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Tinloof - Blog
ReasonML for production React Apps? 🤔 (Part 1) ReasonML is a functional programming language with smartly inferred strict types, that compiles to...
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ReasonML is a functional programming language with smartly inferred strict types, that compiles to JavaScript. ReasonReact is Reason bindings for ReactJS (aka the translated ReasonML version of the ReactJS). It has improved a lot lately and even added support for hooks in a...
Fonts In Use – Blog...
März book covers, 1969–1987 Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: www.booklooker.de katzensohn (edited). License: All Rights...
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Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: www.booklooker.de katzensohn (edited). License: All Rights Reserved. März Texte 1, 1969. Compilation of texts by Bazon Brock, Peter O. Chotjewitz, William S. Burroughs, LeRoi Jones, Uve Schmidt, Hermann Nitsch, and others. Among German...
David Crawshaw
2015-03-01 gothamist.com/2012/03/08/the_1960_plan_to_put_a_dome_over_mi.php
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Slackware update The last time I (re)installed Slackware I documented what I did. Somehow I managed to really bork my...
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The last time I (re)installed Slackware I documented what I did. Somehow I managed to really bork my installation and I decided to go through with a larger reinstallation once more. This is a log of some things I did differently. Kernel Before installing the kernel it’s nice to...
Yale e360
Units in Go and Rust show philosophical differences Units are a key part of doing any calculation. A number on its own is just a scalar and doesn't...
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Units are a key part of doing any calculation. A number on its own is just a scalar and doesn't represent anything in particular. If I tell you to go drive 5, you'd naturally ask "5 what?" Software often has to deal with quantities that represent real-world things. How we...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Worse Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: My knowledge of Batman ends somewhere around 1952,...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: My knowledge of Batman ends somewhere around 1952, when his costume was at its peak. Today's News: Hello! If you missed the kickstarter, or just want a joke book about cosmology or a signed copy of A City on Mars, please go here...
Nat Eliason's...
Using ChatGPT as a Writing Coach How to improve instead of atrophy
over a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Exponential curves feel gradual and then sudden "How did you go bankrupt?" "Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” – Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also...
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"How did you go bankrupt?" "Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” – Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises The core growth process in the…
Max Rozen
The books I read in 2018 A list of books I read in 2018
over a year ago
Tech + Economics +...
Breaking up with Slack and Discord: why it's time to bring back forums. When I first found my people online, forums were the main way people gathered to discuss shared...
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When I first found my people online, forums were the main way people gathered to discuss shared interests. Web-based bulletin boards allowed members to have ongoing, asynchronous conversations over days or weeks as participants logged in to read and respond on their own...
lcamtuf’s thing
How security teams fail There are mistakes most companies are more or less bound to make.
4 months ago
Londonist
Warm Your Cockles At London's Best Winter Drinks Pop-Ups And Cosy Bars Igloos, rooftops, ski lodges and trains.
a year ago
Construction Physics
Reading List 04/12/2025 Solar PV adoption in Pakistan, a sodium-ion battery startup closing up shop, Figure’s humanoid robot...
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Solar PV adoption in Pakistan, a sodium-ion battery startup closing up shop, Figure’s humanoid robot progress, an AI-based artillery targeting system, and more.
Unfiltered by Tim...
Here's Why 99% of People Stay Stuck for Their Whole Lives And how you can become the 1% who break free from society's chains
2 months ago
Irrational...
Building personal and organizational prestige Most months I get at least one email from an engineering leader who believes they’d be a candidate...
over a year ago
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Most months I get at least one email from an engineering leader who believes they’d be a candidate for significantly more desirable roles if their personal brand were just better known. Similarly, when funding is readily available during periods of tech industry expansion, many...
Quanta Magazine
Emmy Murphy Is a Mathematician Who Finds Beauty in Flexibility The prize-winning geometer feels most fulfilled when exploring the fertile ground where constraint...
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The prize-winning geometer feels most fulfilled when exploring the fertile ground where constraint meets creation. The post Emmy Murphy Is a Mathematician Who Finds Beauty in Flexibility first appeared on Quanta Magazine
The personal website...
Designing with code We’re in the middle of a design tool renaissance. In the 8 years since Sketch 1.0 was released,...
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We’re in the middle of a design tool renaissance. In the 8 years since Sketch 1.0 was released, there’s been a wave of competition among traditional design tools. And as the number of tools available to designers grows exponentially, ideas that were once considered fringe are...
Willem's Blog
From tree to table Creating a night stand from a raw slab of chestnut wood.
over a year ago
blag
Internet is wholesome: MVCC edition This is a short story about how I hit a wall while implementing a database research paper, found a...
over a year ago
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This is a short story about how I hit a wall while implementing a database research paper, found a publication error and how people on the internet helped me.
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 097: Model Mayhem December 13, 2024.
6 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Precession Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The only downside is you have to go in every six...
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11 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The only downside is you have to go in every six months to get spun up. Today's News:
Diaries of Note
Hop tu naa! Richard Adams, born in Berkshire, England, in 1920, is best known for his bestselling debut novel,...
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Richard Adams, born in Berkshire, England, in 1920, is best known for his bestselling debut novel, Watership Down, a tale that follows a group of rabbits escaping their doomed warren. However, beyond fiction, Adams had an eye for the rhythms of nature and a knack for capturing...
Birchtree
The worst product Marques Brownlee ever reviewed dies after 10 months Jay Peters for The Verge: HP Is Buying Humane and Shutting Down the AI Pin Humane is selling “key AI...
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4 months ago
Jay Peters for The Verge: HP Is Buying Humane and Shutting Down the AI Pin Humane is selling “key AI capabilities” to HP for $116 million and will stop selling AI Pin, the company announced today. AI Pins that have already been purchased will continue to function normally
Ken Shirriff's blog
Inside the mechanical Bendix Air Data Computer, part 5: motor/tachometers The Bendix Central Air Data Computer (CADC) is an electromechanical analog computer that uses gears...
a year ago
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The Bendix Central Air Data Computer (CADC) is an electromechanical analog computer that uses gears and cams for its mathematics. It was a key part of military planes such as the F-101 and the F-111 fighters, computing airspeed, Mach number, and other "air data". The rotating...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Keith A. Pettit I am Keith A. Pettit an artist, printmaker and sculptor, born and bred in a small corner of Sussex....
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I am Keith A. Pettit an artist, printmaker and sculptor, born and bred in a small corner of Sussex. I left school and started work with a signwriter. I thought I was learning a trade for life - alas I was unaware of the digital revolution that was sweeping all before it. I've...
