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Matt Mazur
Emergent Mind finally went viral Last week, the Twitter account Everything Out of Context posted a screenshot showing Google’s...
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a year ago
Last week, the Twitter account Everything Out of Context posted a screenshot showing Google’s incorrect response to the search query “country in africa that starts with k”: The tweet went viral, garnering over 133k likes, 6k retweets, and 1k replies. Someone eventually tagged me...
Lighthouse Blog
How to combine multiple RSS feeds in one view
a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Books To Help Us Understand The World? Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
a year ago
Founder's blog
Will AI kill B2B SaaS? TL;DR The "build vs. buy" equation has flipped. Businesses used to buy...
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TL;DR The "build vs. buy" equation has flipped. Businesses used to buy SaaS because it was cheaper than building their own. AI has changed that—building your own is now more affordable than ever. The discovery problem. ...
Seth's Blog
Books (and more) Brad Feld has been contributing to and leading the tech community for more than thirty years. His...
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Brad Feld has been contributing to and leading the tech community for more than thirty years. His books have always been inspiring and useful, but his new book takes it to a higher level. Adam Becker has written two books that I recently devoured. The first is philosophy, history...
Liz Denys
New Loose Leaf Security episode: Two-factor authentication and account recovery The second episode of Loose Leaf Security came out today, about two-factor authentication and...
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over a year ago
The second episode of Loose Leaf Security came out today, about two-factor authentication and account recovery: Two-factor authentication and account recovery Last time we talked about strong passwords, but what if there was a better way to secure your account? We look at options...
Style over Substance
My Home Assistant setup (2023 edition) For the past few years, I have been running Home Assistant to make my apartment a smart home. It’s...
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For the past few years, I have been running Home Assistant to make my apartment a smart home. It’s become such a hobby of mine that I’ve even started coding add-ons for it. While there are other popular automation platforms, Home Assistant’s versatility blows the rest out of the...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Cast Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You can also cast subways and dig them up! Today's...
a year ago
MMapped blog
The off-chain reporting protocol
a year ago
The American Scholar
Poco a Poco The post Poco a Poco appeared first on The American Scholar.
8 months ago
Maggie Appleton
Programming Portals Small, scoped areas within a graphical interface that allow users to read and write simple...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Small, scoped areas within a graphical interface that allow users to read and write simple programmes
The American Scholar
We Contain Multitudes Why do so few of us exercise the many talents with which we are born? The post We Contain Multitudes...
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a month ago
Why do so few of us exercise the many talents with which we are born? The post We Contain Multitudes appeared first on The American Scholar.
Diaries of Note
Maybe that will dispel all this quietness In September of 1941, the Soviet city of Leningrad was encircled by Nazi forces in a brutal siege...
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In September of 1941, the Soviet city of Leningrad was encircled by Nazi forces in a brutal siege that would last until January 1944 and result in the deaths of nearly a million civilians. The relentless blockade led to devastating food and fuel shortages, and the merciless...
Maps Mania
Find Your Birthday Tree
2 months ago
Open Culture
Famous Architects Dress as Their Famous New York City Buildings (1931) On January 13, 1931, the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects held a ball at the Hotel Astor in New York...
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On January 13, 1931, the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects held a ball at the Hotel Astor in New York City. According to an advertisement for the event, anyone who paid $15 per ticket (big money during the Depression) could see a “hilarious modern art exhibition” and things...
journal – Winnie Lim
precarious health, and bringing the whole self to every encounter I had another health episode this past week after our penang trip. I have a habit of measuring my...
a year ago
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a year ago
I had another health episode this past week after our penang trip. I have a habit of measuring my heart rate and heart rate variability every morning when I wake up to...
Explosm.net
Comic for 2025.05.10 - Pour One Out New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
2 months ago
watchTowr Labs
Pots and Pans, AKA an SSLVPN - Palo Alto PAN-OS CVE-2024-0012 and CVE-2024-9474 It'll be no surprise that 2024, 2023, 2022, and every other year of humanities' existence has been...
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7 months ago
It'll be no surprise that 2024, 2023, 2022, and every other year of humanities' existence has been tough for SSLVPN appliances. Anyhow, there are new vulnerabilities (well, two of them) that are being exploited in the Palo Alto Networks firewall and SSLVPN offering, and as ever,...
The Works in...
The purpose of a building is how it looks True functionalism combines utility and beauty
2 months ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Should open source projects track you? Many open source projects now track their usage in some way, shape, or form. So much user tracking...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Many open source projects now track their usage in some way, shape, or form. So much user tracking is horrible. It's usually buried deep in the…
HTMHell
#29 Randomly grouping content Bad code <section> <aside> <div> <section> <header> <a href="/"> ...
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Bad code <section> <aside> <div> <section> <header> <a href="/"> <img src="logo.svg" alt="Logo"> </a> </header> <main> <a href="/services">Services</a> <a href="/products">Products</a> ...
Rubenerd
Australian airline refunding overcharged passengers SBS News: Tens of thousands of Virgin Australia customers are in line for refunds after the airline...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
SBS News: Tens of thousands of Virgin Australia customers are in line for refunds after the airline found a system error that overcharged travellers for years. Some 61,000 customers will get refunds averaging $55 for the error, which occurred between April 2020 and March...
Calculated Risk
Industrial Production Increased 0.9% in December Earlier from the Fed: Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization Industrial Production (IP)...
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5 months ago
Earlier from the Fed: Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization Industrial Production (IP) increased 0.9 percent in December after moving up 0.2 percent in November. In December, gains in the output of aircraft and parts contributed 0.2 percentage point to total IP growth...
Ink & Switch
Ink Note Feb 2023: Crosscut Extension Design Jam A design jam on Crosscut-related ideas.
over a year ago
The Map is Mostly...
Love Grows The world is covered with a thin film of inertia.
5 months ago
The Honest Broker
Let's Just Admit it: The Algorithms Are Broken So I'm begging the tech overlords to let us opt out from their dystopia
a year ago
oftwominds-Charles...
The Global Trade Game: Jokers Are Wild There may be no winners of the game of Global Domination (tm), and that is likely the best outcome....
3 months ago
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3 months ago
There may be no winners of the game of Global Domination (tm), and that is likely the best outcome. Okay, players: jokers are wild, but with a twist: the entire deck is jokers. Since everyone at the table will have five Aces, nobody wins. Welcome to the Trade War Poker...
Seth's Blog
Can’t wait The urgent problem might actually benefit from a short cooling-off period. But important challenges...
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over a year ago
The urgent problem might actually benefit from a short cooling-off period. But important challenges can’t wait. Today is a good day to remember that better is possible, and that we shouldn’t wait for the problem to become easy or fade away. Better begins with each of us, but it...
diamond geezer
London's escalatoriest stations London's escalatoriest stations an FoI request last week which revealed all. We learnt that 89...
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London's escalatoriest stations an FoI request last week which revealed all. We learnt that 89 stations maintained by London Underground have escalators, and we learned how many there are at each. Here's the Top 10. 1) BANK/MONUMENT (35 escalators) Also a lot of them are...
Ben Borgers
Pictures as Memories
over a year ago
The Marginalian
The Parts We Live With: D.H. Lawrence and the Yearning for Living Unison "We ought to dance with rapture that we should be alive and in the flesh, and part of the living,...
a year ago
Seth's Blog
Hobson’s choice …is no choice at all. The stable owner gets to pick which horse you get. Take it or leave it. Some...
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over a year ago
…is no choice at all. The stable owner gets to pick which horse you get. Take it or leave it. Some people prefer this. It means that we’re off the hook and not responsible. It relieves us of the emotional labor of choice. Let someone else worry about it… And so we give up our […]
Carl Barenbrug RSS...
Mirror As the year draws to a close with gloomy December days compensated with lots of artificial lighting,...
