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Open Culture
They Study Authoritarianism. And They’re Leaving the U.S.: Why Three Yale Professors Have Moved to... Three Yale professors—Timothy Snyder, Jason Stanley and Marci Shore–have spent their careers...
a month ago
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They Study Authoritarianism. And They’re Leaving the U.S.: Why Three Yale Professors Have Moved to U. Toronto

from Open Culture [alt+shift+b] in creative

a month ago
Three Yale professors—Timothy Snyder, Jason Stanley and Marci Shore–have spent their careers studying fascism and authoritarianism. They know the signs of emerging authoritarianism when they see it. Now, they’re seeing those signs here in the United States, and they’re not...
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Fonts In Use – Blog...
“Sisterhood is Blooming” poster Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: collections.museumca.org License: All Rights Reserved. The...
over a year ago
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“Sisterhood is Blooming” poster

from Fonts In Use – Blog Only [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: collections.museumca.org License: All Rights Reserved. The “Sisterhood is Blooming / Springtime Will Never Be the Same” poster was originally produced in the early 1970s by the Chicago Women's Graphics Collective, an organization founded...
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Unfiltered by Tim...
If You Want to Be a Millionaire, You Need to Be Nicheless Being nicheless is a higher state of consciousness
8 months ago
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If You Want to Be a Millionaire, You Need to Be Nicheless

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8 months ago
Being nicheless is a higher state of consciousness
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Calculated Risk
March Employment Preview On Friday at 8:30 AM ET, the BLS will release the employment report for March. The consensus is for...
2 months ago
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March Employment Preview

from Calculated Risk [alt+shift+b] in finance

2 months ago
On Friday at 8:30 AM ET, the BLS will release the employment report for March. The consensus is for 135,000 jobs added, and for the unemployment rate to be unchanged at 4.1%. We estimate nonfarm payrolls rose by 150k in March, slightly above consensus ... We estimate that the...
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Patrick Kayongo
On Leaving Coffee It’s not the smell of the brew that you miss most Though the scent certainly does do something It’s...
a year ago
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On Leaving Coffee

from Patrick Kayongo [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
It’s not the smell of the brew that you miss most Though the scent certainly does do something It’s not the memory of the dark beans that haunt your thoughts Though their beauty can’t be unseen It’s not the burst of energy from the first sip Though it’s hard to find other means...
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Articles
Your idea needs a passionate believer
over a year ago
3

Your idea needs a passionate believer

from Articles [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
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ByteofDev
State of the Web: Serverless Functions What are serverless functions, why do they matter, and how are they currently used for server-side...
over a year ago
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State of the Web: Serverless Functions

from ByteofDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
What are serverless functions, why do they matter, and how are they currently used for server-side JavaScript?
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Louwrentius
Corsair CM PSU-750HX seems ok I had to replace my Coolermaster PSU and after some searching on the interweb, I chose the Corsair...
over a year ago
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Corsair CM PSU-750HX seems ok

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
I had to replace my Coolermaster PSU and after some searching on the interweb, I chose the Corsair CMPSU-750HX. One of the reasons is that Corsair states that this PSU can withstand 50 degree Celcius in continuous operation on full load. The package is very, clean, with all the...
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Adrian Hanft, III:...
Becoming Bobblehead Buddha We have been fooled into believing in the supremacy of human data processing. As a result of our...
over a year ago
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Becoming Bobblehead Buddha

from Adrian Hanft, III: RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
We have been fooled into believing in the supremacy of human data processing. As a result of our programming it becomes second nature for us to crush anything carrying a whiff of supernatural.
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Common Edge
Can We Create a Secular and Spiritual Architecture? It’s not spirituality that’s in retreat, but face to face rituals and customs.
a year ago
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Can We Create a Secular and Spiritual Architecture?

from Common Edge [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
It’s not spirituality that’s in retreat, but face to face rituals and customs.
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Mahmoud Felfel's...
Handling State & User Interactions In UI Applications An early thinking about handling your app or component state can help you to avoid many bugs even...
over a year ago
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Handling State & User Interactions In UI Applications

from Mahmoud Felfel's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
An early thinking about handling your app or component state can help you to avoid many bugs even before starting to write code.
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The Rational Walk
The Digest #213 Berkshire's Trillion Dollar Milestone, Will Buffett attempt to acquire Chubb?, Intel's Prospects,...
9 months ago
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The Digest #213

from The Rational Walk [alt+shift+b] in finance

9 months ago
Berkshire's Trillion Dollar Milestone, Will Buffett attempt to acquire Chubb?, Intel's Prospects, Personal Bots, Bitcoin, AI vs. Reality, "Useless" Knowledge, Jay Bowen, Rudy Havenstein
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TheCollector
Beyond the Pyramids: The Modern History of Egypt Ancient Egypt looms large in popular culture, from Indiana Jones to The Prince of Egypt. The country...
a month ago
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Beyond the Pyramids: The Modern History of Egypt

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

a month ago
Ancient Egypt looms large in popular culture, from Indiana Jones to The Prince of Egypt. The country is a treasure trove of pyramids, pharaohs, and nods to ancient cats. The country’s location at the nexus of its African home and of Asia and Europe has led to its fascinating...
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Flashbak
In The Living Room: At Home With The Working Class in The 1980s “Everything centred on the living room – it’s where everyone met and congregated” – Nick Walpington...
8 months ago
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In The Living Room: At Home With The Working Class in The 1980s

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

8 months ago
“Everything centred on the living room – it’s where everyone met and congregated” – Nick Walpington on his Living Room project     Time to step back inside British homes in the late 1980s with photographer Nick Waplington’s Living Room series. Published as a book in 1991, the...
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Odds and Ends of...
I think I've solved the AI copyright problem A sketch of what a grand bargain might look like
2 months ago
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I think I've solved the AI copyright problem

from Odds and Ends of History [alt+shift+b] in technology

2 months ago
A sketch of what a grand bargain might look like
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Flashbak
Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in...
a year ago
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Why James Bond Gave Up His Lady’s Gun For A Walther PPK

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

a year ago
Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) enjoyed reading spy novels and writing about guns in over a dozen books on the subject, including A Guide to Gun Collecting (1961), Guns Through the Ages (also 1961) and The British Over and Under Shotgun. In 1956 Boothoyd had read...
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TokyoDev
Working as an Indonesian Software Engineer in Japan Even though I love Japan, I had never planned to work there. Like many Indonesian children, my first...
a year ago
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Working as an Indonesian Software Engineer in Japan

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Even though I love Japan, I had never planned to work there. Like many Indonesian children, my first exposure to Japanese culture was through anime on Sunday morning TV broadcasts. At that time, I didn't even know it was called anime, let alone that it came from Japan since it...
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One Useful Thing
A guide to prompting AI (for what it is worth) A little bit of magic, but mostly just practice
over a year ago
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A guide to prompting AI (for what it is worth)

from One Useful Thing [alt+shift+b] in AI

over a year ago
A little bit of magic, but mostly just practice
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The Beauty of...
Tubular Belle (Køge Nord station, Køge, Denmark) Stuck on the E20 motorway heading for Copenhagen? Køge Nord station very much hopes you are...
over a year ago
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Tubular Belle (Køge Nord station, Køge, Denmark)

from The Beauty of Transport [alt+shift+b] in architecture

over a year ago
Stuck on the E20 motorway heading for Copenhagen? Køge Nord station very much hopes you are...
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Programming in the...
So Long, Prog21 I always intended "Programming in the 21st Century" to have a limited run. I knew since the entry...
over a year ago
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So Long, Prog21

from Programming in the 21st Century [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
I always intended "Programming in the 21st Century" to have a limited run. I knew since the entry from January 1, 2010, that I needed to end it. It just took a while.Recovering Programmer And now, an explanation. I started this blog to talk about issues tangentially related to...
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seangoedecke.com RSS...
Learning incident response with problem sets It’s hard to teach good incident response. A good understanding of how the system runs in production...
over a year ago
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Learning incident response with problem sets

from seangoedecke.com RSS feed [alt+shift+b] in AI

over a year ago
It’s hard to teach good incident response. A good understanding of how the system runs in production is essential, but how do you build that…
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The Rational Walk
The Digest #207 Claim Checks, Herodotus, Berkshire at record highs, Folly of certainty, Advance Auto Parts, Flawed...
11 months ago
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The Digest #207

from The Rational Walk [alt+shift+b] in finance

11 months ago
Claim Checks, Herodotus, Berkshire at record highs, Folly of certainty, Advance Auto Parts, Flawed memories, Lost knowledge, Todd Combs, Walter Schloss, Bob Noyce, Nietzsche, Lincoln
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watchTowr Labs
Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire - Mitel MiCollab CVE-2024-35286, CVE-2024-41713 And An 0day It is not just APTs that like to target telephone systems, but ourselves at watchTowr too. We can't...
6 months ago
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Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire - Mitel MiCollab CVE-2024-35286, CVE-2024-41713 And An 0day

from watchTowr Labs [alt+shift+b] in technology

6 months ago
It is not just APTs that like to target telephone systems, but ourselves at watchTowr too. We can't overstate the consequences of an attacker crossing the boundary from the 'computer system' to the 'telephone system'. We've seen attackers realise this in 2024,
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The Berkeley...
FIGS: Attaining XGBoost-level performance with the interpretability and speed of CART FIGS (Fast Interpretable Greedy-tree Sums): A method for building interpretable models by...
over a year ago
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FIGS: Attaining XGBoost-level performance with the interpretability and speed of CART

from The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

over a year ago
FIGS (Fast Interpretable Greedy-tree Sums): A method for building interpretable models by simultaneously growing an ensemble of decision trees in competition with one another. Recent machine-learning advances have led to increasingly complex predictive models, often at the cost...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Fairytale Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Fortunately it was one of those sexy romance...
2 weeks ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Fairytale

from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal [alt+shift+b] in comics

2 weeks ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Fortunately it was one of those sexy romance novels, so they didn't need the man's head for the cover. Today's News:
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99% Invisible
Medellin, Revisited [EPISODE] Back in the 1980s, Medellín, Colombia was in the middle of a full-blown crisis. 30 years ago, this...
9 months ago
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Medellin, Revisited [EPISODE]

from 99% Invisible [alt+shift+b] in architecture

9 months ago
Back in the 1980s, Medellín, Colombia was in the middle of a full-blown crisis. 30 years ago, this was the murder capital of the world. Pablo Escobar’s notorious Medellín Cartel was waging a bloody drug war right on the city’s streets. For Medellín’s residents, the threat of...
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Steve Klabnik
Some people understand REST and HTTP
over a year ago
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Some people understand REST and HTTP

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over a year ago
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David Perell
Zena Hitz: Liberal Arts Thinking My guest today is Zena Hitz, a tutor at St John’s and the author of an excellent book called Lost in...
over a year ago
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Zena Hitz: Liberal Arts Thinking

from David Perell [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
My guest today is Zena Hitz, a tutor at St John’s and the author of an excellent book called Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life. Her book explores the meaning and the value of learning for its own sake, through images and stories of bookworms,...
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lcamtuf’s thing
The untimely demise of an image upscaler ML-based image enhancement models are great. Unfortunately, some of them are great only once.
10 months ago
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The untimely demise of an image upscaler

from lcamtuf’s thing [alt+shift+b] in technology

10 months ago
ML-based image enhancement models are great. Unfortunately, some of them are great only once.
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CONTEMPORIST
A Material Palette Of Pale Brick, Concrete, And Timber Echoes This Home’s Coastal Site Architecture firm studioplusthree has shared photos of a project in Sydney, Australia, that included...
a year ago
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A Material Palette Of Pale Brick, Concrete, And Timber Echoes This Home’s Coastal Site

from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
Architecture firm studioplusthree has shared photos of a project in Sydney, Australia, that included the alterations and additions to an existing house. The home features a material palette of pale brick, concrete, and timber evoking the project’s coastal location and echoing the...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Pronounce Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Engish is easy. No conjugation - you just have to...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Pronounce

from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal [alt+shift+b] in comics

a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Engish is easy. No conjugation - you just have to memorize 50,000 words and you're good. Today's News:
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bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, January 2023 The Ware for January 2023 is shown below. Thanks to cpresser for contributing this wonderfully...
over a year ago
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Name that Ware, January 2023

from bunnie's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
The Ware for January 2023 is shown below. Thanks to cpresser for contributing this wonderfully photographed circuit board as this month’s entry.
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Seth's Blog
Some simple rules for source control Collaborating on documents and projects has never been easier, which is why we screw it up so often....
8 months ago
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Some simple rules for source control

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

8 months ago
Collaborating on documents and projects has never been easier, which is why we screw it up so often. Sharing and interacting with intent will save you heartache and wasted time. Some things to consider: Naming: Begin by naming your file with a digit and concept and a date....
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csvbase blog
My favourite API is a zipfile on the European Central Bank's website Simple data pipeline powertools: sqlite, pandas, gnuplot and friends
a year ago
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My favourite API is a zipfile on the European Central Bank's website

from csvbase blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

a year ago
Simple data pipeline powertools: sqlite, pandas, gnuplot and friends
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The Scholar's Stage
The Silicon Valley Canon: On the Paıdeía of the American Tech Elite I often draw a distinction between the political elites of Washington DC and the industrial elites...
10 months ago
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The Silicon Valley Canon: On the Paıdeía of the American Tech Elite

from The Scholar's Stage [alt+shift+b] in history

10 months ago
I often draw a distinction between the political elites of Washington DC and the industrial elites of Silicon Valley with a joke: in San Francisco reading books, and talking about what you have read, is a matter of high prestige. Not so in Washington DC. In Washington people...
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Kagi Blog
Orion browser features Orion ( https://browser.kagi.com ) may be a newcomer to the market, but it comes loaded with...
over a year ago
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Orion browser features

from Kagi Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Orion ( https://browser.kagi.com ) may be a newcomer to the market, but it comes loaded with features.
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The Honest Broker
Why Is Music Journalism Collapsing? This is a bigger problem that you can fix with a Pitchfork
a year ago
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Why Is Music Journalism Collapsing?

