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TheCollector
Who Was Hilma af Klint? 7 Facts About the Pioneer of Abstract Art undefined
5 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the History of the Piggy Bank? (Curious Origins) undefined
a month ago
The Turn Signal RSS...
Mercedes vs Lucid: Different Views on Luxury UI Design With each launch of a Mercedes S-Class, the whole automotive world watches. It is a prelude to the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
With each launch of a Mercedes S-Class, the whole automotive world watches. It is a prelude to the technologies that will be the industry…
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg On the Spot: Lori D. Ginzberg JamesHoare Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:30
4 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Forecast Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: That's the official International Sign system...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: That's the official International Sign system imagine for in-the-butt. Today's News:
Londonist
A Tim Burton Exhibition Is Coming To The Design Museum In 2024 Illustrator, painter, photographer, author - what doesn't he do?
a year ago
Neil Panchal
Overkill Objects for Everyday Life I routinely make a fool of myself when I tell friends I want a Martin Baker ejection seat as a chair...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I routinely make a fool of myself when I tell friends I want a Martin Baker ejection seat as a chair in my living room. Of course, with the pyrotechnic charge removed. Seriously, I would totally buy it if it weren't $5,000 on eBay and I'
TheCollector
10 Things to Do in London if You Love History undefined
a month ago
David Heinemeier...
Tesla wins When we first got our Tesla Model X four years ago, I wasn't the biggest fan. Build quality was...
a year ago
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a year ago
When we first got our Tesla Model X four years ago, I wasn't the biggest fan. Build quality was spotty, brakes didn't match the performance, and handling was at best so-so. But it could carry seven, including luggage, was electric, and the dual-motor acceleration was a hoot. So...
Math Is Still...
Can Information Escape a Black Hole? Black holes are inescapable traps for most of what falls into them — but there can be exceptions....
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8 months ago
Black holes are inescapable traps for most of what falls into them — but there can be exceptions. The theoretical physicist Leonard Susskind speaks with co-host Janna Levin about the black hole information paradox and how it has propelled modern physics. The post Can...
Tech and Tea
Space to do whatever, at work why it's important to make space for not-the-highest-priority things at your job
a year ago
Wanderingspace
Cassini’s Final Look at Enceladus Taken on August 28, 2017. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute This is from images...
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over a year ago
Taken on August 28, 2017. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute This is from images obtained by Cassini shortly before plunging into the Saturnian atmosphere. The images were taken over 14 hours and compiled into this animation.
Retail Design Blog
Boosty Dog by Péter Molnár Boosty Dog is a 100% natural herbal blend for dogs, formulated by a canine herbalist. These...
a month ago
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a month ago
Boosty Dog is a 100% natural herbal blend for dogs, formulated by a canine herbalist. These specialized medicinal products are...
Spoon & Tamago
A New Brewery in Yobuko Wants to Revive the Former Whaling Town Photos by Hiroshi Mizusaki courtesy Case-Real Architects The Town of Yobuko, located at the tip of...
a year ago
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a year ago
Photos by Hiroshi Mizusaki courtesy Case-Real Architects The Town of Yobuko, located at the tip of North-Western Kyushu, is named after the migratory path that whales swam. Beginning in the 1700s, Yobuko prospered as a whaling town, birthing the idiom, a single whale flourishes...
The American Scholar
Numbers Game A novelist’s indictment of how we account for our history The post Numbers Game appeared first on...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
A novelist’s indictment of how we account for our history The post Numbers Game appeared first on The American Scholar.
Paul Graham: Essays
Why Arc Isn't Especially Object-Oriented
over a year ago
Dan Quach Blog
Software Estimations Using Reference Class Forecasting 18 years ago I’m sitting in my cubicle doing Java programming, and my tech lead comes up to me to...
a year ago
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a year ago
18 years ago I’m sitting in my cubicle doing Java programming, and my tech lead comes up to me to chat about my next project. We discuss the details, and then she asks me the dreaded questions programmers fear which is “how long will it take?”. I stumble with some guestimate...
Paul Graham: Essays
The Need to Read
over a year ago
Strange Loop Canon
Life in India is a series of bilateral negotiations finding the new equilibrium for the next superpower
2 months ago
Londonist
How To Spend A (Relatively Cheap) Weekend In Florence We did say relatively.
a year ago
TokyoDev
Web Accessibility in Japan: What Developers Need to Know Many people with disabilities use assistive technology, which allows them to access websites in ways...
a year ago
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a year ago
Many people with disabilities use assistive technology, which allows them to access websites in ways different from most people. People who are blind, for example, use screen readers to convert website content into audio. Some use braille displays. There are also people who use...
xkcd.com
Haunted House
a year ago
History Today Feed
How to Revive Wassailing How to Revive Wassailing j.hoare Wed, 01/03/2024 - 09:24
11 months ago
TheCollector
Continental vs Analytic Philosophy: Definitions & Differences undefined
3 months ago
The Honest Broker
What Happened to My Search Engine? Or why tech upgrades are now mostly downgrades
11 months ago
Old Structures...
Born In The Bronx The central dome of the US Capitol on May 9, 1861: There was a certain symbolism to its incomplete...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
The central dome of the US Capitol on May 9, 1861: There was a certain symbolism to its incomplete state given that the Civil War had begun the previous month, but that was a coincidence. The replacement of the original wooden dome had been planned for some time. The old dome was...
Retail Design Blog
La Pastisseria Barcelona – DIEDRIC DESIGN In the centre of Barcelona is where we find La Pastisseria, owned by Josep Maria Rodríguez Guerola,...
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a month ago
In the centre of Barcelona is where we find La Pastisseria, owned by Josep Maria Rodríguez Guerola, Master Artisan and...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Pensieve: 11 Mar 2024 - AI Lifestory app back to my personal weight lows!
9 months ago
Open Culture
Bringing Tsarist Russia to Life: Vivid Color Images from 1905–1915 History escapes us. Events that changed the world forever, or should have, slide out of collective...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
History escapes us. Events that changed the world forever, or should have, slide out of collective memory. If we’re pointing fingers, we might point at educational systems that fail to educate, or at huge historical blind spots in mass media. Maybe another reason the recent past...
Patrick Kayongo
A New Dog “What are you doing now?” Sabelo asked Zoleka as she was taking a video of every part of their...
a year ago
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a year ago
“What are you doing now?” Sabelo asked Zoleka as she was taking a video of every part of their living room with her phone. He was growing tired of her ever-new discoveries and project ideas, and he didn’t know if he had the energy to stomach this new one. But she was too busy...
Map of the Week
30 Day Map Challenge 2023 Days 3 9 Here’s what I’ve been working on for the past week’s 30 Day Map Challenges with the prompts...
a year ago
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a year ago
Here’s what I’ve been working on for the past week’s 30 Day Map Challenges with the prompts listed. Day 3 - Polygons This is not exactly a hand made map, more having fun with cutting boards. My wife gave me the Pennsylvania board a few years ago and I used it in the 2021...
Julia Evans
Importing a frontend Javascript library without a build system I like writing Javascript without a build system and for the millionth time yesterday I ran into a...
a month ago
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a month ago
I like writing Javascript without a build system and for the millionth time yesterday I ran into a problem where I needed to figure out how to import a Javascript library in my code without using a build system, and it took FOREVER to figure out how to import it because...
The Modern House
Claudia Donaldson: in residence with the pioneering editor and creative director Claudia Donaldson was the photography director at Wallpaper magazine, before becoming...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Claudia Donaldson was the photography director at Wallpaper magazine, before becoming editor-in-chief of Nowness, the video platform that revolutionised the way we consume arts and culture. Under her stewardship, it is now considered a go-to source of inspiration and influence,...
Old Structures...