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As the year draws to a close with gloomy December days compensated with lots of artificial lighting, it's not surprising that many people take the time to reflect on their recent past — what we've managed to achieve, what we learned, what we failed in, where we went, and what we...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Steg Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: SMBC is a comic about mathematics, philosophy,...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: SMBC is a comic about mathematics, philosophy, literature, and science. Today's News:
Rest of World -...
Who is most at risk from the billions of leaked Facebook and Google passwords? CyberNews researchers flag breach as “blueprint for mass exploitation.”
2 weeks ago
The History of the...
What happens to what we’ve already created? When we think about AI, we can't only think of what it has generated. We need to think about what it...
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When we think about AI, we can't only think of what it has generated. We need to think about what it does to what the world has already created. The post What happens to what we’ve already created? appeared first on The History of the Web.
Charles Chen
Your Interview Process Is Too Damn Long (and How To Fix It) Long interview processes have become a bane in the tech industry. Can we fix it?
a year ago
Matt Mullenweg
Response to DHH I’ve taken this post down. I’ve been attacked so much the past few days; the most vicious, personal,...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
I’ve taken this post down. I’ve been attacked so much the past few days; the most vicious, personal, hateful words poisoned my brain, and the original version of this post was mean. I am so sorry. I shouldn’t let this stuff get to me, but it clearly did, and I took it out on DHH,...
Diaries of Note
Then a sailor, now H. M. author On 11th October 1849, two years before the publication of his opus, Moby-Dick, American novelist...
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On 11th October 1849, two years before the publication of his opus, Moby-Dick, American novelist Herman Melville boarded a liner in New York and headed for London where he was to live for a few months while finding a publisher for his next book, White-Jacket. He wrote this...
Retail Design Blog
White Bean Brand Identity by Aly Shrief White Bean is a cafe. It is an invitation-only cafe for the upper class of Jeddah’s society. The...
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11 months ago
White Bean is a cafe. It is an invitation-only cafe for the upper class of Jeddah’s society. The cafe will...
Seth's Blog
Now in Spanish The Carbon Almanac is now available in Spanish. For free. Free to download, free to share and free...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Carbon Almanac is now available in Spanish. For free. Free to download, free to share and free to print a copy at home. While the book has been traditionally published around the world (in Italian, Czech, Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Dutch), no Spanish-language publisher was...
Paul Cudenec
The global mafia's not-so-good club Rockefeller Foundation trustee Patty Stonesifer is a “technology multimillionaire and...
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Rockefeller Foundation trustee Patty Stonesifer is a “technology multimillionaire and philanthropist”.
Wrong Side of...
The Indian-American century On the Anglo-Indo-sphere
6 months ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Personal Websites Are As Vulnerable As Us I look at some people’s personal websites and think, “Stupendous! If I ever reach that zenith of...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
I look at some people’s personal websites and think, “Stupendous! If I ever reach that zenith of personal web design, I will call it quits.” Then I read a post by them later and they say something like, “Gah! I just really don’t like where I’m at with my personal website.” And in...
lcamtuf’s thing
A 15-minute intro to resin casting At one point in my life, I penned an epic, 110-page opus on hobby manufacturing.
6 months ago
Rest of World -...
Becoming a tech powerhouse is harder than you think Rio’s gambit to become Latin America’s tech hub is analogous to Brazil and Latin America’s struggle.
over a year ago
Yale e360
Facing High Tariffs in U.S., Chinese Solar Flows to Poorer Countries Facing high tariffs in the U.S. and Europe, Chinese solar and battery companies have been selling a...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Facing high tariffs in the U.S. and Europe, Chinese solar and battery companies have been selling a growing share of their products to poorer countries, a new analysis finds. Read more on E360 →
Ferd.ca
AI: Where in the Loop Should Humans Go? This is a re-publishing of a blog post I originally wrote for work, but wanted on my own blog as...
4 months ago
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This is a re-publishing of a blog post I originally wrote for work, but wanted on my own blog as well. AI is everywhere, and its impressive claims are leading to rapid adoption. At this stage, I’d qualify it as charismatic technology—something that under-delivers on what it...
The Convivial...
Taking Stock of Our Technological Liturgies Listen now | The Convivial Society: Vol. 3, No. 15
over a year ago
Marian's Blog
Work in progress: Location based online game This is a game prototype I’m currently working on. The game is played online, on a real world map...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is a game prototype I’m currently working on. The game is played online, on a real world map and the location of the player is also the location ingame, just like in Ingress. I know that making an online game like this is an ambitious goal and it will probably never be...
The Rational Walk
Roth IRA Conversions For Early Retirees Roth IRA conversions could make sense for early retirees who are able to control their income and...
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Roth IRA conversions could make sense for early retirees who are able to control their income and avoid falling into a high tax bracket.
The Works in...
Links in Progress: We can still build beautifully A tour of interesting developments built in the last two decades
5 months ago
Frank’s Ramblings
My Experience Living and Working in China, Part I In this four-part article, I’ll go over some of the lessons I learned living and doing business in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In this four-part article, I’ll go over some of the lessons I learned living and doing business in China’s tech industry. During my time in China, I’ve led a team of 10+ engineers to develop a location-based IoT and sensing platform, co-founded an open-source project called...
David Heinemeier...
Apple does AI as Microsoft did mobile When the iPhone first appeared in 2007, Microsoft was sitting pretty with their mobile strategy....
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4 months ago
When the iPhone first appeared in 2007, Microsoft was sitting pretty with their mobile strategy. They'd been early to the market with Windows CE, they were fast-following the iPod with their Zune. They also had the dominant operating system, the dominant office package, and...
Elevation Lab - Blog
NightStand at your local Apple Store NightStands now come in some beautiful new colors & new packaging - you can find them in Apple...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
NightStands now come in some beautiful new colors & new packaging - you can find them in Apple Stores around the globe beginning today. For any designer, to see something you made out in the wild is a special experience. So today is a real trip for our tiny little Portland...
The Pragmatic...
Code Review on Printed Paper: an Excerpt from the Twitoons Comic Book 👋 Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every...
a year ago
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a year ago
👋 Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every issue, I cover topics related to Big Tech and startups through the lens of engineering managers and senior engineers. In this article, we cover two out of seven topics from today’s
xkcd.com
Square Units
3 months ago
Quanta Magazine
How Randomness Improves Algorithms Unpredictability can help computer scientists solve otherwise intractable problems. The...
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Unpredictability can help computer scientists solve otherwise intractable problems. The post How Randomness Improves Algorithms first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Seth's Blog
Transitions are difficult They’re risky (unknown territory leads to unforeseen outcomes) and a very recent phenomenon. A kid...
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a year ago
They’re risky (unknown territory leads to unforeseen outcomes) and a very recent phenomenon. A kid dropped off at pre-school, a new boss, a food you’re not familiar with. None of this was common for most of pre-history. When the transition occurs, we’re tempted to direct our...
Farnam Street
Focus to Win Anyone can say no to bad ideas, but only a focused person can say no to good ideas. Focus is about...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Anyone can say no to bad ideas, but only a focused person can say no to good ideas. Focus is about saying no. When talking about one of the biggest lessons he learned from Steve Jobs, Jonny Ive said it was focus. This sounds really simplistic, but it still shocks me how few...
Paul Graham: Essays
Black Swan Farming
over a year ago
Open Culture
Optical Poems by Oskar Fischinger: Discover the Avant-Garde Animator Despised by Hitler & Dissed by... At a time when much of animation was consumed with little anthropomorphized animals sporting white...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
At a time when much of animation was consumed with little anthropomorphized animals sporting white gloves, Oskar Fischinger went in a completely different direction. His work is all about dancing geometric shapes and abstract forms spinning around a flat featureless background....
Noahpinion
The debt ceiling deal: What was the whole point? A manufactured crisis leads to an ineffectual "solution"
over a year ago
Old Structures...
Not Quite Changing First, “Facade, 317 Broadway” from Berenice Abbott’s “Changing New York Project”, taken in 1936....
