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The American Scholar
Katie Heller Saltoun Tenderness and grit The post Katie Heller Saltoun appeared first on The American Scholar.
a week ago
TheCollector
Posthumanism vs Transhumanism: What Is the Difference? undefined
3 months ago
Londonist
Take A Tour Of The Magnificent Palace Of Westminster This Autumn Ahead of the State Opening in November.
a year ago
Both Are True
Love myself? Knowing what I know? A lunchtime meditation on whether 'being the best' is even a real thing
5 months ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
How to Explore Dallas’ Culturally Diverse Arts Scene
5 months ago
Steve Klabnik
Writing a su feature with Authlogic
over a year ago
Home on Erik...
Annoying blog post I spent a couple of hours this weekend going through some pull requests and issues to Annoy, which...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I spent a couple of hours this weekend going through some pull requests and issues to Annoy, which is an open source C++/Python library for Approximate Nearest Neighbor search. I set up Travis-CI integration and spent some time on one of the issues that multiple people had...
David Heinemeier...
Obsessive problem solving followed by aimless wandering I haven't felt any urge to tinker with my Linux setup in months. This after spending much of the...
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I haven't felt any urge to tinker with my Linux setup in months. This after spending much of the spring and into summer furiously and obsessively trying every PC out there to find the perfect replacement for the Mac, diving deep with Ubuntu, and codifying my findings in the...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Extravagantly fast rendering with React benders The other day I was working on a React-based library of huge, reusable SVG images, and I ran into...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The other day I was working on a React-based library of huge, reusable SVG images, and I ran into performance problems. Just kidding, I've never had a problem I'm solving here, but I've had great fun working around it. I wanted to make components producing mostly static DOM as...
nanoscale views
Reading material - orders of magnitude and difficult times Over the past couple of weeks (and more) I have found a number of things to read that I wanted to...
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a year ago
Over the past couple of weeks (and more) I have found a number of things to read that I wanted to pass on.  First, if you'd like a break from the seemingly continual stream of bad news in the world and enjoy good "think like a physicist"/dimensional analysis/order of magnitude...
Passing Time
27 Things I know
7 months ago
elementary Blog
Happy Pride! Have Some Updates! This month we have some surprise updates for OS 7, including new releases of GNOME apps and a big...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
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...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Lost In The Future Soundtrack: Post Pop Depression - Paraguay I haven't wanted to write much in the last...
a month ago
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a month ago
Soundtrack: Post Pop Depression - Paraguay I haven't wanted to write much in the last week. Seemingly every single person on Earth with a blog has tried to drill down into what happened on November 5 — to find the people to blame, to somehow explain what could&
This Space
Drowning is Fine by Darren Allen For reasons unclear to me at the time I re-read several novels by Aharon Appelfeld, the author born...
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over a year ago
For reasons unclear to me at the time I re-read several novels by Aharon Appelfeld, the author born in 1932 to a German-speaking Jewish family in what was also Paul Celan’s hometown, Czernowitz, then in Romania, now in Ukraine, and who wrote exclusively in Hebrew after he had...
CONTEMPORIST
Exterior Lighting Shows Off The Post And Beam Structure Of This Home Ward + Blake Architects has shared photos of a modern post and beam home they completed in Wyoming,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Ward + Blake Architects has shared photos of a modern post and beam home they completed in Wyoming, that’s been placed on a hillside, just above a farmable portion of the site to preserve the ongoing agricultural use of the property. The home has generous roof overhangs that...
NeuroLogica Blog
Accusation of Mental Illness as a Political Strategy I am not the first to say this but it bears repeating – it is wrong to use the accusation of a...
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3 months ago
I am not the first to say this but it bears repeating – it is wrong to use the accusation of a mental illness as a political strategy. It is unfair, stigmatizing, and dismissive. Thomas Szasz (let me say straight up – I am not a Szaszian) was a psychiatrist who made it his...
xkcd.com
Hatchery
5 months ago
Tinloof - Blog
Why we prefer Sanity over Contentful In this article, we'll explain 5 reasons why we prefer Sanity over Contentful Headless CMS.
over a year ago
Business Brainstorms
API for simple manual online tasks, pickleball for surfing, freelancer laptop stickers, ... Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
a year ago
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a year ago
Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write this email to share the most interesting trends, frameworks, opportunities, and ideas with you. Let's dive in! 💡 Opportunities “I want an AI companion that I can share my goals with...
Paul Graham: Essays
Snapshot: Viaweb, June 1998
over a year ago
TheCollector
Get to Know Alma Mahler: Composer, Muse, and Scandalous Woman undefined
6 days ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Branding Bundles The best way to communicate a group of benefits is to slap a label on it.
over a year ago
Stoic Simple
A Stoic Perspective on Achieving Happiness In today’s fast-paced and unpredictable world, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the challenges and...
a year ago
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a year ago
In today’s fast-paced and unpredictable world, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the challenges and pressures of daily life. Many of us are constantly searching for ways to achieve happiness and inner peace amidst the chaos. While some turn to meditation and mindfulness, others...
Probably...
Another step toward a two-hour marathon This is an update to an analysis I run each time the marathon world record is broken. If you like...
a year ago
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a year ago
This is an update to an analysis I run each time the marathon world record is broken. If you like this sort of thing, you will like my forthcoming book, Probably Overthinking It, which is available for preorder now. On October 8, 2023, Kelvin Kiptum ran the Chicago Marathon in...
Irrational...
