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Seth's Blog
The reality of chasing pop It’s tempting for a creator. To make a pop hit, a song or a book or a meme that becomes a popular...
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It’s tempting for a creator. To make a pop hit, a song or a book or a meme that becomes a popular idea and part of the culture. In our lifetimes, it’s become possible to imagine that you could even make a living creating pop. But pop is a harsh mistress, because pop means...
Seth's Blog
A labor of love That’s magical. To have the resources to expend labor on something that fills us with joy. If you’re...
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That’s magical. To have the resources to expend labor on something that fills us with joy. If you’re lucky enough to encounter this, perhaps it makes sense not to confuse the issue by also trying to turn it into labor for maximum profit. When we focus on one, we often decrease...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
2024 Healthcare Predictions, Out-Of-Pocket Style | Out-Of-Pocket I'm not a fortune teller, I'm a fortune, teller
a year ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Roleplaying Games May Help Autistic People Gotta love the title of this paper: “A critical hit: Dungeons and Dragons as a buff for autistic...
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Gotta love the title of this paper: “A critical hit: Dungeons and Dragons as a buff for autistic people“. Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) is a tabletop roleplaying game where a small group of people each play characters adventuring in an imaginary world run by the dungeon master (DM)....
Roberto's blog
Decision matrices as a thinking tool Some decisions require comparing multiple options where it’s not immediately apparent which is best....
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Some decisions require comparing multiple options where it’s not immediately apparent which is best. One common way of doing that is to list the pros and cons of each option. For example, option A lists low latency as a pro, while option B lists high throughput as a pro. But do...
Steve Blank
Cram Down – A Test of Character for VCs and Founders This article previously appeared in TechCrunch. Cram downs are back – and I’m keeping a list. At the...
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This article previously appeared in TechCrunch. Cram downs are back – and I’m keeping a list. At the turn of the century after the dotcom crash, startup valuations plummeted, burn rates were unsustainable, and startups were quickly running out of cash. Most existing investors...
Res Obscura
Historical maps probably helped cause World War I On cartography as historical argument
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
How Should We Look at History? Hold it up? Seal it off? Or Break it Down?
9 months ago
Map of the Week
Ice Flows in Greenland The Atlas of the Invisible was published a few years ago. The maps show trends in the earth’s...
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The Atlas of the Invisible was published a few years ago. The maps show trends in the earth’s climate and demographics that are largely hidden to the naked eye. I never got a chance to review it but was recently struck by this visualization. A detailed description of the...
Open Culture
How the Oldest Company in the World, Japan’s Temple-Builder Kongō Gumi, Has Survived Nearly 1,500... Image from New York Public Library, via Wikimedia Commons If you visit Osaka, you’ll be urged to see...
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Image from New York Public Library, via Wikimedia Commons If you visit Osaka, you’ll be urged to see two old buildings in particular: Osaka Castle and Shitennō-ji (above), Japan’s first Buddhist temple. In beholding both, you’ll behold the work of construction firm Kongō Gumi...
Londonist
Battersea Power Station And Nine Elms Tube Stations Just Got Mark Wallinger Labyrinths Great news for Labyrinth hunters!
a year ago
journal – Winnie Lim
endure: book notes and thoughts In recent years I’ve begun to develop an interest in the concept of endurance, be it psychological...
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In recent years I’ve begun to develop an interest in the concept of endurance, be it psychological or physical. This is a response to a combination of recent world events, the imminent...
Maps Mania
Discovering the Dissolution
a year ago
Calculated Risk
Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims Increase to 242,000 The DOL reported: emphasis added The following graph shows the 4-week moving average of weekly...
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The DOL reported: emphasis added The following graph shows the 4-week moving average of weekly claims since 1971. Click on graph for larger image. The dashed line on the graph is the current 4-week average. The four-week average of weekly unemployment claims increased to...
xkcd.com
Extinction Mechanisms
a year ago
Irrational...
Layers of context. Recently I was chatting with a Staff-plus engineer who was struggling to influence his peers. Each...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Recently I was chatting with a Staff-plus engineer who was struggling to influence his peers. Each time he suggested an approach, his team agreed with him, but his peers in the organization disagreed and pushed back. He wanted advice on why his peers kept undermining his...
somenice
August Photo Highlights
3 months ago
Marco.org
Why it’s hard to read the time on Infograph Quick, what time is it? If that took you a bit longer than usual to tell the time on the Apple...
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over a year ago
Quick, what time is it? If that took you a bit longer than usual to tell the time on the Apple Watch’s new default Infograph face, you’re not alone: John Gruber finds it “far too busy” Jason Snell finds it “pretty and packed with features”, but misses hour numerals Zac Hall...
Christopher Butler
visual journal – 2024 March 24 - March 30 If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance much less.
9 months ago
Maps Mania
How Good is Your Map Memory?
a week ago
TheCollector
Here Are Alfred Hitchcock’s 20 Greatest Films undefined
8 months ago
Moneyness
"I didn't launder the cash, your honor. The robot did." Crypto enthusiasts protest the trial of Alexey Pertsev As the multiple Tornado Cash legal cases...
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Crypto enthusiasts protest the trial of Alexey Pertsev As the multiple Tornado Cash legal cases wend their way through courts in the Netherlands and the U.S., we continue to learn how society's money laundering laws will be applied to some of the more unique financial entities...
The Marginalian
Making Space: An Illustrated Ode to the Art of Welcoming the Unknown It is the silence between the notes that distinguishes music from noise, the stillness of the soil...
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It is the silence between the notes that distinguishes music from noise, the stillness of the soil that germinates the seeds to burst into bloom. It is in the gap of absence that we learn trust, in the gap between knowledge and mystery that we discover wonder. Every act of making...
TheCollector
Iraq Receives an Ancient Sumerian Sculpture from The Met undefined
8 months ago
Londonist
The World's Rarest Stamp Is On Display In London This September It's also the most expensive.
a year ago
Wuthering...
Paradoxes and epistemology - early Greek philosophy as conceptual innovation - "Zeno argues... The conceptual innovation of Thales that we identify as the birth of philosophy quickly spun off...
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The conceptual innovation of Thales that we identify as the birth of philosophy quickly spun off other conceptual innovations.  A real conceptual innovation does not require a book or even an argument.  You say there are many gods?  But what if there were one? Or none? ...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Battle of the Historians
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
The introduction to TypeScript Generics you've been missing > Note: this is an unfinished draft, but I'm sharing it anyway as an outline
over a year ago
The Honest Broker
The Final Triumph of Cormac McCarthy (1933-2023) The novelist delivered an end-of-life masterpiece, but the culture machine was barely interested
a year ago
diamond geezer
Hayling Island Seaside postcard: Hayling Island Hayling Island lies just off the south coast near the mouth of the...
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Seaside postcard: Hayling Island Hayling Island lies just off the south coast near the mouth of the Solent, just east of Portsmouth. It's England's 7th largest offshore island and 5th most populous, some way behind Wight and Portsea respectively, both of which are nextdoor. It...
Blog - Practical...
Every Type of Railcar Explained in 15 Minutes [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] A train is a simple thing at...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] A train is a simple thing at first glance: a locomotive (or several) pull a string of cars along a railroad. But not all those railcars are equal, and there are some fascinating details if you take minute to...
CONTEMPORIST
Undulating Balconies And A Mint Green Tiled Exterior Give This New Building A Unique Look Architecture firms Sadar+Vuga, Arhipro, and Studio Kristof have collaborated to create an...
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Architecture firms Sadar+Vuga, Arhipro, and Studio Kristof have collaborated to create an eye-catching residential building in Ljubljana, Slovenia, with undulating balconies. The building, which houses apartments, is situated at the edge of a triangularly shaped site and is...
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: One Accurate, One Not First, from a 1940s Sunday newspaper strip of Miss Fury, a realistic view down the facade of a fancy...