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a year ago
First, “Facade, 317 Broadway” from Berenice Abbott’s “Changing New York Project”, taken in 1936. Second, a street view photo of 319 Broadway, today. 317 Broadway is at the southwest corner of Thomas Street and Broadway; 319 at the northwest corner. So unless this building moved...
CONTEMPORIST
Tropical Living: This Modern Home Embraces The Steep Terrain Of The Costa Rican Jungle SARCO Architects has shared photos of a home they completed in Costa Rica, designed to focus on...
a year ago
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a year ago
SARCO Architects has shared photos of a home they completed in Costa Rica, designed to focus on transparency, blurring the boundaries between indoor and outdoor spaces. The steep terrain posed the biggest challenge of the design, and as a result, the home was broken up into...
The Convivial...
"The Pathologies of the Attention Economy" (Audio), Links, Miscellany Listen now (23 min) | The Convivial Society: Vol. 3, No. 16 (supplement)
over a year ago
Trying to Understand...
They Say They Want Rearmament .... We-ell, you know ....
over a year ago
Asterisk
Pew Problems A conversation about religion, fertility, and the American family.
a year ago
RhysTranter.com
Ignatius Loyola: A Saint Reads the Saints 31 July marks the feast day of Saint Ignatius Loyola (b.1491), the founder of the Society of Jesus...
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over a year ago
31 July marks the feast day of Saint Ignatius Loyola (b.1491), the founder of the Society of Jesus (more commonly known as the Jesuits). In a breviary, I come across a passage from the Acts of Saint Ignatius taken down by Luis Gonzalez, which describes the growing influence of...
Society's Backend:...
Why Machine Learning Technical Debt is Especially Bad And effective ways to mitigate it
a year ago
The Universe of...
Polish Spam Content warning: mass killing of farmed animals Today I complained that my email provider had...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Content warning: mass killing of farmed animals Today I complained that my email provider had delivered a spam message to me that was in Polish. I understand that spam can be hard to identify, but Polish isn't, I don't know Polish, and any message sent to me in Polish can be...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
New Healthcare Crash Courses + Some Updates | Out-Of-Pocket learn stuff and also other things
a year ago
Eric Bailey
#WorstWorkWednesday This post is in reply to a Tweet from Sara Soueidan about only sharing our best work. It is a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This post is in reply to a Tweet from Sara Soueidan about only sharing our best work. It is a conversation how people don’t share negative things on social media, especially in the context of a professional account. #WorstWorkWednesday, the title of this post, is a hashtag coined...
Josh Thompson
What Do You Do? I enjoy meeting new people. Usually, one of the first questions I’ll ask them is “What to you...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I enjoy meeting new people. Usually, one of the first questions I’ll ask them is “What to you do?” They usually respond with their occupation, or their status in school. My follow-up question is “When you’re not doing that, what do you do?” Sometimes this is a conversational...
A Beautiful Site
Semantic version numbers Gone are the days of arbitrarily assigning version numbers to every new software release. With...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Gone are the days of arbitrarily assigning version numbers to every new software release. With semantic versioning, the question of how and when to bump versions is made simple. According to semver.org, the syntax for version numbers should go like this: MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH When...
Left To Write
№ 66: Why Do We Brush Our Teeth? The opposite of a good idea - Finding the real reason behind brushing our teeth - Let's not jump to...
a year ago
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The opposite of a good idea - Finding the real reason behind brushing our teeth - Let's not jump to conclusions
Calculated Risk
Moody's: Retail Vacancy Rate Unchanged in Q4 Note: I covered apartments and offices in the newsletter: Moody's: Apartment Vacancy Rate Increased...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Note: I covered apartments and offices in the newsletter: Moody's: Apartment Vacancy Rate Increased in Q4; Office Vacancy Rate at Record High Multifamily Continued to Defy the Supply Shock, Office’s Vacancy Rate Broke Another Record, Retail Rents Drift Higher with Tight Supply,...
The Ruffian
Rattle Bag History, learning, screw-ups, and suitcase-packing
a year ago
Daniel Bourke
Silent idols Showing without telling.
over a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Old VC firms: get ready to be disrupted If the U.S. economy were a company, the VC industry would be the R&D department. The financing for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If the U.S. economy were a company, the VC industry would be the R&D department. The financing for the VC industry comes from so-called LPs…
NeuroLogica Blog
T-rex Had Lips One of the challenges of paleontology is that we are trying to infer and entire animal just from the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
One of the challenges of paleontology is that we are trying to infer and entire animal just from the hard parts that fossilize, mostly bones and teeth (and sometimes just teeth). But if we look at animals today there are a lot of details we could not guess from their bones alone...
The Honest Broker
My Survey of 16 Classic Works of New Journalism Let's make New Journalism new again
5 months ago
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 42 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
a year ago
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a year ago
New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $80-100k/month in revenue and employs six other people. Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one...
Retail Design Blog
METIC Lounge by ADS As night falls, Metic Bar in Shanghai’s Putuo District stands out from the ordinary. All Design...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
As night falls, Metic Bar in Shanghai’s Putuo District stands out from the ordinary. All Design Studio (ADS) transforms the...
Josh Thompson
2018 Reading Review & Recommendations I read many books in 2018. I’m listing them out here, along with recommendations. Here’s the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I read many books in 2018. I’m listing them out here, along with recommendations. Here’s the recommendation “key”: 👍 = I recommend this book. (This metric is intentionally fuzzy.) 😔 = This book influenced my mental model of the world/reality/myself 🏢 = Book topic is...
Robert Caro
An Interview With Robert Caro and Kurt Vonnegut Kurt greeted us in his beautiful 19th century house and in his bare feet (of which more later). As...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Kurt greeted us in his beautiful 19th century house and in his bare feet (of which more later). As the interview progressed it grew sort of
Calculated Risk
Retail Sales Decreased 0.9% in January On a monthly basis, retail sales decreased 0.9% from December to January (seasonally adjusted), and...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
On a monthly basis, retail sales decreased 0.9% from December to January (seasonally adjusted), and sales were up 4.2 percent from January 2024. report: Advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for January 2025, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
"The Not So Global Internet" Fred Wilson writes about how frustrating it is when companies break the internet: We are in the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Fred Wilson writes about how frustrating it is when companies break the internet: We are in the caribbean this week celebrating the year end…
Marcus on AI
Did an LLM help write Trump’s trade plan? Probably yes
3 months ago
Diaries of Note
Very many delightful things were shown On 12th July 1520, German Renaissance painter Albrecht Dürer, accompanied by his wife, Agnes,...
a year ago
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a year ago
On 12th July 1520, German Renaissance painter Albrecht Dürer, accompanied by his wife, Agnes, embarked on a significant journey from Germany to the Netherlands, both to attend the coronation of Charles V in October and ensure the continuation of the pension he had received for...
This Space
The disaster of writing: My Weil by Lars Iyer "When a plane crashes, a bomb explodes, a city floods or a pandemic begins, Lucy Easthope's phone...
a year ago
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a year ago
"When a plane crashes, a bomb explodes, a city floods or a pandemic begins, Lucy Easthope's phone starts to ring" says the blurb to her recent book subtitled Stories of Love, Loss and Hope from an Expert in Disaster, and goes on to report rapturous praise from critics and...
The Intimate Mirror
The Father Wound Healing Our Relationship with Authority and Value
5 months ago
Seeking Wisdom
Embeddings – Part 1 This is the 8th post in my series on building a toy GPT. For better understanding, I recommend...
a year ago
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a year ago
This is the 8th post in my series on building a toy GPT. For better understanding, I recommend reading my earlier posts first. I love playing and watching cricket. The dominance India showed in the recently concluded World Cup is astounding. I have never seen anything like it in...
Ian Betteridge
Ten Blue Links, “I’m sorry about the politics” edition 1. The Reach saga rumbles on I’ve banged on about the parlous strategy of Reach plc before, but the...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
1. The Reach saga rumbles on I’ve banged on about the parlous strategy of Reach plc before, but the departures from its senior editorial ranks will continue to make a bad strategy worse. What makes this situation more difficult for the company is its board, which is free of any...
