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The Ancient Order of Bali In the 1970s, the Indonesian island of Bali went through a period of rapid change. Along the...
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In the 1970s, the Indonesian island of Bali went through a period of rapid change. Along the stunning beaches on the southern side of the island, tourism boomed. Parking lots were put up, together with swinging hot spots and hotels of various colours. Hip young travellers from...
Basta’s Notes
All the bullshit I did as a kid (part 1?) My first computer, and the first computer I called a server
11 months ago
The Ruffian
My Year In Reading Books I Read Or At Least Picked Up In 2023
a year ago
Words and Buttons...
Complex numbers and conformal mapping This explains the geometry of complex numbers. Explains conformal transformations, introduces...
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over a year ago
This explains the geometry of complex numbers. Explains conformal transformations, introduces analytic functions, and shows that analytic complex functions are conformal. And using the connection between the geometry and the analysis explains it all in just some five minutes.
TheCollector
Pre-Columbian Writing Systems (And How They Worked) undefined
3 months ago
alexwlchan
Finding the biggest items in my Photos Library I’m approaching the limit of my current iCloud storage tier, and most of that is my Photos...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’m approaching the limit of my current iCloud storage tier, and most of that is my Photos Library. I don’t really want to pay for the next iCloud storage tier – I’d be tripling my bill, but I’d barely use the extra space. (My library grows pretty slowly – I’ve only added ~6GB of...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism) Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week....
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10 months ago
Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week. For this week’s musing, I wanted to take the opportunity to expand a bit on a topic that I raised on Twitter which draw a fair bit of commentary: that fascists and fascist...
Mazdak
More Creators Can Now Make Money on YouTube YouTube Lowers Monetization Requirements for Creators. New Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino Sets Out...
a year ago
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a year ago
YouTube Lowers Monetization Requirements for Creators. New Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino Sets Out Vision for the Platform. YouTube Makes It Easier for Small Creators to Earn Money YouTube is lowering the eligibility requirements for creators to make money from their channels....
Liz Denys
It's beginning to feel a lot like fall: homemade pumpkin spice latte It's beginning to feel a lot like fall: the weather is finally cooling down, leaves are browning,...
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over a year ago
It's beginning to feel a lot like fall: the weather is finally cooling down, leaves are browning, and pumpkin spice lattes are abundant. Being a coffee fan, I caved about a year ago and bought pumpkin spice latte syrup. It made for a delicious replica of the coffee shop classic,...
alexwlchan
Going between Finder and the Terminal Earlier this week, Dr. Drang wrote a post about a few automations he uses to go between the...
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3 months ago
Earlier this week, Dr. Drang wrote a post about a few automations he uses to go between the Terminal’s command line and the Finder’s GUI. He has some neat ideas, and I particularly like his AppleScript sel for selecting multiple items in Finder. I’ve written a couple of similar...
latest projects -...
3D Model Viewer Improvements [Software] Unlocking the embedded gimbals
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Boo Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Let this strip-club ghost joke convince you that I...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Let this strip-club ghost joke convince you that I don't plan for holiday comics. Today's News:
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Out of the Software Crisis: Gardening The following is an extension of my notes from Baldur’s book “Out of the Software Crisis” including...
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a year ago
The following is an extension of my notes from Baldur’s book “Out of the Software Crisis” including quotes from the author. Great software grows in our minds, we don’t manufacture it on-demand. [Software projects] are grown thought-stuff [but we] treat them like lego blocks. As...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, June 2023 The ware for June 2023 is shown below. This ware should be possible to match to an exact model...
a year ago
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a year ago
The ware for June 2023 is shown below. This ware should be possible to match to an exact model number, based on this photo alone — if not simply because in its era there were fewer consumer electronics devices to choose from. I tested the image against Google Image search and...
Retail Design Blog
YOPE office by Loskiewicz.Studio We were commissioned to design the interiors for YOPE. Yope is a highly innovative Polish cosmetic...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
We were commissioned to design the interiors for YOPE. Yope is a highly innovative Polish cosmetic brand with the core...
Copper • A blog...
The journey to controlling external monitors on M1 Macs One lazy evening in November 2020, I watched how Tim Cook announced a fanless MacBook Air with a CPU...
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over a year ago
One lazy evening in November 2020, I watched how Tim Cook announced a fanless MacBook Air with a CPU faster than the latest 16 inch MacBook, while my work-provided 15 inch 2019 MacBook Pro was slowly frying my lap and annoying my wife with its constant fan noise. I had to get my...
xkcd.com
Doppler Effect
7 months ago
Applied Cartography
Gosling’s Old Rum Virginia has draconian liquor laws, which means I have to get interesting bottles shipped from...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Virginia has draconian liquor laws, which means I have to get interesting bottles shipped from [REDACTED], a site on which I am very prone to judging a book by its cover; every month I'll end up purchasing a bottle of something purely because it looks interesting and I can...
Seth's Blog
In defense of the hard parts Yesterday’s post was a little glib. Without a doubt, we add more value when we focus on the...
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4 months ago
Yesterday’s post was a little glib. Without a doubt, we add more value when we focus on the emotional labor of important work, leaving others the chance to create commodities. But the repetitive, difficult nature of leaning into commodity production can give us insight, humility...
African History...
Mansa Musa and the royal pilgrimage tradition of west Africa: 11th-18th century Why Africa's caravans of gold stopped travelling to Arabia.
a year ago
Irrational...
Video of practice run of QCon SF 2024 talk on Principal Engineers. Yesterday at QCon, I got to give a talk with my colleague Dan Fike about the Principal Engineer...
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a month ago
Yesterday at QCon, I got to give a talk with my colleague Dan Fike about the Principal Engineer role](https://qconsf.com/presentation/nov2024/ambiguous-roles-and-ambiguous-problems-navigating-life-principal-engineer). You can also watch the video on YouTube. The content itself...
Matt Mazur
Introducing Preceden’s new AI-Powered Timeline Generator For the past few months I’ve been heads down building an AI-powered timeline generator tool for...
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a year ago
For the past few months I’ve been heads down building an AI-powered timeline generator tool for Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker software: The tool – which is free to use and available on Preceden’s homepage – lets you type in a topic or detailed description of a timeline and it...
Seth's Blog
Knowing the territory There is always room for someone who really knows their way around an industry, a technology or a...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
There is always room for someone who really knows their way around an industry, a technology or a problem. That’s what agents, agencies and organizers do. The hard part isn’t in finding people who will value true on-the-ground expertise. The hard part is actually earning it and...
Sam Altman
Reinforcement Learning Progress Today, OpenAI released a new result.  We used PPO (Proximal Policy Optimization), a general...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Today, OpenAI released a new result.  We used PPO (Proximal Policy Optimization), a general reinforcement learning algorithm invented by OpenAI, to train a team of 5 agents to play Dota and beat semi-pros. This is the game that to me feels closest to the real world and complex...
fast.ai
Can LLMs learn from a single example? We’ve noticed an unusual training pattern in fine-tuning LLMs. At first we thought it’s a bug, but...
a year ago
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a year ago
We’ve noticed an unusual training pattern in fine-tuning LLMs. At first we thought it’s a bug, but now we think it shows LLMs can learn effectively from a single example.