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First, from a 1940s Sunday newspaper strip of Miss Fury, a realistic view down the facade of a fancy New York apartment house to the street: Second, from a modern Captain America comic, “the City of Manhattan”. Where’s that, Kansas? It’s been “New York” since 1664, “Nieuw...
Diaries of Note
It is almost impossible to comprehend Zygmunt Klukowski was a doctor born in 1885 in Ukraine who lived much of his life in Szczebrzeszyn,...
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Zygmunt Klukowski was a doctor born in 1885 in Ukraine who lived much of his life in Szczebrzeszyn, a small town in Eastern Poland where for thirty years he held the post of superintendent at the local hospital. During World War II, he balanced his medical duties with covert work...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Radiating Circles of DX Architecture > This post was originally published on my new dedicated DX site: https://dx.tips/circles
over a year ago
Old Structures...
One Pitfall Avoided I’m not entirely sure what this proposed law would mean in practice: existing data at the Department...
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I’m not entirely sure what this proposed law would mean in practice: existing data at the Department of Buildings will be examined to identify which buildings are considered to be high risk, and the usual DoB actions – violations, etc. – will start from there. It all depends on...
The Pragmatic...
Google Shutting down Firebase Dynamic Links Firebase Dynamic Links was a popular way to build universal deeplinks that worked across iOS,...
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Firebase Dynamic Links was a popular way to build universal deeplinks that worked across iOS, Android, and the web. Now after 7 years, Google is shutting down this product. But why? I asked the Big Tech giant for details.
TheCollector
6 Things You Should Know about Sculptor Augusta Savage undefined
a year ago
Seth's Blog
Practical approaches for more effective teamwork Give credit, take responsibility Get aligned on timeframes Insist on a spec, write one, improve it...
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Give credit, take responsibility Get aligned on timeframes Insist on a spec, write one, improve it Agree on a budget Keep a calendar Don’t hold a grudge Speak up clearly and generously Show your work Share your fears Make promises and keep them Do the reading Talk about people...
Rest of World -...
Last-mile delivery is so normalized that we can’t see the endgame approaching Latin American delivery businesses are now entering a new phase of consolidation into their own...
a year ago
Maps Mania
The Newest Maps of Mars - in 3D
6 months ago
History Today Feed
Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain Political Graffiti in Georgian Britain JamesHoare Thu, 03/14/2024 - 09:29
9 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
How To Learn In Private Of course I don't think that everything should be public. I don't even think everyone should Learn...
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over a year ago
Of course I don't think that everything should be public. I don't even think everyone should Learn In Public. The majority of the time you are still learning in private. Here are some thoughts on how to do it well.
AFAR Media - Travel...
A Local Baker’s Top Picks to Maine’s Best Winter Adventures
4 months ago
exist
An Intriguing Triangle
over a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Socrates Influence His Contemporaries? undefined
9 months ago
Escaping Flatland
Reading challenging books with kids is fun and probably useful I was looking through my diary from the summer of 2020 and found this entry about Maud, then three...
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8 months ago
I was looking through my diary from the summer of 2020 and found this entry about Maud, then three years old, in late toddlerhood. 25th of July 2020. I was doing the dishes. Maud came in. “I have looked a little in books,” she said.
A Collection of...
Collections: Ancient Greek and Phoenician Colonization Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis...
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Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis verba fecit… This week we’re taking a brief look, by ACOUP Senate request, at Greek and Phoenician colonization in the ancient Mediterranean. In particular, the focus requested was...
A Weekly Dose of...
Visualizing the World, Visualizing Change In 1939, Otto Neurath's Modern Man in the Making was released by Alfred A. Knopf. Neurath was...
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In 1939, Otto Neurath's Modern Man in the Making was released by Alfred A. Knopf. Neurath was director of the International Foundation of Visual Information and used the Isotype (International System of Typographic Picture Education) system to "teach through the eye." A recent...
TheCollector
Who Was England’s Black Prince? undefined
9 months ago
A Smart Bear
Finding Fulfillment What creates a fulfilling existence? Exploring the question from different directions leads to a...
a year ago
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a year ago
What creates a fulfilling existence? Exploring the question from different directions leads to a framework I’ve used for years for myself and the people around me. I hope it helps you too.
Daniel Bourke
Nutrify Goes to School (V1) 📸 -> 🍌 @ 🏫 | Whole Food Education for Schools
a month ago
tonsky.me
Talk: Clj-reload: A smarter way to reload code @ In Clojure, we all love the REPL. We love playing with our code and seeing results applied live...
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6 months ago
In Clojure, we all love the REPL. We love playing with our code and seeing results applied live without ever restarting the app. But in any project, there comes a time when your state becomes more complex than a simple set of functions. Evaluating the buffer does not...
Blog System/5
BazelCon 2024 recap Just like that, BazelCon 2024 came and went. So... it’s obviously time to summarize the two events...
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Just like that, BazelCon 2024 came and went. So... it’s obviously time to summarize the two events of last week: BazelCon 2024 and the adjacent Build Meetup. There is A LOT to cover, but everything is here in just one article!
AFAR Media - Travel...
Travel to Costal Germany's Historical UNESCO Sites
7 months ago
Retail Design Blog
Yomatsuri whisky by Backbar Studios Yomatsuri, a blended Japanese whisky, takes its inspiration from the ‘Chichibu Yomatsuri Night...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Yomatsuri, a blended Japanese whisky, takes its inspiration from the ‘Chichibu Yomatsuri Night Festival,’ a 300-year-old celebration and one of...
The Modern House
It’s all love at Matthew Scott and Charlie Carr’s new restaurant, Papi
a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Clara Peeters Transform Still-Life Painting? undefined
5 months ago
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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over a year ago
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...
xkcd.com
Solar Protons
2 months ago
TheCollector
How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames undefined
8 months ago
Flashbak
1970s Graffiti in Dirty Old Boston British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks...
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8 months ago
British bands were big in 1970s Boston. Fans of X-Ray Secs, Billy Idol, Sham 69 and the Buzzcocks sprayed the bands’ names on the city’s walls. The stories behind other graffiti photographed by Meredith Jacobson Marciano is less obvious. Were the Lesbian Turds a band? The New...
Diaries of Note
Meet a twenty-four-year-old scriptwriter called J.J. Everything changed for Richard E. Grant in 1987 when his big screen debut in Bruce Robinson’s iconic...
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Everything changed for Richard E. Grant in 1987 when his big screen debut in Bruce Robinson’s iconic black comedy, Withnail & I, catapulted him towards Hollywood. By the time he wrote the following diary entry four years later he had worked with the likes of Steve Martin, Bruce...
Val Sopi
AI will make humans better <p><i>Context:&nbsp;Read&nbsp;<a...
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<p><i>Context:&nbsp;Read&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theredhandfiles.com/chatgpt-making-things-faster-and-easier/" target="_blank">Nick Cave's letter</a> first.</i></p> <p><i></i>—</p> <p>ChatGPT (or similar) are just tools!</p> <p>Nothing more.</p> <p>They're akin to when tools...
Andrew Fraknoi –...
My Free Introductory Astronomy Textbook Hits a Milestone This time I am posting something a bit personal. I am the lead author of a free book that is part of...
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This time I am posting something a bit personal. I am the lead author of a free book that is part of a nonprofit experiment to help students with the costs of college. Here is the news from our publisher: OpenStax, the open textbook publisher based at Rice University, is pleased...
TheCollector
1920s Flappers: An Overview of the Ladies of the Jazz Age undefined
a year ago
Quentin Santos
AMD CPUs, CCDs and CCXs When researching for my article about Linux pipes and for other upcoming articles, I had to get more...