Melissa Penfold
THE THINGS YOUR WEDDING GUESTS SECRETLY DESPISE There’s a fairly well-established list of the things that wedding guests detest. Overly long...
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There’s a fairly well-established list of the things that wedding guests detest. Overly long ceremonies. Overly long toasts. Cash bars. A bachelor or bachelorette trip that sends its attendees into credit-card debt. A destination wedding in a remote locale that the couple has...
Alex Meub
Better Wheels for the Traeger Tailgater I received a Traeger Tailgater as a gift last year and I love it. It’s compact, easy to store, and...
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I received a Traeger Tailgater as a gift last year and I love it. It’s compact, easy to store, and works amazingly well. It has more than enough grill space for me and is pretty minimalist on features, which I like. Last Thanksgiving, many people wished they didn’t get the...
One from Nippon
The shoe that became a sock. And then a shoe again. Stockholm, 1912 At 35° C it was an unusually hot day for Stockholm. Shizo Kanakuri stood at the...
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Stockholm, 1912 At 35° C it was an unusually hot day for Stockholm. Shizo Kanakuri stood at the start line of the marathon in the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. Shizo was carrying the hopes, dreams, and pride of Japan, a country attempting to become a “modern” nation. There
XO Capital - Field...
v2 XO V1 concluded with 10 acquisitions and 1 "fund". The V1 "conclusion" is really a line in the sand...
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XO V1 concluded with 10 acquisitions and 1 "fund". The V1 "conclusion" is really a line in the sand but it feels right as we continue to offload assets to focus on larger deals using outside capital. This will transition us into v2 which we'
Wrong Side of...
The great 2024 vibe shift (and other stories) Wrong Side of History Newsletter #58
7 months ago
Seth's Blog
The length trick It’s possible that the memo or video is simply too long. A 14 minute video explaining how to have a...
a year ago
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It’s possible that the memo or video is simply too long. A 14 minute video explaining how to have a 10 minute brainstorming meeting might benefit from some editing. But it might be that your instruction manual would benefit from some more photos and better in depth explanation....
Articles
Is it harder to get noticed?
over a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Down Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Just make sure to always go counterclockwise or...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Just make sure to always go counterclockwise or you're gonna be real sad. Today's News:
Old Structures...
Very Local Requirements Below, a construction fence of typical New York design. Such fences here have had windows of some...
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Below, a construction fence of typical New York design. Such fences here have had windows of some kind going back at least to the mid-1900s. Per the current NYC building code, section 3307.7.3, “Viewing panels shall be provided in solid fences erected on or after July 1, 2013, at...
99% Invisible
A Whale-Oiled Machine [EPISODE] In the 1800s, whaling was a vast and brutal industry–sometimes as deadly for the sailors involved as...
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In the 1800s, whaling was a vast and brutal industry–sometimes as deadly for the sailors involved as it was for the whales. And the global epicenter of whaling could be found in New Bedford, MA. All this slaughter wasn’t to feed hungry people with whale meat. It was about all the...
Unfiltered by Tim...
I'm 38. If You're in Your 20's or 30's, Read This. 1. When you turn 35 you'll see the difference between those who took risks and those who didn't.
5 months ago
Flashbak
Isaac Asimov’s Books of Dirty Limericks Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) is remembered for his prolific science fiction...
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Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) is remembered for his prolific science fiction writing, impressive ‘lamb chops’  – of which he said: “They became a permanent feature of my face, and it is now difficult to believe early photographs that show me without sideburns”...
Blog - Practical...
Why Are Beach Holes So Deadly? [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Even though it’s a favorite...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Even though it’s a favorite vacation destination, the beach is surprisingly dangerous. Consider the lifeguard: There aren’t that many recreational activities in our lives that have explicit staff whose only job...
NeuroLogica Blog
Living with Predators For much of human history, wolves and other large carnivores were considered pests. Wolves were...
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For much of human history, wolves and other large carnivores were considered pests. Wolves were actively exterminated on the British Isles, with the last wolf killed in 1680. It is more difficulty to deliberately wipe out a species on a continent than an island, but across Europe...
Mazdak
OpenAI’s Ph.D.-Level Super Agents The AI landscape is evolving at breakneck speed, and OpenAI is leading the charge.
5 months ago
Avestura's Blog
Versioning microservices in GitLab monorepos and polyrepos What are some possible options to version projects for a microservices project in Gitlab?
over a year ago
TheCollector
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk: How Russia Left World War I In both World Wars, people assume the Allied Powers had a crushing advantage and would have...
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In both World Wars, people assume the Allied Powers had a crushing advantage and would have inevitably won the conflicts. World War I, however, was almost a victory for Germany. Far from the American focus on the Atlantic Ocean, Germany had also been fighting Russia, which was an...
Noahpinion
We can't afford to keep cutting taxes for the rich Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" is an advanced stage of a disease that took hold long ago.
3 days ago
Vadim Kravcenko
Falsehoods Junior Developers believe about becoming Senior These are mostly my thoughts about what I was expecting as a junior and how I perceived senior...
a year ago
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These are mostly my thoughts about what I was expecting as a junior and how I perceived senior developers. To […] The post Falsehoods Junior Developers believe about becoming Senior appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Throwable
What's Next For Software The software development industry is moving faster than ever before.
a month ago
Julia Evans
How git cherry-pick and revert use 3-way merge Hello! I was trying to explain to someone how git cherry-pick works the other day, and I found...
a year ago
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Hello! I was trying to explain to someone how git cherry-pick works the other day, and I found myself getting confused. What went wrong was: I thought that git cherry-pick was basically applying a patch, but when I tried to actually do it that way, it didn’t work! Let’s talk...
Marcus on AI
BREAKING: Bill that would have blocked OpenAI’s conversion to a for-profit has mysteriously been... I hope the media will look into this
2 months ago
Calculated Risk
Real Estate Newsletter Articles this Week: Housing Starts Down 3.9% in 2024 compared to 2023 At the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter this week: Click on graph for larger image. Housing...
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5 months ago
At the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter this week: Click on graph for larger image. Housing Starts Increased to 1.499 million Annual Rate in December Housing Discussion with Altos Research's Mike Simonsen Lawler: Early Read on Existing Home Sales in December Part 1: Current...
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Taming the Frontier, Part 1 I didn’t have a proper vacation in awhile. Then, unexpectedly, I had abundant time on my hands. I...
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I didn’t have a proper vacation in awhile. Then, unexpectedly, I had abundant time on my hands. I also needed to bring a kid home from Michigan State University who just finished the first year of a graduate program. So I planned a delightfully inefficient route through rural...
