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Calculated Risk
Leading Index for Commercial Real Estate Increased 6% in January From Dodge Data Analytics: Dodge Momentum Index Grows 6% in January The Dodge Momentum Index (DMI),...
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From Dodge Data Analytics: Dodge Momentum Index Grows 6% in January The Dodge Momentum Index (DMI), issued by Dodge Construction Network, grew 5.6% in January to 225.7 (2000=100) from the revised December reading of 213.6. Over the month, commercial planning increased 4.2% while...
UX Collective
A UX perspective on the geopolitical AI race Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
5 months ago
A Beautiful Site
Don't hate on PHP It wasn't long after launching a major open source PHP project until I started hearing things like...
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It wasn't long after launching a major open source PHP project until I started hearing things like this: I [...] immediately drop interest in a project when I see that it is implemented in PHP. A lot of people have been hating on PHP in recent years, and frankly, they have every...
Himanshu Mishra |...
आंसुओं के बिंब से छलकती हुई दुनिया, देखी थी मैंने एक बार
over a year ago
alexwlchan
Moving my YouTube Likes from one account to another I used to have two YouTube accounts, and I wanted to consolidate them into one. I had two accounts...
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I used to have two YouTube accounts, and I wanted to consolidate them into one. I had two accounts as a way to keep two separate watch histories. I was watching videos about gender and trans stuff before I came out, and I didn’t want them appearing in my main account – say, when...
Seth's Blog
The 77% threshold When the gas car was first introduced, it couldn’t compete with horses. After all, we’d had...
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When the gas car was first introduced, it couldn’t compete with horses. After all, we’d had thousands of years to optimize our systems around horseback, and this new technology was still nascent. Roads were rare, gas stations were scarce and the cars themselves were unreliable....
Rest of World -...
Influencers are getting young Nigerians hooked on online gambling While sports betting is legal in Nigeria, experts say the government should have more oversight on...
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - OK Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The worst part is this is all happening in his VR...
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2 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The worst part is this is all happening in his VR headset. Today's News:
The Changelog
Recommendations for Tools for Backing Up and Archiving to Removable Media I have several TB worth of family photos, videos, and other data. This needs to be backed up — and...
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I have several TB worth of family photos, videos, and other data. This needs to be backed up — and archived. Backups and archives are often thought of as similar. And indeed, they may be done with the same tools at the same time. But the goals differ somewhat: Backups are...
Rest of World -...
Using AI to revive nostalgia — and preserve Hong Kong’s past Michael Chang, CEO of Capture.HK, talks about how the company helps digitize old albums and video...
a year ago
Archinect - Features
'What Is Truly Good About AI, Nobody Has Probably Thought of Yet'; A Conversation with... To many, Richard Saul Wurman is inevitably introduced as "the man who created TED." Since Wurman...
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To many, Richard Saul Wurman is inevitably introduced as "the man who created TED." Since Wurman organized the first TED conference in 1984, the organization's library has expanded to over 4,300 publicly available videos from some of the world's greatest minds about some of...
Arduino Blog
Technology meets creativity in two interactive art student projects Art and engineering are not separate concepts. There is a great deal of overlap between the two and...
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Art and engineering are not separate concepts. There is a great deal of overlap between the two and many modern disciplines increasingly blur those lines. Mónica Riki is an “electronic artist and creative coder” who embodies that idea: you might remember her and her incredible...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Single Line Comments in CSS Brad Frost noted on Twitter how he recently made a website with plain HTML, CSS, JS, etc., and found...
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Brad Frost noted on Twitter how he recently made a website with plain HTML, CSS, JS, etc., and found himself missing some of the ergonomics from Sass. Having mostly abandoned Sass on personal projects, I was curious what he felt was missing. He mentioned nesting media queries,...
Jonas Hietala
Computer upgrade After 5 years or so I’ve made a large upgrade to my desktop, and this post contains details and some...
a year ago
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a year ago
After 5 years or so I’ve made a large upgrade to my desktop, and this post contains details and some pictures about the process. It was time I didn’t really want to do an upgrade right now, but I felt I had to do it. Sometimes the lag had gotten very noticeable, for example when...
symmetry magazine
Applications of quantum mechanics at the beach How does sunscreen work on the atomic level?
a year ago
Elad Blog
Discussion w Arthur Mensch, CEO of Mistral AI Mistral launched multiple LLM models in less then 1 year from founding. We discuss
a year ago
Arduino Blog
7 powerful ways to integrate Collaborative Coding into education with the Arduino Cloud Collaborative coding in education can be a game-changer for students, providing them with real-world...
