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Steve Klabnik
Thoughts on Rust in 2019
over a year ago
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 6-7 January 2024 Last-chance exhibitions, comedy, ice hockey, and bottomless fondue.
a year ago
Marian's Blog
Connecting my fish tank to the Internet of Things – Part 1: Hacking an automatic fish feeder I bought a used automatic fish feeder from ebay. This device is completely mechanic and very old...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I bought a used automatic fish feeder from ebay. This device is completely mechanic and very old (older than 1989). It has 27 containers for fish food and a disc that does one rotation per day. By sticking pins into that disc one can trigger one or more feedings per day. A pin...
The Marginalian
Isotopes, Vikings, Mars We are perishable matter yearning for meaning, and time is both the matter and the meaning of our...
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We are perishable matter yearning for meaning, and time is both the matter and the meaning of our lives. “Time is a river that sweeps me along but I am the river,” Borges wrote in 1940. “Time is the substance I am made of.” Around the same time, the chemist Willard Libby had a...
Common Edge
The Washington, D.C., Drawings of Dhiru Thadani A longtime resident captures the capital’s planning, architectural, and social history with ink,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A longtime resident captures the capital’s planning, architectural, and social history with ink, pencil, and paint.
Contemporist...
A Grid Of Large Windows Maximizes The Water Views At This Modern Home Architecture firm Worrell Yeung has shared photos of a modern home they completed that's a study on...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Architecture firm Worrell Yeung has shared photos of a modern home they completed that's a study on a 2x2x7 grid structure in three dimensions.
TheCollector
3 Events That Shaped 20th Century America The 20th century got on to a rocky start with a slew of wars and revolutions of varying scales. From...
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The 20th century got on to a rocky start with a slew of wars and revolutions of varying scales. From the Russo-Japanese War to World War I, peace seemed elusive. Mankind would then outdo itself with World War II in 1939, less than 25 years after World War I. Later, Cold War...
Diaries of Note
The greatest crime on the largest scale known in modern history George Templeton Strong was a 19th-century New York lawyer deeply involved in the civic fabric of...
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George Templeton Strong was a 19th-century New York lawyer deeply involved in the civic fabric of his city, but his lasting impact extends far beyond the legal world. From 1835 to 1875, Strong meticulously recorded his observations and insights in a diary that has since become an...
Rest of World -...
Trump’s tariffs test Vietnam’s role as manufacturing alternative to China The U.S.-China trade war drove Apple’s Chinese suppliers to Vietnam. Now they’re stuck with hard...
3 months ago
Noahpinion
Dems need to moderate and fight There's no contradiction there.
3 months ago
noahbuscher.com
Zed Public Beta I have been a dedicated Nova user for over three years. I switched over from VSCode after tiring of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I have been a dedicated Nova user for over three years. I switched over from VSCode after tiring of the slow performance and "uncanny valley" interface. I'm a sucker for a well-done native app, and Panic really hit the sweet spot with Nova: a beautiful, minimal editor that felt...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Philospohy Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Where it gets really weird is when people start...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Where it gets really weird is when people start saying they're pretty sure they know how all of history works. Today's News: Cool article we contributed to for NYT.
Diaries of Note
I declare private war Alfred Wintle was living in Dunkirk when the First World War began—sixteen years old and fiercely...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Alfred Wintle was living in Dunkirk when the First World War began—sixteen years old and fiercely patriotic. Desperate to join the army, in 1915 he entered the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich to begin his training, and within months was on the front line. At the Third Battle...
Build In Public...
How I Built This In Public: Marko Saric Lessons from building Plausible Analytics to $1.2m ARR in public
over a year ago
Sometimes It Works...
Starting Today Starting Today ¶Starting Today I’m 30 today. Some would say I’m past my prime. But I can’t help but...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Starting Today ¶Starting Today I’m 30 today. Some would say I’m past my prime. But I can’t help but feel an overwhelming sense of positivity towards the rest of my life. The first 30 years have been filled with growth, learning, angst, pressure and a bundle of other wonderfully...
Calculated Risk
Wednesday: CPI, NY Fed Mfg, Beige Book Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. mortgage...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. mortgage purchase applications index. Consumer Price Index for December from the BLS. The consensus is for 0.3% increase in CPI, and a 0.2% increase in core CPI.  The consensus is for CPI to be...
Classical Wisdom
Should We Own Stuff? The Wealth and Gold of Ancient Georgia
a year ago
Essays - Benedict...
Tech questions for 2022 Sometimes the centre of gravity in tech is very clear, but as we enter 2022 there are lots of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Sometimes the centre of gravity in tech is very clear, but as we enter 2022 there are lots of areas where trillion dollar questions are wide open. These are the questions I wonder about today, from crypto to cars to fast fashion - there are others.
Christopher Butler
Technology and Moral Responsibility As I’ve been cleaning up my site, I’ll occasionally read back over something I wrote many years ago....
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over a year ago
As I’ve been cleaning up my site, I’ll occasionally read back over something I wrote many years ago. Yesterday, I re-read a series of posts I wrote over a decade ago on ethics and technology. Here’s the first one. What surprised me yesterday was how I could have easily written...
Words and Buttons...
Can we use lemniscates for ultra-cheap vector graphics? This depicts an old idea of using multifocal lemniscates to draw arbitrary curves. In somewhat...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This depicts an old idea of using multifocal lemniscates to draw arbitrary curves. In somewhat limited scope, this may be indeed an economical alternative to splines.
Jorge Arango
Book Notes: “Co-Intelligence” Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick Portfolio, 2024 Over the weekend, I...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick Portfolio, 2024 Over the weekend, I caught up with a friend I hadn’t seen in years. When I explained that most of my work these days is focused on AI, he asked if there was one book he could read to understand how to...
charity.wtf
Corporate “DEI” is an imperfect vehicle for deeply meaningful ideals I have not thought or said much about DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) over the years. Not...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
I have not thought or said much about DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) over the years. Not because I don’t care about the espoused ideals — I suppose I do, rather a lot — but because corporate DEI efforts have always struck me as ineffective and bland; bolted on at best, if...
Anarchy Unfolds
Is anarchy compatible with modern society? Problems of scale and shape in imagining the futures
4 months ago
csvbase blog
Client libraries are better when they have no API fsspec is secretly everywhere, and boss
a year ago
Londonist
Street Art Hopscotch Appears In London, With A Potent Anti-War Message “Stop talking about the politics of war and think more about the children suffering from conflict."
a year ago
Seth's Blog
Wild Hope Now: The power of books for causes Non-profits and charities depend on the emotional and financial support of their backers. And that...
a year ago
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a year ago
Non-profits and charities depend on the emotional and financial support of their backers. And that support is always based on a story. A story of possibility, of justice, of community. They serve to right wrongs, to fix problems, to shine a light and to make things better. I’ve...