Notes on Enterprise Architecture as Strategy Enterprise Architecture as Strategy by Jeanne W. Ross, Peter Weill, and David C Robertson is an...
a year ago
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a year ago
Enterprise Architecture as Strategy by Jeanne W. Ross, Peter Weill, and David C Robertson is an interesting read on how integrating technology across business units shifts the company’sstrategy landscape. Written in 2006, case studies are not particularly current but the ideas...
Louwrentius
Improving web application security by implementing database security Security is about defense-in-depth. It bogles my mind why it is so difficult to implement...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Security is about defense-in-depth. It bogles my mind why it is so difficult to implement defense-in-depth security in web applications. 99.9% of applications use a single database account, with root-like privileges. Easiest for the developer of course, and the database is just a...
Liz Denys
Revised icebreakers for nicer New Yorkers You go to a friend's party, attend a work event, or just find yourself out and about. You meet...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
You go to a friend's party, attend a work event, or just find yourself out and about. You meet someone new, and you're inevitably asking and being asked three questions: Where do you work? Where do you live? How much is your rent? Okay, you don't always encounter that last one,...
Open Culture
The Origins of Anime: Watch Early Japanese Animations (1917 to 1931) Japanese animation, AKA anime, might be filled with large-eyed maidens, way cool robots, and...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Japanese animation, AKA anime, might be filled with large-eyed maidens, way cool robots, and large-eyed, way cool maiden/robot hybrids, but it often shows a level of daring, complexity and creativity not typically found in American mainstream animation. And the form has spawned...
swyx's site RSS Feed
On Grind - from Investor to Creator to Founder Sarah asks a provoking question that has been on my mind a lot as I transition from part time...
a year ago
Maps Mania
The River Basins & Watersheds of the World
a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
Acting with incomplete information in a startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * As a fledgling...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * As a fledgling entrepreneur in the midst of a growing startup, I try to read quite a lot around the subject. I’ve been deeply involved in startup culture for around two years now and I often find...
Identity Designed
BERA Designed by How&How, London & Lisbon.
over a year ago
ntietz.com blog
I found some of my first code! Annotating and reflecting on robotics code from 2009. In high school, one of my teachers shattered my plans for my life, in the most beautiful way. Most...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
In high school, one of my teachers shattered my plans for my life, in the most beautiful way. Most of my life, I'd intended to become a math professional of some sort: a math teacher, when that was all I saw math for; an actuary, when I started to learn more; and then a...
Open Culture
Oh My God! Winston Churchill Received the First Ever Letter Containing “O.M.G.” (1917) Winston Churchill is one of those preposterously outsized historical figures who seemed to be in the...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Winston Churchill is one of those preposterously outsized historical figures who seemed to be in the middle of every major event. Even before, as Prime Minister, he steeled the resolve of his people and faced down the Third Reich juggernaut; even before he loudly warned of the...
Blog System/5
Revisiting the DOS memory models At the beginning of the year, I wrote a bunch of articles on the various tricks DOS played to...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
At the beginning of the year, I wrote a bunch of articles on the various tricks DOS played to overcome the tight memory limits of x86’s real mode. There was one question that came up and remained unanswered: what were the various “models” that the compilers of the day offered?
Math Is Still...
What Has the Pandemic Taught Us About Vaccines? Should Covid-19 vaccines be judged by how well they prevent disease or how well they prevent death?...
a year ago
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a year ago
Should Covid-19 vaccines be judged by how well they prevent disease or how well they prevent death? Anna Durbin, a public health expert and vaccine researcher, talks with Steven Strogatz about the science behind vaccines. The post What Has the Pandemic Taught Us About...
Seth's Blog
The MVP and fear The minimum viable product is a powerful way to find out if your solution is going to find a market....
a year ago
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a year ago
The minimum viable product is a powerful way to find out if your solution is going to find a market. Bean-to-bar chocolate in the US didn’t happen because someone raised millions of dollars, built a factory and got shelf space at the A&P. It happened because John Scharffenberger...
NeuroLogica Blog
Framing and Global Warming When we talk publicly about the effects of human activity on the climate should we refer to “global...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
When we talk publicly about the effects of human activity on the climate should we refer to “global warming”, “climate change”, the “climate crisis” or to “climate justice”? Perhaps we should also be more technical and say specifically, “anthropogenic climate change”. This kind...
PostHog's RSS Feed
10x engineers talk to users I believe the best way to become a 10x engineer is to zoom out and solve for user impact. Engineers...
a year ago
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a year ago
I believe the best way to become a 10x engineer is to zoom out and solve for user impact. Engineers and founders need to deeply understand and care…
Devmoh
Protobufs Explained, and why Google, Apple, and LinkedIn use it over JSON Faster than JSON, clearer than XML, cross-language, type-safe, and backwards compatible.
a year ago
Tony Dinh's...
Just two things Hello everyone! Tony here 👋 This is not a typical monthly update, I just want to quickly let you...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Hello everyone! Tony here 👋 This is not a typical monthly update, I just want to quickly let you know about 2 important things I’m working on that are time-sensitive! 1. DevUtils Black Friday Deal: 30% OFF Once a year, I run a promotion for DevUtils on Black Friday and Cyber...
Construction Physics
How We Got the Lithium-ion Battery It took decades of research, performed around the world, before a practical lithium-ion battery was...
3 weeks ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Love Letter to Singapore Mixed Rice The most underrated part of Singapore that foreigners don't appreciate
over a year ago
Seth's Blog
Learning from the Amazon gift card snafu Millions of people got this email last night: It’s legitimate, but it’s a mistake. A mistake...
a year ago
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a year ago
Millions of people got this email last night: It’s legitimate, but it’s a mistake. A mistake because: We can learn a lot about what not to do from this. First, if you make a mistake by email, fix it. Fix it by email AND fix it on your site. Let everyone who got the wrong […]
Weighty Thoughts
The Mystical Q OpenAI Q*, Primer on Reinforcement Learning, and Implications
a year ago
Old Structures...