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9 months ago
Collaborative coding in education can be a game-changer for students, providing them with real-world skills in communication, teamwork, and problem-solving. With the new collaborating coding feature of the Arduino Cloud, students can collaborate in real time on coding projects,...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Seven Minutes on David Letterman Abandon it in a garden and it may never catch anyone’s gaze. Lost in plain sight, it could be...
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Abandon it in a garden and it may never catch anyone’s gaze. Lost in plain sight, it could be mistaken for an odd stone or the tip of a dark root protruding from the earth. The steel egg is alien, not beautiful in the way humans have decided is appropriate for display in art...
Computer Things
Logical Quantifiers in Software I realize that for all I've talked about Logic for Programmers in this newsletter, I never once...
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I realize that for all I've talked about Logic for Programmers in this newsletter, I never once explained basic logical quantifiers. They're both simple and incredibly useful, so let's do that this week! Sets and quantifiers A set is a collection of unordered, unique elements....
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Immeasurable Impact Jerod has a good post on The Changelog contrasting the different ways of measuring impact. One way...
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Jerod has a good post on The Changelog contrasting the different ways of measuring impact. One way to measure impact is breadth (i.e. virality): Virality is all about breadth of impact: your content reaching as many people as possible as fast as possible. This feels great and is...
Yale E360
A.I. Is Quietly Powering a Revolution in Weather Prediction Weather forecasts powered by artificial intelligence are usually more accurate — and require less...
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Weather forecasts powered by artificial intelligence are usually more accurate — and require less computational energy and fewer human hours — than conventional predictions. But questions remain about A.I. systems’ reliability and their ability to forecast extreme weather...
TheCollector
Old World vs. New World: Time to Abolish These Outdated Concepts? “New World” and “Old World” are concepts still widely used to refer to the Western and Eastern...
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“New World” and “Old World” are concepts still widely used to refer to the Western and Eastern Hemispheres, respectively, first adopted in European society after Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas in 1492. Sixteenth-century European cartographers consolidated the terms,...
bunnie's blog
Non-Destructive Silicon Imaging (and Winner of Name that Ware December 2022) The ware for December 2022 is an AMD Radeon RX540 chip, part number 216-0905018. Congrats to SAM for...
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The ware for December 2022 is an AMD Radeon RX540 chip, part number 216-0905018. Congrats to SAM for guessing the ware; email me for your prize. The image is from Fritzchen Fritz’s Flickr feed; I recommend checking out his photos (or you can follow him on twitter). Even if you...
Diaries of Note
I can’t find the words Andy Horwitz had been sitting at his desk for a quarter of an hour when a loud bang shattered the...
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Andy Horwitz had been sitting at his desk for a quarter of an hour when a loud bang shattered the morning calm. The time was 8:46 a.m., and the first of two planes had just been flown into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center that stood two blocks from his office. But soon...
abdz.do - Have you...
Thought-provoking series of 3D numbers for the Imperial Business School Thought-provoking series of 3D numbers for the Imperial Business School ...
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Thought-provoking series of 3D numbers for the Imperial Business School abduzeedo0428—23 OPX Studio recently created a series of 3D numbers for an education-focused publication, designed by Made Up Studio, that is both visually stunning and...
HTMHell
Get that marquee ✨AeStHeTiC✨ With the current Y2K fashion trend and JLo being back together with Ben Affleck, the 2000s are...
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With the current Y2K fashion trend and JLo being back together with Ben Affleck, the 2000s are having a revival this year. Many brands are jumping onto the boat by creating websites with an “old-school” vibe. SEPRONIC WORLD by Thea Wood on Behance The marquee element is an old...
Unfiltered by Tim...
Quiet People in Meetings Are Incredible Knowing when not to talk is an art.
7 months ago
Londonist
Concrete Beauty Of The National Theatre Captured In This Abstract Exhibition Amelia Lancaster has been photographing it for over 20 years.
a year ago
The Turn Signal RSS...