Jonas Hietala
Friend of the Tree I just noticed I was recognized as a friend of the tree in a weekly meeting by the rust team. It...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I just noticed I was recognized as a friend of the tree in a weekly meeting by the rust team. It came during my documentation sprint during IDA Summer of Code and I discovered it now, only two and a half month later. Still a very pleasant surprise!
Adventures In...
Tolkien Style Maps in a GIS: part 4, Assembly “There’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it’s worth fighting for.” In this 4-part series...
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“There’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it’s worth fighting for.” In this 4-part series we’ll walk through the reckoning of a Lord of the Rings style fantasy map, right in ArcGIS Pro. We map-makers get to breathe honest to goodness geographic life into the seminal...
Noahpinion
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I always intended "Programming in the 21st Century" to have a limited run. I knew since the entry from January 1, 2010, that I needed to end it. It just took a while.Recovering Programmer And now, an explanation. I started this blog to talk about issues tangentially related to...
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“The balloon was isolated, as if it were in a vacuum; beneath us stretches an immense abyss, above the infinite expanse of sky” – James Glaisher, Travels In The Air, 1871      Travels in the Air tells the story of balloon travel since the first ‘aerostatic’ flight by the...
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On November 14, 1960, six-year-old Ruby Bridges became one of the first Black students to attend an all-white public school in the South. Escorted by federal marshals through crowds of segregationists, Ruby stepped onto her new school’s campus and into the history books. Ruby is...
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In this post, we'll explore a technique we can use to "fold" a DOM node, like folding a letter in real-life. On that journey, we'll learn a lot about 3D transforms and CSS animation techniques!
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The Swipe Files Strategy for Part Time Creators Swipe Files are underrated, passively compounding sources of personal leverage for your creator...
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Effective today, I will no longer post new articles to this website, rationalwalk.com. All new articles will be posted on my Substack at newsletter.rationalwalk.com.
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On 6th December 1912, at the ancient site of Tell el-Amarna in Egypt, a team led by German Egyptologist Ludwig Borchardt made a remarkable discovery: they uncovered a workshop once belonging to Thutmose—more formally known as ‘The King’s Favorite and Master of Works, the Sculptor...
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SECURITY NEWS South Korean authorities are warning that North Koreans are disguising themselves and getting jobs in South Korea. The saddest part is that it appears to be just another income generation scheme, meaning they use the salaries to fund the North Korean nuclear...
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Six years ago, David Thompson wrote a popular blog post called “My favourite Git commit” celebrating a whimsically detailed commit message his co-worker wrote. I enjoyed the post at the time and have sent it to several teammates as a model for good commit messages. I recently...
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⚙️ So what does SLA really mean? If you see a company offering “99.9% something“ — it is probably offering an SLA. In simple terms,...
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If you see a company offering “99.9% something“ — it is probably offering an SLA. In simple terms, SLA stands […] The post ⚙️ So what does SLA really mean? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Tomorrowland / Walt Disney People regularly ask me whether Bridgy Fed is ready to scale and support more users. It’s a technical question, but their underlying motivation is usually broader: they believe in the social web, and the fediverse(s), and they want them to connect...
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Indeed, KITH is betting big on the Land of the Rising Sun. Following the arrival of a flagship store in...
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The Strategy Deck that I made to go with my book has developed a real following. It’s a powerful way to break a creative logjam. Taking out the deck in a meeting lowers resistance and increases a sense of possibility and playfulness. I’ve just gone back to press for a fourth...
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The city of Yiwu has unique trading culture and a thriving economy of commerce. The city has witnessed great historical...
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A writer’s delectable quest for rare flavors The post Heart of Semi-Darkness appeared first on The American Scholar.
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I've been a fan of Svelte for years, but never had the opportunity to use it on a serious project before. So when I found myself looking for a new platform for this site as SvelteKit entered open beta, it seemed like perfect timing.
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Image via Wikimedia Commons A quick heads up: On October 3rd, Stanford Continuing Studies will kick off an 8‑week online course called Did It Matter? Does It Now? The Music and Culture of the Grateful Dead. Led by David Gans (author of Playing in the Band: An Oral and Visual...
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While in Korea, I used Shazam to record all the songs played in coffee shops. Here’s a mix I put together of all the discovered tracks.
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Today, 133 cardinals from around the world enter the conclave to determine the next pope, during which they’ll cast their votes in the Sistine Chapel. Despite being one of the most famous tourist attractions in Europe, the Sistine Chapel still serves as a venue for such important...
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Hustle Culture for Designers We all have our aspirations and goals in life and career. For me, it goes from having an impact on...
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We all have our aspirations and goals in life and career. For me, it goes from having an impact on my full-time work to helping designers via my blog, email newsletter, and other educational content. I need to work damn hard to achieve these goals! Making the
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Socialist Realism was the official artistic ideology proclaimed in the 1930s in the Soviet Union. It rejected experimentations with non-objective painting and criticized intellectual art that was not understood by the masses. Socialist realism was supposed to celebrate honest...
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Influencing purchase behaviour For my work I am continuously looking into scientific sources to improve e-commerce performance,...
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For my work I am continuously looking into scientific sources to improve e-commerce performance, conversion rates and online revenue. Use this useful report to apply behavioural sciences principles to your advantage.
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Technology and job creation In response to my recent post “Making industries ‘garage ready’ for startups“, venture...
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In response to my recent post “Making industries ‘garage ready’ for startups“, venture capitalist Jordan Elpern-Waxman made an interesting…
The Marginalian
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“They do not sweat and whine about their condition,” Walt Whitman wrote of the other animals, “they do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, they do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning...
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My new mixed media portrait painting process: more ease, confidence & fun In this episode of Nela’s Art Chat I share a watercolor & mixed media drawing and painting process...
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In this episode of Nela’s Art Chat I share a watercolor & mixed media drawing and painting process that I’ve developed in recent months, which enabled me to create the kind of paintings I want with more ease and confidence. I’ll be talking about the challenges with the "ugly...
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“Long long is Time, though books be brief: Adventures strange ay, past belief…” – Walter de la Mare, The Three Mulla-Mulgars illustrated by Dorothy Pulis Lathrop   Soon after Dorothy Pulis Lathrop (April 16, 1891–December 30, 1980) was hired to illustrate a book of experimental...
The Marginalian
Darwin on How to Evolve Your Imagination The year the young Charles Darwin (February 12, 1809–April 19, 1882) boarded The Beagle, Mary...
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The year the young Charles Darwin (February 12, 1809–April 19, 1882) boarded The Beagle, Mary Shelley contemplated the nature of the imagination in her preface to the most famous edition of Frankenstein, concluding that creativity “does not consist in creating out of void, but...
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Across a Continent, Trees Sync Their Fruiting to the Sun European beech trees more than 1,500 kilometers apart all drop their fruit at the same time in a...
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European beech trees more than 1,500 kilometers apart all drop their fruit at the same time in a grand synchronization event now linked to the summer solstice. The post Across a Continent, Trees Sync Their Fruiting to the Sun first appeared on Quanta Magazine
xkcd.com
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Around a year ago, I started noticing some spammy timelines being created on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker tool. I’m honestly surprised it took spammers so long: Preceden is a freemium product (meaning people can sign up and try it for free), the product makes it very easy to...
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Focus Is About Saying No Focusing our minds is essential to productivity, high performance, and awareness, but our focus is...
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Focusing our minds is essential to productivity, high performance, and awareness, but our focus is constantly under siege by things grasping for our attention. Some of us may excel in multitasking, but you will undoubtedly perform better with full, selective attention. It’s not...
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In Episode 6 of the Traction Heroes podcast, Harry and I explored Chesterton’s fence — a simple yet profound idea that has important implications for leaders navigating complex, high-stakes changes. The gist: when change is needed, don’t start by destroying what you don’t...