Bragging Combined With Public Service I highly recommend the soon-to-be-released book The Elements of Construction: N. Clifford Ricker,...
a month ago
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a month ago
I highly recommend the soon-to-be-released book The Elements of Construction: N. Clifford Ricker, Architecture, and the University of Illinois and not just because I wrote on chapter of it. Marci Uihlein, the editor, an architect and engineer, and a professor of architecture at...
Old Vintage...
Teaching Apple Cyberdog 1.0 new tricks (featuring OpenDoc) this cyberdog (image credit). that cyberdog, though this is one of my favourite weirdo pinball...
a year ago
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a year ago
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...
Retail Design Blog
andwander GINZA SIX by Schemata Architects and wander features a wide range of unisex items available in various colors. Each item has its own...
a month ago
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a month ago
and wander features a wide range of unisex items available in various colors. Each item has its own unique cutting...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Local Artist's Guide to Dallas, Texas
5 months ago
TheCollector
8 Women Artists You Should Check Out in London’s National Gallery undefined
5 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Fix Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Ever since twitter got weird people have tried to...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Ever since twitter got weird people have tried to fix twitter by making twitter. Today's News:
PHD Comics
09/17/21 PHD comic: 'The COVID-19 Virus Explained' Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com ...
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over a year ago
Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com title: "The COVID-19 Virus Explained" - originally published 9/17/2021 For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE!
TheCollector
7 Facts About Banana Republics & Their Role in History and Politics undefined
8 months ago
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Southern Heat, Part 6 (Houston) The heat really cranked up as we entered Texas, never dropping below a daily high of 100° Fahrenheit...
a year ago
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a year ago
The heat really cranked up as we entered Texas, never dropping below a daily high of 100° Fahrenheit (38° Celsius). Here my hybrid working vacation transitioned completely to pure work for a day. That’s where I needed to attend meetings at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston...
Marcus on AI
Satya Nadella and the three stages of scientific truth A textbook case in how good ideas are often initially throttled
4 weeks ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to run Python and Portray on Netlify How to deploy Python projects to Netlify
over a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Consciousness Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Hoping I can get a duchy after the robot...
2 months ago
Drew Ex Machina
First Pictures: Views of Mars from NASA’s Mars Observer – July 27, 1993 Having enthusiastically followed NASA’s Viking mission to Mars as a teenager during the late-1970s,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Having enthusiastically followed NASA’s Viking mission to Mars as a teenager during the late-1970s, the lack of any new NASA missions to Mars during the 1980s […]
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Platform distribution risks When your product extends a platform’s functionality, one of the main risks you face is that the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When your product extends a platform’s functionality, one of the main risks you face is that the platform could embed your product’s key…
History Today Feed
‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review ‘Lower than the Angels’ by Diarmaid MacCulloch review JamesHoare Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:25
a week ago
TheCollector
Who Was George Hodel? undefined
3 months ago
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for your weekend (#13) Climate messaging, antitrust, Chinese consumption, the Fed and inflation, marriage and happiness,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Climate messaging, antitrust, Chinese consumption, the Fed and inflation, marriage and happiness, historical data, and some Star Trek recommendations
macwright.com
How could you make a scalable online geospatial editor? by I’ve been thinking about this. Placemark is going open source in 10 days and I’m probably not...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
I’ve been thinking about this. Placemark is going open source in 10 days and I’m probably not founding another geo startup anytime soon. I’d love to found another bootstrapped startup eventually, but geospatial is hard. Anyway, geospatial data is big, which does not combine well...
TheCollector
Egon Schiele Works Seized From U.S. Museums undefined
a year ago
ntietz.com blog
Asheville Asheville is in crisis right now. They're without drinking water, faucets run dry, and it's...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Asheville is in crisis right now. They're without drinking water, faucets run dry, and it's difficult to flush toilets. As of yesterday, the hospital has water (via tanker trucks), but 80% of the public water system is still without running water. Things are really bad. Lots of...
AFAR Media - Travel...
The FAA Bill Could Greatly Improve Air Travel—Here's How
a year ago
Rest of World -...
A coupon-crazy Brazilian app figured out how to beat Uber Eats Out-discounting competitors: iFood’s bid to become Latin America's last-mile delivery king.
a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Portable Pi: Cheap Raspberry Pi Zero Hacker Terminal Portable Pi: Cheap Raspberry Pi Zero Hacker Terminal 2020-09-16 I recently came across the...
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over a year ago
Portable Pi: Cheap Raspberry Pi Zero Hacker Terminal 2020-09-16 I recently came across the incredibly cool design for an “ultimate Raspberry Pi computer” by NODE and was inspired to create my own “portable” Pi device. Although, with my concept, I decided to set a few restrictions...
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Places Around the World for History Buffs undefined
2 months ago
African History...
Reversing the Sail: a brief note on African travelers in the western Indian Ocean The Swahili in Arabia and the Persian gulf
11 months ago
A Beautiful Site
SSH failing on macOS Sierra For me, upgrading to MacOS Sierra broke a lot of things that use SSH, including Transmit, Sequel...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
For me, upgrading to MacOS Sierra broke a lot of things that use SSH, including Transmit, Sequel Pro, and a handful of other apps. In fact, it seems to break any app that uses an SSH key with a passphrase. 🤔 The solution I found was to tell SSH to use the MacOS keychain. Simply...
TheCollector
Winnie Mandela: Mother of the Nation? undefined
8 months ago
Rest of World -...
