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Asterisk
The Misery Bomb Children across the Western world are getting less happy. If we can’t find a way to reverse the...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Children across the Western world are getting less happy. If we can’t find a way to reverse the trend, it might have an outsized impact on their future.
Willem's Blog
Some thoughts on touch screen user interface design I am working on a new app involving personal health that requires a natural intuitive interface that...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I am working on a new app involving personal health that requires a natural intuitive interface that works well on touch screens. It's good to check out some best practices for touch UI design
African History...
How Africans wrote their own history: Debates and dialogues between four west African historians in... Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
a year ago
Josh Collinsworth
Adding blog comments to your static site with utterances The web world is full of tradeoffs. Going from a CMS to a static site keeps things simple—but that...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The web world is full of tradeoffs. Going from a CMS to a static site keeps things simple—but that simplicity comes with costs. Luckily, giving up comments on your blog doesn't have to be one of them.
AVC
The New York Tech Sector The New York Times had a piece yesterday suggesting that tech will no longer be a growth engine for...
a year ago
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a year ago
The New York Times had a piece yesterday suggesting that tech will no longer be a growth engine for NYC and the surrounding metro area as it has been for the last twenty years. I am not going to link to the piece because it is behind a paywall but if you want to read […]
Fonts In Use: Blog...
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: www.worthpoint.com License: All Rights Reserved. On...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: www.worthpoint.com License: All Rights Reserved. On July 5th, 1852 (168 years ago today) Frederick Douglass delivered a speech to 500–600 people in the Corinthian Hall of Rochester, New York. The speech, preceded by a reading of the...
Maps Mania
Bat Virus Jump Zones
a year ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
What I would love to see in a wallet
a month ago
History Today Feed
‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review ‘The Hundred Years War Vol 5’ by Jonathan Sumption review j.hoare Tue, 11/28/2023 - 09:44
a year ago
TheCollector
What is Peter Singer’s Principle of Equal Consideration? undefined
a year ago
Calculated Risk
NAR: Pending Home Sales Increase 2.2% in November; Up 6.9% Year-over-year From the NAR: Pending Home Sales Moved Up 2.2% in November, Fourth Straight Month of...
4 days ago
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4 days ago
From the NAR: Pending Home Sales Moved Up 2.2% in November, Fourth Straight Month of Increases Pending home sales gained 2.2% in November – the fourth consecutive month of increases and the highest level since February 2023 – according to the National Association of REALTORS®....
Posts on Made of...
Distributed cloud builds for everyone CPU cycles are cheaper than they have ever been, and cloud computing has never been more ubiquitous....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
CPU cycles are cheaper than they have ever been, and cloud computing has never been more ubiquitous. All the major cloud providers offer generous free tiers, and services like GitHub Actions offer free compute resources to open-source repositories. So why do so many developers...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Gorillas Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Unprompted, they will walk into a cafe and pretend...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Unprompted, they will walk into a cafe and pretend they have important business to do. Today's News:
mtlynch.io
How to Hire a Cartoonist to Make Your Blog Less Boring I had just completed a passionate blog post. Too passionate, maybe, as I had written over 8,000...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I had just completed a passionate blog post. Too passionate, maybe, as I had written over 8,000 words. That’s 1000x longer than the average Buzzfeed article. Worse, it was a giant wall of text with nary a visual element to break it up aside from some screenshots and a few tables....
ntietz.com blog -...
Feel, don't think I started playing clarinet in fourth grade, and dabbled in other instruments.. I never stopped...
a week ago
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a week ago
I started playing clarinet in fourth grade, and dabbled in other instruments.. I never stopped entirely, but I took years-long breaks from playing music. Earlier this year, I picked up a new instrument while I was very sick. I got a wind synth, the Roland AE-20. It was a somewhat...
Diaries of Note
We are in the grip of Watergate American journalist Edward Robb Ellis was sixteen when he began to keep a diary; by the time of his...
a year ago
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a year ago
American journalist Edward Robb Ellis was sixteen when he began to keep a diary; by the time of his death 71 years later, he had written approximately 22 million words—an incredible feat which, until it was surpassed in 1994, earned him a world record for the “longest published...
Josh Thompson
Parenting: A Place for Sources And Stories As some of us are or might be, I “am a parent”, or I “have a child”, or something like that. This is...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
As some of us are or might be, I “am a parent”, or I “have a child”, or something like that. This is complex for me to write and engage with, because something that is certainly true for all of us is that we “have a parent” or we “have been a child”. To talk about any of it is to...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Common healthcare questions I get | Out-Of-Pocket Some of your FAQs finally answered
4 weeks ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
The YC Interview We submitted the application, then got back to work. We couldn't work out how long it'd take to hear...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We submitted the application, then got back to work. We couldn't work out how long it'd take to hear back, but then we did. It was now October 16th…
The Roots of...
Who regulates the regulators? IRBs Scott Alexander reviews a book about institutional review boards (IRBs), the panels that review...
a year ago
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a year ago
IRBs Scott Alexander reviews a book about institutional review boards (IRBs), the panels that review the ethics of medical trials: From Oversight to Overkill, by Dr. Simon Whitney. From the title alone, you can see where this is going. IRBs are supposed to (among other things)...
Open Culture
The Story of Fascism: Rick Steves’ Documentary Helps Us Learn from the Painful Lessons of the 20th... From Rick Steves comes a thought-provoking documentary that revisits the rise of fascism in Europe,...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
From Rick Steves comes a thought-provoking documentary that revisits the rise of fascism in Europe, reminding us of how charismatic figures like Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler came to power by promising to create a better future for their frustrated, economically depressed...
Notes on software...
The case for comments in code When I first started programming, especially when asked for code samples, my comments lacked purpose...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When I first started programming, especially when asked for code samples, my comments lacked purpose and would often duplicate in English what the code clearly indicated. I knew that "commenting is good" but as a beginner I had no further insight. Over time with the help of books...
Musings on Markets
Country Risk: A July 2023 Update! I have looked at country risk, in all its dimensions, towards the middle of each year, for the last...
a year ago
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a year ago
I have looked at country risk, in all its dimensions, towards the middle of each year, for the last decade, for many reasons. One is curiosity, as political and economic crises roll through regions of the world, roiling long-held beliefs about safe and risky countries. The other...
Asterisk
The Art of Asking Questions Everyone seems to agree that self-report questions are fraught with lies, biases, errors, and other...
a month ago
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a month ago
Everyone seems to agree that self-report questions are fraught with lies, biases, errors, and other inaccuracies. We all use them anyway. How can we ask them better?
Sam Altman
The United Slate I would like to find and support a slate of candidates for the 2018 California elections, and also...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I would like to find and support a slate of candidates for the 2018 California elections, and also to find someone to run a ballot initiative focused on affordable housing in the state.  A team of aligned people has a chance to make a real change. I believe in creating prosperity...
TheCollector
Who Was the Terrifying Ottoman Sultan Selim “the Grim?” undefined
5 months ago
axio.ms
Axio.ms site refresh This is the obligatory “first post on new platform” post, coupled with a bit of “first post in 4...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is the obligatory “first post on new platform” post, coupled with a bit of “first post in 4 years, I’m still alive”. The original axio.ms site was a very HTML1.0 affair and while this was kind of intentional-tongue-in-cheek-chic, it was also a PITA to update. It wasn’t...
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Osage Orange It seemed strange to fixate on a single tree for more than a decade but that’s exactly what...
a month ago
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a month ago
It seemed strange to fixate on a single tree for more than a decade but that’s exactly what happened. I notice it a few weeks every autumn and then quickly forget about it for another year. That all started sometime around 2013 when I began to ride a stretch of the Capital...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Clinical Pharmacists, Generative AI, and InpharmD | Out-Of-Pocket Going under the hood of a generative AI product
11 months ago
Fatih Arslan
A month in Munich We stayed with the family (two kids and my wife) for several weeks in Munich. I took hundreds of...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
We stayed with the family (two kids and my wife) for several weeks in Munich. I took hundreds of photos. Here is how it went.
Applied Cartography
Grace notes I'm not loving Unreasonable Hospitality, but it did supply me with a phrase that I've been looking...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
I'm not loving Unreasonable Hospitality, but it did supply me with a phrase that I've been looking for: Eventually, that gesture became one of our steps of service. The host would ask guests, “How’d you get here tonight?” If they responded, “Oh, we drove,” he’d follow up with,...
SOCKS
A City in Retreat: Les Devantures by Sandrine Marc (2018) Sandrine Marc is a photographer and artist based in Paris with a specific interest in self-made...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Sandrine Marc is a photographer and artist based in Paris with a specific interest in self-made editions. She investigates urban and suburban territories through slow, long walks immersing herself in mutating environments. In December 2018, after the first demonstration by the...