PostHog's RSS Feed
Did you know AI is answering our community questions? AI. You may have heard of it. Sure, ChatGPT is pretty cool, but when it comes to AI chatbots that...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
AI. You may have heard of it. Sure, ChatGPT is pretty cool, but when it comes to AI chatbots that try to replace a human in a product support context…
Maggie Appleton
Programming Portals
over a year ago
Neil Panchal
ZFS RAIDZ2 - Achieving 157 GB/s Update: See Note 5 below . 157 GB/s is a misleading bandwidth due to the way fio lib handles the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Update: See Note 5 below . 157 GB/s is a misleading bandwidth due to the way fio lib handles the --filename option. Actual bandwidth is approximately 22 GB/s, which is still mighty impressive. I built a new server that's also going to serve as a NAS. It
The Modern House
The best of Kensal Rise and Queen’s Park, north-west London
a year ago
Seth's Blog
Culture, care and typography I’ve been fascinated by the way we set type since I did my first packaging forty years ago. It’s a...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’ve been fascinated by the way we set type since I did my first packaging forty years ago. It’s a combination of tech, art, systems, culture and most of all, deciding to put in the effort to get it right. [This is a long post, it would have been a podcast, but it doesn’t really...
Spoon & Tamago
New Rent-Free Apartments Aspire to Support Budding Manga Artists a rendering of Manga Apartment VUY, for which occupancy will begin in March 2025 For many years, a...
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a rendering of Manga Apartment VUY, for which occupancy will begin in March 2025 For many years, a model has existed in Japan in which subsidized housing supports manga artists who are early in their career and have not yet established an audience. One of the earliest was the...
TheCollector
The Early Anarchism of William Godwin undefined
a year ago
Flashbak
Joris Hoefnagel: The Emperor’s Best Artist Who Drew Insects That Told of Love And Death Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Illustrations from the Mira calligraphiae monumenta (The Model Book of Calligraphy) were created by Croatian scribe Georg Bocskay (died 1575) and Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1601). There is no evidence the two artists ever met, but their collaboration was decades in the...
AFAR Media - Travel...
7 Things to Know Before Seeing a Broadway Show in New York City
a year ago
Atoms vs Bits
I Rarely Saw The Plots Resolve What (doesn't) happen next will shock you
a month ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Weeee! Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: re: yesterday's comic - I have never gotten more...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: re: yesterday's comic - I have never gotten more hatemail than the time I insulted wild blueberries. Deal with it, bros. Today's News:
Seth's Blog
Effect vs affect In a culture fascinated by attitude, gloss and performance, it’s easy to believe that adopting an...
a year ago
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a year ago
In a culture fascinated by attitude, gloss and performance, it’s easy to believe that adopting an affect is precisely what you need to make a difference. In fact, the persistent, generous work that happens when no one is looking is what actually makes a difference. Looking the...
Arduino Blog
Making a car more secure with the Arduino Nicla Vision Shortly after attending a recent tinyML workshop in Sao Paolo, Brazil, Joao Vitor Freitas da Costa...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Shortly after attending a recent tinyML workshop in Sao Paolo, Brazil, Joao Vitor Freitas da Costa was looking for a way to incorporate some of the technologies and techniques he learned into a useful project. Given that he lives in an area which experiences elevated levels of...
The Honest Broker
What Happened to Sly Stone? At age 80, he tells his tale—but is it a story of recovery, or mere survival?
11 months ago
Joel Gascoigne
Make progress faster by cooperating: 4 tips to try with your co-founder or co-worker * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * For a number of...
over a year ago
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * For a number of years now, I’ve found that I generally always had a “training partner” for my entrepreneurial goals. A few years ago, this was my great friend Khuram...
The Ruffian
Why Giving Up On The Humanities Is Self-Destructive The Economic Case For the Liberal Arts In the Age of AI
2 months ago
Transit Maps
Submission – Official Map: Greater Copenhagen Rail Map, 2024 Submitted by Jakob, who says: The M4 branch extension to Copenhagen South has just opened, and with...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Submitted by Jakob, who says: The M4 branch extension to Copenhagen South has just opened, and with it, a much improved map compared to 2019 [My review of the 2019 map can be found here – Cam]. The Circle Line is now more spacious, junctions are labeled more clearly, and metro...
TheCollector
Art Philanthropy in the US Depends on Prestige undefined
11 months ago
Diaries of Note
War raises the tone of life In August of 1950, shortly after receiving the distinguished Strega Prize for his literary...
a year ago
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a year ago
In August of 1950, shortly after receiving the distinguished Strega Prize for his literary contributions, Italian novelist, poet, and translator Cesare Pavese tragically ended his life. He was just forty-one. Among his personal effects was found a deeply introspective diary that...
somenice
Environmental Sensing using an eInk Display and CircuitPython Measure CO2, temperature, humidity and send that data to the cloud, while displaying results on an...
a year ago
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a year ago
Measure CO2, temperature, humidity and send that data to the cloud, while displaying results on an 2.9″ e-ink display. My first choice was to use the display vertically. It feels a bit less like a price tag in this orientation. This past August 18th marked CircuitPython day, a...
Rest of World -...
Why IBM employees in Brazil are suing to be classified as tech workers Unions in two Brazilian states are suing IBM in an effort to be recognized as tech employees, giving...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Unions in two Brazilian states are suing IBM in an effort to be recognized as tech employees, giving them access to better wages, benefits, and profit participation.
The Changelog
Distributed, Asynchronous Git Syncing with NNCP I have a problem. I have a directory that I use with org-mode and org-roam. I want it to be synced...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I have a problem. I have a directory that I use with org-mode and org-roam. I want it to be synced across multiple machines. I also want to keep the history with git. And, I want to use end-to-end encryption (no storing a plain git repo on a remote server), have a serverless...
Grow With Less
Is Your Article's Date Destroying Your Rankings? Having a recent date associated with your article could be the difference between a page 1 ranking...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Having a recent date associated with your article could be the difference between a page 1 ranking and a page 5 ranking. This means that you should not only keep your content up-to-date but also make sure that Google knows it’s up-to-date. This article will show you how to find...
Seth's Blog
The 2 x 4 lessons You’ll need two 8-foot boards and six five-gallon buckets. Each board is a standard 2 x 4, about two...
a year ago
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a year ago
You’ll need two 8-foot boards and six five-gallon buckets. Each board is a standard 2 x 4, about two inches by four inches in size. And the bucket is about two feet deep. The first lesson is simple: Put the board on the floor and have a colleague walk from one end to the other....
Paul Graham: Essays
The Trouble with the Segway
over a year ago
Making software...
Goodbye CSS Preprocessors Goodbye CSS Preprocessors 2017-09-07 I have been using preprocessors across all my side projects...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Goodbye CSS Preprocessors 2017-09-07 I have been using preprocessors across all my side projects since they first popped onto the scene. Sass, Stylus, LESS — you name the CSS preprocessor and I've most likely used it because CSS preprocessors are awesome. But that all changes...
