Adventures In...
Make this 3D printed globe please
Ah, it’s that time of year when we geographers pour ourselves a steaming mug of hot coffee and place...
a year ago
Ah, it’s that time of year when we geographers pour ourselves a steaming mug of hot coffee and place a stroopwafel over it until the caramel is nice and gooey and take the hand of other nearby geographers and sing O Denneboom together. Say, what’s with all the Dutch references?...
TheCollector
How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution?
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7 months ago
Math Is Still...
He’s Gleaning the Design Rules of Life to Re-Create It
Yizhi “Patrick” Cai is coordinating a global effort to write a complete synthetic yeast genome. If...
a month ago
Yizhi “Patrick” Cai is coordinating a global effort to write a complete synthetic yeast genome. If he succeeds, the resulting cell will be the artificial life most closely related to humans to date.
The post He’s Gleaning the Design Rules of Life to Re-Create It first...
Both Are True
free t-shirts
+a lil story + a genuinely useful lil tip!!
7 months ago
+a lil story + a genuinely useful lil tip!!
Jonas Hietala
The T-34/1 keyboard layout
This is the revision of the T-34 keyboard layout that I use as my primary driver. I’ve used this...
over a year ago
This is the revision of the T-34 keyboard layout that I use as my primary driver. I’ve used this particular version without any major changes for almost 3 months, so I’d say it’s a good improvement over the last revision.
There are two large changes from T-34/0: swapping o and...
Scarlet Ink
Stories of Good and Bad Feedback Dave Received From His Managers
A few anecdotal stories of times I received feedback from the senior leaders in my life
2 months ago
A few anecdotal stories of times I received feedback from the senior leaders in my life
Adventures In...
5 Minutes to Make a Map!
We’ve all been there. A request comes in and you don’t have a lot of time. Like 5 or 10 minutes....
10 months ago
We’ve all been there. A request comes in and you don’t have a lot of time. Like 5 or 10 minutes. What! Ok, ok, be cool, this is going to be ok. Just breathe…and think. Think. Yes, we’ve got this. We’ve got the tools and the resources to crank out a serviceable map in the amount …
Making software...
Sharing The Things We Use
Sharing The Things We Use
2021-07-24
I always love stumbling across personal websites that include...
over a year ago
Sharing The Things We Use
2021-07-24
I always love stumbling across personal websites that include some form of a "uses" page. A place where the author lists out all the tools they use on a regular basis - whether it be hardware, software or something else entirely. It allows...
Flashbak
Dust And Decadence In Weimar Berlin: Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings Of Another City
Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav...
3 months ago
Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav Wunderwald (1 January 1882 – 24 June 1945) liked to look at the other side of life in Germany’s biggest city. He avoided the decadence and any obvious comment and conspicuous...
Rest of World -...
Foreign tech workers hit hard by South Africa’s new immigration laws
Lured by rich job opportunities in South Africa's tech scene, thousands of migrants from across the...
a year ago
Lured by rich job opportunities in South Africa's tech scene, thousands of migrants from across the continent flooded into the country. Now, those jobs are out of reach.
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker Round-Up 2024!
It has been another incredible year of printmaking inspiration. We've put together a round-up of all...
a week ago
It has been another incredible year of printmaking inspiration. We've put together a round-up of all our fantastic Meet the Maker artists from 2024, alongside their advice or inspiration for other printmakers. Read through for a wholesome dose of printmaking magic, and click...
Paul Graham: Essays
How to Make Pittsburgh a Startup Hub
over a year ago
TheCollector
Understanding Francis Bacon Through 3 Studies
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8 months ago
RhysTranter.com
These are some of the things that we see on our walks.
over a year ago
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for the middle of your week (#31)
Indian poverty reduction, America's friends, Canada's economy, Europe grows a spine, and Japan's...
9 months ago
Indian poverty reduction, America's friends, Canada's economy, Europe grows a spine, and Japan's DARPA
Seth's Blog
The sportscar quadrants
They apply to jobs, relationships, art projects and everything in between: The top right is the rare...
a year ago
They apply to jobs, relationships, art projects and everything in between: The top right is the rare one–a car that goes fast but doesn’t feel like it’s on the edge. The hot rod is a car that is actually pretty safe, precisely because it doesn’t feel that way. You don’t have to...
Jonas Hietala
Computer upgrade
After 5 years or so I’ve made a large upgrade to my desktop, and this post contains details and some...
a year ago
After 5 years or so I’ve made a large upgrade to my desktop, and this post contains details and some pictures about the process.
It was time
I didn’t really want to do an upgrade right now, but I felt I had to do it.
Sometimes the lag had gotten very noticeable, for example when...
Quentin Santos
Beware Rust Buffering
This article is about a small pitfall I stumbled uopen Rust. Since it took me relatively too much...
3 months ago
This article is about a small pitfall I stumbled uopen Rust. Since it took me relatively too much time to figure it out, I made this article as a reminder. Also, there is a post scriptum, also about buffers, but not about Rust. While writing my article about Linux pipes, I needed...
Louwrentius
Secure caching DNS server on Linux with DJBDNS
The most commonly used DNS server software is ISC BIND, the "Berkeley Internet
Name Daemon"....
over a year ago
The most commonly used DNS server software is ISC BIND, the "Berkeley Internet
Name Daemon". However, this software has a bad security track record and is in
my opinion a pain to configure.
Mr. D.J. Bernstein developed "djbdns", which comes with a guarantee: if anyone
finds a...
Artificial Ignorance
Blade Runner 2024
Reddit's AI Hunters and the quest for authentic digital experiences.
3 months ago
Reddit's AI Hunters and the quest for authentic digital experiences.
Cremieux Recueil
Eliminating Distractions in Longevity Research
Longevity maximizers should invest in biotechnology, not modifiable lifestyle factors
2 months ago
Longevity maximizers should invest in biotechnology, not modifiable lifestyle factors
Londonist
Mesmerising Shots Of London From Above At Christmas
Ding dong merrily on (very) high.
a year ago
Ding dong merrily on (very) high.
TheCollector
Understanding Henri Cartier-Bresson Through 7 Photographs
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a year ago
Fonts In Use: Blog...
Metra tickets, 1990–1991
Contributed by Florian Hardwig
Source: www.c82.net C82 / Nicholas...
a year ago
Contributed by Florian Hardwig
Source: www.c82.net C82 / Nicholas Rougeux. License: All Rights Reserved.
January 1990, ft. an unidentified rounded sans
Source: www.c82.net C82 / Nicholas Rougeux. License: All Rights Reserved.
February...
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things: Nerdy economics edition (#54)
The DBCFT; Construction productivity and regulation; Rationality and complexity; U.S. productivity...
2 weeks ago
The DBCFT; Construction productivity and regulation; Rationality and complexity; U.S. productivity growth; Demand-side inflation; Health care monopsony and innovation
Math Is Still...
A New Idea for How to Assemble Life
If we want to understand complex constructions, such as ourselves, assembly theory says we must...
a year ago
If we want to understand complex constructions, such as ourselves, assembly theory says we must account for the entire history of how such entities came to be.
The post A New Idea for How to Assemble Life first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Branding Bundles
The best way to communicate a group of benefits is to slap a label on it.
over a year ago
The best way to communicate a group of benefits is to slap a label on it.
TheCollector
Was Ambrosius Aurelianus the Real King Arthur?
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a year ago
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Git files hidden in plain sight 🫥
I doubt that it is a good practice to ship the public key used to
sign things in the repository in...
a year ago
I doubt that it is a good practice to ship the public key used to
sign things in the repository in the repository itself
– Junio C Hamano, git@vger.kernel.org:
expired key in junio-gpg-pub
Git ships with the maintainer’s public key.
But you won’t find it in your worktree—it’s...
Trying to Understand...
France Saves Europe.
Again. In a manner of speaking.
9 months ago
Again. In a manner of speaking.
abdz.do - Have you...
Branding and visual identity for AI powered recruitment platform
Branding and visual identity for AI powered recruitment platform
...
a year ago
Branding and visual identity for AI powered recruitment platform
abduzeedo0126—23
Halo Lab, a design studio based in Ukraine, shared a branding and visual identity project for Casefair, a cutting-edge recruitment platform that utilizes AI to...
Made by Ollin
NVIDIA Internship (2017)
Notes on my internship at NVIDIA Redmond.
over a year ago
Notes on my internship at NVIDIA Redmond.
Old Structures...
A Simple Drawing For A Difficult Structure – Part 4
To catch up, here are links for part 1, part 2, and part 3. The Brooklyn Bridge caissons were much...
a year ago
To catch up, here are links for part 1, part 2, and part 3. The Brooklyn Bridge caissons were much bigger than the similar pneumatic caissons that had been used earlier. Their timber construction was based on a few ideas, all subject to engineering design or review. First, the...
Jonas Hietala
Writing Home Assistant automations using Genservers in Elixir
I’ve been a fan of Home Assistant a while now;
it’s a great platform for home automation with its...
2 months ago
I’ve been a fan of Home Assistant a while now;
it’s a great platform for home automation with its beginner friendly and feature rich UI,
support for a ton of different devices and integrations,
and there’s a bunch of ways to create automations.
But there’s no engine for writing...