2 months ago
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When researching for my article about Linux pipes and for other upcoming articles, I had to get more familiar with how my CPU works. I thought I knew quite a bit, with L1/L2/L3 caches, ISA extensions, branch predictors, register renaming and so much more. But, it turns out, even...
Data Boutique
Web Data Is A Commodity And Needs A Marketplace To Grow The Advantages Of Central Markets
a year ago
The Pragmatic...
A Return to the Office (RTO) Wave? Dozens of tech companies are starting to have their staff return to the office. I talked with...
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over a year ago
Dozens of tech companies are starting to have their staff return to the office. I talked with software engineers and managers at these companies. Are we seeing the start of a trend?
Irrational...
Eng org seniority-mix model. One of the trademarks of private equity ownership is the expectation that either the company...
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One of the trademarks of private equity ownership is the expectation that either the company maintains their current margin and grows revenue at 25-30%, or they instead grow slower and increase their free cash flow year over year. In many organizations, engineering costs have a...
IEEE Spectrum
Robot Photographer Takes the Perfect Picture Finding it hard to get the perfect angle for your shot? PhotoBot can take the picture for you. Tell...
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Finding it hard to get the perfect angle for your shot? PhotoBot can take the picture for you. Tell it what you want the photo to look like, and your robot photographer will present you with references to mimic. Pick your favorite, and PhotoBot—a robot arm with a camera—will...
Diaries of Note
For twelve years we lied about it Kenneth Rose was a journalist and biographer famous for his access to high-profile British figures,...
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a year ago
Kenneth Rose was a journalist and biographer famous for his access to high-profile British figures, tales of whom are scattered through his extensive diaries. On the day he wrote the following entry in 1985, Rose had spent some time with Mary Soames, daughter of Winston...
Diaries of Note
The Pole at Last!!! Born in Pennsylvania in 1856, Robert Peary spent 23 years of his life preparing to achieve what had...
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Born in Pennsylvania in 1856, Robert Peary spent 23 years of his life preparing to achieve what had eluded explorers for centuries: reaching the North Pole. Driven by ambition and unwavering determination, Peary, an American explorer and United States Navy officer, believed he...
ntietz.com blog
Writing Hurl's grammar, twice Recently I started working on a programming language, Hurl. Writing the initial code samples and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Recently I started working on a programming language, Hurl. Writing the initial code samples and developing the concept is all fine and good, but the next step is to actually make it work. The steps I outlined for developing Hurl in the last post were: Write out code samples to...
The Modern House
Quiet yet quirky – the family home of architect Will Burges serves as both inspiration and sanctuary
5 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Sodding Good and Touching Was the Poem' Kingsley Amis’ daughter Sally was born on January 17, 1954, two days after her father published his...
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11 months ago
Kingsley Amis’ daughter Sally was born on January 17, 1954, two days after her father published his first and finest novel, Lucky Jim. Three days later, Philip Larkin completed “Born Yesterday” (The Less Deceived, 1955) and dedicated it to the little girl:  “Tightly-folded bud, I...
Old Structures...
Another Tool Our inspections tend to be very close up – one of my first, in 1988, had me lying on the floor in an...
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Our inspections tend to be very close up – one of my first, in 1988, had me lying on the floor in an abandoned building with my arm, up to the shoulder, inside a hole in the wall, trying to get the sense of a beam-to-column connection by touch – but sometimes long-distance tools...
Liz Denys
invalid arch-dependent ELF magic An elf stands on an arch, attempts to cast a spell, and freaks out when he is unable to cast it,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
An elf stands on an arch, attempts to cast a spell, and freaks out when he is unable to cast it, or...
Josh Collinsworth
A New Headless Site with Gridsome A lengthy write-up diving into what headless means, its advantages and disadvantages, some of the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A lengthy write-up diving into what headless means, its advantages and disadvantages, some of the techniques and gotchas involved, and, finally, the new design of this site specifically.
Transit Maps
New Official Map: Los Angeles Metro with Regional Connector, 2023 Just dropped on the LA Metro Twitter account, here’s a first look at their new system map once the...
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Just dropped on the LA Metro Twitter account, here’s a first look at their new system map once the Regional Connector opens at noon, this Friday June 16. First off, one prediction I made in my previous review [October 2022] has been proven true: this map marks the end of the old...
One Useful Thing
What just happened, what is happening next The tasks AI can do well are expanding rapidly
8 months ago
Old Structures...
A Bit Alien From a recent trip to Governors Island, a big thing in the water near the piers on the east side of...
2 months ago
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From a recent trip to Governors Island, a big thing in the water near the piers on the east side of the island: It’s the mid-length air shaft for the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel and, constructed circa 1950, it’s a relative newcomer to the island’s landscape. The diagram below,...
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 21-27 August 2023 Things to do for under a fiver.
a year ago
Tony Finch's blog
Introducing BIND9 dnssec-policy Here are some notes about using BIND’s new-ish dnssec-policy feature to sign a DNS zone that is...
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7 months ago
Here are some notes about using BIND’s new-ish dnssec-policy feature to sign a DNS zone that is currently unsigned. I am in the process of migrating my DNS zones from BIND’s old auto-dnssec to its new dnssec-policy, and writing a blog post about it. These introductory sections...
XO Capital - Field...
Acquisition #12 - Onsched We've been a little quiet over here as we start rolling out XO 2.0, using outside capital instead of...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
We've been a little quiet over here as we start rolling out XO 2.0, using outside capital instead of our own cash to acquire larger businesses. It's taken a bit of time from deal #11 to #12. We didn't buy anything for 9
David Heinemeier...
Fonts don't have to look awful on Windows I always thought it was a software problem — or at least a difference of aesthetics expressed in...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
I always thought it was a software problem — or at least a difference of aesthetics expressed in software. But it turns out  the reason many Mac owners, including yours truly, so strongly dislike how fonts typically look on Windows is actually a hardware problem!  See, every Mac...
TheCollector
What Is Assemblage? A Look Into 3D Collage Techniques undefined
a week ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
How To Self-Publish A Children's Book and How Much You Can Expect To Make | Out-Of-Pocket spoiler: you will make very little lol
a year ago
Seth's Blog
Language conceals and reveals When a non-expert brings a strong point of view to a complex discussion, the words might not mean...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
When a non-expert brings a strong point of view to a complex discussion, the words might not mean what they seem to mean. What might be being said is, “I’m worried. I’m afraid. I don’t understand. I am looking for solace.” Answering emotional word salad with logical insight...
Moneyness
Top 13 blog posts I've been writing on this blog for a while now – over ten years. Many of those posts are now...
a year ago
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a year ago
I've been writing on this blog for a while now – over ten years. Many of those posts are now forgotten (by myself included), but some were pretty popular at the time, and a few still get a steady stream of readers. Someone recently asked me for a list of my top ranked posts...
Don Melton
How not to blog First off, be sure to wait at least three-and-a-half years between posts. It’s all about keeping...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
First off, be sure to wait at least three-and-a-half years between posts. It’s all about keeping your audience riveted in anticipation.
The Convivial...
The Pathologies of the Attention Economy The Convivial Society: Vol. 3, No. 16
over a year ago
TheCollector
Luc Tuymans Mural Exhibition to Open Wednesday at Louvre undefined
7 months ago
macwright.com
Recently What to say about this month - well, I’m a few days late to the Recently, because I’ve been pretty...
a year ago
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a year ago
What to say about this month - well, I’m a few days late to the Recently, because I’ve been pretty busy! Things are good. Building products is fun but also a lot of work. Pretty excited about what I’m working on. Ready for winter to end. Reading I enjoyed reading Ross Barkan’s...
One Useful Thing
What OpenAI did A new model opens up new possibilities
7 months ago
bt RSS Feed
Chasing Performance Chasing Performance 2017-11-20 Update This post is no longer relevant since this blog has been...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Chasing Performance 2017-11-20 Update This post is no longer relevant since this blog has been redesigned since. I’m keeping this article up as a point of reference. So I decided to participate in Smashing Mag’s Front End Performance Challenge, not only for the potential of...
