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Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 9-10 December 2023 Drag brunch, wheelchair basketball, life drawing, and a sci-fi film all-nighter.
a year ago
The Convivial...
If Your World Is Not Enchanted, You're Not Paying Attention The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 11
4 months ago
./techtipsy
ThinkPad as a server: third time's the charm This is a follow-up to my two previous attempts on this topic: Can a laptop from 2012 be a viable...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
This is a follow-up to my two previous attempts on this topic: Can a laptop from 2012 be a viable home server? ThinkPad as a server: the follow-up Since then, I’ve had quite a few changes to my home server setup: I put my home server stuff on an IKEA pegboard I tried the...
Words and Buttons...
Rational interpolation Rational interpolation is a step forward from polynomial interpolation towards rational splines....
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9 months ago
Rational interpolation is a step forward from polynomial interpolation towards rational splines. With rational interpolation, you can build functions that run through a set of points and also have vertical asymptotes whenever you want. With this capability, you can now model...
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Graduated It seemed like just yesterday that Twelve Mile Circle chronicled the kid who designed an imaginary...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
It seemed like just yesterday that Twelve Mile Circle chronicled the kid who designed an imaginary town and counted various forms of transportation. Now my elementary aged student is all grown up, a newly-minted university graduate. Those interceding years passed much more...
Evan Jones -...
Network Latencies in the Data Center Jeff Dean used to do a talk that included "Numbers Everyone Should Know" (2007 at Stanford, 2009 at...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Jeff Dean used to do a talk that included "Numbers Everyone Should Know" (2007 at Stanford, 2009 at LADIS), which included "round trip within same data center" as 500 us. I was recently wondering if that is still true, and more importantly what does the distribution of latencies...
Seth's Blog
A good idea, well executed Why isn’t this enough? There are plenty of good ideas, easy to learn from and copy. There are...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Why isn’t this enough? There are plenty of good ideas, easy to learn from and copy. There are countless projects, well executed, with the steps on display. Any entrepreneur could find a local business and bring a version of it from over here to over there. And a social change...
TheCollector
The Spartan Revolution: The Unlikely Revival of Hellenistic Sparta undefined
5 months ago
The Modern House
New Wave: seven coastal homes for sale in Kent and Sussex In the middle of the 19th century, well-meaning Victorian doctors would advise their patients to...
a year ago
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a year ago
In the middle of the 19th century, well-meaning Victorian doctors would advise their patients to take ‘the sea cure’. Dutifully, they would go to the coast – particularly in the south – bathe in the waters and draw in lungfuls of salty air. Smart promenades, […]
AFAR Media - Travel...
Review: What It’s Like to Fly JetBlue to Paris
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...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Drivers love CarPlay. Apple's WWDC 22 keynote revealed that And it's easy to see why. Even compared to the best native infotainment…
Noahpinion
At least five things for your Thanksgiving weekend (#20) The OpenAI coup, "deaths of despair", Japan's stagnation, solar panel waste, and the Inequality Wars
a year ago
nanoscale views
Rice University Academy of Fellows postdoc opportunity, 2023 As I have posted in previous years, Rice has a university-wide endowed honorific postdoctoral...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As I have posted in previous years, Rice has a university-wide endowed honorific postdoctoral program called the Rice Academy of Fellows.   Like all such things, it's very competitive. The new application listing has gone live here with a deadline of January 4, 2023. ...
TheCollector
Which Countries Were Major Players in World War II? undefined
10 months ago
TheCollector
The Remarkable Life of Charles Dickens: Hard Times & Great Expectations undefined
22 hours ago
The Elysian
Elysian gatherings around the world Picnic with me in New Zealand, Australia, Japan, and San Francisco.
4 days ago
The Codist
How To Know When It's Time To Go I retired in 2021 at 63.5 after about four decades as a programmer. What made me do this was not...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
I retired in 2021 at 63.5 after about four decades as a programmer. What made me do this was not failing ability in any way, but after a year of consideration, I realized I didn't care to do it anymore. Everyone will eventually reach a point at
A Weekly Dose of...