David Perell
Where the Liberal Arts Went Wrong
We’ve lost touch with the ultimate purpose of education: to transform our being and improve our...
a year ago
We’ve lost touch with the ultimate purpose of education: to transform our being and improve our character. The liberal arts are the ends, not the means.
The post Where the Liberal Arts Went Wrong appeared first on David Perell.
HTMHell
Swallowing camels
by Ida Franceen
I don't like how the screen reader pronounces these numbers and I've been...
a year ago
by Ida Franceen
I don't like how the screen reader pronounces these numbers and I've been experimenting with different kinds of markup to get it to read better, like injecting spans to force it to make proper pauses…
Reflecting on my tendency to obsess over small, but maybe not...
The Diff
Social Media as a Test of Human-in-the-Loop Generative AI
Plus! Holdcos; Cash and Control; War Economies; In-Kind Dividends; Currency
a week ago
Plus! Holdcos; Cash and Control; War Economies; In-Kind Dividends; Currency
History Today Feed
William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:21
9 months ago
William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
JamesHoare
Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:21
A Beautiful Site
Swapping variables with JavaScript
Swapping the value of two variables normally takes three lines and a temporary variable. What if I...
over a year ago
Swapping the value of two variables normally takes three lines and a temporary variable. What if I told you there was an easier way to do this with JavaScript?
Traditional method #
The goal is to swap the values of a and b. The textbook method for doing this looks something like...
TheCollector
Why Do Anti-Natalists Oppose Birth?
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a year ago
Contemporist...
Rough And Rugged Materials Are Combined With Modern Forms On This Home
Arno Schuurs and Paulien van Noort of design-build firm GetAway Projects BV, has shared photos of a...
10 months ago
Arno Schuurs and Paulien van Noort of design-build firm GetAway Projects BV, has shared photos of a new home they designed in Gorssel, The Netherlands.
Moneyness
Who should pay for scams? Victims or their banks?
Scam call centre on CCTV, via BBC.
Here's a question for you. Should banks be required to...
a year ago
Scam call centre on CCTV, via BBC.
Here's a question for you. Should banks be required to reimburse customers who have been scammed?
I was recently reading a CBC article about a 63-year old Toronto man who responded to a phone call from a scammer claiming to be a Bank of...
TheCollector
What Is Anxiety to Soren Kierkegaard?
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7 months ago
Nela Dunato Art &...
How to find clients without social media
Social media platforms have helped many people establish their business, but what if you don’t want...
6 months ago
Social media platforms have helped many people establish their business, but what if you don’t want to play the algorithm game? Is it possible to find clients without social media in 2024? The short answer is yes, and here's how.
Spoon & Tamago
Tamiya’s New Plamodel Factory in Tokyo is a Model Maker’s Paradise
Photos by Daici Ano and Tomoyuki Kusunose, courtesy Torafu Architects Tamiya, perhaps the most...
5 months ago
Photos by Daici Ano and Tomoyuki Kusunose, courtesy Torafu Architects Tamiya, perhaps the most recognized brand name in the modeling industry, recently opened a new flagship facility in the Shimbashi Toranomon area of Tokyo. Dubbed the Tamiya Plamodel Factory, the shiny new...
mtlynch.io
How I Tricked Myself into Shipping Too Late
Many software founders fail for a simple reason: they ship too late. They spend years developing a...
over a year ago
Many software founders fail for a simple reason: they ship too late. They spend years developing a product in a vacuum only to see it crumble the first time a real customer touches it.
The Indie Hackers podcast features many such stories. The show’s stated mission is to help...
The Marginalian
The Broadest Portal to Joy
"Despite every single lie to the contrary, despite every single action born of that lie — we are in...
a year ago
"Despite every single lie to the contrary, despite every single action born of that lie — we are in the midst of rhizomatic care that extends in every direction, spatially, temporally, spiritually."
TheCollector
Colonial Mexican Art: 4 Key Formats and Themes
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10 months ago
TokyoDev
Why I sold Doorkeeper
この記事は[日本語でも](/articles/why-i-sold-doorkeeper-ja)お読みいただけます。
I can pinpoint the exact time when I...
over a year ago
この記事は[日本語でも](/articles/why-i-sold-doorkeeper-ja)お読みいただけます。
I can pinpoint the exact time when I decided to sell [Doorkeeper](https://www.doorkeeper.jp), the event management platform I helped launch in 2010, incorporated in 2013, and made profitable in 2016. It was a Friday...
Home on Erik...
My issue with GPU-accelerated deep learning
I've been spending several hundred bucks renting GPU instances on AWS over the last year. The...
over a year ago
I've been spending several hundred bucks renting GPU instances on AWS over the last year. The speedup from a GPU is awesome and hard to deny. GPUs have taken over the field. Maybe following the footsteps of Bitcoin mining there's some research on using FPGA (I know very little...
Build In Public...
How I Built This In Public: Joshua Xu
Lessons from building HeyGen from 0 to $1m ARR in 7 months
a year ago
Lessons from building HeyGen from 0 to $1m ARR in 7 months
A Beautiful Site
What is my browser? This tool will tell you
Last week I wrote about how to get faster and better help from support. One of my suggestions was to...
over a year ago
Last week I wrote about how to get faster and better help from support. One of my suggestions was to tell them what browser, OS, etc. you're using. Here's a free tool that will make that so much easier.
As soon as you visit About My Browser, it will show you what browser and...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Thinking beyond value-based care | Out-Of-Pocket
Maybe there’s more to life than shared savings
3 months ago
Maybe there’s more to life than shared savings
Val Sopi
Focusing on progress, not the goal
<p><span style="font-size: 21px;">Rion, my 11-year-old son, plays tennis.</span></p><p>He first set...
a year ago
<p><span style="font-size: 21px;">Rion, my 11-year-old son, plays tennis.</span></p><p>He first set foot on a tennis court when he was 18 months or so. His cousin was practicing back then, so he would tag along with his aunt to the tennis courts.</p><figure class="none"><img...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Whole Point of Literature'
I learned of
some twits who see no reason to read Tolstoy because he was such a terrible...
a month ago
I learned of
some twits who see no reason to read Tolstoy because he was such a terrible human
being, as though this constituted recently declassified information. Such an understanding
of literature and literary history, if followed to its logical conclusion, will
result in a...
TheCollector
New Exhibition to Show Art Saved From Notre Dame Fire
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8 months ago
The Modern House
Planned to Perfection: six meticulously designed modernist flats
Looking for the chance to live inside a piece of architectural history? Here are six London flats...
a year ago
Looking for the chance to live inside a piece of architectural history? Here are six London flats for sale within buildings that exemplify the best of British modernism, from the Barbican to Trellick Tower. The brains behind these sprawling estates and soaring blocks followed new...
Applied Cartography
Bozos
Kevin Twohy has a list of heuristics for new projects/clients, and my favorite is simple:
No Bozos....
a month ago
Kevin Twohy has a list of heuristics for new projects/clients, and my favorite is simple:
No Bozos. Simple policy. No exceptions. You know it when you see it.
Every founder has a story about the time that they ignored the red flags and bent over backwards for a particularly...
Anecdotal Evidence
'These Pieces of Moral Prose'
“Where did
you get your humility? I thought that was an extinct virtue.”
Creating
anything...
7 months ago
“Where did
you get your humility? I thought that was an extinct virtue.”
Creating
anything worthwhile, whether joke, villanelle or pot of lentil soup, calls
for pride and humility. Pride because one presumes to add to the world’s bounty
and impose it on others; humility because...
Diaries of Note
Lenin’s tomb is remarkable
In January of 1924, a week after the death of Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, his embalmed...
a year ago
In January of 1924, a week after the death of Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, his embalmed body was placed on display in a temporary wooden tomb in Moscow’s Red Square—an ideological shrine that was visited by hundreds of thousands of onlookers over the next few months....
Noahpinion
A few economists are starting to think seriously about industrial policy
But not enough researchers are paying attention, and we only know a little so far.
a year ago
But not enough researchers are paying attention, and we only know a little so far.
Epic Web Dev
The Web’s Next Transition
Web is made up of technologies that got started over 25 years ago. Now, we are transitioning to a...
over a year ago
Web is made up of technologies that got started over 25 years ago. Now, we are transitioning to a new and improved architecture for building web applications.
wadertales
WaderTales blogs in 2022
Here are brief summaries of the sixteen WaderTales blogs that were published in 2022. I have grouped...
over a year ago
Here are brief summaries of the sixteen WaderTales blogs that were published in 2022. I have grouped the blogs into sections; problems with trees, more research from Iceland, Curlews, news from the East Asian-Australasian Flyway, tracking and updates. As ever, I am grateful to...
The American Scholar
Three Poems
The post Three Poems appeared first on The American Scholar.
3 months ago
The post Three Poems appeared first on The American Scholar.
Tikalon Blog by Dev...
Adornment
"Form follows function" is a maxim that an object's shape and appearance should be defined only by...
3 months ago
"Form follows function" is a maxim that an object's shape and appearance should be defined only by its purpose or function. A quick perusal of any antique shop will show that this maxim is generally ignored. Humans (Homo sapiens) have been called "naked apes," but we and our...