Quantum Frontiers
Film noir and quantum thermo In four months, I’ll embark on the adventure of a lifetime—fatherhood. To prepare, I’ve been honing...
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7 months ago
In four months, I’ll embark on the adventure of a lifetime—fatherhood. To prepare, I’ve been honing a quintessential father skill—storytelling. If my son inherits even a fraction of my tastes, he’ll soon develop a passion for film noir detective stories. … Continue reading →
Rest of World -...
The industry behind the industry behind AI It’s outsourcing all the way down.
a year ago
diamond geezer
We're drinking less tea Yesterday the BBC website had a story about the amount of tea people aren't drinking any more. do...
a week ago
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a week ago
Yesterday the BBC website had a story about the amount of tea people aren't drinking any more. do drink tea it's often green tea, herbal tea or bubble tea, not traditional black tea. 18 year-old Sharma, for example, said she prefers herbal tea and hasn't even heard of Typhoo...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sorry Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is like a time machine to SMBC circa...
3 weeks ago
Matt Mullenweg
GPL Clarification A quick followup on my prior conversation with Theo. During that chat, I talked briefly about a...
a month ago
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a month ago
A quick followup on my prior conversation with Theo. During that chat, I talked briefly about a trademark infringer that was also distributing nulled plugins. I said “Not illegal. Legal under the GPL. But they weren’t changing the names. They were selling their customers Pro...
Classical Wisdom
Are Protests the Best Way to Say Nay? Can Mobs Make the Change They Want to See?
7 months ago
One Useful Thing
Now is the time for grimoires It isn't data that will unlock AI, it is human expertise
a year ago
Daniel Immke's Blog...
Handling advanced product imports in WooCommerce I recently wrapped up a big WooCommerce project that required quite a bit of customization. I’ve...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I recently wrapped up a big WooCommerce project that required quite a bit of customization. I’ve decided to write about a few of those…
Maps Mania
The Scariest Place Names in the World
a month ago
the jsomers.net blog
Most book clubs are doing it wrong The standard way to run a book club is to have everybody finish the book before meeting to talk...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The standard way to run a book club is to have everybody finish the book before meeting to talk about it. You have one meeting per book. The discussion goes on for one or two hours before it runs out of gas, and then the group picks the next book, and you agree to meet […]
Working Theorys
The Idea That Won't Go Away | Theory No. 24 In a battle of new and old ideas, which one wins?
a year ago
ben-mini
Making My SQL Skills Obsolete By far, the most useful LLM app I’ve made is the Kibu Schema God: I try not to make my posts too...
yesterday
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yesterday
By far, the most useful LLM app I’ve made is the Kibu Schema God: I try not to make my posts too technical, but I can’t resist. I’d like to briefly explain what the Kibu Schema God is, how I set it up in a day, and how you might create something similar. What it is The Kibu...
The Works in...
Anemia and Malaria In malaria endemic regions, being anemic could be keeping children safe
2 months ago
Musings on Markets
The Wisdom and Madness of Crowds: Market Prices as Political Predictors! In this, the first full week in November 2024, the big news stories of this week are political, as...
a month ago
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a month ago
In this, the first full week in November 2024, the big news stories of this week are political, as the US presidential election reached its climactic moment on Tuesday, but I don't write about politics, not because I do not have political views, but because I reserve those views...
Rest of World -...
Indian politicians are bringing the dead on the campaign trail, with help from AI Digital rights activists have questioned the ethics of using “soft fakes” to resurrect the past and...
7 months ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Using Gatsby and Puppeteer to create dynamic Open Graph images The image preview you see when sharing a link is a great opportunity to get your brand’s message in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The image preview you see when sharing a link is a great opportunity to get your brand’s message in front of people without them even clicking through to your website. Most sites just opt to display a logo and some brand elements.
History Today Feed
‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review ‘Habsburgs on the Rio Grande’ by Raymond Jonas review JamesHoare Wed, 06/19/2024 - 09:52
6 months ago
Londonist
The Woods At The End Of The Elizabeth Line Where You Can Take A Sound Bath De-stress among the trees in east London.
10 months ago
Escaping Flatland
Reading challenging books with kids is fun and probably useful I was looking through my diary from the summer of 2020 and found this entry about Maud, then three...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
I was looking through my diary from the summer of 2020 and found this entry about Maud, then three years old, in late toddlerhood. 25th of July 2020. I was doing the dishes. Maud came in. “I have looked a little in books,” she said.
escape the algorithm
The perfect pecan pie will never exi— Cutting a slice of longing
3 weeks ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup The Mother of Rome
9 months ago
TheCollector
Aristarchus of Samos and the Heliocentric Model of the Universe undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Performance Artist Tags Controversial Courbet Nude with “Me Too” undefined
7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Should Drugs be Criminalized? Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
2 months ago
Strange Loop Canon
The Dream AI Hardware
a year ago
Making software...
Improving Github's New Design Improving Github's New Design 2020-07-07 Like many other Github users, I am not a big fan of their...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Improving Github's New Design 2020-07-07 Like many other Github users, I am not a big fan of their recent repository page redesign. In my mind it seems like a change just for the sake of change - the original UI worked perfectly fine. Sigh. I was planning on recreating the...
Map of the Week
Thirty Day Map Challenge 2023-Days 24-30 The final installment of this year’s 30 Day Map Challenge.  Day 24 - Black and White I had no...
a year ago
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a year ago
The final installment of this year’s 30 Day Map Challenge.  Day 24 - Black and White I had no thoughts ahead of time on this one. I wanted to do something with raster data and the easy, quick thing (this often requires taking the easy and quick route) was to grab the Natural...
The American Scholar
Writer on Board The cruise story from Twain to Shteyngart The post Writer on Board appeared first on The American...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
The cruise story from Twain to Shteyngart The post Writer on Board appeared first on The American Scholar.
Map of the Week
Below the Ice This past fall scientists uncovered a vast landscape that has been "frozen in time" under the...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
This past fall scientists uncovered a vast landscape that has been "frozen in time" under the Antarctic Ice Shelf. Here is a nice graphic from phys.org. The topography was determined by a combination of radio wave echoes and satellite images. This landscape, more than 2...
Retail Design Blog
ESTRO coffee capsules by Anna Galsanova ESTRO is a new brand of coffee capsules, the main advantage of which is new technologies that allow...
4 months ago
Farnam Street
Evaluating Information: Find the Signal in the Noise We are drowning in information. Most of that information is irrelevant. If only we could sort what...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We are drowning in information. Most of that information is irrelevant. If only we could sort what matters from what doesn’t. The good news is that you can train your brain to evaluate the quality of information. Not only can you quickly determine if someone knows what they are...
Explorations of an...
Monsoon Season In Arizona, Part 2: The Huachucas September 1, 2024 For the first and only time in the trip I managed a much-needed seven hours of...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
September 1, 2024 For the first and only time in the trip I managed a much-needed seven hours of sleep. Unfortunately, some of the others were woken up earlier than they would have liked. The owner of Beatty's Guest Ranch (he lives in a different building on the property) owns a...