Common Edge
‘My Photographs Are a Celebration of the Making of Things’ A talk with Christopher Payne about his recent book, Made in America.
11 months ago
Josh Collinsworth
Goodbye, WordPress WordPress was potentially the most impactful and empowering technology I've yet encountered. It...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
WordPress was potentially the most impactful and empowering technology I've yet encountered. It transformed my career path and enabled me to do anything I wanted at every point in my journey. So why leave it now?
Christopher Butler
We Have Five Years Left We must radically reduce carbon emissions by 2030 in order to avoid the most catastrophic damage of...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
We must radically reduce carbon emissions by 2030 in order to avoid the most catastrophic damage of climate change. How can you help? We have only 5 years left to do something about climate change. Depending upon how you define “do something,” we have even less time,...
CONTEMPORIST
A Sheltered Space Beneath The Sloping Roof Of This Home Makes Space For A Hot Tub Batay-Csorba Architects has designed a home in Toronto, Canada, that takes advantage of the small...
a year ago
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a year ago
Batay-Csorba Architects has designed a home in Toronto, Canada, that takes advantage of the small 65’x20’ pie-shaped corner lot, and includes a sheltered outdoor balcony. The sloping roof partially covers the balcony, with an opening above the Japanese soaking tub. The home’s...
TheCollector
When Picasso Crossed the Iron Curtain: The 1st USSR Picasso Exhibition undefined
8 months ago
Farnam Street
[FS Members] Lessons from Rockefeller: The Upside of Patience Long-term thinking is one of the most valuable traits of successful individuals. It demands that you...
a year ago
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a year ago
Long-term thinking is one of the most valuable traits of successful individuals. It demands that you forego the rewards of the immediate future and position yourself for lasting success. But long-term thinking is impossible without patience; it’s what made John D. Rockefeller one...
Cremieux Recueil
"You Couldn't Replicate Our Study Because You're Ugly" Attractiveness rating studies shouldn't be taken too seriously
a month ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
In-person meatspace protocol to prove unconditional possession of a private key
over a year ago
ntietz.com blog -...
Using Talon in a game jam I use Talon to control my computer some of the time. It's mostly voice control, but it has so many...
a month ago
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a month ago
I use Talon to control my computer some of the time. It's mostly voice control, but it has so many other controls built in! One lets you use an eye tracker as a mouse. I thought this sounded like a neat interaction for other situations too. When I mentioned this to a friend, he...
TheCollector
Middle Kingdom Pyramids: The Lesser Known Pyramids of Ancient Egypt undefined
2 months ago
TheCollector
Landslide Victories: A Look at Pivotal Elections in US History undefined
3 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Aristotle Influence Western Thought? undefined
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Gills Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: So Zach, what do you do when not making children's...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: So Zach, what do you do when not making children's books? Today's News: Hey geeks, I'll be speaking a Proton Prom with a bunch of people who are more important than me!
Classical Wisdom
Sappho Fragments of Poetry
2 weeks ago
Kagi Blog
What's next for Kagi? Two years ago, on June 1st, 2022, Kagi introduced ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-orion-public-beta ) a...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Two years ago, on June 1st, 2022, Kagi introduced ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-orion-public-beta ) a search engine that challenged the ad-supported version of the web.
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
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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...
bt RSS Feed
PS4 Download UI with Pure CSS PS4 Download UI with Pure CSS 2021-06-20 Overall, I’m fairly impressed with the user interface...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
PS4 Download UI with Pure CSS 2021-06-20 Overall, I’m fairly impressed with the user interface design of Sony’s PS4 system OS. It’s minimal and keeps the content front and center. Even with it’s sometimes spotty performance hiccups, I’ve come to enjoy interacting with it. One of...
The Last...
Don't Hate Her Because She's Successful the first thing you noticed is her great outfit and the first thing I noticed is she's covering her...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
the first thing you noticed is her great outfit and the first thing I noticed is she's covering her wedding ring  this is why you are anxious and I am Alone Today in the United States and the developed world, women are better off than ever before. But the...
Josh Collinsworth
Converting from Gridsome to SvelteKit I've been a fan of Svelte for years, but never had the opportunity to use it on a serious project...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've been a fan of Svelte for years, but never had the opportunity to use it on a serious project before. So when I found myself looking for a new platform for this site as SvelteKit entered open beta, it seemed like perfect timing.
Seth's Blog
The challenge of N + 1 “Just a little more,” might be a useful way to self motivate, until it isn’t. N + 1 pushes us to win...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
“Just a little more,” might be a useful way to self motivate, until it isn’t. N + 1 pushes us to win every race, every argument, every bank balance competition. Sometimes this is simply a self challenge, not designed to hurt others, but the problem with never being satisfied is...
Calculated Risk
MBA: Mortgage Applications Decreased in Weekly Survey From the MBA: Mortgage Applications Decrease in Latest MBA Weekly Survey Mortgage applications...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
From the MBA: Mortgage Applications Decrease in Latest MBA Weekly Survey Mortgage applications decreased 0.7 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending December 13,...
Londonist
Events For Book Lovers In London This Winter Christmas book fairs, winter book swaps and an exhibition on fantasy.
a year ago
Rest of World -...
Google cuts off an $83 million ghost labor contract Outsourced workers are the first to go when the company looks to reduce costs.
11 months ago
Tony Finch's blog
against /tmp I commented on Lobsters that /tmp is usually a bad idea, which caused some surprise. I suppose /tmp...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
I commented on Lobsters that /tmp is usually a bad idea, which caused some surprise. I suppose /tmp security bugs were common in the 1990s when I was learning Unix, but they are pretty rare now so I can see why less grizzled hackers might not be familiar with the problems. I...
wadertales
How successful are headstarted waders We know that headstarting (hatching eggs in captivity and rearing chicks through to fledging) can...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
We know that headstarting (hatching eggs in captivity and rearing chicks through to fledging) can boost the number of young waders in a population. However, the sustainability of this intervention is dependent upon several factors that apply after the point of release. A paper in...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Virtual Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: After we get a perfected holodeck, there'll be a...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: After we get a perfected holodeck, there'll be a horrific amount of sexual unleashing, followed by the deep and movingly pathetic fantasies nobody was willing to express. Today's News:
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Insta Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Please don't email - I am already filled with...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Please don't email - I am already filled with regret about the votey. Today's News:
Sam Altman
GPT-4o There are two things from our announcement today I wanted to highlight. First, a key part of our...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
There are two things from our announcement today I wanted to highlight. First, a key part of our mission is to put very capable AI tools in the hands of people for free (or at a great price). I am very proud that we’ve made the best model in the world available for free in...
Nadia Asparouhova
The creator economy I’ve had some lingering thoughts over the past year about what it means to be a “creator,” further...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve had some lingering thoughts over the past year about what it means to be a “creator,” further accelerated by a recent conversation with a friend, and I want to try to unpack those feelings here. The “creator economy” popped into our vernacular with surprisingly little moral...
Steve Blank
Apple Vision Pro – Tech in the Search of a Market A version of this article previously appeared in Fortune. If you haven’t been paying attention Apple...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
A version of this article previously appeared in Fortune. If you haven’t been paying attention Apple has started shipping its Apple Vision Pro, its take on a headset that combines Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR). The product is an amazing technical tour de force....
The Honest Broker
A 2000-Year-Old Argument Over the Flute Is the Most Important Thing in Our Culture Right Now This bitter debate from ancient times helps us understand today's crisis in music and other creative...
5 months ago
TheCollector
New Roman Frescoes Discovered at Pompeii undefined
8 months ago
TheCollector
Did Marcel Duchamp Plagiarize His Most Famous Work? undefined
5 months ago
Old Structures...
Gain Some, Lose Some This is the Bradbury Building, an 1893 office building in downtown Los Angeles: It’s a nice enough...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
This is the Bradbury Building, an 1893 office building in downtown Los Angeles: It’s a nice enough facade but really nothing special. A lot of people are familiar with the building because of its inside: The office space is a rectangle donut around the atrium, connected by...