Tony Finch's blog
obfuscated C revisited The International Obfuscated C Code Contest has a newly revamped web site, and the Judges have...
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The International Obfuscated C Code Contest has a newly revamped web site, and the Judges have announced the 28th contest, to coincide with its 40th anniversary. (Or 41st?) The Judges have also updated the archive of past winners so that as many of them as possible work on modern...
99% Invisible
Rocket Man [EPISODE] In the twentieth century, the jetpack became synonymous with the idea of a ‘futuristic society.’...
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In the twentieth century, the jetpack became synonymous with the idea of a ‘futuristic society.’ Appearing in cartoons and magazines, it felt like a matter of time before people could ride a jetpack to work. But jetpacks never became a mainstream technology, leaving many to...
Throwable
AI is Coming for Software Engineers (I'm a Software Engineer) There seems to be a lot of AI anxiety across professions and I'm here to tell you that no one should...
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There seems to be a lot of AI anxiety across professions and I'm here to tell you that no one should worry as much as software engineers.
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Bin System
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Petersen believes that the bike industry’s focus on racing—along with ‘competition and a pervasive addiction to technology’—has had a poisonous influence on cycling culture. He dislikes the widespread marketing to recreational riders of spandex kits, squirty energy gels, and...
Tinloof - Blog
How to make and test your own React drag and drop list with 0 dependencies I know, drag and drop is a solved problem. There are several great utilities you can use to easily...
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I know, drag and drop is a solved problem. There are several great utilities you can use to easily have a drag and drop list in your application (dragula, react-beautiful-dnd, and react-dnd). These libraries offer APIs that make it easy to meet your needs without worrying about...
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“Alkonost” is a design concept of craft mead made according to traditional Slavic recipes. The design of the jar is...
Artificial Ignorance
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Literally everyone would be happy about this. We should be building NOW Today's News:
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“The computer wants you to click this button.” “It thinks you asked for something else.” “He’s mad at you.” Thousands of generations ago, we evolved our way into a magnificent hack. It turns out that we can more safely navigate the world by imagining that other people have a...
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Atoms vs Bits
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A brief and biased history. Oh yeah, there’s pull requests now – GitHub blog, Sat, 23 Feb 2008 When GitHub launched, it had no code review. Three years after launch, in 2011, GitHub user rtomayko became the first person to make a real code comment, which read, in full:...
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Agent V – Global Game Jam 2018 Project This year I participated in my first game jam, the Global Game Jam 2018. With a team of artists,...
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This year I participated in my first game jam, the Global Game Jam 2018. With a team of artists, programmers and a sound designer, we made a video game within 48 hours. You play the game as a virus that infiltrates a company’s headquarters. The virus can not move on its own, it...
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Pots of Gold Here’s a painful contradiction at the heart of spending time on startups: all the good stuff you can...
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Here’s a painful contradiction at the heart of spending time on startups: all the good stuff you can create is in the future, but all the patterns you look at to learn what to do are in the past. This makes your brain do funny things. On the one hand, you see how huge things can...
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Impacts of climate change on marine communities, seagrass dieback, and a trip to the Abrolhos... You may have noticed a lack of posts over the last few weeks.  No holiday for me though, here’s a...
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You may have noticed a lack of posts over the last few weeks.  No holiday for me though, here’s a quick taste of some of the other stuff I’ve been up to! Impact of climate change on marine coastal ecosystems – A masterclass with Nuria Marbá I was lucky enough to be invited along...
Classical Wisdom
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Stoicism is an ancient Greek philosophy that has gained popularity in recent years as a practical guide for navigating life's challenges. It is a philosophy that places great importance on improving oneself and making the most of one's circumstances, regardless of external...
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George B. Field, 1929-2024 George Field, brilliant theoretical astrophysicist and truly great human being, passed away on the...
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George Field, brilliant theoretical astrophysicist and truly great human being, passed away on the morning of July 31. He was my Ph.D. thesis advisor and one of my favorite people in the world. I often tell my own students that the two most important people in your life who you...
Seth's Blog
Market pressure Every competitor faces pressure, and it varies by industry, consumer/investor segment and geography....
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Every competitor faces pressure, and it varies by industry, consumer/investor segment and geography. This applies to services, products, ideas, organizations, jobs… whenever there’s a choice and a market. The pressure might push you to be: But it’s also possible to choose a...
Retail Design Blog
McKenzie 10-Year Barrel Reserve Rum by Works Design Group Since re-vamping the branding and some marketing materials, Finger Lakes Distilling recently asked...
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Since re-vamping the branding and some marketing materials, Finger Lakes Distilling recently asked us to help design the packaging for...
Seth's Blog
Just the right length Pop songs are 200 seconds long because the mechanical properties of 78 and 45 rpm records can...
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Pop songs are 200 seconds long because the mechanical properties of 78 and 45 rpm records can deliver one song with decent fidelity of that length. They can’t handle ten minutes, and one minute is too short to charge for. The number of books carried by a local bookstore was the...
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Still in Montreal, the roof of a now enclosed, formerly (I think) open areaway in front of a high rise: In case that’s difficult to make out, it’s a glass slab roof supported on laminated glass beams. The hand belongs to Will Teron, who was standing on the same stair landing I...
CONTEMPORIST
Before & After – A Kitchen And Bathroom Remodel For This 1970s Home SHED Architecture & Design has shared their latest project, the contemporary interior remodel of a...
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SHED Architecture & Design has shared their latest project, the contemporary interior remodel of a 1970s home on Seattle’s Mercer Island that was originally designed by William Rutledge. The house met the functional needs of its new owners but did not quite suit their...
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Summarizing our recommendations for software documentation Last year, my coworker Suzanne and I got a case study accepted into an ethnography conference! She's...
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Last year, my coworker Suzanne and I got a case study accepted into an ethnography conference! She's an anthropologist by training, and I'm a software engineer. How'd we wind up there? The short version is I asked her what I thought was an interesting question, and she thought it...
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Why you should go after a market with strong demand Building a new product is an enormous risk. You're risking your time, energy, and resources. Look...
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Building a new product is an enormous risk. You're risking your time, energy, and resources. Look for a evidence of demand!
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Monday is when I would normally post a new book review, but instead, this blog and its related newsletter are going on hiatus indefinitely due to a family emergency.
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Container scheduling strategies for integration testing 14 different databases in Github Actions This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
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CONTEMPORIST
A Sunken Living Room Was Made Possible By A New Extension To This Home Mulroy Architects has shared photos of a project they recently completed that included modernizing...
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Mulroy Architects has shared photos of a project they recently completed that included modernizing the interior of a 1920s home in Greater London, England, that also included the addition of a rear extension. The brief was to refurbish and extend the upper floors of the house to...
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gitionary: the graphical game of git guessing I apparently have a knack for coming up with nerdy party games. Three Fridays ago, my 6.033 TA...
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I apparently have a knack for coming up with nerdy party games. Three Fridays ago, my 6.033 TA encouraged us to practice creating diagrams for our design project proposals by trying to identify UNIX commands or filesystem structures from our partner's drawings. He claims that...
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Is Cultivated Meat For Real? Cultivated meat faces a wall of scientific skepticism, but investors haven’t been deterred. A decade...
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Cultivated meat faces a wall of scientific skepticism, but investors haven’t been deterred. A decade in, how close are we to seeing it on our plates?
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I reluctantly call myself a minimalist. I’d prefer to call myself an “enoughalist”. This reluctance is because I think the label brings in a bunch of connotations that I don’t like. Our apartment never looked like this. Source: home-designing.com What is Minimalism? a removal or...
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The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was developed in Meso-America, and was resurrected in 19th century Europe. When we hear the word “flute”, most of us think of a long thin wooden or metal tube with holes along its length...
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First Pictures: Views of Mars from NASA’s Mars Observer – July 27, 1993 Having enthusiastically followed NASA’s Viking mission to Mars as a teenager during the late-1970s,...