NeuroLogica Blog
Hunger Circuitry
One of the organizing principles that govern living organisms is homeostasis. This is a key feature...
a year ago
One of the organizing principles that govern living organisms is homeostasis. This is a key feature of being alive – maintaining homeostatic equilibrium both internally and externally. Homeostatic systems usually involve multiple feedback loops that maintain some physiological...
Elad Blog
Index Companies
Sometimes there are markets that are clearly going to grow massively over time. For example,...
over a year ago
Sometimes there are markets that are clearly going to grow massively over time. For example, ecommerce, genomics, crypto are all markets which were clearly going to compound over time. It might have been tough to call the winners of each market early, but it was clear the markets...
Posts on Made of...
Getting carried away with hack value
Recently, I’ve been working on some BarnOwl branches that move more of the core functionality of...
over a year ago
Recently, I’ve been working on some BarnOwl branches that move more of the core functionality of BarnOwl into perl code, instead of C (BarnOwl is written in an unholy mix of C and perl code that call each other back and forth obsessively).
Moving code into perl has many...
Stat Significant
The Rise of Faith-Based Films: A Statistical Analysis
The economics and origins of the faith-based film industry.
2 months ago
The economics and origins of the faith-based film industry.
Words and Buttons...
Image darning
It's about a feature that cleans up dirt stains from aged newspapers. I called it darning because of...
over a year ago
It's about a feature that cleans up dirt stains from aged newspapers. I called it darning because of how it works.
Matt Mazur
Experimenting with GPT-4 Turbo’s JSON mode
One of the many new features announced at yesterday’s OpenAI dev day is better support for...
a year ago
One of the many new features announced at yesterday’s OpenAI dev day is better support for generating valid JSON output. From the JSON mode docs: A common way to use Chat Completions is to instruct the model to always return JSON in some format that makes sense for your use case,...
TheCollector
How Have Druids Influenced Wales Throughout History?
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2 months ago
TheCollector
How Did the Marshall Plan Help Further US Interests?
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6 months ago
McMansion Hell
In my latest column for The Nation, I defend single stair buildings against their detractors -...
Single-Stair Layouts Are Not Going to Fix the Housing Crisis
In my latest column for The Nation, I...
a year ago
Single-Stair Layouts Are Not Going to Fix the Housing Crisis
In my latest column for The Nation, I defend single stair buildings against their detractors - I think single stair is wonderful! - But I also don’t think it’s some kind of panacea for the housing crisis.
Christopher Butler
sketchbook – 2024 March 24 - March 30
If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance much less.
9 months ago
If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance much less.
TheCollector
Gustave Moreau: The Man Who Defined the Symbolist Movement
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a year ago
Stoic Simple
How to Apply Stoicism in the Workplace for Increased Productivity
In today's fast-paced, high-stress work environment, it's easy to become overwhelmed and succumb to...
a year ago
In today's fast-paced, high-stress work environment, it's easy to become overwhelmed and succumb to emotional outbursts or impulsive decision-making. The ancient philosophy of Stoicism, however, offers a practical and effective approach to managing workplace challenges, improving...
Explorations of an...
A Month In Northern Peru, Part 5: The Marañón Valley (February 7, 2024)
February 7, 2024
The Marañón Valley is one of the most important biogeographical boundaries in the...
8 months ago
February 7, 2024
The Marañón Valley is one of the most important biogeographical boundaries in the Andes. Situated in northwestern Peru, the valley follows the Marañón River which flows northward across plateaus in the Andes. After cutting through a very deep, heavily eroded...
Daniel Miessler
NO. 366 | T-Breach, Siri++, Conception Ages…
🎙️If you're not subscribed to the podcast version of the newsletter, please add it using with your...
a year ago
🎙️If you're not subscribed to the podcast version of the newsletter, please add it using with your favorite client! APPLE | SPOTIFY | OTHER SECURITY NEWS Another T-Mobile Breach T-Mobile has had another security breach, this one affecting at least 37 million accounts. They...
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: 3D picture of the coronavirus in SQL
A picture of the nasty coronavirus using 3d ray tracing in SQL
The post Happy New Year: 3D picture...
over a year ago
A picture of the nasty coronavirus using 3d ray tracing in SQL
The post Happy New Year: 3D picture of the coronavirus in SQL appeared first on EXPLAIN EXTENDED.
charity.wtf
Every Achievement Has A Denominator
One of the classic failure modes of management is the empire-builder — the managers who measure...
over a year ago
One of the classic failure modes of management is the empire-builder — the managers who measure their own status, rank or value by the number of teams and people “under” them. Everyone knows you aren’t supposed to do this, but most of us secretly, sheepishly do it anyway to some...
The Works in...
From MANUALS to YOUTUBE
A new section from Stewart Brand's Maintenance on Books in Progress
a year ago
A new section from Stewart Brand's Maintenance on Books in Progress
Spoon & Tamago
‘Puddle’ Are a Series of Flower Vessels Inspired by Puddles of Water
Simple and common acts of nature often inspire brilliant design. Such is the case with “Puddle,” a...
7 months ago
Simple and common acts of nature often inspire brilliant design. Such is the case with “Puddle,” a series of flower vessels that mimic a puddle of water. Using properties of transparency and surface tension, these whimsical vessels create the illusion of a single plant growing...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Winter Came in August Killing Fruit and Seed'
A sad and
sorely final yet incomplete tagline found after a poem in the Winter 1986 issue of The...
a month ago
A sad and
sorely final yet incomplete tagline found after a poem in the Winter 1986 issue of The American Scholar:
“Edward Case’s
work has appeared in various journals, including the New Criterion, the Wall
Street Journal, and Modern Age.
This poem was taken from a collection of...
Christopher Butler
Move Slow and Preserve Things
Haste has created waste. Someone please tell Zuckerberg to slow the hell down.
unfair. Funny,...
over a year ago
Haste has created waste. Someone please tell Zuckerberg to slow the hell down.
unfair. Funny, that.
There’s another saying, much older than Zuckerberg, and, to my middle-aged ears, even more enduringly punk: “You wouldn’t bring a bull to a china shop.” Its first recorded...
CONTEMPORIST
A Sunken Living Room Was Made Possible By A New Extension To This Home
Mulroy Architects has shared photos of a project they recently completed that included modernizing...
a year ago
Mulroy Architects has shared photos of a project they recently completed that included modernizing the interior of a 1920s home in Greater London, England, that also included the addition of a rear extension. The brief was to refurbish and extend the upper floors of the house to...
The American Scholar
Such as It Is
The post Such as It Is appeared first on The American Scholar.
4 days ago
The post Such as It Is appeared first on The American Scholar.
TokyoDev
How to screen developers
When screening developers at a startup, you have competing goals. On the one hand, you have limited...
over a year ago
When screening developers at a startup, you have competing goals. On the one hand, you have limited resources to dedicate to the hiring process, so you want a process that minimizes the work for you and your team. On the other hand, you have a challenging time attracting talented...
Londonist
Things To Do In London In The Easter Holidays 2024
Family-friendly events in the capital this spring.
9 months ago
Family-friendly events in the capital this spring.
Maggie Appleton
The Linear Oppression of Note-taking Apps
over a year ago
Tinloof - Blog
Learn ESLint concepts, not rules
What is ESLint and why is it useful?
A solution is useless if it doesn't solve a problem. So let's...
over a year ago
What is ESLint and why is it useful?
A solution is useless if it doesn't solve a problem. So let's start with the problems we have when writing JavaScript code.
Problem #1: JavaScript is not compiled while you write it
Prolost
Magic Bullet Suite 14 and Trapcode Suite 16
It’s a big day at Maxon/Red Giant! We’re releasing huge updates to Magic Bullet and Trapcode...
over a year ago
It’s a big day at Maxon/Red Giant! We’re releasing huge updates to Magic Bullet and Trapcode Suites.
Trapcode Particular continues to embody our ethos of power and ease-of-use, with a completely modernized simulation engine that allows particles to behave more naturally, with...
Alex Meub
A Quick Look at Portland Parking Ticket Data
I work in downtown Portland and see a lot of people getting parking tickets every day (parking is...
over a year ago
I work in downtown Portland and see a lot of people getting parking tickets every day (parking is one of the reasons I ride my bike to work). I was curious to learn more about it.
Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, Portland parking ticket data is available to anyone who...
journal – Winnie Lim
co-existing with my broken mind
I’ve been feeling more down these days. I am not sure if it is pms, covid, both, or just responding...
a year ago
I’ve been feeling more down these days. I am not sure if it is pms, covid, both, or just responding to reality in general. I don’t really get why people are not...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sorry
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3 weeks ago
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Retail Design Blog
Pulmuone’s Innovative Store Redefines Food Culture with Sustainability and Modern Convenience.
Pulmuone Foods has launched an innovative store that redefines food culture, offering an immersive...
3 months ago
Pulmuone Foods has launched an innovative store that redefines food culture, offering an immersive experience that transcends traditional retail. This...
TheCollector
Is Fear Driving Contemporary Politics? Hobbes’ Leviathan Revisited
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Evan Jones -...
Replicating Database Changes to a Message Queue is Tricky
Let's imagine we have an program that stores its state in a database, and we want other programs to...
over a year ago
Let's imagine we have an program that stores its state in a database, and we want other programs to do things when changes occur. For example, we might want to send email notifications if a bank balance drops below a threshold. This is a very common reason applications use...
