

from Rachel Thomas, PhD [alt+shift+b] in AI

6th May 2024
This is part 2 in a series covering surprising facts about the microbiome. Be sure to check out part 1 here. A microbiome is the community of microorganisms found living together in a given habitat. The microbiome of the human gut can contribute to development of autoimmune...
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Obvious travel advice Mindset matters more than where you go. Who you go with matters more than where you go. After seeing...
20th Jun 2024
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Obvious travel advice

from DYNOMIGHT [alt+shift+b] in life

20th Jun 2024
Mindset matters more than where you go. Who you go with matters more than where you go. After seeing each other for a few months, many new couples take a short trip, which often ends in an apocalyptic, relationship-destroying fight. My theory is that’s the trip working as...
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Meet the Maker: Sam Marshall I'm Sam Marshall, an artist, printmaker, author and creative coach based in rural Northamptonshire....
9th Jul 2026
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Meet the Maker: Sam Marshall

from Handprinted - Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

9th Jul 2026
I'm Sam Marshall, an artist, printmaker, author and creative coach based in rural Northamptonshire. My work centres around drawing and printmaking, particularly linocut and etching, and alongside my own practice I teach workshops both from my studio and online to students around...
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Lessons in frustration Assa Auerbach’s course was the most maddening course I’ve ever taken.  I was a master’s student in...
17th Feb 2025
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Lessons in frustration

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

17th Feb 2025
Assa Auerbach’s course was the most maddening course I’ve ever taken.  I was a master’s student in the Perimeter Scholars International program at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. Perimeter trotted in world experts to lecture about modern physics. Many … Continue...
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Bug squash: An underrated interview question
17th Aug 2024
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Bug squash: An underrated interview question

from Jake Zimmerman [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Aug 2024
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A/B Testing with Simple Analytics
5th Sep 2023
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A/B Testing with Simple Analytics

from Blog of Simple Analytics [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Sep 2023
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Fibonacci Goals A system for goalsetting.
1st Jan 2021
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Fibonacci Goals

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

1st Jan 2021
A system for goalsetting.
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eBPF Observability Tools Are Not Security Tools eBPF has many uses in improving computer security, but just taking eBPF observability tools as-is...
27th Apr 2023
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eBPF Observability Tools Are Not Security Tools

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

27th Apr 2023
eBPF has many uses in improving computer security, but just taking eBPF observability tools as-is and using them for security monitoring would be like driving your car into the ocean and expecting it to float. Observability tools are designed have the lowest overhead possible so...
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random numbers from pcg32 at 200 Gbit/s One of the neat things about the PCG random number generator by Melissa O’Neill is its use of...
13th Feb 2025
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random numbers from pcg32 at 200 Gbit/s

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

13th Feb 2025
One of the neat things about the PCG random number generator by Melissa O’Neill is its use of instruction-level parallelism: the PCG state update can run in parallel with its output permutation. However, PCG only has a limited amount of ILP, about 3 instructions. Its overall...
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Modeling impact of LLMs on Developer Experience. In How should you adopt Large Language Models? (LLMs), we considered how LLMs might impact a...
6th Oct 2024
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Modeling impact of LLMs on Developer Experience.

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

6th Oct 2024
In How should you adopt Large Language Models? (LLMs), we considered how LLMs might impact a company’s developer experience. To support that exploration, I’ve developed a system model of the developing software at the company. In this chapter, we’ll work through: Summary results...
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Having a safe CEX: proof of solvency and beyond
19th Nov 2022
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Having a safe CEX: proof of solvency and beyond

from Vitalik Buterin's website [alt+shift+b] in technology

19th Nov 2022
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Let’s Destroy The European Union! Elon Musk is not happy with the EU fining his X platform and is currently on a tweet...
9th Dec 2025
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Let’s Destroy The European Union!

from Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings [alt+shift+b] in AI

9th Dec 2025
Elon Musk is not happy with the EU fining his X platform and is currently on a tweet rampage complaining about it. Among other things, he wants the whole EU to be abolished. He sadly is hardly the first wealthy American to share their opinions on European politics lately. I’m...
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The Forged Apple Employee Badge Here’s a quick and cautionary tale. This eBay auction, spotted by Eric Vitiello, immediately caught...
16th May 2024
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The Forged Apple Employee Badge

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

16th May 2024
Here’s a quick and cautionary tale. This eBay auction, spotted by Eric Vitiello, immediately caught my eye: Wow. Someone was selling Apple Employee #10’s employee badge?! What an incredible piece of Apple history! Sure, it’s not Steve Jobs’ badge (despite the auction title), but...
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Support for Stripe Payment Links It's even easier to get paid subscribers with Stripe's new Payment Links
9th Sep 2021
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Support for Stripe Payment Links

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

9th Sep 2021
It's even easier to get paid subscribers with Stripe's new Payment Links
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This page looks better in the app You’re a web developer at a social media company that has recently made a big push for modernizing...
2nd Aug 2020
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This page looks better in the app

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

2nd Aug 2020
You’re a web developer at a social media company that has recently made a big push for modernizing their frontend for the mobile-first era. It has taken a lot of time and effort from many people. Countless challenges, arguments, testing. The release is near. You’re probably a bit...
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Avoiding the Automation of your Heart A correspondence with Freya India
16th Mar 2025
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Avoiding the Automation of your Heart

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

16th Mar 2025
A correspondence with Freya India
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How to mess up a simple ThinkPad X230 BIOS flash and how to recover from it Background I have a Lenovo ThinkPad X230. It’s a small and good laptop that I’ve used as my main...
28th Jun 2021
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How to mess up a simple ThinkPad X230 BIOS flash and how to recover from it

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

28th Jun 2021
Background I have a Lenovo ThinkPad X230. It’s a small and good laptop that I’ve used as my main laptop and a server as well. A couple of years ago I messed around with flashing alternative BIOS implementations on the X230, such as the skulls project, which made installing...
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Newspapers and the 1976 Drought With each new temperature record that tumbles the UK, climate skeptics have a standard stock phrase:...
21st Jul 2022
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Newspapers and the 1976 Drought

from James Cheshire [alt+shift+b] in cartography

21st Jul 2022
With each new temperature record that tumbles the UK, climate skeptics have a standard stock phrase: ‘it was this hot in 1976’. Of course it wasn’t, and crucially the planet overall was not as hot then as it is now. Parts of the UK media have had their part to play in fueling...
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Lean in 2024 A huge amount happened in the Lean theorem prover community in 2023; this blog post looks back at...
20th Jan 2024
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Lean in 2024

from Xena [alt+shift+b] in AI

20th Jan 2024
A huge amount happened in the Lean theorem prover community in 2023; this blog post looks back at some of these events, plus some of what we have to look forward to in 2024. Modern mathematics I personally am a … Continue reading →
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Costless Sacrifice Going off the Gold Standard but for Information
5th Mar 2026
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Costless Sacrifice

from Not Boring by Packy McCormick [alt+shift+b] in creative

5th Mar 2026
Going off the Gold Standard but for Information
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Stoic Quotes on Taking Risks: The Best Stoicism Sayings & Phrases Previous Next https://youtu.be/86mSy3jnSr0 For Stoics, taking risks is something that they feel we...
3rd Jul 2023
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Stoic Quotes on Taking Risks: The Best Stoicism Sayings & Phrases

from Stoic Simple [alt+shift+b] in life

3rd Jul 2023
Previous Next https://youtu.be/86mSy3jnSr0 For Stoics, taking risks is something that they feel we should never fear to do . . . if, that is, the risk is actually something that will help us live a more virtuous life, fulfill our potentials, or help other people. However (and...
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The Making of The Conversation – An Interview with Francis Ford Coppola, 1974 In 1966, Francis Ford Coppola was working as a scriptwriter when he talked with fellow American...
1st Mar 2025
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The Making of The Conversation – An Interview with Francis Ford Coppola, 1974

