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Liz Denys
To the pretty pitter, pitter, patter I've been told that most people don't like walking through the rain and that others theoretically...
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I've been told that most people don't like walking through the rain and that others theoretically enjoy the process but don't walk in the rain because they dislike arriving at their destinations wet. However, unless I have something of a very pressing importance at the other end...
alexwlchan
Hyperfocus and hobbies → One of the last things I did at Wellcome Collection was writing a story about hyperfocus and how it...
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a year ago
One of the last things I did at Wellcome Collection was writing a story about hyperfocus and how it affects my cross-stitch. I’m really proud of this one, and I hope you’ll consider reading. Writing for Stories was one of my “bucket list” items while working at Wellcome, and I...
Maps Mania
The Real-Time 15 City Map
a month ago
Louwrentius
How to run victron veconfigure on a mac Introduction Victron Multiplus-II inverter/charges are configured with the veconfigure1 tool....
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Introduction Victron Multiplus-II inverter/charges are configured with the veconfigure1 tool. Unforntunately this is a Windows-only tool, but there is still a way for Apple users to run this tool without any problems. Tip: if you've never worked with the Terminal app on MacOS, it...
One Useful Thing
Scaling: The State of Play in AI A brief intergenerational pause...
10 months ago
Herbert Lui
A useful rule for relationships My friend James recently shared a simple, useful, perspective, “Assume that if you’re not the person...
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6 months ago
My friend James recently shared a simple, useful, perspective, “Assume that if you’re not the person reaching out to keep the relationship alive, it’ll die.” Useful for a variety of reasons: It puts you in the driver’s seat of your relationship. Don’t wait for a text from your...
Jonas Hietala
The killer features of the Steam Deck In the beginning of the year I gave myself a late Christmas gift and bought a Steam Deck for...
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a year ago
In the beginning of the year I gave myself a late Christmas gift and bought a Steam Deck for myself. There were two main reasons I decided to buy it: burnout and depression by picking up gaming again. And boy did it deliver. The Deck is probably the most impressive thing I can...
A Beautiful Site
Rebuilding your Spotlight index in macOS I use Spotlight more than I like to admit, usually for launching apps. Recently, some of my apps and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I use Spotlight more than I like to admit, usually for launching apps. Recently, some of my apps and files stopped appearing — even ones I access frequently. After sifting through numerous posts online, I finally discovered one that seems to work. Running this command in the...
The American Scholar
Esteban Cabeza de Baca History witnessed, from the picket lines The post Esteban Cabeza de Baca appeared first on The...
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History witnessed, from the picket lines The post Esteban Cabeza de Baca appeared first on The American Scholar.
Both Are True
if you drink enough coffee you start peeing coffee this piece has nothing to do with coffee!!
5 months ago
The Marginalian
How the Octopus Came to Earth: Stunning 19th-Century French Chromolithographs of Cephalopods The art-science that captured the wonder of some of "the most brilliant productions of Nature."
over a year ago
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Ideas for replit bounties Apparently replit asks all Pro users about their thoughts. As it happens, I have a lot of thoughts...
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Apparently replit asks all Pro users about their thoughts. As it happens, I have a lot of thoughts about how to improve Replit bounties. Lower transaction costs Currently the process is: I post a bounty one or more people apply I select an applicant they do the work I...
Epic Web Dev
React Server Components: An Optimistic Future (article) React Server Components are going to improve the way we build web applications in a huge way... Once...
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a year ago
React Server Components are going to improve the way we build web applications in a huge way... Once we nail the abstractions...
Articles
No marketing unicorns
over a year ago
A Collection of...
Gap Week (January 24, 2025) Hey, folks. As much as I hate doing it, I have to pull a ‘gap week’ this week, as the second part of...
5 months ago
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Hey, folks. As much as I hate doing it, I have to pull a ‘gap week’ this week, as the second part of the Gracchi series (on the younger brother, Gaius Gracchus) isn’t done yet and I have some academic travel that I need to prepare for which is going to demand most of my …...
Retail Design Blog
Lucky Cookies Bakery by Studio NOR The Lucky Cookies is a bakery specializes in traditional Chinese pastries. Located on the first...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
The Lucky Cookies is a bakery specializes in traditional Chinese pastries. Located on the first floor of the famous Beijing...
Old Structures...
Embracing office-to-residential conversion in the ‘City of Yes’ A timely ‘Yes’ to converting older buildings is set to further fuel Manhattan’s current...
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A timely ‘Yes’ to converting older buildings is set to further fuel Manhattan’s current office-to-residential boom. New York City Council recently passed Mayor Adams’ ‘City of Yes’ proposal to create over 80,000 new housing units across the city over 15 years. Among the historic...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Books Which Can Be Read Again and Again' “The great bulk of the world’s prose fiction, contemporary and past, does not wear well. Almost all...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
“The great bulk of the world’s prose fiction, contemporary and past, does not wear well. Almost all of it is soon forgotten and of those books which survive the wear of time, only a few withstand the effects of time on the reader himself. Out of all the novels ever written there...
Londonist
9 Things To Do In London To Brighten Up The Dark Nights It's not all doom and gloom.
a year ago
Explorations of an...
A Quest Nature Tour To Borneo: Tabin Wildlife Reserve And Danum Valley We left the Kinabatangan River behind and transferred to our next destination, the Tabin Wildlife...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
We left the Kinabatangan River behind and transferred to our next destination, the Tabin Wildlife Reserve. This is the largest swath of protected forest; an area of lowland primary and logged forest that is home to iconic species like the Bornean Pygmy Elephant, the Sun Bear and...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Cosmology Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I think we could increase the number of stem phds...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I think we could increase the number of stem phds just by changing the title from Doctor to Ultimate Grandmaster. Today's News:
The Rational Walk
The Digest #219 Roth IRA Conversions, Net-Nets, Margin of Safety, SpaceX's Triumph, The Dystopia of Smartphones, Sam...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Roth IRA Conversions, Net-Nets, Margin of Safety, SpaceX's Triumph, The Dystopia of Smartphones, Sam Zell, UK Bargains, Gregorys Coffee, Free Speech Under Assault, Dopamine and Addiction
Londonist
The Next London Borough Of Culture Will Be Wandsworth, Followed By... Next two boroughs announced.
a year ago
Avestura's Blog
Oversimplified ideas of the great philosophers of all times Ideas of the great philosophers of all times explained in a few lines
over a year ago
Left To Write
Why? and Why Not? Thoughts on behaviour change, risk, faith and love.
over a year ago
Calculated Risk
Case-Shiller: National House Price Index Up 3.6% year-over-year in October S&P/Case-Shiller released the monthly Home Price Indices for October ("October" is a 3-month average...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
S&P/Case-Shiller released the monthly Home Price Indices for October ("October" is a 3-month average of August, September and October closing prices). S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Index Records 3.6% Annual Gain in October 2024 The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home...