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a year ago
This is a bigger problem that you can fix with a Pitchfork
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Londonist
Buck's Fizz: How The Perennially Festive Drink Was Invented In A Mayfair Club It's over 100 years old.
a year ago
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Buck's Fizz: How The Perennially Festive Drink Was Invented In A Mayfair Club

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a year ago
It's over 100 years old.
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Nothing Human
Andrew Rose, part 2: solving coordination A longer and more chaotic follow-up conversation in which Andrew and I dive into the weeds of our...
5 months ago
37

Andrew Rose, part 2: solving coordination

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5 months ago
A longer and more chaotic follow-up conversation in which Andrew and I dive into the weeds of our differing approaches to solving coordination.
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sancho.dev
Cram tests: a hidden gem of dune
6 months ago
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Cram tests: a hidden gem of dune

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6 months ago
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ntietz.com blog -...
The five stages of incident response The scene: you're on call for a web app, and your pager goes off. Denial. No no no, the app can't be...
2 months ago
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The five stages of incident response

from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2 months ago
The scene: you're on call for a web app, and your pager goes off. Denial. No no no, the app can't be down. There's no way it's down. Why would it be down? It isn't down. Sure, my pager went off. And sure, the metrics all say it's down and the customer is complaining that it's...
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TheCollector
New British Museum Book Celebrates Hiroshige’s Lasting Legacy A new exhibition and publication bring to life the work of Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858), one of...
3 weeks ago
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New British Museum Book Celebrates Hiroshige’s Lasting Legacy

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

3 weeks ago
A new exhibition and publication bring to life the work of Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858), one of Japan’s most popular and prolific artists. Hiroshige: artist of the open road presents a rarely seen range of prints, paintings, books, and sketches. It is the first-ever exhibition...
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Abishek Muthian
Paytm says to me that it’s PoS feature didn’t have a security risk Paytm- Alibaba backed India’s leading mobile payment wallet saw a 1000 % growth in the amount of...
over a year ago
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Paytm says to me that it’s PoS feature didn’t have a security risk

from Abishek Muthian [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Paytm- Alibaba backed India’s leading mobile payment wallet saw a 1000 % growth in the amount of money added to its wallet during India’s demonetisation. I must acknowledge that digital wallets like Paytm, Ola money etc. did help in easing the pains of demonetisation for those...
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Articles
AI-driven content is a nightmare Giving people a never-ending stream of content designed to keep them on a centralized platform...
over a year ago
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AI-driven content is a nightmare

from Articles [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
Giving people a never-ending stream of content designed to keep them on a centralized platform longer where the algorithm is controlled by some megacorp (and its shareholders) isn’t my idea of a great future. It’s fucking dystopian.
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Stephen Diehl
The Twilight of the Securities Act
over a year ago
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The Twilight of the Securities Act

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over a year ago
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Steve Klabnik
I invented hypermedia APIs by accident
over a year ago
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I invented hypermedia APIs by accident

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over a year ago
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Carl Barenbrug RSS...
Minimalism, Marketing, and Digital Sales A while ago I published a couple of articles on selling digital products and monetising minimalism....
over a year ago
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Minimalism, Marketing, and Digital Sales

from Carl Barenbrug RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
A while ago I published a couple of articles on selling digital products and monetising minimalism. Over the past 12 months I have been working extensively in making and marketing digital products in various forms and on various platforms. In the aforementioned articles, I’ve...
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Blog posts of...
Sh*t! Twitter is exciting - again! Every epoch in the history of humanity had a raw resource that became the key to commercial success...
over a year ago
22

Sh*t! Twitter is exciting - again!

from Blog posts of Andreas Klinger [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
Every epoch in the history of humanity had a raw resource that became the key to commercial success that time. Similar to companie...
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Home on Erik...
ML at Twitter I recently came across this paper describing how they do ML at Twitter. TL;DR Their approach is...
over a year ago
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ML at Twitter

from Home on Erik Bernhardsson [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
I recently came across this paper describing how they do ML at Twitter. TL;DR Their approach is pretty interesting. Everything is a Pig workflow and then they do everything as UDF's. This approach seems pretty interesting.
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Paul Graham: Essays
Why Twitter is a Big Deal
over a year ago
39

Why Twitter is a Big Deal

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over a year ago
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The Works in...
Notes on Progress: An environmentalist gets lunch Why being an effective environmentalist can often feel like being a bad one
over a year ago
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Notes on Progress: An environmentalist gets lunch

from The Works in Progress Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
Why being an effective environmentalist can often feel like being a bad one
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Nat Eliason's...
LAST CHANCE for the Husk Preorder Bundle! Just sending one last reminder that the Husk Preorder Bundle ends tomorrow, 5/20, at 11:59 Central...
a month ago
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LAST CHANCE for the Husk Preorder Bundle!

from Nat Eliason's Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in life

a month ago
Just sending one last reminder that the Husk Preorder Bundle ends tomorrow, 5/20, at 11:59 Central Time.
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Louwrentius
Installation of ZFS on Linux hangs on Debian Wheezy This article is no longer relevant. After a fresh net-install of Debian Wheezy, I was unable to...
over a year ago
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Installation of ZFS on Linux hangs on Debian Wheezy

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
This article is no longer relevant. After a fresh net-install of Debian Wheezy, I was unable to compile the ZFS for Linux kernel module. I've installed apt-get install build-essential but that wasn't enough. The apt-get install debian-zfs command would just hang. I noticed a...
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Calculated Risk
January 19th COVID Update: COVID in Wastewater Decreasing Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. For deaths, I'm...
5 months ago
213

January 19th COVID Update: COVID in Wastewater Decreasing

from Calculated Risk [alt+shift+b] in finance

5 months ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. For deaths, I'm currently using 4 weeks ago for "now", since the most recent three weeks will be revised significantly. Note: "Effective May 1, 2024, hospitals are no longer required to report...
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David Crawshaw
2015-06-01 "Two URL objects are equal if they have the same protocol, reference equivalent hosts, have the same...
over a year ago
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2015-06-01

from David Crawshaw [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
"Two URL objects are equal if they have the same protocol, reference equivalent hosts, have the same port number on the host, and the same file and fragment of the file. Two hosts are considered equivalent if both host names can be resolved into the same IP...
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Acko.net
Sub-pixel Distance Transform High quality font rendering for WebGPU This page includes diagrams in WebGPU, which has limited...
a year ago
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Sub-pixel Distance Transform

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a year ago
High quality font rendering for WebGPU This page includes diagrams in WebGPU, which has limited browser support. For the full experience, use Chrome on Windows or Mac, or a developer build on other platforms. In this post I will describe Use.GPU's text rendering, which uses...
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Ryan Mulligan
Center Items in First Row with CSS Grid Imagine the following section on a website: A collection of elements, like a series of cards with...
10 months ago
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Center Items in First Row with CSS Grid

from Ryan Mulligan [alt+shift+b] in design

10 months ago
Imagine the following section on a website: A collection of elements, like a series of cards with marketing information, are presented in a grid display. The elements are arranged in rows of three. When there are an odd number of elements left over, they will be center-aligned...
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Classical Wisdom
On the Nature of the Gods: Cicero Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human...
a year ago
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On the Nature of the Gods: Cicero

from Classical Wisdom [alt+shift+b] in history

a year ago
Do the gods exist? If so, what is their nature? And how do they interact with the world of human beings, if they care about them at all?
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Dan Slimmon
Lecture: Queueing theory on a cocktail napkin Queues are everywhere, and they follow mathematical rules. Learn a few of those rules! It'll go a...
a week ago
10

Lecture: Queueing theory on a cocktail napkin

from Dan Slimmon [alt+shift+b] in programming

a week ago
Queues are everywhere, and they follow mathematical rules. Learn a few of those rules! It'll go a long way to making you a stronger SRE.
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Transit Maps
Submission – Official Map: Metro Rapid Map, Madison, Wisconsin Submitted by Matthew, who says: Madison, WI just opened the first phase of our new BRT system, with...
4 months ago
36

Submission – Official Map: Metro Rapid Map, Madison, Wisconsin

from Transit Maps [alt+shift+b] in cartography

4 months ago
Submitted by Matthew, who says: Madison, WI just opened the first phase of our new BRT system, with new stations, new electric buses, and a new diagrams. I’d love to know what you think about the design, especially how the city handled differentiating the two types of station...
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Londonist
Pedlar's Acre: The Mysterious Bit Of South Bank Where The London Eye Now Stands Who was the Pedlar of Lambeth?
a year ago
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Pedlar's Acre: The Mysterious Bit Of South Bank Where The London Eye Now Stands

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a year ago
Who was the Pedlar of Lambeth?
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
I wrote a book: Read Write Own I wrote a book: Read Write Own I believe blockchains and the software movement around them –...
over a year ago
93

I wrote a book: Read Write Own

from cdixon.org RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
I wrote a book: Read Write Own I believe blockchains and the software movement around them – typically called crypto or web3 – provide the…
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Mazdak
Protect Your iPhone: Apple Introduces Stolen Device Protection Apple is taking a stand against iPhone theft with a new security feature called Stolen Device...
a year ago
51

Protect Your iPhone: Apple Introduces Stolen Device Protection

from Mazdak [alt+shift+b] in finance

a year ago
Apple is taking a stand against iPhone theft with a new security feature called Stolen Device Protection, currently available to beta testers. This feature adds an extra layer of protection to your personal information and financial data, making it more difficult for thieves to...
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Seth's Blog
Peak infrastructure Community resources are easy to take for granted. Unevenly distributed, they’re the sort of thing we...
a year ago
84

Peak infrastructure

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

a year ago
Community resources are easy to take for granted. Unevenly distributed, they’re the sort of thing we miss only when they’re gone. Invisible things are easy to ignore. I was stunned to see a sign in Connecticut that listed the names of dozens of highway workers who had been killed...
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diamond geezer
TfL FoI requests in May 2025 25 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in May 2025 1) Last year 712 trips and falls were...
a month ago
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TfL FoI requests in May 2025

from diamond geezer [alt+shift+b] in travel

a month ago
25 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in May 2025 1) Last year 712 trips and falls were reported on the stairs of buses in London, of which 52% led to a minor injury and 3% led to a serious injury. 2) The paint codes used to coat the exterior of tube rolling stock are RAL...
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Open Culture
The New York Times Presents the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, Selected by 503 Novelists, Poets... For longtime readers of American book journalism, scrolling through the New York Times Book Review’s...
6 months ago
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The New York Times Presents the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, Selected by 503 Novelists, Poets & Critics

from Open Culture [alt+shift+b] in history

6 months ago
For longtime readers of American book journalism, scrolling through the New York Times Book Review’s just-published list of the 100 best books of the twenty-first century will summon dim memories of many a once-unignorable critical fuss. At one time or another over the past 25...
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Grant Slatton
Markdown-ish Writing a Markdown(ish) parser with the nom library
a year ago
12

Markdown-ish

from Grant Slatton [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Writing a Markdown(ish) parser with the nom library
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Paul Graham: Essays
Startup Investing Trends
over a year ago
38

Startup Investing Trends

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over a year ago
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Classical Wisdom
Does FIRST Matter Most? Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
over a year ago
36

Does FIRST Matter Most?

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over a year ago
Or who holds it longest? Or most recently?
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Astral Codex Ten
Open Thread 359 ...
6 months ago
36

Open Thread 359

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6 months ago
...
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Noahpinion
What just happened in San Francisco politics? A guest post by Armand Domalewski
a year ago
45

What just happened in San Francisco politics?

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a year ago
A guest post by Armand Domalewski
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Nelson's Weblog
No more talking to politicians I am no longer talking to politicians. I have been aggressively filtering my email, a constant...
a year ago
48

No more talking to politicians

from Nelson's Weblog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
I am no longer talking to politicians. I have been aggressively filtering my email, a constant battle. Now I will no longer accept their calls. Unfortunately my home phone number is ruined. Between scams and politicians I never answer my phone unless I recognize the caller...
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Adrian Hanft, III:...
The Flywheel Formula Do you know anyone like that, the type of person that seems unsinkable? No matter what life throws...
over a year ago
13

The Flywheel Formula

from Adrian Hanft, III: RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
Do you know anyone like that, the type of person that seems unsinkable? No matter what life throws at them they persevere. Every blow makes them stronger, they always come out on top, and they make it look so easy.
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TheCollector
American Civil War: Maps, Battlefields, and Generals The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and...
3 months ago
36

American Civil War: Maps, Battlefields, and Generals

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

3 months ago
The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with key battles fought in places like Pennsylvania, Virginia, and South Carolina. While Generals Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant led their respective armies,...
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Construction Physics
The Birth of the Grid The day must come when electricity will be for everyone, as the waters of the rivers and the wind of...
over a year ago
108

The Birth of the Grid

from Construction Physics [alt+shift+b] in architecture

over a year ago
The day must come when electricity will be for everyone, as the waters of the rivers and the wind of heaven. It should not merely be supplied, but lavished, that men may use it at their will, as the air they breathe. - Emile Zola, “Travail”, 1901
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NeuroLogica Blog
Power-To-X and Climate Change Policy What is Power-to-X (PtX)? It’s just a fancy marketing term for green hydrogen – using green energy,...
6 months ago
61

Power-To-X and Climate Change Policy

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

6 months ago
What is Power-to-X (PtX)? It’s just a fancy marketing term for green hydrogen – using green energy, like wind, solar, nuclear, or hydroelectric, to make hydrogen from water. This process does not release any CO2, just oxygen, and when the hydrogen is burned back with that oxygen...
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Computer Ads from...
Comics from January/February 1983 Issue of Today Mag Time for some oldie levity.
2 months ago
39

Comics from January/February 1983 Issue of Today Mag

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2 months ago
Time for some oldie levity.
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Blog System/5
EndBASIC 0.11 is here Support for user-defined functions, an LCD, and a disassembler
11 months ago
71

EndBASIC 0.11 is here

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11 months ago
Support for user-defined functions, an LCD, and a disassembler
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Joel Gascoigne
The power of company retreats: Thoughts after the 8th Buffer retreat By now we have a fairly long history of doing retreats at Buffer. We’re now a 75 person team...
over a year ago
37