SatPost by Trung...
6 thoughts on "Elon Musk" by Walter Isaacson Including the Twitter deal, SpaceX's "Idiot Index", the manufacturing "algorithm", management style...
a year ago
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a year ago
Including the Twitter deal, SpaceX's "Idiot Index", the manufacturing "algorithm", management style and Big Tech beefs (Bill Gates, Larry Page, Jeff Bezos).
Florian Bellmann |...
How to get in shape with a Raspberry Pi A Raspberry Pi is a great tool for any coder to have. It is a small, cheap computer that can be used...
a year ago
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a year ago
A Raspberry Pi is a great tool for any coder to have. It is a small, cheap computer that can be used for a variety of projects. This blog post will discuss some of the reasons why I think every coder should have one!
David Heinemeier...
The Framework 13 has a new high-res screen! The first laptop I ordered back when my Linux journey began was the Framework 13. I immediately...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
The first laptop I ordered back when my Linux journey began was the Framework 13. I immediately liked a lot about it. The keyboard is a big step up over the MacBook Pro, primarily because of the 50% longer key travel. And I love the matte screen and 3:2 aspect ratio. Both feel...
Electronics etc…
Remote Controlling an HP 1670G Logic Analyzer with a Linux PC X Server Introduction Reserving a fixed IP address for the logic analyzer Assign the chosen IP address to the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Introduction Reserving a fixed IP address for the logic analyzer Assign the chosen IP address to the logic analyzer Allow the logic analyzer to access your Ubuntu X server Configure the X-window Settings on the logic analyzer Install and declare the HP logic analyzer font...
computers are bad
2023-09-03 plastic money You will sometimes hear someone say, in a loose conceptual sense, that credit cards have money in...
a year ago
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a year ago
You will sometimes hear someone say, in a loose conceptual sense, that credit cards have money in them. Of course we know that that isn't the case; our modern plastic card payment network relies on online transactions where the balance tracking and authorization decisions happen...
Seth's Blog
“What should I do now?” We’ve forgotten how often society had an answer for that question. Perhaps our shift away from a...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
We’ve forgotten how often society had an answer for that question. Perhaps our shift away from a dictated answer not only gives us freedom, it also creates ennui and fear. The culture of a generation or two ago told you where to study, what to study, how to cut your hair, what to...
Jason Fried
Surface area vs. Depth in product design Some of the most rewarding features to add to products are ones that don’t increase surface area,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Some of the most rewarding features to add to products are ones that don’t increase surface area, but increase depth. This is how you continue to make a product a whole lot better without it feeling like it got a whole lot bigger. Basecamp’s new References feature is a great...
Engineer’s Codex
The most valuable trait of great software engineers A mindset shift that changed the way I approach software development. The #1 trait of valuable...
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Threshold Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I like to think the robot apocalypse won't feel so...
a year ago
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I like to think the robot apocalypse won't feel so bad if we really do our best to earn it. Today's News: PSSST. Hey NYC, it's gonna get pretty dorky.
Tech + Economics +...
The elegance of endurance: what centuries-old enterprises can teach modern culture. For 879 years, the oldest Sake brewery in Japan has thrived and survived through massive social,...
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a year ago
For 879 years, the oldest Sake brewery in Japan has thrived and survived through massive social, technological and economic change. Most recently it has weathered the threat of radioactive contamination from the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, with its products remaining...
The Diff
Thinking-Things-Through Privilege Plus! Trade Negotiations; M&A; AI and IP; Consolidation; Sourcing
2 months ago
TheCollector
5 Significant Islamic Philosophers of the Middle Ages Who were the most important thinkers of the Islamic world during the Middle Ages? While there would...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Who were the most important thinkers of the Islamic world during the Middle Ages? While there would be too many to include in a single article, there have been several Islamic philosophers from the medieval period whose influence on philosophy stands out. This article discusses...
Rest of World -...
Investors are unsettled as funding is drying up for Africa’s startup ecosystem As funding to Africa’s once fast-growing startup ecosystem dries up, industry insiders are worried...
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Can We Harness Anger? Understanding Thumos
3 months ago
Christopher Butler
Link – Scott Boms's personal website scottboms.com is a beautifully-designed personal website.
a year ago
macwright.com
Luxury of simplicity by An evergreen blog topic is “writing my own blogging engine because the ones out there are too...
a year ago
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a year ago
An evergreen blog topic is “writing my own blogging engine because the ones out there are too complicated.” With the risk of stating the obvious: Writing a blog engine, with one customer, yourself, is the most luxuriously simple web application possible. Complexity lies...
Last Place Comics
Lasso Man 4 The post Lasso Man 4 appeared first on Last Place Comics.
a year ago
Arduino Blog
This machine automatically scans books from cover to cover Hard data is hard to find, but roughly 100 million books were published prior to the 21st century....
a week ago
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a week ago
Hard data is hard to find, but roughly 100 million books were published prior to the 21st century. Of those, a significant portion were never available in a digital format and haven’t yet been digitized, which means their content is effectively inaccessible to most people today....
Articles
How do you sleep at night? Tips for people who wake up in the middle of the night and can't get back to sleep
over a year ago
Yale e360
Fiction as a lens into technological change The world is changing right now. We don't know just how much yet, but LLMs are having a major impact...
a year ago
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a year ago
The world is changing right now. We don't know just how much yet, but LLMs are having a major impact on almost every field, and we could see anything from minor efficiency gains to catastrophic AI apocalypses to mass disruption of many jobs. The cone of possibility is wide, and...
Tech and Tea
Space to do whatever How letting go of being productive with my time made space for creativity
over a year ago
A Smart Bear
Avoid blundering: 80% of a winning strategy Why do startups typically fail? It turns out that "avoiding those things" is already a plan for...
a year ago
Maggie Appleton
Computational Notebooks Shareable, browser-based documents that can compile and run code
over a year ago
Ploum.net
La colère de l’écrivain La colère de l’écrivain RAPPEL: je serai à Louvain-la-Neuve mardi 10 décembre à 19h à La Page...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
La colère de l’écrivain RAPPEL: je serai à Louvain-la-Neuve mardi 10 décembre à 19h à La Page d’Après pour ma dernière rencontre de l’année. Rencontre Littéraire Bikepunk avec Ploum (mobilizon.fr) Comme je l’explique dans la suite de ce billet, le succès de Bikepunk a pris le...