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Why some engineers get trusted with high-impact work It’s fun and rewarding to work on critical tasks. But there’s only so much important work to go...
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It’s fun and rewarding to work on critical tasks. But there’s only so much important work to go around. Worse still, the chances to work on…
Ed Zitron's Where's...
The Apple Vision Pro: A Review I’ve spent a lot of time with the Vision Pro, turning my experience into both the newsletter you’re...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’ve spent a lot of time with the Vision Pro, turning my experience into both the newsletter you’re reading and one of the first two episodes of my upcoming iHeartRadio podcast Better Offline. I wrote the majority of this newsletter on the Vision Pro itself, though
Overcoming Bias
Romantic Decay As Cultural Drift For the last year or so I’ve focused on the idea that our world’s dominant monoculture is slowly...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
For the last year or so I’ve focused on the idea that our world’s dominant monoculture is slowly going maladaptive, due to cultural drift.
The Changelog
Photographic comparison: Is the Kobo Libra Colour display worse than the Kobo Libra 2? I’ve been using E Ink-based ereaders for quite a number of years now. I’ve had my Kobo Libra 2 for a...
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I’ve been using E Ink-based ereaders for quite a number of years now. I’ve had my Kobo Libra 2 for a few years, and was looking forward to the Kobo Libra Colour — the first color E Ink display in a mainstream ereader line. I found the display to be a mixed bag; contrast seemed …...
Blog of Simple...
What is PHI under HIPAA?
over a year ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Mantra Gajatri po polsku Mantra Gajatri tłumaczona na polski w poetyce "Ciebie Boga Wysławiamy" - przez GPT 4.5.
4 months ago
Handprinted - Blog
Screen Printing with Speedball Night Glo onto Fabric As Halloween fast approaches, it’s time to get those costumes ready. We think it’s a perfect...
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over a year ago
As Halloween fast approaches, it’s time to get those costumes ready. We think it’s a perfect opportunity to try out Speedball Night Glo Fabric Screen Printing Ink! Print glow in the dark Halloween messages, pictures, or even your kids’ spooky drawings onto their own...
UX Collective
What’s next on Figma’s mind? Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
9 months ago
Fonts In Use – Blog...
Fairway Market logos Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: nypost.com Christopher Sadowski. License: All Rights...
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Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: nypost.com Christopher Sadowski. License: All Rights Reserved. Dom Bold and Agenda. Fairway Market is a chain of grocery stores in the New York metropolitan area. From Wikipedia: Founded in 1933, it expanded in the New York area...
Luxagraf:...
The End of the Road For a long time I had the idea that one day I would write a book about this trip and call it The End...
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8 months ago
For a long time I had the idea that one day I would write a book about this trip and call it The End of the Road. It was an incomplete idea, but it seems to me we are, culturally, at the end of a metaphor when it comes to The Road. I had the idea that you could trace a thread...
Both Are True
The ONE Amazon Prime "Big Deal Days" (tf?) Deal they DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT Read this asap before Bezos & Co delete it !!! Surely I'm in jail by now, please spread the word!!!
9 months ago
CONTEMPORIST
A New Extension Adds A Home Office And Bedroom To This Miami Bungalow Upstairs Studio Architecture has shared photos of a 900 sqft addition in South Miami, Florida, for...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Upstairs Studio Architecture has shared photos of a 900 sqft addition in South Miami, Florida, for owners who were looking for a little extra room in their traditional home, that was open to the outdoors, and allowed for a private primary bedroom and studio apart from the main...
Yale E360
Warming Linked to Rising Cancer Rates Among Women in the Middle East New research finds a link between increasingly extreme heat in the Middle East and rising rates of...
a month ago
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a month ago
New research finds a link between increasingly extreme heat in the Middle East and rising rates of cancer in women. Read more on E360 →
Archinect - Features
Narrative, Media, and AI in Architectural Academia; A Conversation with Natasha... Archinect last spoke with Natasha Sandmeier on the themes of visual media and narrative storytelling...
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Archinect last spoke with Natasha Sandmeier on the themes of visual media and narrative storytelling in 2019. Back then, few could have imagined the seismic impact that generative AI would have on such fields. In her leading role at UCLA AUD's Entertainment Studio, Sandmeier sits...
Ruud van Asseldonk
The yaml document from hell
over a year ago
nanoscale views
March Meeting 2025, Day 3 Another busy day at the APS Global Physics Summit.  Here are a few highlights: Shahal Ilani of the...
4 months ago
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Another busy day at the APS Global Physics Summit.  Here are a few highlights: Shahal Ilani of the Weizmann gave an absolutely fantastic talk about his group's latest results from their quantum twisting microscope.  In a scanning tunneling microscope, because tunneling happens...
Yale E360
Paper review: Concurrency Control Performance Modeling Another week, another paper! This week for our Red Book reading group, I read "Concurrency Control...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Another week, another paper! This week for our Red Book reading group, I read "Concurrency Control Performance Modeling" by Rakesh Agrawal, Michael J. Carey, and Miron Livny. It was 46 pages, and I had a little trouble finding the whole paper—many of the Google Scholar links had...
Seth's Blog
“Can’t complain” (but it might be worth considering) Complaining is a cultural phenomenon, but it’s particularly prevalent in societies with a consumer...
5 months ago
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Complaining is a cultural phenomenon, but it’s particularly prevalent in societies with a consumer culture (the customer is always right) and those where comfort is coming to be expected. Given all the complaining we do (about the weather, leadership, products, service and...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Yesss Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Mmmm, fully frontal prudity. Today's News:
8 months ago
Open Culture
60 Free Film Noir Movies You Can Watch Online, Including Classics by John Huston, Orson Welles &... During the 1940s and 50s, Hollywood entered a “noir” period, producing riveting films based on...
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During the 1940s and 50s, Hollywood entered a “noir” period, producing riveting films based on hard-boiled fiction. These films were set in dark locations and shot in a black & white aesthetic that fit like a glove. Hardened men wore fedoras and forever smoked cigarettes. Women...
Grow With Less
How to Overcome Information Overload and Make Real Progress with Your Business Being a solopreneur is exhausting. You wake up in the morning, check your emails and find dozens of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Being a solopreneur is exhausting. You wake up in the morning, check your emails and find dozens of new strategies waiting for you. Double your subscribers with this new pop-up! Use this little-known copywriting trick to get 32% more signups! How this simple tool helped me get...
Both Are True
This really is it no time to review this cuz the kids are screaming again lol I hope it doesn't suck
11 months ago
Escaping Flatland
Drift Right now it is April 18 and I am walking along the steep coast at the peninsula on the Northeastern...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Right now it is April 18 and I am walking along the steep coast at the peninsula on the Northeastern corner of our island.
Explorations of an...
