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Beyond 10× In the January 1968 issue of computer science trade magazine Communications of the ACM, a paper...
1st Nov 2021
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Beyond 10×

from The personal website of Matt Ström-Awn [alt+shift+b] in design

1st Nov 2021
In the January 1968 issue of computer science trade magazine Communications of the ACM, a paper appeared under the unassuming title “Exploratory experimental studies comparing online and offline programming performance.” “Programming is a multibillion dollar industry,” the paper...
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Where We See Shapes, AI Sees Textures To researchers’ surprise, deep learning vision algorithms often fail at classifying images because...
4th Jun 2020
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Where We See Shapes, AI Sees Textures

from The Quanta Podcast [alt+shift+b] in science

4th Jun 2020
To researchers’ surprise, deep learning vision algorithms often fail at classifying images because they mostly take cues from textures, not shapes. The post Where We See Shapes, AI Sees Textures first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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The Route of History Geology and empire collide on the Danube
1st Feb 2026
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The Route of History

from Looking Through the Past [alt+shift+b] in history

1st Feb 2026
Geology and empire collide on the Danube
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A complete history of Jenne: 250BC-1893AD Journal of African cities chapter 6
5th Mar 2023
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A complete history of Jenne: 250BC-1893AD

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

5th Mar 2023
Journal of African cities chapter 6
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Living the Questions, Reading the Clown-Arounds Embracing the Trivial in a World Obsessed with Takeaways
12th Aug 2024
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Living the Questions, Reading the Clown-Arounds

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

12th Aug 2024
Embracing the Trivial in a World Obsessed with Takeaways
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Deep Reinforcement Learning: Pong from Pixels --> This is a long overdue blog post on Reinforcement Learning (RL). RL is hot! You may have...
31st May 2016
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Deep Reinforcement Learning: Pong from Pixels

from Andrej Karpathy blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

31st May 2016
--> This is a long overdue blog post on Reinforcement Learning (RL). RL is hot! You may have noticed that computers can now automatically learn to play ATARI games (from raw game pixels!), they are beating world champions at Go, simulated quadrupeds are learning to run and leap,...
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Clip control on the Apple GPU Neverball rendered on the Apple M1 GPU with an open source OpenGL driver After a year in...
22nd Aug 2022
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Clip control on the Apple GPU

from On Life and Lisp [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Aug 2022
Neverball rendered on the Apple M1 GPU with an open source OpenGL driver After a year in development, the open source “Asahi” driver for the Apple GPU is running real games. There’s more to do, but Neverball is already playable (and a lot of fun!). Neverball uses legacy “fixed...
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Don't Expect Respect. All we have left now is money.
1st Jul 2026
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Don't Expect Respect.

from Trying to Understand the World [alt+shift+b] in history

1st Jul 2026
All we have left now is money.
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Talk -- What is Algebraic Geometry and Why Should You Care? So an embarrassing amount of time ago (Feburary 17?) I gave a talk for the undergraduate math club...
1st May 2023
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Talk -- What is Algebraic Geometry and Why Should You Care?

from Chris Grossack's Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

1st May 2023
So an embarrassing amount of time ago (Feburary 17?) I gave a talk for the undergraduate math club titled “What is Algebraic Geometry, and Why Should You Care?”. I think it went quite well, and the audience seemed like they had a good time. I really wanted to have the talk...
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Roger Kennedy: The Political History of North America from 25,000 BC to 12,000 AD ### Ancient American politics Roger Kennedy, the former head of the Smithsonian National Museum of...
26th Feb 2005
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Roger Kennedy: The Political History of North America from 25,000 BC to 12,000 AD

from Long Now [alt+shift+b] in science

26th Feb 2005
### Ancient American politics Roger Kennedy, the former head of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History and former Director of the US National Park Service, is so eloquent that Walt Kelly based a "Pogo" character on him (the bear P.T. Bridgeport, whose speech...
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On "the OSI deprogrammer" Back in December, George Michaelson posted an item on the APNIC blog titled “That OSI model refuses...
26th Mar 2024
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On "the OSI deprogrammer"

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

26th Mar 2024
Back in December, George Michaelson posted an item on the APNIC blog titled “That OSI model refuses to die”, in reaction to Robert Graham’s “OSI Deprogrammer” published in September. I had discussed the OSI Deprogrammer on Lobsters, and George’s blog post prompted me to write an...
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Peter Calthorpe Has a Plan for More Housing in California Through a state-mandated use of form-based codes and a focus on “grand boulevards” of underutilized...
3rd Apr 2023
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Peter Calthorpe Has a Plan for More Housing in California

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

3rd Apr 2023
Through a state-mandated use of form-based codes and a focus on “grand boulevards” of underutilized commercial strips, the number of potential units expands by orders of magnitude.
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Tools for Communicating Offline and in Difficult Circumstances Note: this post is also available on my website, where it will be updated periodically. When things...
3rd Mar 2022
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Tools for Communicating Offline and in Difficult Circumstances

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

3rd Mar 2022
Note: this post is also available on my website, where it will be updated periodically. When things are difficult – maybe there’s been a disaster, or an invasion (this page is being written in 2022 just after Russia invaded Ukraine), or maybe you’re just backpacking off the grid...
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OpenAI Five Finals Intro The text of my speech introducing OpenAI Five at Saturday’s OpenAI Five Finals event, where our AI...
15th Apr 2019
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OpenAI Five Finals Intro

from Greg Brockman [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Apr 2019
The text of my speech introducing OpenAI Five at Saturday’s OpenAI Five Finals event, where our AI beat the world champions at Dota 2: “Welcome everyone. This is an exciting day. First, this is an historic moment: this will be the first time that an AI has even attempted to play...
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Defend Your Cookies with Essential Web Security Tactics Illustrated notes on the essentials of web security
8th Feb 2020
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Defend Your Cookies with Essential Web Security Tactics

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

8th Feb 2020
Illustrated notes on the essentials of web security
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Packing the Essentials!: Preparing to Travel in the 18th Century. Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here –...
8th Jun 2022
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Packing the Essentials!: Preparing to Travel in the 18th Century.

from Dr Alun Withey [alt+shift+b] in history

8th Jun 2022
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here – it’s raining outside as I write! – many people are returning to travel and undertaking the holidays that have had to be postponed over the past couple of years. The pandemic aside,...
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every small city has that one dictator chic house I don’t know why, but every city, no matter how big, has some insanely stacked dictator-looking...
30th Jan 2023
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every small city has that one dictator chic house

from McMansion Hell [alt+shift+b] in architecture

30th Jan 2023
I don’t know why, but every city, no matter how big, has some insanely stacked dictator-looking McMansion somewhere outside the city limits. If you sort your Zillow results as Price: High - Low, this house will pop up first. It costs something like $5,000,000. It is 10,000 square...
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.NET Source Generators with .NET 7 Exploring .NET source generators to reduce boilerplate code in everyday code!
15th Aug 2023
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.NET Source Generators with .NET 7

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

15th Aug 2023
Exploring .NET source generators to reduce boilerplate code in everyday code!
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Fun with IE7 and the Zoom Property This bug threw me for a loop. A CSS optimizer thought it was doing me a favor by “fixing” any...
29th Jun 2012
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Fun with IE7 and the Zoom Property

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

29th Jun 2012
This bug threw me for a loop. A CSS optimizer thought it was doing me a favor by “fixing” any invalid numbers. It replaces .my_class{ zoom:1; } with .my_class{ zoom:1px; } Those two characters (“px”) on the zoom property will blow up IE7 as it tries to zoom to a value in...
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2014-06-13 articles.manugarg.com/aboutelfauxiliaryvectors.html
13th Jun 2014
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2014-06-13

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

13th Jun 2014
articles.manugarg.com/aboutelfauxiliaryvectors.html
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Ozymandias And Elitism Is pleasure evidence of unworthiness?
1st Nov 2025
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Ozymandias And Elitism

from The Deleted Scenes [alt+shift+b] in architecture

1st Nov 2025
Is pleasure evidence of unworthiness?
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What’s the Future for Pure Math Research in the Age of AI?
a week ago
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What’s the Future for Pure Math Research in the Age of AI?