The Minimal Intervention The Material Imagination Birkhäuser, October 2022 Paperback | 5 x 7-1/4 inches | 166 pages | 13...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The Material Imagination Birkhäuser, October 2022 Paperback | 5 x 7-1/4 inches | 166 pages | 13 illustrations | English (translated from German by Jill Denton) | ISBN: 9783035625301 | $26.99 PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION: Lucius Burckhardt (1925–2003) outlined his theory of the...
Raptitude.com
Two Ways to Change Your Momentum This is hardly a brilliant insight, but I’ve noticed that making small, “good” decisions early in...
a month ago
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a month ago
This is hardly a brilliant insight, but I’ve noticed that making small, “good” decisions early in the day makes the whole day work better. If I wake up and avoid screen time and loafing around, I get more and better work done, I make more sensible meal choices, I’m less needy and...
TheCollector
How the Iroquois Confederacy Inspired the US Women’s Rights Movement undefined
8 months ago
Paul Graham: Essays
After Credentials
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
WebAssembly is more than just the web
over a year ago
Trying to Understand...
China And Russia Walk Into A Room. And don't say a word about Europe.
6 months ago
Escaping Flatland
Having a shit blog has made me feel abundant From Giacometti’s sketch book
3 months ago
HTMHell
The hidden attribute in HTML by Ahmad El-Alfy The hidden attribute allows us to hide HTML elements from the page. When it was...
a year ago
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a year ago
by Ahmad El-Alfy The hidden attribute allows us to hide HTML elements from the page. When it was introduced, it worked in a very simple way: it set the CSS display property to none. Many people voiced concerns because here we are, mixing styles with markup again. To be fair, this...
Quentin Santos
Rust Strings for C Programmers This article will quickly explain the Rust types [T; N], &[T; N], &[T], Vec<T>, &Vec<T> with C code,...
a week ago
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a week ago
This article will quickly explain the Rust types [T; N], &[T; N], &[T], Vec<T>, &Vec<T> with C code, and what the str, &str, String, OsString and CString add. Arrays and Slices Rust C [T; N] (array)Example: [i32; 100]Allocated on the stack T[N]Example: int[100]Allocated on the...
Joel Gascoigne
Reflecting on ways to bootstrap a startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * If you are a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * If you are a first time startup founder, or have done a few projects but are still working either full-time or freelancing part-time, you are likely to struggle to find investment for your startup...
The Pragmatic...
Apple: The Only Big Tech Giant Going Against the Job Cuts Tide Of the biggest tech companies, only Apple has not executed major job cuts. But why is this, and can...
a year ago
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a year ago
Of the biggest tech companies, only Apple has not executed major job cuts. But why is this, and can we now expect it to follow suit by shedding workers?
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Size markets using narratives, not numbers Anyone who has pitched VCs knows they are obsessed with market size.  If you can’t make the case...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Anyone who has pitched VCs knows they are obsessed with market size.  If you can’t make the case that you’re addressing a possible billion…
Moneyness
Thoughts on the Tornado Cash defence and what happens when everyone adopts it Payments companies are regularly punished for engaging in money laundering. MoneyGram, for instance,...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Payments companies are regularly punished for engaging in money laundering. MoneyGram, for instance, has has to pay multiple fines. Western Union was famously busted in 2017. Meanwhile, Cash App is being probed as we speak for inadequate anti-money laundering controls. In the...
balajis.com
The Fiat Crisis This is not a financial crisis. It’s a fiat crisis.
a year ago
Making software...
Easy Toggle Switches Easy Toggle Switches 2019-02-18 Sometimes there is a need to use toggle elements in-place of the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Easy Toggle Switches 2019-02-18 Sometimes there is a need to use toggle elements in-place of the default checkbox inputs. The problem is, I tend to see a lot of developers reaching for plugins or JavaScript components in order to implement these toggles. This is overkill. You can...