Josh Collinsworth
My Essential Tools for WordPress Development Some of these apps, resources and tools aren’t directly WordPress-related, or even necessarily...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Some of these apps, resources and tools aren’t directly WordPress-related, or even necessarily development-related; some have to do with productivity or just make life a little easier. That’s by design. Part of being a developer is learning to work and use your tools as...
the jsomers.net blog
Introducing Five’Em, a Texas Hold’Em variant The game of Five'Em was invented by two friends of mine, Ben Gross and Rich Berger, to combat...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The game of Five'Em was invented by two friends of mine, Ben Gross and Rich Berger, to combat Hold'Em fatigue. The rules are simple: You're dealt five hole cards instead of two, and after each round of community cards comes out (starting with the flop), you discard one of these...
diamond geezer
The new rainbow
a month ago
Archinect - Features
USC Students Try a ‘Bottom-Up’ Approach To Sustainable Housing Delivery in the School of... Our latest Archinect Studio Pin-Ups takes a look at three studios at Archinect Partner School USC...
a week ago
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a week ago
Our latest Archinect Studio Pin-Ups takes a look at three studios at Archinect Partner School USC School of Architecture, offered as part of their one-year Master of Advanced Architectural Research Studies (M.AARS) postgraduate program. Led by instructors Julia Sulzer and Sascha...
xkcd.com
Under the Stars
a year ago
TheCollector
Why Did the Allies Occupy Germany? undefined
6 months ago
The Marginalian
Notes on Complexity: A Buddhist Scientist on the Murmuration of Being "You are this body, and you are these molecules, and you are these atoms, and you are these quantum...
a year ago
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a year ago
"You are this body, and you are these molecules, and you are these atoms, and you are these quantum entities, and you are the quantum foam, and you are the energetic field of space-time, and, ultimately, you are the fundamental awareness out of which all these emerge."
Willem's Blog
Rescuing photos from a crashed iMac This week I attempted to recover two decades of personal photo history from a crashed iMac.
over a year ago
CONTEMPORIST
Before + After – A Garage Transformed Into A Pool House Nathan Fell Architecture has shared photos of a garage they transformed into a pool house with...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Nathan Fell Architecture has shared photos of a garage they transformed into a pool house with plenty of space for entertaining. Here’s what the pool house looked like before… The design of the pool house was conceived as an addition to the garage that more appropriately capped...
Scarlet Ink
Why You Can't Teach Leadership — Experience vs. Instruction I'm slightly exaggerating, as I do think there are some very specific things we can teach. But the...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
I'm slightly exaggerating, as I do think there are some very specific things we can teach. But the majority of the leadership job is gained through the school of hard knocks.
Old Vintage...
Refurb weekend: Canon Cat It's the Memorial Day holiday weekend and it's time for a little deferred maintenance, especially on...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
It's the Memorial Day holiday weekend and it's time for a little deferred maintenance, especially on those machines I intend to work on more in the near future. So we'll start with one that's widely considered to be a remarkable cul-de-sac in computing history: the Canon...
Scott Jenson
The Present Needs Files My last post “The Future Needs Files” clearly touched a nerve. The comments covered concerns well...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My last post “The Future Needs Files” clearly touched a nerve. The comments covered concerns well beyond what I intended. This amazing energy shows how fundamental and impassioned we are when it comes to “storing my data”.  However, I made a mistake by titling my post “The Future...
TheCollector
What Did Adorno Think of Beckett’s Endgame? undefined
a year ago
Home on Erik...
Presentation about Luigi I like the editing!
over a year ago
Blog - Amy Goodchild
Midjourney takes on Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawings Continuing my mission to use AI tools for things they really weren’t designed for and aren’t very...
a year ago
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a year ago
Continuing my mission to use AI tools for things they really weren’t designed for and aren’t very good at and then judging the results.
David Heinemeier...
The premise trap The hardest part for me about collaborating with junior programmers, whether it's in open source or...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
The hardest part for me about collaborating with junior programmers, whether it's in open source or at work, is avoiding the premise trap. That's where the fundamental assumptions baked into the first draft of the code aren't questioned until you've already spent far too long...
African History...
The Dahlak islands and the African dynasty of Yemen a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
a year ago
Flashbak
Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And Vinyl Covers You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
You can see American artist Bob Pepper’s (October 23, 1938—January 16, 2019) illustrations on record and paperback covers for Elektra Records’ Nonesuch and Checkmate labels, notably on Love’s 1967 Forever Changes album. Ballentine books’ Adult Fantasy series and game artwork made...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Changing font size in Windows dialog in C++ How to dynamically change font size in a Windows dialog Windows’s win32 API is old and...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
How to dynamically change font size in a Windows dialog Windows’s win32 API is old and crufty. Many things that are trivial to do in HTML are difficult in win32. One of those things is changing size of font used by your native, desktop app. I encountered this in...
xkcd.com
Every Scientific Field
3 months ago
Ferd.ca
A Distributed Systems Reading List 2024/02/07 A Distributed Systems Reading List This document contains various resources and quick...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
2024/02/07 A Distributed Systems Reading List This document contains various resources and quick definition of a lot of background information behind distributed systems. It is not complete, even though it is kinda sorta detailed. I had written it some time in 2019 when coworkers...
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Dayton, Ohio Part 7  (Hodgepodge) The Dayton trip came to an end but I still had a bunch of stuff to talk about that didn’t fit into...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
The Dayton trip came to an end but I still had a bunch of stuff to talk about that didn’t fit into any of the earlier articles. Naturally I’ve collected them all together within this final compilation to serve as a wrap-up. Then we can call this one done and move onto the next...
TheCollector
The Fountainhead: Ayn Rand’s Ode to Individualism undefined
a year ago
IEEE Spectrum
Unlock the Power of Agile for Hardware Teams The Modified Agile for Hardware Development (MAHD) Framework is the ultimate solution for hardware...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
The Modified Agile for Hardware Development (MAHD) Framework is the ultimate solution for hardware teams seeking the benefits of Agile without the pitfalls of applying software-centric methods. Traditional development approaches, like waterfall, often result in delayed timelines,...
Astral Codex Ten
Book Review: From Bauhaus To Our House ...
a month ago
Tech and Tea
Space to do whatever How letting go of being productive with my time made space for creativity
a year ago
Internal Tech Emails
Jeff Bezos on acquiring Ring To be clear, my view here is that we're buying market position – not technology.
over a year ago
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for your weekend (#32) The bridge disaster, Daniel Kahneman, Biden and nuclear power, ebbing unrest, Bay Area...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
The bridge disaster, Daniel Kahneman, Biden and nuclear power, ebbing unrest, Bay Area "progressives", and cancer detection
diamond geezer
Where Have You Been This Weekend? It's been a busy weekend. It must be the highlight of your weekend, not just something you also...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
It's been a busy weekend. It must be the highlight of your weekend, not just something you also did. Where have diamond geezer readers been this weekend? stayed indoors Spent Monday to Friday walking the Cotswold Way so happy to have a rest this weekend. sheepdog to the...
TheCollector
Battle of the Hydaspes, 326 BCE: Alexander vs. Porus in India undefined
3 months ago
Darek Kay
Video subtitles, captions, audio descriptions and transcripts As I was preparing the requirements for an accessible web video player, there was some confusion...
a year ago
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a year ago
As I was preparing the requirements for an accessible web video player, there was some confusion around subtitles, closed captions, audio descriptions and transcripts. In this post, I use interactive examples to show the difference. I also provide related success criteria from...
Josh Thompson
Blessed to be Sick Yesterday, I wrote about reducing work hours to less than 40 hours a week. Yesterday, I was...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Yesterday, I wrote about reducing work hours to less than 40 hours a week. Yesterday, I was struggling to be engaged in my work. I was easily distracted, and didn’t feel very efficient during the day. Once I identified the tasks I needed to complete before I could walk away from...
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Secularization Comes for the Religion of Technology: Or, how to make sense of techno-optimist... The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 3
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Meet the Maker: Frankie Brown I’m an illustrator and printmaker based in Portsmouth, Hampshire. I’m inspired by nostalgic...
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I’m an illustrator and printmaker based in Portsmouth, Hampshire. I’m inspired by nostalgic storybooks and I love to create whimsical hand-printed illustrations. I also work part-time at Handprinted; looking after the studio, liaising with tutors, teaching some Fab Fridays,...
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Seth's Blog
Vocal fatigue Most of us talk, some of us do it for a living. When your voice is on the fritz, it can affect your...
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Most of us talk, some of us do it for a living. When your voice is on the fritz, it can affect your entire body as well as the way you approach your day. I’ve read all 25+ of my audiobooks myself, and I used to be able to complete each one in a day […]
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Brand Identity & System definition for Traffic-Productions.de AoiroStudio0206—23 Hrvoje Grubisic is a creative director and the founder of HOLOGRAPHIK®. The team at HOLOGRAPHIK® specializes in developing brand and visual identities for clients...
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Inflation Expectations There's no reason for anyone to care what I think about inflation and interest rates, but readers...
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There's no reason for anyone to care what I think about inflation and interest rates, but readers should pay close attention to Warren Buffett's statements and actions.
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YouTube is the final place to watch unbiased news in India. Can it last? As Modi’s government clamps down on the free press, top journalists are forging their own channels...