The power of company retreats: Thoughts after the 8th Buffer retreat

from Joel Gascoigne [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
By now we have a fairly long history of doing retreats at Buffer. We’re now a 75 person team [https://buffer.com/about], and we just wrapped up our 8th company retreat in Madrid, Spain. Here’s a quick history of retreat locations, timeline and size over time: 1.
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Josh Comeau's blog
Clever Code Considered Harmful As engineers, it can be really satisfying for us to implement clever, terse solutions to problems,...
over a year ago
22

Clever Code Considered Harmful

from Josh Comeau's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
As engineers, it can be really satisfying for us to implement clever, terse solutions to problems, relying on advanced tricks and techniques. As a result, we often write code that is hostile and inaccessible to the junior folks on our team. This article makes the case that we...
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Common Edge
‘Even If a Project Fails, the Ideas Behind It Don’t Disappear’ A talk with Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin, authors of Atlas of Never Built Architecture.
a year ago
85

‘Even If a Project Fails, the Ideas Behind It Don’t Disappear’

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a year ago
A talk with Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin, authors of Atlas of Never Built Architecture.
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
It’s not East Coast vs West Coast, it’s about making more places like the Valley I’ve written a few times about what seems to be an exploding tech scene in NYC.  This is sometimes...
over a year ago
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It’s not East Coast vs West Coast, it’s about making more places like the Valley

from cdixon.org RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
I’ve written a few times about what seems to be an exploding tech scene in NYC.  This is sometimes interpreted as arguing that NYC is a…
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Atoms vs Bits
Intuitions for Georgism Since most of our readers have never seen most of our posts, every other week we re-issue a favorite...
10 months ago
74

Intuitions for Georgism

from Atoms vs Bits [alt+shift+b] in life

10 months ago
Since most of our readers have never seen most of our posts, every other week we re-issue a favorite from deep in our archive. You can unsubscribe from Reissues but continue receiving our new posts by updating your preference here. Last year, Atvbt’s bloggers published a piece...
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Ink & Switch
Ink Note April 2023: Ploma Rendering Experiments Prototyping a few uses of dynamic ink using Dan Amelang and Evelyn Eastmond’s Ploma as the renderer.
over a year ago
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Ink Note April 2023: Ploma Rendering Experiments

from Ink & Switch [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Prototyping a few uses of dynamic ink using Dan Amelang and Evelyn Eastmond’s Ploma as the renderer.
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Uncharted...
The Birth of German(y) Goods, Gods, and Guns
4 months ago
32

The Birth of German(y)

from Uncharted Territories [alt+shift+b] in science

4 months ago
Goods, Gods, and Guns
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Himanshu Mishra |...
Why is Sublime Text not something to be frowned upon? There have been people, advisers, and more people, enlightening the fact about “real programmers”,...
over a year ago
11

Why is Sublime Text not something to be frowned upon?

from Himanshu Mishra | orkohunter.net RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
There have been people, advisers, and more people, enlightening the fact about “real programmers”, they use emacs or vim. ‘I use sublime…
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Hacker News Clones Every once in a while, I’ll have a post gain traction over on ye ole’ orange site (Hacker News). I...
8 months ago
57

Hacker News Clones

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

8 months ago
Every once in a while, I’ll have a post gain traction over on ye ole’ orange site (Hacker News). I find out about it because my analytics digest will get a yuge uptick in page views. What’s interesting is all the referral sources that show up in my analytics. The Hacker News is...
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Vladimir Klepov as a...
Making sense of TypeScript using set theory I've been working with TypeScript for a long long time. I think I'm not too bad at it. However, to...
over a year ago
22

Making sense of TypeScript using set theory

from Vladimir Klepov as a Coder [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
I've been working with TypeScript for a long long time. I think I'm not too bad at it. However, to my despair, some low-level behaviors still confuse me: Why does 0 | 1 extends 0 ? true : false evaluate to false? I'm very ashamed, but I sometimes confuse "subtype" and...
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Explorations of an...
A Month In Northern Peru, Part 13: Quebrada El Limón And The Last Of The Northwest (February 16-18,... February 16, 2024 The town of Olmos isn't the most picturesque in Peru. Situated in the coastal...
5 months ago
20

A Month In Northern Peru, Part 13: Quebrada El Limón And The Last Of The Northwest (February 16-18, 2024)

from Explorations of an Ecologist [alt+shift+b] in science

5 months ago
February 16, 2024 The town of Olmos isn't the most picturesque in Peru. Situated in the coastal desert, the streets are dusty, the wind is always present and the roads are potholed. It is certainly not a town that caters to tourists, and I doubt many stop here. But an advantage...
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The Oatmeal - Comics...
God makes a dog A comic about God making a dog View on my website
4 months ago
7

God makes a dog

from The Oatmeal - Comics by Matthew Inman [alt+shift+b] in comics

4 months ago
A comic about God making a dog View on my website
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Stephen Wolfram...
Five Most Productive Years: What Happened and What’s Next So… What Happened? Today is my birthday—for the 65th time. Five years ago, on my 60th birthday, I...
10 months ago
118

Five Most Productive Years: What Happened and What’s Next

from Stephen Wolfram Writings [alt+shift+b] in science

10 months ago
So… What Happened? Today is my birthday—for the 65th time. Five years ago, on my 60th birthday, I did a livestream where I talked about some of my plans. So… what happened? Well, what happened was great. And in fact I’ve just had the most productive five years of my life. Nine...
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Wrong Side of...
Britain's Chernobyl? How bad will the fallout be?
5 months ago
47

Britain's Chernobyl?

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5 months ago
How bad will the fallout be?
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Why do Webdevs keep trying to kill REST? How I broke out of the tiresome REST vs GraphQL debate - by realizing that the real battle is...
over a year ago
36

Why do Webdevs keep trying to kill REST?

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
How I broke out of the tiresome REST vs GraphQL debate - by realizing that the real battle is between Smart Clients and Smart Servers!
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Cheese and Biscuits
Jeune & Jolie, Carlsbad To a visitor from lands afar (me) who sees this part of the world in little two-week periods twice a...
7 months ago
22

Jeune & Jolie, Carlsbad

from Cheese and Biscuits [alt+shift+b] in travel

7 months ago
To a visitor from lands afar (me) who sees this part of the world in little two-week periods twice a year, Jeune & Jolie feels like it did all the work of establishing itself as one of the best restaurants in California in a metaphorical blink of an eye, a few short months...
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Arduino Blog
A single RGB camera turns your palm into a keyboard for mixed reality interaction Interactions in mixed reality are a challenge. Nobody wants to hold bulky controllers and type by...
a month ago
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A single RGB camera turns your palm into a keyboard for mixed reality interaction

from Arduino Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

a month ago
Interactions in mixed reality are a challenge. Nobody wants to hold bulky controllers and type by clicking on big virtual keys one at a time. But people also don’t want to carry around dedicated physical keyboard devices just to type every now and then. That’s why a team of...
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Tyler Cipriani: blog
Boox Go 10.3, two months in [The] Linux kernel uses GPLv2, and if you distribute GPLv2 code, you have to provide a copy of the...
3 months ago
24

Boox Go 10.3, two months in

from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

3 months ago
[The] Linux kernel uses GPLv2, and if you distribute GPLv2 code, you have to provide a copy of the source (and modifications) once someone asks for it. And now I’m asking nicely for you to do so 🙂 – Joga, bbs.onyx-international.com Boox in split screen, typewriter mode In...
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Londonist
How To Spend A Weekend In Dublin 48 hours of pubs, literature and galleries.
a year ago
43

How To Spend A Weekend In Dublin

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a year ago
48 hours of pubs, literature and galleries.
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alexwlchan
The new Flickr Commons Explorer → One of the things I’ve been working on at the Flickr Foundation is a new “Commons Explorer”, a way...
a year ago
31

The new Flickr Commons Explorer →

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
One of the things I’ve been working on at the Flickr Foundation is a new “Commons Explorer”, a way to browse the photos in the Flickr Commons. Flickr Commons is a collection of historical photography from cultural institutions from all around the world, all with no known...
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Ken Shirriff's blog
A tricky Commodore PET repair: tracking down 6 1/2 bad chips .cite { font-size: 70%;} .ref { vertical-align: super; font-size: 60%;} code {font-size: 100%;...
2 months ago
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A tricky Commodore PET repair: tracking down 6 1/2 bad chips

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2 months ago
.cite { font-size: 70%;} .ref { vertical-align: super; font-size: 60%;} code {font-size: 100%; font-family: courier, fixed;} In 1977, Commodore released the PET computer, a quirky home computer that combined the processor, a tiny keyboard, a cassette drive for storage, and...
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CONTEMPORIST
How Photorealistic Rendering Made A Difference For This Small Home Office Design This article has been brought to you by RenderDave. Hey everyone, RenderDave here to show you how...
a year ago
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How Photorealistic Rendering Made A Difference For This Small Home Office Design

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a year ago
This article has been brought to you by RenderDave. Hey everyone, RenderDave here to show you how photorealistic rendering made a difference for this small home office design. When architects and interior designers work on a project in programs like Sketchup, Revit, or AutoCAD,...
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Seth's Blog
Wanting and getting Modern marketing culture is designed to amplify our desires. To turn faint wants into desperate...
6 months ago
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Wanting and getting

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

6 months ago
Modern marketing culture is designed to amplify our desires. To turn faint wants into desperate needs. As a result, we’re intimately familiar with what we want. And we strive to get it. The problem with getting what you want is that now you have a hole, because you don’t want...
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diamond geezer
Unblogged January 31 unblogged things I did in January Wed 1: I spent New Year at home for a change watching the...
5 months ago
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Unblogged January

from diamond geezer [alt+shift+b] in travel

5 months ago
31 unblogged things I did in January Wed 1: I spent New Year at home for a change watching the cheesy fireworks on TV. I can confirm that Big Ben bonged 15 seconds late on my television, such is digital delay, so millions of people celebrated the arrival of 2025 belatedly. Thu...
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Ben Borgers
Trash Bags in the Laundry Room
over a year ago
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Trash Bags in the Laundry Room

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over a year ago
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Yale e360
Lessons from implementing Hurl I'm proud to announce that Hurl is officially released and done! You can check out the docs on...
a year ago
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Lessons from implementing Hurl

from Yale e360 [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
I'm proud to announce that Hurl is officially released and done! You can check out the docs on hurl.wtf. The language itself came out of an interesting question: Python sometimes uses exceptions for control flow, so could we implement a language that eschews normal control flow...
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Koos Looijesteijn -...
Who is responsible for the impact of innovative products? How can it be that a) all products are designed, b) designers want to create something good for the...
a year ago
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Who is responsible for the impact of innovative products?

from Koos Looijesteijn - Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

a year ago
How can it be that a) all products are designed, b) designers want to create something good for the world...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Clown World Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: A reader once told me that the only canonical...
over a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Clown World

from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal [alt+shift+b] in comics

over a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: A reader once told me that the only canonical feature of SMBC is that clowns are a distinct species. Today's News: Sorry.
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Retail Design Blog
OZBE Café by KKOL Studio OZBE is a new café brand occupying four floors that offers premium fruits and serves them by...
4 months ago
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OZBE Café by KKOL Studio

from Retail Design Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

4 months ago
OZBE is a new café brand occupying four floors that offers premium fruits and serves them by directly juicing or...
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Blog posts of...
The things first time founders do… Last week @robfitz asked me on short notice to join a panel at #foundersexchange about what first...
over a year ago
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The things first time founders do…

from Blog posts of Andreas Klinger [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
Last week @robfitz asked me on short notice to join a panel at #foundersexchange about what first time founders shouldn’t do. I qu...
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Commoncog
The Disaffected PhD Skunkworks: A Story About Process Improvement A concrete story of positive process improvement, deep from the trenches of early customer service...
over a year ago
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The Disaffected PhD Skunkworks: A Story About Process Improvement

from Commoncog [alt+shift+b] in finance

over a year ago
A concrete story of positive process improvement, deep from the trenches of early customer service at Amazon.
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Quanta Magazine
Quaking Giants Might Solve the Mysteries of Stellar Magnetism In their jiggles and shakes, red giant stars encode a record of the magnetic fields near their...
a year ago
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Quaking Giants Might Solve the Mysteries of Stellar Magnetism

from Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
In their jiggles and shakes, red giant stars encode a record of the magnetic fields near their cores. The post Quaking Giants Might Solve the Mysteries of Stellar Magnetism first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Build In Public...
Build In Public - Community Edition (Sep 2021) Hey everyone 👋 Let’s open this edition with a powerful quote: On that note, get ready for...
over a year ago
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Build In Public - Community Edition (Sep 2021)

from Build In Public Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

over a year ago
Hey everyone 👋 Let’s open this edition with a powerful quote: On that note, get ready for September’s round-up highlighting key launches and wins from founders, makers, and creators in the #buildinpublic community. Without further ado, let’s get rolling.
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bt RSS Feed
The Wonders of Text Ellipsis The Wonders of Text Ellipsis 2016-11-15 A common issue when working with constrained UI elements is...
over a year ago
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The Wonders of Text Ellipsis

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
The Wonders of Text Ellipsis 2016-11-15 A common issue when working with constrained UI elements is text overflowing outside of it’s parent or breaking into addition lines (thus breaking the layout). This is most commonly seen with the direct and placeholder values for input...
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Londonist
BFI Flare: Huge LGBTQIA+ Film Festival Lands In London This March Feat. Layla, Close To You and All Of Us Strangers.
a year ago
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BFI Flare: Huge LGBTQIA+ Film Festival Lands In London This March

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a year ago
Feat. Layla, Close To You and All Of Us Strangers.
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Londonist
45+ Action-Packed Things To Do In London In April 2024 The best events in London this month.
a year ago
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45+ Action-Packed Things To Do In London In April 2024

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a year ago
The best events in London this month.
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Seth's Blog
Happiness can often be traded for money Most of us know what enough happiness feels like. But some people are stuck in an endless cycle of...
a year ago
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Happiness can often be traded for money