Malaysia’s homegrown car brands bank on cheaper models to compete with Tesla and BYD Proton and Perodua are betting on low prices and an emotional connection with Malaysia’s drivers to...
3 months ago
The Honest Broker
How Songs Created Western Rational Thinking And Socrates sends me on a mad chase into the wild world of musical dreams
a year ago
Maps Mania
The Global Problem of Forever Chemicals
a year ago
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: A Perfect Match Some gangsters in a car, running from The Shadow: A circa 1920 view of the Broad Street roman-temple...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Some gangsters in a car, running from The Shadow: A circa 1920 view of the Broad Street roman-temple facade of the New York Stock Exchange, with the Wilks Building immediately to its right and Federal Hall, with George Washington standing out front, on the far right. I don’t know...
The Ruffian
Why Are Americans Growing Less Comfortable With Speaking Up? The Paradox of the Internet
4 months ago
TheCollector
Global Art Sales Dropped 4 Percent to $65 B. in 2023 undefined
9 months ago
TheCollector
Does Descartes Believe God Is Essential to Knowledge? undefined
11 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Should We Glorify Caesar? And Those Like Him?
9 months ago
Math Is Still...
Computer Scientists Establish the Best Way to Traverse a Graph Dijkstra’s algorithm was long thought to be the most efficient way to find a graph’s best routes....
a month ago
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Dijkstra’s algorithm was long thought to be the most efficient way to find a graph’s best routes. Researchers have now proved that it’s “universally optimal.” The post Computer Scientists Establish the Best Way to Traverse a Graph first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Putting the “Person” in “Personal Website” The other day I saw a meme that went something like this: Isn’t it crappy how basic human activities...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
The other day I saw a meme that went something like this: Isn’t it crappy how basic human activities like singing, dancing, and making art have been turned into skills instead of being recognized as behaviors? The point of doing these things has become to get good at them. But...
Seth's Blog
Too much competition There are two approaches: Broaden your offerings, make them easier, cheaper and more available. Dumb...
a year ago
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a year ago
There are two approaches: Broaden your offerings, make them easier, cheaper and more available. Dumb them down and race to the bottom. Or… Focus on the customers who care enough about your idiosyncratic and particular offerings that they’ll not only happily walk away from the...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Against Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If you write a paper against that paper you're -2,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If you write a paper against that paper you're -2, which is why negative even Erdos numbers are more prized. Today's News: Whew! Still traveling but trying to keep my update schedule sorta OK.
History Today Feed
‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review ‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review JamesHoare Mon, 11/25/2024 - 11:01
3 weeks ago
Transit Maps
Submission – Official Map: Tram and Busways of Casablanca, Morocco, 2024 Submitted by Leo, who says: On September 24, the Casablanca tramway network nearly doubled in length...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Submitted by Leo, who says: On September 24, the Casablanca tramway network nearly doubled in length with the opening of T3 and T4. The Casatramway network, operated by RATP, is depicted in the new map alongside the Casabusway BRT lines currently under construction. The map...
Paul Graham: Essays
The High-Res Society
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
The Turkish TikToker teaching young women to be religious girlbosses Şule Kayatürk has become a star by making videos about being an observant Muslim who is also a...
2 months ago
diamond geezer
September events diary 2024 It's almost September again but never fear, London's putting on a last flurry of events, activities...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
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...
TheCollector
Who Were Bonnie and Clyde & Why Are They Famous? undefined
5 months ago
Explorations of an...
A Quest Nature Tour To Borneo: Tabin Wildlife Reserve And Danum Valley We left the Kinabatangan River behind and transferred to our next destination, the Tabin Wildlife...
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a month ago
We left the Kinabatangan River behind and transferred to our next destination, the Tabin Wildlife Reserve. This is the largest swath of protected forest; an area of lowland primary and logged forest that is home to iconic species like the Bornean Pygmy Elephant, the Sun Bear and...
Jonas Hietala
The T-34 keyboard layout A couple of months ago I started looking into ergonomical keyboards; mainly split keyboards with...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A couple of months ago I started looking into ergonomical keyboards; mainly split keyboards with much fewer keys, like the 36-key Gergoplex and the 44-key Kyria. I may write another post about the reasons why, but long story short I started getting pain in my thumbs, fingers,...
Mazdak
AI Gone Wrong? Can Chatbots Be Held Responsible for Suicide? This episode examines the tragic case of a teenager who became obsessed with an AI companion bot and...
a month ago
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a month ago
This episode examines the tragic case of a teenager who became obsessed with an AI companion bot and later died by suicide.
Anecdotal Evidence
'Each Man Can Be Judged By His Favorite Books' This I find in The Lone Heretic: A Biography of Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (1963) by Margaret Thomas...
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6 months ago
This I find in The Lone Heretic: A Biography of Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (1963) by Margaret Thomas Rudd, who quotes her subject: “Each man can be judged by his favorite books.” She adds of the great Spanish thinker and novelist:  “Throughout his long life Unamuno returned to...
TheCollector
Who Was Hildegard of Bingen? undefined
11 months ago
This Space
The criticism of Lessons, the lessons of criticism I give thanks to Ryan Ruby for his review of Lessons, Ian McEwan’s latest novel. It brings to our...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I give thanks to Ryan Ruby for his review of Lessons, Ian McEwan’s latest novel. It brings to our attention that rare thing, joy of joys, a novel telling the story of a life remarkably similar to the author’s own set against the backdrop of recent history. Ruby shows how the...