TheCollector
What Is Thatcherism? undefined
11 months ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Superlinear Returns
a year ago
HTMHell
Never underestimate HTML by Lara Aigmüller “HTML is easy.”, “Frontend development is easier than backend development.”,...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
by Lara Aigmüller “HTML is easy.”, “Frontend development is easier than backend development.”, “Updating the UI should be a simple task once the backend is ready.”—these and other similar statements reached my ears time and again during my career as a web developer. Very often,...
Vadim Kravcenko
Managing difficult software engineers In the grand scheme of a software engineering path, there’s a thread that weaves through every...
a year ago
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a year ago
In the grand scheme of a software engineering path, there’s a thread that weaves through every project, every failure, and […] The post Managing difficult software engineers appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Val Sopi
The downsides of building in public <p>I first started "building in public"&nbsp;back in 2017.</p> <p>Not sure if the term existed back...
a year ago
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a year ago
<p>I first started "building in public"&nbsp;back in 2017.</p> <p>Not sure if the term existed back then, but I started talking about my newest product at the time (Claritask), which I ended up <a href="https://bootstrapping-saas.transistor.fm/episodes/claritask-sold"...
Liz Denys
Sometimes, the outside is inside Just a few pages off the bustling infinite corridor, there's another hallway, but unlike the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Just a few pages off the bustling infinite corridor, there's another hallway, but unlike the infinite, it has four-story-high glass ceilings, my favorite piece favorite piece from the Percent-for-Art Program, and no traffic. The exterior of building 6C fascinates me. The...
Math Is Still...
A New Agenda for Low-Dimensional Topology This past October, dozens of mathematicians gathered in Pasadena to create the third version of...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
This past October, dozens of mathematicians gathered in Pasadena to create the third version of “Kirby’s list” — a compendium of the most important unsolved problems in the field. The post A New Agenda for Low-Dimensional Topology first appeared on Quanta Magazine
The Honest Broker
How Picasso Turned Me into a Strategy Consultant I share a shameful incident from my student days
6 months ago
balajis.com
All It Takes Is All You Got Your assets are the government's collateral.
8 months ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
Lufthansa Strives to for More Eco-Friendly Air Travel
2 months ago
TheCollector
Who Is Pina Bausch? undefined
8 months ago
nanoscale views
Tour de force work: Bragg, diffraction, and diamond There are some examples of scientific progress that just seem so far above and beyond the norm, it's...
a year ago
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a year ago
There are some examples of scientific progress that just seem so far above and beyond the norm, it's almost jaw dropping in terms of the mental leap needed for the insight.  One example that I always liked to point out to first-year undergrads learning about gravity is Johannes...
Paul Graham: Essays
The Anatomy of Determination
over a year ago
The Great Discontent...
Brian Eno From pioneering ambient music and ever-evolving light paintings to innovating production styles,...
a year ago
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a year ago
From pioneering ambient music and ever-evolving light paintings to innovating production styles, installations, and strategies of surrender, Brian Eno’s work occupies a rare space in this world with an imprint as deep as it is wide. For the Roxy Music founder, art is the kind of...
Liz Denys
Some not-so-secrets of my kitchen I spend a lot of time sharing the secrets of my cooking and my baking, but today, I'm sharing some...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I spend a lot of time sharing the secrets of my cooking and my baking, but today, I'm sharing some of the secrets of my kitchen. Actually, they're not so secret to anyone who's had a peek around my kitchen. Oven thermometer(s) For about five dollars, you can ensure your cookies...
The Modern House
Surman Weston’s light-led creation of a family home in south London
9 months ago
computers are bad
2023-02-07 secret government telephone numbers Very nearly a year ago, I wrote a popular article about secret military telephone buttons. To be...
a year ago
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a year ago
Very nearly a year ago, I wrote a popular article about secret military telephone buttons. To be clear, the "secret" here was a joke and these buttons are in fact well documented. The buttons I was talking about were the AUTOVON call precedence buttons, used for a five-level...