Baseball in New York 3 After Tuesday’s description of teams, and yesterday’s discussion of some of the ball fields in...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
After Tuesday’s description of teams, and yesterday’s discussion of some of the ball fields in Brooklyn, it’s time for stadiums in Manhattan. Like yesterday, this is not an exhaustive list, just some of the interesting highlights…excluding the more famous major league fields. All...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
How to replace useState with useRef and be a winner React state is the bread and butter of a react app — it's what makes your app dynamic. React state...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
React state is the bread and butter of a react app — it's what makes your app dynamic. React state lives in useState, useReducer or in this.state of a class component, and changing it updates your app. But then there's a vast ocean of state not managed by React. This includes...
The Marginalian
May Sarton on How to Cultivate Your Talent "A talent grows by being used, and withers if it is not used."
a year ago
The Turn Signal RSS...
Mixed Reality: The Future of Automotive UX Prototyping My dream scenario is one where I can send my prototypes remotely to my car's infotainment system and...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
My dream scenario is one where I can send my prototypes remotely to my car's infotainment system and try them while driving. Unfortunately,…
nanoscale views
The future of the semiconductor industry, + The Mechanical Universe Three items of interest: This article is a nice review of present semiconductor memory...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Three items of interest: This article is a nice review of present semiconductor memory technology.  The electron micrographs in Fig. 1 and the scaling history in Fig. 3 are impressive. This article in IEEE Spectrum is a very interesting look at how some people think we will get...
Tech + Economics +...
TikTok is revolutionizing news consumption - by eroding context. The metamorphosis of news consumption is undeniable. TikTok, rising from the ashes of Vine and the...
a year ago
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a year ago
The metamorphosis of news consumption is undeniable. TikTok, rising from the ashes of Vine and the gradual decline of Instagram, captivated a new generation, becoming a primary news source for many. This seismic shift towards snackable, viral news content brings a host of...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Bad Ways to Get Data In working on my [Sapper export library](https://www.npmjs.com/package/ssg), I ran into a very...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In working on my [Sapper export library](https://www.npmjs.com/package/ssg), I ran into a very peculiar problem: my pages were being generated a lot more slowly than expected:
The Marginalian
How to Befriend Time: The Gospel of Pete Seeger and Nina Simone "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven."
a year ago
Dominik Sobe's...
Launching ProductFlair
over a year ago
orlp.net - Blog...
Extracting and Depositing Bits Suppose you have a 64-bit word and wish to extract a couple bits from it. For example you just...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Suppose you have a 64-bit word and wish to extract a couple bits from it. For example you just performed a SWAR algorithm and wish to extract the least significant bit of each byte in the u64. This is simple enough, you simply perform a binary AND with a mask of the bits you wish...
Blog - Practical...
Why Bridges Don't Sink [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] The essence of a bridge is not...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] The essence of a bridge is not just that it goes over something, but that there’s clear space underneath for a river, railway, or road. Maybe this is already obvious to you, but bridges present a unique...
TheCollector
When Was the Battle of Little Bighorn? undefined
3 months ago
Sean Carroll
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe | 24. Science For the triumphant final video in the Biggest Ideas series, we look at a big idea indeed: Science....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
For the triumphant final video in the Biggest Ideas series, we look at a big idea indeed: Science. What is science, and why is it so great? And I also take the opportunity to dip a toe into the current state of fundamental physics — are predictions that unobservable universes...
Retail Design Blog
Wilson Dow Offices by Partners by Design Partners by Design‘s design for Wilson Dow’s Chicago office elevates the space with theatrical...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Partners by Design‘s design for Wilson Dow’s Chicago office elevates the space with theatrical flair, innovative lighting, cozy elements, and...
The Ruffian
The Ad That Radicalised Me Britain's Assisted Dying Debate
3 weeks ago
macwright.com
The one about AI Like everyone, I’ve been thinking about AI. It’s already useful, in a way that the previous big...
a year ago
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a year ago
Like everyone, I’ve been thinking about AI. It’s already useful, in a way that the previous big thing, crypto, wasn’t. I don’t think it’ll become generalized AI - I think the AI winter cycle is the base case and human-like intelligence is qualitatively different than LLM, no...
Old Structures...
Ephemeral Elephant I mentioned the Colossus of Coney Island once before, but it’s time to expand on that a bit. (The...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
I mentioned the Colossus of Coney Island once before, but it’s time to expand on that a bit. (The fact that I mentioned this building three and a half years ago and did not remember having done so until I searched for it makes me wonder if I’ve written too many blog posts.)...
Stoic Simple
What Is Stoicism, Basically? A Comprehensive Overview https://youtu.be/xHCIPz5tGYI Stoicism is a philosophy that has been around for over two thousand...
a year ago
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a year ago
https://youtu.be/xHCIPz5tGYI Stoicism is a philosophy that has been around for over two thousand years. The ancient Greeks developed it as a way to live a good life, free from the distractions of emotions, desires, and material possessions. Stoicism has been embraced by many...
Luxagraf:...
Drive My Car After last summer's sprint north, we swore we'd never try to move that fast again. We are heading...
a year ago
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a year ago
After last summer's sprint north, we swore we'd never try to move that fast again. We are heading back down south for the winter, but we're going to take months to get there. We're going to wander, at a leisurely pace, stopping frequently, the way we traveled when we first set...
TheCollector
Reclaiming Medusa: How Did She Become a Symbol of Female Empowerment? undefined
3 weeks ago
ntietz.com blog
Using git mailmap when names change (or you mess up your email) People change their names for all sorts of reasons. They get married, they transition, or they just...
a year ago
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a year ago
People change their names for all sorts of reasons. They get married, they transition, or they just decide a different name better suits them. When this happens, things break. Recently I talked about how email address changes break things. Today it's how to fix this issue with...
Noahpinion
Some thoughts on where the war in Ukraine is headed And some perspective on what's happened already.
a year ago
Marco.org
The future of the App Store After the dust settles from the developer class-action settlement, the South Korean law, the JFTC...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
After the dust settles from the developer class-action settlement, the South Korean law, the JFTC announcement, and the Apple v. Epic decision, I think the most likely long-term outcome isn’t very different from the status quo — and that’s a good thing. Allowing external...
Old Structures...
The Main Attraction Hasn’t Changed From one of the New York Public Library’s scrapbooks, a view north from Park Avenue and 41st Street...
a month ago
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a month ago
From one of the New York Public Library’s scrapbooks, a view north from Park Avenue and 41st Street in 1920: The focal point of such a view is, of course, Grand Central Terminal. The big vacant lot, protected only by an easily-hopped fence, was the former site of the 1860s Grand...
Matt Blewitt
Death, and Utsuge This post discusses topics some may wish to avoid: terminal illness, hospice care, death, and...
a month ago
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a month ago
This post discusses topics some may wish to avoid: terminal illness, hospice care, death, and Japanese visual novels.
Josh Comeau's blog
The Undeniable Utility Of CSS :has Of all the latest and greatest CSS features, the “:has” pseudo-class wasn’t exactly at the top of my...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Of all the latest and greatest CSS features, the “:has” pseudo-class wasn’t exactly at the top of my wishlist. Once I started using it, however, I kept discovering incredible things I could do with it. It’s now become a core part of my toolkit! In this blog post, I'll show you...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
I Don’t Like The Term “IC” Either I really liked Robin’s piece, “Stop calling yourself an IC”. I still remember the way I felt the...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
I really liked Robin’s piece, “Stop calling yourself an IC”. I still remember the way I felt the first time I heard that term. It was used in a way where its connotations conveyed a kind of laziness via lack of ambition. And I thought, “But wait, I am an individual contributor —...