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

a week ago
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The worst take in tech: new grad hiring
11th Jun 2026
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The worst take in tech: new grad hiring

from Scott Kennedy [alt+shift+b] in technology

11th Jun 2026
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Country Risk: Drivers, Measures and Investment Implications - The 2026 Edition! I am a creature of habit in my personal and professional life, and in the context of the content...
15th Jul 2026
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Country Risk: Drivers, Measures and Investment Implications - The 2026 Edition!

from Musings on Markets [alt+shift+b] in finance

15th Jul 2026
I am a creature of habit in my personal and professional life, and in the context of the content that I post online, there is a ritual that I follow with my data updates. I start the year with my general data update online, and follow up with a series of posts where I examine the...
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My Hacker News knowledge assimilation stack Long time Hacker News readers would agree that the real gold is in the comments, There are very few...
14th Nov 2021
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My Hacker News knowledge assimilation stack

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

14th Nov 2021
Long time Hacker News readers would agree that the real gold is in the comments, There are very few platforms left where people with subject matter experience and authority share valuable insights with less noise. HN provides a way to save those comments, but I also wanted a way...
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The Loving-Kindness Exercises Remember the good within you. Recite to yourself: May I be free from danger. May I have mental...
24th Feb 2020
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The Loving-Kindness Exercises

from The Tao Of Wealth [alt+shift+b] in life

24th Feb 2020
Remember the good within you. Recite to yourself: May I be free from danger. May I have mental happiness. May I have physical happiness. May I have ease of well-being. Remember the following 11 benefits of loving-kindness: 1. You will sleep easily. 2. You will wake easily. 3. You...
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An algorithm for shuffling playlists
22nd Jul 2023
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An algorithm for shuffling playlists

from Ruud van Asseldonk [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Jul 2023
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For the love of mini The iPhone Mini has intangible greatness that most folks don't know about: read along for the love...
8th Dec 2021
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For the love of mini

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

8th Dec 2021
The iPhone Mini has intangible greatness that most folks don't know about: read along for the love of mini!
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All the user-facing states I find myself needing a reference like this more often than not lately. So, here’s a blog acting as...
29th Apr 2022
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All the user-facing states

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

29th Apr 2022
I find myself needing a reference like this more often than not lately. So, here’s a blog acting as augmented memory—I’ll update it as I encounter more user-facing states in the wild. What user-facing state is User-facing state is what someone experiences when they interact with...
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Annoy 1.10 released, with Hamming distance and Windows support I've been a bit bad at posting things with a regular cadence lately, partly because I'm trying to...
26th Nov 2017
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Annoy 1.10 released, with Hamming distance and Windows support

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

26th Nov 2017
I've been a bit bad at posting things with a regular cadence lately, partly because I'm trying to adjust to having a toddler, partly because the hunt for clicks has caused such a high bar for me that I feel like I have to post something Pulitzer-worthy.
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How the SNES Graphics System works
9th Aug 2024
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How the SNES Graphics System works

from Fabien Sanglard [alt+shift+b] in technology

9th Aug 2024
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Pluralistic: How twiddling enshittifies your brain (28 Jul 2025) Today's links How twiddling enshittifies your brain: They preferentially mess with the stuff you...
28th Jul 2025
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Pluralistic: How twiddling enshittifies your brain (28 Jul 2025)

from Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [alt+shift+b] in AI

28th Jul 2025
Today's links How twiddling enshittifies your brain: They preferentially mess with the stuff you rely on the most. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Used books economics; Adbusters sf; Branson vs virgins; Shark knife; Protesters must pledge souls to...
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Getting A Local Mastodon Setup In Docker This is the first in probably a series of posts as I dig into the technical aspects of mastodon. My...
2nd Jun 2024
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Getting A Local Mastodon Setup In Docker

from These Yaks Ain't Gonna Shave Themselves [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Jun 2024
This is the first in probably a series of posts as I dig into the technical aspects of mastodon. My goal is to get a better understanding of the design of ActivityPub and how mastodon itself is designed to use ActivityPub. Eventually I want to learn enough to maybe do some...
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Create a Hue-compatible DIY LED light sculpture Learn how to create your own Hue compatible LED light sculpture, inspired by by the REFLEKTION art,...
15th Aug 2020
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Create a Hue-compatible DIY LED light sculpture

from Style over Substance [alt+shift+b] in technology

15th Aug 2020
Learn how to create your own Hue compatible LED light sculpture, inspired by by the REFLEKTION art, using cheap LED strips and DIY parts you can order online. The post Create a Hue-compatible DIY LED light sculpture appeared first on Style over Substance.
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Mercedes vs Lucid: Different Views on Luxury UI Design Exploring the UI design of two different luxury car brands
1st Nov 2020
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Mercedes vs Lucid: Different Views on Luxury UI Design

from The Turn Signal RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in design

1st Nov 2020
Exploring the UI design of two different luxury car brands
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Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for extremely nuanced AI image generation Nano Banana allows 32,768 input tokens and I’m going to try to use them all dammit.
13th Nov 2025
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Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for extremely nuanced AI image generation

from Max Woolf's Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

13th Nov 2025
Nano Banana allows 32,768 input tokens and I’m going to try to use them all dammit.
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First impressions of Gleam: lots of joys and some rough edges My friend Erika is a big fan of Gleam, and her enthusiasm (and explicit encouragement) finally got...
5th Aug 2024
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First impressions of Gleam: lots of joys and some rough edges

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

5th Aug 2024
My friend Erika is a big fan of Gleam, and her enthusiasm (and explicit encouragement) finally got me to learn the language. It's a functional programming language which targets both the BEAM (Erlang's VM) and JavaScript. This makes it appealing as a language that can target both...
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Divorce Licorice Introducing: the salmiakki blood pressure cuff
3rd Jun 2023
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Divorce Licorice

from Haterade [alt+shift+b] in creative

3rd Jun 2023
Introducing: the salmiakki blood pressure cuff
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CCPS: A CPS-1 SDK
25th Sep 2022
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CCPS: A CPS-1 SDK

from Fabien Sanglard [alt+shift+b] in technology

25th Sep 2022
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Hannah and her Sisters I came in with high hopes: I like Allen's ouevre and this was supposed to be one of his best.
2nd Sep 2020
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Hannah and her Sisters

from Applied Cartography [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Sep 2020
I came in with high hopes: I like Allen's ouevre and this was supposed to be one of his best.
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Halloween Nerd Projects 👻 Last year I got 229 trick-or-treaters at my house. Candy, yo! The previous year it was 194. The...
30th Oct 2018
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Halloween Nerd Projects 👻

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

30th Oct 2018
Last year I got 229 trick-or-treaters at my house. Candy, yo! The previous year it was 194. The year before that it was 176. The year before that I lived in a duplex that was roughly two blocks from my current house; that year I didn’t think to track how many trick-or-treaters...
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Enhancements to the Kagi search experience We are pleased to announce newly enhanced search results across various search features.
3rd May 2023
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Enhancements to the Kagi search experience

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

3rd May 2023
We are pleased to announce newly enhanced search results across various search features.
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Asymmetric Monstrosity: Home Edition Last year, I created a new map projection, the Asymmetric Monstrosity, designed to make somewhat of...
4 days ago
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Asymmetric Monstrosity: Home Edition

from somethingaboutmaps [alt+shift+b] in cartography

4 days ago
Last year, I created a new map projection, the Asymmetric Monstrosity, designed to make somewhat of an artistic and educational statement about projections in general. I also made a physical world map to demonstrate it. Of course, there is a huge difference between a projection...
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The product lens There has been a lot of discussion lately about the markets for startup financing. Many of the...
2nd Dec 2012
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The product lens

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Dec 2012
There has been a lot of discussion lately about the markets for startup financing. Many of the discussions use words like “valuations…
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the wince avoidance is a signal
7th Jan 2025
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the wince

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

7th Jan 2025
avoidance is a signal
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Niall Ferguson & Peter Schwartz: Historian vs. Futurist on Human Progress ### Past vs. Future In what turned out to be a riveting evening, historian Niall Ferguson and...
29th Apr 2008
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Niall Ferguson & Peter Schwartz: Historian vs. Futurist on Human Progress

from Long Now [alt+shift+b] in science

29th Apr 2008
### Past vs. Future In what turned out to be a riveting evening, historian Niall Ferguson and futurist Peter Schwartz fire-hosed each other with enough ideas, frames of reference, ripostes, and eloquences to lead to a clear conceptual divergence. At the same time, the two were...
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When to write strategy, and how much? Even if you believe that strategy is generally useful, it is difficult to decide that today’s the...
25th Aug 2024
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When to write strategy, and how much?

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

25th Aug 2024
Even if you believe that strategy is generally useful, it is difficult to decide that today’s the day to start writing engineering strategy. When you do start writing strategy, it’s easy write so much strategy that your organization is overwhelmed and ignores your strategy rather...
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Oversimplified guide into snapshots on the btrfs filesystem Friday afternoon. You’re trying out a script that you wrote to mass-rename and move some files...
5th Apr 2022
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Oversimplified guide into snapshots on the btrfs filesystem

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

5th Apr 2022
Friday afternoon. You’re trying out a script that you wrote to mass-rename and move some files around. You finish the script and test it out. Oops. All the files now have all the wrong names, and some have been randomly moved 10 folders deep. It’s a mess. And you didn’t make a...
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GitHub developer statistics Recently, Curtis Einsmann posted some stats from their work as a software engineer. This inspired me...
25th May 2021
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GitHub developer statistics

from Darek Kay [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th May 2021
Recently, Curtis Einsmann posted some stats from their work as a software engineer. This inspired me to check my own impact as an employee: 1002 pull requests shipped 3062 pull requests reviewed 5 years (since migrating to GitHub Enterprise) LOC (lines of code) is a terrible...
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Using Tor outside of the Tor Browser This post shows how to run Tor with a simple PowerShell script and use it in other apps like...
13th May 2019
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Using Tor outside of the Tor Browser

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

13th May 2019
This post shows how to run Tor with a simple PowerShell script and use it in other apps like Telegram...
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So, what happened to my Claude Code series? I started off this year writing a lot, and wanted to keep up the pace. I did good at first! And...
2nd Sep 2026
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So, what happened to my Claude Code series?

from Steve Klabnik [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Sep 2026
I started off this year writing a lot, and wanted to keep up the pace. I did good at first! And then… I didn’t manage to. In some ways, this is because I have just been super busy! I’ve never had less free time, and I’m okay with that. There’s a tremendous amount of good things…
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Learn Integration Testing with React Hook Form Testing is super important, and yet it's hard to find practical examples to show you what to do....
15th Nov 2022
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Learn Integration Testing with React Hook Form

from Max Rozen [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

15th Nov 2022
Testing is super important, and yet it's hard to find practical examples to show you what to do. This article intends to fix that, by teaching integration testing with React Hook Form.
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Evolved antennas, LLM-generated code, and a potential antifuture I think about evolved antennas a lot. If you’re not familiar, an evolved antenna is created when you...
11th May 2026
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Evolved antennas, LLM-generated code, and a potential antifuture