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

a year ago
Most of us know what enough happiness feels like. But some people are stuck in an endless cycle of seeking more money. That’s a bad trade. Because after a certain threshold, it’s hard for more money to buy you more happiness. And the trap is that trying ends up costing you both.
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
Online advertising is all about purchasing intent A while ago I dug up this quote from Business Week from 2000: But how will Google ever make money?...
over a year ago
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Online advertising is all about purchasing intent

from cdixon.org RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
A while ago I dug up this quote from Business Week from 2000: But how will Google ever make money? There’s the rub. The company’s adamant…
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PromptArmor Blog
Announcing LASEC: LLM Application Security Executive Certification Including a never before seen exploit from PromptArmor's cutting edge threat intelligence team.
a year ago
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Announcing LASEC: LLM Application Security Executive Certification

from PromptArmor Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

a year ago
Including a never before seen exploit from PromptArmor's cutting edge threat intelligence team.
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Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Pre-1968 Batman climbs a skyscraper: Apparently, the Singer Building. Here’s a view of its top circa 1920:...
8 months ago
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It Looked Familiar: Pre-1968

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

8 months ago
Batman climbs a skyscraper: Apparently, the Singer Building. Here’s a view of its top circa 1920: And in 1967, with some scaffolding in place to begin its demolition:
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Flashbak
Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special Photographer Saul Leiter (1923 –  2013) is remembered in Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective,...
a year ago
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

a year ago
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...
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Quanta Magazine
Deep Beneath Earth’s Surface, Clues to Life’s Origins Last spring, scientists retrieved a trove of mantle rocks from underneath the Atlantic seafloor — a...
a year ago
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Deep Beneath Earth’s Surface, Clues to Life’s Origins

from Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
Last spring, scientists retrieved a trove of mantle rocks from underneath the Atlantic seafloor — a bounty that could help write the first chapter of life's story on Earth. The post Deep Beneath Earth’s Surface, Clues to Life’s Origins first appeared on Quanta...
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Willem's Blog
Building the blog... in style! Find out if it is possible to turn a computer from the 90s into a modern development machine.
over a year ago
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Building the blog... in style!

from Willem's Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Find out if it is possible to turn a computer from the 90s into a modern development machine.
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Making software...
Replacing My Eero Mesh Network with Two Mangos Replacing My Eero Mesh Network with Two Mangos 2023-03-09 It has been one week since I retired my...
over a year ago
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Replacing My Eero Mesh Network with Two Mangos

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Replacing My Eero Mesh Network with Two Mangos 2023-03-09 It has been one week since I retired my Eero mesh network setup and replaced it with two Mango Mini Travel Routers (GL-MT300N-V2). There were some obvious reasons to make this switch but I was initially unsure how the...
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Eric Bailey
Invisible success I spent a decent amount of time last year helping to create a table component. Tables are...
a year ago
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Invisible success

from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
I spent a decent amount of time last year helping to create a table component. Tables are complicated to make. They’re even more complicated to make accessible. I’m proud of our efforts here, especially because I think we went about making it the right way: Identifying an...
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./techtipsy
Tech tip: eliminate HDD humming noise Anyone that has bought themselves external WD drives from the Elements/My Book/Easystore series are...
over a year ago
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Tech tip: eliminate HDD humming noise

from ./techtipsy [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Anyone that has bought themselves external WD drives from the Elements/My Book/Easystore series are probably familiar with the acoustic characteristics of the drives. The drives have a loud hum caused by WD running the drives at 7200rpm while claiming the drives to be...
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Yale e360
As Bird Flu Spreads, Vaccine Shows Promise for Protecting Cattle Since bird flu was first discovered in U.S. cattle last year, the virus has spread to more than...
a month ago
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As Bird Flu Spreads, Vaccine Shows Promise for Protecting Cattle

from Yale e360 [alt+shift+b] in science

a month ago
Since bird flu was first discovered in U.S. cattle last year, the virus has spread to more than 1,000 herds across the country. A new vaccine for cattle has performed well in early tests, raising hopes that it could protect livestock and help prevent an outbreak in humans. Read...
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Christopher Butler
Out-Random the AI If you are a creative person, AI is frightening. It should be. It is yet another technology that we...
a year ago
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Out-Random the AI

from Christopher Butler [alt+shift+b] in design

a year ago
If you are a creative person, AI is frightening. It should be. It is yet another technology that we know more than enough to not pursue, but will anyway because our culture is an untethered, nihilistic avarice addiction cloud in which we are all entrapped. The truth is that...
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Open Culture
Explore the World’s First 3D Replica of St. Peter’s Basilica, Made with AI In the trailer below for the world’s first 3D replica of St. Peter’s Basilica, Yves Ubelmann speaks...
7 months ago
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Explore the World’s First 3D Replica of St. Peter’s Basilica, Made with AI

from Open Culture [alt+shift+b] in creative

7 months ago
In the trailer below for the world’s first 3D replica of St. Peter’s Basilica, Yves Ubelmann speaks of using “AI for Good,” which isn’t just an ideal, but also the name of a lab at Microsoft. Microsoft and Ubelman’s digital-preservation company Iconem were two of the participants...
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Vladimir Klepov as a...
Using global memoization in React When our React apps get slow, we usually turn to useMemo to avoid useless job on re-render. It’s a...
over a year ago
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Using global memoization in React

from Vladimir Klepov as a Coder [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
When our React apps get slow, we usually turn to useMemo to avoid useless job on re-render. It’s a hammer that often works well, and makes it hard to shoot yourself in the foot. But useMemo is not a silver bullet — sometimes it just introduces more useless work instead of making...
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99% Invisible
The Wide Open When the Endangered Species Act passed in 1973, it was considered a bipartisan home run. The Act...
4 months ago
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The Wide Open

from 99% Invisible [alt+shift+b] in architecture

4 months ago
When the Endangered Species Act passed in 1973, it was considered a bipartisan home run. The Act established protections for plants and animals on the endangered and threatened species lists, and across the aisle, everyone seemed to agree that it would be bad for a bunch of...
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Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 11-17 March 2024 Our best articles from the past week.
a year ago
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Best Of Londonist: 11-17 March 2024

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a year ago
Our best articles from the past week.
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Charlie Becker
Castles in the Sky 33 [May 2023] Big, Big News!
over a year ago
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Castles in the Sky 33 [May 2023]

from Charlie Becker [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
Big, Big News!
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Both Are True
BATLIVE starting in 30 min here's the link
a month ago
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BATLIVE starting in 30 min

from Both Are True [alt+shift+b] in life

a month ago
here's the link
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Open Culture
David Bowie Predicts the Good & Bad of the Internet in 1999: “We’re on the Cusp of Something... “We’re on the cusp of something exhilarating and terrifying.” The year is 1999 and David Bowie, in...
11 months ago
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David Bowie Predicts the Good & Bad of the Internet in 1999: “We’re on the Cusp of Something Exhilarating and Terrifying”

from Open Culture [alt+shift+b] in creative

11 months ago
“We’re on the cusp of something exhilarating and terrifying.” The year is 1999 and David Bowie, in shaggy hair and groovy glasses, has seen the future and it is the Internet. In this short but fascinating interview with BBC’s stalwart and withering interrogator cum interviewer...
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The American Scholar
The Birthmark The post The Birthmark appeared first on The American Scholar.
a month ago
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The Birthmark

from The American Scholar [alt+shift+b] in literature

a month ago
The post The Birthmark appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Asterisk
The Highway to NIMBYism San Francisco’s history of collective decision-making helped prevent the city from being carved up...
a year ago
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The Highway to NIMBYism

from Asterisk [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
San Francisco’s history of collective decision-making helped prevent the city from being carved up by highways. Today, that same legacy prevents the city from building what it desperately needs: more housing.
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Arduino Blog
This DIY guitar transmitter sends digital audio to the amp When on stage, most guitarists will simply run a long cable from their guitar to the amp or mixer....
11 months ago
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This DIY guitar transmitter sends digital audio to the amp

from Arduino Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

11 months ago
When on stage, most guitarists will simply run a long cable from their guitar to the amp or mixer. But that cable can become tangled or get in the way, which is a problem for some of the more animated musicians out there. Wireless transmitters exist for them to express themselves...
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Ink & Switch
Crosscut: Drawing Dynamic Models Uniting the directness of pen & paper with the dynamism of software.
over a year ago
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Crosscut: Drawing Dynamic Models

from Ink & Switch [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Uniting the directness of pen & paper with the dynamism of software.
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Seth's Blog
We probably can’t buy our way out of it That’s what we usually try to do. When technology, comfort, convenience, efficiency and price line...
over a year ago
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We probably can’t buy our way out of it

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

over a year ago
That’s what we usually try to do. When technology, comfort, convenience, efficiency and price line up, the market takes care of itself. On the other hand, seatbelts would never have happened if they weren’t required. But pizza grew to dominate our diets with no centralized...
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Maps Mania
2024 - Another Year of Record Heat
4 months ago
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2024 - Another Year of Record Heat

from Maps Mania [alt+shift+b] in cartography

4 months ago
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Confused bit
Teaching the Rust Borrow Checker Setup While I was doing the Advent of Code 2022, I stumbled upon a pattern that should be...
over a year ago
47

Teaching the Rust Borrow Checker

from Confused bit [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Setup While I was doing the Advent of Code 2022, I stumbled upon a pattern that should be expressible in safe Rust, but is beyond the understanding of the borrow checker. Although its use cases are probably rather niche, I still found it potentially useful. Anyway, it’s a good...
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Folklore.org:...
First day with the Macintosh team Rod Holt, who remember every technical detail in the world, forgot he hired me
over a year ago
22

First day with the Macintosh team

from Folklore.org: Stories about the Original Macintosh [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
Rod Holt, who remember every technical detail in the world, forgot he hired me
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Seth's Blog
Pleasant We often use words like “beautiful” or “stunning” or “perfect” when we actually mean “popular” or...
over a year ago
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Pleasant

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

over a year ago
We often use words like “beautiful” or “stunning” or “perfect” when we actually mean “popular” or “pleasant.” Every day is beautiful in its own way. But the weather yesterday was pleasant. Hit songs are hits. But they’re rarely perfect. I’m a big fan of pleasant. And I often like...
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The Rational Walk
The Digest #156 Flawed clinical studies, AI and employment, Anonymous wealth, Age of the universe, 19th century...
a year ago
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The Digest #156

from The Rational Walk [alt+shift+b] in finance

a year ago
Flawed clinical studies, AI and employment, Anonymous wealth, Age of the universe, 19th century anarchy, Buffett and Japan, Claude Hopkins, Benjamin Franklin
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Nelson's Weblog
Obsidian Obsidian is good software for taking and organizing notes. There are many apps for this task,...
a year ago
88

Obsidian

from Nelson's Weblog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Obsidian is good software for taking and organizing notes. There are many apps for this task, Obsidian is my current favorite. In the past I’ve used a text file, SimpleNote, Standard Notes, Joplin. I never used emacs org-mode nor Evernote. Obsidian works reliably and is simple...
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IEEE Spectrum
AlexNet Source Code Is Now Open Source In partnership with Google, the Computer History Museum has released the source code to AlexNet, the...
3 months ago
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AlexNet Source Code Is Now Open Source

from IEEE Spectrum [alt+shift+b] in science

3 months ago
In partnership with Google, the Computer History Museum has released the source code to AlexNet, the neural network that in 2012 kickstarted today’s prevailing approach to AI. The source code is available as open source on CHM’s GitHub page. What Is AlexNet? AlexNet is an...
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Koos Looijesteijn -...
Making semantic sidenotes without JavaScript One of the first things I learned about professional writing is that it’s best to remove all...
over a year ago
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Making semantic sidenotes without JavaScript

from Koos Looijesteijn - Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
One of the first things I learned about professional writing is that it’s best to remove all unnecessary words. Problem...
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Astral Codex Ten
Hidden Open Thread 372.5 ...
3 months ago
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Hidden Open Thread 372.5

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3 months ago
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Seth's Blog
The perils of doing it live [Relevant aside: If you get this blog by email, apologies for the glitches of the last few days...
a year ago
37

The perils of doing it live

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

a year ago
[Relevant aside: If you get this blog by email, apologies for the glitches of the last few days caused by my provider. If you ever see a broken link or something that doesn’t render, you can visit the blog. It always has the latest version, typos fixed. It’s much easier to fix...
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Ploum.net
Du désir profond de se faire arnaquer Du désir profond de se faire arnaquer Pour suivre les modes et faire comme tout le monde Stefano...
3 months ago
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Du désir profond de se faire arnaquer

from Ploum.net [alt+shift+b] in literature

3 months ago
Du désir profond de se faire arnaquer Pour suivre les modes et faire comme tout le monde Stefano Marinelli, un administrateur système chevronné, installe principalement des serveurs sous FreeBSD, OpenBSD ou NetBSD pour ses clients. Le plus difficile ? Arriver à convaincre un...
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Herbert Lui
“Why is this important to me?” When you know why you’re doing what you want to do, you do it better.  You can prioritize clearly,...
2 months ago
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“Why is this important to me?”

from Herbert Lui [alt+shift+b] in travel

2 months ago
When you know why you’re doing what you want to do, you do it better.  You can prioritize clearly, adapt when you need, and endure the inevitable setbacks. More importantly, you’ll know when you’re heading in the right direction. This sense of clarity doesn’t just magically...
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CONTEMPORIST
A Medieval Guard House Transformed Into A Contemporary Home Architectural studio OOOOX has shared photos of a guard house with a history dating back to the...
4 months ago
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A Medieval Guard House Transformed Into A Contemporary Home

from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture

4 months ago
Architectural studio OOOOX has shared photos of a guard house with a history dating back to the Middle Ages, that they’ve transformed into a contemporary home. A wood staircase leads from the street entrance up to the front door, with the stone walls and exposed wood ceiling...
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History Today Feed
Italian Emigrant Soldiers in the First World War Italian Emigrant Soldiers in the First World War JamesHoare Fri, 06/20/2025 - 08:00
a week ago
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Italian Emigrant Soldiers in the First World War

from History Today Feed [alt+shift+b] in history

a week ago
Italian Emigrant Soldiers in the First World War JamesHoare Fri, 06/20/2025 - 08:00
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Curse Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Really she should awaken after three dates have...
10 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Curse

from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal [alt+shift+b] in comics