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

1st Mar 2025
In 1966, Francis Ford Coppola was working as a scriptwriter when he talked with fellow American director Irvin Kershner (born Isadore Kershner (April 29, 1923 – November 27, 2010)) about spy movies. The time was ripe with espionage plots. The James Bond films were hugely popular...
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The Surprising Distribution Effects of "Buy-Borrow-Die" Plus! Full-Stack; Scarcity; Sum-of-the-Parts; Nice Problems to Have; Distribution
2nd Jan 2026
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The Surprising Distribution Effects of "Buy-Borrow-Die"

from The Diff [alt+shift+b] in finance

2nd Jan 2026
Plus! Full-Stack; Scarcity; Sum-of-the-Parts; Nice Problems to Have; Distribution
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Out-of-Domain Finetuning to Bootstrap Hallucination Detection How to use open-source, permissive-use data and collect less labeled samples for our tasks.
5th Nov 2023
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Out-of-Domain Finetuning to Bootstrap Hallucination Detection

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

5th Nov 2023
How to use open-source, permissive-use data and collect less labeled samples for our tasks.
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Quotes from 'Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving', by Pete Walker I’ve found Pete Walker’s Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving to be deeply helpful. Some of you,...
11th Aug 2022
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Quotes from 'Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving', by Pete Walker

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

11th Aug 2022
I’ve found Pete Walker’s Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving to be deeply helpful. Some of you, many of you, have blessed me and cared for me in kind ways, sometimes with very little knowledge of what was going on, or why I was the way that I was. Thank you. I’ve been...
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The Generational Business Trap | Theory No. 11 On the varied longevity of businesses & why we shouldn't idolize permanence.
8th May 2023
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The Generational Business Trap | Theory No. 11

from Working Theorys [alt+shift+b] in startups

8th May 2023
On the varied longevity of businesses & why we shouldn't idolize permanence.
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Deadlines Work If you had told me that I'm capable of cycling 50km non-stop, soaked to the skin in torrential rain,...
18th Mar 2024
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Deadlines Work

from Dan Cowell [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Mar 2024
If you had told me that I'm capable of cycling 50km non-stop, soaked to the skin in torrential rain, eyes burning with sunblock, sweat and ocean spray, in sub-10°C conditions, I would have called you a filthy liar. Then yesterday happened. It was meant to be
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Understanding Distributed Systems 1.1 Coordination is expensive as it reduces the availability and performance of distributed applications...
25th Mar 2021
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Understanding Distributed Systems 1.1

from Roberto Vitillo's Blog [alt+shift+b] in startups

25th Mar 2021
Coordination is expensive as it reduces the availability and performance of distributed applications (PACELC theorem). I have extended…
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5 Q&A's on Writing and Selling My First Book I answered some questions from someone planning to write their first book
10th Aug 2020
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5 Q&A's on Writing and Selling My First Book

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

10th Aug 2020
I answered some questions from someone planning to write their first book
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Starlit sky hexagonal teacups, 2024 Starlit sky on a clear night / the milky way / eternity / clarity / raindrops sticking to window...
1st Jul 2024
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Starlit sky hexagonal teacups, 2024

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jul 2024
Starlit sky on a clear night / the milky way / eternity / clarity / raindrops sticking to window glass
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Building In Public 101 Here's a crash course on the rising trend of building in public
3rd Jan 2023
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Building In Public 101

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

3rd Jan 2023
Here's a crash course on the rising trend of building in public
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creatures of temperament It is the glory of God to conceal a thing:
30th Mar 2025
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creatures of temperament

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

30th Mar 2025
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing:
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Confessions of a programmer: I hate code review Most of the projects I've been working on today have fairly strict code review policies. My work...
6th Jun 2010
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Confessions of a programmer: I hate code review

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

6th Jun 2010
Most of the projects I've been working on today have fairly strict code review policies. My work requires code review on most of our code, and as we bring on an army of interns for the summer, I've been responsible for reviewing lots of code. Additionally, about five months ago...
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About this book In my first book, Anything You Want, I told the story of how I started, grew, and sold my...
1st Jun 2018
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About this book

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

1st Jun 2018
In my first book, Anything You Want, I told the story of how I started, grew, and sold my company. I thought a lot about what’s worth doing, fixing faulty thinking, and making things happen. For the next ten years, I wrote for hours a day in my private journal, asking myself...
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The Demoralization is just Beginning This is a map of primary trading partners, US vs China, and how it has evolved over the last 20...
2nd Mar 2025
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The Demoralization is just Beginning

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

2nd Mar 2025
This is a map of primary trading partners, US vs China, and how it has evolved over the last 20 years. Think about it, and realize this probably reflects your experience. I know there was a similar panic about Japan in the 80s, but Japan by population has always been 3x smaller...
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Happy New Year: Lisp interpreter in SQL This year, I'll be implementing a Lisp interpreter in SQL. Now, what's Lisp, and why would I want to...
31st Dec 2025
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Happy New Year: Lisp interpreter in SQL

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

31st Dec 2025
This year, I'll be implementing a Lisp interpreter in SQL. Now, what's Lisp, and why would I want to do that? Well, let me tell you a little story about that. Several decades ago, I got a New Year's present from my roommate's girlfriend. It was a book. She got it at a used...
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An Interactive Guide to SVG Paths SVG gives us many different primitives to work with, but by far the most powerful is the element....
18th Aug 2025
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An Interactive Guide to SVG Paths

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

18th Aug 2025
SVG gives us many different primitives to work with, but by far the most powerful is the element. Unfortunately, it’s also the most inscrutable, with its compact Regex-style syntax. In this tutorial, we’ll demystify this infamous element and see some of the cool things we can...
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AI is making me paranoid about contributions
18th Feb 2026
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AI is making me paranoid about contributions

from Ruud van Asseldonk [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Feb 2026
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Disney World's New Theme Park: The White House and Congress A "Pirates of the Caribbean" themed experience is planned, where the taxpayers are repeatedly robbed...
1st Apr 2026
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Disney World's New Theme Park: The White House and Congress

from oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith [alt+shift+b] in finance

1st Apr 2026
A "Pirates of the Caribbean" themed experience is planned, where the taxpayers are repeatedly robbed by a motley crew of miscreants. In a blockbuster deal, an obscure federal agency has granted Disney the rights to develop the White House and Congress as a new FantasyLand...
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Managing your drafts through the API Now you can flesh out your newsletter, without committing to an actual send
1st Jul 2019
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Managing your drafts through the API

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

1st Jul 2019
Now you can flesh out your newsletter, without committing to an actual send
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Hooked 2.0: How Scams are Evolving & How to Avoid Them
2nd Mar 2025
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Hooked 2.0: How Scams are Evolving & How to Avoid Them

from The New Oil [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Mar 2025
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I tried the "Coding for Marketing" growth hack and the results are...
30th Sep 2021
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I tried the "Coding for Marketing" growth hack and the results are...

from Dominik Sobe's Thoughts ツ [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

30th Sep 2021
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Serverless Anagram Solver with Cloudflare R2 and Pages Six years ago, I reworked my anagram solver so it would run on top of AWS Lambda and DynamoDB....
10th Sep 2022
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Serverless Anagram Solver with Cloudflare R2 and Pages

from Simply Explained [alt+shift+b] in technology

10th Sep 2022
Six years ago, I reworked my anagram solver so it would run on top of AWS Lambda and DynamoDB. However, this year I realized I didn't need server-side code or a database at all. I could make it completely static by pre-computing anagram solutions.
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Of Git Commits, GitHub, and Gerrit Impassioned ranting about the format of commit messages1 often feels like cringe-inducing...
11th Mar 2019
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Of Git Commits, GitHub, and Gerrit

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

11th Mar 2019
Impassioned ranting about the format of commit messages1 often feels like cringe-inducing gatekeeping. Many times such rants seem to be written using language both bombastic and bellicose – the message is: fuck off if you don’t agree. The fact that the authors of many of these...
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Gap Week: August 2, 2024 Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one)...
2nd Aug 2024
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Gap Week: August 2, 2024