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

11th May 2026
I think about evolved antennas a lot. If you’re not familiar, an evolved antenna is created when you set an evolutionary algorithm on the task of producing a structure that is as efficient at its intended function as possible. Past that there’s no human input, the algorithm just...
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My $500M Mars Rover Mistake: A Failure Story Some mistakes feel worse than death.
27th Nov 2023
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My $500M Mars Rover Mistake: A Failure Story

from Articles - Chris Lewicki [alt+shift+b] in science

27th Nov 2023
Some mistakes feel worse than death.
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Saving six round trips with OCSP stapling I was trying to figure out why my site was so slow on my phone after I enabled HTTPS. After all, TLS...
25th Aug 2017
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Saving six round trips with OCSP stapling

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

25th Aug 2017
I was trying to figure out why my site was so slow on my phone after I enabled HTTPS. After all, TLS is supposed to be fast now, right? But even when there was plenty of bandwidth, it still took several seconds to load a page of text. One WebPageTest later, and I found the...
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And 18 very popular NPM Packages are compromised On September 8th, 18 npm packages were compromised with malicious code. These packages are very...
8th Sep 2025
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And 18 very popular NPM Packages are compromised

from Software and Tech stories from an Insider - iDiallo.com [alt+shift+b] in technology

8th Sep 2025
On September 8th, 18 npm packages were compromised with malicious code. These packages are very popular. They receive an average of 2 billion downloads every week. If you are not sure whether you are affected, you can run this grep command on your repository to search for the...
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A window switcher on the Mac App Store? Is it even possible? Not really, no. Not without annoying workarounds and a confusing user experience. Another email,...
2nd Aug 2022
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A window switcher on the Mac App Store? Is it even possible?

from Copper • A blog about conductive layers [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Aug 2022
Not really, no. Not without annoying workarounds and a confusing user experience. Another email, another annoyed user: Firefox not loading websites when launched through rcmd! It works when launched from Alfred.. Please fix ASAP!! I’m gonna fix this Firefox issue once and for...
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What Learning by Doing Looks Like The evolution of polycrystalline diamond drill bits
12th Dec 2024
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What Learning by Doing Looks Like

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

12th Dec 2024
The evolution of polycrystalline diamond drill bits
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The “thin edge of the wedge” strategy Establishing relationships with new users is the hardest part of growing a startup.  For consumer...
26th Dec 2010
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The “thin edge of the wedge” strategy

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

26th Dec 2010
Establishing relationships with new users is the hardest part of growing a startup.  For consumer products establishing relationships can…
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Design for a Small Planet Back in 1971, “Diet for a Small Planet” by Frances Moore Lappé made it clear the costs of eating...
18th Mar 2025
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Design for a Small Planet

from Scott Jenson [alt+shift+b] in design

18th Mar 2025
Back in 1971, “Diet for a Small Planet” by Frances Moore Lappé made it clear the costs of eating meat were far greater than we had assumed. If we wanted the planet to thrive, we needed to shift to a more resource-efficient way to eat. UX Design is going through its own “you cost...
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Raising Bilingual Children in Japan (Without Breaking the Bank) I first came to Japan as a software developer in 2006, and have continuously resided in the country...
9th Apr 2026
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Raising Bilingual Children in Japan (Without Breaking the Bank)

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Apr 2026
I first came to Japan as a software developer in 2006, and have continuously resided in the country since. Since settling here, I’ve had two children with my Japanese wife. Now ages four and seven, they are on track to be fully bilingual. They use Japanese almost exclusively in...
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What Makes Disney the Best Family Cruise in Alaska
4th Apr 2025
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What Makes Disney the Best Family Cruise in Alaska

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

4th Apr 2025
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Polaroid, you broke my heart. What does it feel like to be contacted by a brand you love and admire? Well, if the person reaching...
15th Sep 2015
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Polaroid, you broke my heart.

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

15th Sep 2015
What does it feel like to be contacted by a brand you love and admire? Well, if the person reaching out to you is a lawyer from their trademark protection team it probably feels like a kick in the gut.
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No, I Won't Build That! If you're an accomplished developer (as in: you've actually created things in the past), you may...
4th Mar 2024
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No, I Won't Build That!

from Willem L. Middelkoop [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Mar 2024
If you're an accomplished developer (as in: you've actually created things in the past), you may recognise this scenario: people reaching out to you, asking you to build something specific. "Can you build X for me?" A fellow technician once urged me to refuse more often: be proud...
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C is Turing complete Yesterday there was some discussion on the Orange Site about whether or not C is Turing...
2nd Aug 2024
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C is Turing complete

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

2nd Aug 2024
Yesterday there was some discussion on the Orange Site about whether or not C is Turing complete. The consensus in the StackOverflow question is, no, because the C abstract machine is a (large) finite state machine, or maybe yes, if you believe that unaddressable local...
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If an alien film crew chose to feature our species in a nature documentary, they’d have plenty of… If an alien film crew chose to feature our species in a nature documentary, they’d have plenty of...
11th Feb 2016
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If an alien film crew chose to feature our species in a nature documentary, they’d have plenty of…

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11th Feb 2016
If an alien film crew chose to feature our species in a nature documentary, they’d have plenty of spectacular superorganisms to choose from…
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On the software supply-chain doom spiral .title {text-wrap:balance;} #content > p:first-child {text-wrap:balance;} Hackers are pwning...
24th Apr 2026
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On the software supply-chain doom spiral

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

24th Apr 2026
.title {text-wrap:balance;} #content > p:first-child {text-wrap:balance;} Hackers are pwning packages at an exhausting clip. But the hacks are hackneyed. What’s new is the doom cycle: Code that steals keys to publish code to steal more keys. A zombie army of infected code. And AI...
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Startup School - A Conversation on Hard Tech 2025 Note - good convo with Adora for Startup School
12th Oct 2018
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Startup School - A Conversation on Hard Tech

from Eric Migicovsky's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in technology

12th Oct 2018
2025 Note - good convo with Adora for Startup School
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A Sense of Place (White Hart Lane Station, London, UK) You will remember that my knowledge of football can be transcribed onto the reverse of a postage...
5th Jan 2022
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A Sense of Place (White Hart Lane Station, London, UK)

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

5th Jan 2022
You will remember that my knowledge of football can be transcribed onto the reverse of a postage stamp, possibly with room left over, and that what knowledge I do possess is thanks to my other half’s family being Portsmouth FC supporters; an emotional rollercoaster, it has to be...
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The Lost Chapter I’m happy to report that Probably Overthinking It is available now in paperback. If you would like a...
4th Dec 2025
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The Lost Chapter

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

4th Dec 2025
I’m happy to report that Probably Overthinking It is available now in paperback. If you would like a copy, you can order from Bookshop.org and Amazon (affiliate links). To celebrate, I’m publishing The Lost Chapter — that is, the chapter I cut from the published book. It’s about...
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Notes on Progress: A tale of two particles Not all radioactivity is risky or harmful
5th Dec 2022
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Notes on Progress: A tale of two particles

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

5th Dec 2022
Not all radioactivity is risky or harmful
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The Silicon Gold Rush: How AI is Driving Development of New Chips The California Gold Rush created fortunes not only for prospectors, but also for the people selling...
1st Sep 2026
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The Silicon Gold Rush: How AI is Driving Development of New Chips

from CHM [alt+shift+b] in history

1st Sep 2026
The California Gold Rush created fortunes not only for prospectors, but also for the people selling picks and shovels. At CHM Live, computer architecture pioneers Bill Dally of NVIDIA and Norm Jouppi of Google joined CHM Fellow David Patterson to discuss the modern version of...
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NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra is built for high-throughput reasoning and long-running agent workflows.
4th Jun 2026
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NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

4th Jun 2026
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra is built for high-throughput reasoning and long-running agent workflows.
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How Senior Leaders Evaluate Ideas — And a Story of Amazon's 3-Year Planning Process Ideas are valuable if they're not simply a desired outcome. A path to an outcome is the core element...
29th Jul 2024
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How Senior Leaders Evaluate Ideas — And a Story of Amazon's 3-Year Planning Process

from Scarlet Ink [alt+shift+b] in life

29th Jul 2024
Ideas are valuable if they're not simply a desired outcome. A path to an outcome is the core element of a good idea.
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Painted Tunnel The post Painted Tunnel appeared first on Last Place Comics.
7th Sep 2024
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Painted Tunnel

from Last Place Comics [alt+shift+b] in comics

7th Sep 2024
The post Painted Tunnel appeared first on Last Place Comics.
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Indicating coarser Niche Zero grind settings When brewing filter coffee, it's common to come up against one of the main limitations of the Niche...
6th Jan 2024
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Indicating coarser Niche Zero grind settings