10 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Really she should awaken after three dates have gone very well. Today's News:
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The American Scholar
“Campo dei Fiori” by Czesław Miłosz Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Campo dei Fiori” by Czesław Miłosz appeared first on The...
2 months ago
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“Campo dei Fiori” by Czesław Miłosz

from The American Scholar [alt+shift+b] in literature

2 months ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Campo dei Fiori” by Czesław Miłosz appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Maps Mania
The Best & Worst Rated Countries in the World
4 months ago
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The Best & Worst Rated Countries in the World

from Maps Mania [alt+shift+b] in cartography

4 months ago
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Fonts In Use – Blog...
Star Wars movie posters from Hungary Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: movieposters.ha.com Image: Heritage Auctions. License: All...
a month ago
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Star Wars movie posters from Hungary

from Fonts In Use – Blog Only [alt+shift+b] in design

a month ago
Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: movieposters.ha.com Image: Heritage Auctions. License: All Rights Reserved. Csillagok háborúja (Star Wars), 1979. The custom acute accents are simple squares. The secondary typeface is ITC Avant Garde Gothic. More info on...
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FIRE v London
July ’23: Markets up, Coutts down It’s been a dismally wet July here in London. About 50% more rainfall than normal (which, before ye...
a year ago
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July ’23: Markets up, Coutts down

from FIRE v London [alt+shift+b] in finance

a year ago
It’s been a dismally wet July here in London. About 50% more rainfall than normal (which, before ye scoff, isn’t that much – London is a fairly dry city – drier than Rome and much drier than Sydney). It has been long trousers weather, for the first time in several years. But at...
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Irrational...
Steps to build an engineering strategy. Often you’ll see a disorganized collection of ideas labeled as a “strategy.” Even when they’re dense...
3 months ago
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Steps to build an engineering strategy.

from Irrational Exuberance [alt+shift+b] in programming

3 months ago
Often you’ll see a disorganized collection of ideas labeled as a “strategy.” Even when they’re dense with ideas, these can be hard to parse, and are a major reason why most engineers will claim their company doesn’t have a clear strategy even though my experience is that all...
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Old Structures...
Obvious, Expensive, and Worth Doing A lot of different trends combined to create the decline of the Bronx between 1950 and 2000, and one...
8 months ago
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Obvious, Expensive, and Worth Doing

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

8 months ago
A lot of different trends combined to create the decline of the Bronx between 1950 and 2000, and one of them is firmly within the realm of the built environment: the construction of highways. Any road entering New York City from the north has to pass through the Bronx, and...
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Louwrentius
The impact of the MDADM bitmap on RAID performance Introduction I'm aware that most people with intensive storage workloads won't run those workloads...
over a year ago
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The impact of the MDADM bitmap on RAID performance

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Introduction I'm aware that most people with intensive storage workloads won't run those workloads on hard drives anymore, that ship has sailed a long time ago. SSDs have taken their place (or 'the cloud'). For those few left who do use hard drives in Linux software RAID setups...
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Mazdak
The Ultimate Small Business Hiring Guide How to Find the Right Fit for Your Team
8 months ago
87

The Ultimate Small Business Hiring Guide

from Mazdak [alt+shift+b] in finance

8 months ago
How to Find the Right Fit for Your Team
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Uncharted...
Ten New US Cities: The Salton Sea Salton City and Bombay Beach could flourish with industry and tourism
5 months ago
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Ten New US Cities: The Salton Sea

from Uncharted Territories [alt+shift+b] in science

5 months ago
Salton City and Bombay Beach could flourish with industry and tourism
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Josh Thompson
Travel somewhere fun. But first get on Scott's email list Most of us have a bucket list item of “travel abroad”, right? It gets harder to realize once you...
over a year ago
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Travel somewhere fun. But first get on Scott's email list

from Josh Thompson [alt+shift+b] in literature

over a year ago
Most of us have a bucket list item of “travel abroad”, right? It gets harder to realize once you start looking through flight prices, though. If you and your significant other want to head to Europe or Asia, you might be dropping $2500, minimum, for the both of you. That’s...
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Commoncog
Running a Fine Dining Restaurant in a Recession How Eleven Madison Park survived the 2008 Global Recession ... and what this tells us about...
11 months ago
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Running a Fine Dining Restaurant in a Recession

from Commoncog [alt+shift+b] in finance

11 months ago
How Eleven Madison Park survived the 2008 Global Recession ... and what this tells us about operating through the capital cycle.
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Luxagraf:...
Fly Navy The one upside to getting kicked out of Fort Pickens for a storm that never hit, was meeting the...
a year ago
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Fly Navy

from Luxagraf: Topographical Writings [alt+shift+b] in life

a year ago
The one upside to getting kicked out of Fort Pickens for a storm that never hit, was meeting the pilot. The bus, wherever it goes, is conspicuous. It is especially conspicuous in the middle of an otherwise empty parking lot. Next to the parking lot was a collection of condos,...
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Ken Shirriff's blog
Reverse engineering the barrel shifter circuit on the Intel 386 processor die The Intel 386 processor (1985) was a large step from the 286 processor, moving x86 to a 32-bit...
a year ago
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Reverse engineering the barrel shifter circuit on the Intel 386 processor die

from Ken Shirriff's blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

a year ago
The Intel 386 processor (1985) was a large step from the 286 processor, moving x86 to a 32-bit architecture. The 386 also dramatically improved the performance of shift and rotate operations by adding a "barrel shifter", a circuit that can shift by multiple bits in one step. The...
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The Marginalian
Facts about the Moon: Dorianne Laux’s Stunning Poem about Bearing Our Human Losses When Even the... “Hearing the rising tide,” Rachel Carson wrote in her poetic meditation on the ocean and the meaning...
a year ago
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Facts about the Moon: Dorianne Laux’s Stunning Poem about Bearing Our Human Losses When Even the Moon Is Leaving Us

from The Marginalian [alt+shift+b] in literature

a year ago
“Hearing the rising tide,” Rachel Carson wrote in her poetic meditation on the ocean and the meaning of life, “there are echoes of past and future: of the flow of time, obliterating yet containing all that has gone before… of the stream of life, flowing as inexorably as any ocean...
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Open Culture
A Free Yale Course on Medieval History: 700 Years in 22 Lectures In 22 lectures, Yale historian Paul Freedman takes you on a 700-year tour of medieval history....
2 weeks ago
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A Free Yale Course on Medieval History: 700 Years in 22 Lectures

from Open Culture [alt+shift+b] in creative

2 weeks ago
In 22 lectures, Yale historian Paul Freedman takes you on a 700-year tour of medieval history. Moving from 284‑1000 AD, this free online course covers “the conversion of Europe to Christianity, the fall of the Roman Empire, the rise of Islam and the Arabs, the ‘Dark Ages,’...
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abdz.do - Have you...
Sherwin-Williams by Laundry Sherwin-Williams by Laundry abduzeedo0210—23 Sherwin-Williams,...
over a year ago
76

Sherwin-Williams by Laundry

from abdz.do - Have you given up on being inspired? [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
Sherwin-Williams by Laundry abduzeedo0210—23 Sherwin-Williams, the renowned paint and coatings company, has recently released its latest marketing campaign, and it is a true feast for the eyes. Directed by ECD Jayson Whitmore, these spots are a...
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bt RSS Feed
HTML Dark Mode HTML Dark Mode 2023-04-11 I wrote an article back in 2021 called The Lazy Developer’s Dark Mode...
over a year ago
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HTML Dark Mode

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
HTML Dark Mode 2023-04-11 I wrote an article back in 2021 called The Lazy Developer’s Dark Mode where I explained how to implement a very basic “dark mode” by using the prefers-color-scheme CSS attribute. This stills works perfectly fine, and in fact there is a cleaner variation...
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Open Culture
Beautiful 19th Century Maps of Dante’s Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise & More Even the least religious among us speak, at least on occasion, of the circles of hell. When we do...
7 months ago
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Beautiful 19th Century Maps of Dante’s Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise & More

from Open Culture [alt+shift+b] in creative

7 months ago
Even the least religious among us speak, at least on occasion, of the circles of hell. When we do so, we may or may not be thinking of where the concept originated: Dante’s Divina Commedia, or Divine Comedy. We each imagine the circles in our own way — usually filling them with...
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bookbear express
How They Made It: Todd and Elaine of Dandelion Chocolate on work and marriage for all the people who fantasize about working with their spouse
3 months ago
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How They Made It: Todd and Elaine of Dandelion Chocolate on work and marriage

from bookbear express [alt+shift+b] in life

3 months ago
for all the people who fantasize about working with their spouse
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Londonist
Get A Dose Of The Royal Pharmaceutical Society Museum Small museum that's free to visit.
a year ago
22

Get A Dose Of The Royal Pharmaceutical Society Museum

from Londonist [alt+shift+b] in travel

a year ago
Small museum that's free to visit.
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Rest of World -...
Five globally successful Chinese companies you’ve never heard of TikTok and Shein are household names, but ShareIt and Yalla aren't far behind.
over a year ago
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Five globally successful Chinese companies you’ve never heard of

from Rest of World - Global [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
TikTok and Shein are household names, but ShareIt and Yalla aren't far behind.
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AFAR Media - Travel...
5 Ways to Experience Curaçao’s Culture
a year ago
56

5 Ways to Experience Curaçao’s Culture

from AFAR Media - Travel Stories, News, Reviews, Tips + Guides [alt+shift+b] in travel

a year ago
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Old Structures...
The Aftertaste of Technological Change I slept through the Daylight Savings change last week. More accurately, I didn’t realize it was...
7 months ago
52

The Aftertaste of Technological Change

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

7 months ago
I slept through the Daylight Savings change last week. More accurately, I didn’t realize it was occurring – I thought it was yesterday, not the Sunday a week ago – and I generally sleep late on the weekends anyway, so I got an extra hour of sleep without realizing, until...
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Naz Hamid — Journal...
✏️ Seattle The heat was rising in Northern California and Oregon with the advent of an appropriately named heat...
10 months ago
10

✏️ Seattle

from Naz Hamid — Journal + Links [alt+shift+b] in literature

10 months ago
The heat was rising in Northern California and Oregon with the advent of an appropriately named heat dome raising temperatures into the triple digits. Jen and I found ourselves driving further north to visit Seattle. We’d been camping with our friend Grant in the Mount Shasta...
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A Smart Bear
Business Advice Plagued by Survivor Bias Advice from "successful entrepreneurs" might be unreliable due to Survivor Bias. What's real, and...
a year ago
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Business Advice Plagued by Survivor Bias

from A Smart Bear [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Advice from "successful entrepreneurs" might be unreliable due to Survivor Bias. What's real, and what's random?
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Archinect - Features
How to Get a Job at Studio Ma Founded in 2003, Phoenix-based architecture and environmental design firm Studio Ma has established...
3 months ago
39

How to Get a Job at Studio Ma

from Archinect - Features [alt+shift+b] in architecture

3 months ago
Founded in 2003, Phoenix-based architecture and environmental design firm Studio Ma has established itself as an award-winning creative powerhouse within its native Arizona, as well as beyond state borders. Under the guidance of Principals Christiana Moss, Christopher Alt, and...
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Nelson's Weblog
Linkblog archives I've added an archive calendar to my linkblog, so you can see old posts going all the way back to...
over a year ago
42

Linkblog archives

from Nelson's Weblog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
I've added an archive calendar to my linkblog, so you can see old posts going all the way back to 2003. The UI is a little minimal but usable and it will work for any search indexers, which is what I most care about. Note old posts will have a grey background because I wasn't...
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The Marginalian
The Ecstasy of Eternity: Richard Jefferies on Time and Self-Transcendence This is the great paradox: that human life, lived between the time of starlings and the time of...
a year ago
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The Ecstasy of Eternity: Richard Jefferies on Time and Self-Transcendence

from The Marginalian [alt+shift+b] in literature

a year ago
This is the great paradox: that human life, lived between the time of starlings and the time of stars, is made meaningful entirely inside the self, but the self is a mirage of the mind, a figment of cohesion that makes the chaos and transience bearable. A few times a lifetime, if...
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Tom Blomfield
Growth “When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.” - Creighton Abrams I was chatting with an...
over a year ago
22

Growth

from Tom Blomfield [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
“When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.” - Creighton Abrams I was chatting with an investor a year or two ago, shortly after our Series A, and the subject of revenue goals came up. At the time, our revenue was pretty low - less than 10% of monthly costs. We estimated...
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Classical Wisdom
Stoics and the Self What makes you YOU?
a week ago
9

Stoics and the Self

from Classical Wisdom [alt+shift+b] in history

a week ago
What makes you YOU?
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Nelson's Weblog
8BitDo Game Controllers 8BitDo makes good game controllers. A wide variety of styles from retro to mainstream, with some...
10 months ago
109

8BitDo Game Controllers

from Nelson's Weblog [alt+shift+b] in programming

10 months ago
8BitDo makes good game controllers. A wide variety of styles from retro to mainstream, with some unusual shapes. And wide compatibility with various systems: PC, Macs, Switch, Android. They’re well built, work right, and quite inexpensive. A far cry from the...
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Hidden History
A Tale of Kale (And Cabbage, and Brussels Sprouts, and Broccoli, and Cauliflower…) These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may...
8 months ago
21

A Tale of Kale (And Cabbage, and Brussels Sprouts, and Broccoli, and Cauliflower…)

from Hidden History [alt+shift+b] in history

8 months ago
These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may be familiar in the kitchen, but they do not exist anywhere in nature—and they are all the same species of plant. The Brassica is a very large and diverse family of plants, with...
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xkcd.com
Neighbor-Source Heat Pump
3 weeks ago
9