TheCollector
10 Women Thinkers of the Enlightenment You Should Know undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Artemisia Gentileschi Lost Painting in The U.K.’s Royal Collection undefined
a year ago
Stoic Simple
What Does Stoicism Teach About Pleasure and Pain? Stoicism is an ancient philosophy that has gained increasing popularity in recent years. At the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Stoicism is an ancient philosophy that has gained increasing popularity in recent years. At the heart of this school of thought is the idea that we can achieve true happiness by living in accordance with nature, accepting what we cannot change, and focusing on developing our own...
Seth's Blog
Empathy at a distance … is almost as difficult as empathy up close. That person that’s not like you, from way over there,...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
… is almost as difficult as empathy up close. That person that’s not like you, from way over there, the one that’s on the other team–it’s hard to imagine what they’re dealing with. They don’t believe what you believe, they haven’t experienced what you’ve experienced. And the...
Noahpinion
How did the U.S. achieve a soft landing? Four simple theories.
a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Steeplejacks Top Out the Chrysler Building,' A friend sent me a link to a 1978 BBC documentary about a working-class hero in England. I had never...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
A friend sent me a link to a 1978 BBC documentary about a working-class hero in England. I had never heard of Fred Dibnah, practitioner of a trade I didn’t know was still extant: steeplejack. In the words of the OED: “a person who climbs steeples or tall chimneys to repair them.”...
alexwlchan
Moving my YouTube Likes from one account to another I used to have two YouTube accounts, and I wanted to consolidate them into one. I had two accounts...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
I used to have two YouTube accounts, and I wanted to consolidate them into one. I had two accounts as a way to keep two separate watch histories. I was watching videos about gender and trans stuff before I came out, and I didn’t want them appearing in my main account – say, when...
Sam Altman
Greg A lot of people ask me what the ideal cofounder looks like.  I now have an answer: Greg...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A lot of people ask me what the ideal cofounder looks like.  I now have an answer: Greg Brockman. Every successful startup I know has at least one person who provides the force of will to make the startup happen.  I’d thought a lot about this in the abstract while advising YC...
TheCollector
4 Russian Leaders Who Actually Weren’t Russian undefined
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The Modern House
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So I’ve been idling on irc for years now and I’ve been using irssi for that, which works fine. I have not had notifications enabled, so I can see from the statusbar whenever someone messages me. As I’ve never been very active this has been fine, but now I figured it’s time to fix...
Musings on Markets
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You might know, by now, of my views on ESG, which I have described as an empty acronym, born in sanctimony, nurtured in hypocrisy and sold with sophistry. My voyage with ESG began with curiosity in my 2019 exploration of what it purported to measure, turned to cynicism as the...
Saturday Morning...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Honestly whenever I hear someone has been murdered I just assume it was one of them. How would you know? Today's News:
ntietz.com blog
Names should be cute, not descriptive A long-standing debate between me and a peer at work has been how we should name services. His...
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A long-standing debate between me and a peer at work has been how we should name services. His position was always that services should be named something descriptive, so that you can infer from the name what it does. My position is that the name should definitely not be...
Scarlet Ink
Fake It Till You Make It — To Become a Leader, Act Like One I found, rather than waiting for my promotions at Amazon, I was more fulfilled and grew myself as a...
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I found, rather than waiting for my promotions at Amazon, I was more fulfilled and grew myself as a leader by pretending I had already been promoted.
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Things To Do This Week In London: 13-19 November 2023 Winter Wonderland, Doctor Who, Elf The Musical and Christmas at Kew.
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Willem's Blog
Minimalistic road bike with Gates carbon drive For the past few months I have been riding the Schindelhauer Siegfried Road bike with the Gates CDX...
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For the past few months I have been riding the Schindelhauer Siegfried Road bike with the Gates CDX Carbon Drive, read about this beautiful minimal bike in this post.
Seth's Blog
The problem with ‘very’ It’s a lazy amplifier. “Very” can modify almost any adjective, but it might not deliver our intended...
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It’s a lazy amplifier. “Very” can modify almost any adjective, but it might not deliver our intended message. Putting it in front of a positive like “charming” or “kind” or “generous” can make it clear that we mean what we said, but more so. But, placed in front of a description...
The Modern House
Architect Ben Ridley on life in his low-energy house in Muswell Hill
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Fonts In Use: Blog...
Call for Entries: Finding Forte Contributed by Fonts In Use Staff Source: www.tomkoch.net Tom Koch. License: All Rights Reserved....
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Contributed by Fonts In Use Staff Source: www.tomkoch.net Tom Koch. License: All Rights Reserved. The call for entries is now open! Forte in use for a shop sign, spotted by Tom Koch in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Source: www.tomkoch.net Tom Koch. License: All Rights Reserved....
Matt Mazur
Reflecting on My First Year as a Full Time Indie Founder At the beginning of 2023 I went full time on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker business, after 13...
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At the beginning of 2023 I went full time on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker business, after 13 years of working on it on the side. A year has passed, so I wanted to share an update on how things are going and some lessons learned. Preceden My main focus in 2023 was building AI...
Both Are True
Like the mirror and the moon, let's reflect some thoughts on season one and some kind words from paid subscribers!
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Castles in the Sky
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Math Is Still...
Cells Across the Body Talk to Each Other About Aging Biologists discovered that mitochondria in different tissues talk to each other to repair injured...
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Biologists discovered that mitochondria in different tissues talk to each other to repair injured cells. When their signal fails, the biological clock starts winding down. The post Cells Across the Body Talk to Each Other About Aging first appeared on Quanta Magazine
TokyoDev
個人のブログから利益を生むビジネスへ:TokyoDevのストーリー This article is also available [in...
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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...
Dan Slimmon
Outliers carry information. Don’t leave them on the table Over a decade ago, I saw this talk by John Rauser. Only recently, though, did I come to realize how...