A Quest Nature Tour to Colombia's Central Andes I have recently returned from an excellent tour to Colombia that I led for Quest Nature Tours. This...
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3 months ago
I have recently returned from an excellent tour to Colombia that I led for Quest Nature Tours. This was my third time guiding in Colombia, following excellent trips in 2020 and 2022. Those previous tours covered a lot of ground, in the eastern Andes near Bogotá, the Central Andes...
CONTEMPORIST
Reflecting Ponds And Concrete Lily Pads Help Create Tranquility At This Modern Home Kor Architects have shared photos of a home they completed in Indian Wells, California, for their...
a year ago
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a year ago
Kor Architects have shared photos of a home they completed in Indian Wells, California, for their clients who desired a contemporary residence with a thoughtfully designed entrance that seamlessly integrates indoor and outdoor areas. Upon arrival at the home, there’s a carefully...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Special Hell 6, Dymaxion Man Meet Buckminster Fuller, the visionary crackpot who held Earth’s rudder.
over a year ago
The Diff
Longreads + Open Thread Skyscrapers, AI, Congestion Pricing, The Odyssey, History, Markets, Accounting, Loneliness, Slavery
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Skyscrapers, AI, Congestion Pricing, The Odyssey, History, Markets, Accounting, Loneliness, Slavery
Hundred Rabbits
an island to oneself Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Traveling to New Zealand, after a year of unknown, was a great comfort to us. There are a few things Devine and I were really looking forward to, like a good latte, craft beer, a fresh food market and a bulk food store. I found a city that checked all of the boxes. Many of the...
The Honest Broker
Give Me Your Best Suggestions for Movies and TV Shows It's open mic day at The Honest Broker
over a year ago
Ralph Ammer
Immanuel Kant—What can we know? If you are interested in truth, be it in the form of scientific knowledge or artistic beauty, there...
a year ago
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a year ago
If you are interested in truth, be it in the form of scientific knowledge or artistic beauty, there is no way around Immanuel Kant’s ‘Critique of Pure Reason’. In this book Kant asked the simple question: “What can we know?“ And his answer is foundational to how we experience and...
TheCollector
Early Hellenistic Mosaics Unearthed in Ancient City of Teos Archaeologists uncovered a pair of mosaics that once decorated the city council building of Teos, an...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Archaeologists uncovered a pair of mosaics that once decorated the city council building of Teos, an ancient Greek city whose ruins now rest on the western coast of Türkiye.   Teos: From Ancient Greece to Modern-Day Türkiye   Teos was an ancient Greek city on the coast of Ionia,...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Scrollbar Shenanigans Styling scrollbars for my space on the Internet
over a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Hold Up Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: From this angle you can't see the Habsburg...
10 months ago
TheCollector
5 Māori Leaders Who Shaped Aotearoa’s/New Zealand’s History The opposition between the Māori, the original inhabitants of Aotearoa/New Zealand, and the Pākehā,...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
The opposition between the Māori, the original inhabitants of Aotearoa/New Zealand, and the Pākehā, the European newcomers, has been central to New Zealand’s recent history. Some Māori chiefs were open to dialogue with the Europeans and even fought alongside them. However,...
SubAnima
Could There Be Laws Of Biology? Physics has such nice equations and universal laws. Could we ever expect to find similar principles...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Physics has such nice equations and universal laws. Could we ever expect to find similar principles or axioms for biology?
Anecdotal Evidence
'It Brought Us This Far' Self-knowledge is fine but some things are best left unexamined. “Why do you read so many books?” a...
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a month ago
Self-knowledge is fine but some things are best left unexamined. “Why do you read so many books?” a reader asks. His assumption, never directly articulated, is that reading is compensation for the absence of something far more important. I suppose people have been facing...
The DESK Magazine
Your apps are not free I often see people complaining about paying for their online apps. They point to another app that's...
a year ago
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a year ago
I often see people complaining about paying for their online apps. They point to another app that's free and wonder why they should have to pay for any app at all.
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Advanced Promise Coordination: Rate Limiting In the previous post we learnt to serialize and concurrecy-limit promise-based operations in js....
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over a year ago
In the previous post we learnt to serialize and concurrecy-limit promise-based operations in js. This time we dive further and handle rate limiting. What Exactly to Rate Limit Let's get terminological matters out of the way first. Promises represent operations that last a certain...
Joel Gascoigne
The Anti-Todo List * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * For some time,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * For some time, I’ve gradually realised that my day is not only occupied by tasks from my todo list. Often, there are lots of other tasks which deserve time in my day just as much as those I have
The Honest Broker
"I Told Three Big Lies That Changed My Life" A story from the comments section
a year ago
Yale E360
How Cryptology Can Fix Identity Theft Identity theft is a huge problem, costing Americans more than $4.5 billion in 2012. Identity theft...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Identity theft is a huge problem, costing Americans more than $4.5 billion in 2012. Identity theft victims frequently lose time and money and undergo significant mental hardships while dealing with the fallout. It can happen a few different ways, but one large attack vector is...
Luxagraf:...
Greenfield Village It's always seems slightly perverse to me to head east in a country that once lived by the slogan,...
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It's always seems slightly perverse to me to head east in a country that once lived by the slogan, go west. Whatever the case, we're eastbound again and when planning our route we ran across something called Greenfield Village. Greenfield Village is difficult to describe, but...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Your Bit Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: An interesting future question is whether...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: An interesting future question is whether artificial wombs will displace stork-work or lead to increased prosperity. Today's News:
Louwrentius
Why I bought a digital projector (Panasonic PT-AT5000E) I don't have a TV. I haven't been watching TV for more than 10 years. But I love to watch movies or...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I don't have a TV. I haven't been watching TV for more than 10 years. But I love to watch movies or great series like Dexter and Game of Thrones. Until recently, I watched movies or series on my 27" iMac. Twenty-seven inch is large for a computer screen but for a TV, it's quite...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Found Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This theory actually makes sense of all holiday...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This theory actually makes sense of all holiday creatures that manage to visit every house. Today's News:
Uncharted...
What’s at Stake in Germany’s Elections The future of Ukraine, of Europe, freedom of speech, and Germany’s economy
4 months ago
Wrong Side of...
Twitter's White Terror era The Vibe Shift comes to Britain
6 months ago
Nat Eliason's...
Permission to Slow Down In... Out...
over a year ago
Musings on Markets
Data Update 6 for 2025: From Macro to Micro - The Hurdle Rate Question! In the first five posts, I have looked at the macro numbers that drive global markets, from interest...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
In the first five posts, I have looked at the macro numbers that drive global markets, from interest rates to risk premiums, but it is not my preferred habitat. I spend most of my time in the far less rarefied air of corporate finance and valuation, where businesses try to decide...
Home on Erik...