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

2nd Aug 2024
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one) whatever fresh COVID-19 variant is going around. Everyone is fine, but being sick left me pretty exhausted over the past few days with fewer productive writing hours available. Since I...
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Language-Level Toll Roads I’m trying to put my finger on something, but I can’t quite figure out what it is — hence this post....
5th Jul 2023
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Language-Level Toll Roads

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Jul 2023
I’m trying to put my finger on something, but I can’t quite figure out what it is — hence this post. Maybe by the end of writing, I’ll have figured it out. Deno recently launched their KV storage. Being a fan of deno, I looked at it with interest. Here’s a sample: const kv =...
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What a GIS & Map Librarian does all day The two most common responses I get when I tell people that I’m a map librarian at UC Berkeley are:...
7th Sep 2022
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What a GIS & Map Librarian does all day

from Blog - Guerrilla Cartography [alt+shift+b] in architecture

7th Sep 2022
The two most common responses I get when I tell people that I’m a map librarian at UC Berkeley are: I didn’t know that was a job?! and I love maps! These are both fair reactions. It’s not a very common job. And maps are very cool. Just like a typical librarian’s work does not...
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How to Get Interviewed (Even If You Are Not Well-Known in Your Niche) When people talk about interview link building, they mostly talk about expert interviews, you...
3rd Jul 2019
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How to Get Interviewed (Even If You Are Not Well-Known in Your Niche)

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

3rd Jul 2019
When people talk about interview link building, they mostly talk about expert interviews, you interview experts on your blog in the hope that they will then share your interview and link to it. But doing the opposite also works. If you have interesting hobbies or any kind of...
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What I’m Using in 2026 This is an updated list of what I’m using in 2026. I’m only sharing what’s changed since last year’s...
4th Jan 2026
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What I’m Using in 2026

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

4th Jan 2026
This is an updated list of what I’m using in 2026. I’m only sharing what’s changed since last year’s list. Applications Chrome — Chrome was on my list last year, but I’m mentioning it again because I actually used Brave for most of 2025. I like Brave, and honestly I can’t even...
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New Blog Location I finally got fed up with Blogger, and am moving this blog to live on Wordpress hosted off of...
12th Sep 2008
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New Blog Location

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

12th Sep 2008
I finally got fed up with Blogger, and am moving this blog to live on Wordpress hosted off of scripts.mit.edu. In the process of converting everything over and setting up Wordpress I’ve decided I hate it, but hopefully I hate it less than I hate Blogger. We’ll see. I’ve also...
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Seeing Like A Network Dark Forests, Dense Networks
19th Jun 2024
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Seeing Like A Network

from Strange Loop Canon [alt+shift+b] in AI

19th Jun 2024
Dark Forests, Dense Networks
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CSS Parts Inspired by BEM In a previous post, I explored valid names for CSS parts and discovered that there are very few...
10th Mar 2022
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CSS Parts Inspired by BEM

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

10th Mar 2022
In a previous post, I explored valid names for CSS parts and discovered that there are very few restrictions in what you can call them. The purpose of that deep dive was to help identify a pattern for naming parts that lets me expose states and subparts, or parts exported as a...
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A Guide to Which AI to Use in the Agentic Era It's not just chatbots anymore
18th Feb 2026
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A Guide to Which AI to Use in the Agentic Era

from One Useful Thing [alt+shift+b] in AI

18th Feb 2026
It's not just chatbots anymore
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Unblogged June 30 unblogged things I did in June Sun 1: My Dad hasn't had any answerphone messages for three weeks...
1st Jul 2025
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Unblogged June

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

1st Jul 2025
30 unblogged things I did in June Sun 1: My Dad hasn't had any answerphone messages for three weeks since BT switched him to Digital Voice, the internet-based phone connection. We tried to work out why this might be, and were surprised/shocked to discover that as part of the...
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Trademark Design Codes The United States Patent and Trademark Office has a system of 1,400 descriptive "design codes"...
9th Apr 2024
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Trademark Design Codes

from Beautiful Public Data [alt+shift+b] in science

9th Apr 2024
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has a system of 1,400 descriptive "design codes" allowing you to search for trademarks with “Rickshaws”, “Centaurs” or “Mechanical women”.
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Symposium: On Building God
29th Sep 2023
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Symposium: On Building God

from Strange Loop Canon [alt+shift+b] in AI

29th Sep 2023
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“In these dark times…” In these dark times we look for the light
5th Oct 2019
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“In these dark times…”

from RhysTranter.com [alt+shift+b] in life

5th Oct 2019
In these dark times we look for the light
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Secrets of Early Animal Evolution Revealed by Chromosome 'Tectonics' Large blocks of genes conserved through hundreds of millions of years of evolution hint at how the...
14th Apr 2022
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Secrets of Early Animal Evolution Revealed by Chromosome 'Tectonics'

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

14th Apr 2022
Large blocks of genes conserved through hundreds of millions of years of evolution hint at how the first animal chromosomes came to be. The post Secrets of Early Animal Evolution Revealed by Chromosome ‘Tectonics’ first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Improving my productivity in 2018 2017 was a really good year for me. I did a lot of freelance work, improved my financial situation,...
13th Jan 2018
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Improving my productivity in 2018

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

13th Jan 2018
2017 was a really good year for me. I did a lot of freelance work, improved my financial situation, built this site and started blogging…
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AI cannot predict the future. But companies keep trying (and failing). A new paper on how AI companies make false promises and how we can challenge them
1st Mar 2023
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AI cannot predict the future. But companies keep trying (and failing).

from AI Snake Oil [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Mar 2023
A new paper on how AI companies make false promises and how we can challenge them
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Tokenmaxxing, Promomaxxing, and Misaligned Incentives in Tech When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
7th May 2026
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Tokenmaxxing, Promomaxxing, and Misaligned Incentives in Tech

from Engineer’s Codex [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th May 2026
When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
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Review of the 2-dial TTArtisan Light Meter My latest purchase for my analog cameras is the TTArtisan light meter, a hotshoe-mounted meter...
30th Dec 2021
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Review of the 2-dial TTArtisan Light Meter

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

30th Dec 2021
My latest purchase for my analog cameras is the TTArtisan light meter, a hotshoe-mounted meter accessory. The market for these shoe-mounted light meters for vintage cameras has become weirdly competitive. They fit on top of a mechanical camera and provide you with the right...
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Designing A New UX Concept to Reduce Driver Distraction Since the arrival of the first iPhone, designers at car companies have tried to copy its minimalist...
1st Jun 2019
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Designing A New UX Concept to Reduce Driver Distraction

from The Turn Signal RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in design

1st Jun 2019
Since the arrival of the first iPhone, designers at car companies have tried to copy its minimalist look and interface in the interiors of…
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Eclipse Coolness
1st Apr 2024
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Eclipse Coolness

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

1st Apr 2024
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How Often Do Inventions Have Multiple Inventors? When Alexander Graham Bell filed a patent for the telephone on February 14th, 1876, he beat...
5th Jun 2025
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How Often Do Inventions Have Multiple Inventors?

from Construction Physics [alt+shift+b] in architecture

5th Jun 2025
When Alexander Graham Bell filed a patent for the telephone on February 14th, 1876, he beat competing telephone developer Elisha Gray to the patent office by just a few hours.
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Day 51: Fixed my logging and made a couple of puzzles Here are a couple of things I did yesterday! some logging improvements I was having a problem on my...
2nd Feb 2021
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Day 51: Fixed my logging and made a couple of puzzles

from Rc-2020 on Julia Evans [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Feb 2021
Here are a couple of things I did yesterday! some logging improvements I was having a problem on my server where I was logging in 3 different ways: Rails was logging to a file called production.log my Go proxy was logging to Docker Compose’s default log thing (whatever that...
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Fish Have a Brain Microbiome. Could Humans Have One Too? The discovery that other vertebrates have healthy, microbial brains is fueling the still...
2nd Dec 2024
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Fish Have a Brain Microbiome. Could Humans Have One Too?

from Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

2nd Dec 2024
The discovery that other vertebrates have healthy, microbial brains is fueling the still controversial possibility that we might have them as well. The post Fish Have a Brain Microbiome. Could Humans Have One Too? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Organization – Office I am on a continual quest for organization. After the kitchen, the office is the most used room in...
18th Aug 2023
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Organization – Office

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

18th Aug 2023
I am on a continual quest for organization. After the kitchen, the office is the most used room in our home. My wife and I work here, Monday through Friday, 9 to 5. Our children play and create in here just as often. It’s where we maintain several workspaces, store supplies,...
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Scam alert : mail from IPTI Mail from IPTI This is a physical scam mail alert yeah because we don’t get enough of cyber...
22nd Dec 2016
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Scam alert : mail from IPTI

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

22nd Dec 2016
Mail from IPTI This is a physical scam mail alert yeah because we don’t get enough of cyber phishing; right! Those who have filed international patents, keep an eye out for mails such as the above. I received a professional looking mail from IPTI & from what it looks like on the...
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Introducing Anchor Pro! Our original Anchor, the first under-desk headphone mount, is truly a great product - easy to...
22nd Oct 2018
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Introducing Anchor Pro!

from Elevation Lab - Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

22nd Oct 2018
Our original Anchor, the first under-desk headphone mount, is truly a great product - easy to install, does what it says, and a timeless design. It's in use on over 100,000 desks worldwide. So what do you do when you have a great product like The Anchor? Well, we decided to make...
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How to Become an Automotive UX Designer A comprehensive guide to building a career in automotive UX design, from getting started to landing...
4th Apr 2026
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How to Become an Automotive UX Designer

from The Turn Signal RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in design

4th Apr 2026
A comprehensive guide to building a career in automotive UX design, from getting started to landing your first role.
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Klute A terrific, terrific film, with a great performance by Jane Fonda (insert quip of "the film should...
2nd Sep 2023
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Klute

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Sep 2023
A terrific, terrific film, with a great performance by Jane Fonda (insert quip of "the film should be called Bree!" here.) I think some of the noir aspects felt a little more obvious than in The Conversation, but the pair of performances and the deep sense of sonic dread that...
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What I'm up to - November 2024 Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Nov 2024
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What I'm up to - November 2024

from Philip Ilic Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Nov 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in September - Visited San Francisco and rode in my first Waymo - Launched Find AI on Clay.com, ou...
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Creating storage benchmark charts with FIO and GNUplot Edit 2019: I've made a new tool called 'fio-plot'to create various graphs. I use FIO to perform...
22nd May 2013
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Creating storage benchmark charts with FIO and GNUplot

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

22nd May 2013
Edit 2019: I've made a new tool called 'fio-plot'to create various graphs. I use FIO to perform storage IO performance benchmarks. FIO does provide a script called "fio_generate_plots" which generates PNG or JPG based charts based on the data generated by FIO. The charts are...
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lematt is Matt's Let's Encrypt Automation Matt’s Let’s Encrypt Automation Welcome to Infrastructure Week July 2018! New articles and tools...
23rd Jul 2018
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lematt is Matt's Let's Encrypt Automation

from matt.sh [alt+shift+b] in AI

23rd Jul 2018
Matt’s Let’s Encrypt Automation Welcome to Infrastructure Week July 2018! New articles and tools every day this week. day 1: lematt day 2: netmatt day 3: email 2018 day 4: web 2018 day 5: local nets I made a kickass certificate automation platform called lematt and this page is...
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$250K books sold. $250K to save lives. 2023 UPDATE: see “$575K of books sold. $575K to save lives.” Six weeks ago I emailed my private...
6th Aug 2020
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$250K books sold. $250K to save lives.

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

6th Aug 2020
2023 UPDATE: see “$575K of books sold. $575K to save lives.” Six weeks ago I emailed my private email list with a secret link to buy my new books. I made 5000 limited edition hardcover copies of each, but those have sold out now. Then I thought about what to do with the...
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Putting Amazon’s PR/FAQ to Practice What it's like putting Amazon's famed Working Backwards process to practice in a small company...
8th Sep 2022
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Putting Amazon’s PR/FAQ to Practice

from Commoncog [alt+shift+b] in finance

8th Sep 2022
What it's like putting Amazon's famed Working Backwards process to practice in a small company context, and what was surprising and difficult about it.
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Tim Flannery: Here on Earth ### Wallace beats Darwin The great insight of natural selection was published simultaneously by...
4th May 2011
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Tim Flannery: Here on Earth

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

4th May 2011
### Wallace beats Darwin The great insight of natural selection was published simultaneously by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace in 1858, Flannery pointed out, but their interpretations of the insight then diverged. Darwin's harsh view of "survival of the fittest" led...
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The bad science behind expensive nuclear How a dubious theory of radiation damage based on fruit flies and a secretive weapons testing...
27th May 2025
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The bad science behind expensive nuclear

from Works in Progress RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in science

27th May 2025
How a dubious theory of radiation damage based on fruit flies and a secretive weapons testing program came to be – and why its time may now be up.
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Annoy 1.10 released, with Hamming distance and Windows support I've been a bit bad at posting things with a regular cadence lately, partly because I'm trying to...
26th Nov 2017
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Annoy 1.10 released, with Hamming distance and Windows support

from Home on Erik Bernhardsson [alt+shift+b] in technology

26th Nov 2017
I've been a bit bad at posting things with a regular cadence lately, partly because I'm trying to adjust to having a toddler, partly because the hunt for clicks has caused such a high bar for me that I feel like I have to post something Pulitzer-worthy.
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Ben Kihnel I just got the call from the super-connected Alex Steininger that our mutual friend Ben Kihnel died...
28th Mar 2024
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Ben Kihnel

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

28th Mar 2024
I just got the call from the super-connected Alex Steininger that our mutual friend Ben Kihnel died in his sleep. He was only 48.
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Notes on Deng Xiaoping When reading history it’s tempting to hold the question “is this person good or evil?” in mind. With...
22nd Feb 2026
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Notes on Deng Xiaoping

from Marc Astbury [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Feb 2026
When reading history it’s tempting to hold the question “is this person good or evil?” in mind. With Franco, Mussolini, and Hitler the answer is clear. More often it is not. World leaders must make decisions where there are severe costs regardless of which path they choose....
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A Message Drifts This series continues my explorations of the ways meaning can emerge from randomness. Each image is...
26th Jun 2025
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A Message Drifts

from Blog - Amy Goodchild [alt+shift+b] in creative

26th Jun 2025
This series continues my explorations of the ways meaning can emerge from randomness. Each image is created using algorithmic systems that create the elements. There is an alphabet of symbols, a message generator and several approaches to glitch aesthetics. The result could be...
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This site has buttons! This site has buttons now! Here, try to click it: Click me! I added buttons that act as a simple...
8th Jun 2025
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This site has buttons!

from Posts on Nikita Lapkov [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Jun 2025
This site has buttons now! Here, try to click it: Click me! I added buttons that act as a simple counter with a name attached. These are good for polls too! Pineapple on pizza: Yay Nay Of course, the results will be biased because there is no deduplication. I don’t limit the...
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How Social Media Shortens Your Life It's engineered to speed up your time
3rd Aug 2025
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How Social Media Shortens Your Life

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

3rd Aug 2025
It's engineered to speed up your time
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Building a standing desk
20th Feb 2011
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Building a standing desk