Londonist
Croydon Plans Spectacular Mic Drop For Borough Of Culture Closing Weekend Light shows, punk marble runs and the world's smallest nightclub.
a year ago
Flashbak
William Blake, The Great Red Dragon Paintings “And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads....
a year ago
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a year ago
“And behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth” — Revelations 12:3-4, King James Bible   The Red Dragon Paintings are four watercolours by...
Yale e360
Avoid multitasking to write better code Multitasking is incredibly alluring. Why go slowly, doing one thing at a time, if you could get a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Multitasking is incredibly alluring. Why go slowly, doing one thing at a time, if you could get a second thing done? Why not fill those five seconds while your code compiles with reading an article about the latest web frameworks? In fact, multitasking is hiding everywhere in...
Grow With Less
Statistics That Prove Blogging Is Not Dead Yet Is blogging dead? That’s a question thousands of people ask every day. I was curious to know the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Is blogging dead? That’s a question thousands of people ask every day. I was curious to know the answer so I looked for statistics Let’s settle the debate once and for all! Is blogging dead? Let’s look at trends! According to Google Trends, “blogging” peaked between 2004 and...
NeuroLogica Blog
Podcast Pseudoscience A recent BBC article highlights some of the risk of the new age of social media we have crafted for...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
A recent BBC article highlights some of the risk of the new age of social media we have crafted for ourselves. The BBC investigated the number one ranked UK podcast, Diary of a CEO with host Steven Bartlett, for the accuracy of the medical claims recently made on the show. While...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sad Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: We can get sad alllll niiiiight lonnnnng Today's...
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Enabling zero downtime data migrations for self-hosted users In this world nothing is certain except death, taxes, and database migrations. As your product...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In this world nothing is certain except death, taxes, and database migrations. As your product evolves, your schemas evolve too, and you need…
Diaries of Note
Hot weather is the mother of procrastination Although Thomas Edison filled numerous notebooks with writings pertaining to his groundbreaking...
a year ago
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a year ago
Although Thomas Edison filled numerous notebooks with writings pertaining to his groundbreaking inventions, he kept a personal diary only once in his eighty-four years. Spanning a period of just nine days in July of 1885, the diary was written when Edison was already renowned and...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Optimizing calling Windows DLL functions in Go Go team wrote golang.org/x/sys/windows package to call functions in a Windows DLL. Their way is...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
Go team wrote golang.org/x/sys/windows package to call functions in a Windows DLL. Their way is inefficient and this article describes a better way. The sys/windows way To call a function in a DLL, let’s say kernel32.dll, we must: load the dll into memory with...
Rest of World -...
Conservative evangelicals use social media to sway Brazil election The popularity of evangelical content, which often amplifies criticisms of the ruling party, could...
a year ago
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a year ago
The popularity of evangelical content, which often amplifies criticisms of the ruling party, could play an important role during October’s municipal elections.
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for your weekend (#32) The bridge disaster, Daniel Kahneman, Biden and nuclear power, ebbing unrest, Bay Area...
a year ago
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a year ago
The bridge disaster, Daniel Kahneman, Biden and nuclear power, ebbing unrest, Bay Area "progressives", and cancer detection
PostHog's RSS Feed
We built an internal tool to generate changelog images for social media PostHog's marketing team recently created a plan to improve our social media presence. One of the ...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
PostHog's marketing team recently created a plan to improve our social media presence. One of the ideas was to share our changelog updates in a…
NeuroLogica Blog
What Is Orbitronics You have definitely heard of electronics. You may (if you are a tech nerd like me) have heard of...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
You have definitely heard of electronics. You may (if you are a tech nerd like me) have heard of spintronics and photonics. Now there is also the possibility of orbitronics. What do these cool-sounding words mean? Electronic technology is one of those core technologies that has...
Mazdak
Block, TikTok & Beyond From Block's latest moves to TikTok's impact on the music industry, we explore the trends shaping...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
From Block's latest moves to TikTok's impact on the music industry, we explore the trends shaping our digital world.
There are two types...
Mariaplaats, Utrecht The post Mariaplaats, Utrecht appeared first on There are two types of architecture—good...
over a year ago
The Solarchitecture...
The effectiveness of solar passive principles Improving health, freedom one house at a time.
over a year 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...
a year ago
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a year ago
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...
Flashbak
On My Stoop In Brooklyn Over Four Decades: Anthony’s Story We’re hanging out on the stoop of Anthony Catalano’s home in Boro Park, Brooklyn, New York City....
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a week ago
We’re hanging out on the stoop of Anthony Catalano’s home in Boro Park, Brooklyn, New York City. These pictures are of the “two main stoops on my block throughout the five decades on my life in Broro Park, Brooklyn NYC,” says Anthony. We’ve featured Anthony’s superb pictures of...
David Heinemeier...
Apple needs a new asshole in charge When things are going well, managers can fool themselves into thinking that people trying their best...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
When things are going well, managers can fool themselves into thinking that people trying their best is all that matters. Poor outcomes are just another opportunity for learning! But that delusion stops working when the wheels finally start coming off — like they have now for...
Archinect - Features
10 Tips for Overcoming and Preventing Burnout in Architecture If you’re experiencing burnout in your architecture role, you’re likely not alone. In 2023,...
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11 months ago
If you’re experiencing burnout in your architecture role, you’re likely not alone. In 2023, Archinect’s Mental Health Survey found burnout to be a common theme among those who told us they were experiencing stress at work. Our community has also raised the issue among themselves,...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - DAD Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You can also be consistent by saying 'Ah, but that...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You can also be consistent by saying 'Ah, but that was on a Tuesday, which is different.' Today's News:
Cheese and Biscuits
Hainan House, Angel Hainan is an island off the south coast of China about the size of Vancouver Island - that makes it...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Hainan is an island off the south coast of China about the size of Vancouver Island - that makes it bigger than Sicily and Sardinia and twice the size of Hawaii, with a population of over 10 million people (more than London). And yet inevitably until last week I'd never heard of...
AFAR Media - Travel...
A Better Way to Think About the Travel Bucket List
a year ago
Londonist
Gorgeous Shots Of The Thames In New Riverside Photography Book London's Riverside in Photographs, by Franco Pfaller.
a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Full stack startups Many of today's most exciting startups were tried before in a different form. Suppose you develop a...
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over a year ago
Many of today's most exciting startups were tried before in a different form. Suppose you develop a new technology that is valuable to some…
Carl Barenbrug RSS...
FormFeelingFunction® Sometimes things need to end so we can create something new. Essentially, what's ending is...