Blog System/5
Why do I know shell, and how can you?
My personal story with this ancient language and some tips to learn it
a year ago
My personal story with this ancient language and some tips to learn it
Stoic Simple
The Intersection of Stoicism and Modern Psychology
In recent years, there has been a growing interest among psychologists and mental health...
a year ago
In recent years, there has been a growing interest among psychologists and mental health professionals in the ancient philosophy of Stoicism. Despite being developed over two thousand years ago, many of the core principles of this philosophy have been found to be highly relevant...
Citation Needed
Video: The Cryptocurrency Industry's Unprecedented Election Spending
Let's talk about where the money came from, where it went, the cryptocurrency industry's political...
a month ago
Let's talk about where the money came from, where it went, the cryptocurrency industry's political goals, and what’s next.
IEEE Spectrum
Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf
It was June 1973. For the past three months, Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn had been working together on a...
a year ago
It was June 1973. For the past three months, Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn had been working together on a problem Kahn had been pondering for some time: how to connect ground-based military computers seamlessly to communications satellites and mobile radios.
The two had been...
Internal Tech Emails
Inside Google's negotiations with Apple
I would let them try someone else for search if they don’t like our last offer.
a year ago
I would let them try someone else for search if they don’t like our last offer.
Daniel Immke's Blog...
How I quit social media
Just to keep things clear, I consider social media to be any service where you’re presenting...
over a year ago
Just to keep things clear, I consider social media to be any service where you’re presenting yourself using your real name. I don’t think…
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Naming your startup
The Name Inspector has a good post today regarding 6 naming myths to ignore. I think it’s generally...
over a year ago
The Name Inspector has a good post today regarding 6 naming myths to ignore. I think it’s generally right on. Naming is so important and…
Noahpinion
EVs are just going to win
Because they're a superior technology, and superior technologies win.
2 months ago
Because they're a superior technology, and superior technologies win.
TheCollector
The Feather Thief: The Story of Dead Birds, Museum Heist, and a Flute
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3 weeks ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Stare
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2 months ago
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diamond geezer
Open House (2)
Yesterday's Open House tally was six.
• The dazzling property where the volunteer arrived with a...
a year ago
Yesterday's Open House tally was six.
• The dazzling property where the volunteer arrived with a key one minute before the official opening time and asked if we wouldn't mind going somewhere else for quarter of an hour.
Let's do four of those in more detail (not necessarily...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Make your own Dev.to CMS livestream - Part 4
This is day 4 of my livecode Dev.to CMS.
over a year ago
This is day 4 of my livecode Dev.to CMS.
Construction Physics
How to Build an AI Data Center
This piece is the first in a new series from the Institute for Progress (IFP), called Compute in...
6 months ago
This piece is the first in a new series from the Institute for Progress (IFP), called Compute in America: Building the Next Generation of AI Infrastructure at Home. In this series, we examine the challenges of accelerating the American AI data center buildout. Future pieces will...
TheCollector
8 Controversial Artworks Created by Women Artists
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9 months ago
The Rational Walk
The Digest #159
Montaigne on Lying, Berkshire's Q2 results, Equity risk premiums, Taking useful notes, Abandoning...
a year ago
Montaigne on Lying, Berkshire's Q2 results, Equity risk premiums, Taking useful notes, Abandoning books, How Threads was built, BYD challenges Tesla, Katalin Karikó's inspiring life
swyx's site RSS Feed
The McClusky Curve - Viral vs Evergreen Content
An insightful discussion on how to trade off aiming for viral or permanent posts.
over a year ago
An insightful discussion on how to trade off aiming for viral or permanent posts.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Impressionist Blogging Movement
I love this articulation: AI enables action without thought. It comes from an iA article about AI...
4 months ago
I love this articulation: AI enables action without thought. It comes from an iA article about AI and the future of design (emphasis mine):
Now, what actually is AI? The Italian philosopher and technology ethicist Luciano Floridi sums it up nicely. He posits that AI doesn’t...
Engineer’s Codex
3 predictions on the future of software after AI
Key takeaways: a multi-model strategy's necessity, emerging AI infra, LLMs as abstractions.
a year ago
Key takeaways: a multi-model strategy's necessity, emerging AI infra, LLMs as abstractions.
The Forney Flyer
Congratulations Hannah!
Congratulations Hannah! We are so proud of you!
over a year ago
Congratulations Hannah! We are so proud of you!
Old Structures...
Adaptability
The building types that have had the most success in new York are the ones that are most-readily...
2 months ago
The building types that have had the most success in new York are the ones that are most-readily adaptable. Rowhouses have been turned into apartment houses, churches, schools, museums, and offices; tenements have been upgraded to better apartments again and again and again. If...
Old Structures...
Raking Sunlight
Pro tip, as computer manuals said back when (a) everyone was not yet comfortable using a computer...
a year ago
Pro tip, as computer manuals said back when (a) everyone was not yet comfortable using a computer and (b) computer manuals still existed: environmental conditions can help in building investigation. For example, I like conducting facade inspections on very cold days because you...
Spoon & Tamago
Kumu in Kanazawa Connects People and Places
all photos by takumi ota The Japanese word kumu is a verb with many nuances. Depending on the...
11 months ago
all photos by takumi ota The Japanese word kumu is a verb with many nuances. Depending on the context, kumu can mean “to join,” “to draw out,” or “to pour.” In that sense, it was the perfect name for a hotel that embodies connection and hospitality: connecting people with a...
Explorations of an...
Uruguay Part 3: Lagoon Shorebirding
February 28, 2023
Our first few days in Uruguay had been very successful. We had been able to...
a year ago
February 28, 2023
Our first few days in Uruguay had been very successful. We had been able to experience a few days in the beautiful rural countryside, staying at a wonderful hacienda. We had found our first Uruguayan snake. And we had found most of the potential bird lifers that...
Diaries of Note
Bugger
On 18th June 1960, during a practice run for the Belgian Grand Prix that was to take place the next...
a year ago
On 18th June 1960, during a practice run for the Belgian Grand Prix that was to take place the next day, British Formula One driver Stirling Moss almost died when the left rear wheel of his Lotus-Climax 18 fell off on the treacherous Burnenville curve. Moments later he was thrown...
TheCollector
The Secret Life of Queen Victoria You Didn’t Know
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8 months ago
Stephen Diehl
The Non-Innovation of Cryptocurrency
over a year ago
Louwrentius
Finding a good blu-ray player for Mac OS X
I find playing a Blu-ray movie on my Mac cumbersome. I've been using Plex, XBMC and VLC but these...
over a year ago
I find playing a Blu-ray movie on my Mac cumbersome. I've been using Plex, XBMC and VLC but these free open-source products are all a usability nightmare.
To play a Blu-ray movie, you have to perform these steps:
right-click on the BDMV file
choose 'show packet contents'
go to...
The Elysian
Your alternatives to democracy
Entries to the March writing prompt.
8 months ago
Entries to the March writing prompt.
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Acing the coding challenge
How do you write a successful coding challenge? Unlike some nightmare whiteboard interview...
over a year ago
How do you write a successful coding challenge? Unlike some nightmare whiteboard interview scenarios, typically a coding challenge is not a…
diamond geezer
Options for improving Stratford station
Stratford station can be a nightmare to get around, having grown over the years to become an...
a year ago
Stratford station can be a nightmare to get around, having grown over the years to become an impenetrable monster of an interchange. It needed a major rebuild in the late 90s before the Jubilee line arrived, fronted by the steel and glass concourse we see today. It needed another...
Open Culture
Is Reality Real?: 8 Scientists Explain Whether We Can Ever Know What Objectively Exists
Ask aloud whether reality is real, and you’re liable to be regarded as never truly having left the...
6 months ago
Ask aloud whether reality is real, and you’re liable to be regarded as never truly having left the freshman dorm. But that question has received, and continues to receive, consideration from actual scientists. The Big Think video above assembles seven of them to explain how they...
Willem's Blog
Using a budget Android as main smartphone
I switched to Android to find out how good a budget smartphone performs compared to an expensive...
over a year ago
I switched to Android to find out how good a budget smartphone performs compared to an expensive iPhone.
Nat Eliason's...
On Writing Better: 43 Things I Learned from My Insane 2 Years of Study
You'll wanna save this one
5 months ago
You'll wanna save this one
TheCollector
Sotheby’s to Auction Its First Robot-Made Artwork
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2 months ago
Notes on software...
Exploring Postgres's arena allocator by writing an HTTP server from scratch
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a month ago
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TheCollector
How Indigenous Peoples Turned Language into a Post-Colonial Tool
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9 months ago
Jonas Hietala
I'm writing a book: Why Cryptocurrencies?
I decided to write a book. It’s called “Why Cryptocurrencies?” and I will be uploading chapters as I...
over a year ago
I decided to write a book. It’s called “Why Cryptocurrencies?” and I will be uploading chapters as I complete them. It’s available to read online for free. I’ve only uploaded the introductory parts but I’ve got a bunch more planned.
Why write a book you ask? Well, why not?
I...