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

20th Feb 2011
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started eating pea protein and wtf this makes my shakes taste like peas its literally made of... Hello my friends.
12th Aug 2025
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started eating pea protein and wtf this makes my shakes taste like peas its literally made of grinded peas

from Farza's Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in life

12th Aug 2025
Hello my friends.
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Book Review: Healthy Buildings Healthy Buildings, written by John Macomber and Joseph Allen is, as the title suggests, a book about...
8th May 2023
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Book Review: Healthy Buildings

from Construction Physics [alt+shift+b] in architecture

8th May 2023
Healthy Buildings, written by John Macomber and Joseph Allen is, as the title suggests, a book about how buildings affect health. Allen is a former environmental consultant, professor of public health, and director of Harvard’s “Healthy Buildings” program. Macomber is a lecturer...
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Keep a React component mounted The second most important React optimization technique after shouldComponentUpdate and friends is...
2nd Dec 2018
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Keep a React component mounted

from Vladimir Klepov as a Coder [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Dec 2018
The second most important React optimization technique after shouldComponentUpdate and friends is remount management. Some portions of the UI can be hidden or shown — sidebars, drop-down menus, modals and draggable widgets are all prominent examples. The basic React pattern for...
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Happy New Year: Diffusion Model image generator in about 700 lines of pure SQL Regular readers of my blog will be aware that SQL is an excellent tool for graphics. You can use it...
31st Dec 2024
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Happy New Year: Diffusion Model image generator in about 700 lines of pure SQL

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

31st Dec 2024
Regular readers of my blog will be aware that SQL is an excellent tool for graphics. You can use it to draw snowflakes, fractals, ray-traced 3D pictures, and many other things. SQL art is beautiful, albeit slow to generate. These days they say AI is taking over, and human-made...
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Valuable, but not productive Consulting & finance as black holes of elite human capital
2nd Dec 2024
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Valuable, but not productive

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

2nd Dec 2024
Consulting & finance as black holes of elite human capital
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2015-03-01 gothamist.com/2012/03/08/the_1960_plan_to_put_a_dome_over_mi.php
1st Mar 2015
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2015-03-01

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

1st Mar 2015
gothamist.com/2012/03/08/the_1960_plan_to_put_a_dome_over_mi.php
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An intuition for distributed consensus in OLTP systems Distributed consensus in transactional databases (e.g. etcd or Cockroach) is a big deal these days....
8th Feb 2024
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An intuition for distributed consensus in OLTP systems

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

8th Feb 2024
Distributed consensus in transactional databases (e.g. etcd or Cockroach) is a big deal these days. Most often under the hood are variations of log-based Paxos-like algorithms such as MultiPaxos, Viewstamped Replication, or Raft. While there are new variations that come out each...
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First Pictures: Earthrise from Apollo 8 – December 24, 1968 The year 1968 was a tumultuous one in the US with many political and cultural changes punctuated by...
24th Dec 2023
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First Pictures: Earthrise from Apollo 8 – December 24, 1968

from Drew Ex Machina [alt+shift+b] in science

24th Dec 2023
The year 1968 was a tumultuous one in the US with many political and cultural changes punctuated by the assassination of prominent public figures, violent protests […]
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Jared Diamond: How Societies Fail-And Sometimes Succeed ### On failing to think long-term Sophisticated societies from time to time collapse utterly, often...
16th Jul 2005
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Jared Diamond: How Societies Fail-And Sometimes Succeed

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

16th Jul 2005
### On failing to think long-term Sophisticated societies from time to time collapse utterly, often leaving traces of a civilization that was at a proud peak just before the fall. Other societies facing the same dangers figure out how to adapt around them, recover, and go on to...
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Sublime Capability It's no big deal.
9th Mar 2026
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Sublime Capability

from Scope of Work [alt+shift+b] in startups

9th Mar 2026
It's no big deal.
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A peek into the world of Japan's electric rice cookers It's been a while since our last post - life got in the way. A big thanks to everyone who reached...
26th Feb 2023
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A peek into the world of Japan's electric rice cookers

from One from Nippon [alt+shift+b] in travel

26th Feb 2023
It's been a while since our last post - life got in the way. A big thanks to everyone who reached out! We are now restarting our articles, though we might not always write once a week. If we don't think it's interesting, we
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Continues the Hiatus, 2024 Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue...
7th Oct 2024
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Continues the Hiatus, 2024

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

7th Oct 2024
Friends, Readers, Countrymen, lend me your eyes! As sadly expected, the hiatus is going to continue through October. I am making good progress on my writing, but still need to keep focusing. I am currently, I believe, on track for us to go back to normally scheduled posts in...
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What to do with firm footing If we’ve got tenure, a lifetime appointment or simply a really secure gig, what should we do with...
1st Feb 2024
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What to do with firm footing

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

1st Feb 2024
If we’ve got tenure, a lifetime appointment or simply a really secure gig, what should we do with it? One option is to race to the bottom, to chase short-term self-focused outcomes and to see how much we can get away with. (Probably, quite a bit). The other is to take this rare...
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Between away and home And the paradox of travel.
9th Feb 2025
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Between away and home

from Thu Le [alt+shift+b] in life

9th Feb 2025
And the paradox of travel.
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Grab browser links and titles in one click When I copy a browser tab URL, I often want to also keep the title. Sometimes I want to use the link...
3rd Jan 2025
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Grab browser links and titles in one click

from Darek Kay [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Jan 2025
When I copy a browser tab URL, I often want to also keep the title. Sometimes I want to use the link as rich text (e.g., when pasting the link into OneNote or Jira). Sometimes I prefer a Markdown link. There are browser extensions to achieve this task, but I don't want to...
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XSS doesn’t have to be game over There’s a persistent belief among web security people that cross-site scripting (XSS) is a “game...
10th Dec 2020
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XSS doesn’t have to be game over

from Neil Madden [alt+shift+b] in technology

10th Dec 2020
There’s a persistent belief among web security people that cross-site scripting (XSS) is a “game over” event for defence: there is no effective way to recover if an attacker can inject code into your site. Brian Campbell refers to this as “XSS Nihilism”, which is a great...
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Staining a Block with Sumi Ink When carving traditional lino it can be difficult to see your lines. Staining the block first can...
6th Nov 2025
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Staining a Block with Sumi Ink

from Handprinted - Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

6th Nov 2025
When carving traditional lino it can be difficult to see your lines. Staining the block first can enable you to have more visibility, and therefore a more accurate design. Sumi Ink is a great option for block staining, and it's simple and quick. Brush some Sumi ink onto your...
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The Brain Processes Speech in Parallel With Other Sounds Scientists thought that the brain’s hearing centers might just process speech along with other...
6th Jan 2022
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The Brain Processes Speech in Parallel With Other Sounds

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

6th Jan 2022
Scientists thought that the brain’s hearing centers might just process speech along with other sounds. But new work suggests that speech gets some special treatment very early on. The post The Brain Processes Speech in Parallel With Other Sounds first appeared on...
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Do you know what GDP is? I thought I knew! But the more I introspected, the hazy my understanding got. Is GDP amount of stuff...
1st May 2025
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Do you know what GDP is?

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

1st May 2025
I thought I knew! But the more I introspected, the hazy my understanding got. Is GDP amount of stuff produced or consumed? Does it include imports or exports? What does it have to do with well being? Why does it keep increasing? So, I fired up Claude and started understanding...
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New Loose Leaf Security series: Securing your laptop and desktop computers Four more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about securing your laptop and desktop...
14th Dec 2018
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New Loose Leaf Security series: Securing your laptop and desktop computers

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Dec 2018
Four more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about securing your laptop and desktop computers: Physical attacks to your computers and disk encryption Liz and Geoffrey are back with a look at physical computer security - just how much trouble could someone cause if...
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Eight years of organizing tech meetups This is a collection of random personal experiences. So if you don't want to read everything, feel...
4th Sep 2023
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Eight years of organizing tech meetups

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

4th Sep 2023
This is a collection of random personal experiences. So if you don't want to read everything, feel free to skip to the end for takeaways. I write because I'd like to see more high-quality meetups. And maybe my little bit of experience will help someone out. 2015: Philadelphia I...
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I’ve had enough! When access friction becomes an access barrier
19th Jan 2022
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I’ve had enough! When access friction becomes an access barrier