Rest of World -...
The augmented-reality app helping Muslims pray toward Mecca Miqat uses 360-degree views and mapping software to help users determine the exact right direction...
2 months ago
Liz Denys
6/8 time, beat on the dotted quarter, 60 bpm My subconscious seems to be running in 6/8 time with the beat on the dotted quarter and 60 beats per...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My subconscious seems to be running in 6/8 time with the beat on the dotted quarter and 60 beats per minute; at least, whenever I sit down at a piano without sheet music in front of me, I always converge on that setting. Sometimes, I write some of these musings down: I've...
Steve Klabnik
Extracting domain models: a practical example
over a year ago
One Useful Thing
Something New: On OpenAI's "Strawberry" and Reasoning Solving hard problems in new ways
3 months ago
Daniel Immke's Blog...
Making noisy SVGs Addendum Dec 7, 2023 One of my ongoing fixations with the web is how improvements in technology...
a year ago
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a year ago
Addendum Dec 7, 2023 One of my ongoing fixations with the web is how improvements in technology inform web design. In an earlier post this…
Willem's Blog
Limitations of sleep tracking using a wearable Limitations of heart rate analyses during sleep, why you should reconsider tracking your sleep.
over a year ago
The Modern House
Contrast is king at this Camberwell townhouse
a year ago
A Beautiful Site
What can you do with a single <div>? If I told you to make something using only CSS and a single <div>, would you be able to create...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If I told you to make something using only CSS and a single <div>, would you be able to create something incredible? That's exactly what Lynn Fisher has been doing with A Single Div. Using only a single HTML element and some CSS, she's created some shockingly complex artwork...
Style over Substance
3D-printable Raleno 104 lightbox adapter for camera film scanning My latest creation is a 3D-printed adapter for the Raleno PLV-S104 (Raleno 104) light. The model...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My latest creation is a 3D-printed adapter for the Raleno PLV-S104 (Raleno 104) light. The model turns it into a lightbox that you can use for digital camera scanning of your negative film. It also contains a holder compatible with the Valoi 35mm/120 film carriers. Additionally,...
Math Is Still...
Two Students Shoot Down a Widely Believed Math Conjecture Mathematicians thought they were on the cusp of proving a conjecture about the ancient structures...
a year ago
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a year ago
Mathematicians thought they were on the cusp of proving a conjecture about the ancient structures known as Apollonian circles. But a summer project would lead to its downfall. The post Two Students Shoot Down a Widely Believed Math Conjecture first appeared on Quanta...
Seth's Blog
The Big-O conundrum In computer science, Big-O notation is a way of talking about what happens to a solution method when...
a year ago
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a year ago
In computer science, Big-O notation is a way of talking about what happens to a solution method when the inputs start to increase. For example, sorting numbers is an easy problem when there are only five or six, but when you have to sort 5,000, a totally different algorithm is...
The Oatmeal - Comics...
How my pets see me I created a little animation about how I see my pets versus how they see me. View on my website
a year ago
Simply Explained
My Sixth Year as YouTube Creator (statistics + retrospective) Every new year I reflect on the previous year and set new goals. Last year has been my most...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Every new year I reflect on the previous year and set new goals. Last year has been my most successful year on YouTube so far, and I'd like to share some statistics and thoughts. I will also go over how my email newsletter is doing and where I'm headed. And finally, I'll set...
The Rational Walk
The Digest #162 Volcker on inflation, Parametric insurance, The futility of guidance, Corporate governance reform,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Volcker on inflation, Parametric insurance, The futility of guidance, Corporate governance reform, Keeping a notebook, Singleton and Teledyne, The pros and cons of cancer screening
NeuroLogica Blog
What Policies Affect Climate Change? What is the potential for climate change policy to affect climate change? I often discuss, here and...
a year ago
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a year ago
What is the potential for climate change policy to affect climate change? I often discuss, here and on the SGU, the science of climate change, and specifically focus on what we can do about it, mostly by reducing our CO2 emissions. Often I get push back explicitly promoting the...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Supervised Learning: VC Dimensions It's not venture capital, that's for sure
over a year ago
Res Obscura
Why I love etymologies Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words matters
Math Is Still...