Ken Shirriff's blog
The Pentium as a Navajo weaving Hurrying through the National Gallery of Art five minutes before closing, I passed a Navajo weaving...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Hurrying through the National Gallery of Art five minutes before closing, I passed a Navajo weaving with a complex abstract pattern. Suddenly, I realized the pattern was strangely familiar, so I stopped and looked closely. The design turned out to be an image of Intel's Pentium...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Working a Thing Out' Long ago an editor urged me never to assume I knew what readers were thinking or what they wanted....
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Long ago an editor urged me never to assume I knew what readers were thinking or what they wanted. It’s presumptuous to do so. Mind-reading quickly turns into seeking approval from readers and sucking up to them. Be clear, don’t condescend, respect the reader’s intelligence....
The Pragmatic...
Will Facebook / Meta do engineering layoffs? Will Meta do layoffs? This is the question on everyone’s mind who I talked with at Meta. I outline...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Will Meta do layoffs? This is the question on everyone’s mind who I talked with at Meta. I outline possible options and give my opinion on the likelihood of layoffs in the coming months.
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 29, 2023 (On Academic Hiring) Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman...
a year ago
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a year ago
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman Republic – a discussion of Roman courts and the legal system – but academic job season is upon us and I needed to take a week to focus on getting some of those applications out. …...
diamond geezer
Bow Roundabout update #11 Major road works at the Bow Roundabout continue. They might even be halfway through, depending on...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
Major road works at the Bow Roundabout continue. They might even be halfway through, depending on when you think the start and finish dates are. new sliproad underneath the flyover is nearing completion. This'll carry westbound traffic from the contraflow lane on Stratford High...
Steve Klabnik
More rstat.us refactoring
over a year ago
TheCollector
8 Spots for Exploring Indigenous Art in the American Southwest undefined
8 months ago
Noahpinion
Where China is beating the world On high-speed rail, EVs, and solar, China is doing truly amazing things.
a year ago
The American Scholar
To Catch a Sunset Reflections on allergies, anxieties, and the limits of familial love The post To Catch a Sunset...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Reflections on allergies, anxieties, and the limits of familial love The post To Catch a Sunset appeared first on The American Scholar.
TheCollector
Hecate vs. Persephone: What’s the Difference? undefined
a year ago
Retail Design Blog
MAAP LaB Hong Kong Since Jarrad Smith and Ollie Cousins founded MAAP a decade ago, the tech performance wear brand –...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
Since Jarrad Smith and Ollie Cousins founded MAAP a decade ago, the tech performance wear brand – geared specifically towards...
TheCollector
10 Interesting Facts About Arthur Miller undefined
5 months ago
Diaries of Note
The virus has displaced me British filmmaker and artist Derek Jarman paid £32,000 for Prospect Cottage, a humble fisherman’s...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
British filmmaker and artist Derek Jarman paid £32,000 for Prospect Cottage, a humble fisherman’s shack perched on the stark yet striking shingle beach of Dungeness, Kent. In 1986, following his diagnosis with HIV, Jarman found solace and creative refuge in this secluded spot—its...
Anecdotal Evidence
'They Fluttered Around Like Blue Snowflakes' As a former newspaper reporter I regularly read three hard-copy newspapers: The Leader, a...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
As a former newspaper reporter I regularly read three hard-copy newspapers: The Leader, a neighborhood weekly here in Houston; the weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal; and County Highway. That’s down from thirty years ago when I read seven or eight papers every day (like a...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Make your own Dev.to CMS livestream - Part 3 This is day 3 of my livecode Dev.to CMS.
over a year ago
Retail Design Blog
Zoom Experience Centre and Offices by Unispace and Downstream Zoom Video Communications in partnership with Unispace and Downstream, created an innovative London...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Zoom Video Communications in partnership with Unispace and Downstream, created an innovative London office showcasing cutting-edge technology, including a Next-Generation...
Escaping Flatland
Without looking it up, what do you think? + links
2 months ago
xkcd.com
Space Typography
a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Easy Custom Radio Inputs Easy Custom Radio Inputs 2019-01-21 Default radio inputs are notoriously horrible looking and are...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Easy Custom Radio Inputs 2019-01-21 Default radio inputs are notoriously horrible looking and are something designers tend to over-think when trying to customize them. Let’s walk through how to create custom radio buttons with pure CSS, while still preserving performance and...
diamond geezer
Dangleway Week (1) Danglewatch (2) Art on the Dangleway The Line, a meridian-based public art walk (which doesn't truly...
a year ago
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a year ago
Danglewatch (2) Art on the Dangleway The Line, a meridian-based public art walk (which doesn't truly follow the meridian but it makes for a good name). Squatting on a small pontoon beside the northern terminal is the quirky sculpture Bird Boy by Laura Ford, a figure of a lost...
Atoms vs Bits
Alien Intelligence Housecats give us the most realistic insight to what it would be like to encounter space aliens.
a year ago
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a year ago
Housecats give us the most realistic insight to what it would be like to encounter space aliens.
TheCollector
What Is Solipsism? undefined
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Stare Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I expect this comic to be amusing until roughly...
2 months ago
History Today Feed
The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine JamesHoare Wed, 03/20/2024 - 10:20
9 months ago
Christopher Butler
object – Cylinder Lamp Twenty years ago, I needed a lamp. So I made this one. In the spring of 2003, I graduated from...
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a year ago
Twenty years ago, I needed a lamp. So I made this one. In the spring of 2003, I graduated from college and moved in to my first apartment. After my housemate and I had moved all our things in, I made a list of the things I needed. a bed a desk a lamp I had lived in...
AFAR Media - Travel...
4 Kessler Collection Hotels with Art in the Southern U.S.
4 months ago
Louwrentius
How to escape file names in bash shell scripts After fighting with Bash for quite some time, I found out that the following code provides a nice...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
After fighting with Bash for quite some time, I found out that the following code provides a nice basis for escaping special characters. Ofcource it is not complete, but the most important characters are filtered. If anybody has a better solution, please let me know. It works and...
The Modern House
Architect Ben Ridley on life in his low-energy house in Muswell Hill
a year ago
Londonist
Hello Brain! At The Crick Probes Secrets Of The Mind... With Knitting See the latest brain research while you wait for a train.
9 months ago
diamond geezer
Unblogged March (true) 31 unblogged things I did in March (true version) Fri 1: I can't believe another constituency has...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
31 unblogged things I did in March (true version) Fri 1: I can't believe another constituency has elected George Galloway as its MP (actually I can, mine once did, because politics repeatedly proves you can fool enough of the people some of the time). Sat 2: Yes I watched the...
NeuroLogica Blog
Are Animals Conscious? This is a great scientific question because it challenges how we ask and answer scientific...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
This is a great scientific question because it challenges how we ask and answer scientific questions. Are animals conscious? This is a question discussed in a recent BBC article that peaked my interest. They eventually get to a question that they should have opened with – how do...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Time Is Tight' My brother is dying as he lived – stubbornly. He has been in hospice for two weeks and is...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
My brother is dying as he lived – stubbornly. He has been in hospice for two weeks and is failing incrementally. On Monday we were swapping memories and he stopped talking on Tuesday, the same day he stopped eating. He lies on his back on the hospice bed, mouth open, eyes staring...
Common Edge
How Might We Talk About the Shoreline of San Francisco? Bay Lexicon continues Jane Wolff’s exploration of landscapes and how finding a common language can...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Bay Lexicon continues Jane Wolff’s exploration of landscapes and how finding a common language can enable better conversations about them.
Old Structures...
One Pitfall Avoided I’m not entirely sure what this proposed law would mean in practice: existing data at the Department...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
I’m not entirely sure what this proposed law would mean in practice: existing data at the Department of Buildings will be examined to identify which buildings are considered to be high risk, and the usual DoB actions – violations, etc. – will start from there. It all depends on...