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

19th Jan 2022
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AI Homelab Part 1: I keep Daddy in the basement My AI homelab named Daddy
27th Apr 2026
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AI Homelab Part 1: I keep Daddy in the basement

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

27th Apr 2026
My AI homelab named Daddy
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Objectivity is superstition An objective, external world is a non-falsifiable assumption. The prevailing theory is that our...
17th Mar 2025
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Objectivity is superstition

from Daniel De Laney [alt+shift+b] in technology

17th Mar 2025
An objective, external world is a non-falsifiable assumption. The prevailing theory is that our subjective experiences correspond to an external reality. However, they may simply be subjective through and through. That which we claim to be evidence of external reality is actually...
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Axio.ms site refresh This is the obligatory “first post on new platform” post, coupled with a bit of “first post in 4...
28th May 2016
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Axio.ms site refresh

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

28th May 2016
This is the obligatory “first post on new platform” post, coupled with a bit of “first post in 4 years, I’m still alive”. The original axio.ms site was a very HTML1.0 affair and while this was kind of intentional-tongue-in-cheek-chic, it was also a PITA to update. It wasn’t...
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Direct Current Data Centers Casey Handmer, Matt Weickert Originally posted at the Terraform Blog. This post explains our current...
30th Jan 2026
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Direct Current Data Centers

from Casey Handmer's blog [alt+shift+b] in science

30th Jan 2026
Casey Handmer, Matt Weickert Originally posted at the Terraform Blog. This post explains our current views on how humanity will achieve Kardashev Level 1 status by exploiting the full energy resources of an entire planet. More specifically, how pure solar+batteries will power AI...
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Q-Codes; Or… Stop repeating yourself ⌨️ I use apple’s keyboard “text” shortcodes to setup a lot of things i have to type regularly. It’s...
26th Aug 2022
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Q-Codes; Or… Stop repeating yourself ⌨️

from Blog posts of Andreas Klinger [alt+shift+b] in startups

26th Aug 2022
I use apple’s keyboard “text” shortcodes to setup a lot of things i have to type regularly. It’s easily one of my favorite productivity hacks!
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Rudimentary 3D on the 2D HTML Canvas I’ve been working on a graphical web project that requires an interactive roll of a pair of dice....
29th Sep 2024
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Rudimentary 3D on the 2D HTML Canvas

from Charles Petzold [alt+shift+b] in programming

29th Sep 2024
I’ve been working on a graphical web project that requires an interactive roll of a pair of dice. Dice are cubes and would be most convincingly rendered with 3D graphics. But because these dice are only a tiny part of this project, I was reluctant to call out the big guns. I...
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Rattle Bag History, learning, screw-ups, and suitcase-packing
2nd Dec 2023
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Rattle Bag

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

2nd Dec 2023
History, learning, screw-ups, and suitcase-packing
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The Souls of Animals “They do not sweat and whine about their condition,” Walt Whitman wrote of the other animals, “they...
1st Mar 2025
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The Souls of Animals

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

1st Mar 2025
“They do not sweat and whine about their condition,” Walt Whitman wrote of the other animals, “they do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, they do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning...
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We may now know what kind of AI bubble this is Think railroads, not crypto. PLUS: The government can't decide what to do about Mythos, and week one...
1st May 2026
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We may now know what kind of AI bubble this is

from Platformer [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st May 2026
Think railroads, not crypto. PLUS: The government can't decide what to do about Mythos, and week one of the OpenAI-Elon Musk trial
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Financial Update: February 2023 <p>In January, I managed to pay myself $500 for the first time — from my Saas making —&nbsp;since...
1st Feb 2023
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Financial Update: February 2023

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

1st Feb 2023
<p>In January, I managed to pay myself $500 for the first time — from my Saas making —&nbsp;since setting sail on <a href="https://valsopi.com/setting-sail">my journey to financial freedom</a>.</p><p>The plan is to keep paying myself at least $500 each month going forward, hoping...
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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)...
18th Jul 2020
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The Life of Saint Pambo

from RhysTranter.com [alt+shift+b] in life

18th Jul 2020
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...
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Seeing the Matrix: A First-Principles Approach to Computer Architecture Building a mental model of computer architecture from first principles
5th Apr 2025
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Seeing the Matrix: A First-Principles Approach to Computer Architecture

from Confessions of a Code Addict [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Apr 2025
Building a mental model of computer architecture from first principles
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Why Visual Design Matters Visual Design often doesn't receive the respect it deserves among other disciplines such as UX,...
24th Jul 2023
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Why Visual Design Matters

from Oykun Yilmaz [alt+shift+b] in design

24th Jul 2023
Visual Design often doesn't receive the respect it deserves among other disciplines such as UX, Development, and so on. I have faced situations like: Devs have already started the development based on UX. Just spend a few hours adding colours, please. We do not need visual...
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We’ve Got a Science Opportunity Overload: It’s Time to Launch the Wolfram Institute! Suddenly There’s Just So Much New Science to Do Something remarkable has happened these past two...
6th Apr 2022
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We’ve Got a Science Opportunity Overload: It’s Time to Launch the Wolfram Institute!

from Stephen Wolfram Writings [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Apr 2022
Suddenly There’s Just So Much New Science to Do Something remarkable has happened these past two years. For 45 years I’ve devoted myself to building a taller and taller tower of science and technology—which along the way has delivered many outputs of which I’m quite proud. But...
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How Dogecoin changed my perspective on cryptocurrency
21st Dec 2013
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How Dogecoin changed my perspective on cryptocurrency

from Steve Klabnik [alt+shift+b] in programming

21st Dec 2013
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It needs to map back to a role One of the coolest things about being someone who creates digital products is sometimes you get to...
14th Mar 2022
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It needs to map back to a role

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

14th Mar 2022
One of the coolest things about being someone who creates digital products is sometimes you get to create experiences that have never existed before. The history of websites, web apps, and native apps is full of countless widgets that let you enter and manipulate content in new...
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May Day activation on island of Hailuoto May Day is celebrated on first of May.
4th May 2025
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May Day activation on island of Hailuoto

from OH8HUB’s Substack [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th May 2025
May Day is celebrated on first of May.
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The Power Broker, Chapter 30: Robert Moses and Mayor Vincent R. Impellitteri Note from Josh: The following is an excerpt of chapter 34 of the Power Broker, called “Moses and the...
5th Aug 2023
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The Power Broker, Chapter 30: Robert Moses and Mayor Vincent R. Impellitteri

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

5th Aug 2023
Note from Josh: The following is an excerpt of chapter 34 of the Power Broker, called “Moses and the Mayors”. The chapter is about Moses’ relationship with all of the mayors of NYC that overlapped with Moses’ “rule” over NYC. This excerpt covers just one of the mayors’ overlap...
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Coordination, Good and Bad
11th Sep 2020
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Coordination, Good and Bad

from Vitalik Buterin's website [alt+shift+b] in technology

11th Sep 2020
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Debugging iOS Safari (when all you have is a Mac) Debugging iOS Safari is a challenge (and possibly expensive) when you don't have access to an...
10th May 2022
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Debugging iOS Safari (when all you have is a Mac)

from Josh Collinsworth [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th May 2022
Debugging iOS Safari is a challenge (and possibly expensive) when you don't have access to an iPhone. Here are a few options to get around that problem.
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There’s no such thing as not a math person Many cultural factors, misconceptions, stereotypes, and obstacles turn people off to math.
15th Mar 2022
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There’s no such thing as not a math person

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

15th Mar 2022
Many cultural factors, misconceptions, stereotypes, and obstacles turn people off to math.
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What does Stack Overflow want to be when it grows up? I sometimes get asked by regular people in the actual real world what it is that I do for a living,...
22nd Oct 2018
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What does Stack Overflow want to be when it grows up?