Ruud van Asseldonk
LLM text makes human interactions less fun
5 months ago
bookbear express
Dear Bear: do you feel doubts about your unconventional career path? + matchmaking results mostly out
2 months ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Healthcare Private Equity, More Thoughts | Out-Of-Pocket From a doctor, an ex-PE person, and way smarter people than me
a year ago
Vadim Kravcenko
🎯 What does a Product Owner do all day? You might think that the job of a PO is to please the internal stakeholders and be responsible for...
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You might think that the job of a PO is to please the internal stakeholders and be responsible for the […] The post 🎯 What does a Product Owner do all day? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 22-28 January 2024 Things to do for under a fiver.
a year ago
The Pragmatic...
Layoffs push down scores on Glassdoor: this is how companies respond Several tech companies face a fresh problem after cutting jobs: their rating on Glassdoor nosedives....
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Several tech companies face a fresh problem after cutting jobs: their rating on Glassdoor nosedives. But there’s a way they can fix this. I show what companies are doing - and why.
Noahpinion
Why America's future could hinge on Elon Musk Iron Man, or Dr. Doom?
8 months ago
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware September 2023 The Ware from September 2023 is a Honeywell HPMA115S0-XXX PM2.5 sensor. Although Ben guessed the...
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The Ware from September 2023 is a Honeywell HPMA115S0-XXX PM2.5 sensor. Although Ben guessed the general category of the ware first, David was the first to give the exact model. Usually I award the prize to the first person to give an exact, correct model number and fall back to...
Steve Klabnik
Matz is nice so we are nice
over a year ago
Calculated Risk
LA Ports: Record Inbound Traffic for January This was a new record for imports in January, eclipsing the previous recent (Jan 2022) by 17%! some...
4 months ago
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This was a new record for imports in January, eclipsing the previous recent (Jan 2022) by 17%! some hints about the trade report since LA area ports handle about 40% of the nation's container port traffic. Los Angeles and Long Beach in TEUs (TEUs: 20-foot equivalent units or...
Hidden History
Cloud Gate, Chicago’s “Bean” This futuristic sculpture in Millennium Park has become an icon of Chicago. In 1997, the city of...
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This futuristic sculpture in Millennium Park has become an icon of Chicago. In 1997, the city of Chicago was making plans for a patch of land near Grant Park on the shore of Lake Michigan that had previously been a parking lot and a railroad yard. At first, there was talk of...
Notes on software...
Effective unemployment and social media Being unemployed can be incredibly depressing. So much rejection. Everything seems to be out of your...
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Being unemployed can be incredibly depressing. So much rejection. Everything seems to be out of your control. Everything except for one thing: what you produce. You might know that repeatedly posting on social media that you are looking for work is ineffective. That it looks (or...
Steve Klabnik
The first week of rstat.us: users, press, and scaling, oh my!
over a year ago
Tinloof - Blog
How to get a taste of ReasonML by building something useful ReasonML, a programming language that compiles to JavaScript, was built by extending the functional...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
ReasonML, a programming language that compiles to JavaScript, was built by extending the functional programming language OCaml, leveraging powerful and safe types smartly inferred by default. Reason’s official documentation is clear, yet covering the theory with “Hello World”...
Nelson's Weblog
Linkblog archives I've added an archive calendar to my linkblog, so you can see old posts going all the way back to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've added an archive calendar to my linkblog, so you can see old posts going all the way back to 2003. The UI is a little minimal but usable and it will work for any search indexers, which is what I most care about. Note old posts will have a grey background because I wasn't...
TheCollector
How Did Leon Battista Alberti’s “On Painting” Shaped the Renaissance? In his seminal book of art theory entitled On Painting, Leon Battista Alberti staked a claim for...
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5 days ago
In his seminal book of art theory entitled On Painting, Leon Battista Alberti staked a claim for painting as a liberal art for the first time. Split into three sections dealing with geometry, art theory and method, and the ethical constitution of great painters, this brief...
Andrej Karpathy blog
Deep Reinforcement Learning: Pong from Pixels --> This is a long overdue blog post on Reinforcement Learning (RL). RL is hot! You may have...
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--> This is a long overdue blog post on Reinforcement Learning (RL). RL is hot! You may have noticed that computers can now automatically learn to play ATARI games (from raw game pixels!), they are beating world champions at Go, simulated quadrupeds are learning to run and leap,...
Making software...
My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee 2023-01-09 I had to replace my dual Keurig coffee maker twice...
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My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee 2023-01-09 I had to replace my dual Keurig coffee maker twice over a period of five months. This occurred a year ago and these are my findings. Built to Fail? I followed the manufactor's suggested cleaning schedule and took care of the...
./techtipsy
Anything's a portable speaker if you're brave enough I hate buying things that are single-purpose, which is why I ended up with this setup. Take a...
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I hate buying things that are single-purpose, which is why I ended up with this setup. Take a speaker, a battery, put them together, and what you now have is a portable speaker. Since I had access to both, I felt no need to buy a separate portable speaker for use in social...
AFAR Media - Travel...
5 Activities to Enjoy on a Caribbean Winter Holiday
6 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Arming Ourselves Against The Future. With a few more books and a few old ideas.
a year ago
Old Structures...
Head In The Clouds One of my favorite views of tall buildings, again: in the fog. New York Bay has more than it’s fair...
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One of my favorite views of tall buildings, again: in the fog. New York Bay has more than it’s fair share of fog, and sometimes it creeps back up into the city. We had one of those days last week.
There are two types...
Me on the On Cities Podcast CLICK HERE to open in Apple Podcasts The post Me on the On Cities Podcast appeared first on There...
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CLICK HERE to open in Apple Podcasts The post Me on the On Cities Podcast appeared first on There are two types of architecture—good architecture, and the other kind.
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...
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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...
Blog of Simple...
Google loses key antitrust case
9 months ago
Seth's Blog
The tactics trap You have a strategy. Perhaps you didn’t even choose it but you have one… and it’s not working. The...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
You have a strategy. Perhaps you didn’t even choose it but you have one… and it’s not working. The dominant question is, “what do I do now?” Which tactic do we use? How do we get the word out? How do we close this sale, solve the problem and succeed? Perhaps we should look to […]
Elevation Lab - Blog
Introducing TagVault Universal for AirTag We wanted an ultra-secure AirTag case that could be mounted to anything. Easy to change AirTags...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
We wanted an ultra-secure AirTag case that could be mounted to anything. Easy to change AirTags battery. Waterproof. Robust. And discreet. So we designed TagVault Universal Mount for AirTag. It has mounting holes for screws, rivets, and slots for zip ties. Or just epoxy it down....