The Brain Region That Controls Movement Also Guides Feelings The cerebellum is responsible for far more than coordinating movement. New techniques reveal that it...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
The cerebellum is responsible for far more than coordinating movement. New techniques reveal that it is, in fact, a hub of sensory and emotional processing in the brain. The post The Brain Region That Controls Movement Also Guides Feelings first appeared on Quanta...
bt RSS Feed
Mini Interactive Keyboard with Pure CSS Mini Interactive Keyboard with Pure CSS 2020-05-13 Lately, I’ve become obsessed with trying to see...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Mini Interactive Keyboard with Pure CSS 2020-05-13 Lately, I’ve become obsessed with trying to see what I can create using only HTML and CSS (besides websites of course). Since playing with the concept of faking 3D elements, I wanted to circle back around to an older CodePen I...
Mazdak
Regulating Crypto Eighteen states are suing the SEC over Biden's crypto crackdown. Is this the beginning of the end...
a month ago
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a month ago
Eighteen states are suing the SEC over Biden's crypto crackdown. Is this the beginning of the end for crypto, or a necessary step towards mainstream adoption?
Old Structures...
Travelog: Far From Home Traveling to another country usually gets you views of a built environment that is in some respects...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Traveling to another country usually gets you views of a built environment that is in some respects fundamentally different than the one you’re used to. London is, for a New Yorker, the worst place in the UK to get that feeling because of the many similarities between the two...
Maps Mania
The Global Birdspotting Map
a year ago
Blog - Practical...
Why Railroads Don't Need Expansion Joints [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] One of the most common...
a year ago
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a year ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] One of the most common attributes folks imagine when they think of trains is the clickety-clack sound they make as they roll down the tracks. The thing is, most trains don’t make that sound anymore. Or really,...
Transit Maps
Book Review: “Iconic Transit Maps” by Mark Ovenden, 2024 After 2003’s Metro Maps of the World and 2015’s Transit Maps of the World (our review here), this is...
6 days ago
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6 days ago
After 2003’s Metro Maps of the World and 2015’s Transit Maps of the World (our review here), this is Mark Ovenden’s third offering on the subject of global transit maps and diagrams. The question to be asked, then, is simply – is a new book on the same subject worth it? In a...
Seth's Blog
And then that happened The world changes and we have a choice: • Fight hard to keep it the way it was. • Notice what...
a year ago
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a year ago
The world changes and we have a choice: • Fight hard to keep it the way it was. • Notice what happened and then decide to do something with that insight. Thirty years ago, AOL was my company’s biggest client. They charged users $3 an hour to use their precursor to the internet,...
Tony Finch's blog
Resurrected link log After an extremely long hiatus, I have resurrected my link log. As well as its web page,...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
After an extremely long hiatus, I have resurrected my link log. As well as its web page, https://dotat.at/:/, my link log is shared via: an Atom feed https://dotat.at/:/feed.atom the fediverse https://mendeddrum.org/@fanf Dreamwidth...
Jonas Hietala
2020 in review And so 2020 has come to an end. On a global scale it’s been quite a horrible year, and for me...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
And so 2020 has come to an end. On a global scale it’s been quite a horrible year, and for me personally it’s been both good and bad. Luckily we haven’t been directly affected by COVID too much, but it’s still been very disruptive. Either way as I’ve done for years now it always...
Liz Denys
Starlit sky coffee pitcher, 2024 Starlit sky on a clear night / the milky way / eternity / clarity / raindrops sticking to window...