Apple's Risky Bet on CarPlay Drivers love CarPlay. Apple's WWDC 22 keynote revealed that And it's easy to see why. Even compared...
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Drivers love CarPlay. Apple's WWDC 22 keynote revealed that And it's easy to see why. Even compared to the best native infotainment…
Charles Chen
Server Sent Events with .NET 7 An HTTP alternative to web sockets that makes it easy to push events from the server.
a year ago
Liz Denys
I've been programming since I was 10, but I don't feel like a 'hacker' When I was 10, I was programming in Logo after being introduced to it in my school's required...
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When I was 10, I was programming in Logo after being introduced to it in my school's required computer class. Our teacher did not once call this programming; it was just another project among ones that usually weren't programming. I generalized almost every exercise - something...
Trying to Understand...
A Swan-song For Europe It didn't have to be this way.
4 months ago
Open Culture
Hear the World’s Oldest Instrument, the “Neanderthal Flute,” Dating Back Over 43,000 Years Several years ago, we brought you a transcription and a couple of audio interpretations of the...
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Several years ago, we brought you a transcription and a couple of audio interpretations of the oldest known song in the world, discovered in the ancient Syrian city of Ugarit and dating back to the 14th century B.C.E.. Likely performed on an instrument resembling an ancient lyre,...
99% Invisible
Maximum Temperature [EPISODE] The impacts of climate disasters are often measured in terms of property damage. But in places like...
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The impacts of climate disasters are often measured in terms of property damage. But in places like Phoenix, Arizona, and in hot places all over the world, climate change is wreaking a very different kind of havoc – on living things. In the final episode of Not Built for This, we...
TheCollector
The History & Beliefs of Anglicanism Henry VIII wanted an heir. Catherine of Aragon could not provide him with an heir, so he wanted the...
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Henry VIII wanted an heir. Catherine of Aragon could not provide him with an heir, so he wanted the marriage annulled since divorce was not an option. When the pope refused, most likely due to potential political repercussions, Henry VIII decided to reject the authority of the...
The Convivial...
Care, Not Control The Convivial Society: Vol. 4, No. 11
over a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Candy Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Bet if you get close to those peppermints they're...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Bet if you get close to those peppermints they're covered with dead flies. Today's News:
Quanta Magazine
To Move Fast, Quantum Maze Solvers Must Forget the Past Quantum algorithms can find their way out of mazes exponentially faster than classical ones, at the...
a year ago
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Quantum algorithms can find their way out of mazes exponentially faster than classical ones, at the cost of forgetting the path they took. A new result suggests that the trade-off may be inevitable. The post To Move Fast, Quantum Maze Solvers Must Forget the Past...
Noahpinion
Where China is beating the world On high-speed rail, EVs, and solar, China is doing truly amazing things.
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
My Life as a Con Man Confidence is a dual edged sword. I trafficked in confidence when I was in finance, and now I see it...
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Confidence is a dual edged sword. I trafficked in confidence when I was in finance, and now I see it everywhere I look.
PostHog's RSS Feed
In-depth: PostHog vs Kubit Kubit is a product analytics platform built for product teams. PostHog, on the other hand, is built...
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Kubit is a product analytics platform built for product teams. PostHog, on the other hand, is built primarily for engineers. In this article we’ll…
Founder's blog
Speeding up a huge multi-tenant SaaS database Here's a little story of how we sped up our SaaS backend with a one-liner magic silver...
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Here's a little story of how we sped up our SaaS backend with a one-liner magic silver bullet The problem Our SaaS is powered by a huge multi terabyte "multi tenant" relational database cluster. Some tables are more than 200 GB - this is crazy, to be honest. And for the...
Julia Evans
Making crochet cacti I noticed some tech bloggers I follow have been making April Cools Day posts about topics they don’t...
a year ago
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I noticed some tech bloggers I follow have been making April Cools Day posts about topics they don’t normally write about (like decaf or microscopes). The goal isn’t to trick anyone, just to write about something different for a day. I thought those posts were fun so here is a...
Luxagraf:...