from Coding Horror [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Oct 2018
I sometimes get asked by regular people in the actual real world what it is that I do for a living, and here's my 15 second answer: We built a sort of Wikipedia website for computer programmers to post questions and answers. It's called Stack Overflow
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Building a photography website Last year, I started a photography hobby. Soon after, I've created a place where I can share some of...
25th Oct 2023
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Building a photography website

from Darek Kay [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Oct 2023
Last year, I started a photography hobby. Soon after, I've created a place where I can share some of my work, without any attention-driven algorithms dictating the terms. Here's a technical write-up of my journey. Table of...
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There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm I’m a little late to the party, but I just finished the wonderfully imaginative There Is No...
3rd May 2024
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There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm

from ribbonfarm [alt+shift+b] in literature

3rd May 2024
I’m a little late to the party, but I just finished the wonderfully imaginative There Is No Antimemetics Division (2020) by qntm. The premise is that our world is full of things with antimemetic properties. An antimeme is “an idea with self-censoring properties; an idea which, by...
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Keras vs. PyTorch: Alien vs. Predator recognition with transfer learning
3rd Oct 2018
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Keras vs. PyTorch: Alien vs. Predator recognition with transfer learning

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

3rd Oct 2018
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The View from Here There are many reasons to make things and share them, to write and publish, to speak and record. So...
10th Sep 2023
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The View from Here

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

10th Sep 2023
There are many reasons to make things and share them, to write and publish, to speak and record. So many reasons, most unknown; far be it from me to make assumptions about other peoples’ motivations. But among them, amidst even the most altruistic, is the one that is most...
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Sleep is so weird Ian Dyball Our bodies are designed such that we need to lose consciousness, entirely, for a full...
5th Feb 2024
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Sleep is so weird

from Ryan Barrett [alt+shift+b] in startups

5th Feb 2024
Ian Dyball Our bodies are designed such that we need to lose consciousness, entirely, for a full third of every day. This is evidently necessary for some kind of regular brain maintenance, maybe forming long term memories, who knows what else. If we don’t sleep, we quickly become...
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My first weeks as dad Last Christmas my wife gave birth to our son, a little boy that would change everything! It's an...
23rd Jan 2019
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My first weeks as dad

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

23rd Jan 2019
Last Christmas my wife gave birth to our son, a little boy that would change everything! It's an incredible experience to become a parent, especially if it is your first kid. It introduces a whole new way of living, having to deal with regular feeding, caring and sleepless...
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Low Power Mode for Mac laptops: making the case again In light of today’s rumor that a Pro Mode may be coming that seems to offer benefits in the opposite...
14th Jan 2020
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Low Power Mode for Mac laptops: making the case again

from Marco.org [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Jan 2020
In light of today’s rumor that a Pro Mode may be coming that seems to offer benefits in the opposite direction,1 I wanted to re-make the case for a Low Power Mode on macOS — and explain why now is the time. Modern hardware constantly pushes thermal and power limits, trying to...
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Who is Paying for All of This? How are restaurant influencers actually making their money? Investigation by Stephen Buranyi....
3 weeks ago
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Who is Paying for All of This?

from Vittles [alt+shift+b] in life

3 weeks ago
How are restaurant influencers actually making their money? Investigation by Stephen Buranyi. Collage by Cold War Steve
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Debug like Feynman, test like Faraday
1st Apr 2022
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Debug like Feynman, test like Faraday

from MMapped blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Apr 2022
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2024 Healthcare Predictions, Out-Of-Pocket Style | Out-Of-Pocket I'm not a fortune teller, I'm a fortune, teller
12th Dec 2023
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2024 Healthcare Predictions, Out-Of-Pocket Style | Out-Of-Pocket

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

12th Dec 2023
I'm not a fortune teller, I'm a fortune, teller
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Happy New Year: a stereogram in SQL I'm spending this New Year holiday in sunny Florida. One of its most beautiful places is the...
31st Dec 2019
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Happy New Year: a stereogram in SQL

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

31st Dec 2019
I'm spending this New Year holiday in sunny Florida. One of its most beautiful places is the Everglades: the endless sea of grass, extending to the horizon, as far as the eye can see and beyond, and teeming with life. There are all kinds of animals there. Herons, egrets,...
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Weekly Backend #5: 55 Resources The inner workings of transformers, Machine Learning Q and AI, machine learning classifies harmful...
3rd May 2024
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Weekly Backend #5: 55 Resources

from Society's Backend: Machine Learning for Software Engineers [alt+shift+b] in AI

3rd May 2024
The inner workings of transformers, Machine Learning Q and AI, machine learning classifies harmful viruses, and more
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A fresh new start: Investing in myself towards financial freedom and sharing my personal and... <p> <i>This is the first of many updates in the <a...
1st Sep 2022
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A fresh new start: Investing in myself towards financial freedom and sharing my personal and business finances publicly!

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

1st Sep 2022
<p> <i>This is the first of many updates in the <a href="https://valsopi.com/financial-freedom">Financial Freedom</a> series, where I hold&nbsp;myself publicly accountable for my big challenge ahead!</i> </p> <p> <i><b>TLDR:</b>&nbsp;Towards the end of this article,...
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The Symmetry That Makes Solving Math Equations Easy Learn why the quadratic formula works and why quadratics are easier to solve than cubics. ...
24th Mar 2023
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The Symmetry That Makes Solving Math Equations Easy

from Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

24th Mar 2023
Learn why the quadratic formula works and why quadratics are easier to solve than cubics. The post The Symmetry That Makes Solving Math Equations Easy first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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The shape of the multipolar world is a little clearer A few thoughts on the new Iran war.
1st Mar 2026
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The shape of the multipolar world is a little clearer

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Mar 2026
A few thoughts on the new Iran war.
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Pivoting into a new corporate structure This hasn’t happened to me, but I keep hearing stories about situations like the following: 1)...
1st Aug 2011
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Pivoting into a new corporate structure

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Aug 2011
This hasn’t happened to me, but I keep hearing stories about situations like the following: 1) startup raises a seed financing round while…
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End-to-end tool testing with Bazel and shtk If you use Bazel, your project is of a moderate size. And because your project is of a moderate...
4th Nov 2023
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End-to-end tool testing with Bazel and shtk

from Blog System/5 [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Nov 2023
If you use Bazel, your project is of a moderate size. And because your project is of a moderate size, it almost-certainly builds one or more binaries, at least one of which is a CLI tool. But let’s face it: you don’t have end-to-end testing for those tools, do you?
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How China sees the world — and plans to respond Insights drawn directly from newly released internal-style guides written by China’s top...
7th Nov 2025
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How China sees the world — and plans to respond

from Beijing Scroll [alt+shift+b] in history

7th Nov 2025
Insights drawn directly from newly released internal-style guides written by China’s top policymakers.
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Intel's Inboard 386/PC Welcome to the 1990s.
15th Oct 2024
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Intel's Inboard 386/PC

from Computer Ads from the Past [alt+shift+b] in technology

15th Oct 2024
Welcome to the 1990s.
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The indigenous versus foreign origins of West Africa’s pre-colonial architecture. Architecture is an aspect of culture that mediates between man and his environment, and it has been...
6th Jul 2025
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The indigenous versus foreign origins of West Africa’s pre-colonial architecture.

from African History Extra [alt+shift+b] in history

6th Jul 2025
Architecture is an aspect of culture that mediates between man and his environment, and it has been one of the first of the arts to adopt new materials and techniques.
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Free Things Are Complicated (Especially the Sphere Spectrum!) I’ve spent the last week at CT2025, which has just come to a close. It was great getting to see so...
20th Jul 2025
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Free Things Are Complicated (Especially the Sphere Spectrum!)

from Chris Grossack's Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

20th Jul 2025
I’ve spent the last week at CT2025, which has just come to a close. It was great getting to see so many old friends and meet so many new ones, and every time I go to a CT I’m reminded of just how much category theory there is in the world, as well as just how much I enjoy all...
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It’s 2026: Time for a Comprehensive Plan for New York City Mayor Mamdani has the opportunity to finally provide a planning vision that supports residents and...
5th Jan 2026
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It’s 2026: Time for a Comprehensive Plan for New York City

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

5th Jan 2026
Mayor Mamdani has the opportunity to finally provide a planning vision that supports residents and social value instead of the real estate industry.
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For-Profit Academic Publishers Love LLM Garbage Against For-Profit "Open Access"
4th Apr 2026
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For-Profit Academic Publishers Love LLM Garbage

from Never Met a Science [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Apr 2026
Against For-Profit "Open Access"
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What a startup does to you. Or: A celebration of new life A startup is a crucible -- a fiery place that tests your limits, not by probing them but by...
7th May 2023
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What a startup does to you. Or: A celebration of new life

from A Smart Bear [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th May 2023
A startup is a crucible -- a fiery place that tests your limits, not by probing them but by violently exceeding them, all of the time. It's worth it.
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Dinosaur pie! I wanted to make a special pie for my amazing boyfriend, Matt, on his birthday a month ago....
30th Mar 2015
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Dinosaur pie!