The Ruffian
What Does It Mean For a Brand To Be Radical? Thoughts on Jaguar's Relaunch, Plus a Juicy Cultural Rattle Bag
4 weeks ago
CONTEMPORIST
A Sculptural Ceiling Inspired By Flowing Chocolate Can Be Seen Inside This Store Architectural studio Arch&Type has shared photos of Blue Table Chocolates, a new retail chocolate...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Architectural studio Arch&Type has shared photos of Blue Table Chocolates, a new retail chocolate store in Buffalo, New York. Key to the intriguing interior design is the custom parametric ceiling tiles that were inspired by an image of golden, silky, and flowing untempered...
Retail Design Blog
The Goose Hut Bistro (Beijing Sanlitun Store) Returning to the design of the Goose Hut Bistro in Sanlitun, the form still follows the element of...
7 months ago
TheCollector
Alexander the Not-Feeling-Great: How Did Alexander the Great Die? undefined
11 months ago
Maps Mania
Mapping Power Outages in Kiev
4 months ago
History Today Feed
The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure The French Resistance: Fantasy and Failure JamesHoare Tue, 09/17/2024 - 06:00
3 months ago
Christopher Butler
What Eyes Want South of the Border. These signs are impossible to miss. Today, over 175 South of the Border signs...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
South of the Border. These signs are impossible to miss. Today, over 175 South of the Border signs remain along the interstate; when I was a child making a two-day road trip from Boston to Florida, there were more than 250. Spotting them, reading them, and counting them made...
detreville
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Roughly seventy per cent of Japan is forested and therefore wood has been historically tied to architecture and design since ancient times. In fact, the world’s oldest surviving wooden structure is the Horyu-ji temple that was built in the early seventh century. From the...
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In our work to make things better, it’s easy to overlook two things: The best way to make things better is to begin. Create the conditions for others to join you. Persist.
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve spent the last year and a half after graduating from the University of Warwick juggling working on startups and working as a contract web developer. I’d like to share some of my reflections...
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BLA Design Group has shared photos of their latest project, a unique modern home that marries the West and the East, linking a Chinese-Canadian family’s present lifestyle to their past memories. Located in Vancouver, Canada, the home has a prominent gable form that floats atop...
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It’s a lazy amplifier. “Very” can modify almost any adjective, but it might not deliver our intended message. Putting it in front of a positive like “charming” or “kind” or “generous” can make it clear that we mean what we said, but more so. But, placed in front of a description...
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This is the great paradox: that human life, lived between the time of starlings and the time of stars, is made meaningful entirely inside the self, but the self is a mirage of the mind, a figment of cohesion that makes the chaos and transience bearable. A few times a lifetime, if...
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The apps were designed for home security. They’re being used to watch and harass domestic workers Tiger Global-backed MyGate and Google-backed NoBrokerHood are digitizing social biases.
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This morning was frustrating. I recently upgraded my VPS from the deprecated letsencrypt client to the newer cerbot client and generated new certificates for all my personal domains. I thought everything was fine — until I kept seeing intermittent SSL errors. I figured I did...
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I recently read a post on social media that went something like this (paraphrased): “If you buy an EV, you’re part of the problem. You’re advancing car culture and are actively hurting the planet. The only ethical thing to do is ditch your cars and put all your effort into...
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In this third part of the series, I will show how we can implement a durable, distributed, and highly available log using S3
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Watch James Earl Jones Read Kurt Vonnegut’s Letter Urging High-School Students to Create Art & Make... As cultural figures, the late James Earl Jones and Kurt Vonnegut would seem to have had little in...
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As cultural figures, the late James Earl Jones and Kurt Vonnegut would seem to have had little in common, but each could easily be recognized by his voice. Jones’ will come to mind as soon as you think of Darth Vader, Simba’s father, or “This is CNN.” Vonnegut’s distinction was...
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Video Gamer skills that make a Great Designer Enjoy your time with video games, do not see it as a waste of time as society thinks. This is YOUR...
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Enjoy your time with video games, do not see it as a waste of time as society thinks. This is YOUR time, use it as you like it. It will make you a better designer.
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I’ve been thinking for a couple of weeks about making and hanging some AI art in my house. But I immediately faced some internal resistance. Like, I wasn’t (and still am not) sure whether this is the right way to “do” art. And that got me thinking what that really means. What...
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2024-12-21 something over New Jersey There were thousands of reports: strange aircraft, floating through the sky. A retrospective sum of...
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There were thousands of reports: strange aircraft, floating through the sky. A retrospective sum of press accounts finds that some 100,000 people were reported to have witnessed aerial intruders. Despite the scant details associated with most reports, an eager press repeated the...
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It's that time again: I read another paper, and here's what I took away from it! This week I read "C-store: a column-oriented DBMS" from chapter 4 of the Red Book. This one I picked since I thought it would be helpful for the chess database I'm working on, and it does seem...
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Tomas Beranek and Arthur Nuss of Global Architects collaborated with client and builder Bram van de Wal to design and complete a barn-inspired modern home in The Netherlands. The barn house has a natural look and the modern simplicity of timber frame construction. The exterior...
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Peter Nixey: Cook something or get out of the kitchen: peternixey: I seem to have a lot of conversations recently with people who find themselves in the kitchen but without the means to cook anything. As a cook myself they often ask me how to go about finding themselves a chef...
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YC adds PostHog to top valued companies for July 2021 Y Combinator has listed PostHog as number 157 out of its top 159 companies by valuations and exits...
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Y Combinator has listed PostHog as number 157 out of its top 159 companies by valuations and exits as of July 2021. "Um… what?" I know, I know. You…
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The mere presence of a flame in a controlled environment, such as a candle, is perfectly acceptable, but when tasked with determining if there is cause for alarm solely using vision data, embedded AI models can struggle with false positives. Solomon Githu’s project aims to lower...
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We meet Andrew Leland as he’s suspended in the liminal state of the soon-to-be blind: he’s midway through his life with retinitis pigmentosa, a condition that ushers those who live with it from sightedness to blindness over years, even decades. He grew up with full vision, but...
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Highlights Zestful had its biggest month ever, with $3,936 in revenue. Is It Keto also had its best month ever, at $393 in revenue. After lots of research and customer interviews, I gave up on my idea for creating sheet metal software. I published my first version of an app for...
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Best Of Londonist: 6-12 November 2023 The very best chunks of Londonist from the past week.
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Living on an airfield London contains a lot of former airfields. Hornchurch. This was formerly RAF Hornchurch, a large...
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London contains a lot of former airfields. Hornchurch. This was formerly RAF Hornchurch, a large airfield in the Ingrebourne valley which played a vital role in defending the eastern side of the capital from German bombers. It first came into service in 1915 when it was known...
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Christopher Butler
Less Doesn't Have to Be More. It Can Just Be Less. How much is enough? So much of what we design assumes that either the question has not been answered...
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How much is enough? So much of what we design assumes that either the question has not been answered or has no answer at all. This must change. we can do more with less, but not so when our audience does less with our more. Yes, it’s impressive when we can create something...
The Marginalian
What Rises from the Ruins: Katherine Anne Porter on the Power of the Artist and the Function of Art... "We understand very little of what is happening to us at any given moment."
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Making a living from no-code Katt Risen is a no-code founder and the creator of the No-Code Exits newsletter and co-creator of...
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Buy-now-pay-later plans lead to rampant scams and bad debt across Southeast Asia From Thailand to Vietnam, a loophole in buy-now-pay-later schemes that allows users to get cash is...
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I've launched the 2020 International Developers in Japan Survey. With this survey, I intend to paint a picture of what life is like for international developers here, both to help people considering making the move here, and also for those already living here to better understand...