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9 months ago
Sometimes things need to end so we can create something new. Essentially, what's ending is Minimalissimo, and what's beginning is a creative lab I’ve named FFF. I feel like I've done my part in curating beautiful minimalism on the web over the past 12+ years. Now, I’m ready to...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet The Maker: Fei Fei I’m Fei, a printmaker and designer working in Beijing. I make cards, prints, and run workshops in...
3 months ago
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I’m Fei, a printmaker and designer working in Beijing. I make cards, prints, and run workshops in the city.  I have a day job as a brand designer, and I use my spare time to grow my printmaking practice.  Describe your printmaking process. I start with simple sketches in my head...
The American Scholar
“To David, About His Education” by Howard Nemerov Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “To David, About His Education” by Howard Nemerov appeared...
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Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “To David, About His Education” by Howard Nemerov appeared first on The American Scholar.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Tradeoffs to Continuous Software? I came across this post from the tech collective crftd. about how software is in a process of...
a month ago
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I came across this post from the tech collective crftd. about how software is in a process of “continuous disintegration”: One of the uncomfortable truths we sometimes have to break to people is that software isn't just never “done”. Worse even, it rots… The practices of...
Irrational...
Speaking
a year ago
Birchtree
Show “nobody wanted” was the second-most-watched show on Disney+ Katie Campione writing for Deadline with a very long headline: Broadcast Was “Surprisingly...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Katie Campione writing for Deadline with a very long headline: Broadcast Was “Surprisingly Resilient” in 2024 Amid Production Declines, but Streaming Still Leads the Pack; ‘Fool Me Once’ Led TV Last Year, Luminate Says big IP franchises were still the best performing series on...
Commoncog
A Most Unlikely Master of Capital Allocation If the most unlikely, most un-businesslike person could become a masterful capital allocator late in...
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If the most unlikely, most un-businesslike person could become a masterful capital allocator late in her life, then perhaps you could, too.
Old Structures...
A Less Obvious Canyon A few months ago I wrote about the appearance of streets lined with old, pre-zoning skyscrapers. I...
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a year ago
A few months ago I wrote about the appearance of streets lined with old, pre-zoning skyscrapers. I mentioned my two favorite examples: Thames Street between Broadway and Trinity Place, and Pine Street between Broadway and Nassau Street. I skipped the obvious example, Broadway, as...
Ruud van Asseldonk
A language for designing slides
over a year ago
Business Brainstorms
Feedback panel SaaS, gift ideas, selling futures, industrial grade calendaring, ... Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
over a year ago
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over 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 “An idea for an AI tool I'd love to use — I upload chat...
Code Of Honor
HandmadeCon 2015 interview transcript In 2015 I participated in HandmadeCon, a convention created and run by programming guru Casey...
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9 months ago
In 2015 I participated in HandmadeCon, a convention created and run by programming guru Casey Muratori about game development. The event included five speakers: Tommy Refenes, Mike Acton, Jonathan Blow, Ron Gilbert, and myself. The event was hosted at the Seattle Public Library,...
Nelson's Weblog
Overhead shower drips Do you have an overhead rain shower? Does it drip cold water on you when you’re not using it? It...
a year ago
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a year ago
Do you have an overhead rain shower? Does it drip cold water on you when you’re not using it? It may be water trapped in the pipes and a plunger will temporarily fix it. We have a fancy shower with an overhead rain shower and a ordinary wall sprayer both controlled by the...
TheCollector
Neo-Expressionism: How Emotion Reshaped Contemporary Art Neo-Expressionism as an art movement emerged in the 1970s as a reaction against the dominant trend...
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a month ago
Neo-Expressionism as an art movement emerged in the 1970s as a reaction against the dominant trend of sterile Minimalist aesthetics. Artists embraced ugliness and imperfections and aimed to “unlearn” the basic artistic principles on which the rest of art history was based....
Gwern.net Newsletter
September 2020 News September 2020 gwern.net newsletter with links on DRL and AI scaling, psychiatric disorders; no...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
September 2020 gwern.net newsletter with links on DRL and AI scaling, psychiatric disorders; no reviews.
The Ruffian
The problem with "educate yourself" Why there's only one acceptable way to use it
a year ago
The Marginalian
War, Peace, and Possible Futures: George Saunders on Storytelling the World’s Fate and the Antidote... "War is large-scale murder, us at our worst, the stupidest guy doing the cruelest thing to the...
a year ago
McMansion Hell
we’ve found it folks: mcmansion heaven Hello everyone. It is my pleasure to bring you the greatest house I have ever seen. The house of a...
a year ago
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a year ago
Hello everyone. It is my pleasure to bring you the greatest house I have ever seen. The house of a true visionary. A real ad-hocist. A genuine pioneer of fenestration. This house is in Alabama. It was built in 1980 and costs around $5 million. It is worth every penny. Perhaps...
The DESK Magazine
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Stoic philosophy has been around for over two thousand years, with the likes of Epictetus, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius as some of its founding figures. However, it wasn't until the emergence of modern therapy that the principles of Stoicism were integrated into the psychological...
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The The Experimental Gameplay Project drives on with the Art Game theme which will last the rest of this year but that’s something we can’t accept! I’ve done my game and I didn’t force myself out from the Haskell world just to do nuthin so here’s a new little theme for me :) What...
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London's New Women's Museum Opens This March Launching on International Women's Day.
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Classical Wisdom
The Roman Socrates The Feminist Stoic?
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Five Unbreakable Rules for Startups I’ve been involved with 4 startups over the last 10 years or so, 3 as a co-founder. I’m a follower...
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I’ve been involved with 4 startups over the last 10 years or so, 3 as a co-founder. I’m a follower of Paul Graham and the YC camp of startup wisdom. There’s now a great deal of literature laying out the unbreakable rules for startups. Despite studying this literature, I’ve...
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Compiling Multicore PAR2 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin If you want to compile PAR2 with multicore support on Linux, it may not work right away from source....
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If you want to compile PAR2 with multicore support on Linux, it may not work right away from source. I used this version of PAR2 with multicore support. Update 2015: the original link is dead, I foud a copy of the source and put it on my own site here for you to download. First,...
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I conducted 60 interviews in 2 months — here's what I learned It's hard to believe, but, starting mid-october 2023 I conducted 60 technical interviews and hired...
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It's hard to believe, but, starting mid-october 2023 I conducted 60 technical interviews and hired 10 people into our team. It's been extremely tiring: around 80 hours of active interviewing, plus writing interview reports, plus screening CVs and take-home assignments, plus...