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

30th Mar 2015
I wanted to make a special pie for my amazing boyfriend, Matt, on his birthday a month ago. Naturally, I decided to make an apple pie because he likes apple pie and because I can make a mean apple pie with fresh ground cinnamon and a small amount of pre-cooking the apples on the...
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Internet Harvest (2020, 3) Repairs, number stations, the only good Twitters, a low-key infohazard about pictures of...
18th Sep 2020
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Internet Harvest (2020, 3)

from Eukaryote Writes Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

18th Sep 2020
Repairs, number stations, the only good Twitters, a low-key infohazard about pictures of butterflies, and more.
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Let the world dawn on you (influences pt. 2) I know the houses too. As I walk along they seem to run forward in the streets to look out at me...
7th Oct 2023
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Let the world dawn on you (influences pt. 2)

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

7th Oct 2023
I know the houses too. As I walk along they seem to run forward in the streets to look out at me from every window, and almost to say: "Good-morning! How do you do? I am quite well, thank God, and I am to have a new storey in May," or, "How are you? I am being redecorated...
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Start reading the AI Snake Oil book online The book will be published on September 24
10th Sep 2024
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Start reading the AI Snake Oil book online

from AI as Normal Technology [alt+shift+b] in AI

10th Sep 2024
The book will be published on September 24
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How Apple and Google Are Taking Over the In-Car User Experience Ever since the introduction of the iPhone and Apple App Store in 2007 and 2008, our digital lives...
1st Dec 2022
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How Apple and Google Are Taking Over the In-Car User Experience

from The Turn Signal RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in design

1st Dec 2022
Ever since the introduction of the iPhone and Apple App Store in 2007 and 2008, our digital lives center around apps. These are available…
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Delight comes last Paul Adams put it bluntly: “Grid, font, colour, and aesthetic style are irrelevant if [outcomes]...
23rd Jun 2019
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Delight comes last

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

23rd Jun 2019
Paul Adams put it bluntly: “Grid, font, colour, and aesthetic style are irrelevant if [outcomes] haven’t been resolved first … [but] sometimes it’s just more fun to draw nice pictures and bury oneself in pixels than deal with complicated business decisions and people with...
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Sierpiński triangle? In my bitwise AND? Exploring a peculiar bit-twiddling hack at the intersection of 1980s geek sensibilities.
10th May 2025
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Sierpiński triangle? In my bitwise AND?

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

10th May 2025
Exploring a peculiar bit-twiddling hack at the intersection of 1980s geek sensibilities.
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Paul Saffo: The Creator Economy ### The Creator Economy Media innovations drive economic shifts, Saffo began. “We invent new...
1st Apr 2015
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Paul Saffo: The Creator Economy

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

1st Apr 2015
### The Creator Economy Media innovations drive economic shifts, Saffo began. “We invent new technology and then use it to reinvent ourselves.” 1\. The Industrial/producer Economy. At the beginning of the 20th century the leading scarcity was _stuff_ , and so manufacture was...
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Obfuscation (Part III): Local Mixing
21st Aug 2026
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Obfuscation (Part III): Local Mixing

from Vitalik Buterin's website [alt+shift+b] in technology

21st Aug 2026
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JOB - A theatrical review A Broadway play about Content Moderation
1st Nov 2024
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JOB - A theatrical review

from Infinite Scroll [alt+shift+b] in creative

1st Nov 2024
A Broadway play about Content Moderation
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Quiet People in Meetings Are Incredible Knowing when not to talk is an art.
3rd Dec 2024
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Quiet People in Meetings Are Incredible

from Unfiltered by Tim Denning [alt+shift+b] in life

3rd Dec 2024
Knowing when not to talk is an art.
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Nix Windows Feedback There turns out to be a far easier way to disable the 'Win+F' Windows Feedback app.
11th Oct 2020
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Nix Windows Feedback

from Opsbros [alt+shift+b] in technology

11th Oct 2020
There turns out to be a far easier way to disable the 'Win+F' Windows Feedback app.
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AI enhanced search LLMs are good search helpers. Here’s three search tools I use every day. All of these use an AI to...
20th Sep 2024
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AI enhanced search

from Nelson's Weblog [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Sep 2024
LLMs are good search helpers. Here’s three search tools I use every day. All of these use an AI to synthesize answers but also provide an essential feature: specific web search results for you to verify and further research. I use these for conversational inquiries in addition...
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OnlineOrNot Diaries 2 In which I ship a CLI (for real this time), and improve a few things
3rd Mar 2023
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OnlineOrNot Diaries 2

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

3rd Mar 2023
In which I ship a CLI (for real this time), and improve a few things
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Clean your Mac &#038; Windows/Linux PC with Disk Space TLDR: Download the best disk cleanup app in existence from diskspace.io. A fun experiment in writing...
3 weeks ago
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Clean your Mac &#038; Windows/Linux PC with Disk Space

from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming

3 weeks ago
TLDR: Download the best disk cleanup app in existence from diskspace.io. A fun experiment in writing the same app three times (well kind of 4 times) with AI, and being as optimised and OS native as possible. My Mac recently filled its 1TB drive and my quest to find out where the...
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Cowboy Bebop (2021) This was neither as bad as I thought it could be nor as good as I hoped it might be. The vast...
1st Jan 2022
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Cowboy Bebop (2021)

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Jan 2022
This was neither as bad as I thought it could be nor as good as I hoped it might be. The vast majority of the blame I think has to go towards the scriptwriting, which has a Joss Whedon-esque self-referentiality to it that completely undermines the philosophy of the original and,...
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Wandering Space Rocks Help Solve Mysteries of Planet Formation After an interstellar asteroid shot past the sun, scientists realized that there’s probably a lot of...
2nd Jul 2020
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Wandering Space Rocks Help Solve Mysteries of Planet Formation

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

2nd Jul 2020
After an interstellar asteroid shot past the sun, scientists realized that there’s probably a lot of itinerant rocks out there. The post Wandering Space Rocks Help Solve Mysteries of Planet Formation first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Champ Designed by Jesús López, Hermosillo, Mexico.
29th Apr 2024
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Champ

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

29th Apr 2024
Designed by Jesús López, Hermosillo, Mexico.
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Teardown of the TM4313 GPS Disciplined Oscillator Introduction What is a GPSDO? The TM4313 GPSDO Power Consumption Inside the TM4313 The TM4313...
9th Jul 2023
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Teardown of the TM4313 GPS Disciplined Oscillator

from Electronics etc… [alt+shift+b] in technology

9th Jul 2023
Introduction What is a GPSDO? The TM4313 GPSDO Power Consumption Inside the TM4313 The TM4313 Schematic Frequency or Phase Lock Loop? OCXO Temperature The Curious Case of the MAX6192 Voltage Reference The Discrete Tuning DAC GPS Module Microcontroller instead of NMEA Serial...
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The Upside Down: 4 lessons about the workspace Laetitia@Work #89
4th Dec 2025
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The Upside Down: 4 lessons about the workspace

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

4th Dec 2025
Laetitia@Work #89
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