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Having enthusiastically followed NASA’s Viking mission to Mars as a teenager during the late-1970s, the lack of any new NASA missions to Mars during the 1980s […]
Calculated Risk
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From the NAR: Existing-Home Sales Receded 5.9% in March Existing-home sales descended in March, according to the National Association of REALTORS®. Sales slid in all four major U.S. regions. Year-over-year, sales dropped in the Midwest and South, increased in the West and were...
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Remember when everyone had a really ugly blog with a blogroll? Anyway, just think the word is funny. I follow a few hundred blogs using Feedly and Reeder and have been reading a few hundred thousand blog posts over the last 10 years.
The Modern House
The Green Series #3: how to make your home airtight   Passivhaus buildings are designed to be almost completely airtight, with no unsealed gaps in the...
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Passivhaus buildings are designed to be almost completely airtight, with no unsealed gaps in the exterior of the building. While a typical home might struggle to achieve that, there are ways to reduce unwanted draughts and heat loss. Continuing our series of Passivhaus hacks,...
The Ruffian
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Light from Space
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Not well known to observers in the Northern Hemisphere, the Lobster Nebula (NGC 6357) in Cepheus shows a complex pattern of Hydrogen alpha and Oxygen-III regions. It's quite far south in the sky at a declination of −34° 20′ and here in Tucson it barely
Overcoming Bias
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In health and medicine, we have many government agencies, and private philanthropies, devoted to many specific medical conditions, and also to studying and reforming medicine in general, at a meta level.
Anecdotal Evidence
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Can we be privately embarrassed in the solitude of our skulls, without an audience? Embarrassment seems like a response to a social setting. In that sense, it resembles involuntary amusement. To laugh helplessly, out loud when alone, is rare among the sane. I think embarrassment...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, November 22, 2024 (Roman Naming Conventions) Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post...
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Hey, folks. Another Fireside this week! I had hoped to have the science fiction body armor post ready to go this week, but in addition to the continued work on the book project, I was asked to write a review of the now-out-in-the-USA Gladiator II and that consumed a fair bit of...
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Josh Thompson
Crock Pots are Foolproof, Right? A while back I got together with my good friend Dustin. I had an evening free, wanted to cook, AND...
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A while back I got together with my good friend Dustin. I had an evening free, wanted to cook, AND hang out with good friends. I wanted to try a really good looking recipe, and watch Django Unchained. The cooking instructions for the recipe was “cook on low for 7-9 hours”. I...
Ink & Switch
Ink Note Fall 2023: Phase 2 Gestures Some of the techniques we use to handle events and gestures in our prototypes
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Stochastic Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Wait why is her butt talking? Today's News:
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ByteofDev
State of the Web: Static Site Generators Static Site Generators have been changing quickly with new trends like Jamstack. Learn more about...
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Static Site Generators have been changing quickly with new trends like Jamstack. Learn more about the background of static site generators, why people use them, and the current state of them, with information on modern SSGs like Eleventy, Next.js, SvelteKit, and Astro.
NeuroLogica Blog
Nobel Prize for Attosecond Physics One attosecond (as) is 1×10−18 seconds. An attosecond is to one second what one second is to the age...
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One attosecond (as) is 1×10−18 seconds. An attosecond is to one second what one second is to the age of the universe. It is an extremely tiny slice of time. This year’s Nobel Prize in physics goes to three scientists, Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L’Huillier, whose...
escape the algorithm
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I can’t believe I’m doing this, but I’m about to recommend that you subscribe to a product marketing email.
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Engineering beneath the ice sheet Living in Greenland, deploying electronic beacons deep beneath the ice.
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The Lives of the Othered Are some people worth less?
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Diaries of Note
The greatest crime on the largest scale known in modern history George Templeton Strong was a 19th-century New York lawyer deeply involved in the civic fabric of...
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George Templeton Strong was a 19th-century New York lawyer deeply involved in the civic fabric of his city, but his lasting impact extends far beyond the legal world. From 1835 to 1875, Strong meticulously recorded his observations and insights in a diary that has since become an...
Jonas Hietala
Bullets and AI The game is still far from being an actual game but some progress has been made. I fixed most of the...
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The game is still far from being an actual game but some progress has been made. I fixed most of the collision detection problems and I’m now trying to make some sort of AI working for the ship. It’s a bit hard and time consuming and I don’t know how to make things good. Maybe...
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Reductive Residence “The home is what a bear would know as a cave. It's a space to be an animal, really. You can chew...
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“The home is what a bear would know as a cave. It's a space to be an animal, really. You can chew your bone in the corner and nobody will bother you. It's a laboratory for living—it's fluid.” —Michele Oka Doner Your home is your sanctuary, yet it's not a space that you should...
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Letters of Note
I miss you so very much, Ryan In December of 1984, 13-year-old Ryan White was given 6 months to live after contracting AIDS during...
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In December of 1984, 13-year-old Ryan White was given 6 months to live after contracting AIDS during a contaminated treatment for hemophilia, a blood condition with which he had lived since birth. By June of 1985, keen to resume as normal a lifestyle as possible, Ryan attempted...
The Works in...
Issue 09: Cheap shots and killer bots Plus: Why scientific writing is so bad, how to stop snakebites from killing 100,000 people every...
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Plus: Why scientific writing is so bad, how to stop snakebites from killing 100,000 people every year, and what science can learn from the fight against global poverty.
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Open Culture
16th-Century Japanese Historians Describe the Oddness of Meeting the First Europeans They Ever Saw Go to Japan today, and the country will present you with plenty of opportunities to buy pan, tabako,...
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Go to Japan today, and the country will present you with plenty of opportunities to buy pan, tabako, and tempura. These products themselves — bread, cigarettes, and deep-fried seafood or vegetables — will be familiar enough. Even the words that refer to them may have a...
Construction Physics
Boeing Reading List Unlike most topics that I write about, the aircraft industry is an industry that has enthusiasts:...
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Unlike most topics that I write about, the aircraft industry is an industry that has enthusiasts: lots and lots of people are interested in following various aspects of the commercial aircraft world for fun (example: not only are there extremely accurate flight simulators, but...
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Crypto Tokens: A Breakthrough in Open Network Design It is a wonderful accident of history that the internet and web were created as open platforms that...
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It is a wonderful accident of history that the internet and web were created as open platforms that anyone — users, developers…
Out-of-Pocket Blog
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Mazdak
Apple’s Credit Card Shakeup: A Look at the Future of Fintech Partnerships In 2019, Apple and Goldman Sachs partnered to launch the Apple Card, a bold move that combined...
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In 2019, Apple and Goldman Sachs partnered to launch the Apple Card, a bold move that combined technology and finance to offer a seamless credit experience.
Nothing Human
Unbendable Arm as Test Case for Religious Belief a hyperstition you can try at home
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A fresh new start: Investing in myself towards financial freedom and sharing my personal and... <p> <i>This is the first of many updates in the <a...
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<p> <i>This is the first of many updates in the <a href="https://valsopi.com/financial-freedom">Financial Freedom</a> series, where I hold&nbsp;myself publicly accountable for my big challenge ahead!</i> </p> <p> <i><b>TLDR:</b>&nbsp;Towards the end of this article,...
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The Virtue of Tourism Castles in the Sky #40
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On the Arts
Do biographies need to start at the beginning? Alternatives to the predictably linear narratives of most biographies.
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Nothing Human
Andrew Rose on building communities and institutions yes, Nothing Human now has a podcast!
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Did Sam Altman and Jony Ive Steal Another Company's Idea?
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How NOT to apply to Y Combinator Getting into Y Combinator in 2018 was a defining event in the history of RevenueCat. It was also...
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Getting into Y Combinator in 2018 was a defining event in the history of RevenueCat. It was also quite impactful for Jacob and me as founders. I want to believe we would still be around even if we had not gotten into YC, but I am sure the company would not be where it is today....