Neighbor-Source Heat Pump

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3 weeks ago
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Quanta Magazine
With ‘Digital Twins,’ The Doctor Will See You Now By creating digital twins of patients, Amanda Randles wants to bring unprecedented precision to...
11 months ago
69

With ‘Digital Twins,’ The Doctor Will See You Now

from Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

11 months ago
By creating digital twins of patients, Amanda Randles wants to bring unprecedented precision to medical forecasts. The post With ‘Digital Twins,’ The Doctor Will See You Now first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Quanta Magazine
She Tracks the DNA of Elusive Species That Hide in Harsh Places On Mount Everest and in the Peruvian Andes, Tracie Seimon uses DNA to study how species and...
over a year ago
44

She Tracks the DNA of Elusive Species That Hide in Harsh Places

from Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
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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TheCollector
5 Pioneering Women in Music The talents, experiences, and storied backgrounds of women have played a pivotal role in shaping the...
2 months ago
6

5 Pioneering Women in Music

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

2 months ago
The talents, experiences, and storied backgrounds of women have played a pivotal role in shaping the landscape of modern popular music. From breaking barriers traditionally dominated by men to pioneering new sounds and technologies, these trailblazing women have left their mark...
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Commoncog
Under The Hood How do you shape employee culture? How do you win employee commitment? Under The Hood has a coherent...
7 months ago
70

Under The Hood

from Commoncog [alt+shift+b] in finance

7 months ago
How do you shape employee culture? How do you win employee commitment? Under The Hood has a coherent model for building this skill.
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Archinect - Features
Beaux-Arts to Bauhaus: How Two Schools Shaped Architectural Visualization Architecture schools have long held a significant role in shaping the field of architectural...
7 months ago
56

Beaux-Arts to Bauhaus: How Two Schools Shaped Architectural Visualization

from Archinect - Features [alt+shift+b] in architecture

7 months ago
Architecture schools have long held a significant role in shaping the field of architectural visualization. Through fostering particular artistic philosophies, drawing techniques, and design ideologies, such institutions shape not only the architects themselves but also the way...
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Maggie Appleton
July 2024
a year ago
7

July 2024

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a year ago
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The Forney Flyer
Way Back When Our flying has been quite slow lately because of the Covid-19 situation. I have, however, recently...
over a year ago
73

Way Back When

from The Forney Flyer [alt+shift+b] in travel

over a year ago
Our flying has been quite slow lately because of the Covid-19 situation. I have, however, recently done several maintenance and test flights from our home airstrip, which as you can see, is about half underwater from the high levels of Lake Victoria. In fact, this is better than...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Monolith Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This was actually the 4th time the monolith's...
9 months ago
87

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Monolith

from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal [alt+shift+b] in comics

9 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This was actually the 4th time the monolith's creations got eaten by humans. Today's News:
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Passing Time
Losing My Edge But I was there!
3 months ago
28

Losing My Edge

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3 months ago
But I was there!
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Both Are True
BATWRITE tomorrow // Saturday // 830am est get some shit done and then start the weekend RIGHT
2 weeks ago
9

BATWRITE tomorrow // Saturday // 830am est

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2 weeks ago
get some shit done and then start the weekend RIGHT
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Vadim Kravcenko
Asking questions the right way In the software development realm, asking questions isn’t just a right—it’s a downright necessity....
a year ago
112

Asking questions the right way

from Vadim Kravcenko [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
In the software development realm, asking questions isn’t just a right—it’s a downright necessity. Let’s cut the crap and dive […] The post Asking questions the right way appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in Washington Washington State has a history as expansive and layered as its landscapes. Long before statehood in...
2 months ago
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10 Must-Visit Historic Towns in Washington

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

2 months ago
Washington State has a history as expansive and layered as its landscapes. Long before statehood in 1889, the region was home to numerous Indigenous tribes who shaped its identity and geography. The arrival of explorers, traders, and pioneers brought about a new chapter, marked...
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NeuroLogica Blog
Problems with the Institute Of Noetic Sciences I was interviewed recently for a Daily Beast article on recent research involving the Institute of...
over a year ago
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Problems with the Institute Of Noetic Sciences

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
I was interviewed recently for a Daily Beast article on recent research involving the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS). Overall the article is very good, and author Maddie Bender was fair and reasonable in how I was quoted. I can’t always take that as a given. No matter how...
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ntietz.com blog -...
Who are your teammates? If you manage a team, who are your teammates? If you're a staff software engineer embedded in a...
3 months ago
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Who are your teammates?

from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

3 months ago
If you manage a team, who are your teammates? If you're a staff software engineer embedded in a product team, who are your teammates? The answer to the question comes down to who your main responsibility lies with. That's not the folks you're managing and leading. Your...
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Never Met a Science
Does Social Media Cause Anything? Yes.
12 months ago
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Does Social Media Cause Anything?

from Never Met a Science [alt+shift+b] in technology

12 months ago
Yes.
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Making software...
Installing Older Versions of MongoDB on Arch Linux Installing Older Versions of MongoDB on Arch Linux 2023-09-11 I've recently been using Arch Linux...
a year ago
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Installing Older Versions of MongoDB on Arch Linux

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Installing Older Versions of MongoDB on Arch Linux 2023-09-11 I've recently been using Arch Linux for my main work environment on my ThinkPad X260. It's been great. As someone who is constantly drawn to minimalist operating systems such as Alpine or OpenBSD, it's nice to use...
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The Honest Broker
Why I Don't Read Reddit And why I did read Reddit's IPO filing—here are seven things I learned
a year ago
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Why I Don't Read Reddit

from The Honest Broker [alt+shift+b] in life

a year ago
And why I did read Reddit's IPO filing—here are seven things I learned
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Cheese and Biscuits
The Parakeet, Kentish Town I'm going to start this post about the Parakeet, with - unfortunately (for them, and possibly for...
a month ago
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The Parakeet, Kentish Town

from Cheese and Biscuits [alt+shift+b] in travel

a month ago
I'm going to start this post about the Parakeet, with - unfortunately (for them, and possibly for you) - a bit of a rant. Why is it that no matter how much money has been lavished on a place, no matter how starry the chefs, how extensive the wine list, how exclusive the whisky...
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Melissa Penfold
THE MOST DEFINING PIECES OF FURNITURE FROM THE LAST 100 YEARS How do we define furniture? It might seem like a silly question, but it’s one that kept coming up in...
5 months ago
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THE MOST DEFINING PIECES OF FURNITURE FROM THE LAST 100 YEARS

from Melissa Penfold [alt+shift+b] in design

5 months ago
How do we define furniture? It might seem like a silly question, but it’s one that kept coming up in October of last year, when, in a conference room on the 15th floor of The New York Times building, six experts — the architects and interior designers Rafael de...
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Flashbak
Windows In Time: The New York City Years, 1975 – 1980 We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late...
10 months ago
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Windows In Time: The New York City Years, 1975 – 1980

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

10 months ago
We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late 1970s to 1980. Upon graduating from The New England School of Photography in Boston, Massachusetts in 1974, he immediately took to the streets. Here he tell us his story of living in...
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AFAR Media - Travel...
United To Fly New Nonstop Flights to East Asia This Fall
a year ago
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United To Fly New Nonstop Flights to East Asia This Fall

from AFAR Media - Travel Stories, News, Reviews, Tips + Guides [alt+shift+b] in travel

a year ago
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Rest of World -...
Riders in the smog Rest of World equipped gig riders across South Asia with pollution monitors. The readings were off...
a year ago
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Riders in the smog

from Rest of World - Global [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
Rest of World equipped gig riders across South Asia with pollution monitors. The readings were off the charts.
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Nelson's Weblog
What are passkeys? That’s the post. What are passkeys? I don’t have answers, just questions. I believe passkeys are...
over a year ago
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What are passkeys?

from Nelson's Weblog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
That’s the post. What are passkeys? I don’t have answers, just questions. I believe passkeys are a great idea but the tech world is doing a terrible job explaining them. Someone really needs to explain how passkeys work in Internet products. Existing descriptions aren’t sinking...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
How to Set Up SvelteKit with Tailwind CSS A quick 3 step guide for myself on how to set up Svelte with Tailwind CSS
over a year ago
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How to Set Up SvelteKit with Tailwind CSS

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
A quick 3 step guide for myself on how to set up Svelte with Tailwind CSS
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Josh Comeau's blog
Boop! An in-depth tutorial that teaches how to create one of the most adorable interactions I've ever...
over a year ago
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Boop!

from Josh Comeau's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
An in-depth tutorial that teaches how to create one of the most adorable interactions I've ever created. We'll learn how to use React components and hooks to abstract behaviours, and see how to design the perfect API. Even if you're not into animations, I think you'll find it...
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Open Culture
Watch 10 Great German Expressionist Films: Nosferatu, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari & More In 1913, Germany, flush with a new nation’s patriotic zeal, looked like it might become the dominant...
4 months ago
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Watch 10 Great German Expressionist Films: Nosferatu, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari & More

from Open Culture [alt+shift+b] in history

4 months ago
In 1913, Germany, flush with a new nation’s patriotic zeal, looked like it might become the dominant nation of Europe and a real rival to that global superpower Great Britain. Then it hit the buzzsaw of World War I. After the German government collapsed in 1918 from the economic...
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Greater Still by...
Stop Calling it a Wallet How language shapes our view of the world
over a year ago
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Stop Calling it a Wallet

from Greater Still by Gaby Goldberg [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
How language shapes our view of the world
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Eric Bailey
A website is like a puppy It’s exciting and fun, but also comes with a lot of responsibility. Successfully taking care of it...
over a year ago
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A website is like a puppy

from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
It’s exciting and fun, but also comes with a lot of responsibility. Successfully taking care of it means you’ll need to stick to a routine. It can bring you moments of both great joy and sorrow. It costs a little more than you think it will. It will also probably grow to be a...
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Naz Hamid — Journal...
✏️ All good things... Day 27: Oct 6, 2023 — As I drift off to sleep, I smell fire. I drowsily brush this off, equating it...
a year ago
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✏️ All good things...

from Naz Hamid — Journal + Links [alt+shift+b] in literature

a year ago
Day 27: Oct 6, 2023 — As I drift off to sleep, I smell fire. I drowsily brush this off, equating it to a possible nearby camper who ignores “No campfire” signs. The tent flap remains open, allowing for ventilation and for keeping overnight condensation to a minimum. In the middle...
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Jake Zimmerman
Abstract singleton class methods are an abomination
a year ago
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Abstract singleton class methods are an abomination

from Jake Zimmerman [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
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Probably...
Multiple Regression with StatsModels This is the third is a series of excerpts from Elements of Data Science which available from...
6 months ago
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Multiple Regression with StatsModels

from Probably Overthinking It [alt+shift+b] in science

6 months ago
This is the third is a series of excerpts from Elements of Data Science which available from Lulu.com and online booksellers. It’s from Chapter 10, which is about multiple regression. You can read the complete chapter here, or run the Jupyter notebook on Colab. In the previous...
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General Robots
ML for Robots: Hybrid Learned vs End-to-End Learned So You Want To Do Robots: Part 6
over a year ago
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ML for Robots: Hybrid Learned vs End-to-End Learned

from General Robots [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
So You Want To Do Robots: Part 6
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Contemporist...
Inside a Wooded Hideaway Where Every Room Opens to Nature, Even the Sauna Tucked into a five-acre wooded site just outside Seattle, Washington, the Interurban Residence is a...
4 weeks ago
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Inside a Wooded Hideaway Where Every Room Opens to Nature, Even the Sauna

from Contemporist Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in architecture

4 weeks ago
Tucked into a five-acre wooded site just outside Seattle, Washington, the Interurban Residence is a quietly bold family home designed by Heliotrope Architects. Created for a family of four, this home turns its back on urban hustle and instead reaches deep into the forest,...
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Wrong Side of...
Welcome to the hub What explains the strange ubiquity of this word?
3 months ago
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Welcome to the hub

from Wrong Side of History [alt+shift+b] in history

3 months ago
What explains the strange ubiquity of this word?
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TokyoDev
Keeping your job board legal in Japan I've previously written about [how recruiting is a licensed industry in...
over a year ago
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Keeping your job board legal in Japan

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
I've previously written about [how recruiting is a licensed industry in Japan](/articles/recruiting-in-japan), and because of this, [you need to be careful](/articles/legally-operating-a-job-board-in-japan) about how you operate your job board to ensure it isn't classified as...
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Herbert Lui
Kinetic and energeial living Kinetic life is focused on reaching a destination. You harness your drive to complete a journey. In...
3 months ago
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Kinetic and energeial living

from Herbert Lui [alt+shift+b] in travel

3 months ago
Kinetic life is focused on reaching a destination. You harness your drive to complete a journey. In this way of life, it naturally makes sense to find the shortest possible route and take it. Imagine it like a commute. If you were to choose between an express train and a local...
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Charles Chen
.NET Source Generators with .NET 7 Exploring .NET source generators to reduce boilerplate code in everyday code!
a year ago
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.NET Source Generators with .NET 7

from Charles Chen [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Exploring .NET source generators to reduce boilerplate code in everyday code!
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Maggie Appleton
The Block-Paved Path to Structured Data How block-based interfaces can help us create more structured data on the web
over a year ago
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The Block-Paved Path to Structured Data