Tumblr's awesome project names Not sure how I managed to miss this, but I'm watching this Tumblr presentation and they talk about...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Not sure how I managed to miss this, but I'm watching this Tumblr presentation and they talk about their projects named after Arrested Development topics: Gob, Parmesan, Buster, Jetpants, Oscar, George and Motherboy. Still, the best software project name is probably still Apple's...
Common Edge
Lessons From Katrina for Citizen Planners in L.A., Asheville, and Florida Planning’s “me-centered” ethos needs to become a “we-centered” approach.
3 months ago
Elad Blog
Hiring Executives & Bad Advice When your company hits strong product market fit, your company will be sucked into a vortex of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When your company hits strong product market fit, your company will be sucked into a vortex of customer demand and experience a Cambrian explosion of internal org complexity simultaneously. Things will initially seem to just truck along as usual, and then suddenly everything at...
The Rational Walk
The Iliad Homer's epic poem has much to teach us about human nature if we first take the time to gain an...
a year ago
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Homer's epic poem has much to teach us about human nature if we first take the time to gain an understanding of Greek mythology.
A Beautiful Site
SVG has a logo HTML5 was the first to get an official logo. Web designers rejoiced, some even hacking together...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
HTML5 was the first to get an official logo. Web designers rejoiced, some even hacking together matching logos for CSS. But did you know that SVG also has an official logo, and it's—flowery? The W3C describes it as: The flower-like structure of the SVG logo evokes creativity and...
The American Scholar
The Source The post The Source appeared first on The American Scholar.
10 months ago
Rest of World -...
There is no American Ambani A tale of two tech industries.
a year ago
Archinect - Features
'AI Is a Dangerous Distraction From the Pressing Issues Defining Our Generation'; A... Liam Young was once described by the BBC as “the man designing our future.” In 2023, with open...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Liam Young was once described by the BBC as “the man designing our future.” In 2023, with open letters penned on the risks of extinction posed by artificial intelligence, such a role should be in high demand. Young’s speculations on the future take the form of fictional stories...
Steve Klabnik
Against Names
11 months ago
David Heinemeier...
We need a Right To Compute The App Store dispute can be boiled down to one big question: Is the iPhone a computer or not? If...
a year ago
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The App Store dispute can be boiled down to one big question: Is the iPhone a computer or not? If it’s a computer, we ought to have the right to compute. Like consumers have won the right to repair. If it’s a computer, it ought to be yours, and you ought to have the right to...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Searching for The Solo Founder Cadence I've been quite inspired by David Sacks' The Cadence ever since I read it. It prescribes an...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've been quite inspired by David Sacks' The Cadence ever since I read it. It prescribes an operational process and ideal team structure for a 50-500 person startup - running sales, finance, product, and marketing in sync in quarterly cycles with effective communication between...
brr
South Pole Water Infrastructure Fresh water from snow, at 70 below!
a year ago
Posts on Nikita...
I'm writing a book! Over the course of my career, I introduced a couple of engineers into the topic of query engines....
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
Over the course of my career, I introduced a couple of engineers into the topic of query engines. Every time, I bumped into the same problem: query engines are extremely academic. Despite the fact that industry has over 40 years of expertise, reading foundational papers and then...
Noahpinion
Some ideas for science fiction in the 2020s The future ain't what it used to be.
over a year ago
TheCollector
Get to Know John Singer Sargent Through 10 Edwardian Portraits Renowned for his portrait paintings, John Singer Sargent was one of the most remarkable artists of...
a month ago
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Renowned for his portrait paintings, John Singer Sargent was one of the most remarkable artists of the Edwardian era. He combined influences and left careful references, including those to the works of Bruegel, Velazquez, and van Dyck. He also loved a good provocation, sometimes...
Dominik Sobe's...
Five videos that shaped my life so far
over a year ago
Calculated Risk
LA Ports: February Inbound Traffic Up YoY, Outbound Down Container traffic gives us an idea about the volume of goods being exported and imported - and...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Container traffic gives us an idea about the volume of goods being exported and imported - and usually some hints about the trade report since LA area ports handle about 40% of the nation's container port traffic. Los Angeles and Long Beach in TEUs (TEUs: 20-foot equivalent units...
xkcd.com
Sphere Tastiness
a year ago
Abishek Muthian
I was told, I would become quadriplegic Tingling on the side of the face during tasks involving intense cognition was my first...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Tingling on the side of the face during tasks involving intense cognition was my first symptom. Nature of my job involves regular problem solving of various degree, on certain occasions there was a halting tingling sensation on the right side of my face to the end of lower...
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp
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Ease of communication will not save us The post All Talk appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Technology you don’t have to think about “Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without...
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“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.” – Alfred North Whitehead Effective technology takes our most time-consuming tasks and moves them into the background so we can focus on other important...
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Four Decades in a House of Your Own Design Reflections on the project that launched a career.
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An Easy-Sounding Problem Yields Numbers Too Big for Our Universe Researchers prove that navigating certain systems of vectors is among the most complex computational...
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Researchers prove that navigating certain systems of vectors is among the most complex computational problems. The post An Easy-Sounding Problem Yields Numbers Too Big for Our Universe first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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On whining It’s not just for little kids, and it might not be a bug in our culture. Whining might be a feature,...
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It’s not just for little kids, and it might not be a bug in our culture. Whining might be a feature, something that all humans have a desire to do, regardless of our age or position. Let’s define whining as a complaint about a situation that’s not easily addressed, often a...
Good Enough
Fixing Things In 2009 I started doing something called "business travel." I bought a piece of dependable luggage:...
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In 2009 I started doing something called "business travel." I bought a piece of dependable luggage: the Travelpro WalkAbout Lite 2 22" Rollaboard Suiter. The reality was that this wasn't proper business travel. First, it'd only be two or three round-trip flights a year. Second,...
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Schools Should Be Using Open Source Software Schools Should Be Using Open Source Software 2022-05-30 I firmly believe that proprietary software...
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Schools Should Be Using Open Source Software 2022-05-30 I firmly believe that proprietary software has no business in any school environment. Educational institutions lean heavily on Windows systems in the name of "security" or "easier platform management". This approach forces...
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Search and the social graph Google has created a multibillion-dollar economy based on keywords.  We use keywords to find things...
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Google has created a multibillion-dollar economy based on keywords.  We use keywords to find things and advertisers use keywords to find…
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Mitten Accomplished I got a unique opportunity to visit counties in a corner of the Midwest I hadn’t touched much when...
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I got a unique opportunity to visit counties in a corner of the Midwest I hadn’t touched much when my older kid decided to go to college in Michigan. But it didn’t offer a lot of time for my quest, just a four year window before graduation. Even so, I set what I thought was...
The American Scholar
Part of the Parade The post Part of the Parade appeared first on The American Scholar.
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The Honest Broker
8 Pieces of Advice for Struggling Young Musicians (or Other Creative People) They keep reaching out to me with the same sad story—and here's what I say
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Vadim Kravcenko
⛓ Implementing Atomic Habits in IT So I read this book called “Atomic Habits” a few weeks ago, where the core concept is about minor 1%...