Contemporist...
Exterior Lighting Illuminates The Landscaping Around This Modern House In Los Angeles Paul McClean Of McClean Design has completed a new home in Los Angeles, California, whose design is...
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Paul McClean Of McClean Design has completed a new home in Los Angeles, California, whose design is showcased with the inclusion of exterior lighting.
The Marginalian
Trust, Betrayal, and the Nexus of Mathematics and Morality: The Prisoner’s Dilemma Animated Illuminating the pitfalls of the mind in felt and gingerbread.
over a year ago
Roberto Vitillo's...
Counting at scale How engaged are users for a certain segment of the population? How many users are actively using a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
How engaged are users for a certain segment of the population? How many users are actively using a new feature? One way to answer that…
Londonist
Bits Of London That Aren't In The Bit Of London They Say They Are In, But In Another Bit Of London If you see what we mean.
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Ancient Olympics History of the Games
11 months ago
Don't Worry About...
o3-mini Early Days and the OpenAI AMA New model, new hype cycle, who dis?
5 months ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
Best Countries for Expats to Live Abroad
a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Installing Shoelace in a React App Although Shoelace is a web component library, it ships React wrappers that lets you use the library...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Although Shoelace is a web component library, it ships React wrappers that lets you use the library idiomatically in React. This video shows you how to install Shoelace in a brand new Create React App. If you found this video helpful, please subscribe to my channel on YouTube...
bookbear express
Dear Bear: on the far side of fear is surrender + weekly recs
a month ago
ToughSF
The Lofstrom Loop: A Bridge to Space Imagine you could take a train ride to space. Tracks that slope up into the sky, higher and higher,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Imagine you could take a train ride to space. Tracks that slope up into the sky, higher and higher, until you reach a plateau above the planet where it’s a straight line up to orbital velocity. That’s what’s possible with a Lofstrom Loop. But sending you into orbit is just one...
Trying to Understand...
Teach Your Children .... Not to be afraid of moral relativism.
over a year ago
abdz.do - Have you...
Introducing the Microsoft Creator Hub Introducing the Microsoft Creator Hub AoiroStudio0209—23 ...
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Introducing the Microsoft Creator Hub AoiroStudio0209—23 Microsoft Design is a team of creative professionals dedicated to designing and delivering innovative products and experiences for people around the world. Their latest offering,...
Arduino Blog
Behind the boards: How Alba PCB Group and Arduino bring Made-in-Italy innovation to life Our manufacturing partner Alba PCB Group, headquartered in Mogliano Veneto, Italy, invites you to...
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Our manufacturing partner Alba PCB Group, headquartered in Mogliano Veneto, Italy, invites you to take a peek behind the scenes with a beautiful documentary by Italian director Massimiliano Finazzer Flory, A Different Alba: Arduino, an Italian Invention. Discover the...
Retail Design Blog
KEPCO Community Lounge by STUDIO I’ll When I first visited the site, I felt overwhelmed. The entrance from the parking lot was elevated,...
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When I first visited the site, I felt overwhelmed. The entrance from the parking lot was elevated, exposing the interior,...
Rest of World -...
The political power of an unlikely Tesla factory How Elon Musk plays politicians from Monterrey to Buffalo.
a year ago
Archinect - Features
Applying to architecture school? Don't miss these info sessions and open houses this... Deadlines for 2025 architecture academic programs are coming up soon! To learn more about exciting...
8 months ago
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Deadlines for 2025 architecture academic programs are coming up soon! To learn more about exciting undergraduate and graduate degrees in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning, take a look below at Archinect's latest highlight of upcoming information sessions...
Beautiful Public...
The Style Guide for America’s Highways: The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices Driving across America, you will encounter a wide variety of cultures, landscapes, people and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Driving across America, you will encounter a wide variety of cultures, landscapes, people and animals. But the one consistent thing that will stay the same from Maine to California are the signs you pass on the highway. That is because America’s roads and highways have a big, fat...
Unfiltered by Tim...
Eight Ways to F*ck up Your Life Without Trying Toxic mindsets we all have that will unconsciously ruin your life
5 months ago
History Today Feed
Marcus Garvey Meets the KKK Marcus Garvey Meets the KKK JamesHoare Mon, 06/23/2025 - 08:06
a week ago
Londonist
TfL Moves To A Bigger Lost Property Office The network's only getting bigger, after all.
a year ago
TheCollector
What Is Niels Bohr’s Principle of Complementarity? Niels Bohr was not only a principal architect of the science of quantum mechanics but also a...
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Niels Bohr was not only a principal architect of the science of quantum mechanics but also a profound philosophical thinker. While classical physics – exemplified by Newtonian mechanics and Einstein’s relativity – rests on the assumption of a deterministic, observer-independent...
Atoms vs Bits
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Highlights I’m finding it easier to balance my time as a new father. I moped about two of my blog posts doing poorly, and then they did well. I experimented with a stacked diff workflow for software development and liked it except for git’s weaknesses. Goal grades At the start of...
Rest of World -...
How Urban Company built an empire of female gig workers By disrupting the age-old home services industry, the Indian unicorn offered many women a rare...
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By disrupting the age-old home services industry, the Indian unicorn offered many women a rare opportunity for social mobility. Now, they want more.
Don't Worry About...
The Manus Marketing Madness While at core there is ‘not much to see,’ it is, in two ways, a sign of things to come.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - LLM Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Also rationality developed entirely to rationalize...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Also rationality developed entirely to rationalize your own behavior. Its use in mathematics is incidental. Today's News:
The American Scholar
Woman in a Red Raincoat The post Woman in a Red Raincoat appeared first on The American Scholar.
12 months ago
Electronics etc…
The HP 423A and a Beginner’s Deep Dive into RF Crystal Detectors MathJax.Hub.Config({ jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"], tex2jax: { inlineMath: [...
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Commoncog
Dancing Landscapes in Business Cognitive Flexibility Theory creator Rand Spiro on what complexity theory has to say about the...
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Cognitive Flexibility Theory creator Rand Spiro on what complexity theory has to say about the wickedness of business.
Platformer
How the Kids Online Safety Act puts us all at risk Anti-speech laws are spreading from states to Congress, and the future of online speech could hang...
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The Step-by-Step Guide to Becoming a Machine Learning Engineer And other practical guides to understand machine learning
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Width and Height in CSS In his video “Secret Mechanisms of CSS”, Josh explains (among other things) how width and height...
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In his video “Secret Mechanisms of CSS”, Josh explains (among other things) how width and height work in CSS. I loved his explanation so much, I am going to re-write it here for my own benefit. Hopefully the next time I have to explain it — to someone else, or to myself in my...