Seth's Blog
The best possible use I walked by a psychic’s storefront studio. The window said that this person had been reading palms...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
I walked by a psychic’s storefront studio. The window said that this person had been reading palms and predicting the future since 1989. It was a large space on a vibrant New York City corner. The rent must be astronomical. Or else the purveyor owns the building. Given that this...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Technical Community Builder is the Hottest New Job in Tech What if the real product was the friends we made along the way?
over a year ago
Christopher Butler
Less Doesn't Have to Be More. It Can Just Be Less. How much is enough? So much of what we design assumes that either the question has not been answered...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
How much is enough? So much of what we design assumes that either the question has not been answered or has no answer at all. This must change. we can do more with less, but not so when our audience does less with our more. Yes, it’s impressive when we can create something...
Calculated Risk
FDIC: Number of Problem Banks Increased Slightly in Q3 2024 The FDIC released the Quarterly Banking Profile for Q3 2024: The Industry’s Net Income Decreased...
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a week ago
The FDIC released the Quarterly Banking Profile for Q3 2024: The Industry’s Net Income Decreased From the Prior Quarter, Driven by One-Time Items Asset Quality Metrics Remained Generally Favorable, Though Weakness in Certain Portfolios Persists the industry reported the largest...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Early experience with Medley on the Raspberry Pi 400 <![CDATA[Medley is the first Lisp system I experimented with on my new Raspberry Pi 400, here is the...
a year ago
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a year ago
<![CDATA[Medley is the first Lisp system I experimented with on my new Raspberry Pi 400, here is the AArch64 version on the Raspberry Pi OS desktop: SDL version of Medley Interlisp on a Raspberry Pi 400 under Raspberry Pi OS. The online version of Medley runs well and smoothly...
Common Edge
Buildings, Communities, Cities: Things Fall Apart If the detached house is “The American Dream,” do we need a new dream?
a year ago
The Elysian
The unbearable necessity of being online On loving and loathing the internet as an artist and why we need to be here anyway.
8 months ago
👋 Hello, I'm...
How to get (micro) acquired?
a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
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April is the kindest and cruelest month.  Think of the births: George Herbert (April 3, 1593), Shakespeare (April 23, 1564), Henry Vaughan (April 17, 1621), Daniel Defoe (April 24, 1731), Edward Gibbon (April 27, 1737), William Hazlitt (April 10, 1778), Anthony Trollope (April...
Moneyness
There are now two types of PayPal dollars, and one is better than the other PayPal now offers its customers two types of U.S. dollars. In addition to having the option of...
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PayPal now offers its customers two types of U.S. dollars. In addition to having the option of opening a traditional PayPal account to maintain a balance of dollars, PayPal customers can now hold something new called PayPal USD, a crypto version of a dollar. Whereas PayPal USD...
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On Case Studies "What is a case study?" you might be asking, or maybe, "Is it different than a monograph?" Although...
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"What is a case study?" you might be asking, or maybe, "Is it different than a monograph?" Although the word monograph literally applies to any book devoted to any individual subject — be it a person, a place, a thing, or even an idea — in the realm of architecture books that...
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Overcoming hardware limitations: the time-to-sleep script As some of you might own, I’m still rocking a ThinkPad T430, a laptop model originally released in...
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As some of you might own, I’m still rocking a ThinkPad T430, a laptop model originally released in 2012. It’s not the fastest laptop out there, but it is plenty fast for a number of tasks, even most software development work. I also try to keep my machines up to date and properly...
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Understanding Employment Insurance (EI) Employment Insurance (EI) is a social insurance program in Canada that provides temporary financial...
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Employment Insurance (EI) is a social insurance program in Canada that provides temporary financial support to eligible individuals who lose their jobs through no fault of their own. While this is the most commonly understood purpose of EI, the program offers various benefits...
Epic Web Dev
Full Stack Components There’s this pattern I’ve been using in my apps that has been really helpful to me and I’d like to...
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There’s this pattern I’ve been using in my apps that has been really helpful to me and I’d like to share it with you all.
Joel Gascoigne
How to name your startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Choosing a name...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Choosing a name is one of the parts of a startup I find the most difficult. It’s also something you can easily get hung up on. We all know that the key thing is to move on to actually
Math Is Still...
Mollusk Eyes Reveal How Future Evolution Depends on the Past The visual systems of an obscure group of mollusks provide a rare natural example of path-dependent...
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The visual systems of an obscure group of mollusks provide a rare natural example of path-dependent evolution, in which a critical fork in the creatures’ past determined their evolutionary futures. The post Mollusk Eyes Reveal How Future Evolution Depends on the Past...
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Learnings from Elon People hate or love him. Regardless, I read the Elon Musk biography by Walter Isaacson over...
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People hate or love him. Regardless, I read the Elon Musk biography by Walter Isaacson over Christmas and here are some lessons that we can take from…
xkcd.com
Cursive Letters
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Seán Barry
What does Quitting the Rat Race Mean to Me? Am I going to move to a cave in the mountains and immediately get eaten by a bear? This is what...
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Am I going to move to a cave in the mountains and immediately get eaten by a bear? This is what 'quitting the rat race' means to me.
computers are bad
2023-07-10 the tragedy of beatrice foods Occasionally, research into the history of telephony takes you into some strange places. There are...
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Occasionally, research into the history of telephony takes you into some strange places. There are conspiracy theories, of course, and there are people who insist on their version of events so incessantly that details of dates and places can become heated arguments. There is also...
Irrational...
Physics and perception. At one point in 2019, several parts of Stripe’s engineering organization were going through a polite...
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At one point in 2019, several parts of Stripe’s engineering organization were going through a polite civil war. The conflict was driven by one group’s belief that Java should replace Ruby. Java would, they posited, address the ongoing challenge of delivering a quality platform in...
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TheCollector
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San Francisco’s Love Affair With the Ferry Building John King, urban design critic of the San Francisco Chronicle, talks about his new book, Portal.
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On Using Web Component Libraries We tend to think of components as things that belong to a framework. After all, React has...
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We tend to think of components as things that belong to a framework. After all, React has components, Vue has components, Angular has components…it's just how we've always used them. Because of that, people tend to refer to Lit and FAST Element as frameworks, but they’re not....
Making software...
Avoiding Featurism Avoiding Featurism 2022-10-14 I rather enjoy the term "featurism". I came across this term while...
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Avoiding Featurism 2022-10-14 I rather enjoy the term "featurism". I came across this term while reading the wonderful article Why I don't use Netscape, which the author credits to Bernd Paysan. Although it sums up the current "digital product" industry quite well the more...
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Shelter: An Atlas Food, water, shelter. The tripartite of basic needs. Without these no living thing can survive. Not...
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Food, water, shelter. The tripartite of basic needs. Without these no living thing can survive. Not a spider, not a badger, not a tree, not a human. The first two — food and water — are obvious; without them, sustenance is impossible. The food we eat gives us energy through...
Flashbak
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“I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act as a form of communication that transcends language to connect cultures together” – Jeffrey Deitch   Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010) changed our expectations around art. Named after...
David Heinemeier...
Developers are on edge It's a double whammy of anxiety for developers at the moment. On the one hand, the layoffs are...
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It's a double whammy of anxiety for developers at the moment. On the one hand, the layoffs are dragging on. The industry has shed more jobs in a shorter period than any time since the dot-com bust over twenty years ago. Seasoned veterans who used to have recruiters banging on...
99% Invisible
Mini-Stories: Volume 19 It’s that time again—mini-stories are back! Get ready for a whirlwind tour of short, surprising, and...
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It’s that time again—mini-stories are back! Get ready for a whirlwind tour of short, surprising, and fascinating tales. This week we have punny highway signs, a PAC funded by exercise, the explosive history behind the Nobel Prize, and some long toes. Let’s get into it! Slow Down,...