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So I read this book called “Atomic Habits” a few weeks ago, where the core concept is about minor 1% […] The post ⛓ Implementing Atomic Habits in IT appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Londonist
'Stand Against Suella' Protest Takes Place In Central London On Sunday LGBTQ groups rally against dehumanising rhetoric.
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[Renovated] Logic programming in C++ When you write in C++ you actually write in two languages at once. First is C++, and the second one...
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When you write in C++ you actually write in two languages at once. First is C++, and the second one is the invisible Prolog. If written properly, the second program is helpful. However, if being neglected, it turns your code into an untangleable mess of incomprehencibles...
Patrick Kayongo
The Fruitfulness of Grunt Work I had an interesting software development problem the other day. I was working on a NodeJS...
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I had an interesting software development problem the other day. I was working on a NodeJS application, doing general maintenance work, which led me down an interesting rabbit hole. I could’ve used an online knowledge tool such as the various LLM-based tools available now. But...
Jonas Hietala
We moved away from the city When me and my girlfriend Veronica moved to Linköping to study at the University the plan was never...
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When me and my girlfriend Veronica moved to Linköping to study at the University the plan was never to stay there permanently. We just moved there to study but the longterm plan, if you can have one at that stage, was always to move back to the north of Sweden where we came...
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Letter with no subject :name-retracted: wrote - Hi Himanshu, Congratulations from the bottom of my heart for joining...
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:name-retracted: wrote - Hi Himanshu, Congratulations from the bottom of my heart for joining Spotify. We really miss you at college. You're…
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Josh Thompson
On Minimalism I reluctantly call myself a minimalist. I’d prefer to call myself an “enoughalist”. This reluctance...
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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...
AI Snake Oil
The LLaMA is out of the bag. Should we expect a tidal wave of disinformation? The bottleneck isn't the cost of producing disinfo, which is already very low.
over a year ago
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My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee 2023-01-09 I had to replace my dual Keurig coffee maker twice...
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My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee 2023-01-09 I had to replace my dual Keurig coffee maker twice over a period of five months. This occurred a year ago and these are my findings. Built to Fail? I followed the manufactor’s suggested cleaning schedule and took care of the...
Noahpinion
Thoughts on Sinofuturism What does it mean for China to be "the future"? And what does that future look like?
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Scripting is configuration. Configuration is scripting. TJ DeVries A different take on editing code I’ve been using Neovim since it forked from Vim almost 8 years ago, and I used Vim many years before that. I feel quite comfortable with Neovim, and I’ve gone down the...
High Signal
500,000 users per month after quitting his developer job Today's interview is with Ruurtjan, a Dutch founder whose two sites get 500,000 users a month....
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Today's interview is with Ruurtjan, a Dutch founder whose two sites get 500,000 users a month. Ruurtjan quit his job to go all in on his business
Rest of World -...
Jumia Food’s shutdown left hundreds of drivers jobless, unable to withdraw earnings Former gig drivers in Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda are still feeling the pinch after Jumia Food...
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2024-10-12 commercial HF radio According to a traditional system of classification, "high frequency" or HF refers to the radio...
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According to a traditional system of classification, "high frequency" or HF refers to the radio spectrum between 3 and 30 MHz. The label now seems anachronistic, as HF is among the lowest ranges of radio frequencies that see regular use. This setting of the goalposts in the early...
Trying to Understand...
La politique de l’épuisement et l’épuisement de la politique. Another of my essays in French.
7 months ago
TokyoDev
Personal Blog to Profitable Business: the Story of TokyoDev この記事は[日本語でも](https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/tokyodev-story-japanese)お読みいただけます。 TokyoDev...
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この記事は[日本語でも](https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/tokyodev-story-japanese)お読みいただけます。 TokyoDev started out as my personal blog talking about developer life in Japan, but has evolved into a job board that is a thriving business that is my sole source of income. But even more than...
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Fantastic Firework Displays And Buzzing Bonfire Nights Near London Whizzbangs worth leaving London for.
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Laetitia@Work
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TheCollector
Discover Caral-Supe: The Cradle of Civilization in the Americas Cradles of civilization are regions where humans developed complex social systems independently....
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Cradles of civilization are regions where humans developed complex social systems independently. There are six accepted cradles of civilization: Egypt, India, Mesopotamia, China, Olmec, and Caral-Supe. The first societies all formed around agriculture. The Caral-Supe, who emerged...
SatPost by Trung...
An Ode to Skype PLUS: Erewhon's $19 Strawberry, Citi's UX Problem.
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Christopher Butler
Periodical 13 Image ecology and my top 10 science fiction films. Hello from warm vibeland, where we are...
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Image ecology and my top 10 science fiction films. Hello from warm vibeland, where we are enjoying a glass of wine, a great record on the stereo, and skillet-roasting a nicely seasoned chicken surrounded by root vegetables. All is well. I’ve promised to myself to only...
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Mug handles My two-part piece on equivalent experiences is now live on Smashing Magazine. I have complicated...
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My two-part piece on equivalent experiences is now live on Smashing Magazine. I have complicated feelings about it. First off, writing for Smashing Magazine is a great experience, and I encourage you (yes, you) to pitch them. Their team is friendly, knowledgeable, and will help...
Construction Physics
A Cycle of Misery: The Business of Building Commercial Aircraft "There are no historic precedents or current parallels for the magnitude of financial exposure...
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"There are no historic precedents or current parallels for the magnitude of financial exposure risked by an American airframe company" – George Ball, managing director at Lehman Brothers, 1982 "You can't win, you can't break even, and you can't quit" – Jean Pierson, former CEO of...
Maps Mania
Wiki Explore
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Global Inequality...
Nomonhan, 1939 A four-month long war between Great Powers of which you have never heard
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A Collection of...
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,...
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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...
Willem's Blog
Outside the comfort zone: amateur acting This month I strapped myself with sensors during a little experiment outside my comfort zone: I...
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This month I strapped myself with sensors during a little experiment outside my comfort zone: I debuted as amateur actor!
The Oatmeal - Comics...
How my pets see me I created a little animation about how I see my pets versus how they see me. View on my website
over a year ago
SOCKS
Architecture as Described through Sight Lines: Hans Vredeman de Vries’ Perspective, 1604 Hans Vredeman de Vries (1527 – c. 1607) was a Renaissance architect from the Netherlands, best known...
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Hans Vredeman de Vries (1527 – c. 1607) was a Renaissance architect from the Netherlands, best known for his printed works. In 1604, he published his most renowned tome, which offers a rich visual exploration of the possibilities of linear perspective in the depiction of...
Wrong Side of...
The Transition The Great Awokening and the end of the cultural revolution
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Old Structures...