Lighthouse Blog
What is OPML?
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The Great Discontent...
Rafael Espinal Rafael Espinal was just 26 when he became an elected official. For the next 10 years, he worked...
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Rafael Espinal was just 26 when he became an elected official. For the next 10 years, he worked within the halls of government, first as a New York State Assemblymember and then as a New York City Councilmember, advocating for artists, independent workers, and underserved...
Laetitia@Work
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The weather is starting to get better. Listening Gift from the Trees by Mammal Hands I am still really loving the constellation of bands around Mammal Hands. They just released a new album, “Gift from the Trees”, and it’s really excellent. RETURN by tAKX Their guitarist,...
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Friction-free Product Design
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Rest of World -...
Venezuelan migrants relied on clickwork to survive. Now AI is replacing them  Venezuela has long provided the tech industry with cheap, educated workers. But with the rise of...
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Venezuela has long provided the tech industry with cheap, educated workers. But with the rise of generative AI, jobs have become less lucrative and harder to find.
Articles
Stop by for coffee I live in the interior of BC, Canada, surrounded by lakes and mountains. It's not easy getting here....
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I live in the interior of BC, Canada, surrounded by lakes and mountains. It's not easy getting here. If you make the trip, I'll try to meet with you.
Mazdak
OpenAI’s Operator Tool: A Glimpse into the Future of Autonomous AI Agents Imagine an AI tool that doesn’t just assist but takes over tasks like writing code, booking travel,...
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Imagine an AI tool that doesn’t just assist but takes over tasks like writing code, booking travel, or managing your schedule—all autonomously.
Rest of World -...
South Africa’s competition watchdog takes aim at Google The group is pushing Google to do more local business promotion, but experts say this could put the...
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The group is pushing Google to do more local business promotion, but experts say this could put the country’s digital economy at risk.
Londonist
A White Knuckle Guide To High Adrenaline Activities In London Feel the fear and do it anyway.
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37signals Dev
Mission Control — Jobs 1.0 released We’ve just released Mission Control — Jobs v1.0.0, the dashboard and set of extensions to operate...
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We’ve just released Mission Control — Jobs v1.0.0, the dashboard and set of extensions to operate background jobs that we introduced earlier this year. This new version is the result of 92 pull requests, 67 issues and the help of 35 different contributors. It includes many...
Arduino Blog
This robotic tongue drummer bangs out all the ambient hits If you like to listen to those “deep focus” soundtracks that are all ambient and relaxing, then...
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If you like to listen to those “deep focus” soundtracks that are all ambient and relaxing, then you’ve heard a tongue drum in action. A tongue drum, or tank drum, is a unique percussion instrument traditionally made from an empty propane cylinder — though purpose-built models are...
Inverted Passion
Notes from the book “Hooked” I re-read the book Hooked by Nir Eyal and these are my notes. 1/ The key question that the book...
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I re-read the book Hooked by Nir Eyal and these are my notes. 1/ The key question that the book answers is: how to make habit-forming products. And its answer is a model that involves four stages: a) trigger; b) action; c) variable reward; d) investment 2/ Why should products be...
Seth's Blog
When in doubt, look for the fear When someone acts in a surprising way, we can begin to understand by wondering what they might be...
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When someone acts in a surprising way, we can begin to understand by wondering what they might be afraid of.
The Honest Broker
Why Is the Tesla Cybertruck So Depressingly Ugly? It's a bigger problem than just one sinister-looking car
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Fonts In Use – Blog...
Harris/Walz 2024 US Presidential Campaign Contributed by Stephen Coles Source: www.flickr.com Kit Karzen/Harris for President. License:...
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Contributed by Stephen Coles Source: www.flickr.com Kit Karzen/Harris for President. License: All Rights Reserved. The Kamala Harris 2024 campaign identity, designed by Wide Eye Creative, is built around Sans Plomb, a condensed gothic not unlike the Bureau Grot used by...
Saturday Morning...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: 10 points to anyone who gets a paper published containing the term sack-blast. Today's News:
ToughSF
Fusion without Fissiles: Superbombs and Wilderness Orion Fusion technology today relies on expensive, building-sized equipment for ignition, or the help of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Fusion technology today relies on expensive, building-sized equipment for ignition, or the help of an already powerful fission detonation. What if we could do away with both? Fusion power without the need for fissiles, but also small enough to be launched into space. It is...
Seth's Blog
Bitterness is consistent It will never let you down. Bitterness is never-ending, impenetrable and refuses to negotiate. If...
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over a year ago
It will never let you down. Bitterness is never-ending, impenetrable and refuses to negotiate. If you give it a chance, it will persist. It lacks nuance or surprise. It’s simply a wall you can lean against, whenever you choose. Consistency is all it has to offer, actually.
ribbonfarm
Harberger Tax It’s always nice to see trails of thought connect up. An idea I first encountered and really liked...
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a year ago
It’s always nice to see trails of thought connect up. An idea I first encountered and really liked in a 2014 Steve Randy Waldman (interfluidity) post has apparently since acquired a name and a more extended provenance. Waldman’s post, Tax price, not value, presents the idea as a...
Stephen Diehl
A Haskell Implementation Reading List
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The American Scholar
Numbers Game A novelist’s indictment of how we account for our history The post Numbers Game appeared first on...
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A novelist’s indictment of how we account for our history The post Numbers Game appeared first on The American Scholar.
Yale e360
Writing a basic code formatter I've been working on my programming language for a couple of months now, in fits and starts1. In the...
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a year ago
I've been working on my programming language for a couple of months now, in fits and starts1. In the original post, I laid out my plan for it, and after creating the parser the next step was writing a formatter. I thought this would be a nice intermediate step after writing the...
Anecdotal Evidence
'It Is Always Summer, Always the Golden Hour' I fight the urge to wallow in nostalgia but it seeps back in like moisture in an unfinished...
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I fight the urge to wallow in nostalgia but it seeps back in like moisture in an unfinished basement. I take that image from my childhood home. The walls and floor were bare concrete. Stacks of newspaper and lumber felt flesh-like with dampness. Down there it was always chilly,...
Londonist
A Chance To Visit The 'Roman' Bath In Strand Lane One of London's most lied-about attractions.
a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Samsung’s predicament In the past year, Samsung went from being a moderately successful electronics manufacturer to the...
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over a year ago
In the past year, Samsung went from being a moderately successful electronics manufacturer to the leading non-iOS mobile device maker…
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Learning Deep Learning with Keras Don't be afraid of artificial neural networks - it is easy to start! An overview of deep learning...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Don't be afraid of artificial neural networks - it is easy to start! An overview of deep learning with links to didactic materials.
The DESK Magazine
The place where it all started — DESK Edition №253
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Vitalik Buterin's...
The math of when stage 1 and stage 2 make sense
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Arduino Blog
Gustavo Reynaga: Inspiring the next generation of makers with MicroPython If you’re a fan of open-source technology, Gustavo Salvador Reynaga Aguilar is a name to know. An...
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If you’re a fan of open-source technology, Gustavo Salvador Reynaga Aguilar is a name to know. An experienced educator with a passion for technology, Gustavo has spent nearly three decades teaching and inspiring students at CECATI 132 in Mexico. He’s worked with platforms like...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Versioned Docs in 30 Seconds with Amplify Console's Branch Subdomains Amplify Console just got the ability to create a custom subdomain for every new branch. This makes...
over a year ago
Maggie Appleton
The Eponymous Laws of Programming A collection of laws named for specific people in the field of programming
over a year ago
Christopher Butler
Printing Everything and Owning Nothing Something is starting to happen. As of right now, 3D Printer ownership is niche. Many know what it...
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Something is starting to happen. As of right now, 3D Printer ownership is niche. Many know what it is, but very few people have one. This will change rapidly over the next few years. Plenty of contemporary sci-fi have depicted futures where everything is “printed.” The exact...
Rest of World -...