Notes From The Road Your browser does not support video playback via HTML5. Watch on YouTube
over a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Illusion Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I got this idea from a story I can't remember, only...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I got this idea from a story I can't remember, only that it had the line 'I will show you the power of illusion' and was, possibly, from the Hindu tradition. Anyone know it? Today's News:
Common Edge
Mass Timber Construction Is Evolving Rapidly With owners and developers warming up to plyscrapers, wood-based projects are on an upward...
a year ago
Asterisk
Artificial Wombs When? What to expect when you’re expecting in 2050.
a year ago
Daniel De Laney
Artificial Intelligence In 2018 I worked with argodesign on an artificial intelligence client project, and Fast Company...
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In 2018 I worked with argodesign on an artificial intelligence client project, and Fast Company published an article on our work: This Is The World’s First Graphical AI Interface. For confidentiality reasons I can’t publicly go into more detail on the project than to link to that...
The Elysian
Do we still want the future desired by the past? Why three socialist utopian novels are still relevant 100 years later.
9 months ago
Contemporist...
Round Windows Cover The Exterior Of This New Library Architecture firm fjcstudio has shared photos of Liverpool Civic Place and Yellamundie Library,...
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Architecture firm fjcstudio has shared photos of Liverpool Civic Place and Yellamundie Library, recently completed in Sydney, Australia.
TheCollector
What Was the Temple in Ancient Judaism? (Purpose & Significance) The Temple in Jerusalem was the structure that replaced the Tabernacle the Israelites traveled...
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The Temple in Jerusalem was the structure that replaced the Tabernacle the Israelites traveled around with throughout their sojourn in the desert. For 40 years, and even after that, from when the Israelites conquered the promised land until their third king was crowned, the tent...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Über Kollusion
over a year ago
Matt Blewitt
Software Sprezzatura Sprezzatura is “a certain nonchalance, so as to conceal all art and make whatever one does or says...
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Sprezzatura is “a certain nonchalance, so as to conceal all art and make whatever one does or says appear to be without effort and almost without any thought about it”, coined by Castiglione in 1528’s The Book of the Courtier.
TheCollector
10 Must-See Ancient Monuments Around the World Ancient times refer to the period spanning from the early development of human civilizations to the...
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Ancient times refer to the period spanning from the early development of human civilizations to the end of classical antiquity, roughly 3000 BCE to 500 CE. This era saw the rise of powerful empires, complex societies, and remarkable advancements in art, architecture, and...
computers are bad
2023-10-03 overheard overhead Let's talk about overhead paging. The concept goes by various names: paging, public address, even...
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Let's talk about overhead paging. The concept goes by various names: paging, public address, even intercom, although the accuracy of the latter term can be questionable. It's probably one of the aspects of business telephone systems that gets the most public attention, on account...
Passing Time
On For Grantedness Finding secular thankfulness
over a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
7 New Attractions in California Travelers Should Know About
a year ago
Arduino Blog
Hey Google! Meet Arduino Cloud We’re excited to announce that the Arduino Cloud now supports Google Home™! This means you can now...
a year ago
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We’re excited to announce that the Arduino Cloud now supports Google Home™! This means you can now interact with your devices, simply through your Google Home Assistant: use voice commands, the Google Home app, or create new routines integrating Arduino solutions.  This new...
Construction Physics
What Happened to the US Machine Tool Industry? Machine tools – machines that cut or form metal – are the heart of industrial civilization....
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Machine tools – machines that cut or form metal – are the heart of industrial civilization. Sometimes called “mother machines” (because they’re machines that make other machines), machine tools are required to make almost everything. Nearly every manufactured good is made using...
alexwlchan
create_thumbnail: create smaller versions of images I’ve made a new command-line tool: create_thumbnail, which creates thumbnails of images. I need...
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I’ve made a new command-line tool: create_thumbnail, which creates thumbnails of images. I need image thumbnails in a lot of projects, and I wanted a single tool I could use in all of them rather than having multiple copies of the same code. It takes three arguments: Your...
Quanta Magazine
Invisible ‘Demon’ Discovered in Odd Superconductor Physicists have long suspected that hunks of metal could vibrate in a peculiar way that would be all...