An APT Webinar I’m giving a webinar on February 27 for the Association for Preservation Technology on our analysis...
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I’m giving a webinar on February 27 for the Association for Preservation Technology on our analysis of a somewhat weird building with concrete and masonry structure, and the implications for investigation and analysis of buildings with old concrete structure. More information...
Artificial Ignorance
Hallucinations Are Fine, Actually Why I changed my mind about AI's imperfections
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xkcd.com
Greenland Size
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
The Revolution To Come ***New Event: June 19th @ 11:30am EDT
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General Robots
Single-Use Disposable Applications As search gets worse and “working code” gets cheaper, apps get easier to make from scratch than to...
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Snow White Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I'm just saying, Disney, I am married to a...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I'm just saying, Disney, I am married to a parasitologist and the tick people really want accuracy in the new movie. Call me. Today's News:
Quanta Magazine
A New Agenda for Low-Dimensional Topology This past October, dozens of mathematicians gathered in Pasadena to create the third version of...
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This past October, dozens of mathematicians gathered in Pasadena to create the third version of “Kirby’s list” — a compendium of the most important unsolved problems in the field. The post A New Agenda for Low-Dimensional Topology first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Marcus on AI
Urgent warning: Black Mirror has entered the United States, with AI as its handmaiden AI as a smoke screen to cover for authoritarian actions
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Piotr Migdał's Blog
Naturalność nagości - sesja i wywiad
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A Beautiful Site
Finding the active element in a shadow root You can get the focused element with document.activeElement but, if it's inside a shadow root, this...
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You can get the focused element with document.activeElement but, if it's inside a shadow root, this will be the host element. This happens because of retargeting, but sometimes you might need access to the internal element that actually has focus. Here's a recursive function that...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Base Layers And Functionality Escape Velocity
over a year ago
Jason Fried
Subjectivity in productivity Precision. Certainty. Specificity. Everyone wants to know exactly what and exactly when, and they...
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Precision. Certainty. Specificity. Everyone wants to know exactly what and exactly when, and they want a statistic attached to corroborate it. But numbers are rarely answers — just as projects are rarely math problems. Where are we in this process exactly? How far along in this...
Calculated Risk
NMHC on Apartments: Market conditions Tightened in Q1 pre-Tariffs Today, in the CalculatedRisk Real Estate Newsletter: NMHC on Apartments: Market conditions Tightened...
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Today, in the CalculatedRisk Real Estate Newsletter: NMHC on Apartments: Market conditions Tightened in Q1 pre-Tariffs From the NMHC: Apartment Market Sees Tighter Conditions, Rebounding Deal Flow and Improved Debt Financing in First Quarter Changes in U.S. trade policy over the...
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How we made something people want It's one thing to build something , it's another to build something that people want . This...
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It's one thing to build something , it's another to build something that people want . This principle, and the ones that follow in this post…
The Diff
Longreads + Open Thread Shanghai, Wrong, Returns, Nuclear, Employee Performance, Feedback Loops, Buffett
7 months ago
Adventures In...
Tolkien Style Maps in a GIS: part 1, Forests “Most of the trees are just trees, of course; but many are half awake.” In this 4-part series we’ll...
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“Most of the trees are just trees, of course; but many are half awake.” 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 aesthetic...
Paul Graham: Essays
Startups in 13 Sentences
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The Marginalian
I Touched the Sun: A Tender Illustrated Parable About How to Find and Bear Your Inner Light “One discovers the light in darkness, that is what darkness is for; but everything in our lives...
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“One discovers the light in darkness, that is what darkness is for; but everything in our lives depends on how we bear the light,” James Baldwin wrote in one of his finest, least known essays. In his exquisite memoir of the search for inner light, the blind resistance hero...
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The computing deployment phase Technological revolutions happen in two main phases: the installation phase and the deployment...
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Technological revolutions happen in two main phases: the installation phase and the deployment phase. Here’s a chart (from this excellent…
macwright.com
Don't use marked With all love to the maintainers, who are good people and are to some extent bound by their...
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With all love to the maintainers, who are good people and are to some extent bound by their obligation to maintain compatibility, I just have to put it out there: if you have a new JavaScript/TypeScript project and you need to parse or render Markdown, why are you using...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, June 28, 2024 Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next...
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Fireside this week! My hope in terms of the upcoming schedule is to have my usual July 4th post next week (we’re discussing political philosophy in an election year, so I am sure everyone will be very chill; regardless let me repeat you will be civil) and then after that to dive...
davidyat.es
Review: Bezos
10 months ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
There are two ways to make large datasets useful I’ve spent the majority of my career building technologies that try to do useful things with large...
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I’ve spent the majority of my career building technologies that try to do useful things with large datasets.* One of the most important…
Classical Wisdom
What is TIME? And Dates? The Creation of the Calendar for the New Year
a year ago
Nabeel S. Qureshi
Video Games are the Future of Education The things you learn by yourself stick; the things that are “taught” to you do not stick.
over a year ago
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Introduction to MobX 4 for React/Redux Developers an introduction to mobx 4 for people coming from react and redux
over a year ago
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things: Nerdy economics edition (#54) The DBCFT; Construction productivity and regulation; Rationality and complexity; U.S. productivity...
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The DBCFT; Construction productivity and regulation; Rationality and complexity; U.S. productivity growth; Demand-side inflation; Health care monopsony and innovation
Uncharted...
Ten New US Cities: Satellite Cities How to build new cities near existing ones
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Tony Dinh's...
Why I run Black Friday deals (things I learned) I also curated 300+ Black Friday deals for you
a year ago
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Fooling the Focus Groups Why car companies view their brands as a liability and what they are doing about it. Spoiler, It's...
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Why car companies view their brands as a liability and what they are doing about it. Spoiler, It's a Chevy.
Old Structures...
Residential Conversion and a Mirror Office-to-residential conversion is a hot topic lately, the result of a tight housing market and the...
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a year ago
Office-to-residential conversion is a hot topic lately, the result of a tight housing market and the remote-work depression in commercial office space. The following is, at best, anecdata but gives a minor sense of that process for older buildings. I recently stayed in the Rand...
Seth's Blog
Personal process notation “I’ll remember it later.” I’ll confess, I rarely do. It turns out, it’s easier to remember questions...
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“I’ll remember it later.” I’ll confess, I rarely do. It turns out, it’s easier to remember questions than answers. And tools like Google Docs and photos in the cloud give us a chance to build our own personal search engine. It takes 14 steps to construct the pages in one of my...
Classical Wisdom
What’s in a name? Is Re-labeling a distraction or disruption?
5 months ago
The New Oil
The Invisible Way You Can Be Tracked Online
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TheCollector
What Is the History of Maritime Trade in the Indian Ocean? (Pre-European) To understand the history of the Indian Ocean trade, it is important to firstly understand its...