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8 Mistakes to Avoid in Your Student Design Portfolio Consider this post a guide on how to avoid the most common mistakes young designers make when...
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Consider this post a guide on how to avoid the most common mistakes young designers make when assembling their portfolios.
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How to strategically approach technical improvements It's hard to make the right technical decisions in an active project. Particularly improvements...
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It's hard to make the right technical decisions in an active project. Particularly improvements without direct business value are difficult to manage. In this post, we discuss some learnings from the battlefield on how improvements can be approached.
Steve Blank
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“Only the Paranoid Survive” Andy Grove – Intel CEO 1987-1998 I just had an urgent “can we meet today?” coffee with Rohan, an ex-student. His three-year-old startup had been slapped with a notice of patent infringement from a Fortune 500 company. “My lawyers said defending this...
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Retina is not a big deal
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Quora I'm a strong believer in the importance of the internet in helping people to share knowledge and...
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I'm a strong believer in the importance of the internet in helping people to share knowledge and learn from each other.  So I’m delighted to share, on behalf of YC Continuity, that we’re investing alongside Collaborative Fund in Quora. Quora is doing extremely well. They now...
Christopher Butler
Gestalt Principles of Design – Similarity When objects look similar to one another, the mind perceives them as a group or pattern. The...
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When objects look similar to one another, the mind perceives them as a group or pattern. The Gestalt Principles of Design are a set of concepts and guidelines drawn from gestalt psychology, which theorizes that the mind tends to process organized groups of things as a whole,...
Abort Retry Fail
Intel: a Bug and a Pro The FDIV bug and release of the P6
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Fix Three Broken Things Seneca pointed out that people tend to be reflexively stingy with their money, but almost comically...
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Seneca pointed out that people tend to be reflexively stingy with their money, but almost comically wasteful with their time. There are at least two ways to take this. One is that Seneca thought he used his time better than you and I do, and maybe he did. Another interpretation...
David Perell
Gagan Biyani: Building Silicon Valley Startups My guest today is Gagan Biyani, the current CEO of an education startup (where I’m both an investor...
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My guest today is Gagan Biyani, the current CEO of an education startup (where I’m both an investor and an advisor) that helps teachers run Cohort-Based Courses on the Internet and has students from around the world. Gagan also founded a multi-billion dollar online education...
The Diff
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Digital Bricolage & Web Foraging When I reflect on the various lines of inquiry that light me up, there’s one consistent theme:...
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When I reflect on the various lines of inquiry that light me up, there’s one consistent theme: digital bricolage. Bricolage is “the skill of using whatever is at hand and recombining them to create something new.”
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Case For Design Engineers, Pt. II Previously: The Case For Design Engineers, Pt. I. You’re given a design with a note: the dividing...
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Previously: The Case For Design Engineers, Pt. I. You’re given a design with a note: the dividing line between these two containers should be interactive so the user can drag to resize the respective containers on either side. Perhaps that note is all you get. Or perhaps the...
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Desktop UI frameworks written by a single person Less known desktop UI frameworks Writing desktop software is hard. The UI technologies...
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Less known desktop UI frameworks Writing desktop software is hard. The UI technologies of Windows or MacOS are awful compared to web technology. What can trivially be done with HTML/CSS/JavaScript in few minutes can take hours using Windows’s win32 APIs or Mac’s...
The Marginalian
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This is the elemental speaking: It is during phase transition — when the temperature and pressure of a system go beyond what the system can withstand and matter changes from one state to another — that the system is most pliant, most possible. This chaos of particles that...
Saturday Morning...
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Supervised Learning: Computational Learning Theory What's the big O of machine learning? Lets put some formal theory around HOW we learn!
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Moldbug Sold Out "At long last, I've created the populist strongman from my classic 11,000 blog post series 'Don't...
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"At long last, I've created the populist strongman from my classic 11,000 blog post series 'Don't Create The Populist Strongman'"
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Cooper Carry designed the DPR Construction offices in Atlanta to harmoniously blend modern aesthetics with employee wellness, utilizing a spacious...
Open Culture
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Until the end of his life, Carl Sagan (1934–1996) continued doing what he did all along — popularizing science and “enthusiastically conveying the wonders of the universe to millions of people on television and in books.” Whenever Sagan appeared on The Tonight Show with Johnny...
Handprinted - Blog
Using a Thermal Screen to Print Festive Wrapping Printing your own bespoke wrapping paper or fabric can be very rewarding especially when the gift is...
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Printing your own bespoke wrapping paper or fabric can be very rewarding especially when the gift is for a loved one. This week we're printing our own kraft wrapping paper using a Thermal Screen.  Here at Handprinted we use a MiScreen Machine to make our Thermal Screens. You can...
Seth's Blog
Refocusing Freedom, liberty and independence are human rights. But they depend on responsibility....
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Freedom, liberty and independence are human rights. But they depend on responsibility. Responsibility to others, to our future, to the community. Responsibility for our actions and our choices. The only way to earn our independence is to keep the promises we’ve made. Can we...
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How to make big changes one step at a time This essay is an adaptation of a talk I gave at Front, a UX and Product Management conference. If...
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This essay is an adaptation of a talk I gave at Front, a UX and Product Management conference. If you prefer, you can watch the presentation here. Great companies are defined by their ability to change. Apple changed when they re-hired Steve Jobs. Microsoft changed when they...
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Omarchy is out My latest love letter to Linux has been published. It's called Omarchy, and it's an opinionated...
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My latest love letter to Linux has been published. It's called Omarchy, and it's an opinionated setup of the Arch Linux distribution and the Hyprland tiling window manager. With everything configured out-of-the-box to give you exactly the same setup that I now run every day. My...
mtlynch.io
A Simple Pre-Rendered Web App Using Vue + Nuxt In this post, I’ll show you how to pre-render pages using Vue and Nuxt. This method combines the...
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In this post, I’ll show you how to pre-render pages using Vue and Nuxt. This method combines the convenient development experience of Vue without forfeiting critical features like social sharing or search engine optimization. This tutorial assumes no experience with Vue or Nuxt....
Retail Design Blog
JETEZO Chengdu MIXC Store In our exploration of spatial layout, we chose elegant curves as guides to lead visitors into this...
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In our exploration of spatial layout, we chose elegant curves as guides to lead visitors into this journey of discovery....
TheCollector
Newly Discovered Frescoes Reveal Ancient Ritual in Pompeii A century before the ancient city’s destruction, artists adorned the walls of a Pompeii banquet hall...
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A century before the ancient city’s destruction, artists adorned the walls of a Pompeii banquet hall with a procession of Dionysian revelers. Brightly colored and nearly life-sized, the newly identified fresco figures dance, hunt, and imbibe in the name of the god of wine.  ...