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Physicists have long suspected that hunks of metal could vibrate in a peculiar way that would be all but invisible. Now physicists have spotted these “demon modes.” The post Invisible ‘Demon’ Discovered in Odd Superconductor first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Steve Klabnik
Transmuting Philosophy into Machinery
over a year ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Christmas Special
over a year ago
Diaries of Note
I look forward to the operating theatre as a happy release The prospect of Christmas was rarely a thrill for Evelyn Waugh, the famously grumpy author behind...
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The prospect of Christmas was rarely a thrill for Evelyn Waugh, the famously grumpy author behind razor-edged novels like Brideshead Revisited. But even for Waugh, the back-end of 1946 was particularly trying. Not only was he surrounded by the family who so regularly irritated...
CONTEMPORIST
A Large Pergola Helps This Home Seamlessly Blends Indoor And Outdoor Spaces Architecture firm Studio Saxe, together with interior design studio Sofía Interiorismo, has shared...
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Architecture firm Studio Saxe, together with interior design studio Sofía Interiorismo, has shared photos of a home they completed in Costa Rica, that seamlessly blends indoor and outdoor living. This home embodies sustainable living, generating its energy from the sun while...
Jonas Hietala
Recent experiences with Netrunner tournaments After a bit of a hiatus after the Winter Kit Tournament the 16th January I participated in three...
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over a year ago
After a bit of a hiatus after the Winter Kit Tournament the 16th January I participated in three tournaments during February - March. After each of these tournaments I started a writeup of them but they fell off my mind a bit but consider this my break with my blogging...
The Works in...
Issue 13: Deep heat Plus: the cocktail revolution, how war improved European states, and the mathematical basis of the...
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Plus: the cocktail revolution, how war improved European states, and the mathematical basis of the Industrial Revolution
Koos Looijesteijn -...
Why is open source software so badly designed? “It could have been so great, but why is it so ugly and difficult to use?” people trying open...
over a year ago
Trying to Understand...
I Have No Brain But I Must Scream. But why aren't people in other countries listening?
a year ago
TokyoDev
Rails Girls Nagasaki 1st Recap Last weekend I was at [Rails Girls Nagasaki 1st](https://railsgirls.com/nagasaki.html) - the first...
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Last weekend I was at [Rails Girls Nagasaki 1st](https://railsgirls.com/nagasaki.html) - the first Rails Girls event in Nagasaki - as both an attendee and a speaker. It was a great experience where I was able to learn more about Rails, meet new people, make friends, practise...
One from Nippon
A peek into Japan’s Hot Springs Editor’s Note: Due to the sheer amount of interesting material here we decided to break this into a...
a year ago
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a year ago
Editor’s Note: Due to the sheer amount of interesting material here we decided to break this into a three-part article. We thank our avid reader “S” who suggested this topic and graciously helped with our research. Could a nation’s bathing culture be influenced by
Ryan Hoover's...
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over a year ago
Open Culture
Coursera Offers $120 Off of Coursera Plus (Until September 30), Giving You Unlimited Access to... A quick reminder: As the new school year gets underway, millions of students are heading back to...
9 months ago
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A quick reminder: As the new school year gets underway, millions of students are heading back to classrooms. And you can too. From now until September 30, 2024, Coursera is offering a 30% discount on its annual subscription plan called “Coursera Plus.” Normally priced at $399,...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Einstein Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Also every headline in astronomy should lead with...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Also every headline in astronomy should lead with Ptolemy Wrong Again. Today's News:
Seth's Blog
Culture, care and typography I’ve been fascinated by the way we set type since I did my first packaging forty years ago. It’s a...
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I’ve been fascinated by the way we set type since I did my first packaging forty years ago. It’s a combination of tech, art, systems, culture and most of all, deciding to put in the effort to get it right. [This is a long post, it would have been a podcast, but it doesn’t really...
Good Enough
Strong Prototypes, Weakly Held Excuse any obtuse thoughts that make their way into this writing. I sat down to type with My Life in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Excuse any obtuse thoughts that make their way into this writing. I sat down to type with My Life in the Bush of Ghosts by Brian Eno and David Byrne as my soundtrack. This is an album I've never listened to before, and apparently I'm supposed to love it or hate it. Mostly the...