Data Boutique
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Math Is Still...
The Number 15 Describes the Secret Limit of an Infinite Grid The “packing coloring” problem asks how many numbers are needed to fill an infinite grid so that...
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The “packing coloring” problem asks how many numbers are needed to fill an infinite grid so that identical numbers never get too close to one another. A new computer-assisted proof finds a surprisingly straightforward answer. The post The Number 15 Describes the...
TheCollector
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The Founder’s Lie About Comfort Zones There is a lot of talk going on about the endurance and struggle that startup founders go through....
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There is a lot of talk going on about the endurance and struggle that startup founders go through. How long the hours are, we all...
diamond geezer
Dangleway speed Danglegeek (2) How fast? 2012 it was a two-speed service, offering 5 minute crossings before 10am...
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Danglegeek (2) How fast? 2012 it was a two-speed service, offering 5 minute crossings before 10am and after 5pm on weekdays and 10 minute crossings at other times. In 2015 they also introduced slower 'night flights' after 7pm, this time taking 12-13 minutes, as a further nod that...
Weighty Thoughts
Today’s AI critics don’t understand the history of technology But is AI different than other technologies?
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Saturday Morning...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: When I think of altruism, I think of guys selling apocalypse gold on youtube. Today's News:
FIRE v London
June ’23: The hottest ever June saw UK’s former PM Mr Johnson leave parliament. Good riddance. I suspect we haven’t seen or...
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June saw UK’s former PM Mr Johnson leave parliament. Good riddance. I suspect we haven’t seen or (definitely) read the last of him but having him out of Westminster is at least a bit safer than him inside. Closer to (my Coastal Folly) home, there has been a sad story in...
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Noahpinion
Why trying to "shape" AI innovation to protect workers is a bad idea Instead, we should empower workers and create mechanisms for redistribution.
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Paul Graham: Essays
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Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: One Accurate, One Not First, from a 1940s Sunday newspaper strip of Miss Fury, a realistic view down the facade of a fancy...
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First, from a 1940s Sunday newspaper strip of Miss Fury, a realistic view down the facade of a fancy New York apartment house to the street: Second, from a modern Captain America comic, “the City of Manhattan”. Where’s that, Kansas? It’s been “New York” since 1664, “Nieuw...
Old Structures...
Adelaide House, Part 3 – Facades Part 1, General: here. Part 2, Structure: here. So on Tuesday I effectively said that Adelaide House...
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Part 1, General: here. Part 2, Structure: here. So on Tuesday I effectively said that Adelaide House was either small for a skyscraper or forty years behind the times, and yesterday I said that the steel was pretty familiar for an old skyscraper but maybe a little old-fashioned....
Old Structures...
Small Trusses For the last nine years, the high point, for me, of the annual APTI conference has been the student...
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For the last nine years, the high point, for me, of the annual APTI conference has been the student competition run by the Preservation Engineering Technical Committee. This year, In Montreal, was no exception. This year, I had no role in the competition, which frees me to say...
Seth's Blog
Boring to who? Sometimes, marketers, musicians or speakers dig themselves into a solipsistic rabbit hole. They’ve...
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Sometimes, marketers, musicians or speakers dig themselves into a solipsistic rabbit hole. They’ve heard their stuff before. They think everyone else has too. So they bury the lede, look for new laughs and most of all, try to avoid boring themselves. Which often leads to...
TheCollector
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NeuroLogica Blog
Converting CO2 to Carbon Nanofibers One of the dreams of a green economy where the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is stable, and not...
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One of the dreams of a green economy where the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is stable, and not slowly increasing, is the ability to draw CO2 from the atmosphere and convert it to a solid form. Often referred to as carbon capture, some form of this is going to be necessary...
Retail Design Blog
A.P.C. store by Laurent Deroo Just a few months after A.P.C. first opened up shop in Stockholm, an event we’ve covered in a...
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Just a few months after A.P.C. first opened up shop in Stockholm, an event we’ve covered in a previous post,...
Jonas Hietala
Gruvbox Syntax Highlighting for Pandoc Edit: I have updated the highlighting again so the inline code used as examples have changed. I...
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over a year ago
Edit: I have updated the highlighting again so the inline code used as examples have changed. I guess I should’ve used images to record the look. Recently when I reinstalled Slackware I decided to restyle my workspace as well. I settled on gruvbox with neovim and using the...
Old Structures...
Boosterism I don’t have an exact date for this photo, but the Temple Bar Building, the three-turreted...
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I don’t have an exact date for this photo, but the Temple Bar Building, the three-turreted skyscraper in the center, was constructed 1899 to 1901, so 1900 to 1910 is my guess. (As for how difficult discussing timelines can be, the New York Times article on the building I discuss...
Noahpinion
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SF's Market Street debacle, the debate over real wages, why U.S. growth has gotten smoother, TikTok as a propaganda engine, and California homelessness
AFAR Media - Travel...
Exclusive Beach Club Experiences: Mexico's Riviera Maya & Beyond
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Scott DeLong
My Predictions For The Future Of Content Sites (And How To Navigate Them) With the rise of artificial intelligence and content being mostly commodotized, what's the future...
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With the rise of artificial intelligence and content being mostly commodotized, what's the future look like for websites? Let's predict it. The post My Predictions For The Future Of Content Sites (And How To Navigate Them) appeared first on Scott DeLong.
Math Is Still...
The Usefulness of a Memory Guides Where the Brain Saves It New research finds that the memories useful for future generalizations are held in the brain...
a year ago
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a year ago
New research finds that the memories useful for future generalizations are held in the brain separately from those recording unusual events. The post The Usefulness of a Memory Guides Where the Brain Saves It first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Louwrentius
Setup a VPN on your iPhone with OpenVPN and Linux ⚠️ 🚨 Update 2024 🚨⚠️ I'm not using OpenVPN anymore for my VPN needs and this article is considered...
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⚠️ 🚨 Update 2024 🚨⚠️ I'm not using OpenVPN anymore for my VPN needs and this article is considered unmaintained. It's stronly recommended not to use this tutorial and find up-to-date documentation. I also have no plans to update this blogpost in the future. [Update 2018] This...
Neil Madden
API Security in Action is published! I wasn’t expecting it so quickly, so it caught me a little off guard, but API Security in Action is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I wasn’t expecting it so quickly, so it caught me a little off guard, but API Security in Action is now finally published. PDF copies are available now, with printed copies shipping by the end of the month. Kindle/ePub take a little bit longer but should be out in a few weeks...
Seth's Blog
Brighten up a room (just by leaving it) Moving into your kid’s college dorm isn’t going to make the experience better...
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(just by leaving it) Moving into your kid’s college dorm isn’t going to make the experience better for anyone. A smart founder leaves her company in a moment when it actually does better without her. The expectation that secession is failure causes a lot of damage. If you really...
Rozado’s Visual...
The political orientation of the ChatGPT AI system Applying the Pew Research Political Typology Quiz to a state-of-the-art AI Language model
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
How Bangladesh’s tech industry navigated an unprecedented political crisis July’s internet blackout and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s sudden exit is estimated to have cost...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
Introducing Phil Leggetter, our new head of Developer Relations We’re proud to announce a new hire; Phil Leggetter will head up Developer Relations at PostHog....
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We’re proud to announce a new hire; Phil Leggetter will head up Developer Relations at PostHog. Developer relations sits at the intersection of…
Words and Buttons...
The simplest possible smooth contouring algorithm The algorithm that takes a distance function and makes a smooth contour out of it in three steps.
over a year ago
TheCollector
What Was the Mason-Dixon Line? undefined
a year ago
The Marginalian
From the Labor Camp to the Pantheon of Literature: How Dostoyevsky Became a Writer "I have nothing, except for certain, and perhaps very minor, literary abilities."