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Jan 2024
When brewing filter coffee, it's common to come up against one of the main limitations of the Niche Zero grinder: the Niche Zero has no markings past the 50 mark. Fortunately, there's a really simple solution to this problem: Set your grinder to 50 and place a small piece of...
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Internal Group Actions as Enriched Functors Earlier today this month on the Category Theory Zulip, Bernd Losert asked an extremely natural...
18th Feb 2024
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Internal Group Actions as Enriched Functors

from Chris Grossack's Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

18th Feb 2024
Earlier today this month on the Category Theory Zulip, Bernd Losert asked an extremely natural question about how we might study topological group actions via the functorial approach beloved by category theorists. The usual story is to treat a group $G$ as a one-object...
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Vitest Browser Mode vs Playwright (article) What is the difference between Vitest Browser Mode and Playwright? And when to use each in your...
12th Nov 2025
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Vitest Browser Mode vs Playwright (article)

from Epic Web Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Nov 2025
What is the difference between Vitest Browser Mode and Playwright? And when to use each in your tests?
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Varieties of Disturbance My review of Break it Down, a much earlier entry in Lydia Davis' ouevre, last year was a bit of...
1st Mar 2023
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Varieties of Disturbance

from Applied Cartography [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Mar 2023
My review of Break it Down, a much earlier entry in Lydia Davis' ouevre, last year was a bit of damning with faint praise:
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Externalizing Some Simple Topos Statements Hey all! It’s been a minute. I’ve been super busy with the UC strike and honestly I haven’t done...
13th Dec 2022
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Externalizing Some Simple Topos Statements

from Chris Grossack's Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

13th Dec 2022
Hey all! It’s been a minute. I’ve been super busy with the UC strike and honestly I haven’t done math in any serious capacity for almost the past month. It’s been a lot of hard work trying to get fair contracts out of the UC, but I had a lot of travel plans this December to...
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This Library Is Almost Entirely Built Into The Land Around It Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP has recently completed a new library in Kisarazu, Japan, that has been built...
18th Dec 2023
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This Library Is Almost Entirely Built Into The Land Around It

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

18th Dec 2023
Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP has recently completed a new library in Kisarazu, Japan, that has been built into the earth.
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Getting a Job in Japan as a New Grad It’s well known that Japan is experiencing a labor shortage that includes the tech industry. As a...
25th Jun 2025
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Getting a Job in Japan as a New Grad

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Jun 2025
It’s well known that Japan is experiencing a labor shortage that includes the tech industry. As a result, Japan needs more international developers. However, most Japanese companies aren’t interested in hiring new graduates from overseas. While it’s easier than in some countries,...
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Twenty Times Faster On 11 August I wrote in my notebook: the speed at which we move is about twenty times the old top...
6th Sep 2026
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Twenty Times Faster

from Willem L. Middelkoop [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th Sep 2026
On 11 August I wrote in my notebook: the speed at which we move is about twenty times the old top speed. In one day I do what I used to do in twenty. This post is about that speed, what it does to the human in the loop, and the counterweight I found. It is the first post of...
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Writing a SQL database from scratch in Go: 1. SELECT, INSERT, CREATE and a REPL Next in database basics: 2. binary expressions and WHERE filters 3. indexes 4. a...
6th Mar 2020
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Writing a SQL database from scratch in Go: 1. SELECT, INSERT, CREATE and a REPL

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

6th Mar 2020
Next in database basics: 2. binary expressions and WHERE filters 3. indexes 4. a database/sql driver In this series we'll write a rudimentary database from scratch in Go. Project source code is available on Github. In this first post we'll build enough of a parser to...
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Pay-what-you-want subscriptions This is no joke.
1st Apr 2021
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Pay-what-you-want subscriptions

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

1st Apr 2021
This is no joke.
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I see a future in jj
22nd Oct 2025
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I see a future in jj

from Steve Klabnik [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Oct 2025
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Egyptian fractions for 2/105 The ancient Egyptians had a terrible notation for fractions. They had notations for for each , for...
12th Jun 2026
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Egyptian fractions for 2/105

from The Universe of Discourse [alt+shift+b] in history

12th Jun 2026
The ancient Egyptians had a terrible notation for fractions. They had notations for for each , for , but everything else was written as a sum of these, with repeats forbidden, so that for example had to be written as . (Wikipedia) In an older article about Egyptian fractions...
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Get SOC 2 certified as an indie hacker All the details about the process and the cost of getting SOC 2
26th Jul 2024
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Get SOC 2 certified as an indie hacker

from Tony Dinh's Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

26th Jul 2024
All the details about the process and the cost of getting SOC 2
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Man cereal Yesterday, even though my son is barely seven years old, toxic masculinity permeated his life and,...
3rd Mar 2026
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Man cereal

from Josh Collinsworth [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Mar 2026
Yesterday, even though my son is barely seven years old, toxic masculinity permeated his life and, perhaps permanently and irreparably, stole a small piece of his joy.
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The long history of using maps to hold water companies to account James Cheshire, UCL Southern Water was handed a record fine of £90 million in July 2021 after...
8th Oct 2022
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The long history of using maps to hold water companies to account

from James Cheshire [alt+shift+b] in cartography

8th Oct 2022
James Cheshire, UCL Southern Water was handed a record fine of £90 million in July 2021 after pleading guilty to illegally discharging sewage along the rivers and coastline of Kent, Hampshire and Sussex. More than a year later, the headlines have not improved for Britain’s...
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Think Excel Can’t Handle PDEs? Think Again: A Chemical Engineering Case Study Did you know you can solve 2D partial differential equations (PDEs) in Excel without resorting to...
1st May 2023
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Think Excel Can’t Handle PDEs? Think Again: A Chemical Engineering Case Study

from Naveen Arun's Blog [alt+shift+b] in life

1st May 2023
Did you know you can solve 2D partial differential equations (PDEs) in Excel without resorting to macros? In this post, we’ll look at how to solve Laplace’s Equation, , in two dimensions using nothing but Microsoft Excel. Introduction Heat transfer is a critical concept in...
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How to get better at recursion tldr; reimplement standard library functions in your favorite language without loops. Background For...
7th Mar 2021
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How to get better at recursion

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

7th Mar 2021
tldr; reimplement standard library functions in your favorite language without loops. Background For a few years after college I spent a lot of free time doing projects in Standard ML and Scheme. As a result I got really comfortable doing recursion. The two big reasons for this...
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Why Buying An Apple II+ In 1979 Changed My Life After graduating from college in 1979, I bought a then-new Apple II+ with what little money I had....
16th Mar 2026
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Why Buying An Apple II+ In 1979 Changed My Life

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

16th Mar 2026
After graduating from college in 1979, I bought a then-new Apple II+ with what little money I had. Little did I know that everything that happened after that was not what I expected. I went to graduate school in Chemistry, but my faculty advisor resigned after being denied...
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№ 77: Reflecting on 2023 Doubt, love and growing more into myself.
14th Jan 2024
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№ 77: Reflecting on 2023

from Left To Write [alt+shift+b] in life

14th Jan 2024
Doubt, love and growing more into myself.
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1990: Programming the World Wide Web In the final few months of 1990, 35-year Tim Berners-Lee and his colleague Robert Cailliau developed...
1st Nov 2021
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1990: Programming the World Wide Web

from Cybercultural: Internet History [alt+shift+b] in history

1st Nov 2021
In the final few months of 1990, 35-year Tim Berners-Lee and his colleague Robert Cailliau developed the world’s first web client (a browser/editor), created the HyperText Markup Language (HTML), wrote the first web server, and tied it all together with an Internet communication...
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Matter
2nd Aug 2024
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Matter

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2nd Aug 2024
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✏️ Follow vs. Block In the beginning, you followed someone to see their content in your feed. Now, you block someone to...
2nd Jan 2024
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✏️ Follow vs. Block

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

2nd Jan 2024
In the beginning, you followed someone to see their content in your feed. Now, you block someone to remove them from your feed. That’s the price of an endless algorithmic feed designed to keep you in-app or on-platform, entertained, and eventually (if not already) monetized. A...
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Privacy Monthly March 2024
5th Mar 2024
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Privacy Monthly March 2024

from Blog of Simple Analytics [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Mar 2024
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How to "FLOSS" as a Web Designer How to “FLOSS” as a Web Designer 2020-02-07 I have a profound respect for the open source community....
7th Feb 2020
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How to "FLOSS" as a Web Designer

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

7th Feb 2020
How to “FLOSS” as a Web Designer 2020-02-07 I have a profound respect for the open source community. I most likely wouldn’t have the skills or knowledge I do today with it. Unfortunately, when I was just starting out in “web dev” some 10 years ago, proprietary software was the...
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Stoicism Simplified: an Easy Overview of What Stoics Believe by Enda Harte For me, there are six important first steps that I prioritized for practicing Stoicism...
8th May 2023
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Stoicism Simplified: an Easy Overview of What Stoics Believe

from Stoic Simple [alt+shift+b] in life

8th May 2023
by Enda Harte For me, there are six important first steps that I prioritized for practicing Stoicism (referenced in the diagram above), and I wanted to use this opportunity to go over each of these in a little more detail. Hopefully you’ll get an understanding of what they mean,...
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Close your office. Now. How to operate your startup under lock-down. What a week. The US declared the state of emergency. Many leading startups closed their office. And...
14th Mar 2020
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Close your office. Now. How to operate your startup under lock-down.