Seth's Blog
Getting precise about tolerance Tolerance is an engineering term. When the parts of a car are made to a low tolerance, that means...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Tolerance is an engineering term. When the parts of a car are made to a low tolerance, that means that they fit perfectly. A modern Lexus is a better car than a 1976 Nova because relentless improvement means that the parts are more exact. Tolerance is a design term. When a system...
The Marginalian
The Half-Life of Hope After breaking out of timidity with “Spell Against Indifference,” an offering of another poem — this...
a year ago
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After breaking out of timidity with “Spell Against Indifference,” an offering of another poem — this one inspired by a lovely piece of science news that touched me with its sonorous existential echoes. THE HALF-LIFE OF HOPE by Maria Popova Walking beneath the concrete canopy...
Blog - Bitfield...
Programming with confidence: TDD in Go There’s an easy, pleasant, and reliable way to build software in Go, guided by tests. Let’s find...
a year ago
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There’s an easy, pleasant, and reliable way to build software in Go, guided by tests. Let’s find out what it’s like to program with confidence, in the first part of this TDD tutorial series.
Platformer
13 predictions for platforms in 2023 Twitter! ChatGPT! Content moderation! And more
over a year ago
The Honest Broker
We Need More Jazz Vinyl Cafés And I have a hunch we will get them
a year ago
Quantum Frontiers
The rain in Portugal My husband taught me how to pronounce the name of the city where I’d be presenting a talk late last...
a year ago
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My husband taught me how to pronounce the name of the city where I’d be presenting a talk late last July: Aveiro, Portugal. Having studied Spanish, I pronounced the name as Ah-VEH-roh, with a v partway to a hard b. … Continue reading →
Ben Borgers
AI is an impediment to learning web development
12 months ago
Rest of World -...
Scammers are cashing in on Worldcoin’s chaotic Kenya launch Without a cash withdrawal option, Kenyans are turning to the country’s informal crypto economy — and...
a year ago
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Without a cash withdrawal option, Kenyans are turning to the country’s informal crypto economy — and some are losing their coins in the process.
The personal website...
The Role of Doubt in Design At a recent happy hour, I struck up a conversation with a product manager. I told him I was a...
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over a year ago
At a recent happy hour, I struck up a conversation with a product manager. I told him I was a product designer, and he asked “one of the good ones, or one of the bad ones?” A designer on his team — a “bad one” — asked too many questions. Questions like “Why are we building this...
Calculated Risk
Schedule for Week of April 13, 2025 The key reports this week are March Retail Sales and Housing Starts. ----- Monday, April 14th...
3 months ago
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The key reports this week are March Retail Sales and Housing Starts. ----- Monday, April 14th ----- No major economic releases scheduled. ----- Tuesday, April 15th ----- 8:30 AM: The New York Fed Empire State manufacturing survey for April. The consensus is for a reading of...
The Honest Broker
Half of Waking Hours Are Now Devoted to Entertainment An Executive Briefing Paper on Arts, Media & Culture
a year ago
Commoncog
Building a Valuable Business? It's How You Spend It That Matters The skill of capital allocation — a mysterious, under-discussed element of remarkable business...
a year ago
The Marginalian
May Sarton on Generosity “Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you,” Annie Dillard wrote in her...
a year ago
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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...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Cult Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Just because Scandinavians do it doesn't mean it's...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Just because Scandinavians do it doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. Today's News:
Marcus on AI
Deep Research, Deep Bullshit, and the potential (model) collapse of science Sam Altman’s hype might just bite us all in the behind
5 months ago
TheCollector
Marina Abramović Unveils Interactive Digital Art Project Starting this summer, Marina Abramović will release a series of NFT drops as part of a new project...
3 months ago
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Starting this summer, Marina Abramović will release a series of NFT drops as part of a new project called Marina Abramović Element (MAE). According to a recent press release, the project was born from the artist’s interest in connecting the inherent immateriality of performance...
journal – Winnie Lim
eating hot and cold in fukuoka Today we managed to find a cafe with some outdoor seating for breakfast. It was 12 degrees celsius,...
a year ago
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Today we managed to find a cafe with some outdoor seating for breakfast. It was 12 degrees celsius, and I was half-expecting to see no tables outside despite the google listing showing...