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diamond geezer
QEOP after dark The Olympic Park is pretty after dark. This is Pudding Mill Lane, a massively-overengineered DLR...
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The Olympic Park is pretty after dark. This is Pudding Mill Lane, a massively-overengineered DLR station whose time only came when ABBA unexpectedly turned up. After dark it acts as a beacon of light amid a still-undeveloped Olympic neighbourhood. The word being reflected in...
Handprinted - Blog
Easy Christmas Cards Six Ways We’ve had a lot of fun this week working on easy, quick and fun ways to print your own Christmas...
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We’ve had a lot of fun this week working on easy, quick and fun ways to print your own Christmas cards! We’ve come up with six simple ways for you to try. Take a look at our instructions below and have a go yourself.   Bah Humbug Lino Printed Card This two-layered lino card is...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: 2023 Round Up! What a fantastic array of makers we've had featured on our Meet the Maker blog this year. We've put...
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What a fantastic array of makers we've had featured on our Meet the Maker blog this year. We've put together a round up for you with all of the wonderful advice our makers have given for creatives at any stage of their creative practice. Pop your feet up, grab yourself a nice...
Maps Mania
The Journey of a Vampire
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alexwlchan
Preserving Dates during JSON serialisation with vanilla JS For my sins, I’ve spent a lot of the last year dealing with datetime-related bugs. One of our...
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For my sins, I’ve spent a lot of the last year dealing with datetime-related bugs. One of our longest-standing issues has been around sending Date values via JSON – JavaScript will happily encode a Date value in JSON, but it gets encoded as a string, and there’s no easy way to...
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Interactive introduction to iterative algorithms An interactive explanation of how iterative algorithms work. This explains convergence and the exit...
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over a year ago
An interactive explanation of how iterative algorithms work. This explains convergence and the exit condition problem on an oversimplified linear system solver.
TheCollector
“The Whole World Is Watching”: The 1968 Chicago Riots at the DNC undefined
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A Smart Bear
You're a little company, now act like one You're afraid that looking like being a small company means you'll lose sales. It's actually the...
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You're afraid that looking like being a small company means you'll lose sales. It's actually the opposite -- you're alienating your best customers.
diamond geezer
Rail & Heritage Loop A Nice Walk?: Rail & Heritage Loop (18 miles) Buro Happold, in association with social enterprise...
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A Nice Walk?: Rail & Heritage Loop (18 miles) Buro Happold, in association with social enterprise Footways, have just launched a new circular walking route linking 10 central London rail termini. It's not meant for speedy connections, more for recreational wandering, and ticks...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Monty Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It turns out if you switch to the one that...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It turns out if you switch to the one that definitely for sure has a ferrari you might be worse off because there is information embedded in... Today's News:
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How we made something people want It's one thing to build something , it's another to build something that people want . This...
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It's one thing to build something , it's another to build something that people want . This principle, and the ones that follow in this post…
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Engaged Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Panels 3 and 4 are the last 10 years of Internet...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Panels 3 and 4 are the last 10 years of Internet summarized. Today's News: For the three of you who read this blog, we're doing a livechat about Bea Wolf in 30 minutes on instagram!
The American Scholar
Heart of Semi-Darkness A writer’s delectable quest for rare flavors The post Heart of Semi-Darkness appeared first on The...
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A writer’s delectable quest for rare flavors The post Heart of Semi-Darkness appeared first on The American Scholar.
TheCollector
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Blog System/5
Rust doesn't solve the CrowdStrike outage Look, I like Rust. I really, really do, and I agree with the premise that memory-unsafe languages...
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Look, I like Rust. I really, really do, and I agree with the premise that memory-unsafe languages like C++ should not be used anymore. But claiming that Rust would have prevented the massive outage that the world went through last Friday is misleading and actively harmful to...
Hixie's Natural Log
Reflecting on 18 years at Google I joined Google in October 2005, and handed in my resignation 18 years later. Last week was my last...
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I joined Google in October 2005, and handed in my resignation 18 years later. Last week was my last week at Google. I feel very lucky to have experienced the early post-IPO Google; unlike most companies, and contrary to the popular narrative, Googlers, from the junior...
Londonist
Things To Do In London On Christmas Eve 2023 Ice skating, festive films and Christmas carols.
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The Oatmeal - Comics...
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FIRE v London
Aug ’23: … A belated write-up of the month of August. Thinking back a month, two stories pop out for me. One...
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A belated write-up of the month of August. Thinking back a month, two stories pop out for me. One was the death of Russian mutineer Yevgeny Prigozhin – a larger-than-life modern day warlord, responsible for the ‘little green men’ at the start of the Russian/Ukraine war in 2014,...
Louwrentius
Things you should consider when building a ZFS NAS ZFS is a modern file system designed by Sun Microsystems, targeted at enterprise environments. Many...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
ZFS is a modern file system designed by Sun Microsystems, targeted at enterprise environments. Many features of ZFS also appeal to home NAS builders and with good reason. But not all features are relevant or necessary for home use. I believe that most home users building their...
TheCollector
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Math Is Still...
A Close-Up View Reveals the ‘Melting’ Point of an Infinite Graph Just as ice melts to water, graphs undergo phase transitions. Two mathematicians showed that they...
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a year ago
Just as ice melts to water, graphs undergo phase transitions. Two mathematicians showed that they can pinpoint such transitions by examining only local structure. The post A Close-Up View Reveals the ‘Melting’ Point of an Infinite Graph first appeared on Quanta...
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Anachronistic The Falcon and Black Widow above the streets of Manhattan…he’s flying and she’s doing gymnastics in...
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The Falcon and Black Widow above the streets of Manhattan…he’s flying and she’s doing gymnastics in mid-air, I guess: The location is instantly recognizable: the building on the far left with the single dormer is the Washington Life Insurance Building at 141 Broadway, the...
A Beautiful Site
How to use currentColor in your stylesheet I've had my head buried so deep in code that I hadn't even noticed this existed. It's a simple way...
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over a year ago
I've had my head buried so deep in code that I hadn't even noticed this existed. It's a simple way to reference the current text color when writing CSS. Works in modern browsers, including IE9+. If you use Less or Sass then you probably already use something like @text-color....
Probably...
Density and Likelihood It’s another installment in Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with Python. Previous...
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It’s another installment in Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with Python. Previous installments are available from the Data Q&A landing page. If you get this post by email, the formatting might be broken — if so, you might want to read it on the site. likelihood Density and...
Handprinted - Blog
Custom Screen Specifications and Artwork Guides If you're thinking about ordering a custom screen with us, we need your artwork to the...
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If you're thinking about ordering a custom screen with us, we need your artwork to the specifications laid out in this blog post.  First, these are the technical specifications we require Flattened PDF format only (no JPG or PNG) Portrait 300 dpi resolution, no...
diamond geezer
Algorithmic feed I'm delighted to announce that diamond geezer now has a new non-chronological algorithm. From...
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I'm delighted to announce that diamond geezer now has a new non-chronological algorithm. From today an automated algorithm will determine the order in which posts appear in your feed. This algorithm uses various factors to prioritise content with the goal of showing you the...
TheCollector
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
Which VC firm should I pitch? A friend asked me the other day “Which VC firms should I pitch?” and I started to respond to him,...
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A friend asked me the other day “Which VC firms should I pitch?” and I started to respond to him, but then realized that most of my…
Dominik Sobe's...
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markround.com
Haiku Package Management Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs I’ve long since been a die-hard BeOS fan and have...