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Val Sopi
Quitting when I sense “the grind” <p>One change I’ve made recently in my product making process is that I stop as soon as I sense that...
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<p>One change I’ve made recently in my product making process is that I stop as soon as I sense that I am “pushing it”.</p> <p>I quit immediately.</p> <p>Right there and then.</p> <p>If I don’t feel fresh, my work will look stale.</p> <p>I hit more “in the zone” states this...
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Buffett's $325 Billion Warning Is the legendary investor Warren Buffett sounding the alarm on the market? Berkshire Hathaway,...
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Is the legendary investor Warren Buffett sounding the alarm on the market? Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett's company, is sitting on a record $325 billion in cash after selling off major chunks of Apple and Bank of America stock.
Applied Cartography
Is cool enough? Via HN I ran into not one but two extremely neat and pleasant-looking libraries for URL...
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Via HN I ran into not one but two extremely neat and pleasant-looking libraries for URL manipulation. They look like great libraries, and a prior version of me would have taken a brief set of cursory glances at the hodgepodge of janky URL manipulation code that I wrote for...
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julian.digital
List of Goals and Rules for 2021 Publish 6 long-form essays↳ Instead of publishing a new post each week, I want to focus on six...
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Publish 6 long-form essays↳ Instead of publishing a new post each week, I want to focus on six in-depth essays this year. Quality over quantity. ████ ██ █████ ██ ████ ██████ Read 20 books ↳ You can follow my progress here Go for a swim at least once per week ↳ If covid rules...
A small freedom area...
GCC undefined behaviors are getting wild Happy with my recent breakthrough in understanding C integer divisions after weeks of struggle, I...
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Happy with my recent breakthrough in understanding C integer divisions after weeks of struggle, I was minding my own business having fun writing integer arithmetic code. Life was good, when suddenly… zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped). That code wasn't messing with memory much...
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Improving Laptop Battery Performance on OpenBSD Improving Laptop Battery Performance on OpenBSD 2023-06-13 It is no secret that OpenBSD has poor...
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Improving Laptop Battery Performance on OpenBSD 2023-06-13 It is no secret that OpenBSD has poor battery performance on laptops. Although not as impressive as something like Alpine Linux or FreeBSD, you can tweak OpenBSD just enough to squeeze more life out of your machine’s...
Internal Tech Emails
Google looks at acquiring YouTube can I get a quick analysis of the likely cost of acquiring youtube? Eric
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Hempcrete Walls Are On Display Inside This Home’s New Extension Architecture studio Cairn, has shared photos of a house renovation and extension they completed for...
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Architecture studio Cairn, has shared photos of a house renovation and extension they completed for a home in London, England, that uses a new low-carbon concrete. The ‘House made by many hands’ is the first building structure in the UK to specify a low-carbon limestone calcined...
Chris Nicholas
Dark mode by local sunlight Dark mode is increasingly appearing as an option on websites, but why not have it enable...
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over a year ago
Dark mode is increasingly appearing as an option on websites, but why not have it enable automatically?
NeuroLogica Blog
Hunger Circuitry One of the organizing principles that govern living organisms is homeostasis. This is a key feature...
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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...
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Make useRef lazy — 4 ways I love useRef, but it lacks the lazy initializer functionality found in other hooks (useState /...
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over a year ago
I love useRef, but it lacks the lazy initializer functionality found in other hooks (useState / useReducer / useMemo). useRef({ x: 0, y: 0 }) creates an object { x: 0, y: 0 } on every render, but only uses it when mounting — it subsequent renders it's thrown away. With useState,...
Diaries of Note
I covered my face and wept American nurse Clara Barton emerged as a hero during the Civil War, her tireless efforts in...
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American nurse Clara Barton emerged as a hero during the Civil War, her tireless efforts in providing medical care and supplies to those on the front lines earning her the title, “Angel of the Battlefield.” After the war her good deeds continued, and she dedicated her time to...
Old Structures...
Visible To The Naked Eye Here’s the side wall of a building constructed about twenty-five years ago: I used this building not...
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Here’s the side wall of a building constructed about twenty-five years ago: I used this building not because its construction was particularly bad – it is not – but because the glazed brick veneer on this side wall does a nice job of catching the raking sunlight. The brick color...
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Learn In Public The fastest way to build your expertise, network, and second brain.
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Marco.org
The 16-inch MacBook Pro After my first day with the new 16-inch MacBook Pro, I’m very optimistic about it. 🎧  Hear more on...
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over a year ago
After my first day with the new 16-inch MacBook Pro, I’m very optimistic about it. 🎧  Hear more on today’s Accidental Tech Podcast! Two years ago, I wrote a wishlist to fix the MacBook Pro, and the 16-inch doesn’t actually deliver most of it. But time and technological progress...
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A Home Office Hides Behind A Sliding Wall In This House Blue Truck Studio collaborated with a new homeowner with DIY construction experience, to renovate a...
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Blue Truck Studio collaborated with a new homeowner with DIY construction experience, to renovate a home for the owner’s family. The interior, contemporary yet comfortable in its design, includes a living room that has a large empty wall. However, this wall isn’t stationary but...
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Four reasons not to vote for Trump, and four reasons to vote for Harris Summing up my thoughts on the 2024 election.
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Math Is Still...
Computation Is All Around Us, and You Can See It if You Try Computer scientist Lance Fortnow writes that by embracing the computations that surround us, we can...
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Computer scientist Lance Fortnow writes that by embracing the computations that surround us, we can begin to understand and tame our seemingly random world. The post Computation Is All Around Us, and You Can See It if You Try first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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AI and the automation of work ChatGPT and generative AI will change how we work, but how different is this to all the other...
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ChatGPT and generative AI will change how we work, but how different is this to all the other waves of automation of the last 200 years? What does it mean for employment? Disruption? Coal consumption?
Out-of-Pocket Blog
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“Otherwise do something else” I remember back when I started my first company, a friend said to me “get ready to have a knot in...
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I remember back when I started my first company, a friend said to me “get ready to have a knot in your stomach and feel nauseous for years…
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The real strategy behind tiered data plans Over the past year, Comcast and other broadband providers have been forcing tiered data plans on...
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Over the past year, Comcast and other broadband providers have been forcing tiered data plans on customers. The New York Times recently…
The Honest Broker
8 Pieces of Advice for Struggling Young Musicians (or Other Creative People) They keep reaching out to me with the same sad story—and here's what I say
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Corona Chasers You never forget your first solar eclipse The post Corona Chasers appeared first on The American...
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You never forget your first solar eclipse The post Corona Chasers appeared first on The American Scholar.
Arduino Blog
Arduino Education at Bett 2025: Shaping the future of K-12 and HE Mark your calendars… Arduino Education is coming to Bett UK 2025! Taking place for three days from...
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Mark your calendars… Arduino Education is coming to Bett UK 2025! Taking place for three days from January 22nd-24th at the ExCeL exhibition center in London, Bett is the ultimate global event for educational innovation.  We are attending the stand with our partner CreativeHut...
Old Vintage...
With PowerPC, Windows CE and the WiiN-PAD slate, everyone's a WiiN-er (except Data General) Telemedicine (and mobile health generally) accumulated a hunk of public mindshare during the...
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Telemedicine (and mobile health generally) accumulated a hunk of public mindshare during the pandemic emergency, but speaking as someone with a day job in public health for almost two decades, it's always been a buzzword in certain corners of IT with enough money sloshing around...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 37 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
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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...
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Purity Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The two possible exceptions are Mad Nuclear Physics...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The two possible exceptions are Mad Nuclear Physics and Mad Finance, but they're both toward the top of the curve, OK? Today's News: Bea Wolf is half off one day only!
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Remembering Charles Beeler We are heartbroken to relay that Charles Beeler, a friend and early investor in Oxide, passed away...
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We are heartbroken to relay that Charles Beeler, a friend and early investor in Oxide, passed away in September after a battle with cancer. We lost Charles far too soon; he had a tremendous influence on the careers of us both. Our relationship with Charles dates back nearly two...
Laetitia@Work
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We are in Gyeongju now, a place full of cute hanoks and rolling green hills that are actually tombs which are thousands of years old. The weather has been rather unpredictable: searing...
Stat Significant
Unpacking the Rise of Fan Fiction: From 'Star Trek' to 'Twilight'—A Statistical Analysis An exploration of modern fan fiction and the unique demography of its participants.
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A martingale approach to detect changes in histograms If a user has opted into submitting performance data to Mozilla, the Telemetry system will collect...