Working Theorys
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The recent discovery of King Thutmose II’s long-lost royal tomb has been touted as Egypt’s most impressive archaeological find since King Tut. Now, just days later, the same archaeologists say there is a yet-undiscovered second tomb of Thutmose II located nearby.   The Royal...
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Alexander Butler | Design Services has shared renderings and photos of a small renovation project they completed in New York. The project included the creation of a home office and laundry room. We don’t often get to see the design stage of a project; usually, it’s just the...
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Hazel Weakly, you little troublemaker.  As I whined to Hazel over text, after she sweetly sent me a preview draft of her post: “PLEASE don’t post this! I feel like I spend all my time trying to help bring clarity and context to what’s happening in the market, and this is NOT...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve been thinking a lot recently about when the right time is to start marketing a startup. In my previous startup [http://myonepage.com], we were hesitant to attempt to get press early. We were...
TheCollector
What Do Pentecostals Believe? The Pentecostal Movement exploded onto the ecclesiastical scene in 1906, and the growth of this...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
The Pentecostal Movement exploded onto the ecclesiastical scene in 1906, and the growth of this movement has been remarkable. The origins of Pentecostalism can be traced to Topeka, Kansas, and the ministry of Charles Parham, but it was not until a student of Parham moved to Los...
Good Enough
TIL: Turbo Stream broadcasting needs default_url_options to be set We've been using Turbo Streams in some of our recent prototypes, which makes it really easy and fun...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We've been using Turbo Streams in some of our recent prototypes, which makes it really easy and fun to get responsive and fun interactions set up. However, we kept having issues with images sent in a turbo stream response. If the response was delivered by a normal controller...
Abort Retry Fail
The History of Windows 3 Windows becomes competitive
a year ago
Retail Design Blog
Lindt Premium Collection by Derek&Eric Lindt Premium Collection – The Art of Chocolate Lindt masters the art of crafting indulgent...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Lindt Premium Collection – The Art of Chocolate Lindt masters the art of crafting indulgent chocolate, elevating technical skill to...
Noahpinion
Come watch my live chat with Paul Krugman today! Tune in at noon Pacific/3 PM Eastern
5 months ago
The Rational Walk
The Digest #201 Daily Journal, The Oresteia, Elon's compensation, TSMC, Banks in disguise, Reading about stupidity,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Daily Journal, The Oresteia, Elon's compensation, TSMC, Banks in disguise, Reading about stupidity, Zweig on Ben Graham's continued relevance, 3G Capital, Morgan Housel, Christopher Tsai
On the Arts
Winter as Reading Season David Foster Wallace on the necessity of quiet time in order to read.
a year ago
A Beautiful Site
JSON Feed JSON Feed is a lot like RSS, except instead of XML it's formatted with JSON. It's a rather new spec,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
JSON Feed is a lot like RSS, except instead of XML it's formatted with JSON. It's a rather new spec, introduced just last week, but it's been getting some major coverage and a number of applications have already started supporting it. Since Postleaf was built for the modern...
David Heinemeier...
The new Framework 13 HX370 The new AMD HX370 option in the Framework 13 is a good step forward in performance for developers....
3 months ago
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3 months ago
The new AMD HX370 option in the Framework 13 is a good step forward in performance for developers. It runs our HEY test suite in 2m7s, compared to 2m43s for the 7840U (and 2m49s for a M4 Pro!). It's also about 20% faster in most single-core tasks than the 7840U. But is that...
MMapped blog
The off-chain reporting protocol
a year ago
Quanta Magazine
The Quest to Quantify Quantumness What makes a quantum computer more powerful than a classical computer? It’s a surprisingly subtle...
a year ago
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a year ago
What makes a quantum computer more powerful than a classical computer? It’s a surprisingly subtle question that physicists are still grappling with, decades into the quantum age. The post The Quest to Quantify Quantumness first appeared on Quanta Magazine
swyx's site RSS Feed
Compile Svelte in Your Head by Tan Li Hau Linking to a blogpost I was too lazy to do
over a year ago
Jorge Arango
Jorge’s Wager: Why AI Needs Information Architecture One of the most common questions I’m asked is, “is information architecture still relevant now that...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
One of the most common questions I’m asked is, “is information architecture still relevant now that we have AI?” Of course, not everyone puts it like that. Instead, they’ll say things like “we won’t need navigation if we have chat” or “AI will organize the website” or “in a world...