./techtipsy
My server setups throughout the years My self-hosting adventure started during my university days. Once I actually had money to buy myself...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My self-hosting adventure started during my university days. Once I actually had money to buy myself a decent used laptop (ThinkPad T430) that had more than 3GB of RAM that my ThinkPad T60 had, I could use some of my older hardware as testbeds for any of the stupid ideas that I...
The Oatmeal - Comics...
Do you need to settle a dispute? Let's hit each other with fake swords. View on my website
7 months ago
McMansion Hell
2007-core nostalgia extravaganza Quick PSA: someone on Facebook is apparently impersonating me using an account called “McMansion...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Quick PSA: someone on Facebook is apparently impersonating me using an account called “McMansion Hell 2.0” – If you see it, please report! Thanks! Howdy folks! I hope if you were born between 1995 and 2001 you’re ready for some indelible pre-recession vibes because I think this...
99% Invisible
Backfired: The Vaping Wars [EPISODE] For decades, people have been trying to figure out how to create a cigarette without many of the...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
For decades, people have been trying to figure out how to create a cigarette without many of the downsides. Cigarettes sans the things that make smoking the biggest cause of preventable death in America like tar, carcinogens, etc. Cigarette companies tried to create “safe,”...
xkcd.com
CrowdStrike
5 months ago
Trying to Understand...
That's The Truth? In politics, well, it depends.
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Free Will: A Fairy Tale?
a week ago
Atoms vs Bits
Mr. UFOs Go to Washington On Wednesday, the House Oversight Committee had a hearing on UAP (aka UFOs). Most of what was said...
a month ago
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a month ago
On Wednesday, the House Oversight Committee had a hearing on UAP (aka UFOs). Most of what was said is already public knowledge, but it allowed witnesses to testify under oath, get information into the congressional record, and publicize the issue. The highlights: High-level...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Some thoughts on mobile People tend to lump smartphones and tablets together as “mobile”. This can be misleading. Ask people...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
People tend to lump smartphones and tablets together as “mobile”. This can be misleading. Ask people who run internet companies and they’ll…
AFAR Media - Travel...
7 Must-Try Winter Activities in Park City, Utah
3 days ago
Retail Design Blog
VARIO Shanghai Flagship Store by Yuan Shi Design Shanghai-based custom home brand VARIO embraces its brand philosophy of “Haipai Elegance,” with a...
a month ago
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a month ago
Shanghai-based custom home brand VARIO embraces its brand philosophy of “Haipai Elegance,” with a focus on Haipai culture. By blending...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sleddy Problems Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Deontology, as is well-known, says you should feed...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Deontology, as is well-known, says you should feed the flame of Gornak with the flesh of man. Today's News:
Retail Design Blog
Yiwu Place Public Shopping Precinct The city of Yiwu has unique trading culture and a thriving economy of commerce. The city has...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
The city of Yiwu has unique trading culture and a thriving economy of commerce. The city has witnessed great historical...
TheCollector
Bacon and Monet Landscapes to Lead Christie’s Evening Sale undefined
10 months ago
The American Scholar
Bubble Girl The kidnapping that once riveted the nation The post Bubble Girl appeared first on The American...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
The kidnapping that once riveted the nation The post Bubble Girl appeared first on The American Scholar.
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Important Christian Figures? (150 – 200 CE) undefined
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Light and Dark Side of the API Economy The 'API Economy' is a popular term for VC's and tech media, however Developers seem ironically out...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The 'API Economy' is a popular term for VC's and tech media, however Developers seem ironically out of the loop despite their central importance to the whole story. Here's my explanation, together with a dash of economics and social implications.
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A Small Cabin-Like Structure That Can Be Compressed When Not In Use Architects Juan Ruiz and Amelia Tapia have shared some photos of their latest design, a small...
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Both Are True
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Books have radically changed my life. One of the original purposes of this website was to share the learnings I had from them – read through my personal lenses, layered with the...
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This was the tagline of Ethereum, and it’s really smart. Sadly, I feel they have lost their way with Proof of Stake, and wish they would go back to focusing on building a reasonable world computer. In 2024, it’s still painfully annoying to stand up a database. This is the only...
Laetitia@Work
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Memory has no conscience and little sense of good taste. It’s our most intimate capacity yet often feels alien, as though we were recalling the memories of someone else. In the past, of course, we were someone else. As a kid I watched ridiculous amounts of television, which is...
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How my views on financial privacy have evolved over a decade I began exploring the topic of financial privacy and payment anonymity in the early days of this...
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I began exploring the topic of financial privacy and payment anonymity in the early days of this blog. Over the past decade, my views have shifted significantly—here's how and why. Rereading my earliest mentions of financial privacy, they now seem a bit... idealistic? extreme?...
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A short passage from this morning’s Office of Readings in the Breviary (Friday, Week 10 of Ordinary Time)
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It has been another incredible year of printmaking inspiration. We've put together a round-up of all our fantastic Meet the Maker artists from 2024, alongside their advice or inspiration for other printmakers. Read through for a wholesome dose of printmaking magic, and click...
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Rust has a lot of nice things that make life easy. One of the least discussed ones is also one of my favorites. It's a little nugget in the standard library that makes handling possible failures a lot easier. And it's not even baked in—it just falls out from the type...
Calculated Risk
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Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: 4th Look at Local Housing Markets in November A brief excerpt: The NAR is scheduled to release November Existing Home sales tomorrow, Thursday, December 19th at 10:00 AM. The consensus is for 3.97 million SAAR, up from 3.96...
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Forget the days of aimlessly wandering Walmart's aisles, clutching a crumpled grocery list and battling for the last box of Oreos. The retail giant is about to revolutionize your shopping experience with a generative AI makeover. Imagine this: You're planning a Super Bowl bash,...
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
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A recreation of the military sandals. (Photo: Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation) Whether you’re putting together a stage play, a film, or a television series, if the story is set in ancient Rome, you know you’re going to have to get a lot of sandals on order. This...
The Map is Mostly...
Careful technology Dear friends, There is a commonplace opinion that technology and the natural world, or that...
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Dear friends, There is a commonplace opinion that technology and the natural world, or that technological pursuits and natural pursuits, are at odds. An example: I think this is a false position. But if this kind of sentiment is so often repeated, its worth thinking about why it...
Open Culture
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For obvious reasons, most art produced under oppressive regimes comes off as painstakingly inoffensive. For equally obvious reasons, the rare works that criticize the regime tend to do so rather obliquely. This wasn’t so much the case with The Hand, the most famous short by Czech...
Fonts In Use: Blog...
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Contributed by Maria Paganopoulou Photo: Maria Paganopoulou. Delfys Feminist Archive, Athens. License: All Rights Reserved. Covers of the magazine Póli Ginaikón Marsha Rowe, editor of the groundbreaking feminist magazine Spare Rib, famously recalled: “Suddenly, words...
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Connecting Solar to the Grid is Harder Than You Think [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] On June 4, 2022, a small piece...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] On June 4, 2022, a small piece of equipment (called a lightning arrestor) at a power plant in Odessa, Texas failed, causing part of the plant to trip offline. It was a fairly typical fault that happens from...