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over a year ago
If a user has opted into submitting performance data to Mozilla, the Telemetry system will collect various measures of Firefox performance…
Map of the Week
Tyne River Shipbuilders While researching something unrelated, I came across this series of maps showing ship builders and...
a year ago
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a year ago
While researching something unrelated, I came across this series of maps showing ship builders and related industries on the River Tyne in and near Newcastle, UK.  The maps, from 1972, stretch from the mouth of the river (above) to the City of Newcastle upon Tyne, and westward...
TheCollector
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a year ago
ben-mini
The Inner Game of Tennis I just finished reading The Inner Game of Tennis by Tim Gallwey. Originally published in 1974, the...
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I just finished reading The Inner Game of Tennis by Tim Gallwey. Originally published in 1974, the book explores how the thoughts of an athlete affect their game. It’s lauded as being at the forefront of what we now call “sports psychology”. Although my competitive sports days...
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Martyr! book jacket Contributed by Stephen Coles Source: lithub.com License: All Rights Reserved. Martyr! is a...
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Contributed by Stephen Coles Source: lithub.com License: All Rights Reserved. Martyr! is a novel by Iranian-American writer Kaveh Akbar that combines modern situations with traditional imagery. For the jacket, prolific cover designer Linda Huang did what she does so...
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August theme: Bare Minimum This time I’ll be following my inspiring site and declare Bare Minimum as the theme for my next...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This time I’ll be following my inspiring site and declare Bare Minimum as the theme for my next game. This could really be anything, from graphics to user interaction… But I’ve got an idea. It’ll be a real challange for me to make but hopefully I’ll have a game in a few weeks...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Stepping Inside Hallucinations The cake tilted precariously as I stumbled into my parents bedroom. Panic gripped me as I tried to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The cake tilted precariously as I stumbled into my parents bedroom. Panic gripped me as I tried to steady the massive cake.
TokyoDev
How to Survive and Thrive as an Engineer in Japan At [Oedo Ruby Kaigi 04](http://regional.rubykaigi.org/oedo04/), [Leonard...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
At [Oedo Ruby Kaigi 04](http://regional.rubykaigi.org/oedo04/), [Leonard Chin](https://twitter.com/lchin) gave a presentation entitled "How to Survive and Thrive as an Engineer in a Foreign Land". Although the presentation is for a Japanese audience, it is based on his experience...
Notes on software...
Implementing a simple jq clone in Go, and basics of Go memory profiling In this post we'll build a basic jq clone in Go. It will only be able to pull a single path out of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In this post we'll build a basic jq clone in Go. It will only be able to pull a single path out of each object it reads. It won't be able to do filters, mapping, etc. $ cat large-file.json | head -n2 | ./jqgo...
The Pragmatic...
Who is Still Hiring Software Engineers and EMs? 👋 Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. We cover one...
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👋 Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. We cover one out of five topics in today’s subscriber-only The Scoop issue. To get this newsletter every week, subscribe here. This article was updated in December 2022. In the midst of gloomy
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Link – wove Website wove.co is a really nice website. The more complex the visual language, the more difficult it is...
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wove.co is a really nice website. The more complex the visual language, the more difficult it is to interpret. wove gets this. The visual language they use is quite simple, as is their copywriting. It’s as if they took E.B. White’s advice to heart comprehensively — both in the...
Seth's Blog
Unforced errors In hospitality and customer service, perfect is elusive. Someone is going to miss a shift, have a...
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a month ago
In hospitality and customer service, perfect is elusive. Someone is going to miss a shift, have a bad day, or fail to understand a situation. But there’s a second kind of error, the one that’s far more common. When management makes bad choices, or underinvests in systems,...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Doing Him a Favor By Taking His Money' Of all things, I have an anecdote – from a friend in Washington, D.C. He was visiting Second Story...
a year ago
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a year ago
Of all things, I have an anecdote – from a friend in Washington, D.C. He was visiting Second Story Books in that city earlier this week. The volumes in the outdoor stalls are priced at $4 each. My friend collects Lionel Trilling and he found a copy of Of This Time, Of That Place...
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a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Doing old things better vs doing brand new things New technologies enable activities that fall into one of two categories: 1) doing things you could...
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over a year ago
New technologies enable activities that fall into one of two categories: 1) doing things you could already do but can now do better because…
Making software...
Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0 Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0 2020-09-29 I have found that there is a lot of information...
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over a year ago
Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0 2020-09-29 I have found that there is a lot of information on the internet in regards to setting up "dynamic" navigation in Jekyll. The problem I've noticed is that a good amount of these implementations are overly complex. Here is the...
Rest of World -...
There is no American Ambani A tale of two tech industries.
10 months ago
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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4 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...
Paul Graham: Essays
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Alice GG
Learning Dutch online in 2023 Back in 2020, I left France to live in the Netherlands. Since then, I have spent some time learning...
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a year ago
Back in 2020, I left France to live in the Netherlands. Since then, I have spent some time learning the language and reached an intermediate (B1-B2) level. While learning Dutch is not a hard requirement to live and work in the country, it does make day-to-day life a bit more...
Kagi Blog
Introducing the Kagi Family Plan We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the Kagi Family Plan, a new way for families to enjoy the...
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a year ago
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the Kagi Family Plan, a new way for families to enjoy the power of Kagi Search together.
Jonas Hietala
Soda These quotes are from hacker news and I found them all too funny. It’s hard for me to understand the...
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over a year ago
These quotes are from hacker news and I found them all too funny. It’s hard for me to understand the whole soda phenomenon in Canada and the US. Is it as addictive as cigarettes? Does it make you crave for more? Or it simply tastes so good that you can’t get enough of it? Why not...
Res Obscura
Res Obscura Newsletter: December, 2019 Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I...
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Note: this was exported from Mailchimp. That's a 1909 painting called "Altar." It's by someone I learned about just this month: the Lithuanian composer and artist Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911). His paintings and music evoke a mysterious feeling that has stuck with...
The Marginalian
The Challenge of Closeness: Alain de Botton on Love, Vulnerability, and the Paradox of Avoidance The psychological machinery of our commonest coping mechanism for the terror of hurt, rejection, and...
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TheCollector
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Global Inequality...
The end of the great order under the Heaven A review of Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”
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Spoon & Tamago
Takenokuma Cafe is a Water Garden Inspired by the Lush Nature of Kumamoto In the peaceful town of Minami-Oguni (Kumamoto Prefecture) is Takenokuma, a new cafe inspired by the...
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10 months ago
In the peaceful town of Minami-Oguni (Kumamoto Prefecture) is Takenokuma, a new cafe inspired by the many water sources that flow freely from nearby Mt. Aso. These water sources manifest themselves in many ways including rivers, hot springs and channels that flow into the...
TheCollector
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The personal website...
Switching to variable fonts Ever since I first learned about variable fonts, I’ve wanted to use them in my own work. After...
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Ever since I first learned about variable fonts, I’ve wanted to use them in my own work. After learning that Source Serif and Inter both had variable versions, I started switching this site over to use them. Here’s how I implemented the change, and what I learned along the...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The importance of asking people questions Andy Weissman’s blog has the tagline “Maximizing the serendipity around you.”  It’s a good...
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Andy Weissman’s blog has the tagline “Maximizing the serendipity around you.”  It’s a good philosophy.  I think one of the simplest ways to…
FIRE v London
Sep 23: Antisocial markets For some reason shoplifting is in the news. There’s evidently an epidemic of it. Not just in the UK,...
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For some reason shoplifting is in the news. There’s evidently an epidemic of it. Not just in the UK, but wider afield too – hence major brands pulling out of cities like San Francisco. From what I hear there is a general increase in antisocial behaviour, dating from the covid-19...
TheCollector
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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...
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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...
Neil Panchal
ZFS RAIDZ2 - Achieving 157 GB/s Update: See Note 5 below . 157 GB/s is a misleading bandwidth due to the way fio lib handles the...
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Update: See Note 5 below . 157 GB/s is a misleading bandwidth due to the way fio lib handles the --filename option. Actual bandwidth is approximately 22 GB/s, which is still mighty impressive. I built a new server that's also going to serve as a NAS. It
Tech and Tea
Ten food hacks to make your life easier This was almost a post on why millennial motherhood is so challenging, but turned into tactical food...
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This was almost a post on why millennial motherhood is so challenging, but turned into tactical food hacks.
Londonist
The Unique London Spot Where A Railway, A Road And A Canal All Cross Each Other But which came first?
a year ago
Daniel Immke's Blog...
How I write blog posts every month Back in September of last year I started this blog and seeded it with a few posts. I wrote in my...
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Back in September of last year I started this blog and seeded it with a few posts. I wrote in my first post that my goal was to write one…
Good Enough
Jelly was #1 on Hacker News Yesterday, Lettini took a chance and posted about Jelly on Hacker News, a discussion site notorious...