Ploum.net
La colère de l’écrivain La colère de l’écrivain RAPPEL: je serai à Louvain-la-Neuve mardi 10 décembre à 19h à La Page...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
La colère de l’écrivain RAPPEL: je serai à Louvain-la-Neuve mardi 10 décembre à 19h à La Page d’Après pour ma dernière rencontre de l’année. Rencontre Littéraire Bikepunk avec Ploum (mobilizon.fr) Comme je l’explique dans la suite de ce billet, le succès de Bikepunk a pris le...
Retail Design Blog
Bursa bar by Nastia Mirzoyan This Bar is a reflection of contemporary Japanese culture immersed in the world of cocktails and...
a year ago
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a year ago
This Bar is a reflection of contemporary Japanese culture immersed in the world of cocktails and music. Located in the...
TheCollector
Amaterasu, the Mercurial Goddess of the Sun in Japanese Mythology When something is 100% certain, we often say that it’s “as sure as the sun rises in the east.”...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
When something is 100% certain, we often say that it’s “as sure as the sun rises in the east.” That’s because the sun is the most dependable thing in all of human history. Except perhaps in Japanese mythology. Personified by the goddess Amaterasu (lit. “Heaven Shining”), one of...
alexwlchan
Finding the biggest items in my Photos Library I’m approaching the limit of my current iCloud storage tier, and most of that is my Photos...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’m approaching the limit of my current iCloud storage tier, and most of that is my Photos Library. I don’t really want to pay for the next iCloud storage tier – I’d be tripling my bill, but I’d barely use the extra space. (My library grows pretty slowly – I’ve only added ~6GB of...
Yale E360
Solving my fun, frustrating docker-machine error Last Saturday, I ran into a problem doing a routine backup of a web app I maintain. In fact, this...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Last Saturday, I ran into a problem doing a routine backup of a web app I maintain. In fact, this was the second time I ran into the exact same issue, so it's time to write it down. (Hopefully, the third time I run into this, I have the presence of mind to look up my own...
Old Structures...
Coincidence I couldn’t remember if I’ve written about Manhattanhenge before – we’re up over 3000 blog posts, so...
a year ago
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a year ago
I couldn’t remember if I’ve written about Manhattanhenge before – we’re up over 3000 blog posts, so who knows what I’ve written about at this point – but it turns out I did, twice, five years ago and six years ago. Everything I said then is still true: I find people lining up to...
Mazdak
Big Tech Ad Boom Tech giants are raking in cash as the digital ad market explodes!
8 months ago
African History...
a brief note on the African exploration of Asia plus; the African presence in Japan (1543-1639)
a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Why developers hate being interrupted I stumbled across a post today (that unfortunately no longer exists) and I was almost convinced that...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I stumbled across a post today (that unfortunately no longer exists) and I was almost convinced that I had written it myself. Many of the points in it hit home, so I hope it helps people better understand how developers think and what they go through when interruptions arise. One...
Open Culture
A 6‑Step Guide to Zen Buddhism, Presented by Psychiatrist-Zen Master Robert Waldinger Robert Waldinger works as a part-time professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, but he also...
a year ago
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a year ago
Robert Waldinger works as a part-time professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, but he also describes himself as a “Zen master.” This may strike some listeners as a presumptuous claim, but he has indeed been officially accepted as a rōshi in two different Zen lineages in...
Josh Thompson
Injury Impedes Improvement Kristi and I have been in Colorado for three months, I’ve been climbing regularly for two, I am back...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Kristi and I have been in Colorado for three months, I’ve been climbing regularly for two, I am back in shape and it feels good. I am tempted to throw myself into climbing again. To climb every day, or maybe every other day, and finish every session with training. But here’s the...
Common Edge
On the Value of Miniatures and Scale Models Thinking small can help us answer the challenges of our time.
7 months ago
journal – Winnie Lim
first impressions of khao yai Khao Yai is about 2 – 3 hours drive from bangkok airport. For the past few years we usually go to...
a week ago
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a week ago
Khao Yai is about 2 – 3 hours drive from bangkok airport. For the past few years we usually go to places where we don’t have to drive because I tend to...