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To understand the history of the Indian Ocean trade, it is important to firstly understand its location and geographical coverage. The Indian Ocean derives its name from India. The water body got its name from early European explorers who named it so due to its close proximity to...
Ink & Switch
07 · AI bots in version control Co-creating with AI can use version control to make bot-suggested changes easier to see and manage.
a year ago
AI Snake Oil
A safe harbor for AI evaluation and red teaming An argument for legal and technical safe harbors for AI safety and trustworthiness research
a year ago
Yale E360
Estimates are about time, so let's cut to the chase As software engineers, we routinely estimate our work. Our most common brush with estimates is when...
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As software engineers, we routinely estimate our work. Our most common brush with estimates is when we estimate individual tasks within a sprint. Usually, we do that with abstract points, and that's the wrong way about it. We should be cutting to the chase and estimating directly...
alexwlchan
Agile and iterative project management Earlier today, I gave a talk for the the Open Life Science Program about agile and iterative project...
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Earlier today, I gave a talk for the the Open Life Science Program about agile and iterative project management. I was talking about how READMEs serve as the first point of contact for a project; how they get new users interested in and excited about the project. The cohort calls...
lcamtuf’s thing
The marvelous disappearing capacitor The performance of photodiode amplifiers can be improved in a clever way.
7 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Let's Hear It For The "Underlying Causes." Here's the answer. What was the question again?
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Commoncog
How to Become Data Driven The answer, like most things from Statistical Process Control, is more surprising and more obvious...
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The answer, like most things from Statistical Process Control, is more surprising and more obvious than you might think.
Acko.net
Frickin' Shaders With Frickin' Laser Beams Hassle free GLSL I've been working on a new library to compose GLSL shaders. This is part of a side...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Hassle free GLSL I've been working on a new library to compose GLSL shaders. This is part of a side project to come up with a composable and incremental way of driving WebGPU and GPUs in general. #pragma import { getColor } from 'path/to/color' void main() { gl_FragColor =...
Contemporist...
Exterior Lighting Illuminates The Landscaping Around This Modern House In Los Angeles Paul McClean Of McClean Design has completed a new home in Los Angeles, California, whose design is...
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Paul McClean Of McClean Design has completed a new home in Los Angeles, California, whose design is showcased with the inclusion of exterior lighting.
TheCollector
Mummified Cats: Companion Cats and Feline Worship in Ancient Egypt While it is common to see cats in modern households, cats are among the most recently domesticated...
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While it is common to see cats in modern households, cats are among the most recently domesticated animals. Archaeological evidence indicates their presence among human communities from approximately 9,000 years ago, far more recent than dogs, nearly 30,000 years ago, or even...
Cremieux Recueil
Sometimes Papers Contain Obvious Lies What you read in an abstract, a title, or even in the body of a paper might be the opposite of what...
4 months ago
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What you read in an abstract, a title, or even in the body of a paper might be the opposite of what papers actually show, and sometimes result are just made up
Confessions of a...
All Set! Looking Under the Hood of Python's Set Data Structure Learn everything about hash tables, collision handling, and performance optimization
a year ago
./techtipsy
How to copy media off of an iPhone the hard way (using Linux) I helped a family member upgrade to a newer iPhone and make some room so that the internal storage...
10 months ago
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I helped a family member upgrade to a newer iPhone and make some room so that the internal storage does not run out. They had Nextcloud installed on the current phone, but due to limitations of the Nextcloud iOS app, the backups only take place if the app itself is open, meaning...
The Marginalian
Don’t Waste Your Greening Life-Force: Hildegard’s Prophetic Enchanted Ecology The year is 1174. Gravity, oxygen, and electricity have not been discovered. Clocks, calculus, and...
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The year is 1174. Gravity, oxygen, and electricity have not been discovered. Clocks, calculus, and the printing press have not been invented. Earth is the center of the universe, encircled by heavenly bodies whose motions are ministered by angels. Most people never live past...
Making software...
My Static Blog Publishing Setup and an Apology to RSS Subscribers My Static Blog Publishing Setup and an Apology to RSS Subscribers 2022-03-21 In case you missed it,...
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My Static Blog Publishing Setup and an Apology to RSS Subscribers 2022-03-21 In case you missed it, this website is now generated with pure HTML & CSS. Although, generated isn't the proper way to describe it anymore. Written is a better description. No more Markdown files. No...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Support my open-source work and blog posts
over a year ago
Making software...
Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox 2017-10-10 Earlier last week the design team at Dropbox unveiled...
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Unsolicited Design Review - Dropbox 2017-10-10 Earlier last week the design team at Dropbox unveiled their new branding / design system for the company as a whole. If you haven't seen the updated design yet, you can do so here: dropbox.design (Take your time, I can wait). I...
anderegg.ca
Skylight and the AT Protocol Since my last piece about Bluesky, I’ve been using the service a lot more. Just about everyone I...
3 months ago
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Since my last piece about Bluesky, I’ve been using the service a lot more. Just about everyone I followed on other services is there now, and it’s way more fun than late-stage Twitter ever was. Halifax is particularly into Bluesky, which reminds me of our local scene during the...
The Honest Broker
The 30 Most Intriguing Musicians of 2025 (Part 1 of 3) Join my on a voyage of music discovery
4 months ago
The American Scholar
Hometown Heroes What if the goal is not to make it out of the neighborhood? The post Hometown Heroes appeared first...
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What if the goal is not to make it out of the neighborhood? The post Hometown Heroes appeared first on The American Scholar.
Isabel Unraveled
just show up stop postponing the act
5 months ago
Molson Hart's Blog -...
Clarifying the Costs of Selling on Various Marketplaces In my piece on e-commerce in 2020, I made a mistake. I wrote "In 2013, Amazon’s expenses as a...
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over a year ago
In my piece on e-commerce in 2020, I made a mistake. I wrote "In 2013, Amazon’s expenses as a percent of Amazon sales were 33.16%. In 2018, they were 49.70%. In 2020, they were 51.75%." I made a mistake in equating two different calculations. The first calculation is what Amazon...
Marcus on AI
CONFIRMED: LLMs have indeed reached a point of diminishing returns Science, sociology, and the likely financial collapse of the Generative AI bubble
8 months ago
Open Culture
How Frank Lloyd Wright’s Architecture Evolved Over 70 Years and Changed America In the new Architectural Digest video above, Michael Wyetzner talks about a fair few buildings we’ve...
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In the new Architectural Digest video above, Michael Wyetzner talks about a fair few buildings we’ve featured over the years here on Open Culture: the Imperial Hotel, the Ennis House, Taliesin, Fallingwater. These are all, of course, the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, who still...
Mind Prison: Notes...
Dead Internet At Scale Notes From the Desk: No. 39 - 2025.02.25
4 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'A New Past' Robert Conquest writing thirty-one years ago:  “Literature is the expression of our whole past, of...