Seth's Blog
No thank you
Failing to acknowledge a favor or a courtesy is a triple mistake, and it’s becoming more common....
a year ago
Failing to acknowledge a favor or a courtesy is a triple mistake, and it’s becoming more common. ChatGPT is now promoting the idea that it can write a thank you note for you, and a text is a lot easier than a handwritten note, and yet, the level of ‘thank you’ seems to be...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Greatness Is Difficult'
“It is
dangerous to admire a great man for his sins: we may too easily adopt his sins
for our own...
a year ago
“It is
dangerous to admire a great man for his sins: we may too easily adopt his sins
for our own out of admiration for his genius; and when the inevitable reaction
occurs, the great man’s reputation is likely to suffer unduly.”
Among writers, Dr. Johnson
is the first fallible...
TheCollector
Who Was Tertullian?
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10 months ago
fast.ai
1st Two Lessons of From Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion
4 videos from Practical Deep Learning for Coders Part 2, 2022 have been released as a special early...
over a year ago
4 videos from Practical Deep Learning for Coders Part 2, 2022 have been released as a special early preview of the new course.
Seth's Blog
Bullies
Bullies use intimidation and power to force others to act against their best interests. Bullies...
5 months ago
Bullies use intimidation and power to force others to act against their best interests. Bullies blame the victim, assuring everyone that they wouldn’t have to use force if people would simply go along with what they want. Effective bullies organize a small mob to enforce their...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, April 2023
The Ware for April 2023 is shown below. Another PCB with a funny shape, this time from a different...
a year ago
The Ware for April 2023 is shown below. Another PCB with a funny shape, this time from a different era…but what does it do? Thanks to artemb for contributing this ware!
sbensu
On becoming a person (book)
It reframes therapy as a relationship instead of a treatment.
2 weeks ago
It reframes therapy as a relationship instead of a treatment.
TheCollector
5 of the Most Important Magical Realist Writers
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a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The one number you should know about your equity grant
The one number you should know about your equity grant is the percent of the company you are being...
over a year ago
The one number you should know about your equity grant is the percent of the company you are being granted (in options, shares, whatever…
TheCollector
10 Iconic Historic Landmarks in California You Should Visit
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2 months ago
Seth's Blog
Curation (vs the road to junk)
The independent bookstore down the street is carefully curated. Each book takes up the spot that a...
9 months ago
The independent bookstore down the street is carefully curated. Each book takes up the spot that a different book could inhabit, so the owner makes sure that there’s a great reason a title is included. Amazon, on the other hand, has no shelf space problem, and the Kindle...
Rest of World -...
Popular Chinese AI chatbots accused of unwanted sexual advances, misogyny
Glow, known for its immersive role-play experience, lacks clear moderation rules.
a year ago
Glow, known for its immersive role-play experience, lacks clear moderation rules.
The Rational Walk
Prometheus Bound
This article presents a discussion of "Prometheus Bound", a play by the Greek Tragedian Aeschylus...
6 months ago
This article presents a discussion of "Prometheus Bound", a play by the Greek Tragedian Aeschylus dating back to the fifth century BC.
Inverted Passion
How to increase wealth for everyone
I’ve started reading The Capitalist Manifesto, a book full of data on how free markets generate...
a year ago
I’ve started reading The Capitalist Manifesto, a book full of data on how free markets generate prosperity. The author is nuanced and uses data and logic to show how we should be rooting for capitalism (instead of bringing it down). Income and wealth inequality created as a...
Diaries of Note
I WAKE FOR THE FIRST TIME
Everything changed for British musicologist Clive Wearing in 1985, the year he contracted...
11 months ago
Everything changed for British musicologist Clive Wearing in 1985, the year he contracted herpesviral encephalitis. The disease severely damaged his memory-forming brain regions, leading to one of the most extreme cases of anterograde amnesia ever recorded and a memory span that...
Data Boutique
How to Price Web Scraped Data
5 Factors that Drive Data Pricing
a year ago
5 Factors that Drive Data Pricing
Old Structures...
Fame, Compressed
From 2018, a Carol Highsmith photo titled “View of the Manhattan skyline from the Empire State...
3 months ago
From 2018, a Carol Highsmith photo titled “View of the Manhattan skyline from the Empire State Building in New York, New York.” We’re looking northeast across part of midtown to the Queensboro Bridge, Queens and the Bronx, and suburban Long Island and Westchester beyond. What’s...
Tech + Economics +...
A decade of discontent is coming.
The 10 years ahead will see dramatic, radical change. The potential for
large-scale upheaval and...
a year ago
The 10 years ahead will see dramatic, radical change. The potential for
large-scale upheaval and the reordering of societal structures is
significant. We are already witnessing the dismantling of long-standing
institutions and the rise of new paradigms. The struggle between...
TheCollector
German Art Collector Loses Ancient Egyptian Mask
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a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Most Perverse Gesture'
“Books are
friends, oracles, household gods, characters in the ongoing drama of our...
a year ago
“Books are
friends, oracles, household gods, characters in the ongoing drama of our minds.”
Understandably,
Lance Marrow gets a little sentimental about books and their needless
destruction. We resist soft-headed fetishism but for some of us, discarding or
destroying books, even...
TheCollector
How George Washington Used the Fabian Strategy During the Revolution
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5 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/11/2024 -...
9 months ago
‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 03/11/2024 - 15:56
Prolost
VFX Suite 1.5
Today Red Giant released the first major update to the VFX Suite we introduced last year.
Lens...
over a year ago
Today Red Giant released the first major update to the VFX Suite we introduced last year.
Lens Distortion Matcher
A brand-new effect, Lens Distortion Matcher makes it ridiculously easy to profile the distortion of any lens, and either remove it, or build a VFX workflow around it...
TheCollector
4 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know About the Catholic Catechism
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3 months ago
Maps Mania
China vs America - World Influence Map
3 months ago
Willem's Blog
Wearing Grand Seiko
I am glad I took the opportunity to wear a Grand Seiko, learning first hand about its craftsmanship,...
over a year ago
I am glad I took the opportunity to wear a Grand Seiko, learning first hand about its craftsmanship, innovation and practicality.
Louwrentius
Linux RAID 6 performance using software RAID
So after toying around with RAID 0 just for fun, time to get serious. I
created a RAID 6 of 10 x 1...
over a year ago
So after toying around with RAID 0 just for fun, time to get serious. I
created a RAID 6 of 10 x 1 TB disks. This gives me raw device read speeds
of 850 MB/s and write speeds of 300 MB/s. I think this is exactly
what should be expected, but boy it is damn fast. Especially the...
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Know Ourselves?
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
3 months ago
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
Mark Manson
A Practical Guide to Modern Dating
So you've thrown yourself into the modern dating pool, eh? You brave, brave soul.
Look, I know...
a year ago
So you've thrown yourself into the modern dating pool, eh? You brave, brave soul.
Look, I know meeting new people, going on dates, figuring out if you even like the person sitting across from you—it can all be confusing, frustrating, and just exhausting at times.
But before you...
TheCollector
Watergate: The Scandal that Defined Nixon’s Presidency
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11 months ago
Simply Explained
Preventing Cumulative Layout Shifts with lazy loaded images (Eleventy + markdown-it)
There's nothing more annoying than a website shifting down just as you're about to click on a button...
over a year ago
There's nothing more annoying than a website shifting down just as you're about to click on a button or link. This is called a layout shift, and Google has declared war on them. They've added layout shifts to the Core Web Vitals, and if your website has a lot of them, it will get...
CONTEMPORIST
A New Extension And A Garden Studio For This Heritage-Listed Home
Paul Archer Design has sent us photos of a rear addition they completed for a Grade II Listed Town...
a year ago
Paul Archer Design has sent us photos of a rear addition they completed for a Grade II Listed Town House in Greater London, England. Not only did they design the addition, but they also created a small garden studio that provides a workspace for the musician owner. A large...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
How Healthcare Payments Work with Candid Health | Out-Of-Pocket
A walkthrough of how money flows between payers and providers
a year ago
A walkthrough of how money flows between payers and providers
diamond geezer
Where's WHS?
I needed to buy something from WHSmith but they didn't have it in the Stratford Westfield branch so...
a year ago
I needed to buy something from WHSmith but they didn't have it in the Stratford Westfield branch so I went to Canary Wharf instead. Except it turned out there isn't a Canary Wharf branch, there hasn't been for years, despite Google telling me it existed and was open. I did some...
Society's Backend
Side Projects to Get a Job in ML, a Survey of Small Language Models, How to Build ML Pipelines, and...
Society's Backend Reading List 11-11-2024
a month ago
Society's Backend Reading List 11-11-2024
Seth's Blog
Further vs. faster
Sprints and marathons are both foot races, but they have very little in common. The training is...
a month ago
Sprints and marathons are both foot races, but they have very little in common. The training is different, and so is the technique. Which one are you signing up for? What about the thing you sell? Are we trying to get there faster, or do we promise to go further?
Tech + Economics +...
AI does not produce reliable information. As Donald Trump's lawyer has fucked around and found out.
Michael Cohen, the former personal lawyer and fixer for Donald Trump, used
an artificial...
11 months ago
Michael Cohen, the former personal lawyer and fixer for Donald Trump, used
an artificial intelligence program to generate bogus legal citations in his
motion for early termination of his supervised release.
Cohen, who was sentenced to three years in prison in 2018 for...
Old Structures...
In The Background
The photo from the Bain News Service is titled “Post Office, New York” and the Library of Congress...