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For my academic project, I decided to focus on creating a unique craft beer label inspired by mythical creatures. Craft...
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How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj JamesHoare Tue, 11/19/2024 - 08:35
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Options The financial term “derivative“ refers to a security whose value is a function of another security...
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The financial term “derivative“ refers to a security whose value is a function of another security such as a stock or bond.  The most common…
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How bundling benefits sellers and buyers There is a widespread belief in technology circles that bundling of cable TV, newspaper, magazine...
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There is a widespread belief in technology circles that bundling of cable TV, newspaper, magazine and other information goods will go away…
The Modern House
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Skyscraperiness As I’ve said many times, in many venues, there really isn’t an objective description of...
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As I’ve said many times, in many venues, there really isn’t an objective description of “skyscraper.” That said, nearly everyone’s subjective definition contains a version of the idea that a skyscraper is tall for its context. Here’s an Irving Underhill photo centered on the...
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Watch Fantasmagorie, the World’s First Animated Cartoon (1908) Trying to describe the plot of Fantasmagorie, the world’s first animated cartoon, is a folly akin to...
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Trying to describe the plot of Fantasmagorie, the world’s first animated cartoon, is a folly akin to putting last night’s dream into words: I was dressed as a clown and then I was in a theater, except I was also hiding under this lady’s hat, and the guy behind us was plucking out...
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Feeling broke My psychology around money has changed significantly over the last two years. While some of that is...
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My psychology around money has changed significantly over the last two years. While some of that is captured in my monthly portfolio updates, I thought it was worth recording some of my emotions while they are still fresh. Two years ago Turning the clock back, my financial...
Seth's Blog
Who owns your words? There are many ways to ask and answer this question. Authorship used to be rare, but now, all of us...
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There are many ways to ask and answer this question. Authorship used to be rare, but now, all of us write something. If you’re putting your words on a social media platform, you might be surprised to discover that they could disappear at any moment. Some platforms acknowledge...
Cheese and Biscuits
Archway, Battersea Park Firstly, I have a confession to make. Many years ago I was very kindly treated to lunch at the River...
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Firstly, I have a confession to make. Many years ago I was very kindly treated to lunch at the River Café in Hammersmith, and I didn't like it. I think I was mainly intimidated - by the well-heeled crowd, the scale and the power of that vast dining room and open kitchen, and yes,...
Common Edge
“What Would Jane Jacobs Do?” Is the Wrong Question Proponents of City of Yes are misapplying her ideas (again).
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A year after recommended posts caused a crisis at Instagram, the company's systems have improved — and it's ready to talk about how they work
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I was too tired to post anything yesterday, so I guess this wouldn’t be a daily thing. But something is better than nothing, so I am back posting a few highlights. We...
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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...
Farza's Newsletter
just bit into a baklava but it was a cement brick damn what a scam It was a fun week. Tough, but fun! Zip doubled in size which is cool. Startups are a cool thing...
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It was a fun week. Tough, but fun! Zip doubled in size which is cool. Startups are a cool thing where learnings really stack on top of each other regardless of the product/company… Going to try our best to keep the growth going into next week! Something that’s going well:...
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Forget a U.S. ban — TikTok is thriving in its second-biggest market TikTok Shop, the controversial app’s ambitious next phase, has caught fire in Indonesia. “This is...
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TikTok Shop, the controversial app’s ambitious next phase, has caught fire in Indonesia. “This is truly the year of TikTok,” says one seller.
TheCollector
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The picture above shows two photos of the same building in Chelsea, where we finished a repair project about a year ago. The left side is a tax photo from the 1940s; the right photo was taken after we were done with our work. The viaduct in the back is the Highline. This 1902...
Lighthouse Blog
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Josh Collinsworth
Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React If you don't often look beyond established comfortable defaults, you might be surprised to learn...
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If you don't often look beyond established comfortable defaults, you might be surprised to learn just how far the world of frontend has moved away from React, and how big that gap continues to grow.
Moneyness
Setelinleikkaus: When Finns snipped their cash in half to curb inflation On the last day of 1945, with World War II finally behind it, Finland's government announced a new...
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On the last day of 1945, with World War II finally behind it, Finland's government announced a new and very strange policy. All Finns were required  to take out a pair of scissors and snip their banknotes in half. This was known in Finland as setelinleikkaus, or banknote cutting....
Tech and Tea
Reader Mailbag: Architect having a hard time letting go A reader writes in with a challenging situation on a new team and an architect who is having trouble...
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A reader writes in with a challenging situation on a new team and an architect who is having trouble getting out of the weeds.
Archinect - Features
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On November 8th, the Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University will host the Urban Workshop Symposium, the latest iteration of the Urban Workshop's engagements in community-based design and education. The event brings to the fore questions, conversations, and...
diamond geezer
Sunday transport news Some transport news Central line news well known in tubular circles that the longest direct...
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Some transport news Central line news well known in tubular circles that the longest direct journey on the Underground is between Epping and West Ruislip on the Central line. It's 54.9km long (34.1 miles), comfortably ahead of Uxbridge to Cockfosters on the Piccadilly line...
TheCollector
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Want to trigger an action? Use a button element. They’re great. Want to also prevent form submission when someone clicks that button? Put down the JavaScript, friend. I have a better suggestion: <button type="button"> Button action goes here </button> And that’s it! No ...
Seth's Blog
Sudare sette camicie Sweating through seven shirts… That was the definition of work when work was the same thing as...
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Sweating through seven shirts… That was the definition of work when work was the same thing as physical labor. For many of us, the physical labor is no longer the way we add value. And it’s tempting to imagine that we simply have to show up for the coffee. But it’s still called...
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Seth's Blog
Assume lack of context The person you’re working with might not know what you know, might not see what you see. It’s...
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The person you’re working with might not know what you know, might not see what you see. It’s tempting to begin where we are. But it’s more useful to begin where they are.
TheCollector
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Handprinted - Blog
How to Design and Print a Half Drop Repeating Pattern A half drop is a great way of creating a repeating pattern where the repeat is slightly obscured. It...
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A half drop is a great way of creating a repeating pattern where the repeat is slightly obscured. It can make for a less gridded-looking structure and add complexity to your design. Here's a simple, analogue way to make one. Start by drawing around your block. We are...
CONTEMPORIST
A Round Window Is Nestled Into A Stone Wall On The Front Of This Home OON ARCHITECTURE has designed a modern home in Benavidez, Argentina, that features a stone, wood,...
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OON ARCHITECTURE has designed a modern home in Benavidez, Argentina, that features a stone, wood, and concrete facade, that also includes a round window. The round window is recessed into the stone wall and is an eye-catching design element that can be seen as one walks along the...
samwho.dev
Bloom Filters .bf { width: 100%; height: 150px; } @media only screen and (min-width: 320px) and (max-width:...
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.bf { width: 100%; height: 150px; } @media only screen and (min-width: 320px) and (max-width: 479px) { .bf { height: 200px; } } @media only screen and (min-width: 480px) and (max-width: 676px) { .bf { height: 200px; } } @media only screen and (min-width:...
AI Snake Oil
I set up a ChatGPT voice interface for my 3-year old. Here’s how it went. Chatbots are likely to revive familiar debates about kids and apps
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The American Scholar
To Catch a Sunset Reflections on allergies, anxieties, and the limits of familial love The post To Catch a Sunset...
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Reflections on allergies, anxieties, and the limits of familial love The post To Catch a Sunset appeared first on The American Scholar.
ToughSF
Fusion without Fissiles: Superbombs and Wilderness Orion Fusion technology today relies on expensive, building-sized equipment for ignition, or the help of...
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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...
Musings on Markets
Data Update 4 for 2024: Danger and Opportunity - Bringing Risk into the Equation! In my last data updates for this year, I looked first at how equity markets rebounded in 2023,...