Dangerous mines: A death at the bottom of the EV supply chain In Zimbabwe, the EV rush has brought a surge of Chinese investment into lithium mines. But many...
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In Zimbabwe, the EV rush has brought a surge of Chinese investment into lithium mines. But many locals feel left out — and some have turned to stealing.
Seth's Blog
Pavlonian coincidence There are two kinds of coincidences. The first is the one that we often talk about. It’s the...
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a year ago
There are two kinds of coincidences. The first is the one that we often talk about. It’s the make-believe magic of two things occurring that we didn’t expect to occur. When you and your long-lost college roommate end up randomly sharing adjacent bowling lanes when you’re...
Naz Hamid — Journal...
✏️ Midlife Malaise The past few days have felt heavy. In a weird headspace, floating in the middle of space between a...
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over a year ago
The past few days have felt heavy. In a weird headspace, floating in the middle of space between a destination or goal, or rather, a state I aspire to, but seeing a road ahead of which the length is unknown. It feels like a lot of things have been taken, removed, or no longer...
Londonist
Punchdrunk: Immersive Doyens Return In 2024 With "Moonlit Fever Dream" Tickets for Viola's Room on sale this week.
a year ago
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Good Enough In general, you move faster and feel a lot less stress once you realize - You don't need "the best",...
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over a year ago
In general, you move faster and feel a lot less stress once you realize - You don't need "the best", you just need "good enough".
Stoic Simple
Successful Stoicism: How Stoics Deal with Success in Life Success is something that most people strive for, but few can handle it well. Ironically, success...
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over a year ago
Success is something that most people strive for, but few can handle it well. Ironically, success often brings with it a whole host of new challenges and pressures. So how can one deal with the ups and downs of success in a healthy and productive way? One answer may lie in the...
Joel Gascoigne
Acting with incomplete information in a startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * As a fledgling...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * As a fledgling entrepreneur in the midst of a growing startup, I try to read quite a lot around the subject. I’ve been deeply involved in startup culture for around two years now and I often find...
Old Vintage...
The unreleased Commodore HHC-4's secret identity Once upon a time (and that time was Winter CES 1983), Commodore announced what was to be their one...
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Once upon a time (and that time was Winter CES 1983), Commodore announced what was to be their one and only handheld computer, the Commodore HHC-4. It was never released and never seen again, at least not in that form. But it turns out that not only did the HHC-4 actually exist,...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Part 2: How To Build Patient Communities | Out-Of-Pocket And my investments in Most Days + Little Otter
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Commoncog
The Amazon Weekly Business Review Everything you need to know about the Amazon Weekly Business Review: how it works, why it works, and...
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Everything you need to know about the Amazon Weekly Business Review: how it works, why it works, and how it helps Amazon win.
A Collection of...
Collections: The Siege of Eregion, Part III: What Catapults? This is the third part of our [I, II, I don’t know, a few more?] part series looking at Rings of...
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This is the third part of our [I, II, I don’t know, a few more?] part series looking at Rings of Power‘s Siege of Eregion from a military history perspective. Last week, we discussed the remarkably bad siege preparation of both sides: Adar’s complete lack of a fortified siege...
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The idea maze The pop culture view of startups is that they’re all about coming up with a great product idea....
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The pop culture view of startups is that they’re all about coming up with a great product idea. After the eureka moment, the outcome is…
TheCollector
What Were the Cities Paul’s Letters Reached? The Apostle Paul, following his conversion to Christianity, became not only a literary champion for...
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The Apostle Paul, following his conversion to Christianity, became not only a literary champion for the defense of the faith, but an evangelist who travelled throughout the Roman Empire establishing and encouraging churches in major cities.  According to Acts and Paul’s writings,...
Flashbak
Riding With Strangers: California Hitchhikers in the 1970s Whenever Doug Biggert (1941-2023) picked up a hitch-hiker in Northern California he took their...
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Whenever Doug Biggert (1941-2023) picked up a hitch-hiker in Northern California he took their picture. To make the  “explanation simpler”, and reassure hitchhikers of his intentions, he kept a binder full of his pictures to show them. What turned into a decades-long project...
Applied Cartography
Incumbency Andrew Rea with an interesting and increasingly familiar take about how AI will disrupt...
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a year ago
Andrew Rea with an interesting and increasingly familiar take about how AI will disrupt software-focused private equity: Distribution and brand moats can protect your legacy products for a while (esp in enterprise) but eventually you get lapped by competitors with better...
Quantum Frontiers
Developing an AI for Quantum Chess: Part 1 In January 2016, Caltech’s Institute for Quantum Information and Matter unveiled a YouTube video...
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In January 2016, Caltech’s Institute for Quantum Information and Matter unveiled a YouTube video featuring an extraordinary chess showdown between actor Paul Rudd (a.k.a. Ant-Man) and the legendary Dr. Stephen Hawking. But this was no ordinary match—Rudd had challenged Hawking …...
Open Culture
The Isolated Bass Grooves of The Grateful Dead’s Phil Lesh (RIP) This past Friday, the bassist of The Grateful Dead, Phil Lesh, passed away at age 84. Almost...
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This past Friday, the bassist of The Grateful Dead, Phil Lesh, passed away at age 84. Almost immediately the tributes poured in, most recognizing that Lesh wasn’t your ordinary bassist. As Jon Pareles wrote in the New York Times, Phil Lesh held songs “aloft.” His “bass lines...
Articles
How to build a Shopify app – Björn’s journey to $300k in profits Björn started a side-business on the Shopify apps platform 6 years ago. Now he’s making $275,000 in...
over a year ago
The Honest Broker
We Need More Jazz Vinyl Cafés And I have a hunch we will get them
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Fonts In Use – Blog...
Neon Genesis Evangelion Contributed by Peiran Tan Source: www.evangelion.co.jp ©カラー/Project Eva....
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Contributed by Peiran Tan Source: www.evangelion.co.jp ©カラー/Project Eva. ©カラー/EVA製作委員会 ©カラー. License: All Rights Reserved. Created and directed by Hideaki Anno, Neon Genesis Evangelion (新世紀エヴァンゲリオン, often abbreviated as NGE or simply EVA) is a Japanese media...
Escaping Flatland
After AI beat them, professional Go players got better and more creative For many decades, it seemed professional Go players had reached a hard limit on how well it is...
a year ago
Londonist
This Glowing Garden Of 25,000 Illuminated Roses Has Returned The Ever After Garden returns.
a year ago
Josh Thompson
Typing for Programmers If you had to distill my ability to bring value to those around me, it would be “Josh types good”. I...
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If you had to distill my ability to bring value to those around me, it would be “Josh types good”. I can press these magical little keys on this little metal box here, and make these words come out. If you’re reading these words, you don’t care how these words actually got on...
xkcd.com
Routine Maintenance
a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
My Guest Appearance on ShopTalk Show #605 Here’s the link: https://shoptalkshow.com/605/ I sat down (again) with Chris and Dave to talk all...
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a year ago
Here’s the link: https://shoptalkshow.com/605/ I sat down (again) with Chris and Dave to talk all things web. The conversation was fun and casual, mostly around topics I’ve written about recently — which is good, since those are topics I should (presumably) be able to speak on at...
The Marginalian
The Proper Object of Love: Iris Murdoch on the Angst of Not Knowing Ourselves and Each Other One of the hardest things to learn in life is that the heart is a clock too fast not to break. We...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
One of the hardest things to learn in life is that the heart is a clock too fast not to break. We lurch into loving, only to discover again and again that it takes a long time to know people, to understand people — and “understanding is love’s other name.” Even without...
Calculated Risk
February Employment Preview On Friday at 8:30 AM ET, the BLS will release the employment report for February. The consensus is...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
On Friday at 8:30 AM ET, the BLS will release the employment report for February. The consensus is for 158,000 jobs added, and for the unemployment rate to be unchanged at 4.0%. We estimate nonfarm payrolls rose by 170k in February, slightly above consensus of +160k but below...