8 months ago
The photo from the Bain News Service is titled “Post Office, New York” and the Library of Congress dates it as “between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915.” I think we can do better: that’s the Municpal Building in the background under construction. The building took longer than usual to...
IEEE Spectrum
Smellovision Gets a Refresh
This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE...
a year ago
This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore.
Modern virtual reality is a feast for the eyes and ears—but coming in a distant fourth (behind haptic touch technologies), smell has been nearly completely ignored.
Earlier this...
TheCollector
The Apocrypha: Were Books Left Out of the Protestant Bible?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
TheCollector interviewt die zeitgenössischen Künstlerin Toni Mauersberg
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9 months ago
David Perell
Coolest Things I Learned in 2020
This is a collection of the most popular ideas I shared in 2020.
The post Coolest Things I Learned...
over a year ago
This is a collection of the most popular ideas I shared in 2020.
The post Coolest Things I Learned in 2020 appeared first on David Perell.
The Honest Broker
The Best Recordings of 2023 (Honorable Mention List)
I'll soon share my 100 favorite albums of the year—meanwhile here are 50 honorable mention records...
a year ago
I'll soon share my 100 favorite albums of the year—meanwhile here are 50 honorable mention records of exceptional merit
Londonist
5 Amazing Places To Eat Asian Food In Central London
As chosen by chef Jeff Tan.
10 months ago
As chosen by chef Jeff Tan.
Oykun
Why Visual Design Matters
Visual Design often doesn't receive the respect it deserves among other disciplines such as UX,...
a year ago
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...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Automatic
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I think I finally hit a completely new theodicy. If...
7 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
I think I finally hit a completely new theodicy. If I can draw this out to 200 pages, I could get a divinity degree.
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Inverted Passion
Why you will skim this article
Most likely, you’re going to read this sentence and hit the back button. Still here? Good, then...
a year ago
Most likely, you’re going to read this sentence and hit the back button. Still here? Good, then you’re likely to scan through a few paragraphs in this article and then give up. (Unless, you’re a long-time reader and trust that my writing is worthy of your time. More on this...
Tony Dinh's...
Early bird license of my new product
TypingMind.com is launching tomorrow on Product Hunt!
a year ago
TypingMind.com is launching tomorrow on Product Hunt!
Ryan Mulligan
The Pixel Canvas Shimmer Effect
I recently stumbled on a super cool, well-executed hover effect from the clerk.com website where a...
2 weeks ago
I recently stumbled on a super cool, well-executed hover effect from the clerk.com website where a bloom of tiny pixels light up, their glow staggering from the center to the edges of its container. With some available free time over this Thanksgiving break, I hacked together my...
TheCollector
What Happened at the Battle of Kyiv in WWII?
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TheCollector
Stonehenge Central Altar Stone Came From Scotland, Not Wales
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4 months ago
Commoncog
Commoncog's Next Phase
Announcing the launch of the Commoncog Case Library, setting the Learning in Ill-Structured Domains...
a year ago
Announcing the launch of the Commoncog Case Library, setting the Learning in Ill-Structured Domains series free, and one more thing.
diamond geezer
Banksy's zoo
Over the course of the last nine days, the artist Banksy has been out daily painting animals at...
4 months ago
Over the course of the last nine days, the artist Banksy has been out daily painting animals at various locations across London. As publicity goes it's been a summer season masterstroke.
Some have since been removed, some have been screened off, some have been further...
diamond geezer
From eight to nine
Yesterday I undertook the not inconsequential task of buying a new laptop, something I'd been...
3 months ago
Yesterday I undertook the not inconsequential task of buying a new laptop, something I'd been putting off for a long time.
2020 and your collective advice was "if it's still working keep using it" so I did. It's got slower, as you'd expect, but I've worked around that and put up...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Buttonhole Strangers on the Street'
Dedicated
readers have to be optimists. When we return to a book already read and enjoyed,
often...
10 months ago
Dedicated
readers have to be optimists. When we return to a book already read and enjoyed,
often decades later, we’re acting on faith, trusting that we and it remain
compatible. That’s not always the case, of course. My younger self is not a reliable critic. For too long I was an...
Retail Design Blog
LUISAVIAROMA store by Claudio Nardi Architects
Storied Florentine multi-brand boutique LUISAVIAROMA has crossed the Big Pond to open up shop in New...
4 months ago
Storied Florentine multi-brand boutique LUISAVIAROMA has crossed the Big Pond to open up shop in New York City. Given the...
TheCollector
Orange Free State, South Africa: A History
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11 months ago
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 36
New here?
Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
a year ago
New here?
Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $60-80k/month in revenue and employs seven other people.
Every month, I publish a retrospective like this...
Max Countryman
Anatomy of the Update Email
Crafting effective update emails to a wide audience can be challenging, but by examining the...
a year ago
Crafting effective update emails to a wide audience can be challenging, but by examining the components of a well-structured email, we can bridge the gap and ensure effective communication.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Best Practice Open Source Repo Setup
Quick and simple ways to set up Open Source Repos with Best Practices
over a year ago
Quick and simple ways to set up Open Source Repos with Best Practices
Fonts In Use: Blog...
“Sisterhood is Blooming” poster
Contributed by Nick Sherman
Source: collections.museumca.org License: All Rights Reserved.
The...
over a year ago
Contributed by Nick Sherman
Source: collections.museumca.org License: All Rights Reserved.
The “Sisterhood is Blooming / Springtime Will Never Be the Same” poster was originally produced in the early 1970s by the Chicago Women's Graphics Collective, an organization founded...
TheCollector
Pyramid in Java Predates Egypt’s Oldest Pyramid?
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TheCollector
When Did the Soviet Union Declare War on Japan?
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10 months ago
Tech and Tea
Progress can be slow
We can spend a lifetime working on the same things, and that's ok
5 months ago
We can spend a lifetime working on the same things, and that's ok
journal – Winnie Lim
why I refuse to learn drawing properly
When some people want to learn to draw, they do it the “right” way. They take a drawing class, watch...
3 months ago
When some people want to learn to draw, they do it the “right” way. They take a drawing class, watch youtube videos, or buy a book – starting from the basics. I...
mtlynch.io
KetoHub: Month 2
Prior to February 2019, I published all my retrospectives on Indie Hackers:
KetoHub Month 2
over a year ago
Prior to February 2019, I published all my retrospectives on Indie Hackers:
KetoHub Month 2
Irrational...
The Engineering executive’s role in hiring.
Everyone in an engineering organization contributes to the hiring process. As an engineer, you may...
a year ago
Everyone in an engineering organization contributes to the hiring process. As an engineer, you may have taken pride in being an effective interviewer. As an engineering manager, you may have prioritized becoming a strong closer, convincing candidates to join your team. As a more...
escape the algorithm
Gift interfaces, an interview, and how you found me
Some updates on things that have happened and that are coming in the escape the algorithm cinematic...
a month ago
Some updates on things that have happened and that are coming in the escape the algorithm cinematic universe:
ntietz.com blog
RC Week 12: What's Next, and Speedrunning Crafting Interpreters
And that's it.
My batch at RC ended yesterday.
I have so many thoughts and feelings from this time,...
over a year ago
And that's it.
My batch at RC ended yesterday.
I have so many thoughts and feelings from this time, but it's going to take time to coalesce them all.
I'll write up my Return Statement1 in a week or two, but for now, here's what I was up to the last week!
Mostly, this last week...
Londonist
The Chelsea Flower Show 2024: A Blooming Brief Guide
The world’s greatest flower show returns.
8 months ago
The world’s greatest flower show returns.
Old Structures...
Infrastructure
Not all infrastructure is hidden – some, like elevated railroads, is more visible and audible than...
7 months ago
Not all infrastructure is hidden – some, like elevated railroads, is more visible and audible than most people would prefer – but it often is and that can make it easy to forget. “The Cloud Under the Sea” by John Dzieza, with visuals by Kristen Radtke and Go Takayana, is an...
haseeb qureshi
What explains the rise of AMMs?
Imagine a college friend reached out to you and said, “Hey, I have a business idea. I’m going to run...
over a year ago
Imagine a college friend reached out to you and said, “Hey, I have a business idea. I’m going to run a market making bot. I’ll always quote a price no matter who’s asking, and for my pricing algorithm I’ll use x * y = k. That’s pretty much it. Want to invest?”
You’d run...
Christopher Butler
visual journal – 2024 April 21 - April 28
Apocalpyse
7 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Doing Valuable Work in Literary Criticism'
“Part of the
drama of reading Boswell’s Life for
the first time is that one can never (however much...
4 months ago
“Part of the
drama of reading Boswell’s Life for
the first time is that one can never (however much classical or Christian
erudition one brings to the task) predict confidently how Johnson is going to
respond to this or that specific question; yet of course by the end one...
Wanderingspace
Cassini’s Final Look at Enceladus
Taken on August 28, 2017. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
This is from images...
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.
Computer Ads from...
Gould Electronic's PowerNode 6000
The Firebreathers from Gould blast the competition into oblivion.
4 months ago
The Firebreathers from Gould blast the competition into oblivion.
TheCollector
What Does it Mean to Break the Fourth Wall?
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a year ago
Noahpinion
Real estate is China's economic Achilles heel
It's the country's biggest engine of growth an employment, financial asset, and source of government...
a year ago
It's the country's biggest engine of growth an employment, financial asset, and source of government revenue.