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In my last data updates for this year, I looked first at how equity markets rebounded in 2023, driven by a stronger-than-expected economy and inflation coming down, and then at how interest rates mirrored this rebound. In this post, I look at risk, a central theme in finance and...
Inverted Passion
You can’t jail an AI Here’s why I worry about AI. We know that people can get away with anything to pursue their goals...
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Here’s why I worry about AI. We know that people can get away with anything to pursue their goals (of profit, power, etc.) as long as they know they can get away with it, without negative consequences. We have had Hitlers, and insider traders. But the world keeps them in check...
The Elysian
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Evan Jones -...
Postgres large JSON value query performance Postgres supports three types for "schemaless" data: JSON (added in 9.2), JSONB (added in 9.4), and...
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Postgres supports three types for "schemaless" data: JSON (added in 9.2), JSONB (added in 9.4), and HSTORE (added in 8.2 as an extension). Unfortunately, the performance of queries of all three gets substantially slower (2-10×) for values larger than about 2 kiB, due to how...
Many Worlds
Preparing For The Habitable Worlds Observatory, Our Best Shot at Finding ET Life In a solar system far, far away, life of some sort is just waiting to be found.  Or so the world of...
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In a solar system far, far away, life of some sort is just waiting to be found.  Or so the world of astrobiology sure hopes it is. The new player in the astrobiology world, now called the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), is planned to launch in the 2040s if all goes well. ...
AVC
What Does “Native” Mean When a new technology comes to market, we often look for “native” applications of that technology....
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When a new technology comes to market, we often look for “native” applications of that technology. What is a “native” AI application? What is a “native” Web3 application? I have not seen a better articulation of “native” than my partner Albert’s post from 2009 on native mobile...
Making software...
ET-Jekyll Theme ET-Jekyll Theme 2018-01-14 ET-Jekyll theme is based off of Dave Liepmann's awesome Tufte CSS - which...
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ET-Jekyll Theme 2018-01-14 ET-Jekyll theme is based off of Dave Liepmann's awesome Tufte CSS - which takes it's style and inspiration from the wonderful book and handout designs of Edward Tufte. The differences are subtle when comparing my variation to Tufte CSS, but these...
Flashbak
Street Scenes of NYC in the 1970s We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs...
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We’re back to New York City in the q970. Stories of that time in the city are legend. Copper Gangs and truants, playing on the streets of Brooklyn, big cars, tight-knit neighborhoods on the Lower East Side, subterranean fury, police on the furious beat, music and dancing with...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Amber of His Style' Isaac Waisberg at IWP Books has digitalized three volumes of Desmond MacCarthy’s essays and reviews...
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Isaac Waisberg at IWP Books has digitalized three volumes of Desmond MacCarthy’s essays and reviews -- Portraits (1931), Criticism (1932), Memories (1953) – with a promise of more to come. MacCarthy’s reputation in the U.S. is almost sub-atomic. Devotees of Bloomsbury think of hm...
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What it takes to raise a $300 million VC fund for Africa Tidjane Deme talks about convincing investors to back Africa-focused tech funds amid a global...
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Steve Blank
Lessons for the DoD – From Ukraine and China Portions of this post previously appeared in War On the Rocks. Looking at a satellite image of...
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Portions of this post previously appeared in War On the Rocks. Looking at a satellite image of Ukraine online I realized it was from Capella Space – one of our Hacking for Defense student teams who now has 7 satellites in orbit. National Security is Now Dependent on Commercial...
Tech and Tea
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In this post-post-partum period, I'm starting to feel like myself again. But what does that even mean?
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Introducing Phil Leggetter, our new head of Developer Relations We’re proud to announce a new hire; Phil Leggetter will head up Developer Relations at PostHog....
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We’re proud to announce a new hire; Phil Leggetter will head up Developer Relations at PostHog. Developer relations sits at the intersection of…
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Web services should be both federated and extensible One of the most important developments of the web 2.0 era is the proliferation of full featured,...
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One of the most important developments of the web 2.0 era is the proliferation of full featured, bidirectional APIs.  APIs provide a way to…
Making software...
Disabling Comments in WordPress Disabling Comments in WordPress 2020-12-28 I seem to come across a decent amount of clients and...
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Disabling Comments in WordPress 2020-12-28 I seem to come across a decent amount of clients and users online that have a difficult time knowing how to disable comments for both future and previous blog posts. It isn’t the easiest for both use cases, so let’s break it down. Back...
The Marginalian
How to Be Animal: An Antidote to Our Self-Expatriation from Nature How to embrace our inheritance as "a creature of organic substance and electricity that can be...
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How to embrace our inheritance as "a creature of organic substance and electricity that can be eaten, injured and dissipated back into the enigmatic physics of the universe."
High Signal
Making $1m ARR with social media scheduling Davis is the co-founder of OneUp, a tool for scheduling social media posts across a range of...
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Davis is the co-founder of OneUp, a tool for scheduling social media posts across a range of platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn and many more. The business is now doing over $1m in annual revenue! Davis joined me for an interview about joining the...
Map of the Week
Mapping Etymology Mapologies is a website that shows many interesting etymology maps such as this one showing the word...
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Mapologies is a website that shows many interesting etymology maps such as this one showing the word for Earth throughout Europe-from their planets page. The countries are color coded by the language family origins of the words. Here are peaches from the fruits page. I like...
./techtipsy
How I fixed one hardware issue with another one I happen to run on an ASRock Fatal1ty B450 Gaming-ITX/ac motherboard that used to run fine, but ever...
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I happen to run on an ASRock Fatal1ty B450 Gaming-ITX/ac motherboard that used to run fine, but ever since I installed one UEFI update, it has had this one annoying issue: whenever you reboot, it gets stuck at POST. Cold boots work fine and the shutdown-and-push-the-power-button...
The Modern House
The magic of life on the Manygate Lane Estate in Shepperton, Surrey
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Seth's Blog
The end of writer’s block I was delighted to share this short talk with my friend Sue. I thought it might resonate with you. I...
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I was delighted to share this short talk with my friend Sue. I thought it might resonate with you. I hope it’s helpful. More interviews and talks are here. And my books are here.
HTMHell
Grouping form fields by Matthias Kittsteiner When I first stumbled upon fieldset and legend, I didn’t know much about...
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by Matthias Kittsteiner When I first stumbled upon fieldset and legend, I didn’t know much about HTML and especially not about accessibility. Everything I noticed was the special way a legend is displayed inside a fieldset – or rather: alongside the border of a fieldset. Fast...
SatPost by Trung...
How does Michelin Guide's business work? The Michelin tire business does $30B+ a year in revenue. The brand's iconic food review guide is...
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The Michelin tire business does $30B+ a year in revenue. The brand's iconic food review guide is 0.1% of sales. An incredible marketing deal.
High Signal
10 stoic quotes for entrepreneurs Stoic quotes can be a great comfort to you, especially if you are an entrepreneur. Building a...
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Stoic quotes can be a great comfort to you, especially if you are an entrepreneur. Building a business is hard work so it's important to build resilience. That's where stoicism comes in! Stoicism is not about being an emotion-less robot but more about not letting your
Diaries of Note
Wonder, astonishment, and devotion In December of 1831, HMS Beagle embarked on a historic voyage that would shape the course of...
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In December of 1831, HMS Beagle embarked on a historic voyage that would shape the course of scientific thought for generations to come. Aboard that ship, with a mere 22 years under his belt, was Charles Darwin, whose role would lead to remarkable discoveries about the natural...
Anecdotal Evidence
'An Old Man in the Dark' Philip Larkin shares with us the mundane complaints of the middle class, the lusts and anxieties of...