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Robert Conquest writing thirty-one years ago:  “Literature is the expression of our whole past, of our whole context in life and time – and not only ours. Anatole France said that the word pleurer (to cry, to weep) in French is different from the same sort of word in every other...
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In 2001, a team of engineers at a then-obscure R&D company called AC Propulsion quietly began a groundbreaking experiment. They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. The experiment seemed to prove the feasibility of the technology. The...
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Tucked into a wild and untouched corner of Costa Rica, the Rio Perdido West Bungalows offer an unforgettable stay, floating above lush forest floors and facing dramatic canyon views. This is where design meets nature, and where guests sleep just steps from the treetops, suspended...
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Accessing personal information from customers is a serious matter. With the launch of HEY in 2020, we developed some technology and processes to support a very simple principle: employees shouldn’t have access — intentionally or unintentionally — to personal information from our...
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From planetary.org: On July 29, 2011, Cassini captured five of Saturn’s moons in a single frame with its narrow-angle camera: Janus, Pandora, Enceladus, Rhea, and Mimas. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute. This is a full-color look at a view that was originally published in...
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I apologize for my extended absence! I once again find myself with lots of drafts that I’d love to publish, but haven’t found the words to complete any of them to my satisfaction. I thought I’d take the time to publish something that is maybe a bit rambly and less focused than...
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Freelancers looking to build a career have two good options: The lousy options are to insist that you don’t use AI, but to be slower, more expensive and not as good as the AI option. Or to do tasks that an AI assigns you. Hiring an AI to work for you and getting very good […]
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I was in Taipei the past few weeks working on a documentary with friends. Because of a busy schedule, it wasn't like my usual travels abroad for fun, it felt more like a work trip. Still, even if I'd been there purely for vacation, I would've wanted to try a different mode of...
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Buffet lines are terrible, but let's try to improve them using computer simulations My company has a buffet every Friday, and the lines grow to epic proportions when the food arrives....
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My company has a buffet every Friday, and the lines grow to epic proportions when the food arrives. I've suspected for years that the “classic” buffet line system is a deeply flawed and inefficient method, and every time I'm stuck in the line has made me more convinced.
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A new 'Privacy Shield' won't solve big tech's GDPR problem Ten years ago today, the European Commission published the first draft of the General Data...
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Ten years ago today, the European Commission published the first draft of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). But, as the recent ruling in…
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One simple pendant light, five completely different spaces. From cozy bedrooms to sleek kitchens, this versatile design proves that great lighting doesn’t just fit in, it transforms the room. Designed by Bellucci Mazzoni for Italian lighting brand KARMAN, the Asso lamp brings a...
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Much of what we know about individual Roman emperors comes from what they chose to build. In the 1st century CE, Nero was vilified for his greed, hoovering up great tracts of the city to turn into a private palace, the infamous Domus Aurea. A decade later, Vespasian was lauded...
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The nature of consciousness remains a contentious subject out there. I’m a physicalist myself — as I explain in The Big Picture and elsewhere, I think consciousness is best understood as weakly-emergent from the ordinary physical behavior of matter, without requiring any special...
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For much of our history, humans have sustained themselves through hunting and gathering wild plants and animals. However, our trajectory changed around 12,000 years ago when agriculture emerged as humans began to domesticate livestock and crops, permanently altering our...
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Several passages from the Torah and the prophetic books in the Hebrew Bible strongly condemn human sacrifice. There is no debate about the Bible’s stance on the practice. However, the very fact that the Bible condemns it suggests that the temptation to sacrifice humans was real...
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The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) reported the housing market index (HMI) was at 40, up from 39 last month. Any number below 50 indicates that more builders view sales conditions as poor than good. Builder Confidence Levels Indicate Slow Start for Spring Housing...
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I have always considered philosophy to a strange topic full of mysterious sentences and complicated concepts. So I was pretty surprised when I read Epictetus’ Manual for the first time. The advice in the book was not only understandable but also surprisingly actionable. I have...
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Seems very relevant to today’s music industry, and potentially relevant to the internet/software industry in the near future as patent…
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Inside your skull a movie is playing. You, obviously, are the hero in this movie. You narrate as a cast of characters play the supporting roles of friends and family, misfits and villains.
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My wife played a brilliant prank on me today, as she does every year. Here’s a partial list: Convincing me that I was about to eat a slice of carrot cake; it was a sponge covered with toothpaste. I bit into it. Convincing me that she had, in anger and frustration, cut off almost...
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Electroconvulsive therapy is highly effective in treating major depressive disorder, but no one knows why it works. New research suggests it may restore balance between excitation and inhibition in the brain. The post Brain’s ‘Background Noise’ May Explain Value of...
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Let's assume you're familiar with basic SQL databases like PostgreSQL and MySQL, and document databases like MongoDB and Elasticsearch. You probably know Redis too. But you're hearing more and more about embedded key-value stores like RocksDB, LevelDB, PebbleDB, and so on....
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When American military planners began searching for islands they could use to attack Japan from, they identified the Marianas island chain as a perfect location. One of these, the island of Saipan, was very well-defended and also contained a Japanese civilian population. The...
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*Update (November 8th, 2019): [Juanito Fatas](https://juanitofatas.com/) has pointed out to me this bug has now been fixed.* Safari 12.1.1 has a strange issue with certain ruby tags. Specifically, something like ホゲホゲ(ホゲホゲ) which renders as ホゲホゲ(ホゲホゲ) If you control click...
TheCollector
The Mind-Body Problem & Consciousness: Dualism vs. Materialism Dualism is the idea that while the body is made of physical material, the mind is made of something...
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Dualism is the idea that while the body is made of physical material, the mind is made of something immaterial. The counterpart to this is materialism, which posits that both the mind and body are composed of the same material, physical substance. There is much more to each...
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Where To Get Your Fill Of The Best Food And Drink In Islington Marvellous macarons, superb sushi... and Karen's Diner.
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Another Dazzling Light Show Comes To This Central London Church This Winter Luxmuralis work their magic at St Martin-in-the-Fields.
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Yale E360
Discarded U.K. Clothing Dumped in Protected Wetlands in Ghana Heaps of discarded clothing from the U.K. have been dumped in protected wetlands in Ghana, an...
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Heaps of discarded clothing from the U.K. have been dumped in protected wetlands in Ghana, an investigation found. Read more on E360 →
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over a year ago
Semantic versioning, is the way to version packages in JS ecosystem. I always thought I understood semver, but that illusion disappeared once I started maintaining libraries myself. Semver has tricky edge cases where it's unclear what the new version number should be: Should you...
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42 Years of Critical Regionalism (Covers of some of the books discussed in this post) If your first reaction to the title of...
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(Covers of some of the books discussed in this post) If your first reaction to the title of this post is something along the lines of, "Wait, isn't critical regionalism just 40 years old?," then everything you think know about critical regionalism is partial, in both senses...