Jonas Hietala
Jonas IceCream Stand Ahoy there! This time I’ll take you along for a ride with an arty Tycoon game. Jonas IceCream...
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Ahoy there! This time I’ll take you along for a ride with an arty Tycoon game. Jonas IceCream Stand Instructions It should be pretty self-explanatory, it’s a very simply tycoon game. Credits Music: Eric Maskol Steve Chatterton Sound effects: freesound Rest: Me
Paul Graham: Essays
Don't Talk to Corp Dev
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Applied Cartography
Vibes and years XH asks: How do indie developers/small teams keep track of and prioritize long-term roadmaps? I've...
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XH asks: How do indie developers/small teams keep track of and prioritize long-term roadmaps? I've been basically work off my gut + Feeling of the Day for the past few years, and that's getting a bit unsustainable Buttondown's roadmapping has existed for the past three years in a...
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Terrible things are going down Shit hits the fan View on my website
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Eric Bailey
Open UI and implicit parent/child relationships in HTML This phenomenon indirectly came up recently in an Open UI meeting I was attending. If you’re not...
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This phenomenon indirectly came up recently in an Open UI meeting I was attending. If you’re not familiar, Open UI is a group full of people far smarter than I am working to “allow web developers to style and extend built-in web UI controls.” Background HTML elements are single...
The Changelog
Roundup of Unique Data/Storage Hosting Options Recently I have been taking another look at the services at rsync.net and it got me thinking: what...
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Recently I have been taking another look at the services at rsync.net and it got me thinking: what would I do with a lot of storage? What might I want to run with it, if it were fairly cheap? Backups are an obvious place to start. Borgbackup makes a pretty compelling option: very...
Vadim Kravcenko
Is it a bad idea if I build the MVP of my startup on my company’s pc? Short Answer: DON’T DO IT. Long Answer: It’s a common problem. As you’re building a business you...
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Short Answer: DON’T DO IT. Long Answer: It’s a common problem. As you’re building a business you need to take […] The post Is it a bad idea if I build the MVP of my startup on my company’s pc? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Piotr Migdał's Blog
There will be the next Quantum Game with Photons More photons, an electron, so you can play with entanglement. We got invited by Artur Ekert to CQT...
over a year ago
Mind Mine
my parents. the stewards of my soul!
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Classical Wisdom
Last Chance: The Essential Greeks Starting Tomorrow
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Yale e360
Insights and questions from the original waterfall paper The waterfall model is probably the most reviled methodology in software engineering. This...
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The waterfall model is probably the most reviled methodology in software engineering. This methodology was first described in a 1970 paper by Dr. Winston Royce. This paper didn't call it waterfall, nor did it endorse the technique, and the paper contains a lot of good insights...
Londonist
Belgravia In Bloom 2024: Flower Arches And Sculptures Pop Up In West London It's all fun and games this year - that's the theme!
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TheCollector
Your Ultimate Guide to São Paulo’s Must-See Art Attractions São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil and in the western hemisphere with over 22 million people....
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São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil and in the western hemisphere with over 22 million people. Within this massive metropolis are world-class museums, art galleries, and endless street art. The city is home to famous artists and collectors who fuel its creative energy. This...
Julia Evans
Inside .git Hello! I posted a comic on Mastodon this week about what’s in the .git directory and someone...
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Hello! I posted a comic on Mastodon this week about what’s in the .git directory and someone requested a text version, so here it is. I added some extra notes too. First, here’s the image. It’s a ~15 word explanation of each part of your .git directory. . You can git clone...
Maps Mania
2024 - Another Year of Record Heat
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Posts on Made of...
autocutsel As most of you probably know, X has several different mechanisms for copy-paste, used by different...
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As most of you probably know, X has several different mechanisms for copy-paste, used by different applications in different ways. I know some people who use them deliberately, juggling two pieces of text in different clipboards at once, but for me, it’s always just been...
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Blogging or posting on social media—what's better? I wrote about the benefits of blogging before. That was four years ago. Now I have some things to...
over a year ago
High Signal
Running a paid community from a tiny Scottish island Millie is runing a paid online community for generalists from a tiny Scottish island. Her group,...
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Millie is runing a paid online community for generalists from a tiny Scottish island. Her group, Generalist World, has 500 paid members
History Today Feed
Plato’s Last Word to Dionysius Plato’s Last Word to Dionysius JamesHoare Tue, 07/01/2025 - 08:00
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The personal website...
The design system you already have With beautiful design systems like Polaris, Lightning, and Carbon for inspiration, it’s tempting to...
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With beautiful design systems like Polaris, Lightning, and Carbon for inspiration, it’s tempting to open up a Sketch file and start your own. A fresh start: all the freedom in the world. Finally, a great-looking date picker. But wait! You already have a design system. If you look...
Birchtree
How Flight Simulator helped my flying anxiety (members post) It turns out video games really can impact how you view the world.
7 months ago
THE ARCHITECTURAL...
Fake Views – The Contrast Between Renderings and Reality A shining sun, playful children, overwhelming greenery and new neighborhoods with a richer wildlife...
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A shining sun, playful children, overwhelming greenery and new neighborhoods with a richer wildlife than a Zoo. We have all seen them, the vision images that promise an idyll but result in a visual nightmare. Here‘s a few examples. Renderings are a visual representation of a...
Internal Tech Emails
Mark Zuckerberg: "Please Resign" This was an act of betrayal.
over a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The interoperability of social networks Google recently added a caustic warning message when users attempt to export their Google Contacts...
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Google recently added a caustic warning message when users attempt to export their Google Contacts to Facebook: Hold on a second. Are you…
Explosm.net
Comic for 2025.05.10 - Pour One Out New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
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TheCollector
The History of Split: From Diocletian’s Palace to Party Town The modern visitor to the Croatian coastal city of Split marvels at the towering walls of Emperor...
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The modern visitor to the Croatian coastal city of Split marvels at the towering walls of Emperor Diocletian’s Palace, which were later woven into the fabric of the medieval old town. Located on the Dalmatian coast, the history of Split consists of periods under Byzantine,...
AI Snake Oil
I set up a ChatGPT voice interface for my 3-year old. Here’s how it went. Chatbots are likely to revive familiar debates about kids and apps
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Koos Looijesteijn -...
You're making me buy a new phone My iPhone SE 2016 is a good one. It’s easy to handle with one hand. The screen is more than...
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Rest of World -...
Starlink is now cheaper than leading internet provider in some African countries In Ghana, Starlink is half the price of the local ISP.