Rest of World -...
The role of trust in building fintech for Africa
Yanmo Omorogbe of Nigerian wealth management firm Bamboo talks about navigating government...
5 months ago
Yanmo Omorogbe of Nigerian wealth management firm Bamboo talks about navigating government regulations and the role of longevity.
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...
a year ago
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...
African History...
A history of the Massina empire (1818-1862)
the sucessor of Songhai
a year ago
TheCollector
Submerged Bridge in Spanish Cave Built Nearly 6,000 Years Ago
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3 months ago
Home on Erik...
Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by opportunity cost
Hanlon's razor is a classic aphorism I'm sure you have heard before: Never attribute to malice that...
over a year ago
Hanlon's razor is a classic aphorism I'm sure you have heard before: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
I've found that neither malice nor stupidity is the most common reason when you don't understand why something is in a certain way.
TheCollector
Top 11 Film Noir Masterpieces You Should Know
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a year ago
Math Is Still...
The Question of What’s Fair Illuminates the Question of What’s Hard
Computational complexity theorists have discovered a surprising new way to understand what makes...
6 months ago
Computational complexity theorists have discovered a surprising new way to understand what makes certain problems hard.
The post The Question of What’s Fair Illuminates the Question of What’s Hard first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Bits about Money
The business of check cashing
Check cashing, as a business, is a poorly understood "alternative" financial service.
10 months ago
Check cashing, as a business, is a poorly understood "alternative" financial service.
Wanderingspace
Colorized View of Perseverance Landing
An artificially colorized view of Jezero Crater, showing the bird’s eye view of Perseverance...
over a year ago
An artificially colorized view of Jezero Crater, showing the bird’s eye view of Perseverance screaming towards Mars’s surface. The above image was enhanced by Kevin Gill into full color, taking images captured by Perseverance’s Lander Vision System Camera just after the heat...
The Modern House
Jonny Gent: music, martinis and mayhem from the founder of Sessions Arts Club
The line between art and food is a fine one. Both are sensory, emotive and experiential; both are...
10 months ago
The line between art and food is a fine one. Both are sensory, emotive and experiential; both are fundamentally creative endeavours. But for Jonny Gent, painter and founder of Sessions Arts Club and Boath House, two new stars in the British hospitality firmament, the line […]
Atoms vs Bits
Magic Cutoffs
There's nothing magic about six berries, specifically
a year ago
There's nothing magic about six berries, specifically
Prolost
Apple’s “Let Loose” iPad Event was Shot on iPhone — With Panavision Lenses
Still from Apple’s “Let Loose” video.
Apple unveiled their new line of iPads yesterday in a...
7 months ago
Still from Apple’s “Let Loose” video.
Apple unveiled their new line of iPads yesterday in a pre-recorded video titled “Let Loose.” As with the previous “Scary Fast” MacBook Pro launch video, “Let Loose” ends with a tag proclaiming “Shot on iPhone” — this time adding “Edited on...
Grow With Less
Do Headline Analyzers Work? A Data-Driven Answer
Headline analyzers are a popular way to come up with great headlines and try to predict their...
over a year ago
Headline analyzers are a popular way to come up with great headlines and try to predict their effectiveness.
All you need to do is write your headline and the tool will give it a score telling you how effective it’s likely to be.
But can these free headline analyzers accurately...
The Ruffian
Am I Anti-Woke?
Self-Reflection Inspired by Nick Cave, Plus a Taxonomy of Woke, Plus Rattle Bag
8 months ago
Self-Reflection Inspired by Nick Cave, Plus a Taxonomy of Woke, Plus Rattle Bag
TheCollector
Who Is Satan in the New Testament?
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6 days ago
Left To Write
The Narrative Fallacy
How narratives can distort our perception of reality and what to do against it
a year ago
How narratives can distort our perception of reality and what to do against it
TheCollector
7 Famous Artists Who Destroyed Their Own Works
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8 months ago
nanoscale views
APS March Meeting 2024, Day 3
My highlights today are a bit thin, because I was fortunate enough to spend time catching up with...
9 months ago
My highlights today are a bit thin, because I was fortunate enough to spend time catching up with collaborators and old friends, but here goes:
Pedram Roushan from Google gave an interesting talk about noisy intermediate-scale quantum experiments for simulation. He showed some...
swyx's site RSS Feed
My 2022 New Mac Setup
I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
over a year ago
I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
Raw Thought (from...
What are the optimal biases to overcome?
over a year ago
Flashbak
Trees at Night: Art Young’s Haunting Silhouettes, 1927
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands...
a month ago
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way. As a man is, so he sees.” – William Blake Arthur Henry Young – better known as Art Young (January 14, 1866–December 29, 1943) – saw humanity in the … Continue...
Quantum Frontiers
The Book of Mark
Mark Srednicki doesn’t look like a high priest. He’s a professor of physics at the University of...
a year ago
Mark Srednicki doesn’t look like a high priest. He’s a professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB); and you’ll sooner find him in khakis than in sacred vestments. Humor suits his round face better than channeling … Continue reading →
TheCollector
6 Works by Mexican Muralists You Should Know
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Nat Eliason's...
The Window of Opportunity is Here
Don't get stuck in neutral
8 months ago
Don't get stuck in neutral
TheCollector
Angels in the Bible: Ambassadors From Another World?
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a month ago
TheCollector
6 Female Pre-Raphaelite Artists You Should Know
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a year ago
TheCollector
Romulus and Remus: The Legendary Founders of Rome
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2 weeks ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
A Golden Era of Blogging
Matt has an interesting post titled: “Today’s YouTubers are repeating the mistakes of yesterday’s...
10 months ago
Matt has an interesting post titled: “Today’s YouTubers are repeating the mistakes of yesterday’s bloggers”. While I’m not super into the YouTube scene, his observations sound right from where I sit.
He points out how some of the YouTube creators he loves and follows are...
Dan Slimmon
Incident metrics tell you nothing about reliability
When an incident response process is created, there arise many voices calling for measurement. “As...
a year ago
When an incident response process is created, there arise many voices calling for measurement. “As long as we’re creating standards for incidents, let’s track Mean-Time-To-Recovery (MTTR) and Mean-Time-To-Detection (MTTD) and Mean-time-Between-Failures (MTBF)!” they say things...
The Ruffian
The Biden Conundrum
On the president's prospects, plus a rattle bag of stimulants and delights
a year ago
On the president's prospects, plus a rattle bag of stimulants and delights
Retail Design Blog
Sanofi office by The Design Group
The Sanofi office is a space where the harmony of nature meets modernity, creating an innovative and...
3 months ago
The Sanofi office is a space where the harmony of nature meets modernity, creating an innovative and inspiring work environment....
Strange Loop Canon
State of the Canon
Onwards
11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Essential Greeks Starts Tomorrow!
5 months ago
The Essential Greeks Starts Tomorrow!
TokyoDev
Converting a Japanese Sole Proprietorship to a Company
As I talk about in my article on [creating a company in...
11 months ago
As I talk about in my article on [creating a company in Japan](https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/creating-company-japan), I initially ran TokyoDev as a sole proprietorship, but in late 2022 converted it to a company. This involved three steps:
1. Incorporate TokyoDev Inc, a...
Don Melton
How not to blog
First off, be sure to wait at least three-and-a-half years between posts. It’s all about keeping...
over a year ago
First off, be sure to wait at least three-and-a-half years between posts. It’s all about keeping your audience riveted in anticipation.
blag
Learning C
Some resources for learning C
9 months ago
Some resources for learning C
Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week
#1 💡 #2 💡 Tons of companies are looking to hire someone like this but no one knows how to do it...
9 months ago
#1 💡 #2 💡 Tons of companies are looking to hire someone like this but no one knows how to do it reliably. There are also tons of people who would like to work in such a role but they are hard to find as there is no generally accepted job title. Seems like a huge opportunity if...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Remember
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Do you want to do EVERYTHING right or do you want...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Do you want to do EVERYTHING right or do you want to have FRIENDSHIP?
Today's News:
David Heinemeier...
Workfeed goes to America
During my three years in Denmark, I invested in five local startups. All on the premise that we'd...
a year ago
During my three years in Denmark, I invested in five local startups. All on the premise that we'd work towards becoming profitable, remaining in the country, and avoiding the VC timebomb. The one that has already fulfilled all the objectives is Workfeed, and now they're ready to...
Hixie's Natural Log
The Spectrum of Openness
"Open Source" is a broad spectrum, with various axes. The following is an attempt to describe...
a year ago
"Open Source" is a broad spectrum, with various axes. The following is an attempt to describe various ways to look at openness to aid project leaders in determining what they want their project to look like. I originally wrote this for my colleagues at Google, but the concepts...
The Modern House
Pride and Joy: six family homes for sale
You may not be able to choose your family, but you can choose a home to share with them. Whether...
a year ago
You may not be able to choose your family, but you can choose a home to share with them. Whether you’re a young couple with a little one on the way, are searching for additional space or want to create a more sustainable living environment […]
Alex Meub
Protect Your Wireless Network
Short of leaving your wireless network open, the Wifi Protected Setup (WPS) vulnerability is...
over a year ago
Short of leaving your wireless network open, the Wifi Protected Setup (WPS) vulnerability is probably the single biggest security hole on any home wireless network.