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The journey of launching StorePreviewer PRO
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Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Newsy A dying world from a horror comic called “Epitaphs from the Abyss”: What’s that on the right? The...
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A dying world from a horror comic called “Epitaphs from the Abyss”: What’s that on the right? The New York Times Building as seen from Times Square (from the north) in 1908:
The Prism
The Rise of Neotoddlerism Why activists are behaving like infants
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Tony Finch's blog
On "the OSI deprogrammer" Back in December, George Michaelson posted an item on the APNIC blog titled “That OSI model refuses...
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Back in December, George Michaelson posted an item on the APNIC blog titled “That OSI model refuses to die”, in reaction to Robert Graham’s “OSI Deprogrammer” published in September. I had discussed the OSI Deprogrammer on Lobsters, and George’s blog post prompted me to write an...
davidyat.es
Review: The Lost Room
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Tony Dinh's...
$500K milestone – my reflections after 1 year of building Typing Mind Also in this issue: one-off purchase vs. subscription, selling Xnapper, and other updates from me in...
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Dreaming Of Owning A Home In France? You Need To Know About This Event! The French Property Exhibition returns to London this month.
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Global Inequality...
Gold, volk and IQs Hayek’s fatal conceit
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Marian's Blog
No Man’s Starfield This is a shader I made that renders a flight through a starfield. It’s meant to look like the...
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This is a shader I made that renders a flight through a starfield. It’s meant to look like the galactic map that you can see in No Man’s Sky. Here is a link to the project on shadertoy: No Man’s Starfield The cool thing about this is that it runs inside a shader. A shader is a...
Seth's Blog
The social media lottery Someone is going to end up with 10,000,000 followers. Someone is going to post the next viral...
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Someone is going to end up with 10,000,000 followers. Someone is going to post the next viral TikTok. Someone is going to build a meme that spreads around the world. But it probably won’t be me and it probably won’t be you. Buying lottery tickets might be fun, but they’re a lousy...
elementary Blog
Getting in shape for summer This month we have mostly minor maintenance updates as we gear up for a feature-filled future...
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This month we have mostly minor maintenance updates as we gear up for a feature-filled future release. Enjoy a mild May because this summer is going to get hot! Calculator Calculator now follows keyboard shortcuts for copy and paste, even when the main text entry isn’t focused,...
Saturday Morning...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Look, if those exegesis guys get to find whatever they want in the text, so do the rest of us. Today's News:
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VR, VFIO and how latency ruined everything I’ve been running my all-in-one PC for a while now. It was my desktop, my NAS and my gaming...
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over a year ago
I’ve been running my all-in-one PC for a while now. It was my desktop, my NAS and my gaming PC. However, during the next couple of months I kept hitting small bumps along the road. Most of these were quite straightforward to fix, but there is one that finally convinced me to go...
AFAR Media - Travel...
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AI Snake Oil
Does the UK’s liver transplant matching algorithm systematically exclude younger patients? Seemingly minor technical decisions can have life-or-death effects
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Why we buy from winners
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journal – Winnie Lim
obsessively compulsively thinking about death, loss and existence Some time ago while reading a blog post on autism I learnt about the concept of existential OCD...
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Some time ago while reading a blog post on autism I learnt about the concept of existential OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder): Existential OCD involves intrusive, repetitive thinking about questions which cannot possibly...
Win Vector LLC
Reposting Partial Pooling Nina Zumel had some good articles on partial pooling estimators that I want to return to. It is a...
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5 months ago
Nina Zumel had some good articles on partial pooling estimators that I want to return to. It is a great technique to get more reliable models when using categorical variables. I wrote an introduction to them here some time ago. More importantly Nina has now repaired the damage to...
The American Scholar
Jeremy Spoke in Class Today On guns, MTV, Stephen King, and the nightmare from which we cannot awake The post Jeremy Spoke in...
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On guns, MTV, Stephen King, and the nightmare from which we cannot awake The post Jeremy Spoke in Class Today appeared first on The American Scholar.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Rich Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The second-floor problem remains difficult for...
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Steven Scrawls
The Firefly Artist The Firefly Artist Note: it’s a metaphor. I’m not calling for mass firefly imprisonment. Two hours...
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The Firefly Artist Note: it’s a metaphor. I’m not calling for mass firefly imprisonment. Two hours after dusk, a crowd gathered by the dozens, by the hundreds, to see the firefly artist’s yearly performance. They spread out blankets in the clearing, sharing snacks by the light of...
The Honest Broker
He Might Have Been the First Jazz Star... But Ford Dabney kept making wrong bets at the wrong time
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Arduino Blog
On-body LEDs help this guitar rock harder You don’t go to watch a band play live for the audio quality — most venues are atrocious in that...
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You don’t go to watch a band play live for the audio quality — most venues are atrocious in that regard. No, you go to enjoy the show as a whole and that includes the visuals. The more a band can do to make the performance look exciting, the more you’re going to enjoy it. […] The...
The Pragmatic...
The software engineering industry in 2024: what changed, why, and what is next The past 18 months have seen major change reshape the tech industry. What does it all mean for...
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The past 18 months have seen major change reshape the tech industry. What does it all mean for businesses and dev teams – and what will pragmatic software engineering approaches look like in the future? I tackled these burning questions in my conference talk, “What’s Old is
Vadim Kravcenko
The Surprising Power of Documentation I’m a big fan of documentation. I think it’s my favorite boring thing to do after coding. It brings...
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I’m a big fan of documentation. I think it’s my favorite boring thing to do after coding. It brings the […] The post The Surprising Power of Documentation appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
TheCollector
Camus’ “Jonas or the Artist at Work”: Analysis & Ending Explained Camus wrote the short stories included in the collection “Exile and the Kingdom” at a time of...
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Camus wrote the short stories included in the collection “Exile and the Kingdom” at a time of extreme turmoil in his life. Recently shunned by the Parisian literary community, Camus suffered a crisis of confidence in both himself as a writer and as a man. What came of this period...
One Useful Thing
Confronting Impossible Futures We shouldn't be certain about what is next, but we should plan for it
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The Honest Broker
9 Rules for New Technology Wendell Berry's list from 1987 is more relevant than ever before
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Buy to let: RIP Last year was the end of an era. I sold the Modern Flat, after owning it for over 20 years. A bit of...
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Last year was the end of an era. I sold the Modern Flat, after owning it for over 20 years. A bit of history I ended up with my Modern Flat in that common way that many ‘accidental’ landlords have. It was my first rung on the property ownership ladder. Until it was time to…...