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
How block-based interfaces can help us create more structured data on the web
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Diaries of Note
Now is the winter… When 35-year-old Anthony Sher took on the role of Richard III at the Royal Shakespeare Company in...
over a year ago
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Now is the winter…

from Diaries of Note [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
When 35-year-old Anthony Sher took on the role of Richard III at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1984, two years after playing the Fool to Michael Gambon’s King Lear, he delivered a transformative performance. Using crutches to evoke a spider-like figure, Sher crafted a...
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Notes on software...
Picking up volleyball in NYC with Goodrec and New York Urban I was so intimidated to go at first, but it is in fact easy and fun to start playing beginner...
6 months ago
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Picking up volleyball in NYC with Goodrec and New York Urban

from Notes on software development [alt+shift+b] in technology

6 months ago
I was so intimidated to go at first, but it is in fact easy and fun to start playing beginner volleyball in New York. The people are so friendly and welcoming that it has been easy to keep playing consistently every week since I started for the first time this August. It's been a...
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abdz.do - Have you...
Branding for Ecuador, Pilsener World Edition Qatar 2022 Branding for Ecuador, Pilsener World Edition Qatar 2022 abduzeedo0201—23 ...
over a year ago
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Branding for Ecuador, Pilsener World Edition Qatar 2022

from abdz.do - Have you given up on being inspired? [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
Branding for Ecuador, Pilsener World Edition Qatar 2022 abduzeedo0201—23 The leading beer brand in Ecuador, Pilsener, has a history of over 110 years and is a significant part of the AB InBev portfolio in the region. Known for its association...
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Overcoming Bias
Love And War And Status “All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying
7 months ago
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Love And War And Status

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7 months ago
“All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying
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TheCollector
Prince William Forest Park: The National Park That Trained WWII Spies Just south of Washington DC lies a 15,000-acre oasis of piedmont forest that, despite being less...
2 months ago
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Prince William Forest Park: The National Park That Trained WWII Spies

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2 months ago
Just south of Washington DC lies a 15,000-acre oasis of piedmont forest that, despite being less than an hour from the nation’s capital, feels like another planet. Every summer, the park’s tall trees and meandering streams welcome thousands of visitors, including hundreds of...
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Elad Blog
AI Dev Tools Panel - Stripe AI day I will be moderating a panel on 7/13 at Stripe with founders of Baseten, LlamaIndex, Zapier
a year ago
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AI Dev Tools Panel - Stripe AI day

from Elad Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
I will be moderating a panel on 7/13 at Stripe with founders of Baseten, LlamaIndex, Zapier
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RhysTranter.com
“Be zealous in amending your whole life”: Vincent Van Gogh on The Imitation of Christ In the years leading up to my conversion, I gradually became fascinated by Thomas á Kempis’s...
a year ago
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“Be zealous in amending your whole life”: Vincent Van Gogh on The Imitation of Christ

from RhysTranter.com [alt+shift+b] in life

a year ago
In the years leading up to my conversion, I gradually became fascinated by Thomas á Kempis’s devotional text, The Imitation of Christ. I encountered it first in the letters of the young Samuel Beckett, and next in the interviews of Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, and then in all...
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Dreams of Space -...
Judy Space Puzzles (1970s) Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!  I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time...
7 months ago
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Judy Space Puzzles (1970s)

from Dreams of Space - Books and Ephemera [alt+shift+b] in history

7 months ago
Here is another quick post for you. Space puzzles!  I last shared these in 2016 so it is about time to bring them back. These were classroom puzzles (although they were probably owned by kids at home too). They were mostly for Kindergarten-2nd grade kids and were "educational" as...
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Laetitia@Work
Back-to-school impostor syndrome Laetitia@Work #50
over a year ago
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Back-to-school impostor syndrome

from Laetitia@Work [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
Laetitia@Work #50
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Patrick Kayongo
Super Apps vs WhatsApp Over the last little while, there has been this rise in Super Apps, these apps that attempt to be...
over a year ago
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Super Apps vs WhatsApp

from Patrick Kayongo [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Over the last little while, there has been this rise in Super Apps, these apps that attempt to be multi-functional “mobile malls”. In South Africa, Vodacom has released VodaPay where one can “enter” multiple stores to shop their products. Nedbank has Avo where one can also shop...
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Adrian Hanft, III:...
Pissing in the Wind Questioning the results of a study criticizing Dyson's hand dryer.
over a year ago
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Pissing in the Wind

from Adrian Hanft, III: RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
Questioning the results of a study criticizing Dyson's hand dryer.
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Louwrentius
Smoking coolermaster Silent Pro M 600W TN6M50 So I was just messing around on my work station, when suddenly I smelled the smell any person...
over a year ago
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Smoking coolermaster Silent Pro M 600W TN6M50

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
So I was just messing around on my work station, when suddenly I smelled the smell any person familiar with electronics fears. The smell of some electrical component burning. The whole upper floor smelled like something was smoldering. So I shut down both my storage servers....
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Quanta Magazine
A Close-Up View Reveals the ‘Melting’ Point of an Infinite Graph Just as ice melts to water, graphs undergo phase transitions. Two mathematicians showed that they...
a year ago
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A Close-Up View Reveals the ‘Melting’ Point of an Infinite Graph

from Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
Just as ice melts to water, graphs undergo phase transitions. Two mathematicians showed that they can pinpoint such transitions by examining only local structure. The post A Close-Up View Reveals the ‘Melting’ Point of an Infinite Graph first appeared on Quanta...
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Rest of World -...
Brazil’s flood disaster set off a torrent of AI misinformation Platforms like Instagram and Facebook are failing an early test of misinformation safeguards.
a year ago
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Brazil’s flood disaster set off a torrent of AI misinformation

from Rest of World - Global [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
Platforms like Instagram and Facebook are failing an early test of misinformation safeguards.
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Christopher Butler
In Defense of Screens Screens are good, actually. Screens get a lot of blame these days. They’re accused of...
a month ago
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In Defense of Screens

from Christopher Butler [alt+shift+b] in design

a month ago
Screens are good, actually. Screens get a lot of blame these days. They’re accused of destroying attention spans, ruining sleep, enabling addiction, isolating us from one another, and eroding our capacity for deep thought. “Screen time” has become shorthand for everything...
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Koos Looijesteijn
I like watercolor painting
a year ago
27

I like watercolor painting

from Koos Looijesteijn [alt+shift+b] in design

a year ago
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Seth's Blog
The four cohorts of the status quo The first group cares about the policy. They benefit from it. They’ve organized themselves around...
a year ago
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The four cohorts of the status quo

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

a year ago
The first group cares about the policy. They benefit from it. They’ve organized themselves around it. The second group cares about stability. They have limited bandwidth, and they’re not particularly interested in reconsidering everything, all the time. The third group doesn’t...
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Seth's Blog
Rethinking the Sports-Industrial Complex School sports can have some valuable outputs: And yet, many schools act as if all they have is a...
over a year ago
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Rethinking the Sports-Industrial Complex

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

over a year ago
School sports can have some valuable outputs: And yet, many schools act as if all they have is a trophy shortage. They bench kids who might not (yet) have the physical attributes necessary to win, or they build huge stadiums, go on long road trips, berate students that make an...
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NeuroLogica Blog
Have We Achieved General AI As I predicted the controversy over whether or not we have achieved general AI will likely exist for...
6 months ago
71

Have We Achieved General AI

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

6 months ago
As I predicted the controversy over whether or not we have achieved general AI will likely exist for a long time before there is a consensus that we have. The latest round of this controversy comes from Vahid Kazemi from OpenAI. He posted on X: “In my opinion we have already...
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bt RSS Feed
Keynote Slides with Pure CSS Keynote Slides with Pure CSS 2020-06-22 There are a great deal of options available on the web and...
over a year ago
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Keynote Slides with Pure CSS

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Keynote Slides with Pure CSS 2020-06-22 There are a great deal of options available on the web and built into most operating systems when you need to create presentation / keynote slides. You could use native software like LibremOffice Impress, Powerpoint, Apple’s Keynote, etc....
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Digest Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I am not tholin' this colon? Today's News: PSSST....
a year ago
34

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Digest

from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal [alt+shift+b] in comics

a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I am not tholin' this colon? Today's News: PSSST. Hey London!
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Quanta Magazine
First-Year Graduate Student Finds Paradoxical Set No two pairs have the same sum; add three numbers together, and you can get any whole number. ...
over a year ago
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First-Year Graduate Student Finds Paradoxical Set

from Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
No two pairs have the same sum; add three numbers together, and you can get any whole number. The post First-Year Graduate Student Finds Paradoxical Set first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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TheCollector
Red Gold: How Cochineal Dye Built Mexican Cities A dye extracted from crushed bugs might sound archaic, but it is surprisingly ubiquitous....
a month ago
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Red Gold: How Cochineal Dye Built Mexican Cities

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

a month ago
A dye extracted from crushed bugs might sound archaic, but it is surprisingly ubiquitous. Cochineal—parasitic insects that live on nopal (prickly pear) cacti across Latin America—are the key ingredients in a vivid red pigment known as carmine, which colors foods, beverages,...
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History Today Feed
‘The Crisis of Colonial Anglicanism’ by Martyn Percy review ‘The Crisis of Colonial Anglicanism’ by Martyn Percy review JamesHoare Wed, 04/02/2025 - 09:13
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‘The Crisis of Colonial Anglicanism’ by Martyn Percy review

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3 months ago
‘The Crisis of Colonial Anglicanism’ by Martyn Percy review JamesHoare Wed, 04/02/2025 - 09:13
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Joel Gascoigne
Zero notifications * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * A couple of...
over a year ago
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Zero notifications

from Joel Gascoigne [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * A couple of months ago, my co-founder Leo [http://twitter.com/leowid] gave me an interesting suggestion: he said I should try disabling all notifications on my iPhone. I find this suggestion...
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Quanta Magazine
Fish Have a Brain Microbiome. Could Humans Have One Too? The discovery that other vertebrates have healthy, microbial brains is fueling the still...
7 months ago
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Fish Have a Brain Microbiome. Could Humans Have One Too?

from Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

7 months ago
The discovery that other vertebrates have healthy, microbial brains is fueling the still controversial possibility that we might have them as well. The post Fish Have a Brain Microbiome. Could Humans Have One Too? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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African History...
A brief history of Gold in Africa and the emporium of Sofala. It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies,...
10 months ago
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A brief history of Gold in Africa and the emporium of Sofala.

from African History Extra [alt+shift+b] in history

10 months ago
It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies, according to an authoritative study by Eugenia Herbert.
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Retail Design Blog
Prolan | Minhoff office by UP.GREAT Inviting, collaborative working environment with a special spirit in the rooms of a historic villa....
10 months ago
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Prolan | Minhoff office by UP.GREAT

from Retail Design Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

10 months ago
Inviting, collaborative working environment with a special spirit in the rooms of a historic villa. A beautiful, historic villa on...
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Idle Words
Sara Huddleston on the Latino Vote in Iowa Last week I spoke with Sara Huddleston, candidate for Iowa state house in district 11 (Storm Lake)....
over a year ago
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Sara Huddleston on the Latino Vote in Iowa

from Idle Words [alt+shift+b] in literature

over a year ago
Last week I spoke with Sara Huddleston, candidate for Iowa state house in district 11 (Storm Lake). A longtime community organizer and three-term city council member, she was the first Latina elected to a city council in the state of Iowa, and would be the first Latina to serve...
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ia: Heirs of Alexander This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of...
a year ago
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ia: Heirs of Alexander

from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry [alt+shift+b] in history

a year ago
This week on the blog we are starting what is a planned four-part series looking at the twilight of Hellenistic warfare and the triumph of the Roman legion. Our core question is a really common one: why was the Roman legion able to decisively defeat the Hellenistic...
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Remains of the Day
TikTok and the Sorting Hat I often describe myself as a cultural determinist, more as a way to differentiate myself from people...
over a year ago
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TikTok and the Sorting Hat

from Remains of the Day [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
I often describe myself as a cultural determinist, more as a way to differentiate myself from people with other dominant worldviews, though I am not a strict adherent. It’s more that in many situations when people ascribe causal power to something other than culture, I’m...
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TheCollector
How Did Augustus Become Rome’s Longest-Reigning Emperor? Rome’s shift from an oligarchic Republic to an authoritative Empire was a bloody one fueled in part...
4 days ago
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How Did Augustus Become Rome’s Longest-Reigning Emperor?

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

4 days ago
Rome’s shift from an oligarchic Republic to an authoritative Empire was a bloody one fueled in part by the traditional Roman hatred of the idea of kingship. Julius Caesar lived for less than two months after he was named “dictator for life,” but after his successor Octavian was...
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Tikalon Blog by Dev...
Spiderweb Microphone Microphones convert sound into an electrical signal for subsequent amplification, as in auditorium...
9 months ago
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Spiderweb Microphone

from Tikalon Blog by Dev Gualtieri [alt+shift+b] in science

9 months ago
Microphones convert sound into an electrical signal for subsequent amplification, as in auditorium public address systems; or transmission, as in landline and mobile phones. The most common types of microphones are carbon, used in early telephones, condenser, electret, dynamic,...
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Noahpinion
America's supply chains are a disaster waiting to happen A guest post by Yann Calvó López and Ben Golub.
9 months ago
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America's supply chains are a disaster waiting to happen

from Noahpinion [alt+shift+b] in startups

9 months ago
A guest post by Yann Calvó López and Ben Golub.
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Old Structures...
Metaphorical Significant Figures Continuing a bit further with yesterday’s line of thinking…what happens if we use the wrong code?...
a year ago
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Metaphorical Significant Figures

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
Continuing a bit further with yesterday’s line of thinking…what happens if we use the wrong code? (I’m going to say now, at the beginning of this post, and I’ll repeat at the end: we can and should use the current codes. I use current codes in analysis and design; I use old codes...
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The Changelog
See The World Through the Eyes of a Child, and You Are Free Because we see things so often, we see them less and less. Those who live in thanksgiving daily,...
over a year ago
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See The World Through the Eyes of a Child, and You Are Free

from The Changelog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Because we see things so often, we see them less and less. Those who live in thanksgiving daily, however, have a way of opening their eyes and seeing the wonders and beauties of this world as though seeing them for the first time. – Joseph Wirthlin Today is about dirt. I had to...
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brr
Mud Murdo The beautiful ambiance of a McMurdo summer.
over a year ago
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Mud Murdo

from brr [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
The beautiful ambiance of a McMurdo summer.
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alexwlchan
My favourite books from 2023 I read 75 books this year, which is slightly up on previous years (2022, 2021). I’m pleased with...
a year ago
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My favourite books from 2023