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Seth's Blog
If “no” is not an option… Then neither is “yes.” Enrollment requires choice. PS one of my all-time favorite encore episodes of...
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Then neither is “yes.” Enrollment requires choice. PS one of my all-time favorite encore episodes of Akimbo is out this week: How to get into a famous college.
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Design explained using venn diagrams Design is hard. If only the process could be explained using simple venn diagrams. Unfortunately,...
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Design is hard. If only the process could be explained using simple venn diagrams. Unfortunately, this isn’t that: More Design in charts – HERE, and HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE
mtlynch.io
Recovery Month Highlights Is It Keto’s revenue doubled to $82.44 with zero effort on my part. My task journaling...
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Highlights Is It Keto’s revenue doubled to $82.44 with zero effort on my part. My task journaling app is almost ready for publication. I’ve begun setting up meetings with potential customers about my next project ideas. Goal Grades At the start of the month, I gave up on Is It...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Grandfather Paradox Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Panel three is my contribution to World...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Panel three is my contribution to World Literature. Today's News: We hit 2000 backers! Announcement of new free stuff incoming.
Val Sopi
A change in how I share my open finances and a new self–imposed public challenge <p> A bit over a year ago, I wrote <a href="https://valsopi.com/setting-sail">a post</a> in...
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<p> A bit over a year ago, I wrote <a href="https://valsopi.com/setting-sail">a post</a> in which I talked about embarking on a journey to financial freedom. Specifically speaking — I took out a personal loan so I could focus on solely building products. </p><p> With that...
Jonas Hietala
Netrunner Lindhska Store Championship Örebro After the awesomeness during the previous store championship, I decided to go to the store...
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After the awesomeness during the previous store championship, I decided to go to the store championship at Lindhska Bokhandel in Örebro. I brought a modified version of the same corp I used the last time, a Blue Sun kill deck and a new runner with Leela Patel. See the links for...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Circle Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The cool thing is the rapid mutation of surrounding...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The cool thing is the rapid mutation of surrounding plants and bacteria, meaning Dad is still changing lives after he's gone. Today's News:
Bartosz Ciechanowski
Moon In the vastness of empty space surrounding Earth, the Moon is our closest celestial...
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In the vastness of empty space surrounding Earth, the Moon is our closest celestial neighbor. Its face, periodically filled with light and devoured by darkness, has an ever-changing, but dependable presence in our skies. In this article, we’ll learn about the Moon and its path...
History Today Feed
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A Smart Bear
Reframing "Freemium" by charging the marketing department Freemium means high costs, low conversion, and customer feedback dominated by the non-ideal...
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Freemium means high costs, low conversion, and customer feedback dominated by the non-ideal customer. Treat it as a marketing expense to ensure ROI.
Applied Cartography
Linear I invited nickd to join our Linear instance yesterday, which reminded me that I had a slew of notes...
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I invited nickd to join our Linear instance yesterday, which reminded me that I had a slew of notes I wanted to publish on our own experience of migrating from GitHub Issues to Linear, and some reflections on it as a product now that we've been using it for a few months. One...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Magic Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The good news is that temperature and weather will...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The good news is that temperature and weather will moderate as everyone starves to death. Today's News:
African History...
Guns and Spears: a military history of the Zulu kingdom. Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems...
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Popular history of Africa before the colonial era often divides the continent’s military systems into two broad categories —the relatively modern armies along the Atlantic coast which used firearms, versus the 'traditional' armies in the interior that fought with arrows and...
Christopher Butler
object – 1999 Qualcomm QCP-860 This is the phone I carried in my pocket when I went to see The Matrix. My first cellphone was...
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This is the phone I carried in my pocket when I went to see The Matrix. My first cellphone was the Qualcomm QCP-860. It was marketed at the time as a “thin phone.” By today’s standards, that might seem silly, but at the time, phones were generally much chunkier. Like this...
FIRE v London
Feb ’23: taking profits February was cold, but mercifully dry. The days are becoming a welcome bit longer. London is filling...
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February was cold, but mercifully dry. The days are becoming a welcome bit longer. London is filling up again, post covid, though Mondays and Fridays remain subdued to put it mildly. Market movements in February In the markets, February started strongly, but then something...
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Introducing Omakub Linux can look and feel so good, but it often doesn't out of the box. It's almost like there's a...
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Linux can look and feel so good, but it often doesn't out of the box. It's almost like there's a rite of passage in certain parts of the community where becoming an expert in the intricacies of every tool and its theming is required to prove you're a proper nerd. I think that's a...
Josh Collinsworth
Forty-two I'm 42 years old today. This is a personal post about where I am now, what's going on in my head,...
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I'm 42 years old today. This is a personal post about where I am now, what's going on in my head, and 42 things I've learned (or at least, think I've learned).
On Test Automation
RestAssured .NET in 2024 - a review As a (sort of) follow-up post to my yearly review for 2024, in this post, I would like to go over...
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As a (sort of) follow-up post to my yearly review for 2024, in this post, I would like to go over the changes, bug fixes and new features that have been introduced in RestAssured .NET in 2024. This year, I released 7 new versions of the library, and while none of the versions...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Your Greatest Strength Is Also Your Greatest Weakness Referring to product management, my old boss used to say, “There is no right or wrong, only...
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Referring to product management, my old boss used to say, “There is no right or wrong, only trade-offs.” This applies to technology too (and, if you really think about it, life generally — but we won’t go that far). As an example, what makes npm great? It’s so easy to install a...
IEEE Spectrum
The Lisa Was Apple’s Best Failure Happy 40th Birthday to Lisa! The Apple Lisa computer, that is. In celebration of this milestone, the...
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Happy 40th Birthday to Lisa! The Apple Lisa computer, that is. In celebration of this milestone, the Computer History Museum has received permission from Apple to release the source code to the Lisa, including its system and applications software. You can access the Lisa source...
TheCollector
Once-Stolen Egon Schiele Work Set to Fetch $1.9 Million at Auction Fritz Grünbaum, a Viennese art collector, acquired dozens of works by the enigmatic expressionist...
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Fritz Grünbaum, a Viennese art collector, acquired dozens of works by the enigmatic expressionist Egon Schiele in the early 20th century. Grünbaum was murdered under Nazi Germany’s occupation of Austria, and his art collection was seized and dispersed. Now, a Schiele watercolor...
David Crawshaw
How I program with LLMs How I program with LLMs 2025-01-06 This document is a summary of my personal experiences using...
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How I program with LLMs 2025-01-06 This document is a summary of my personal experiences using generative models while programming over the past year. It has not been a passive process. I have intentionally sought ways to use LLMs while programming to learn about them. The result...