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Over a decade ago, I saw this talk by John Rauser. Only recently, though, did I come to realize how incredibly influential this talk has been on my career. Gosh what a great talk! You should watch it. If you operate a complex system, like a SaaS app, you probably have a dashboard...
The American Scholar
Tunneling to Freedom In The Great Escape (1963), the true story of a harrowing breakout from a German POW camp The post...
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In The Great Escape (1963), the true story of a harrowing breakout from a German POW camp The post Tunneling to Freedom appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The really upsetting part is that he doesn't even work here. Today's News:
Platformer
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99% Invisible
Imitation Nation [EPISODE] 29 Palms, California, is home to the world’s largest Marine Corps Training Base. It’s an elaborately...
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29 Palms, California, is home to the world’s largest Marine Corps Training Base. It’s an elaborately built facility with lego-like buildings, a bazaar, a mosque, and people role-playing as civilians, spies, or enemies, complete with costumes and props. It’s all part of an effort...
Working Theorys
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Seth's Blog
Solving invented problems Some problems, when well solved, lead to making things better. Some problems give us a chance to get...
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Some problems, when well solved, lead to making things better. Some problems give us a chance to get back on course. And some problems are opportunities to be generous. But many of the problems that we seek to solve are actually invented, and maybe we could benefit by simply...
Rest of World -...
An Indian edtech that helps students live out their study-abroad dreams Leverage Edu, which has raised $70 million, is among the few profitable edtech companies in the...
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Kagi Blog
Celebrating our first 20,000 members Dear Kagi community, Today, we’re happy and proud to have reached *20,000 paying members* ,...
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Dear Kagi community, Today, we’re happy and proud to have reached *20,000 paying members* , including over 1,500 families all over the world, in our community.
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SumatraPDF 2.5.2 released We, the SumatraPDF developers have released a version 2.5.2 of Sumatra, a PDF and ebook reader for...
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over a year ago
We, the SumatraPDF developers have released a version 2.5.2 of Sumatra, a PDF and ebook reader for Windows. Changes in this release: 2 page view for ebooks new keybindings: Ctrl+PgDn, Ctrl+Right : go to next page Ctrl+PgUp, Ctrl+Left : go to previous page 10x faster ebook...
ntietz.com blog
Alpha-beta pruning illustrated by the smothered mate I've been working on Patzer, a chess engine, during my time at RC. The first engine-like thing I...
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over a year ago
I've been working on Patzer, a chess engine, during my time at RC. The first engine-like thing I implemented for it was alpha-beta pruning, which is a way of pruning out branches of the search tree to significantly speed up search. This is a common algorithm, which I also...
HTMHell
Enforcing better HTML markup with Eleventy While what we mean is usually very clear to us, others may decode our messages differently from what...
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over a year ago
While what we mean is usually very clear to us, others may decode our messages differently from what we intended. This is especially true on the web, where there are many ways to consume content. The language, browser type, device model, using a screen reader, navigating with or...
A Smart Bear
The Lindy Effect on startup potential On average, you're halfway to your final destination. How, then, do we not only double from here,...
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Electronics etc…
Installing Linux GPIB Drivers for the Agilent 82357B Introduction Other Installation Instructions Agilent 82357B Initialization Process Installing the...
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Introduction Other Installation Instructions Agilent 82357B Initialization Process Installing the Agilent 82357B GPIB Driver on an Ubuntu Linux Distribution References Introduction I’ve started to grow a collection of older test equipment from the eighties, the nineties, and the...
Construction Physics
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Noah Smith, author of the economics Substack Noahpinion, often refers to a common trajectory in Chinese manufacturing as the “China Cycle”:
Vladimir Klepov as a...
From engineer to manager: what I love, what I hate It's been almost 2 years since I moved to a team lead role, then to a full-time engineering...
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It's been almost 2 years since I moved to a team lead role, then to a full-time engineering management position after the expansion of our team. I've been a front-end developer for 7 years before that, and initially I took the "advanced individual contributor" career track before...
The Modern House
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General Robots
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Space enthusiasts of a certain age, like myself, grew up learning about the trio of NASA’s unmanned programs which provided scientists and engineers with vital information […]
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Moschino POP-UP Paris Moschino has redefined a new concept at Galeries Lafayette in Paris.
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Retail, search and Amazon’s $40bn ‘advertising’ business Amazon sold close to $40bn of advertising last year - bigger than Prime, bigger than the entire...
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Amazon sold close to $40bn of advertising last year - bigger than Prime, bigger than the entire global newspaper industry and probably more profitable than AWS. But is this really advertising, rent, or something else? And what does that mean for Google?
Matt Blewitt
Software Sprezzatura Sprezzatura is “a certain nonchalance, so as to conceal all art and make whatever one does or says...
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over a year ago
Sprezzatura is “a certain nonchalance, so as to conceal all art and make whatever one does or says appear to be without effort and almost without any thought about it”, coined by Castiglione in 1528’s The Book of the Courtier.
Business Brainstorms
Reference checks as a service, the need for more competition everywhere, GPT travel planning,... Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
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Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write this email to share the most interesting trends, frameworks, opportunities, and ideas with you. Let's dive in! 💡 Opportunities “Business idea: Reference checks as a service. Do...
Strange Loop Canon
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Tech and Tea
Transformed into a couch On taking this time to slooooooow down
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Seth's Blog
Leverage It’s almost impossible to remove a screw with your bare hands, but easy with a screwdriver. The...
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It’s almost impossible to remove a screw with your bare hands, but easy with a screwdriver. The handle might only add a little torque, but it’s more than enough. If someone is succeeding at something you find difficult, it might be because they realized they needed a screwdriver....