Josh Thompson
Social skills are like any other skills Learning social skills are no different from learning cooking skills, or handstand skills. It...
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Learning social skills are no different from learning cooking skills, or handstand skills. It helps to have exposure at a young age, but with time and effort, you can learn, and even master, cooking, handstands, and social skills. Why do social skills matter? Most people get...
Notes on software...
Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 3. LLVM Previously in compiler basics: 1. lisp to assembly 2. user-defined functions and variables ...
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Previously in compiler basics: 1. lisp to assembly 2. user-defined functions and variables 4. LLVM conditionals and compiling fibonacci 5. LLVM system calls 6. an x86 upgrade In this post we'll extend the compiler to emit LLVM IR as an option instead of...
David Heinemeier...
Meta is shutting down Workplace The saying "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" is at its essence about risk management. The...
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The saying "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" is at its essence about risk management. The traditional wisdom goes that if you buy from a big company, you're going to be safe. It may be more expensive, but big companies project an image of stability and reliability, so buying...
Mazdak
Adobe Scraps $20 Billion Figma Deal Adobe's blockbuster $20 billion bid for Figma, the web-based design darling, is officially off the...
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Adobe's blockbuster $20 billion bid for Figma, the web-based design darling, is officially off the table! This dramatic pivot throws a spotlight on the tightening grip of global regulators on tech mergers, leaving investors and industry players to wonder:
Home on Erik...
Exploding offers are bullshit I do a lot of recruiting and have given maybe 50 offers in my career. Although many companies do, I...
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over a year ago
I do a lot of recruiting and have given maybe 50 offers in my career. Although many companies do, I never put a deadline on any of them. Unfortunately, I've often ended up competing with other companies who do, and I feel really bad that this usually tricks younger developers...
Computer Ads from...
Plus Post: Computerwise TransTerm 3 Introducing the TransTerm 3 Battery Powered Terminal
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Construction Physics
Understanding US Power Outages Modern civilization relies on electric power for almost everything, and even small disruptions to...
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Modern civilization relies on electric power for almost everything, and even small disruptions to electric service are incredibly disruptive.
Louwrentius
My solar-powered blog is now on Lithium Iron Phosphate In my last blog post I discussed how a small solar project - to power this blog on a Raspberry Pi -...
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In my last blog post I discussed how a small solar project - to power this blog on a Raspberry Pi - escalated into a full-blown off-grid solar setup, large enough to power the computer I use at the moment to write this update1. In this update, I want to discuss my battery...
charity.wtf
Choose Boring Technology Culture Honeycomb recently announced our $50M Series D funding round. We aren’t the type to hype this a lot;...
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Honeycomb recently announced our $50M Series D funding round. We aren’t the type to hype this a lot; Emily summed it up crisply as, “Living another day on someone else’s money isn’t business success, even though it is a lovely vote of confidence.” Agreed. The vote of confidence...
Quanta Magazine
The Mathematician Who Sculpted the Shape of Space Eugenio Calabi, who died on September 25, conceived of novel geometric objects that later became...
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Eugenio Calabi, who died on September 25, conceived of novel geometric objects that later became fundamental to string theory. The post The Mathematician Who Sculpted the Shape of Space first appeared on Quanta Magazine
the singularity is...
the tiny corp raised $5.1M Here we go again. I started another company. The money is in the bank. What is the tiny corp? The...
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Here we go again. I started another company. The money is in the bank. What is the tiny corp? The tiny corp is a computer company. We sell computers for more than they cost to make; I’ve been thinking about this one for a while. In the limit, it’s a chip company, but there’s a...
Naz Hamid — Journal...
🔗 Hicks.design's Best 15 Albums A huge part of what makes a 'top album' choice is that they're usually entwined with a time and a...
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A huge part of what makes a 'top album' choice is that they're usually entwined with a time and a place in our lives, a personal context that makes them so very special to us. OK Computer will forever be 'the album when I met Leigh, the love of my life'. — Jon Hicks Visit...
Londonist
Things To Do This August Bank Holiday Weekend In London: 26-28 August 2023 Carnival! Concerts! A food festival! Dog shows!
a year ago
Wuthering...
Readalongs I wish someone else would organize - Cuban literature, August Wilson plays, and many more The glory days of book blogs were full of “challenges.”  I hosted several: Scottish literature,...
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The glory days of book blogs were full of “challenges.”  I hosted several: Scottish literature, Italian, Austrian, Scandinavian, Portuguese, always limited to the 19th century and earlier to keep the scope manageable.  The idea was that I read a lot, while others were invited to...
99% Invisible
The Los Angeles Leaf Blower Wars [EPISODE] The leaf blower is one of the most hated objects in the modern world. They’re loud, they pollute,...
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The leaf blower is one of the most hated objects in the modern world. They’re loud, they pollute, and… how important is a leafless lawn anyway? In a lot of towns and cities, the gas-powered leaf blower has been banned. In others, there are strict guidelines on where and when they...
Engineer’s Codex
4 lessons from software teams that ship fast Software engineering provides a lot of leverage. A small team can generate a disproportionate amount...
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Software engineering provides a lot of leverage. A small team can generate a disproportionate amount of value or impact a huge number of users. For example, Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers, back in 2011. Examples of teams that ship fast
XO Capital - Field...
Deal Structures A couple of people have asked about deal structures so here are a few we commonly use for buying...
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A couple of people have asked about deal structures so here are a few we commonly use for buying micro saas companies. All Cash Pretty straight forward. You do all cash. Usually it's 100% into escrow.com and release maybe 50% before asset transfer and 50% after asset
Escaping Flatland
Talking to part of a friend Finding an authentic connection based on who you are now, not who you were in the past
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99% Invisible
Empire of the Sum [EPISODE] Whether or not you’re a fan of math, we’ve always had a need to count things. Maybe it’s to figure...
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Whether or not you’re a fan of math, we’ve always had a need to count things. Maybe it’s to figure out the maximum weight an airplane can safely hold, or the appropriate amount to tip after a meal, or the exact number of minutes in a year so you can accurately write the...
detreville
This is "detreville" It's my name, and the name of my Substack too. That's one less thing for everyone to remember.
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It's my name, and the name of my Substack too. That's one less thing for everyone to remember.
diamond geezer
The news from Watford The news from Watford Here's some news from Watford in insufficient detail, some of which I could...
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The news from Watford Here's some news from Watford in insufficient detail, some of which I could have written more about, one of which I might return to and one of which I definitely will. • Watford has a new website encouraging you to visit Watford, live in Watford and move...