Open Culture
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Apart from his comedic, dramatic, and literary endeavors, Stephen Fry is widely known for his avowed technophilia. He once wrote a column on that theme, “Dork Talk,” for the Guardian, in whose inaugural dispatch he laid out his credentials by claiming to have been the owner of...
Flashbak
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Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 –  2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective, a monograph from Thames and Hudson. The books features many of Leiter’s most gorgeous pictures, not least of all the street photograph above of a woman sat at a cafe in Paris in...
Handprinted - Blog
Mark Marking - Using Etching Tools When you’ve degreased and prepared your plate for etching, there are a variety of tools you can use...
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When you’ve degreased and prepared your plate for etching, there are a variety of tools you can use to mark into the surface. Any marks made into the surface of the grounds will expose your plate to the mordant. When etched, these marks will become sunken areas for ink to sit,...
Sam Altman
A Clarification I made a point in this post inelegantly in a way that was easy to misunderstand, so I’d like to...
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I made a point in this post inelegantly in a way that was easy to misunderstand, so I’d like to clarify it. I didn’t mean that we need to tolerate brilliant homophobic jerks in the lab so that we can have scientific progress.  Although there are famous...
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Trains are an integral part of daily life in Japan, supporting commutes, errands and all other forms of daily life. And while their existence can be taken for granted, their many forms and colors add to the uniqueness of each neighborhood they traverse. Capturing the scenery of...
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This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help early-stage founders tackle the […] The post Going live with your SaaS: The Launch day appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Old Structures...
Reality Is Better Looking Above, another hotel appointment card, this time from the Gilsey House. The hotel was completed in...
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Above, another hotel appointment card, this time from the Gilsey House. The hotel was completed in 1871, with that incredible cast-iron facade constructed by Daniel Badger. It’s still there, over 150 years later, now apartments. The engraving on the card really doesn’t do the...
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This is a complex tale I will attempt to make simple(ish). I’ve (re)learned more than I cared to about the details of pipes, signals, and certain system calls – and the solution is still elusive. For some time now, I have been using NNCP to back up my files. These backups are...
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The AI tool for ADHD/ADD? Our tool, mymind, is created for all kinds of real minds.
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We last looked at 3D-printed buildings about three years ago. At the time, the technology was still nascent. Although there was a lot of enthusiasm, many efforts were academic, with little commercial deployment, and practitioners were experimenting with a wide range of...
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journal – Winnie Lim
on imagining myself as a game character On most days, I don’t feel like doing anything. This non-feeling taken to the extreme, can also mean...
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On most days, I don’t feel like doing anything. This non-feeling taken to the extreme, can also mean I may not feel like living. Everything including breathing itself can feel like a chore. I am not...
CONTEMPORIST
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Architecture and interiors firm MRDK have designed a modern retail store in Montreal, Canada, for Attitude, a company that specializes in plastic-free beauty products. The design of the space reflects their commitment to sustainability and a connection to nature, which is visible...
Escaping Flatland
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How to “FLOSS” as a Web Designer 2020-02-07 I have a profound respect for the open source community. I most likely wouldn’t have the skills or knowledge I do today with it. Unfortunately, when I was just starting out in “web dev” some 10 years ago, proprietary software was the...
Seth's Blog
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Media isn’t a magazine or a website. It’s a system. We can learn to see the system and contribute to it with leverage. There are three elements to consider in a media system that’s worth a professional creator’s time: Systems are changed by technology. When desktop publishing...
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How many High Streets are there in London? Here's a map. Acton, Barkingside, Barnet, Beckenham, Brentford, Bromley, Carshalton, Cheam, Chislehurst, Cowley, Cranford, Croydon, Downe, Ealing, Edgware, Farnborough, Feltham, Green Street Green, Hampton, Hampton Wick, Harefield,...
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A call to cite Black women and gender minorities Theoretical astrophysicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein recently unveiled the Cite Black Women+ in...
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Theoretical astrophysicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein recently unveiled the Cite Black Women+ in Physics and Astronomy Bibliography.
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Common Edge
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In recent years, the uncontrolled reentries of the spent 22-metric ton core stages of China’s new Long March 5B heavy lift launch vehicle, used to orbit […]
TheCollector
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Contemporist...
A Home Filled With Rustic Italian Charm Was The Client's Request For This Renovation Architecture and interior design studio Bradley VanDerStraeten has shared photos of a Victorian...
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Architecture and interior design studio Bradley VanDerStraeten has shared photos of a Victorian terrace house renovation in London, England, that was designed with Italian charm, and centered around a sociable kitchen and its pantry.
TheCollector
The United States Bill of Rights: History & Overview undefined
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Joel Gascoigne
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Startup ideas that involve two sided markets are notoriously difficult to get off the ground. It’s the age-old chicken and egg problem. You need lots of buyers for the sellers to be interested,...
Escaping Flatland
Look for people who likes the illegible you of today, not your past achievements Though we talk about “the individual vs the collective,” as if that dichotomy is an eternal truth...
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Though we talk about “the individual vs the collective,” as if that dichotomy is an eternal truth about the world, there exist groups that encourage divergence and healthy individuation.
The Works in...
Issue 11: Nuclear sandboxes Plus: Why Britain can’t seem to fix its housing market, gene-edited super-rice, and one weird trick...
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Plus: Why Britain can’t seem to fix its housing market, gene-edited super-rice, and one weird trick to reverse climate change.
Saturday Morning...
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Josh Collinsworth
A response to "Defending Open Source: Protecting the Future of WordPress" I feel it's important to issue a critical reading of Automattic's post, as it doesn't seem to offer...
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I feel it's important to issue a critical reading of Automattic's post, as it doesn't seem to offer much of a serious or objective examination of the issues at hand. Rather, the post unfortunately reads as something more akin to a puff piece, or corporate propaganda.
Epic Web Dev
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A Beautiful Site
Moving from Stencil to LitElement Over the weekend, I finished migrating Shoelace from Stencil to LitElement. Even though consumers of...
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over a year ago
Over the weekend, I finished migrating Shoelace from Stencil to LitElement. Even though consumers of the library won't see much of a difference, this was a major overhaul of Shoelace's internals. Naturally, such a big change brings questions from the community, such as "what were...
xkcd.com
Crossword Constructors
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Seth's Blog
Consider the WordWindow Computer adventure games were possible in the 1980s because of a bit of code called a ‘parser’. You...
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a year ago
Computer adventure games were possible in the 1980s because of a bit of code called a ‘parser’. You could type, “pick up the axe” and the computer would understand the phrase and follow your commands. In italics, because it didn’t understand anything, it simple broke your...
TokyoDev
僕がDoorkeeperを売却した理由について This article is also available [in...
over a year ago
Paolo Amoroso's...
Reactions to my post on cancelling the Replit subscription <![CDATA[A few days ago I blogged on why I cancelled my paid plan to Replit. It was a short...
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a year ago
<![CDATA[A few days ago I blogged on why I cancelled my paid plan to Replit. It was a short personal note to record my decision as I often do to document my experiences with tools and products, possibly of interest to the few dozen regulars per day who read my blog. A day on...
Seth's Blog
The thing about Hobson People talk about Hobson’s choice as if it’s always a bad thing. A liveryman in pre-industrial...