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
I read 75 books this year, which is slightly up on previous years (2022, 2021). I’m pleased with that number, although overall I found it a slightly disappointing year for reading. Although I read more books, there were less that I really loved – less of the sort of book that...
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Alex MacCaw
We Won’t Save the Planet by Shrinking At first, it sounds obvious: if we want to save the planet, we should do less. Fewer people, less...
3 months ago
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We Won’t Save the Planet by Shrinking

from Alex MacCaw [alt+shift+b] in programming

3 months ago
At first, it sounds obvious: if we want to save the planet, we should do less. Fewer people, less consumption, smaller footprints. I believed this too—so much so that I once thought having kids was irresponsible. But the more I looked into it, the less sense it made.
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Joel Gascoigne
Reflecting on ways to bootstrap a startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * If you are a...
over a year ago
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Reflecting on ways to bootstrap a startup

from Joel Gascoigne [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * If you are a first time startup founder, or have done a few projects but are still working either full-time or freelancing part-time, you are likely to struggle to find investment for your startup...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Read Well, Read Little' A reader asks what novels by William Makepeace Thackeray I would suggest he read. My answer is brief...
a month ago
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'Read Well, Read Little'

from Anecdotal Evidence [alt+shift+b] in literature

a month ago
A reader asks what novels by William Makepeace Thackeray I would suggest he read. My answer is brief and not terribly helpful: Vanity Fair. It’s the only book by Thackery I have read, and that was a long time ago. I saw Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of Barry Lyndon in 1975....
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Seth's Blog
Ideas need handles: the thing about subject lines A bureaucracy recently asked me to submit a few documents. They were very specific and the person on...
6 months ago
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Ideas need handles: the thing about subject lines

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

6 months ago
A bureaucracy recently asked me to submit a few documents. They were very specific and the person on the phone said that the subject line of the email I sent should be blank. This is really unsettling. Almost like taking the labels off bottles at the supermarket. My email...
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Retail Design Blog
BOTANICA ALEA PARK the pavilion is designed as a contemporary structure in harmony with nature, which integrates into...
a week ago
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BOTANICA ALEA PARK

from Retail Design Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

a week ago
the pavilion is designed as a contemporary structure in harmony with nature, which integrates into the listed complex of the...
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Calculated Risk
A few comments on the Seasonal Pattern for House Prices A few key points: 3) The seasonal swings have increased recently without a surge in distressed...
4 months ago
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A few comments on the Seasonal Pattern for House Prices

from Calculated Risk [alt+shift+b] in finance

4 months ago
A few key points: 3) The seasonal swings have increased recently without a surge in distressed sales. Click on graph for larger image. The second graph shows the seasonal factors for the Case-Shiller National index since 1987. The factors started to change near the peak of...
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Londonist
The City Street With FOUR Names What do you call the road between Millennium Bridge and St Paul's?
a year ago
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The City Street With FOUR Names

from Londonist [alt+shift+b] in travel

a year ago
What do you call the road between Millennium Bridge and St Paul's?
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NeuroLogica Blog
RFK Jr., Joe Rogan, and Vaccines RFK Jr., who is now running for the Democratic presidential nomination, is anti-vaccine. He will...
over a year ago
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RFK Jr., Joe Rogan, and Vaccines

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
RFK Jr., who is now running for the Democratic presidential nomination, is anti-vaccine. He will vehemently deny this, but I don’t buy it for a second. He is simply playing the, “I’m not anti-vaccine, I am pro-safe vaccine” gambit, which is disingenuous and always has been. We...
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Rest of World -...
Instagram helps Brazilians dodge a national sales ban on vapes As Brazilian law clashes with Meta’s policies, illegal vapes flood social media and the streets.
8 months ago
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Instagram helps Brazilians dodge a national sales ban on vapes

from Rest of World - Global [alt+shift+b] in startups

8 months ago
As Brazilian law clashes with Meta’s policies, illegal vapes flood social media and the streets.
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Joshua Smith
Shipping Containers Hanjin Shipping Container: Based on Hong Kong Docks. Scratchbuilt 1:20 Scale Miniature created from...
over a year ago
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Shipping Containers

from Joshua Smith [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
Hanjin Shipping Container: Based on Hong Kong Docks. Scratchbuilt 1:20 Scale Miniature created from cardboard, paper, chalk pastels, spraypaint, plastruct, fabric, rope. May 2016. Hapag Lloyd container: Scratchbuilt 1:20 Scale Miniature created from cardboard, paper, chalk...
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Irrational...
Management
a year ago
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Management

from Irrational Exuberance [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
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Seth's Blog
“I don’t learn that way” If you’re sitting on the dock, watching the swim class without getting wet, it’s more accurate to...
a year ago
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“I don’t learn that way”

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

a year ago
If you’re sitting on the dock, watching the swim class without getting wet, it’s more accurate to say, “I’m just watching.” There are plenty of theories on how different people learn. Online, we’re in the middle of the biggest learning experiment in history, with countless...
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Ink & Switch
Dispatch 011: Automerge 3.0 Beta, Sketchy Calendar, and a lab website refresh Some major updates to our open-source Automerge library, an introduction to Sketchy Calendars, and a...
a month ago
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Dispatch 011: Automerge 3.0 Beta, Sketchy Calendar, and a lab website refresh

from Ink & Switch [alt+shift+b] in programming

a month ago
Some major updates to our open-source Automerge library, an introduction to Sketchy Calendars, and a peek at our work on collaborative game development. Also some meta content—a refreshed website, and a talk about how we work.
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African History...
A complete history of Mogadishu (ca. 1100-1892) Journal of African cities: chapter 16.
3 months ago
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A complete history of Mogadishu (ca. 1100-1892)

from African History Extra [alt+shift+b] in history

3 months ago
Journal of African cities: chapter 16.
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Yale e360
In a Major Reversal, the World Bank Is Backing Mega Dams Despite continued opposition, the World Bank has approved the first of five big dam projects...
6 months ago
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In a Major Reversal, the World Bank Is Backing Mega Dams

from Yale e360 [alt+shift+b] in science

6 months ago
Despite continued opposition, the World Bank has approved the first of five big dam projects expected to get its support in the coming months. Climate change has upped the need for renewable energy, but the environmental and social costs of building such massive projects...
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Paul Graham: Essays
What Business Can Learn from Open Source
over a year ago
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What Business Can Learn from Open Source

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over a year ago
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Rest of World -...
The #1 rideshare app in Japan isn’t Uber, it’s a taxi app Go summons taxis and the company behind it is Japan's newest unicorn.
over a year ago
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The #1 rideshare app in Japan isn’t Uber, it’s a taxi app

from Rest of World - Global [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
Go summons taxis and the company behind it is Japan's newest unicorn.
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Abishek Muthian
Memory and Mental Health It's been known for a while that depression can cause us to not remember finer details of an past...
over a year ago
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Memory and Mental Health

from Abishek Muthian [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
It's been known for a while that depression can cause us to not remember finer details of an past event (or) even cause forgetfulness of future events. But while depressed, We have no dearth of negative thoughts and memories i.e. Rumination. Since rumination weakens our cognitive...
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Maggie Appleton
GreenSock Animations with React Hooks How to use the Greensock animation library inside React using React hooks
over a year ago
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GreenSock Animations with React Hooks

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
How to use the Greensock animation library inside React using React hooks
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blag
Moving to Hugo some personal notes to remember the migration effort from Pelican to Hugo
over a year ago
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Moving to Hugo

from blag [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
some personal notes to remember the migration effort from Pelican to Hugo
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The Architectural...
Architects call for a crisis meeting after politicians demand more traditional architecture After enduring decades of failed modernism, the residents and politicians of Sweden’s second-largest...
a year ago
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Architects call for a crisis meeting after politicians demand more traditional architecture

from The Architectural Uprising [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
After enduring decades of failed modernism, the residents and politicians of Sweden’s second-largest city, Gothenburg, want to see more new traditional architecture. This has led architects and officials to call for a crisis meeting. During the 1960s and 1970s, Gothenburg...
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Home on Erik...
Snakebite Just promoting Spotify stuff here: check out the Snakebite repo on Github, written by Wouter de Bie....
over a year ago
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Snakebite

from Home on Erik Bernhardsson [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Just promoting Spotify stuff here: check out the Snakebite repo on Github, written by Wouter de Bie. It's a super fast tool to access HDFS over CLI/Python, by accessing the namenode directly over sockets/protobuf. Spotify's developer blog features a nice blog post outlining what...
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Global Inequality...
On general futility of political discussions with people Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people...
a year ago
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On general futility of political discussions with people

from Global Inequality and More 3.0 [alt+shift+b] in history

a year ago
Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people and have concluded that these discussions are, almost entirely, futile in making people either see things differently, or acknowledge that others may see things differently, or...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Blogging and Composting Here’s a thought: blogging is like compositing. The banana is what you’re after. But as a byproduct...
a year ago
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Blogging and Composting

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Here’s a thought: blogging is like compositing. The banana is what you’re after. But as a byproduct of the banana you get the peel. And if you compost, you can make good use of the peel. Similarly, whatever you’re building is what you’re after. But as a byproduct of whatever...
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Old Structures...
A Simple Drawing For A Difficult Structure – Part 4 To catch up, here are links for part 1, part 2, and part 3. The Brooklyn Bridge caissons were much...
a year ago
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A Simple Drawing For A Difficult Structure – Part 4

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
To catch up, here are links for part 1, part 2, and part 3. The Brooklyn Bridge caissons were much bigger than the similar pneumatic caissons that had been used earlier. Their timber construction was based on a few ideas, all subject to engineering design or review. First, the...
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Quanta Magazine
Why Mathematical Proof Is a Social Compact Number theorist Andrew Granville on what mathematics really is — and why objectivity is never quite...
a year ago
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Why Mathematical Proof Is a Social Compact

from Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
Number theorist Andrew Granville on what mathematics really is — and why objectivity is never quite within reach. The post Why Mathematical Proof Is a Social Compact first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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CONTEMPORIST
A Seamless Terrazzo Flows From The Wall To The Countertop In This Kitchen Studio Modijefsky has shared photos of a project where they transformed a 17th-century inn into a...
a year ago
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A Seamless Terrazzo Flows From The Wall To The Countertop In This Kitchen

from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
Studio Modijefsky has shared photos of a project where they transformed a 17th-century inn into a modern family home in Nieuwersluis, The Netherlands. As part of the renovation, they designed a new inviting, and open-plan kitchen with a cooking island and a terrazzo countertop....
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Notes on software...
SQLite has pretty limited builtin functions This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
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SQLite has pretty limited builtin functions

from Notes on software development [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
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Simply Explained
Building Air Quality Sensor: Luftdaten + Home Assistant Luftdaten (now Sensor Community) is a global sensor network that measures air quality around the...
over a year ago
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Building Air Quality Sensor: Luftdaten + Home Assistant

from Simply Explained [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
Luftdaten (now Sensor Community) is a global sensor network that measures air quality around the world. Best of all: it's open-source and anyone can build a sensor.I was very curious to see the air quality in my neighborhood, so I decided to build myself a sensor. And of course,...
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Louwrentius
ZFS performance on HP Proliant Microserver Gen8 G1610T I think the HP Proliant Microserver Gen8 is a very interesting little box if you want to build your...
over a year ago
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ZFS performance on HP Proliant Microserver Gen8 G1610T

from Louwrentius [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
I think the HP Proliant Microserver Gen8 is a very interesting little box if you want to build your own ZFS-based NAS. The benchmarks I've performed seem to confirm this. The Microserver Gen8 has nice features such as: iLO (KVM over IP with dedicated network interface) support...
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XO Capital - Field...
Our First Community Call This week Danny jumped on a live Twitter Spaces with me. We talked about: When to "quit" XO...
a year ago
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Our First Community Call

from XO Capital - Field Notes [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
This week Danny jumped on a live Twitter Spaces with me. We talked about: When to "quit" XO community, courses, Motivations for picking a startup idea Decision making differences between short holds and longer holds.
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TheCollector
5 Incredible Historic Day Trips From Barcelona The thriving heart of coastal Catalonia, Barcelona, is a history buff’s paradise in its own right....
a month ago
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5 Incredible Historic Day Trips From Barcelona

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The thriving heart of coastal Catalonia, Barcelona, is a history buff’s paradise in its own right. Venture just beyond the city limits, however, and you’ll be greeted with a kaleidoscope of sociopolitical, cultural, and art history waiting to be unpacked. These five Catalan...
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Nothing Human
Prayer over a new smartphone Hello, phone. For many years, starting today, you will be my most loyal companion and my most...
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Prayer over a new smartphone

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a year ago
Hello, phone. For many years, starting today, you will be my most loyal companion and my most treasured possession. I will feel your weight in my pocket every moment of every day, a presence as constant as my breath. The muscles and bones of my hand, arm, and shoulder will deform...
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Strange Loop Canon
Strange Loop Canon Commencement Address
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Strange Loop Canon Commencement Address

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Unfiltered by Tim...
3 Hours of Creative ‘Flow’ Every Day Is All You Need to Change Your Life If you’re *not* using flow states you’re wasting your life.
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3 Hours of Creative ‘Flow’ Every Day Is All You Need to Change Your Life

from Unfiltered by Tim Denning [alt+shift+b] in life

2 months ago
If you’re *not* using flow states you’re wasting your life.
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Both Are True
Olivia and Alex figure out all the big questions with ease and aplomb (respectfully) A recording from Alex Dobrenko`'s live video
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Olivia and Alex figure out all the big questions with ease and aplomb (respectfully)

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A recording from Alex Dobrenko`'s live video
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David Crawshaw
new year, same plan new year, same plan 2022-12-31 Some months ago, the bill from GCE for hosting this blog jumped from...
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new year, same plan

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over a year ago
new year, same plan 2022-12-31 Some months ago, the bill from GCE for hosting this blog jumped from nearly nothing to far too much for what it is, so I moved provider and needed to write a blog post to test it all. I could have figured out why my current provider hiked the price....
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One Useful Thing
Using AI Right Now: A Quick Guide Which AIs to use, and how to use them
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Using AI Right Now: A Quick Guide

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Which AIs to use, and how to use them
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