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Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs I’ve long since been a die-hard BeOS fan and have been running the open-source recreation Haiku for many years. I think it’s interesting to explore the “alternative OS” world and consider some great ideas that for whatever reason...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Control Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I think if we just convince AI that it committed an...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I think if we just convince AI that it committed an original sin, we can get it to feel guilty. Today's News:
ntietz.com blog
Profiling Rust programs the easy way Performance is one of the big reasons to use Rust. It's not a magic wand for performance, it just...
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a year ago
Performance is one of the big reasons to use Rust. It's not a magic wand for performance, it just gives you the control to eke out whatever performance you need. So if your program is still slow, how do you fix that? Profiling your program is one of the best options for figuring...
99% Invisible
The Little Levee That Could [EPISODE] Most of the stories in this series have been about places that are ill-prepared for the extreme...
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Most of the stories in this series have been about places that are ill-prepared for the extreme weather that is coming their way. But this story is about a place that managed to get the kind of infrastructure that will actually help it survive climate change. How after more than...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Finite Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Butt-cream is in fact universal, for a sufficiently...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Butt-cream is in fact universal, for a sufficiently wide definition of butt. Today's News:
Handprinted - Blog
Separating Your Colour Layers for CMYK Screen Printing CMYK screen printing is a great way of bringing both your photographic and coloured art images to...
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CMYK screen printing is a great way of bringing both your photographic and coloured art images to life through colour separation. This is achieved by layering four colours (cyan, magenta, yellow, and black) on top of each other using only 4 screens. Photoshop plays a key role in...
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Have you ever noticed that gradients tend to look a little gray and washed-out in the middle? This happens because of a mathematical quirk with RGB colors. Fortunately, we can work around this quirk, and create beautiful, lush, saturated gradients.
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Felt is a nice web mapping app that anyone can use to get a map and add your own data, mark it up and share with others. One of their most interesting example maps is this map of oil and gas pipelines.  Oil pipelines are in blue and natural gas is orange. I would have reversed...
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There’s a nascent trend of releasing ostensibly-private material (changelogs, public wikis, handbooks, etc.) to the public as a bit of a marketing push. This is essentially a form of debt, to the extent that you’re taking a lump-sum payment now in exchange for the implicit cost...
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The so-called sustainable buildings of today often fall short of genuine sustainability. Instead, the concept is reduced to mere clichés and greenwashing. In this article, we delve deeper into the underlying factors concealed behind the sometimes eco-friendly exteriors of...
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this cyberdog (image credit). that cyberdog, though this is one of my favourite weirdo pinball machines. that cyberdog. our PowerBook Duo 2300 rehabilitated, guess what we're gonna look at? Internet document? Thus was the nucleus of Cyberdog (named for the famous New...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Also are we 100% sure Hamlet wasn't a musical? Today's News: 300% past our goal! Thank you!
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If you poured water over the terrain somewhere in the world, where would it go? That’s perhaps one way to think of the thing that distracted me in the evenings this week. [Edit: an interactive map should appear here, but there are some unresolved issues. Check out the...
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Collaboration on rich text is hard to model with plain-text approaches. We review the challenges and how to construct a CRDT for rich text.
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There is one fundamental flaw with both the iPhone and the iPad. As a user, you do not have full control over your device. You can only install or run software that is approved by Apple. This is something that is unprecedented. All major platforms, Windows, Linux, Mac OS X do...
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In honor of my 28th birthday, here are 28 pieces of life advice. The post 28 Pieces of Life Advice appeared first on David Perell.
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Relaxation redefined—the hustle and bustle of urban life may bring excitement and opportunities, but is ultimately taking its toll. Enter...
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Ever since tabbed browsing hit the mainstream I've been hooked. It's rare to see less than a handful of tabs open in my web browser at any time. Whether I'm developing, checking email, or just surfing around, I can never seem to have enough tabs! But there's one thing about this...
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It's almost September again but never fear, London's putting on a last flurry of events, activities and happenings before the nights draw in and we're all invited. Here's my weekend-by-weekend guide to free September delights. All month Totally Thames (Sep 1-30): Once again a...
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Connection and intimacy are still possible on the internet today. I’m sitting in a small room in an old house in Durham, North Carolina, USA. When I look out the window, I can see the edges of homes nearby, peeking out through the even older trees between us. I’m far enough...
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This month we have some surprise updates for OS 7, including new releases of GNOME apps and a big update for Mail. Plus Wayland is here, there’s a new way to manage Drivers, and we’re shipping Flathub by default! And don’t forget Platform 8 is now ready for developers. Read ahead...
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“A chronic independence of mind is unpardonable in any age; in our own it has certainly been safer to praise independence than to exemplify it.”  Bracing words from one of literature’s inveterate outsiders, English poet and critic C.H. Sisson (1914-2003). He’s writing about...
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Feel free to join the discussion on HackerNews. Compilers always seemed a little bit like magic to me. You write the code in some language and then it spits out bitcode that a small crystall inside your computer understands. Some databases ship with a specialized compiler inside...
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This is the fourth episode of a five-part pilot series to gauge your interest in "How It's Made"-esque heavy construction videos. Drop a comment or send me an email to let me know what you think! Watch on YouTube above or ad-free on Nebula here.
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Danglewatch (4) Dangleway dining North Heroica Pizza Bus is emblazoned with murals and 'hilarious' signs ("Unattended Children Will Be Given an Espresso And A Free Puppy"), so could hardly scream 'tourists welcome' any louder. cafe of the decent but dull variety, but it's...
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The following is an extension of my notes from Baldur’s book “Out of the Software Crisis” including quotes from the author. Software is a lot like life — probably because it models our lives — in that it’s constantly changing. The biggest threat to the economic value of code is...
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Ryan Dahl was on The Changelog to talk about Deno 2 specifically and his work on JavaScript more broadly. What follows are a few things that stood out to me. His Regrets From Node Are Now in Deno I think it’s interesting that Ryan’s famous talk 10 Things I Regret About Node.js...
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Pick whatever metric you want for gauging the success of a particular startup: profits, revenues, pageviews, etc. A graph I’d love to see is…
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Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com title: "W O R D L E" - originally published 1/31/2021 For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE!
Saturday Morning...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This could be the greatest school play of all time if anyone out there had the guts to do it. Today's News:
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Our guests for Thanksgiving dinner will be my oldest son and daughter-in-law, and two women, acquaintances of my wife, both recently divorced. The latter would likely otherwise spend the holiday alone. The only serious expression of gratitude is welcoming others and sharing...
Anecdotal Evidence
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“Mr. Michael Johnson was a man of large and robust body, and of a strong and active mind; yet, as in the most solid rocks veins of unsound substance are often discovered, there was in him a mixture of that disease, the nature of which eludes the most minute enquiry, though the...
Alex Meub
Dealing with Dropbox Link Overages Dropbox is a fantastic service. In addition to keeping my files synced across computers, I love the...
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over a year ago
Dropbox is a fantastic service. In addition to keeping my files synced across computers, I love the fact that I can give public links to others as an easy way to send large files. Recently though, a few links of mine were getting pretty popular and I received the following very...
Seth's Blog
Compounding head starts When a six-year-old kid beats the other kids at tennis, that kid is more likely to be encouraged to...
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When a six-year-old kid beats the other kids at tennis, that kid is more likely to be encouraged to play more, or to get a coach, and pretty soon, they’re much better at tennis than the others. When a musical group has a single that gets some buzz on Spotify, they’re more likely...
Making software...
Basic Gulp Build for Sass Basic Gulp Build for Sass 2019-01-15 Some designers might shy away from build tools when first...
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Basic Gulp Build for Sass 2019-01-15 Some designers might shy away from build tools when first starting out and I can understand the reasoning - task runners like gulp and grunt can seem daunting at first. So, I've decided to showcase my go-to setup for gulp and explain what the...
Weighty Thoughts
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Ink & Switch
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Clean Lines and Integrated Transport (Florastrasse transport hub, Adliswil, Switzerland) The thing about Switzerland’s affordable, hyper-reliable, hyper-integrated and hyper-ubiquitous...