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

14th Mar 2020
What a week. The US declared the state of emergency. Many leading startups closed their office. And I expect that all startups in...
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A minimal REST API in Java There's a style of Java that is a joy to write. This post will cover how to set up a basic...
1st Feb 2020
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A minimal REST API in Java

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

1st Feb 2020
There's a style of Java that is a joy to write. This post will cover how to set up a basic PostgreSQL-integrated REST API using Jersey and JOOQ in a style not dissimilar to Flask and SQLAlchemy in Python. In particular, we'll try to avoid as much runtime reflection/class-loading...
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Small Systems Engineering's PETSPEED Fast Enough for the Human Race
10th Jul 2024
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Small Systems Engineering's PETSPEED

from Computer Ads from the Past [alt+shift+b] in technology

10th Jul 2024
Fast Enough for the Human Race
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Orchestrating Agents Is Organizational Design An agent gets good at whatever you make it responsible for. The choice is functional or process...
15th Jun 2026
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Orchestrating Agents Is Organizational Design

from Entrepreneur's Edge [alt+shift+b] in startups

15th Jun 2026
An agent gets good at whatever you make it responsible for. The choice is functional or process accountability.
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Handmade Seattle 2023 A couple of months ago I gave a talk “SQL’s Inner Workings” at Handmade Seattle 2023 conference with...
11th Jan 2024
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Handmade Seattle 2023

from Posts on Nikita Lapkov [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Jan 2024
A couple of months ago I gave a talk “SQL’s Inner Workings” at Handmade Seattle 2023 conference with the following abstract: An exposé by a whistleblower investigating the marketing claims of “It’s just the same old SQL you know.” Most databases nowadays provide an SQL interface...
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Consider Part-Time Work It has long been predicted that with more automation and more technology, we could all work less and...
26th Sep 2016
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Consider Part-Time Work

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

26th Sep 2016
It has long been predicted that with more automation and more technology, we could all work less and have more leisure time, but we continue to fall short of that promise. In many ways, we're working harder and longer, with more stress, than previous generations did. I think that...
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Critical Trade Theory You know about Critical Race Theory, right? It says that if there’s an imbalance in, say, income...
10th Apr 2025
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Critical Trade Theory

from the singularity is nearer [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Apr 2025
You know about Critical Race Theory, right? It says that if there’s an imbalance in, say, income between races, it must be due to discrimination. This is what wokism seems to be, and it’s moronic and false. The right wing has invented something equally stupid. Introducing...
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What I'm up to - November 2022 ✨ Highlights of last month - Enjoyed my time in NYC catching up with many people - Released some new...
1st Nov 2022
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What I'm up to - November 2022

from Philip I. Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Nov 2022
✨ Highlights of last month - Enjoyed my time in NYC catching up with many people - Released some new features for Postcard - Got a new photo 🤔 Things worth sharing - Reading How to make great coffee ...
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We Are Still the Web Twenty years ago, Kevin Kelly wrote an absolutely seminal piece for Wired. This week is a great...
5th Aug 2025
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We Are Still the Web

from The History of the Web [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Aug 2025
Twenty years ago, Kevin Kelly wrote an absolutely seminal piece for Wired. This week is a great opportunity to look back at it. The post We Are Still the Web appeared first on The History of the Web.
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Stream Online Monty Python and the Holy Grail Free on Its 50th Anniversary This year, YouTube celebrated its twentieth anniversary, prompting younger users to wonder what life...
1st May 2025
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Stream Online Monty Python and the Holy Grail Free on Its 50th Anniversary

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

1st May 2025
This year, YouTube celebrated its twentieth anniversary, prompting younger users to wonder what life could have been like before it. The fiftieth anniversary of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which premiered in April of 1975, has inspired similar reflection among comedy...
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What's next As of July 31st, my work contract with Rapid officially ended and that chapter of my life is...
2nd Aug 2023
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What's next

from The Web Witch's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Aug 2023
As of July 31st, my work contract with Rapid officially ended and that chapter of my life is closed. It was chaotic and tumultuous. But it was also fun and I learned loads about myself, what I'm capable of achieving, and perhaps most importantly what matters to me when it comes...
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The Bluesky exodus, one year later The company has 40 million users and big plans for the future. So why don't its users seem happy?...
4th Nov 2025
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The Bluesky exodus, one year later

from Platformer [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th Nov 2025
The company has 40 million users and big plans for the future. So why don't its users seem happy? PLUS: The NEO Home Robot goes viral + Ilya Sutskever's surprising deposition
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James Holland Jones: The Science of Climate Fiction: Can Stories Lead to Social Action? The warming planet is increasingly the subject of all kinds of fiction. Beyond entertainment or...
4th Apr 2019
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James Holland Jones: The Science of Climate Fiction: Can Stories Lead to Social Action?

from Long Now [alt+shift+b] in science

4th Apr 2019
The warming planet is increasingly the subject of all kinds of fiction. Beyond entertainment or distraction could climate fiction (“Cli-Fi”) actually help us in solving the climate dilemma? Biological anthropologist and environmental scientist [James Holland...
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Top 10 Locations and Hotels for Food Lovers
9th Oct 2023
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Top 10 Locations and Hotels for Food Lovers

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

9th Oct 2023
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Provinces This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II,...
3rd Nov 2023
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Addenda: The Provinces

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

3rd Nov 2023
This is the second and (in theory) last addendum to our series on Roman civic governance (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IIIc, IV, V, A1). Having discussed how Rome handles those parts of Italy it controls but which were not part of the Roman Republic itself, we now look at how the Romans...
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How Germany’s Most Beautiful City Was Destroyed… and Rebuilt Dresden, a stunning city in Germany, was nearly wiped out during World War II when it was bombed,...
4th Feb 2025
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How Germany’s Most Beautiful City Was Destroyed… and Rebuilt

from THE ARCHITECTURAL UPRISING [alt+shift+b] in architecture

4th Feb 2025
Dresden, a stunning city in Germany, was nearly wiped out during World War II when it was bombed, leaving only ruins behind. But its story didn’t end there—this is a tale of how Dresden came back to life, and rose from the ashes like a phoenix. Before the war, Dresden was known...
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How to Do Code Reviews Like a Human (Part Two) This is the second half of my article about how to communicate well and avoid pitfalls in code...
9th Nov 2017
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How to Do Code Reviews Like a Human (Part Two)

from mtlynch.io [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

9th Nov 2017
This is the second half of my article about how to communicate well and avoid pitfalls in code reviews. Here, I focus on techniques to bring your code review to a successful close while avoiding ugly conflict. I laid the groundwork in Part One, so I recommend starting there. If...
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Make Every Day Count It was a 2012 evening, and I was driving home from the office. I was worried about finishing a big...
1st Nov 2023
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Make Every Day Count

from Seeking Wisdom [alt+shift+b] in finance

1st Nov 2023
It was a 2012 evening, and I was driving home from the office. I was worried about finishing a big project at work on time. I’d made the journey from the office to my home so many times, my car almost seemed to know the way by itself. My hands were on the wheel, but…
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Some incomplete thoughts about Gödel I saw another article on Gödel’s incompleteness theorems linked from Reddit today. It’s a topic I’ve...
17th Nov 2020
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Some incomplete thoughts about Gödel

from Neil Madden [alt+shift+b] in technology

17th Nov 2020
I saw another article on Gödel’s incompleteness theorems linked from Reddit today. It’s a topic I’ve wanted to write about for some time. Although many articles do a decent job in giving an idea of what the big deal is (and this one is pretty good), they can sometimes give a...
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Machine Learning and the triumph of GOFAI I’ve been slowly reading Brian Cantwell Smith’s “The Promise of Artificial Intelligence” recently. I...
30th Jun 2024
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Machine Learning and the triumph of GOFAI

from Neil Madden [alt+shift+b] in technology

30th Jun 2024
I’ve been slowly reading Brian Cantwell Smith’s “The Promise of Artificial Intelligence” recently. I haven’t finished reading it yet, and like much of BCS’s writing, it’ll probably take me 3 or 4 read-throughs to really understand it, but there’s one point that I want to pick up...
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Messy is Perfect I always think that I’ll be happy when everything is running smoothly. When X visitors are flowing...
20th Mar 2025
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Messy is Perfect

from Val Sopi [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

20th Mar 2025
I always think that I’ll be happy when everything is running smoothly. When X visitors are flowing in, conversions are steady, the app works flawlessly, and revenue is predictable. But that’s not life. And nor is business. Life is messy. And there’s no such thing as perfect. At...
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How Math Has Changed the Shape of Gerrymandering New tools make it possible to detect hidden manipulation of maps. The post How Math Has...
1st Jun 2023
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How Math Has Changed the Shape of Gerrymandering

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

1st Jun 2023
New tools make it possible to detect hidden manipulation of maps. The post How Math Has Changed the Shape of Gerrymandering first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Think of a number. My feed was recently clogged up with news articles reporting that Sam Altman thinks that AGI is...
20th Jan 2025
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Think of a number.

from Xena [alt+shift+b] in AI

20th Jan 2025
My feed was recently clogged up with news articles reporting that Sam Altman thinks that AGI is here, or will be here next year, or whatever. I will refrain from giving even more air to this nonsense by linking to … Continue reading →
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A better birthday party for kids
11th Dec 2009
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A better birthday party for kids

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

11th Dec 2009
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The Revolt of the Outer Party. Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
3rd Apr 2024
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The Revolt of the Outer Party.