Seth's Blog
Omitting the herbs Without salt, human beings don’t survive long. But it’s possible to eat for a month without tasting...
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10 months ago
Without salt, human beings don’t survive long. But it’s possible to eat for a month without tasting an herb. The food will sustain you. Herbs are an expensive non-obvious addition, while also being a bargain if the goal is to create delight, interest or satisfaction. As we...
Rest of World -...
How an economic crisis shifted Sri Lanka’s e-commerce industry Rakhil Fernando of Daraz talks about how the company had to shift its focus from lifestyle products...
a year ago
A Collection of...
Gap Week (January 24, 2025) Hey, folks. As much as I hate doing it, I have to pull a ‘gap week’ this week, as the second part of...
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Hey, folks. As much as I hate doing it, I have to pull a ‘gap week’ this week, as the second part of the Gracchi series (on the younger brother, Gaius Gracchus) isn’t done yet and I have some academic travel that I need to prepare for which is going to demand most of my …...
Liz Denys
Revised icebreakers for nicer New Yorkers You go to a friend's party, attend a work event, or just find yourself out and about. You meet...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
You go to a friend's party, attend a work event, or just find yourself out and about. You meet someone new, and you're inevitably asking and being asked three questions: Where do you work? Where do you live? How much is your rent? Okay, you don't always encounter that last one,...
Flashbak
Street Walker: Dynamic America In The 1970s “My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” –...
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“My surroundings always influence my life and artwork. It’s where I am and what makes me smile” – Meryl Meisler   Before cameras became ubiquitous and the billions of instantly sharable and instantly forgettable pictures formed the backdrop to our more insular digital lives,...
Yale e360
Writing a basic code formatter I've been working on my programming language for a couple of months now, in fits and starts1. In the...
a year ago
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a year ago
I've been working on my programming language for a couple of months now, in fits and starts1. In the original post, I laid out my plan for it, and after creating the parser the next step was writing a formatter. I thought this would be a nice intermediate step after writing the...
Retail Design Blog
Mokkado café by MUKU design studio “Mokkado” is a café organized by a 75-year-old pharmaceutical company based in Imizu City, Toyama...
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“Mokkado” is a café organized by a 75-year-old pharmaceutical company based in Imizu City, Toyama Prefecture. The café is a...
Quanta Magazine
New Proof Finds the ‘Ultimate Instability’ in a Solar System Model For the first time, mathematicians have proved that planetary orbits in a solar system will always...
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For the first time, mathematicians have proved that planetary orbits in a solar system will always be unstable. The post New Proof Finds the ‘Ultimate Instability’ in a Solar System Model first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Quanta Magazine
Tiny Language Models Come of Age To better understand how neural networks learn to simulate writing, researchers trained simpler...
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a year ago
To better understand how neural networks learn to simulate writing, researchers trained simpler versions on synthetic children’s stories. The post Tiny Language Models Come of Age first appeared on Quanta Magazine
wingolog
here we go again Good evening, fey readers. Tonight, a note on human rights and human wrongs. I am in my...
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Good evening, fey readers. Tonight, a note on human rights and human wrongs. I am in my mid-fourties, and so I have seen some garbage governments in my time; one of the worst was Trump’s election in 2016. My heart ached in so many ways, but most of all for immigrants in the US....
Good Enough
Thoughts On Thoughts It’s time for a revolution. Too long have we, collectively and individually, been tyrannized by our...
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It’s time for a revolution. Too long have we, collectively and individually, been tyrannized by our thoughts and what we believe about them. Or perhaps we can think of this as an intervention. This post is the circle of friends gathered to help us stop hitting ourselves in the...
dthompson
Chickadee 0.5.0 released I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.5.0 has been released! Chickadee is a game development...
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I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.5.0 has been released! Chickadee is a game development toolkit for Guile that is built on top of SDL2 and OpenGL. Chickadee aims to provide all the features that parenthetically inclined game developers need to make 2D and 3D games in...
Res Obscura
Historical maps probably helped cause World War I On cartography as historical argument
a year ago
Christopher Butler
Blogging Is Not Publishing It's Therapy I keep a NOTES.txt document as a catch-all for any ideas I jot down that don’t have an immediate...
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I keep a NOTES.txt document as a catch-all for any ideas I jot down that don’t have an immediate place elsewhere. It is a digital container that is at least 15 years old at this point. I’ve carried it from machine to machine. Every now and then I go back through it to see if...
Ink & Switch
07 · AI bots in version control Co-creating with AI can use version control to make bot-suggested changes easier to see and manage.
a year ago
Common Edge
Style Is Not Beauty, Just As Religion Is Not Faith Why the executive Order on federal buildings is doomed to failure.
4 months ago
One Useful Thing
The future of education in a world of AI A positive vision for the transformation to come
over a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Connection Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Time for a factory reset. Today's News: Thank you!
8 months ago
Marian's Blog
BTduino documentation The BTduino app sends data using the serial interface of a microcontroller and a bluetooth...
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over a year ago
The BTduino app sends data using the serial interface of a microcontroller and a bluetooth connection. The concept of the protocol is to send all data in text form. Each set of data consists of the name and the value, seperated by a colon. This way of communication is not the...
Old Structures...
Complicated History, Nice Backdrop From February 1946, a view of the East River waterfront in Brooklyn, with lower Manhattan in the...
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11 months ago
From February 1946, a view of the East River waterfront in Brooklyn, with lower Manhattan in the background. It was a cold month: note the ice in the river past the train storage to the right of pier 15. This is the old pier 15, which was close to the foot of Montague Street. It...
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things to start your week (#50) Permitting reform; industrial policy progress; China stimulus/bailouts; men and politics; wokeness;...
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Permitting reform; industrial policy progress; China stimulus/bailouts; men and politics; wokeness; tariffs; a bad union demand
Common Edge
Hope and Squalor: Venezuelan Refugees at Chicago Police Stations Nearly 3000 people are living in tents and inside police facilities.
a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Making your first startup ops hire – what founders should look for Most founders I talk to approach their first ops hire in a totally sensible but wrong way. Their...
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a year ago
Most founders I talk to approach their first ops hire in a totally sensible but wrong way. Their typical approach is to look at the long list of admin…
Old Structures...
A Year Late… …but who cares? Today is a de facto holiday for a lot of people, and that seems like a good time for...
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…but who cares? Today is a de facto holiday for a lot of people, and that seems like a good time for a blog post I should have written last summer. Some of our projects are very big, involving hundreds of thousands of square feet of building. Some are not. The smallest structure...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 30, 2025 (On Professional Military Education) Hey all, we’re doing a Fireside this week! For this week’s musing, I thought it might be worthwhile...