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Philip Larkin shares with us the mundane complaints of the middle class, the lusts and anxieties of people unburdened with wealth and pull. He grows deaf, loses hair, juggles girlfriends, gains weight and drinks too much. As a librarian he works hard. He will never be hip except...
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How to make digital business cards and share them via QR codes A previous employer found it important that the whole team had business cards. I had to wait a few...
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African History...
The pyramids of ancient Nubia and Meroe: death on the Nile and the mortuary architecture of Kush a complete history of an African monument
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The World's Greatest Netlify Demo 2019 _Note: this was published as the Complete Intro to Netlify on [the Netlify...
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_Note: this was published as the Complete Intro to Netlify on [the Netlify Blog](https://www.netlify.com/blog/2019/10/07/complete-intro-to-netlify-in-3.5-hours/) and [the FreeCodeCamp...
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Lectures on Psychoactive Substances Available on YouTube Dear Readers, I have now posted all 21 video lectures of the GeoCurrents series on the Historical...
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Dear Readers, I have now posted all 21 video lectures of the GeoCurrents series on the Historical Geography of Natural Psychoactive Substances, which can be found here. Each lecture is illustrated with maps, diagrams, photographs, and so on. Most are roughly one hour in length....
A Beautiful Site
Convert arrays to CSV with PHP The following snippet will convert a simple PHP array into CSV (comma-separated values)...
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The following snippet will convert a simple PHP array into CSV (comma-separated values) format. function csv($array) { $csv = ""; for ($i = 0; $i < count($array); $i++) { $csv .= '"' . str_replace('"', '""', $array[$i]) . '"'; if ($i < count($array) - 1) $csv .= ","; ...
Julia Evans
In a git repository, where do your files live? Hello! I was talking to a friend about how git works today, and we got onto the topic – where does...
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Hello! I was talking to a friend about how git works today, and we got onto the topic – where does git store your files? We know that it’s in your .git directory, but where exactly in there are all the versions of your old files? For example, this blog is in a git repository, and...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Grandfather Paradox Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Panel three is my contribution to World...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Panel three is my contribution to World Literature. Today's News: We hit 2000 backers! Announcement of new free stuff incoming.
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Consecutive postcode districts It's a lovely day in the capital so I hope you're out enjoying the unseasonable warmth rather than...
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It's a lovely day in the capital so I hope you're out enjoying the unseasonable warmth rather than wasting your time reading today's post. That's because it's about journeys through consecutively numbered postcode districts, an issue of no practical use whatsoever. postcode...
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the beach I’ve had an affinity with the beach since I was young. Every time I had the opportunity to take a...
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I’ve had an affinity with the beach since I was young. Every time I had the opportunity to take a vacation, it would almost always be the beach. My younger self would...
Open Culture
The 63 Cuisines of China Explained in 40 Minutes: A Complete Primer Wherever in the world you grew up, you probably grew up with an inaccurate idea of Chinese food. For...
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Wherever in the world you grew up, you probably grew up with an inaccurate idea of Chinese food. For Americans, it can come as a shock to hear that such familiar dishes as chop suey and General Tso’s chicken are unknown in China itself. By the same token, almost every country in...
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NT is often touted as a "very advanced" operating system. Why is that? What made NT better than Unix, if anything? And is that still the case?
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Gherkin Christmas
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African History...
a brief note on the history of indigenous and foreign religions in African history, and the Kimpasi... The majority of Africans today primarily identify as Christians and Muslims of various...
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The majority of Africans today primarily identify as Christians and Muslims of various denominations, with a relatively small fraction adhering to other belief systems often referred to as 'indigenous' or 'traditional' religions.
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Mixins: a refactoring anti-pattern
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Patterns in Humanity
Race, economics and homicide Can economic disparities account for racial homicide disparities?
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later they just have their bots engage in a debate while they go get ice cream. Today's News:
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Why So Many Banal Boxes? Because Architecture Reflects the Ethos of Its Time The 5-over-1 is a perfect embodiment of our increasingly selfish and self-isolated existence.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'The Age of Terror' If “terror” meant anything to me as a kid it was probably an episode of The Twilight Zone. Some were...
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If “terror” meant anything to me as a kid it was probably an episode of The Twilight Zone. Some were ridiculous, others remain watchable after more than sixty years. At least one, “Night Call,” left me so frightened I didn’t want to return to my darkened bedroom. I grew up safe...
ntietz.com blog
Alpha-beta pruning illustrated by the smothered mate I've been working on Patzer, a chess engine, during my time at RC. The first engine-like thing I...
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I've been working on Patzer, a chess engine, during my time at RC. The first engine-like thing I implemented for it was alpha-beta pruning, which is a way of pruning out branches of the search tree to significantly speed up search. This is a common algorithm, which I also...
Wuthering...
The Girl from Samos by Menander - I don’t think any one individual is better at birth than any other It’s our last plays, the last surviving Greek play, The Girl from Samos (315 BCE) by Menander.  How...
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It’s our last plays, the last surviving Greek play, The Girl from Samos (315 BCE) by Menander.  How tastes, or circumstances, had changed in the seventy years since Wealth, our last Aristophanes play.  The political and social satire is gone, the sexual and scatological jokes are...
NeuroLogica Blog
Anxiety Biomarkers Psychiatry, psychology, and all aspects of mental health are a challenging area because the clinical...
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Psychiatry, psychology, and all aspects of mental health are a challenging area because the clinical entities we are dealing with are complex and mostly subjective. Diagnoses are perhaps best understood as clinical constructs – a way of identifying and understanding a mental...
A Beautiful Site
What is my browser? This tool will tell you Last week I wrote about how to get faster and better help from support. One of my suggestions was to...
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Last week I wrote about how to get faster and better help from support. One of my suggestions was to tell them what browser, OS, etc. you're using. Here's a free tool that will make that so much easier. As soon as you visit About My Browser, it will show you what browser and...
The Works in...
Should you infect yourself with Zika? What life is like in a challenge trial
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Seth's Blog
The simple word replacement for connection What do we say when a customer or colleague says, “thank you”? For a long time, it was “you’re...
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What do we say when a customer or colleague says, “thank you”? For a long time, it was “you’re welcome.” This indicates that you put in some effort and you’re willing to do it again on request. Recently “no problem” has become more common. This implies that the effort could have...
TheCollector
Emma Of Normandy: The Unsung Queen of the Medieval World undefined
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Math Is Still...
Mathematicians Discover Novel Way to Predict Structure in Graphs In new work on graphs’ hidden structure, mathematicians probe the limits of randomness. ...
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In new work on graphs’ hidden structure, mathematicians probe the limits of randomness. The post Mathematicians Discover Novel Way to Predict Structure in Graphs first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Old Structures...
Infrastructure Not all infrastructure is hidden – some, like elevated railroads, is more visible and audible than...
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Not all infrastructure is hidden – some, like elevated railroads, is more visible and audible than most people would prefer – but it often is and that can make it easy to forget. “The Cloud Under the Sea” by John Dzieza, with visuals by Kristen Radtke and Go Takayana, is an...
Diaries of Note
So here I am, two hours into my sixty-sixth year Born in 1936 in Hampshire, England, Simon Gray was a prolific playwright whose later years saw him...
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Born in 1936 in Hampshire, England, Simon Gray was a prolific playwright whose later years saw him acclaimed for The Smoking Diaries, a series of insightful, often irreverent memoirs in which he delves deep into the human experience, tackling themes of ageing, vulnerability, and...
Maps Mania
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Automating my backups with restic and anacron I've been running my backups by hand1 every week on my laptop for as long as they've been set...
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I've been running my backups by hand1 every week on my laptop for as long as they've been set up. Automating them was something important but was on the back burner, because, well, it never felt very important. Then I lost a few days of work when my SSD died, and it felt more...
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Raspberry Pi 400: first impressions <![CDATA[I bought a lovely little computer, a Raspberry Pi 400, and two accessories, a 64 GB Samsung...