from Trying to Understand the World [alt+shift+b] in history

3rd Apr 2024
Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
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2024 Year in Review 2024 was the year I realised the downside to selling your company, working 3 years in-purchaser, and...
6th Jan 2025
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2024 Year in Review

from Woody Hayday [alt+shift+b] in AI

6th Jan 2025
2024 was the year I realised the downside to selling your company, working 3 years in-purchaser, and then taking a year out to heal. You can get totally out of the groove. I launched stuff, I pivoted, I embraced new tech; but I also saw where the landscape of software...
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Esri User Conference 2026 I’ll be in a mad dash at the San Diego Convention Center the week of the Esri UC. If you are...
15th Jun 2026
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Esri User Conference 2026

from Adventures In Mapping | John Nelson Maps [alt+shift+b] in cartography

15th Jun 2026
I’ll be in a mad dash at the San Diego Convention Center the week of the Esri UC. If you are attending, and have nothing better to do, consider catching one of these sessions I get to be a part of with some fantastic colleagues and Ken! Basemaps Are Not Just the Background...
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Organizing a design system via folksonomy Design systems are organized in an imperative, top-down, hierarchical way. By this, I mean its...
15th May 2025
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Organizing a design system via folksonomy

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

15th May 2025
Design systems are organized in an imperative, top-down, hierarchical way. By this, I mean its maintainers decide on categories of content, and then how that content is ordered. This is done as a calculated bet to best serve the known and unknown audiences who consume the design...
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UK waders: “Into the Red” If you ask British birdwatchers to name the eleven wader species that are causing the most...
4th Oct 2022
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UK waders: “Into the Red”

from wadertales [alt+shift+b] in science

4th Oct 2022
If you ask British birdwatchers to name the eleven wader species that are causing the most conservation concern in the UK, they would probably not include Dunlin. Curlew may well be top of their lists, even though the most recent population estimate is 58,500 breeding pairs, but...
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DataScience SG Meetup - Panel On the Different Roles in Data What's the difference between a data scientist, data engineer, and ML engineer? A panel at Google.
17th Jan 2019
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DataScience SG Meetup - Panel On the Different Roles in Data

from Eugene Yan [alt+shift+b] in AI

17th Jan 2019
What's the difference between a data scientist, data engineer, and ML engineer? A panel at Google.
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Neutral Tones And Soft Curves Create A Relaxing Vibe For This Boutique Hotel Architecture and interior design firm Onion, has shared photos of Sala Khao Yai, a collection of...
5th Nov 2024
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Neutral Tones And Soft Curves Create A Relaxing Vibe For This Boutique Hotel

from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture

5th Nov 2024
Architecture and interior design firm Onion, has shared photos of Sala Khao Yai, a collection of boutique hotel villas in Thailand. The various building designs are inspired by the silhouette of surrounding mountains, the contours of the landscape, and the site’s organic...
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HOW TO LIBERATE YOUR CAGED GENIUS (and become who you already are) A counter-intuitive guide to excellence.
15th Apr 2026
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HOW TO LIBERATE YOUR CAGED GENIUS (and become who you already are)

from Isabel Unraveled [alt+shift+b] in life

15th Apr 2026
A counter-intuitive guide to excellence.
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Python Functions: How to Define and Call Them Functions allow you to reuse and organize code. Instead of copying and pasting the same logic...
1st Mar 2026
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Python Functions: How to Define and Call Them

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Mar 2026
Functions allow you to reuse and organize code. Instead of copying and pasting the same logic everywhere, you define it once and call it whenever you need it. They’re the most important tool for writing DRY code.
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Before + After – A New Garden Studio For A Writer MW Architects has shared photos of a new garden room in London, England, that replaced an old...
1st Mar 2024
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Before + After – A New Garden Studio For A Writer

from CONTEMPORIST [alt+shift+b] in architecture

1st Mar 2024
MW Architects has shared photos of a new garden room in London, England, that replaced an old derelict wash house, that was in danger of slipping down a steep slope and existed at the back of an overgrown garden. Here’s what it looked like originally. The new studio, which has...
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Why Is AI Bad at Writing? And Why It’ll Likely Stay That Way—Em Dashes or Not!
8th Sep 2026
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Why Is AI Bad at Writing?

from Weighty Thoughts [alt+shift+b] in AI

8th Sep 2026
And Why It’ll Likely Stay That Way—Em Dashes or Not!
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The hand and the brain Prescriptive feedback limits creative collaboration. I’ve seen it time and time again, but I’ve...
18th Nov 2020
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The hand and the brain

from The personal website of Matt Ström-Awn [alt+shift+b] in design

18th Nov 2020
Prescriptive feedback limits creative collaboration. I’ve seen it time and time again, but I’ve struggled to articulate the exact reasons and their remedies. Recently, though, I got some insight from an unusual source: a game of chess. Even though it wasn’t the last move, pawn...
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Logs as end user UI A long time ago, I decided to show Bridgy‘s end users its raw logs. Like, raw logs. HTTP requests,...
11th Jan 2023
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Logs as end user UI

from Ryan Barrett [alt+shift+b] in startups

11th Jan 2023
A long time ago, I decided to show Bridgy‘s end users its raw logs. Like, raw logs. HTTP requests, database reads and writes, JSON objects, stack traces, etc. It’s an unusual UI feature, but it’s been an unqualified success, enough that when I built Bridgy Fed, I immediately...
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What If We Made Advertising Illegal? What if we banned all advertising? Not regulate it—abolish it. This proposal would transform...
2nd Apr 2025
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What If We Made Advertising Illegal?

from Simone Salis [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Apr 2025
What if we banned all advertising? Not regulate it—abolish it. This proposal would transform manipulation machines, and maybe save democracy itself. A thought experiment worth considering.
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In defense of screen time Pundits say my husband and I are parenting wrong.
29th Oct 2024
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In defense of screen time

from fast.ai [alt+shift+b] in AI

29th Oct 2024
Pundits say my husband and I are parenting wrong.
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Vulkan 1.4 sur Asahi Linux English version follows. Aujourd’hui, Khronos Group a sorti la spécification 1.4 de l’API graphique...
2nd Dec 2024
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Vulkan 1.4 sur Asahi Linux

from Alyssa Rosenzweig [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Dec 2024
English version follows. Aujourd’hui, Khronos Group a sorti la spécification 1.4 de l’API graphique standard Vulkan. Le projet Asahi Linux est fier d’annoncer le premier pilote Vulkan 1.4 pour le matériel d’Apple. En effet, notre pilote graphique Honeykrisp est reconnu par...
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Recommending Terra Cognita, a New Geographical Substack Publication I would like to direct my readers’ attention to a new Substack publication by Pete Morris called...
3 weeks ago
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Recommending Terra Cognita, a New Geographical Substack Publication

from GeoCurrents [alt+shift+b] in cartography

3 weeks ago
I would like to direct my readers’ attention to a new Substack publication by Pete Morris called Terra Cognita. Pete is a frequent GeoCurrents commentor and an insightful geographer. His introductory article in Terra Cognita is an excellent overview of the recent history of...
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An Educational Experiment (Edit: sign-ups are now closed. I received over 150 responses for 4 available slots, which has been...
5th May 2023
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An Educational Experiment

from somethingaboutmaps [alt+shift+b] in cartography

5th May 2023
(Edit: sign-ups are now closed. I received over 150 responses for 4 available slots, which has been great but overwhelming. I may offer this again in the future if it goes well, so make sure to follow me on Twitter and subscribe to the blog, to be notified of when this happens.)...
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Using Google OR-Tools to do Answer Set Programming Using Google OR-Tools to do Answer Set Programming Ever tried manually figuring out the perfect...
1st Feb 2018
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Using Google OR-Tools to do Answer Set Programming

from Stephen Diehl [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Feb 2018
Using Google OR-Tools to do Answer Set Programming Ever tried manually figuring out the perfect schedule for your team or planning delivery routes? Enter Google OR-Tools, a free Swiss Army knife of a toolkit that tackles these headache-inducing optimization challenges. From...
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Demographics and American Homicides Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
21st Jan 2024
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Demographics and American Homicides

from Patterns in Humanity [alt+shift+b] in history

21st Jan 2024
Can racial/ethnic demographics explain the high American homicide rate?
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Programming on Apple Watch Programming with VIM over SSH on Apple Watch using a bluetooth keyboard
15th Feb 2017
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Programming on Apple Watch

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

15th Feb 2017
Programming with VIM over SSH on Apple Watch using a bluetooth keyboard
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spacewΛr
13th Oct 2015
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spacewΛr

from Matt Keeter [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Oct 2015
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Low Power Mode on the Mac Laptop battery life is decreasingly relevant to me as more airplanes offer power outlets. But...
31st Jul 2018
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Low Power Mode on the Mac

from Marco.org [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Jul 2018
Laptop battery life is decreasingly relevant to me as more airplanes offer power outlets. But sometimes you lose that lottery, as I did on my latest 8-hour daytime flight. Apple’s “Up to 10 hours” claim doesn’t apply to my work,1 which is usually a mix of Xcode, web browsing, and...
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Just Build It... After I started at Microsoft in 2016, I built my own HTML portfolio website instead of using a...
2nd Sep 2023
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Just Build It...