On Life and Lisp
Passing the reins on Panfrost Today is my last day at Collabora and my last day leading the Panfrost driver. It’s been a wild...
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Today is my last day at Collabora and my last day leading the Panfrost driver. It’s been a wild ride. In 2017, I began work on the chai driver for Mali T (Midgard). chai would later be merged into Lyude Paul’s and Connor Abbott’s BiOpenly project for Mali G (Bifrost) to form...
Archinect - Features
Being Laid off Is Tough; So Is Waiting To Be Findings from our recent Archinect Business Survey suggest that many architecture employees do not...
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Findings from our recent Archinect Business Survey suggest that many architecture employees do not feel secure in their current roles. For those facing the looming prospect of layoffs in the coming weeks or months, the emotional strain can be as taxing as that experienced by...
somethingaboutmaps
Challenging the Idea of a Bad Map We’re just a couple of weeks away from the 30 Day Map Challenge, an annual celebration of...
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We’re just a couple of weeks away from the 30 Day Map Challenge, an annual celebration of cartographic creativity. I know some of you are already brainstorming about what you might do this year. Each day has a prompt, and you’re encouraged to make a map that day that is based on...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware February 2023 The Ware for February 2023 is just a tiny portion of a Pioneer DDJ-400. Still enough for wrm to...
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a year ago
The Ware for February 2023 is just a tiny portion of a Pioneer DDJ-400. Still enough for wrm to guess it exactly! Congrats, email me for your prize. It is the case that Pioneer gear has a very distinctive design style to it. I wonder if their PCB design software isn’t some...
Good Enough
TIL: System Colors are supported in CSS, but they’re unreliable I’ve said this before: We’re primarily a web shop here at Good Enough, but occasionally we come up...
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a year ago
I’ve said this before: We’re primarily a web shop here at Good Enough, but occasionally we come up with ideas that we think would work really well as a native desktop or mobile application. Still, we prototype those ideas on the web first. Recently, I wanted to try and make one...
GeoCurrents
The 1912 Presidential Election: The High Tide of Socialism in the U.S. – and in Oklahoma The 1912 U.S. general election was one of the most complicated contests in American presidential...
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The 1912 U.S. general election was one of the most complicated contests in American presidential history. Former president Theodore Roosevelt challenged his handpicked successor, incumbent William Howard Taft, and outpolled him smartly, taking 27.4% of the popular vote and 88...
History Today Feed
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Landmarks and where to put them Heading elements (h1 through to h6) are used to give structure to the content of your page. They're...
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over a year ago
Heading elements (h1 through to h6) are used to give structure to the content of your page. They're important for SEO, make your pages more readable and, of course, also help people that use assistive technologies navigate through your page. Somewhat less known are landmark...
Maggie Appleton
A History of Cyborgs
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Bold New Look For Old City Hall Plans teased for a more open, green look.
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Say my name, say mye naym I have a name that a lot of people find hard to pronounce
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
There’s Something You Need to Know About Web Design and Development You’re doing great at it. (❤️ from Bluey: Baby Race) Email, Twitter, Mastodon
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Deep piano Roberto Chignoli I started playing piano again recently, after a 20 year hiatus. Our 6 year old...
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over a year ago
Roberto Chignoli I started playing piano again recently, after a 20 year hiatus. Our 6 year old Brooke started learning, and we suddenly had a keyboard in the house again, so I joined her. It’s been great! I’m playing scales and exercises, diving into Rachmaninoff and Debussy,...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Fruit of My Studies' I’ve been invited to join an online book club and have politely declined. I even like some of the...
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3 months ago
I’ve been invited to join an online book club and have politely declined. I even like some of the readers who already belong, but by nature I’m not a joiner of anything. As soon as an arrangement among friendly individuals becomes formalized – by that I mean, organized, with...
alexwlchan
What comes after AWS? James Governor posed some interesting questions yesterday: Grumble Bundle @monkchips ...
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James Governor posed some interesting questions yesterday: Grumble Bundle @monkchips what are the core primitives developers need for building and deploying modern applications? what platform services does the underlying infrastructure need to...
Tony Finch's blog
Random floating point numbers Here are a couple of algorithms for generating uniformly distributed floating point numbers 0.0 <= n...
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a year ago
Here are a couple of algorithms for generating uniformly distributed floating point numbers 0.0 <= n < 1.0 using an unbiased random bit generator and IEEE 754 double precision arithmetic. Both of them depend on details of how floating point numbers work, so before getting into...
Seth's Blog
Compared to what? Emotions are often tied to events and events feel absolute. But events are rarely absolute. They’re...
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a month ago
Emotions are often tied to events and events feel absolute. But events are rarely absolute. They’re almost always relative. How does this compare to what I was expecting? How does it compare to what others like me are experiencing? How does it compare to yesterday? When we change...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Every time an engineer joins Google, a startup dies VC returns over the last decade have been poor. The cause is widely agreed to be an excess of...
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VC returns over the last decade have been poor. The cause is widely agreed to be an excess of venture capital dollars to worthy startups…
Contemporist...
This Park Design Was Inspired By A Volcano And Its Lava Flow 100 Architects has shared photos of one of their latest projects, a stimulating urban park in a...
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100 Architects has shared photos of one of their latest projects, a stimulating urban park in a newly built commercial and residential area in the port city of Ningbo, the second-most populous city in Zhejiang Province, China.
Rest of World -...
How Chinese e-commerce fuels counterfeit fashion in Nigeria “Fake originals” make their way from sites like AliExpress and DHgate to a market in Lagos.