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<![CDATA[I bought a lovely little computer, a Raspberry Pi 400, and two accessories, a 64 GB Samsung Pro Endurance microSD card to hold the file system and a very cheap Full HD webcam for video calls. Raspberry Pi 400, Samsung Pro Endurance 64 GB microSD card, and Full HD webcam...
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Where You Can't Afford to Live
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Escaping Flatland
Having a shit blog has made me feel abundant From Giacometti’s sketch book
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The sad compromise of “sponsored results” Google made a fortune and honed sponsored search results into an art form. The theory is that people...
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Google made a fortune and honed sponsored search results into an art form. The theory is that people who want the traffic the most will pay for the clicks, and of course, if the advertisers don’t have something you ultimately want, they’ll just waste their money. Let the market...
Maps Mania
Reconstructing the Ancient Trade Routes
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Classical Wisdom
The Ancient World's Greatest Disaster And Most Mysterious...
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Retail Design Blog
CASETiFY Dosan flagship store by Crosby Studios There’s no denying, Seoul has the most exciting retail scene of the planet, and it has been like...
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This Home's Addition Is Designed To Feel Like You've Stepped Into The Garden BENT Architecture has shared photos of a project they designed in Victoria, Australia, that included...
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BENT Architecture has shared photos of a project they designed in Victoria, Australia, that included the design of a rear extension that answers the statement, "Imagine if your home could feel like living in a garden pavilion".
Scarlet Ink
Don't Let Others Run Your Life — Cut Your Schedule Like a Slasher Movie If you don't make hard choices to focus on your top priorities, then you're choosing to fail at your...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'How It Sounds When Read Out Loud' Our eighth-grade English teacher, Miss Clymer, had us open the textbook to a poem written...
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Our eighth-grade English teacher, Miss Clymer, had us open the textbook to a poem written seventy-five years earlier and picked students to read aloud each of its four, eight-line stanzas. She suggested we pay attention to who is speaking, as the poem is written as a dialogue...
TheCollector
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Map of the Week
Terrain Representations from the Atlas of Design In last week’s post I reviewed Volume 7 of the Atlas of Design. As an occasional cartographer I have...
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In last week’s post I reviewed Volume 7 of the Atlas of Design. As an occasional cartographer I have been interested in how topography is represented in maps for a long time. This atlas volume provides many contrasting examples. From the “cartographic realism” of Tom Patterson’s...
macwright.com
Recently October was another pleasantly busy month in Brooklyn. Really took advantage of the breadth of New...
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October was another pleasantly busy month in Brooklyn. Really took advantage of the breadth of New York culture: I saw an opera at the Metropolitan Opera House, and then went to see prog-metal band Polyphia play guitar solos as fast as possible. At the latter, there were multiple...
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Under One of the most formal elements in Central Park is the Bethesda Fountain and Terrace, just south of...
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One of the most formal elements in Central Park is the Bethesda Fountain and Terrace, just south of The Lake. The terrace overlooks the fountain from the elevation of the 72nd Street crosstown drive, and has three sets of stairs leading down; the undercroft of the terrace is a...
Londonist
Bits Of London That Aren't In The Bit Of London They Say They Are In, But In Another Bit Of London If you see what we mean.
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Realize Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Please make sure to buy all smbc products before...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Please make sure to buy all smbc products before deciding to tune out of consumer culture. Today's News:
The Marginalian
May Sarton on Generosity “Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you,” Annie Dillard wrote in her...
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“Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you,” Annie Dillard wrote in her beautiful essay on generosity. “You open your safe and find ashes.” I feel this truth deeply, daily — for nearly two decades of offering these writings freely, I have lived by the...
Rozado’s Visual...
Out-of-office Donald Trump still more prominent in news media content than the current U.S.... In 2019, I helped my colleague Musa al-Gharbi document the extraordinary prominence of Donald Trump...
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In 2019, I helped my colleague Musa al-Gharbi document the extraordinary prominence of Donald Trump in news media content (see here). I have recently updated that previous analysis. Briefly stated, no U.S. president in recent history has received a similar amount of media...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Pensieve: Mar 9 2024 - on Dune 2 the jeff tang vs anton meetup today was a super interesting study in contrasts: Life vs Death
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Dustin Curtis
The 16-inch MacBook Pro: A Faster Horse From Apple’s announcement of the 16-Inch MacBook Pro a couple of weeks ago: “Our pro customers tell...
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From Apple’s announcement of the 16-Inch MacBook Pro a couple of weeks ago: “Our pro customers tell us they want their next MacBook Pro to have a larger display, blazing-fast performance, the biggest battery possible, the best notebook keyboard ever, awesome speakers and massive...
Noahpinion
Why Americans fear the AI future Five decades of rising inequality and slow growth have made us a less optimistic country.
a year ago
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The Day I Became A Software Engineer A single mindset shift that changed my entire attitude to software.
over a year ago
Seth's Blog
Easy/lazy tech journalism Choose either one: When a new technology comes out, review it breathlessly. Explain without nuance...
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Choose either one: When a new technology comes out, review it breathlessly. Explain without nuance or caution how it will instantly change the world. Go into the details of this first instantiation of it and assume it will never change, it’s done, here we go. When a new...
History Today Feed
The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off JamesHoare Wed, 08/28/2024 - 11:18
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The Swazi kingdom and its neighbours in the 19th century: from the rise of Zulu to the British an island in the maelstrom
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In-depth: PostHog vs Heap Want to know how PostHog and Heap are different? If you remember nothing else, remember these two...
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Want to know how PostHog and Heap are different? If you remember nothing else, remember these two points: Heap is a product analytics tool designed…
TheCollector
The Khrushchev Thaw: Relaxation of Soviet Repressions undefined
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Second Winds Why are so many famous YouTubers quitting? A legendary essay by Václav Havel — a Czech playwright...
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Why are so many famous YouTubers quitting? A legendary essay by Václav Havel — a Czech playwright and former President — helps to explain this trend.
TheCollector
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Steeplejacks Top Out the Chrysler Building,' A friend sent me a link to a 1978 BBC documentary about a working-class hero in England. I had never...
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A friend sent me a link to a 1978 BBC documentary about a working-class hero in England. I had never heard of Fred Dibnah, practitioner of a trade I didn’t know was still extant: steeplejack. In the words of the OED: “a person who climbs steeples or tall chimneys to repair them.”...
./techtipsy
btrbk is awesome I like having a safety net whenever I’m doing something potentially destructive, which is why I use...
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I like having a safety net whenever I’m doing something potentially destructive, which is why I use the btrfs file system for my operating system and my data. Snapshots are one half of my “whoops, there goes all my work” strategy (backups are the other half). I’ve written about...
Old Structures...
More Blatant Fakery First, a 1908 postcard, issued when the Singer Building was brand new: Second, a photo from about...
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First, a 1908 postcard, issued when the Singer Building was brand new: Second, a photo from about the same time: It’s standard practice in New York real-estate glamor pictures to pretend that the buildings between you and the subject don’t exist. Narrow streets and big buildings...
TheCollector
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Steve Blank
Why The Pentagon Can’t Count: It’s Time to Reinvent the Audit This article previously appeared in War on the Rocks. In the past, headlines about the Pentagon...
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This article previously appeared in War on the Rocks. In the past, headlines about the Pentagon failing its financial audit again would never have caught my attention. But having been in the middle of this conversation when I served on one of the Defense Department’s advisory...
TheCollector
What Is Catholic Social Teaching? 7 Key Themes undefined
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Why I ditched Google Analytics and Mixpanel for PostHog By Colin Wren, Co-founder of Reciprocal.dev . It took me until I built my second product, ...
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By Colin Wren, Co-founder of Reciprocal.dev . It took me until I built my second product, Reciprocal.dev , to really understand the value of…