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a month ago
Hey all, we’re doing a Fireside this week! For this week’s musing, I thought it might be worthwhile – this being a frequent space for military history – to offer a brief outline of professional military education (PME) in the United States, which is to say the various stages by...
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 16-17 December 2023 Festive pursuits, family events, and a huge horse show.
a year ago
Liz Denys
Seeing every BAM Next Wave Festival show From October to December of last year, I saw a lot of shows at the Brooklyn Academy of Music -...
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From October to December of last year, I saw a lot of shows at the Brooklyn Academy of Music - specifically, I saw all 26 of the Next Wave Festival productions. I've been coming to BAM regularly since I moved to New York in 2011, and Next Wave is always an exciting time of year...
Old Structures...
A Story With A Happy Ending There’s a moral at the end of this story – a story which has nothing to do with engineering,...
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There’s a moral at the end of this story – a story which has nothing to do with engineering, architecture, construction, or NYC history – that has something to do with engineering, architecture, and construction, and maybe NYC history as well. I like mechanical keyboards, with a...
The Forney Flyer
Rib Day - 2 Year Anniversary Celebration! Two years ago, on October 17th, this happened... Long story short, I got knocked off my...
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Two years ago, on October 17th, this happened... Long story short, I got knocked off my motorcycle by a drunk driver, and then a different vehicle, a large Toyota Landcruiser (SUV) promptly drove over me, right across my torso. I should have died right then and there, and...
The Works in...
The prehistoric psychopath Life in the state of nature was less violent than you might think. But this made them vulnerable to...
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Life in the state of nature was less violent than you might think. But this made them vulnerable to a few psychopaths.
TokyoDev
Proof Bitcoin is Overhyped BitCoin has gotten a ton of buzz, so when I came across [a graph of the number of bitcoin...
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over a year ago
BitCoin has gotten a ton of buzz, so when I came across [a graph of the number of bitcoin transactions per day](https://blockchain.info/en/charts/n-transactions), I was flabbergasted: **there are only about 60,000 transactions per day.** I graphed the number relative to [the...
The Great Discontent...
Rafael Espinal Rafael Espinal was just 26 when he became an elected official. For the next 10 years, he worked...
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Rafael Espinal was just 26 when he became an elected official. For the next 10 years, he worked within the halls of government, first as a New York State Assemblymember and then as a New York City Councilmember, advocating for artists, independent workers, and underserved...
Noahpinion
Democrats fixed many of the problems of the early 2020s It's nice to have leaders who hear what people care about and deliver results.
8 months ago
Steve Klabnik
Rescuing Resque (again)
over a year ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Superconducting Kagome Metals Superconductivity is an extremely interesting, and potentially extremely useful, physical...
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10 months ago
Superconductivity is an extremely interesting, and potentially extremely useful, physical phenomenon. It refers to a state in which current flows through a material without resistance, and therefore without any loss of energy or waste heat. As our civilization is increasingly run...
Ben Borgers
It Doesn’t Have to Be Every Day
over a year ago
Birchtree
Matt Gemmell is back on the Mac Matt Gemmell went iPad-only in 2016, but he's made the move Back to Mac [The Mac is] satisfying in...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Matt Gemmell went iPad-only in 2016, but he's made the move Back to Mac [The Mac is] satisfying in the conventional way, in that it meets needs without drama or acrobatics. It works in the sense that it directs its resources firmly in the direction of service, rather
TheCollector
Why Is Goliath Killed Twice in the Bible? David’s slaying of Goliath is one of the Bible’s most well-known stories. But the story’s plot line...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
David’s slaying of Goliath is one of the Bible’s most well-known stories. But the story’s plot line in the Hebrew Bible contains three confusing wrinkles. First, the reader is introduced to David twice in the narrative. Second, David meets Saul, the king of Israel, twice in the...
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Don’t shop your term sheet There are all sorts of protocols in the VC world. Most of them make sense upon further examination,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There are all sorts of protocols in the VC world. Most of them make sense upon further examination, but if you’re a first time entrepreneur…
Open Culture
Public.Work: A Smoothly Searchable Archive of 100,000+ “Copyright-Free” Images We live in an age, we’re often told, when our ability to conjure up an image is limited only by our...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
We live in an age, we’re often told, when our ability to conjure up an image is limited only by our imagination. These days, this notion tends to refer to artificial intelligence-powered systems that generate visual material from text prompts, like DALL‑E and the many others that...
Quanta Magazine
Brain’s ‘Background Noise’ May Explain Value of Shock Therapy Electroconvulsive therapy is highly effective in treating major depressive disorder, but no one...
a year ago
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a year ago
Electroconvulsive therapy is highly effective in treating major depressive disorder, but no one knows why it works. New research suggests it may restore balance between excitation and inhibition in the brain. The post Brain’s ‘Background Noise’ May Explain Value of...
Josh Comeau's blog
Accessible Animations in React I really love animation, but not everybody does. In fact, it can make some people literally sick! In...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I really love animation, but not everybody does. In fact, it can make some people literally sick! In this tutorial, we'll see how to ensure that we respect user preferences, and create animations that can be disabled.
The Rational Walk
The Cost of Corporate Security The assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson revealed corruption in society that...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
The assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson revealed corruption in society that justifies higher corporate spending to protect executives.
Flashbak
Erich Sokol For Playboy : Beautiful Women And Desperate Men (NSFW) “Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.” – John Ciardi, American poet (24 June 1916 – 30 March 1986)     Erich Sokol (31 March 1933 – 20 February 2003) was an Austrian illustrator and caricaturist best known...
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Lithium is only as dirty as we make it We’re building a new supply chain for electric vehicles. Are we building the right one?
a year ago
Basta’s Notes
Gumby Coin: a story about a 1958 claymation character, cryptocurrency, and pizza A grift, a failure, or a mistake?
over a year ago
Retail Design Blog
OEZER Showroom by CUN DESIGN From Confucianism’s belief that “the benevolent man regards all things as one,” to the Tang and Song...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
From Confucianism’s belief that “the benevolent man regards all things as one,” to the Tang and Song poetry that finds...
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Halloween in the Outer Banks From Virginia Beach we drifted south, making the short drive down to Oregon Inlet in the Outer...
a year ago
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a year ago
From Virginia Beach we drifted south, making the short drive down to Oregon Inlet in the Outer Banks. Our plan was to spend a couple of weeks there, visit friends, get some time at the beach, and then head to Ocracoke for Thanksgiving. It was pretty good plan, but it didn't work...