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a year ago
People talk about Hobson’s choice as if it’s always a bad thing. A liveryman in pre-industrial London, he rented horses. And every customer was allowed to take the horse closest to the door. Hobson’s choice is no choice at all. Of course, this system meant that the horses were...
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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a year ago
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...
Koos Looijesteijn -...
&nbsp; Spent most of the day in bed with a cold. Head feels pretty clear though. I feel bad, but I’m...
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Spent most of the day in bed with a cold. Head feels pretty clear though. I feel bad, but I’m...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Gratitude For a Web That Tries Not to Break Chris wrote a response to my wondering-out-loud remarks about whether logical properties make CSS...
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7 months ago
Chris wrote a response to my wondering-out-loud remarks about whether logical properties make CSS easier to learn. His response is great. And his tabular comparison of properties is short and concise and punchy in the way only Chris Coyier can reason about CSS. His post actually...
Made by Ollin
Maple Diffusion I ported Stable Diffusion to my phone
over a year ago
Max Countryman
Data for Decisions Data is a powerful tool that can have an outsize impact on how we develop products and operate our...
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a year ago
Data is a powerful tool that can have an outsize impact on how we develop products and operate our businesses. That said, the value of data is rarely the data itself but instead the insights we derive from it. In order to ensure these insights are meaningful and impactful it's...
General Robots
Writing Libraries for AIs to Use Donald Knuth tells us, “Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers...
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Donald Knuth tells us, “Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute.” but in the future we have a third category. I think that programs and libraries (and programming languages?) that lend themselves to effective AI assistance will win...
Noahpinion
How Latin America started to beat inequality It can be done.
8 months ago
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 30 October-5 November 2023 Things to do for under a fiver.
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Londonist
Enchanting Chocolate Shops In London, For When You Need A Cocoa Fix Top-notch chocolatiers across town.
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Rest of World -...
Nigeria’s dating app for people who want to stop dating and get hitched already What started out as a matchmaking WhatsApp group has turned into a popular dating app with over 2.1...
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UX Collective
Making good decisions Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
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Entrepreneur's Edge
Revenue is easy, profit is harder The fundamentals needed to run a business in the next economic cycle.
a year ago
Old Structures...
Not Quite Qualifying One of the points that I felt has to be made in discussing early skyscrapers in The Structure of...
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One of the points that I felt has to be made in discussing early skyscrapers in The Structure of Skyscrapers in America was that the issues discussed apply to buildings outside the specific boundaries of my research. My research was specifically on buildings ten stories and...
Moneyness
Do bitcoin ETFs conflict with bitcoin's original ethos? Some folks are suggesting that a bitcoin ETF is absurd because it doesn't fit with Bitcoin's...
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Some folks are suggesting that a bitcoin ETF is absurd because it doesn't fit with Bitcoin's original ethos. On the contrary, I think it's a nice snug fit. It would be a misunderstanding of bitcoin's history to assume that it was the idealism of cypherpunk-ism that gave birth to...
Math Is Still...
In New Paradox, Black Holes Appear to Evade Heat Death The puzzling behavior of black hole interiors has led researchers to propose a new physical law: the...
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a year ago
The puzzling behavior of black hole interiors has led researchers to propose a new physical law: the second law of quantum complexity. The post In New Paradox, Black Holes Appear to Evade Heat Death first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Bryan Braun - Blog
Unusual Git IDs You can search Github for unusual commit IDs: There are over 2k commits starting with...
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You can search Github for unusual commit IDs: There are over 2k commits starting with 0000000! While looking for commits like these, I started to become suspicious that people were intentionally modifying their commits IDs to be unusual: A commit ID of eeeeeee, with a message...
Christopher Butler
The Top Ten Hitchcock Films This is my personal ranking, subject to change at any time. Rear Window North by...
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This is my personal ranking, subject to change at any time. Rear Window North by Northwest Vertigo Rebecca Rope The Man Who Knew Too Much Spellbound Notorious To Catch a Thief Strangers on a Train
diamond geezer
Overground renaming - Severe Delays One thing that happens when transport deadlines slip is that some things happen anyway, things that...
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One thing that happens when transport deadlines slip is that some things happen anyway, things that were supposed to be associated with the launch. The weekend Crossrail was supposed to open but didn't, for example, Adidas inexplicably released a set of purple trainers with a 3D...
Nelson's Weblog
Windy.com is good weather I’ve found a mobile app for weather I finally like enough to be happy about paying for. Windy, best...
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a year ago
I’ve found a mobile app for weather I finally like enough to be happy about paying for. Windy, best known for its website. The mobile app has extra phone features like notifications and home screen widgets. Also its UI is a little more understandable. Windy makes a strong first...
Joel Gascoigne's...
Build Week at Buffer: What it is and how we’re approaching it Build Week at Buffer: What it is and how we’re approaching it Note: this was originally posted on...
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over a year ago
Build Week at Buffer: What it is and how we’re approaching it Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. We’ve dedicated the week of August 22nd to a brand new internal initiative called Build Week. We’ll all be putting aside our regular work for a single week to come...
Max Rozen
2023: Focusing on a single product pays off The first year where I managed to keep my focus entirely on a single project.
a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.12.0 Shared dashboards, global annotations, retention table improvements and a metric ton of bug fixes....
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over a year ago
Shared dashboards, global annotations, retention table improvements and a metric ton of bug fixes. This week's PostHog array has it all. If you're…
Anecdotal Evidence
'I Have Finally Written on Politics" The April 1970 issue of the now-defunct New American Review included one of those self-important...
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a year ago
The April 1970 issue of the now-defunct New American Review included one of those self-important symposia beloved by editors, this one titled “The Writer’s Situation.” A surprising participant was J.V. Cunningham, who seldom played the conventional literary game. A poet, critic,...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Forces that affect whether a large company will buy your product (according to Marc Andreessen) From Marc Andreessen’s “Moby Dick Theory of Big Companies“: You can count on there being a whole...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
From Marc Andreessen’s “Moby Dick Theory of Big Companies“: You can count on there being a whole host of impinging forces that will affect…
Tom Blomfield
Monzo growth I’ve been asked a few times recently how we got customers to sign up to Monzo in the early years and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been asked a few times recently how we got customers to sign up to Monzo in the early years and I haven’t been able to give a satisfactory answer in a sufficiently short space of time. I thought I’d write out my thoughts in a longer piece so I can feel less bad about giving...
diamond geezer
Route 455 London's next dead bus 455: Wallington to Purley, Old Lodge Lane Location: outer London,...
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10 months ago
London's next dead bus 455: Wallington to Purley, Old Lodge Lane Location: outer London, south Length of journey: 13 miles, 85 minutes The 455, which dies soon, weaves a ridiculously contorted route around the broader outskirts of Croydon. It's particularly wiggly at the...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Solve CORS once and for all with Netlify Dev _Published on [Alligator.io](https://alligator.io/nodejs/solve-cors-once-and-for-all-netlify-dev/)_
over a year ago
Londonist
WrapUp London: Donate Your Unused Coat To Someone Who Needs It This Winter A small gesture goes a long way 🙂
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Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “The Poet’s Occasional Alternative” by Grace Paley appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Passivhaus buildings are designed to be almost completely airtight, with no unsealed gaps in the exterior of the building. While a typical home might struggle to achieve that, there are ways to reduce unwanted draughts and heat loss. Continuing our series of Passivhaus hacks,...