Fatih Arslan
New homepage design I changed my website’s design. I'm using the previous design since September 30, 2022 (when I moved...
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I changed my website’s design. I'm using the previous design since September 30, 2022 (when I moved to Ghost from Cloudflare Pages). The previous design served me well for the past two years, but it was time for a change. Firstly, I wanted to create a
Joel on Software
Making the web better. With blocks! You’ve probably seen web editors based on the idea of blocks. I’m typing this in WordPress, which...
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You’ve probably seen web editors based on the idea of blocks. I’m typing this in WordPress, which has a little + button that brings up a long… Read more "Making the web better. With blocks!"
Seth's Blog
Queued It’s sort of the opposite of “cued.” In addition to being delightful to spell, the idea of work...
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It’s sort of the opposite of “cued.” In addition to being delightful to spell, the idea of work that’s queued up is energizing. The chapter ahead of schedule, the process in place for the next quarter, the continued commitment to learning… It is locked, loaded and ready to go....
Irrational...
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Steve Klabnik
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Joel Gascoigne
Dreams come true > Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. - Henry David...
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> Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. - Henry David Thoreau [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau] I can distinctly remember that for the month of December in 2010, and for much of January 2011, I did a lot of dreaming.
blag
Recurse Center: Winter Break the Recurse Center winter break
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TheCollector
Defenders of Early Christianity: Origen, Tertullian, and Justin Martyr Early Christianity faced numerous challenges, both from external persecution and internal doctrinal...
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Early Christianity faced numerous challenges, both from external persecution and internal doctrinal disputes. Among the most prominent defenders of the faith were Origen, Tertullian, and Justin Martyr. These early Christian apologists made significant contributions to the...
Seth's Blog
The name doesn’t matter (that much) Busy people in important organizations waste a lot of time naming things. It could be that once a...
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Busy people in important organizations waste a lot of time naming things. It could be that once a name is good enough, you’re done. That’s certainly true for the logo. Nike is hard to pronounce. Starbucks is named after an obscure character in a mostly unreadable book. Apple is...
Louwrentius
The kind of sound you never want to hear from your computer The sounds of hard drives that have perished These sounds are only frightening or scary if you...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The sounds of hard drives that have perished These sounds are only frightening or scary if you imagine your precious data only exists on that failing drive. If you make consistent and frequent backups and/or you run a fault-tolerant RAID flavour, it is but a nuisance.
Jonas Hietala
Postmortem: The Chronicles of Bim: The 100 Fake Afros My first shooter! It’s working (although a friend got a null pointer error) so I’m a little...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My first shooter! It’s working (although a friend got a null pointer error) so I’m a little happy. The Time I spent about 24 hours on this game. A whopping 30% was break time, mostly me eating, reading manga or playing games… This is proof of me being really lazy this month I...
ByteofDev
State of the Web: Static Site Generators Static Site Generators have been changing quickly with new trends like Jamstack. Learn more about...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Static Site Generators have been changing quickly with new trends like Jamstack. Learn more about the background of static site generators, why people use them, and the current state of them, with information on modern SSGs like Eleventy, Next.js, SvelteKit, and Astro.
Dreams of Space -...
Happy Journeys (1961) Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.  Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about...
a year ago
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a year ago
Here is wishing you Happy Journeys (1961) in 2024.  Happy Journeys was a 1961 children's book about the future and ways someone might travel. The illustration were double page full color paintings of a exciting and strange future that might be around the corner. I see in this...
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over a year ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Man Gets Pig Kidney Transplant On March 16 surgeons transplanted a kidney taken from a pig into a human recipient, Rick Slayman. So...
a year ago
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a year ago
On March 16 surgeons transplanted a kidney taken from a pig into a human recipient, Rick Slayman. So far the transplant is a success, but of course the real test will be how well the kidney functions and for how long. This is the first time such a transplant has been done into a...
lcamtuf’s thing
Weekend projects: getting silly with C C is beautiful yet full of horrors. Here's to uncovering its hidden depths.
a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Transmuting Philosophy into Machinery
over a year ago
Yale e360
Go slow to go fast A couple of weeks ago, I started working with a personal trainer to improve my fitness. I've long...
a year ago
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a year ago
A couple of weeks ago, I started working with a personal trainer to improve my fitness. I've long been an endurance athlete, and it's time to lean into my overall fitness and strength. Part of this is to be healthy and live a long life. But honestly? More of it is a desire to...
computers are bad
2023-10-15 go.com Correction: a technical defect in my Enterprise Content Management System resulted in the email...
a year ago
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a year ago
Correction: a technical defect in my Enterprise Content Management System resulted in the email having a subject that made it sound like this post would be about the classic strategy game Go. It is actually about a failed website. I regret the error; the responsible people have...
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Southern Heat, Part 5 (Mississippi Gulf) Next we returned to familiar territory. I’ve mentioned the Mississippi Gulf Coast many times on...
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a year ago
Next we returned to familiar territory. I’ve mentioned the Mississippi Gulf Coast many times on Twelve Mile Circle because I go there fairly regularly and I have a lot of family there. However, my last trip was way back in 2019 and only for a long weekend. Somehow I never figured...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 065: The gpt2-chatbot mystery May 3, 2024.
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Vitalik Buterin's...
Trust Models
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Ryan Hoover's...
Finding_Enoughness.wav
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 043: Happy birthday, ChatGPT December 1, 2023.
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Electronics etc…
Hideo Okawara’s Mixed Signal Lecture Series Introduction Hideo Okawara’s Mixed Signal Lecture Series Frequency/Phase Movement Analysis by...
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Introduction Hideo Okawara’s Mixed Signal Lecture Series Frequency/Phase Movement Analysis by Orthogonal Demodulation Misc Introduction While researching a DSP related topic, Google dug up an excellent article, written by Hideo Okawara, that is just one part of a series of ~53. I...
Ink & Switch
09 · Version history as chat This prototype mixes a history timeline with a chat-like interface. The result is useful for...
a year ago
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a year ago
This prototype mixes a history timeline with a chat-like interface. The result is useful for understanding changes and discussing a work-in-progress document.
TheCollector
Hallstatt Culture: What Do We Know About the Earliest Celtic Culture? The Hallstatt culture was the first culture of peoples that can truly be considered “Celtic.” This...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
The Hallstatt culture was the first culture of peoples that can truly be considered “Celtic.” This period was preceded by the Central European Urnfield and Tumulus cultures of the late and middle European Bronze Age. Neither are commonly accepted as “Celtic” cultures, but rather,...