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Yesterday, Lettini took a chance and posted about Jelly on Hacker News, a discussion site notorious for it's mercurial population of tech-maybe-too-saavy experts. Jelly is a tough sell for some of them, those with the technical skill to pipe email at a low level through...
diamond geezer
geezer's postbag Thank you for your occasional emails, which I generally try to get round to answering...
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Thank you for your occasional emails, which I generally try to get round to answering eventually. storm names as agreed by the British, Irish and Dutch Met Offices. Hi, Agnes got a one word reply, and it wasn't Yes. adventuregameco.com/things-to-do I did not allow Babet to...
AVC
AI Art There has been a lot of discussion about how AIs can make art and possibly replace artists, but I...
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There has been a lot of discussion about how AIs can make art and possibly replace artists, but I think the opposite is more likely to happen. Artists have been using AI to make art for a while now and the pace has picked up a lot in recent years. I have always loved the […]
Londonist
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Seth's Blog
Convenience and scams The scam era is upon us. Aided by AI, borderless currency and the internet of things, there are more...
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The scam era is upon us. Aided by AI, borderless currency and the internet of things, there are more people than ever before making a living hustling to steal, impersonate, defraud and otherwise violate our trust. When the world was inconvenient, this was difficult. The banker...
balajis.com
Bond Villain When Powell devalued bonds, he destroyed the economy.
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The Berkeley...
Virtual Personas for Language Models via an Anthology of Backstories Anthology, a method for conditioning LLMs to representative, consistent, and diverse virtual...
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Anthology, a method for conditioning LLMs to representative, consistent, and diverse virtual personas by generating and utilizing naturalistic backstories with rich details of individual values and experience. --> We introduce Anthology, a method for conditioning LLMs to...
Tom Blomfield
Peter Nixey: Cook something or get out of the kitchen Peter Nixey: Cook something or get out of the kitchen: peternixey: I seem to have a lot of...
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Peter Nixey: Cook something or get out of the kitchen: peternixey: I seem to have a lot of conversations recently with people who find themselves in the kitchen but without the means to cook anything. As a cook myself they often ask me how to go about finding themselves a chef...
Londonist
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SatPost by Trung...
OpenAI Saga: The Best Links and Memes PLUS: Ridley Scott's directing secret sauce.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'On a Certain Street There Is a Certain Door' Borges titled a sonnet in The Gold of the Tigers, his 1972 collection, "J.M.":  “On a certain street...
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Borges titled a sonnet in The Gold of the Tigers, his 1972 collection, "J.M.":  “On a certain street there is a certain door shut with its bell and its exact address and with a flavor of lost Paradise, which in the early evening I can never open to enter. The day’s work at its...
The Rational Walk
Daily Journal Annual Meeting Notes A reader has generously shared his notes from the Daily Journal annual meeting which took place in...
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A reader has generously shared his notes from the Daily Journal annual meeting which took place in Los Angeles on February 15, 2024.
Arduino Blog
Zoo elephants get a musical toy to enrich their lives Everyone loves looking at exotic animals and most of us only get to do that at zoos. But, of course,...
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Everyone loves looking at exotic animals and most of us only get to do that at zoos. But, of course, there is a lot to be said about the morality of keeping those animals in captivity. So, good zoos put a lot of effort into keeping their animals healthy and happy. For more...
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The job listing app where you can slide into a recruiter’s DMs Boss Zhipin’s AI connects job seekers directly with recruiters, and it’s thriving on China’s...
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Working Theorys
Background Social Theory #41: on apps that let you tell me what you're up to without telling me what you're up to.
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Theory #41: on apps that let you tell me what you're up to without telling me what you're up to.
Seth's Blog
Anonymity and Bugs Bunny I came across this (ironically) anonymous quote recently: “The offline world is full of sticks, but...
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I came across this (ironically) anonymous quote recently: “The offline world is full of sticks, but the internet only has carrots.” When we come together in groups, it can bring out the best in people. When those groups are anonymous, porous and transient, though, the opposite...
FIRE v London
Oct ’23: Terror erupts from Gaza It’s the Middle East again. I don’t have any perspective on it, sadly, other than that I hear of...
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It’s the Middle East again. I don’t have any perspective on it, sadly, other than that I hear of some nasty low level youth violence/intimidation/vandalism in North London in Jewish neighbourhoods by pro-Palestinian, dare-I-say-it pro-Hamas hotheads. But in most of London life...
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8 annoying A/B testing mistakes every engineer should know 1. Including unaffected users in your experiment The first common mistake in A/B testing is...
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1. Including unaffected users in your experiment The first common mistake in A/B testing is including users in your experiment who aren't actually…
TokyoDev
Renaming an Active Record has_one_attached Attachment: A Step-by-Step Guide Recently, we had a piece of code that looked something like this: ~~~ has_one_attached...
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Recently, we had a piece of code that looked something like this: ~~~ has_one_attached :resumee ~~~ Does it look a little off to you? I’m sure you’ve seen (or even perpetrated) a scenario like this before, where you name something and when you revisit the code later you...
diamond geezer
Bus of the day 187 Bus Route Of The Day 187: West Hampstead to Park Royal Quadrant: London northwest Length of journey:...
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Bus Route Of The Day 187: West Hampstead to Park Royal Quadrant: London northwest Length of journey: 8 miles, 60 minutes Because it's 18th July I've been out riding the 187, because that's the Bus Route Of The Day. It's no big hitter. twiddling round backstreets in an...
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What do I think about network states?
over a year ago
The Elysian
Hint #3 I'm publishing a new print collection in one week.
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"The dawn of trustworthy computing" Nick Szabo: On the Internet, instead of securely and reliably handing over cash and getting our...
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Nick Szabo: On the Internet, instead of securely and reliably handing over cash and getting our goods or services, or at least a ticket, we…
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Joining Apple Computer Reflections on the 40th anniversary of my joining Apple
a year ago
Handprinted - Blog
Should I use Caligo Extender or Opaque White? When mixing shades of ink, we have the choice to dilute the colour with either Opaque White ink or...
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When mixing shades of ink, we have the choice to dilute the colour with either Opaque White ink or Extender. Both of these give us different results so which should we choose? We have performed a few experiments to show the difference between mixing with Opaque White and...
Seth's Blog
Focusing attention is a skill Where we choose to direct our gaze determines not only what we learn or believe, but how we choose...
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Where we choose to direct our gaze determines not only what we learn or believe, but how we choose to see the world. Typing is a skill. Juggling is a skill. So is project management. It’s easy to overlook the fact that we can get better at what we think about, create and consume....
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Epitaph Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Panel 7 is the actual epitaph. Today's News:
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The Rational Walk
Initial Public Offerings A company that is in the process of selling shares to the public for the first time must navigate a...
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A company that is in the process of selling shares to the public for the first time must navigate a minefield of competing interests.
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Making AWS Amplify work with Rollup AWS Amplify assumes CommonJS, which Rollup is allergic to. I recently discovered that you can make...
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AWS Amplify assumes CommonJS, which Rollup is allergic to. I recently discovered that you can make it work with Rollup with a few tweaks.
The Modern House
Take a Dip: London’s best swimming spots – from lakes to lidos
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Stephen Diehl
In Praise of 'Line Goes Up'
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Jonas Hietala
Postmortem: Sat-E This is my postmortem for my Ludum Dare 22 entry, Sat-E. You can find the timelapse over here. The...
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over a year ago
This is my postmortem for my Ludum Dare 22 entry, Sat-E. You can find the timelapse over here. The Good Motivation I was really motivated for this dare and it showed in the game and outside it. It’s super hard to make a game in only 48 hours but this time it went pretty well. My...
Vadim Kravcenko
Product Owner vs Project Managers During my career as a software developer, I’ve met many different managers. Some were the kind of “I...
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During my career as a software developer, I’ve met many different managers. Some were the kind of “I tell — […] The post Product Owner vs Project Managers appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
mtlynch.io
Run a Simple Go Web Service on NixOS I have a few toy utility apps that I run 24/7 on cloud infrastructure. One example is PicoShare, a...
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I have a few toy utility apps that I run 24/7 on cloud infrastructure. One example is PicoShare, a simple web app that makes it easy for me to share files with friends and teammates. There are several convenience apps I would run if it were easy to run them constantly. But...
The Marginalian
Octavio Paz on Freedom "Without freedom, what we call a person does not exist."
a year ago
xkcd.com
Rebuttals
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The Codist
How Talking Over A Wall Changed My Direction As A Programmer I started my programming career in October 1981 at a large defense contractor (GD). At the time, my...