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The thing about Switzerland’s affordable, hyper-reliable, hyper-integrated and hyper-ubiquitous public transport system is that the regard in which its phenomenal operational expertise is held can overshadow the architectural successes it also demonstrates. Even when transport...
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Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is 10 years old this weekend. A chunk of the North Park opened more quickly in the summer after the Games but the rest was only fully revealed on 5th April 2014, including all the good stuff round the Stadium. This was the moment that created a...
This Space
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Poetry is a notable absence in my book lists. I assumed at this time that because novels excited my attention, poetry should do too. Under this assumption I bought and read Wallace Stevens' Collected Poems in this chunky Faber edition, adding an ugly plastic cover.* Many of...
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This is the ninth official episode of our ongoing series breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Power Broker by our hero Robert Caro. This week, Roman and Elliott also sit down with Majora Carter, an urban revitalization strategist and real estate developer from...
CONTEMPORIST
A Curving Bridge Leads To The Entertainment Areas Of This Modern Home Openideas Architects has shared photos of a modern project in Ahmedabad, India, that includes two...
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Openideas Architects has shared photos of a modern project in Ahmedabad, India, that includes two homes for multi-generational living, with a curving bridge walkway that connects to outdoor entertaining areas. The bridge, which includes hidden lighting, travels above water...
Christopher Butler
My Reverse Time Capsule While rummaging in the WIRED magazine archives, I found this entry from 1995. In it, Douglas...
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a year ago
While rummaging in the WIRED magazine archives, I found this entry from 1995. In it, Douglas Copeland imagines a “reverse time capsule,” sent back to 1975 and wonders what in it would be most surprising to those on the receiving end, twenty years prior. Well, now we’re just shy...
Seth's Blog
Cheaper than that The race to the bottom has been won. Anything cheaper than what’s on offer is a waste of the...
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a year ago
The race to the bottom has been won. Anything cheaper than what’s on offer is a waste of the customer’s money, because it won’t get the job done. Once we’ve cut every corner, all that’s left is the brutality of less. One slogan is: You’ll pay less than you should have, and waste...
Saturday Morning...
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I like to imagine an old woman among the groundlings, hearing the twist in Macbeth and immediately hurling rotten tomatoes and having to be dragged out of the Globe. Today's News:
Build In Public...
Build In Public - Community Edition (Oct 2021) Hey everyone 👋 Let’s open this newsletter with a powerful quote ⬇️ Luck surface area. Aka...
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Hey everyone 👋 Let’s open this newsletter with a powerful quote ⬇️ Luck surface area. Aka serendipity. Aka helping relevant and like-minded people find you through your content. That’s what building in public is all about. With that said, get ready for October’s community...
Artificial Ignorance
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This article was written by Scott Jenson and Michael DiTullo and published at Core77 in April 2024 A few recent tech writers have leaked that the new AirPods case will likely have a touch screen. Other earbud makers have tried this as well but it’s Apple, so people will naturally...
charity.wtf
How to Throw A Company Offsite In A “Post-COVID” World Earlier this month we had our first Honeycomb all-hands offsite in three years … our first one since...
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a year ago
Earlier this month we had our first Honeycomb all-hands offsite in three years … our first one since February of 2020, before the plague. It was wonderful and glorious and silly and energizing and so, so SO much fun. It was a potent reminder of the reality that no virtual...
Saturday Morning...
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ntietz.com blog
The phrase "good enough" isn't fit for purpose Words matter. First impressions matter. I'm reading The Pragmatic Programmer in a book club, and...
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a year ago
Words matter. First impressions matter. I'm reading The Pragmatic Programmer in a book club, and there's a section titled "Good-Enough Software". In it, the authors expand that "the phrase 'good enough' does not imply sloppy or poorly produced code" and that it must still meet...
Castles in the Sky
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The Rational Walk
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TokyoDev
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over a year ago
While I was initially a bit aprehensive at the classroom like setting for the last [Tokyo Rubyist Meetup](https://trbmeetup.doorkeeper.jp), thanks to all the great people who attended, we were able to turn it into a lively event. Anchoring the night were presentations about...
Dan Quach Blog
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Grandma and the Vietnam WarWhen I was young, friends would visit, and there was one photo on the shelf that caught their attention in my room.  It was a photo of an elderly Caucasian lady and their first question to me was, “How come you didn’t take the stock photo out of the...
Maggie Appleton
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Vladimir Klepov as a...
Another Week with Bad Software In the midst of my September job hop I headed to Kazan for the weekend. I don't know exactly why —...
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over a year ago
In the midst of my September job hop I headed to Kazan for the weekend. I don't know exactly why — probably because I could. I had a hotel booked via booking.com, but once I arrived there the receptionist told me it was the first time he's heard of my booking, and he told me that...
Londonist
Dreaming Of Owning A Home In France? You Need To Know About This Event! The French Property Exhibition returns to London this month.
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MMapped blog
Debug like Feynman, test like Faraday
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Londonist
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Data Boutique
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How to “FLOSS” as a Web Designer 2020-02-07 I have a profound respect for the open source community. I most likely wouldn’t have the skills or knowledge I do today with it. Unfortunately, when I was just starting out in “web dev” some 10 years ago, proprietary software was the...
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The Monaco Grand Prix is just days away and will likely be one of the most exciting races of the season. While most fans can’t participate directly — except as spectators — they can celebrate their passion through DIY projects. That’s why we’ve scoured the community to find the...
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I’m a printmaker and illustrator, living in York, North Yorkshire. I create limited edition linocut prints inspired by the British countryside and British wildlife. Describe your printmaking process. When I started making lino prints I used SoftCut lino and a wooden spoon to...
Map of the Week
Below the Ice This past fall scientists uncovered a vast landscape that has been "frozen in time" under the...
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This past fall scientists uncovered a vast landscape that has been "frozen in time" under the Antarctic Ice Shelf. Here is a nice graphic from phys.org. The topography was determined by a combination of radio wave echoes and satellite images. This landscape, more than 2...
Irrational...
Developing leadership styles For a long time, I found the micromanager CEO archetype very frustrating to work with. They would...
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For a long time, I found the micromanager CEO archetype very frustrating to work with. They would often pop out of nowhere, jab holes in the work I had done without understanding the tradeoffs, and then disappear when I wanted to explain my decisions. In those moments, I wished...
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Max Rozen
Using Tailwind CSS with React and CSS-in-JS If you're already using a CSS-in-JS library, trying out Tailwind CSS with your existing app might be...
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If you're already using a CSS-in-JS library, trying out Tailwind CSS with your existing app might be much easier than you think.
alexwlchan
create_thumbnail: create smaller versions of images I’ve made a new command-line tool: create_thumbnail, which creates thumbnails of images. I need...
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I’ve made a new command-line tool: create_thumbnail, which creates thumbnails of images. I need image thumbnails in a lot of projects, and I wanted a single tool I could use in all of them rather than having multiple copies of the same code. It takes three arguments: Your...
Working Theorys
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I met boatloads of physicists as a master’s student at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada. Researchers pass through Perimeter like diplomats through my current neighborhood—the Washington, DC area—except that Perimeter’s visitors speak math...
Arduino Blog
Harness the power and connectivity of your Arduino UNO R4 WiFi with this IoT lamp It can be tough to get started with building an Internet of Things (IoT) project from the ground-up,...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
It can be tough to get started with building an Internet of Things (IoT) project from the ground-up, as getting connected, serving a webpage, and managing other devices can all be a challenge to a beginner. This is why the YouTuber known as “Mario’s Ideas” made an end-to-end...
Tech and Tea
Remote work and sick days a double-edged sword
a year ago