About WiFi Protected Setup
WiFi Protected Setup is a security standard that comes enabled by default on many...
Old Structures...
Sideways
One of our stranger projects… The pictures below show a sidewalk vault in Manhattan. The vault...
a month ago
One of our stranger projects… The pictures below show a sidewalk vault in Manhattan. The vault extends from the sidewalk (its roof) down two floors or about 25 feet, and was built around 1895. Since reinforced-concrete was still in its infancy then, it was not used for foundation...
Odds and Ends of...
We need more than Westminster reporters to understand government
Lobby correspondent hegemony is bad.
a week ago
Lobby correspondent hegemony is bad.
Seth's Blog
It’s not easy
…to make it look easy. Sometimes, you don’t need to bother. Making it look hard might be a plus. The...
a year ago
…to make it look easy. Sometimes, you don’t need to bother. Making it look hard might be a plus. The important part is how it makes the recipient feel.
Anecdotal Evidence
'Flow, Like Waters After Summer Show’rs'
“As two men
sit silent, after having exhausted all their topics of conversation; one says, ‘It
is...
4 months ago
“As two men
sit silent, after having exhausted all their topics of conversation; one says, ‘It
is very fine weather,’ and the other says, ‘Yes;’—one blows his nose, and the
other rubs his eye-brows; (by the way, this is very much in Homer’s manner;)
such seems to be the case...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 071: How do you like them AIs
June 14, 2024.
6 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - DNA
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Saint-derived nutritional supplements are also...
a week ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Saint-derived nutritional supplements are also popular.
Today's News:
Kagi Blog
The Age of PageRank is Over
When Sergey Brin and Larry Page came up with the concept of PageRank in their seminal paper The...
over a year ago
When Sergey Brin and Larry Page came up with the concept of PageRank in their seminal paper The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine ( http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf ) (Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, Stanford University, 1998) they profoundly...
Open Culture
The Alphabet Explained: The Origin of Every Letter
Think back, if you will, to the climactic scenes of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, which take...
4 months ago
Think back, if you will, to the climactic scenes of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, which take place in the hidden temple that contains the Holy Grail. His father having been shot by the dastardly Nazi-sympathizing immortality-seeker Walter Donovan, Indy has no choice but to...
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Half-Buried Sense for Poetry'
It’s easy to
mistake geniality for prevarication. So rare a quality seems suspicious or...
6 days ago
It’s easy to
mistake geniality for prevarication. So rare a quality seems suspicious or naively
unprofessional, a mask worn to conceal the shark within, especially among
literary types. Of course, critics are born to be severe, nobody’s pal. How
many critics can you name whose...
The Ruffian
Seven Underrated Forms of of Diversity
Different Kinds of Difference At Work
7 months ago
Different Kinds of Difference At Work
Irrational...
Navigating Private Equity ownership.
In 2020, you could credibly argue that ZIRP explains the world,
but that’s an impossible argument to...
a month ago
In 2020, you could credibly argue that ZIRP explains the world,
but that’s an impossible argument to make in 2024 when zero-interest rate policy is only a fond memory.
Instead, we’re seeing a number of companies designed for rapid expansion learning to adapt
to a world that...
Escaping Flatland
A measuring device that tells me what is interesting
+ links
2 months ago
Confessions of a...
Disillusioning the Magic of the fork System Call
How the kernels implement the fork system call
3 weeks ago
How the kernels implement the fork system call
Andrew Fraknoi –...
Perseid Meteor Shower Aug 12-13, 2023
We make suggestions for how best to see the 2023 Perseid meteor shower.
The post Perseid Meteor...
a year ago
We make suggestions for how best to see the 2023 Perseid meteor shower.
The post Perseid Meteor Shower Aug 12-13, 2023 appeared first on Andrew Fraknoi - Astronomy Lectures - Astronomy Education Resources.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Contrast Is Clarifying
Which is best?
Generalist or specialist?
Native or web?
Web site or web app?
JavaScript or...
2 weeks ago
Which is best?
Generalist or specialist?
Native or web?
Web site or web app?
JavaScript or Typescript?
Framework or library?
Server side or client side?
Photoshop or Sketch or Figma?
Designing in a tool or design in the browser?
Skueomorphic or flat?
Mac or PC or Linux?
This list...
Flashbak
Groovy Ads That Sold Woolworths’ UK Line of Baby Doll Cosmetics
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote...
6 months ago
Here are several examples of the many groovy psychedelic adverts produced in the 1960s to promote Woolworths’ UK line of “Baby Doll” cosmetics in the late 1960s. These “pop-style” adverts appeared in the country’s magazines for teenagers, like Jackie, RAVE, Flair, Queen and...
Seth's Blog
The Santa problem
An echo chamber is created by a marketer to assemble a group of people who are insulated from...
a year ago
An echo chamber is created by a marketer to assemble a group of people who are insulated from conventional discourse. It can happen to sports and music fans, to investors, to companies that have confidence in their view of the world, or to social or political gatherings. We...
The Ruffian
On Certain Asymmetries
A few thoughts on how we talk about the Israel-Hamas war
a year ago
A few thoughts on how we talk about the Israel-Hamas war
TheCollector
Art Basel Miami Beach Opens 2024 Fair
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2 weeks ago
Commoncog
What Process Improvement in Education Looks Like
What rigorous trial and error looks like when applied to improving disadvantaged student outcomes...
2 months ago
What rigorous trial and error looks like when applied to improving disadvantaged student outcomes ... and why you should be able to do this in your own org contexts.
NeuroLogica Blog
Possible Sign of Life on Exoplanet
The James Webb Space Telescope spectroscopic analysis of K2-18b, an exoplanet 124 light years from...
a year ago
The James Webb Space Telescope spectroscopic analysis of K2-18b, an exoplanet 124 light years from Earth, shows signs that the atmosphere may contain dimethyl sulphide (DMS). This finding is more impressive when you know that DMS on Earth is only produced by living organisms, not...
HTMHell
Preventing form submission with zero Javascript
Want to trigger an action? Use a button element. They’re great.
Want to also prevent form submission...
a year ago
Want to trigger an action? Use a button element. They’re great.
Want to also prevent form submission when someone clicks that button? Put down the JavaScript, friend. I have a better suggestion:
<button type="button">
Button action goes here
</button>
And that’s it! No ...
Rest of World -...
Latin Americans are the world’s most in-demand remote workers
They still struggle to get paid in a volatile region, though, with many asking for payment in...
a year ago
They still struggle to get paid in a volatile region, though, with many asking for payment in crypto.
cdixon.org RSS Feed
As [Edwin] Land ultimately recognized, the adoption of his [polarized headlight] system was fatally…
As Edwin Land ultimately recognized, the adoption of his polarized headlight system was fatally...
over a year ago
As Edwin Land ultimately recognized, the adoption of his polarized headlight system was fatally hampered by the fact that there was no…
Artificial Ignorance
The AI research tool that saves me hours every week
And why it might revolutionize the search industry.
11 months ago
And why it might revolutionize the search industry.
Contemporist...
A Monochromatic Interior Sets The Vibe Inside This Retail Store
Design firm Studiomateriality, has shared photos of a retail store they designed in Athina, Greece,...
9 months ago
Design firm Studiomateriality, has shared photos of a retail store they designed in Athina, Greece, that has a monochromatic interior to catch the eye of people walking past.
Charles Chen
Server Sent Events with .NET 7
An HTTP alternative to web sockets that makes it easy to push events from the server.
a year ago
An HTTP alternative to web sockets that makes it easy to push events from the server.
Rest of World -...
Venezuelan migrants helped build Colombia’s tech scene. Now the country is kicking them out
New rules make getting a visa more difficult, even as Colombia struggles to find enough tech...
a year ago
New rules make getting a visa more difficult, even as Colombia struggles to find enough tech workers.
Retail Design Blog
Miss Dior exhibition by OMA & Shohei Shigematsu
The story of Miss Dior unfolds in a journey through seven rooms, each revealing a different facet of...
5 months ago
The story of Miss Dior unfolds in a journey through seven rooms, each revealing a different facet of Miss Dior....
TheCollector
How did the Plague of Athens Revolutionize Carthage?
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TheCollector
Gandhi in South Africa: The Formation of the World-Famous Pacifist
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11 months ago
SatPost by Trung...
Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos Enter a Room
In December 2000, the founders of Apple and Amazon were invited to critique a demo of the Segway. It...
3 months ago
In December 2000, the founders of Apple and Amazon were invited to critique a demo of the Segway. It was a wild two-hour session filled with gem quotes and business insights.
Londonist
Quirky Christmas Eats To Sink Your Teeth Into Around London
From mince pie doughnuts to spiced Aperol spritzes.
a year ago
From mince pie doughnuts to spiced Aperol spritzes.
Charles Chen
5 Engineering Lessons from Early Stage Startups
Lessons learned from working at startups ranging from seed stage to series-B/C funding over the last...
a year ago
Lessons learned from working at startups ranging from seed stage to series-B/C funding over the last 3 years.
Platformer
Google's most serious antitrust challenge to date
The US government is coming after the company's ad business — and it might win
a year ago
The US government is coming after the company's ad business — and it might win
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