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I started my programming career in October 1981 at a large defense contractor (GD). At the time, my goal was to work for a couple of years and then continue my education with a Ph.D. in Chemistry (I had already been accepted). The office I worked in was a
Handprinted - Blog
Meet The Maker: Lorenzo Davitti Originally from Florence, Italy, I'm a printmaker and tutor now based in London for the past 10...
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Originally from Florence, Italy, I'm a printmaker and tutor now based in London for the past 10 years. I work mainly on abstract art, and I am especially interested in the possibilities that printmaking offers when experimenting with colour, shapes and textures.   Describe your...
HTMHell
The hidden depths of the input element by Phil Nash The <input> element is the most fascinating element in HTML. Most elements behave the...
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by Phil Nash The <input> element is the most fascinating element in HTML. Most elements behave the same way regardless of their attributes, the type attribute of the <input> element can take 1 of 22 different values that gives it not only different behaviour, but a different...
TheCollector
Did Emperor Nero start the Great Fire of Rome? undefined
11 months ago
Steve Klabnik
"The Rust Programming Language" will be published by No Starch Press
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Anecdotal Evidence
'The Energy in Things Shone Through Their Shapes' Some fugitive thinkers among us long for order in a manner almost nostalgic:  “I envied those past...
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Some fugitive thinkers among us long for order in a manner almost nostalgic:  “I envied those past ages of the world When, as I thought, the energy in things Shone through their shapes, when sun and moon no less Than tree or stone or star or human face Were seen but as fantastic...
Josh Thompson
Streets in Asheville Quick-and-dirty street analysis in Asheville, NC A few months ago, I visited Asheville, NC. It’s a...
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over a year ago
Quick-and-dirty street analysis in Asheville, NC A few months ago, I visited Asheville, NC. It’s a nice town, and has a great pedestrian life, as far as I can tell. As a thought experiment, I decided to see how well I could make the case for reducing the road width of a few...
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 19-20 August 2023 Black Pride, All Points East, a foodie weekend, a cocktail festival and more.
a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Saint Polycarp of Smyrna? undefined
a year ago
Home on Erik...
Developer experience as a competitive advantage I spent a ton of time looking at different software providers, both as a CTO, and as a nerd...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I spent a ton of time looking at different software providers, both as a CTO, and as a nerd “advanced” consumer who builds stuff in my spare time. In the last 10 years, there has been an order of magnitude more products that cater directly to developers, through APIs, SDKs, and...
Tony Finch's blog
PCG64 DXSM random number generator Last week I was interested to read about the proposed math/rand/v2 for Golang’s standard library. It...
a year ago
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a year ago
Last week I was interested to read about the proposed math/rand/v2 for Golang’s standard library. It mentioned a new-ish flavour of PCG random number generator which I had not previously encountered, called PCG64 DXSM. This blog post collects what I have learned about it. (I have...
Josh Thompson
My all-time favorite question to ask people (and why you should ask it too) I met two people yesterday from Colorado, while in Spain. We climbed together yesterday and today,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I met two people yesterday from Colorado, while in Spain. We climbed together yesterday and today, and Kristi and I had dinner with them. Half way through the meal, I asked my all-time favorite question: If you could go back to twenty five year old you, and tell yourself...
NeuroLogica Blog
Nobel Prize for Attosecond Physics One attosecond (as) is 1×10−18 seconds. An attosecond is to one second what one second is to the age...
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One attosecond (as) is 1×10−18 seconds. An attosecond is to one second what one second is to the age of the universe. It is an extremely tiny slice of time. This year’s Nobel Prize in physics goes to three scientists, Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L’Huillier, whose...
TheCollector
Plovdiv: Europe’s Oldest Continuously Inhabited City undefined
5 months ago
Jonas Hietala
The great Hochstapler Hey there. A lot has happened lately since my last update and my last game here. I’m now a pretty...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Hey there. A lot has happened lately since my last update and my last game here. I’m now a pretty happy student at Linköpings university and I’m reading something similar to Computer Science or Computer engineering, but I guess it’ll become whatever you make it to be. For...
Seth's Blog
The Mississippi River paradox There’s no water in that river that was there ten years ago. The boundaries have shifted in that...
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There’s no water in that river that was there ten years ago. The boundaries have shifted in that time as well, there’s no riverbank that’s exactly where it was. And the silt and the fish have all moved too. So, what’s “the Mississippi River”? It’s a label, a placeholder, and a...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Optimizing JavaScript by using arrays instead of objects Best optimizations are achievied by thinking about a problem holistically. In this article I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Best optimizations are achievied by thinking about a problem holistically. In this article I describe an optimization that uses arrays instead of classes while providing a class API for accessing data. Imagine you’re building a web-based note taking application. It uses modern,...
TheCollector
Why Does Urs Fischer Burn His Sculptures? undefined
8 months ago
TheCollector
Unveiling Romeo and Juliet: A Guide to Shakespeare’s Timeless Tragedy undefined
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Notes on software...
Two books I recommend to developers Originally published on February 1, 2021. The original version included two books I don't think...
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Originally published on February 1, 2021. The original version included two books I don't think are actually so worthwhile. This list is down to two. I think that's a good thing actually. These are the books I recommend to developers wanting to improve their skills as...
Applied Cartography
PSA: mess around with Kolo I had bookmarked Kolo many months ago to try out and finally got a chance to integrate it with...
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I had bookmarked Kolo many months ago to try out and finally got a chance to integrate it with Buttondown — a process that I expected to take a couple hours on a lazy Sunday and in fact took ten minutes and three lines of code. If you have a Django app, I think you should drop...
CommitStrip
Once upon a Teams meeting…
over a year ago
xkcd.com
UK Coal
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Londonist
10 DLR Trains Have Now Got Front Seat 'Control Panels' You Can Play With Sorry, that your KIDS can play with.
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TheCollector
Dutch & Flemish Vanitas Paintings: A Theme for the North’s Golden Age undefined
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Rest of World -...
Why Africa’s tech talent makes it an attractive investment destination Joseph Nsengimana of the Mastercard Foundation says global companies are starting to recognize the...
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The June Deportations
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TheCollector
10 Most Historic Cities to Visit Around the World undefined
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TheCollector
The Lebanese Civil War: A Complex & Devastating Conflict undefined
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Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean 2021-02-02 Since my previous post walked through the...
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Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean 2021-02-02 Since my previous post walked through the process of setting up Fathom PRO on Netlify, I figured it made sense to create a similar tutorial for the “Lite” variation, self-hosted on DigitalOcean. Please note that while I...
Damn Interesting
The Ancient Order of Bali In the 1970s, the Indonesian island of Bali went through a period of rapid change. Along the...
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In the 1970s, the Indonesian island of Bali went through a period of rapid change. Along the stunning beaches on the southern side of the island, tourism boomed. Parking lots were put up, together with swinging hot spots and hotels of various colours. Hip young travellers from...
Josh Thompson
Full Copy of 'The Atlanta Zone Plan' from 1922 A Warning and a Request In a moment, you will read the full text of a 1922 marketing pamphlet. This...
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over a year ago
A Warning and a Request In a moment, you will read the full text of a 1922 marketing pamphlet. This document is an important thread to understanding some very large political problems facing the world today, specifically housing, affordability, the growing wealth gap, and...
Rest of World -...
Latin American startups embrace OpenAI, but at what cost? The region’s early-stage startups get less funding than their U.S. counterparts, making AI...
a year ago
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The region’s early-stage startups get less funding than their U.S. counterparts, making AI tools-for-hire an onerous new expense.
Old Structures...
Obvious In Restrospect The first real commuter rail in New York was the New York and Harlem Railroad, which eventually...
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11 months ago
The first real commuter rail in New York was the New York and Harlem Railroad, which eventually served, through a combination of horse-drawn street cars and heavy rail, from lower Manhattan to Chatham, New York, not far south of Albany. The portion in Manhattan south of 23rd...
diamond geezer
Unblogged May 31 unblogged things I did in May Wed 1: The latest exhibition at The Curve gallery at the Barbican...
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31 unblogged things I did in May Wed 1: The latest exhibition at The Curve gallery at the Barbican is dark and almost empty apart from 20 scant full-frontal paintings. I completely missed the subtext ("The exhibition highlights how The Curve’s shape reflects the Arabic letter...
Musings on Markets
The Corporate Life Cycle: Corporate Finance, Valuation and Investing Implications! As I reveal my ignorance about TikTok trends, social media celebrities and Gen Z slang, my children...
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As I reveal my ignorance about TikTok trends, social media celebrities and Gen Z slang, my children are quick to point out my age, and I accept that reality, for the most part. I understand that I am too old to exercise without stretching first or eat a heaping plate of cheese...