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I left school in 2011, and I graduated from university in 2014. When I was done, I had six plastic crates full of paper – exercise books, worksheets, school newsletters – everything I’d accumulated over nearly two decades of education. It was a lot. 🤯 I’m trying to reduce this...
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This quarter I got to work on a really exciting project in collaboration with Adobe XD. The brief was slightly open to interpretation and one of the themes put forward back in February was “Celebrating the good in the world” by creating content that speaks to a cultural trend or...
Rest of World -...
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A year after India banned the Shein app, Newme emerged to fill the gap. Founder Sumit Jasoria talks about Gen Z fashion in this "country of countries."
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This rarely comes up in focus group data. It doesn’t come up when a school talks to students, or a conductor asks the orchestra. It doesn’t come up when the gym owner surveys potential members or when a chef or playwright thinks about building something new. But of course, that’s...
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I’m generally anti-graffiti. If the graffiti itself doesn’t cause permanent damage to the wall it’s on, the cleaning probably will; the content generally ranges from idiotic (here’s my name – isn’t it impressive?) to puerile (pictures of genitalia being the most common); and it’s...
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On Mount Everest and in the Peruvian Andes, Tracie Seimon uses DNA to study how species and ecosystems respond to climate change, pathogens and other influences. The post She Tracks the DNA of Elusive Species That Hide in Harsh Places first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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"When a plane crashes, a bomb explodes, a city floods or a pandemic begins, Lucy Easthope's phone starts to ring" says the blurb to her recent book subtitled Stories of Love, Loss and Hope from an Expert in Disaster, and goes on to report rapturous praise from critics and...
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First up, some very tame woods, with a picnic bench: About a mile away, a peaceful – if rainy and foggy – stretch of water, as seen from a causeway: This is, against most people’s expectations, the Bronx. More specifically, it’s Pelham Bay Park, and Eastchester Bay, where the...
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We left Long Point Canada bright and early, headed back to the United States to check out Niagara Falls. We originally planned to see the falls from the Canadian side because the view is better, but then there was a lot of traffic and on the map it didn't look like there was much...
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This map, which originally appeared in the Community atlas, has been revised. The typeface has been changed to Cornerstone, which is used in the logo for the Black Lives Matter movement. How did you decide to map what you mapped for the Community atlas?  That was the question...
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My name is Johan Link, a 23-year-old Swiss architecture student with a deep passion for design. Over the past year,...
The Marginalian
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There are thousands of ways to express encouragement and enthusiasm and support. Few of them require a blood oath or even much inconvenience. “I’m thrilled that you’re contributing.” “Can’t wait to see how this turns out.” “I know someone who really needs to hear about this.” “Go...
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When my brother and I were little, we sometimes played video games on weekend mornings, before our parents woke up. We owned a 3DO console, which ran the game Gex. Gex is named after its main character, a gecko. Stepping … Continue reading →
Seth's Blog
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Important hills usually get much steeper at the top. 99% of the training in competitive athletics is devoted to the last 1% of performance. A tenth of a second. The same is true for squeezing the last bit of performance out of a car, a grape or a semiconductor. And healthcare,...
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The unspoken secret about new company formation is that you need to get lucky. Roll the dice, get a business outcome. Capital allocation matters because it allows you more skill, less luck, on the journey to a large outcome.
Saturday Morning...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Free movie idea: guy goes on a road trip to find himself, keeps asexually creating duplicates. Title: Buds Today's News:
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Every founder, leader, sales rep and person on a dating app has heard this. Why did the Wizard ask Dorothy to bring him the broomstick of the Wicked Witch? It’s not because he needed a broomstick. It’s because he wanted Dorothy to go away. If you send someone away to get...
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Please be on the alert for: Spam that includes your name, address, phone number and other personal details. Phone calls that are from human-sounding bots that pretend to be from friends or trusted brands. Job offers. Video mashups that include AI-generated people that seem to be...
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Today marks the 77th day since I got onboarded to Clubhouse. Clubhouse, for those not familiar with it, is essentially an audio-first social network. It’s kind of a mix between Reddit and a podcast. An interactive radio show. The app lets you jump into different chat rooms and...
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Highlights TinyPilot’s EU distributor is on track to begin sales by the end of August. I’ve freed up time by delegating responsibilities to my teammates. I miraculously became unstuck on two tasks that have been blocking work for months. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I...
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Under a secular mindset, intuition is all about you — your wants, needs, passions, and desires. A heavenly, God-inspired intuition is different. The post A Divine Intuition appeared first on David Perell.
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A Federal judge ruled last week that the emergency banking measures taken to end the Ottawa convoy protest in 2022 contravened the protestor's rights. In this post I want to provide my reading of this particular ruling and what is at stake for Canadians and their bank...
Old Structures...
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Residential construction in New York can be broken into groups in a number of ways, but the most straightforward is not known to the general public, and that’s by era of regulation. For just under a hundred years, multiple dwellings – AKA apartment houses – have been governed by...
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Space Matrix designed and built American Express’ Bengaluru office as a vibrant vertical micro-campus, prioritizing empathy, flexibility, and human-centric design...
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Halfway through our stay on St. George we had a little problem called Friday night. The problem was that the campground at St George was full for Friday night. One night missing in a string of twelve nights. We knew that when we came out here, but I was really hoping something...
Saturday Morning...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Toot toot! Go the trumpets! Today's News: Hey! If you want a signed Bea Wolf or A City on Mars, or Soonish, *or* Phil Plait's new book Under Alien Skies, buy here.
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For the first post of the new calendar year, here are a few items that I thought were interesting: Here is a feature article in Science that talks about the experimental quest for detecting Majorana fermions in solid state systems, bookended by the story of Majorana's...
Res Obscura
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A recent discussion about the challenges of direct-to-consumer marketing of a skincare product ended with one participant describing the hard part with, “nothing to ad.” She was referring to how much the thread had covered, but the pun wasn’t lost on us. Social media offered an...
The American Scholar
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The Wandering...
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The Maps for Books collection has a new page: Peter Erasmus’s Buffalo Days and Nights. In 1920, Henry Thompson, an Alberta newspaperman, began interviewing 87-year-old Peter Erasmus, who lived near him in the area of Whitefish Lake, Alberta. Erasmus, who had been born in 1833 in...
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Visiting attractions in Greenwich keeps getting inexorably more expensive. And not just because admission prices have increased but because buildings that used to be free to enter started charging money. Royal Greenwich Observatory had free admission between 2001 and 2011, then...
Founder's blog
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Here's a little story of how we sped up our SaaS backend with a one-liner magic silver bullet The problem Our SaaS is powered by a huge multi terabyte "multi tenant" relational database cluster. Some tables are more than 200 GB - this is crazy, to be honest. And for the...
Paul Graham: Essays
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Paul Graham: Essays
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journal – Winnie Lim
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A few months ago I joked with my partner that we should visit Osaka at the end of the year. She seriously replied that if so we could visit a sewing studio...