from The Web Witch's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Sep 2023
After I started at Microsoft in 2016, I built my own HTML portfolio website instead of using a template. The template I had been using was gorgeous and interactive but I hadn't built it. So I built one. CSS Grid wasn't even fully supported yet and there were fallbacks with...
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Breaking: When dreams for AI sanity come true A true life moment for your correspondent
2nd Jun 2026
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Breaking: When dreams for AI sanity come true

from Marcus on AI [alt+shift+b] in AI

2nd Jun 2026
A true life moment for your correspondent
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Grit: rewriting Git in Rust with agents We used agents to port all of Git to library-first, memory-safe Rust and it passes the entire C Git...
9th Jun 2026
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Grit: rewriting Git in Rust with agents

from Butler's Log [alt+shift+b] in technology

9th Jun 2026
We used agents to port all of Git to library-first, memory-safe Rust and it passes the entire C Git test suite.
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Franchise Thinking On the sequel economics of ideas.
10th Feb 2026
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Franchise Thinking

from Working Theorys [alt+shift+b] in startups

10th Feb 2026
On the sequel economics of ideas.
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Database Overhead: Just Say No Database Overhead and You Your battle cry is more data! Your budget’s battle cry is more...
20th Dec 2017
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Database Overhead: Just Say No

from matt.sh [alt+shift+b] in AI

20th Dec 2017
Database Overhead and You Your battle cry is more data! Your budget’s battle cry is more efficiency! Do you know how bloated your data storage is right now? Let’s talk about your data overhead. A paradox of data storage is: the more data you have, the less space you have to...
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Rails Girls Nagasaki 1st Recap Last weekend I was at [Rails Girls Nagasaki 1st](https://railsgirls.com/nagasaki.html) - the first...
28th Apr 2023
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Rails Girls Nagasaki 1st Recap

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

28th Apr 2023
Last weekend I was at [Rails Girls Nagasaki 1st](https://railsgirls.com/nagasaki.html) - the first Rails Girls event in Nagasaki - as both an attendee and a speaker. It was a great experience where I was able to learn more about Rails, meet new people, make friends, practise...
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How a reverse trial will push Simple Analytics to the next level
20th Jan 2025
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How a reverse trial will push Simple Analytics to the next level

from Blog of Simple Analytics [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Jan 2025
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The UX of HTML by Vasilis van Gemert Recently when I gave a coding assignment — an art directed web page about a...
1st Dec 2023
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The UX of HTML

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Dec 2023
by Vasilis van Gemert Recently when I gave a coding assignment — an art directed web page about a font — a student asked: does it have to be semantic and shit? The whole class looked up, curious about the answer — please let it be no! I answered that no, it doesn’t have to be...
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Our $100M Series B We don’t want to bury the lede: we have raised a $100M Series B, led by a new strategic partner in...
30th Jul 2025
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Our $100M Series B

from Oxide Computer Company Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

30th Jul 2025
We don’t want to bury the lede: we have raised a $100M Series B, led by a new strategic partner in USIT with participation from all existing Oxide investors. To put that number in perspective: over the nearly six year lifetime of the company, we have raised $89M; our $100M...
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Some actual good news for once! Cornish Lithium, an Oxford Street Monorail, and why astronomy funding is under threat
2nd Mar 2026
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Some actual good news for once!

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

2nd Mar 2026
Cornish Lithium, an Oxford Street Monorail, and why astronomy funding is under threat
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AI Dev Tools Panel - Stripe AI day I will be moderating a panel on 7/13 at Stripe with founders of Baseten, LlamaIndex, Zapier
7th Jul 2023
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AI Dev Tools Panel - Stripe AI day

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

7th Jul 2023
I will be moderating a panel on 7/13 at Stripe with founders of Baseten, LlamaIndex, Zapier
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Cats to Blame for Octopus Deity Enshrinement Delay Hayasuhime Shrine in Oita prefecture is a rarity in Japan because it is dedicated to the octopus....
2nd Feb 2026
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Cats to Blame for Octopus Deity Enshrinement Delay

from Spoon & Tamago [alt+shift+b] in travel

2nd Feb 2026
Hayasuhime Shrine in Oita prefecture is a rarity in Japan because it is dedicated to the octopus. When local sculptor Kousei Hashimoto was tasked with creating a new deity to be enshrined, he expected for it to be completed by the end of the year. But the neighborhood cats had...
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The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker Before GPS, how did aircraft navigate? One important technique was celestial navigation: navigating...
18th Apr 2026
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The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker

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

18th Apr 2026
Before GPS, how did aircraft navigate? One important technique was celestial navigation: navigating from the positions of the stars, planets, or the sun. While celestial navigation is accurate, cannot be jammed, and doesn't require any broadcast infrastructure, it is a difficult...
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Why I Don't Name Names On The Blog if no-one is around you, etc
1st Jun 2026
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Why I Don't Name Names On The Blog

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

1st Jun 2026
if no-one is around you, etc
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Installing Guix on a 10th gen Thinkpad X1 The last time I bought a laptop, I got a used Thinkpad X220 from eBay. I loved that laptop,...
5th Dec 2022
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Installing Guix on a 10th gen Thinkpad X1

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Dec 2022
The last time I bought a laptop, I got a used Thinkpad X220 from eBay. I loved that laptop, but time marches on and old hardware eventually becomes too slow for modern development needs. After a lot of indecision, I bought a 10th generation Thinkpad X1 with an Intel Core...
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Recently I have a non-recently post ready to write, any day now… Reading This was a strong month for reading:...
1st Mar 2025
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Recently

from macwright.com [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Mar 2025
I have a non-recently post ready to write, any day now… Reading This was a strong month for reading: I finished The Hidden Wealth of Nations, Useful Not True, and Cyberlibertarianism. I had a book club that read Cyberlibertarianism so we discussed it last week. I have a lot of...
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Showdown, p11 The post Showdown, p11 appeared first on Ctrl+Alt+Del Comic.
3rd Nov 2025
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Showdown, p11

from Ctrl+Alt+Del Comic [alt+shift+b] in comics

3rd Nov 2025
The post Showdown, p11 appeared first on Ctrl+Alt+Del Comic.
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The Joy of Computer History Books
1st Apr 2023
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The Joy of Computer History Books

from Fabien Sanglard [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Apr 2023
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Every Seattle Store
1st Oct 2021
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Every Seattle Store

from Matt Keeter [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Oct 2021
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A CBC Casper Tutorial
5th Dec 2018
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A CBC Casper Tutorial

from Vitalik Buterin's website [alt+shift+b] in technology

5th Dec 2018
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Subliminal git commits Luckily, I speak Leet. – Amita Ramanujan, Numb3rs, CBS’s IRC Drama There’s an episode of the CBS...
29th Sep 2024
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Subliminal git commits

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

29th Sep 2024
Luckily, I speak Leet. – Amita Ramanujan, Numb3rs, CBS’s IRC Drama There’s an episode of the CBS prime-time drama Numb3rs that plumbs the depths of Dr. Joel Fleischman’s1 knowledge of IRC. In one scene, Fleischman wonders, “What’s ‘leet’”? “Leet” is writing that replaces letters...
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Going down the rabbit hole of Git's new bundle-uri Git's new bundle-uri could help significantly speed up clones, but what bugs lurk within?
13th Mar 2025
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Going down the rabbit hole of Git's new bundle-uri

from Butler's Log [alt+shift+b] in technology

13th Mar 2025
Git's new bundle-uri could help significantly speed up clones, but what bugs lurk within?
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Media Consumption (Mar 2021) >_ Summary Read 6 books (1664 min, -24% MoM) and 43 articles (+95%) Listened to 596 songs (+64%) and...
2nd Apr 2021
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Media Consumption (Mar 2021)

from julian.digital [alt+shift+b] in design

2nd Apr 2021
>_ Summary Read 6 books (1664 min, -24% MoM) and 43 articles (+95%) Listened to 596 songs (+64%) and 17 podcasts (747 min, -.3%) Watched 2 movies (251 min, -72%), 5 soccer games (680 min, -30%) and 15 TV episodes (944 min, +133%) Played 0 board games (0 min, same) and 0 video...
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Abstract vs concrete
14th Nov 2013
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Abstract vs concrete

from Steve Klabnik [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Nov 2013
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OMSCS CS6200 (Introduction to OS) Review and Tips OMSCS CS6200 (Introduction to OS) - Moving data from one process to another, multi-threaded.
15th Dec 2019
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OMSCS CS6200 (Introduction to OS) Review and Tips

from Eugene Yan [alt+shift+b] in AI

15th Dec 2019
OMSCS CS6200 (Introduction to OS) - Moving data from one process to another, multi-threaded.
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CircuitPython in 2025 This post is a wishlist for CircuitPython in 2025. Each year Adafruit asks the community to...
5th Jan 2025
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CircuitPython in 2025

from somenice [alt+shift+b] in technology

5th Jan 2025
This post is a wishlist for CircuitPython in 2025. Each year Adafruit asks the community to contribute their thoughts or requests for the open source microcontroller language as outlined on the Adafruit blog. In 2025 I would like a library for working with vectors, similar to...
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Hey, I’m back! I want to go to Jersey I was knocked out hard by something this week. It wasn’t a flu or COVID thankfully, but it turned my...
3rd Apr 2026
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Hey, I’m back! I want to go to Jersey

from Rubenerd [alt+shift+b] in life

3rd Apr 2026
I was knocked out hard by something this week. It wasn’t a flu or COVID thankfully, but it turned my head to mush and my sinuses into fire ants, which among other things made sleep all but impossible. I did in fact do a bunch of work on the blog yesterday, but it was all backend...
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The case for comments in code When I first started programming, especially when asked for code samples, my comments lacked purpose...
7th Sep 2020
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The case for comments in code

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

7th Sep 2020
When I first started programming, especially when asked for code samples, my comments lacked purpose and would often duplicate in English what the code clearly indicated. I knew that "commenting is good" but as a beginner I had no further insight. Over time with the help of books...
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Fixing delivery: a guide for engineering managers Humans, by and large, feel good when they set small goals and meet them regularly. – Camille...
16th Aug 2022
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Fixing delivery: a guide for engineering managers