Laetitia@Work
The Future of Work & the Sandwich Generation Laetitia@Work #63
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Louwrentius
Monitoring HP MSA P2000 G3 I/O latency with Nagios At work we have a couple of HP MSA P2000 G3 SANs. These are entry-level SANs that still seem to have...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
At work we have a couple of HP MSA P2000 G3 SANs. These are entry-level SANs that still seem to have almost all features you might want from a SAN, except for official SSD-support. It seems that the new MSA 2040 adds support for SSDs and also provides 4 GB cache per controller...
Londonist
Ticket Alert: The Devil Wears Prada Musical On Sale From Today Tickets? For the West End? Groundbreaking.
a year ago
The Roots of...
Quote quiz answer Here’s the answer to the recent quote quiz: The author was Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber. The...
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a year ago
Here’s the answer to the recent quote quiz: The author was Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber. The quote was taken from his manifesto, “Industrial Society and Its Future.” Here’s a slightly longer, and unaltered, quote: First let us postulate that the computer scientists succeed in...
Avestura's Blog
Creating a Git commit: The Hard Way Let's create a Git commit using Git's low-level (plumbing) commands
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The Modern House
A Day Well Spent with filmmaker Akinola Davies
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TheCollector
Who Were Charlemagne’s Daughters undefined
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Luxagraf:...
What Vanlife is Really Like I have no idea what Vanlife is or is like. But I can tell you that if you think you're just going to...
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I have no idea what Vanlife is or is like. But I can tell you that if you think you're just going to cruise around in an old vehicle, living the life, um, yeah, not all the time. Some of the time, sure. Maybe even most of the time, but there's a good bit of work to be done on the...
Steven Scrawls
The Controversial Aftermath of the 777Linguine Interview The Controversial Aftermath of the 777Linguine Interview Longtime fans of popular EDM “angststep”...
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The Controversial Aftermath of the 777Linguine Interview Longtime fans of popular EDM “angststep” artist 777Linguine are “shocked” and “betrayed” after his polarizing statements yesterday that his latest album, NOMORETEARS2CRY, was written and recorded in a time of “profound...
symmetry magazine
Tending to a giant In a race against the clock, CERN engineers and technicians pulled together to find and fix a leak...
a year ago
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a year ago
In a race against the clock, CERN engineers and technicians pulled together to find and fix a leak inside the Large Hadron Collider.
Both Are True
bad hair day (terrible, horrible, no good, very bad tbh) a new, never-before-seen haircut for Alexander
2 months ago
TokyoDev
The rise and fall of D&D in Japan In 1985, Dungeons & Dragons (hereafter referred to as D&D) exploded onto the scene in Japan,...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
In 1985, Dungeons & Dragons (hereafter referred to as D&D) exploded onto the scene in Japan, achieving massive popularity. The Japanese version of the Basic Rule Set (known as the “red box”) sold an impressive 100,000 copies in its first year. The following year, the gaming...
Vitalik Buterin's...
What do I think about Community Notes?
a year ago
TheCollector
The 7 Best Historical Sites in Bangkok, Thailand undefined
4 months ago
blag
Recurse Center Day 10: Learning Distributed Systems How does one start learning to build distributed systems?
over a year ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Localizing Hidden Consciousness What’s going on in the minds of people who appear to be comatose? This has been an enduring...
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a year ago
What’s going on in the minds of people who appear to be comatose? This has been an enduring neurological question from the beginning of neurology as a discipline. Recent technological advances have completely changed the game in terms of evaluating comatose patients, and now a...
Seth's Blog
Meaningfully informed Community requires individuals to have the option of speaking up. If we’re in this together, we...
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6 months ago
Community requires individuals to have the option of speaking up. If we’re in this together, we ought to be able to chime in. But while every member of the community can speak out, the ones that are heard also have something useful to say. Being informed is a requirement to be...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Special Hell 8 Telepathy Blockers When I was young I believed that adults had telepathic powers. Like living Zoltar machines, these...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When I was young I believed that adults had telepathic powers. Like living Zoltar machines, these enhanced beings could predict my every move. It was uncanny. Telepathy was the only explanation.
Old Structures...
Three Generations With Little Resemblence From the New York Public Library scrapbooks, a page from 1918 showing the Hotel Marguery on the west...
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a month ago
From the New York Public Library scrapbooks, a page from 1918 showing the Hotel Marguery on the west side of Park Avenue, between 47th and 49th Streets. The building’s address was 270 Park Avenue. That odd two-wing configuration is what happens when you plan a building around a...
somethingaboutmaps
Conventional Cartographic Wisdom that I have Failed to Grasp When I teach cartography, I am deliberate about not presenting my students with any rules. I do not...
a year ago
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When I teach cartography, I am deliberate about not presenting my students with any rules. I do not want obedience to memorized maxims — instead, I simply tell them about practices that I think are good ideas, and then I offer an explanation of my reasoning. The students can...
Seth's Blog
This time it’s personal My new book is urgent and it’s personal. Some readers have told me that it’s also their favorite. It...
a year ago
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a year ago
My new book is urgent and it’s personal. Some readers have told me that it’s also their favorite. It opens the door to a better way to work and to find meaning in how we spend our days. I’ve done dozens of podcasts talking about it, but when I talk about it, it’s not nearly […]
Old Structures...
Regular, Fast, Very Fast Are you really an engineer if you don’t laugh out loud at this xkcd strip?
4 months ago
Vadim Kravcenko
Fake it till you make it If you’ve been doing anything related to the startup world the last few years, then you’ve heard the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you’ve been doing anything related to the startup world the last few years, then you’ve heard the term “fake […] The post Fake it till you make it appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
TheCollector
What Is the Jungian Journey of Individuation? undefined
5 months ago
Math Is Still...
To Move Fast, Quantum Maze Solvers Must Forget the Past Quantum algorithms can find their way out of mazes exponentially faster than classical ones, at the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Quantum algorithms can find their way out of mazes exponentially faster than classical ones, at the cost of forgetting the path they took. A new result suggests that the trade-off may be inevitable. The post To Move Fast, Quantum Maze Solvers Must Forget the Past...
Paul Graham: Essays
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Matt Mazur
“Monthly Billed Annually” is Cursed Copy There was a great discussion on Twitter recently that began with Daniel Vassallo calling out a SaaS...
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There was a great discussion on Twitter recently that began with Daniel Vassallo calling out a SaaS for not refunding an accidental annual payment he made on their service. He intended to purchase the monthly plan, but due to an unclear UI and poor copy, he unintentionally...
TheCollector
Is Anarchism a Bad Idea? 3 Main Objections undefined
a year ago
Rest of World -...
The man leading Kenyan content moderators’ battle against Meta Nathan Nkunzimana claims Meta and Sama fired content moderators for protesting working conditions...
a year ago
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Nathan Nkunzimana claims Meta and Sama fired content moderators for protesting working conditions and demanding the right to unionize.
Internal Tech Emails
Elon Musk's texts I read the article. It is weak sauce and still makes me sound like a liar. It is filled with...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I read the article. It is weak sauce and still makes me sound like a liar. It is filled with equivocation and in no way indicates the strong interest you conveyed in person.
History Today Feed
How ASEAN Lost its Way How ASEAN Lost its Way JamesHoare Wed, 01/24/2024 - 09:53
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TheCollector
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Maps Mania
Text Recognition Map Search
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Old Structures...
Doodling In A Hotel A remarkable sketch by Cass Gilbert from July 1933: From left to right, the Dom Tower in Utrecht...
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A remarkable sketch by Cass Gilbert from July 1933: From left to right, the Dom Tower in Utrecht (fourteenth-century, 368 feet high): St Mark’s Campanile in Venice (ninth century, rebuilt in the early twentieth century after it collapsed, 323 feet high): and Gilbert’s own...
xkcd.com
Local Group
7 months ago
Steve Blank
Before there was Oppenheimer there was Vannevar Bush I just saw the movie Oppenheimer.  A wonderful movie on multiple levels. But the Atomic Bomb story...
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I just saw the movie Oppenheimer.  A wonderful movie on multiple levels. But the Atomic Bomb story that starts at Los Alamos with Oppenheimer and General Grove misses the fact that from mid-1940 to mid-1942 it was Vannevar Bush (and his number 2, James Conant, the president of...
Transit Maps
Submission – Unofficial Map: Improved Cercanías Madrid Map by Jace Submitted by Jace, who says: A while ago I saw your review of the Cercanías Madrid [our 2022 review...
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Submitted by Jace, who says: A while ago I saw your review of the Cercanías Madrid [our 2022 review is here – Cam], and, as a regular user of the system, I too find the map quite bad: Uneven distances between lines, mismatched fonts in the route bullets, and overall lack of...