Classical Wisdom
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Dorset’s Isle of Purbeck isn’t an island it’s a peninsula. It was probably more isolated and difficult to reach in previous centuries. So maybe it felt like an island to people back when the English Channel was the primary “road” to the outside world. Even now it’s a...
Londonist
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Keith Haring was a magnetic force in the 1980s New York City art scene, his vibrant street art redefining the boundaries between high art and pop culture; his animated figures, marked by bold lines and vivid colours, becoming potent symbols of social commentary on issues like...
Escaping Flatland
Becoming perceptive This is the second part of an essay series that began with “Everything that turned out well in my...
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This is the second part of an essay series that began with “Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design process.” It can be read on its own.
Math Is Still...
What Has the Pandemic Taught Us About Vaccines? Should Covid-19 vaccines be judged by how well they prevent disease or how well they prevent death?...
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Should Covid-19 vaccines be judged by how well they prevent disease or how well they prevent death? Anna Durbin, a public health expert and vaccine researcher, talks with Steven Strogatz about the science behind vaccines. The post What Has the Pandemic Taught Us About...
Anecdotal Evidence
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In 1972, Daryl Hine, the editor of Poetry, requested poems “protesting the acceleration of the undeclared Indo-Chinese War” for a special issue to be published in September of that year. Hine said he would be “grateful to consider any poem on this terrible and topical subject...
Paul Graham: Essays
How You Know
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Tony Finch's blog
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Following my previous post on rate limiting with GCRA, leaky buckets without the buckets, I reviewed my old notes on rate limiting for Exim. I thought I should do a new write-up of the ideas that I hope will be more broadly interesting. Exponential rate limiting uses an...
Diaries of Note
They will pay in full Lena Mukhina was sixteen when the German army invaded the Soviet Union in June of 1941, setting off...
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Lena Mukhina was sixteen when the German army invaded the Soviet Union in June of 1941, setting off a chain of events that would lead to the Siege of Leningrad—a brutal and devastating blockade that lasted more than two years and led to the deaths of 1.5 million people. Mukhina...
TheCollector
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Birchtree
2 weeks to go and I don't think I'll have to eat that AirPod Last month I made the courageous promise that I would eat an AirPod if a 9to5Mac writer's prediction...
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Last month I made the courageous promise that I would eat an AirPod if a 9to5Mac writer's prediction that "[b]efore the end of the year, I have no doubt Apple’s AI features—especially what’s coming in 18.2—will become
David Perell
Learning to Actually Listen I’ve been listening the wrong way my entire life — with just my ears. True listening is a...
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a year ago
I’ve been listening the wrong way my entire life — with just my ears. True listening is a totalizing, full-body experience. The post Learning to Actually Listen appeared first on David Perell.
Wanderingspace
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From processor Ted Styrk, “The Juno Jupiter orbiter flew by Io, Jupiter's super-volcanic moon, on May 16, returning arguably the best imagery of the moon since the Galileo Orbiter around the beginning of this century. Definitely the best since New Horizons in 2006.”
Flashbak
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Written by American journalist Ambrose Bierce (24 June 1842 – c.1914), The Devil’s Dictionary, aka The Cynic’s Word Book, consists of common words followed by humorous and satirical definitions. The book was a compilation of Bierce’s columns for The Wasp (1881–1860 plus) and The...
TheCollector
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Ruud van Asseldonk
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Math Is Still...
Cryptography Tricks Make a Hard Problem a Little Easier Researchers have shown how to find the simplest description of a data set faster than by simply ...
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Researchers have shown how to find the simplest description of a data set faster than by simply checking every possibility. The post Cryptography Tricks Make a Hard Problem a Little Easier first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Archinect - Features
Discussing Paid Research Opportunities for M.Arch Students at the UW-Milwaukee SARUP In November 2022, we connected with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's School of Architecture &...
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In November 2022, we connected with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's School of Architecture & Urban Planning (SARUP) to unpack its Mellows Graduate Research Positions (formerly called the Mellowes Master’s Research Assistantships).  For the 2024-2025 school year, SARUP is...
Steve Klabnik
Moving from Sinatra to Rails
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Fonts In Use: Blog...
The Mystery of the Dune Font Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: www.worthpoint.com License: All Rights Reserved....
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Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: www.worthpoint.com License: All Rights Reserved. In the six decades since the publication of the original Dune novel in 1965, the science fiction franchise has gone through many different typographic identities. Notable examples...
diamond geezer
Thames Water "Sorry, we might go bust next year," is not what you want to hear from your water company. Ideally...
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"Sorry, we might go bust next year," is not what you want to hear from your water company. Ideally we wouldn't have water companies at all, we'd have one competent publicly owned authority, but we are where we are and this is the shitshow we've ended up with. So I wondered, how...
Both Are True
The ONE Amazon Prime "Big Deal Days" (tf?) Deal they DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT Read this asap before Bezos & Co delete it !!! Surely I'm in jail by now, please spread the word!!!
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A Weekly Dose of...
Archidose, 1999–2024 After 25 years of running this blog under various names — all of which can be lumped under the...
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After 25 years of running this blog under various names — all of which can be lumped under the "Archidose" monicker — I've decided to shut it down, moving this hobby, this labor of love, to Substack, which I have used since mid-2021 and where I will continue to send out weekly...
Joel Gascoigne
6 suggestions for an aspiring founder * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * This article is...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * This article is inspired by Startup Edition [http://startupedition.com] in response to “What advice would you give young entrepreneurs?” I feel incredibly lucky that I managed to jump on board...
The Great Discontent...
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Sheyam Ghieth (she/they) is an artist and queer Egyptian-American abolitionist known for her work on the comedy-drama television series Ramy, FX’s The Americans, and the web series BROTHERS. They now live in Portland, OR, where they are prioritizing queer joy as a radical act of...
Asterisk
The Art of Asking Questions Everyone seems to agree that self-report questions are fraught with lies, biases, errors, and other...
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Everyone seems to agree that self-report questions are fraught with lies, biases, errors, and other inaccuracies. We all use them anyway. How can we ask them better?
Rest of World -...
The company teaching influencers how to get rich without going viral Hotmart is quietly turning even micro-influencers into millionaires.
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Retail Design Blog
Hermès Turning Wheels of Imagination window display by Marcel van Doorn For the coming summer season, the Hermès flagship store in Amsterdam has once again engaged with a...
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For the coming summer season, the Hermès flagship store in Amsterdam has once again engaged with a talented Dutch creative—set...
Saturday Morning...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: In a couple years it'll be time for the pro-robot anti-nature SMBC collection. Today's News:
Noahpinion
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Classical Wisdom
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Musings on Markets
Data Update 2 for 2024: A Stock Comeback - The Low Expectations Game! Heading into 2023, US equities looked like they were heading into a sea of troubles, with inflation...
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Heading into 2023, US equities looked like they were heading into a sea of troubles, with inflation out of control and a recession on the horizon. While stocks had their ups and downs during the year, they ended the year strong, and recouped, at least in the aggregate, most of...
The Rational Walk
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