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 091: Search wars November 1, 2024.
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Handprinted - Blog
Fabric Painting - which fabric paint is right for my project? When it comes to painting onto fabric, there are a few differences to consider. Does the paint need...
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When it comes to painting onto fabric, there are a few differences to consider. Does the paint need to be opaque? Can it be diluted? Would you like metallics?  Aimee has tested three different fabric paints: Jacquard Textile Colour, Lumiere Metallic Paint and Handprinted Fabric...
TheCollector
Civil Rights & Social Change: The Fight for Equality in US Elections undefined
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Here’s How AI Helped Recover Lost Paintings by Gustav Klimt undefined
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Tech + Economics +...
A decade of discontent is coming. The 10 years ahead will see dramatic, radical change. The potential for large-scale upheaval and...
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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...
Londonist
The Crazy-Reasonably Priced Cafe Hidden In A Waterloo Bus Garage Next stop: a hearty lunch for as little at £4!
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Neil Panchal
Berkeley Mono December Update It's been a while since I had announced the release of Berkeley Mono. The more I examine it under...
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over a year ago
It's been a while since I had announced the release of Berkeley Mono. The more I examine it under scrutinous eyes, the more I find that there is more work to be done. At one point, I had the following masters going through the final tuning: Berkeley Mono
Diaries of Note
It’s almost impossible to know what to say In 1990, the Royal National Theatre embarked on an ambitious international tour featuring two...
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a year ago
In 1990, the Royal National Theatre embarked on an ambitious international tour featuring two towering Shakespearean plays, King Lear and Richard III, with groundbreaking lead performances from Brian Cox and Ian McKellen, respectively. Their first destination beyond the UK was...
Willem's Blog
The Problem With Bitcoin Some thoughts on the long term viability of Bitcoin's rising value.
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Add Netlify Identity Authentication to any React App in 5 minutes with React Context, Hooks and... Adding authentication is a pain point for many React beginners. We’ve made it ridiculously easy to...
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Adding authentication is a pain point for many React beginners. We’ve made it ridiculously easy to add Netlify Identity onto any React app, including create-react-app, Gatsby, Next.js, or any other setup you may have, by wrapping it all into one simple React Hook! However, this...
Daniel Bourke
AI Anxiety A walk into the unknown.
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Trials and tribulations of 360° video in Juno In building Juno, a visionOS app for YouTube, a question that’s come up from users a few times is...
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In building Juno, a visionOS app for YouTube, a question that’s come up from users a few times is whether it supports 360° and 180° videos (for the unfamiliar, it’s an immersive video format that fully surrounds you). The short answer is no, it’s sort of a niche feature without...
TheCollector
What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions undefined
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Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Creative Process: A Look Inside the Books & Techniques That Allowed His Art... The story of Jean-Michel Basquiat has its unfortunate aspects: not just his premature death, but...
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The story of Jean-Michel Basquiat has its unfortunate aspects: not just his premature death, but also the aggressive marketing of his work and persona in the years leading up to it. He became a vogue artist of the eighties in part because he could be taken as an unfiltered voice...
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Name that Ware November, 2022 The Ware for November 2022 is shown below. A grounded guard ring is placed around some of the most...
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The Ware for November 2022 is shown below. A grounded guard ring is placed around some of the most sensitive analog traces; I would love it if someone could teach me why the soldermask is removed for these guard rings. I imagine there must be some motivation to retain this motif...
Cremieux Recueil
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I made some animated shorts Watch the very first Oatmeal cartoons. View on my website
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A peek into Japan’s Hot Springs (Part 2) Editor’s note: This is the second of a three-part post. Part 1 can be found here. The Hot Spring...
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Editor’s note: This is the second of a three-part post. Part 1 can be found here. The Hot Spring Act of 1948 Lest you think any old well could be an onsen, the Japanese government has very clear rules on what can be called an onsen. These are
The Elysian
A grassroots political party for the middle The Forward Party, citizen's assemblies, and a creating better independence movement in the US.
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Adding Gutenberg Full- and Wide-Width Image Support to Your WordPress Theme Gutenberg brings with it the ability to set image blocks as full-width or wide-width. This article...
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Gutenberg brings with it the ability to set image blocks as full-width or wide-width. This article talks about how to enable support for that feature in your theme, and one way to write the CSS that makes it work.
computers are bad
2023-10-15 go.com Correction: a technical defect in my Enterprise Content Management System resulted in the email...
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Correction: a technical defect in my Enterprise Content Management System resulted in the email having a subject that made it sound like this post would be about the classic strategy game Go. It is actually about a failed website. I regret the error; the responsible people have...
Val Sopi
On using time <p>One thing I've gotten really good at over the years is using time in terms of how it affects my...
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<p>One thing I've gotten really good at over the years is using time in terms of how it affects my product-making process.</p><p>Back in the day, when I was greener, I&nbsp;used to rush things, not just for the sake of rushing to get them out of the door —&nbsp;but I would get to...
Escaping Flatland
Look for people who likes the illegible you of today, not your past achievements Though we talk about “the individual vs the collective,” as if that dichotomy is an eternal truth...
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Though we talk about “the individual vs the collective,” as if that dichotomy is an eternal truth about the world, there exist groups that encourage divergence and healthy individuation.
Jonas Hietala
Let's create a Tree-sitter grammar One of my favorite features in Neovim is the Tree-sitter integration. It allows for fast syntax...
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One of my favorite features in Neovim is the Tree-sitter integration. It allows for fast syntax highlighting that works well even in an error state (often the case when you’re editing code), and it has additional semantics (you can differentiate between function parameters and...