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

16th Aug 2022
Humans, by and large, feel good when they set small goals and meet them regularly. – Camille Fournier, The Manager’s Path Shipping motivates software teams. So it’s understandable for a team’s morale to suffer when delivery drags. Getting the team pushing software they’re proud...
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Why Designers Shouldn't "Fix" Other Designers' Logos No matter how simple the end product, design is hard work. To come up with something that looks...
4th Sep 2015
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Why Designers Shouldn't "Fix" Other Designers' Logos

from Josh Collinsworth [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Sep 2015
No matter how simple the end product, design is hard work. To come up with something that looks good, something people like, is at best tangential to the main point. The question is: does it succeed at meeting the project goals? And you don’t know how to answer that question.
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Using Gatsby and Puppeteer to create dynamic Open Graph images The image preview you see when sharing a link is a great opportunity to get your brand’s message in...
3rd Mar 2022
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Using Gatsby and Puppeteer to create dynamic Open Graph images

from Eric Migicovsky's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Mar 2022
The image preview you see when sharing a link is a great opportunity to get your brand’s message in front of people without them even clicking through to your website. Most sites just opt to display a logo and some brand elements.
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GitButler is joining the Open Source Pledge GitButler is joining the Open Source Pledge to help move towards a more sustainable open source...
2nd Sep 2024
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GitButler is joining the Open Source Pledge

from Butler's Log [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Sep 2024
GitButler is joining the Open Source Pledge to help move towards a more sustainable open source ecosystem.
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Public postmortem: database connection exhaustion Our public postmortem for the incident on March 31st, 2026.
1st Apr 2026
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Public postmortem: database connection exhaustion

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

1st Apr 2026
Our public postmortem for the incident on March 31st, 2026.
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Red Giant VFX Suite Today Red Giant has released a brand-new collection of plug-ins for visual effects compositing. It’s...
18th Jun 2019
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Red Giant VFX Suite

from Prolost [alt+shift+b] in creative

18th Jun 2019
Today Red Giant has released a brand-new collection of plug-ins for visual effects compositing. It’s called VFX Suite, and some of these tools are things I’ve been dreaming about since computers were beige. There are nine plug-ins in the suite. You can learn about all of them at...
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Learning from their elders A 2026 paper in Animal Behaviour examines how quickly juvenile Black-tailed Godwits(right, with...
5th Feb 2026
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Learning from their elders

from wadertales [alt+shift+b] in science

5th Feb 2026
A 2026 paper in Animal Behaviour examines how quickly juvenile Black-tailed Godwits(right, with juvenile Redshanks) acquire the feeding skills they will need to get them through their first winter. Josh Nightingale followed the same migration route taken by young birds, as they...
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Macron is Safe for the Moment But the future worries me.
5th Apr 2023
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Macron is Safe for the Moment

from Trying to Understand the World [alt+shift+b] in history

5th Apr 2023
But the future worries me.
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Alan Turing and the Power of Negative Thinking Mathematical proofs based on a technique called diagonalization can be relentlessly contrarian, but...
5th Sep 2023
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Alan Turing and the Power of Negative Thinking

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

5th Sep 2023
Mathematical proofs based on a technique called diagonalization can be relentlessly contrarian, but they help reveal the limits of algorithms. The post Alan Turing and the Power of Negative Thinking first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Real friends
4th Mar 2024
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Real friends

from Ryan Hoover's Writing [alt+shift+b] in life

4th Mar 2024
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Machining under a microscope "The average width of such a channel is 0.002 inch. For this kind of work, the shop often uses...
20th Jun 2016
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Machining under a microscope

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

20th Jun 2016
"The average width of such a channel is 0.002 inch. For this kind of work, the shop often uses spade-type end mills as small as 0.001 inch wide, although even smaller tools have been used occasionally." www.mmsonline.com/articles/cutting-with-a-0001-inch-end-mill
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This Kenyan engineer modernizes vintage cars with a custom ECU and EFI upgrades The automotive industry’s switch from carburetion to fuel injection was one of the most effective...
1st Oct 2024
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This Kenyan engineer modernizes vintage cars with a custom ECU and EFI upgrades

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

1st Oct 2024
The automotive industry’s switch from carburetion to fuel injection was one of the most effective advancements of the 20th century. Electronic fuel injection allows for precise control over an internal combustion engine’s air-fuel mixture, which dramatically improves fuel...
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Make these ornaments please It’s that time of year when geographers the world over gather together in, let’s be honest, just...
5th Dec 2024
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Make these ornaments please

from Adventures In Mapping | John Nelson Maps [alt+shift+b] in cartography

5th Dec 2024
It’s that time of year when geographers the world over gather together in, let’s be honest, just slightly awkward office holiday parties. We dedicate 82-86% of our mental capacities to socializing with our colleagues over deserts and drinks, while the remaining 14-16% remain...
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The AI research tool that saves me hours every week And why it might revolutionize the search industry.
3rd Jan 2024
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The AI research tool that saves me hours every week

from Artificial Ignorance [alt+shift+b] in AI

3rd Jan 2024
And why it might revolutionize the search industry.
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The World’s Computer This was the tagline of Ethereum, and it’s really smart. Sadly, I feel they have lost their way with...
25th Feb 2024
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The World’s Computer

from the singularity is nearer [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Feb 2024
This was the tagline of Ethereum, and it’s really smart. Sadly, I feel they have lost their way with Proof of Stake, and wish they would go back to focusing on building a reasonable world computer. In 2024, it’s still painfully annoying to stand up a database. This is the only...
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Winter break project list
19th Dec 2023
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Winter break project list

from Ben Borgers [alt+shift+b] in literature

19th Dec 2023
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Saying no to everything else Steven Pressfield called himself an author for years, but he’d never actually finished a...
23rd Sep 2015
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Saying no to everything else

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

23rd Sep 2015
Steven Pressfield called himself an author for years, but he’d never actually finished a book. Eventually, the psychological pain of not finishing kept building until he couldn’t stand it anymore. He decided to finally beat the devil he calls “The Resistance”. He said, “I...
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Generating an infinite world with the Wave Function Collapse algorithm This article describes how I generate an infinite city using the Wave Function Collapse algorithm in...
20th Jun 2023
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Generating an infinite world with the Wave Function Collapse algorithm

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

20th Jun 2023
This article describes how I generate an infinite city using the Wave Function Collapse algorithm in a way that is fast, deterministic, parallelizable and reliable. It's a follow-up to my 2019 article on adapting the WFC algorithm to generate an infinite world. The new approach...
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WannaCry: The Ransomware Attack That Shut Down Hospitals It was 3 PM on a Friday. A doctor at an NHS hospital in the UK tries to check his email. Instead,...
2nd Jun 2026
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WannaCry: The Ransomware Attack That Shut Down Hospitals

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in history

2nd Jun 2026
It was 3 PM on a Friday. A doctor at an NHS hospital in the UK tries to check his email. Instead, one of the PCs in the room reboots into a scary red screen demanding $300 in Bitcoin [23].
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Obvious Javascript 'Injection' Fallback Obvious Javascript ‘Injection’ Fallback 2020-12-04 Sometimes websites and web apps might require...
4th Dec 2020
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Obvious Javascript 'Injection' Fallback

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

4th Dec 2020
Obvious Javascript ‘Injection’ Fallback 2020-12-04 Sometimes websites and web apps might require content to be “injected” via Javascript. I should mention that I am strongly against this practice - but often this kind of thing is out of one’s hands. So, the least I can do is...
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Do amazing things with a focused mind Just when the temperature was a low 2° Celsius, I jumped in the Amstel river! While it was nearly...
5th Dec 2018
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Do amazing things with a focused mind

from Willem L. Middelkoop [alt+shift+b] in technology

5th Dec 2018
Just when the temperature was a low 2° Celsius, I jumped in the Amstel river! While it was nearly freezing outside I went for a swim, just moments after I've taken an ice bath! This post is about the incredible birthday present I got, a workshop involving the Wim Hof Method. Wim...
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Rethinking work beyond the factory I recently completed a two-week creative residence at Almost Perfect in Tokyo. I split my time on...
27th Feb 2024
1

Rethinking work beyond the factory

from Contraption Co. [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Feb 2024
I recently completed a two-week creative residence at Almost Perfect in Tokyo. I split my time on the trip between working on Booklet and exploring Japan. The Almost Perfect residence runs continuously, with two residents at a time. Each residency concludes with a public gallery...
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My Fourth Year as a Bootstrapped Founder Four years ago, I quit my job as a developer at Google to create my own self-funded software...
1st Feb 2022
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My Fourth Year as a Bootstrapped Founder

from mtlynch.io [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

1st Feb 2022
Four years ago, I quit my job as a developer at Google to create my own self-funded software company. For the first few years, all of my businesses flopped. They all operated at a loss, and none of them earned more than a few hundred dollars per month in revenue. Halfway through...
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The Mind in the Machine: John von Neumann, the Inception of AI, and the Limits of Logic "Something very small, so tiny and insignificant as to be almost invisible in its origin, can...
2nd Dec 2023
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The Mind in the Machine: John von Neumann, the Inception of AI, and the Limits of Logic

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

2nd Dec 2023
"Something very small, so tiny and insignificant as to be almost invisible in its origin, can nonetheless open up a new and radiant perspective, because through it a higher order of being is trying to express itself."
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How to Estimate Sales Using Inventory Web-Scraped Data A powerful use case for web data
4th Mar 2024
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How to Estimate Sales Using Inventory Web-Scraped Data

from Data Boutique [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th Mar 2024
A powerful use case for web data
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