8 months ago
History Today Feed
‘The Wild Men’, ‘The Men of 1924’ and ‘A Century of Labour’ review ‘The Wild Men’, ‘The Men of 1924’ and ‘A Century of Labour’ review JamesHoare Tue, 01/30/2024 -...
10 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Addict Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: A little microecon is okay. On weekends. Today's...
a month ago
Flashbak
Dear Dead Heads: Vintage Skull Postcards Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve been on the look out for more of these type of memento mori optical illusions. And now we’ve an entire set of skull postcards – many of which are available as postcards in the shop.  ...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, February 2023 The Ware for February 2023 is shown below. Just a small portion of the ware is shown here to make...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Ware for February 2023 is shown below. Just a small portion of the ware is shown here to make things a bit more challenging. If after a week it turns out to be too hard to guess based on the subtle details included in this image, I’ll add another image to this post with […]
Seth's Blog
What to do with firm footing If we’ve got tenure, a lifetime appointment or simply a really secure gig, what should we do with...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
If we’ve got tenure, a lifetime appointment or simply a really secure gig, what should we do with it? One option is to race to the bottom, to chase short-term self-focused outcomes and to see how much we can get away with. (Probably, quite a bit). The other is to take this rare...
Nat Eliason's...
Slow Habits Change without Force
4 months ago
Castles in the Sky
Do the weirdest thing that feels right. From "what to write" to "how to live"
a year ago
TheCollector
Emil Nolde: Great Painter of German Expressionism or Ardent Nazi? undefined
a week ago
SOCKS
A Building to Tell the Time: The Toghrol Tower in Rey, Iran (1063) The Toghrol Tower is a 20 meters high tower located in the city of Rey in Iran made of bricks and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The Toghrol Tower is a 20 meters high tower located in the city of Rey in Iran made of bricks and Sarooj, a water-resistant mortar. It was erected in 1063, and according to some sources, it was conceived as the tomb of Tuğrul Beg, the founder of the Seljuk dynasty. Other scholars...
Seth's Blog
Falling behind We’re not in races very often. Usually, what we’re doing is more like a walkathon, or perhaps, a...
a year ago
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a year ago
We’re not in races very often. Usually, what we’re doing is more like a walkathon, or perhaps, a hike. And yet, we’ve been pushed to believe that the only performance that matters is a scarcity-based victory. They close the parkway near my house on Sundays. As people pedal along,...
diamond geezer
Clandon and Hatchlands Yesterday I took the train to Surrey to tick off two more National Trust properties. Cost of...
a year ago
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a year ago
Yesterday I took the train to Surrey to tick off two more National Trust properties. Cost of off-peak return from Waterloo to Clandon: £14.50 Cost of off-peak return from Wimbledon to Clandon: £8.00 (so maybe do that) You alight the train a couple of stops before Guildford and...
Noahpinion
Does the notion of a "Global South" still make any sense? There are really four Global Souths.
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Failing to use HSL to do Palette Theming Learning from Slack and Refactoring UI to create color palettes, then using HSL colors to do...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Learning from Slack and Refactoring UI to create color palettes, then using HSL colors to do customizable theming with CSS variables
Liz Denys
Mornings are for madeleines Madeleines are probably my favorite baked good - both to eat and to make. They're rich in flavor,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Madeleines are probably my favorite baked good - both to eat and to make. They're rich in flavor, but light in texture. They're quick to make (hellooo, morning option), but don't get boring as they exercise good techniques (easy to learn good techniques, even). And they go really...
Oxide Computer...
RFD 1 Requests for Discussion One of the first things we did in setting up the company was create a repo named “rfd.” This repo...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
One of the first things we did in setting up the company was create a repo named “rfd.” This repo houses our requests for discussion. Bryan teased this to the internet… …and folks asked for our process, so we are going to share it! The best way to describe RFDs is with “RFD 1...
TheCollector
The Expanding Nation: How Westward Expansion Shaped Early US Elections undefined
2 months ago
This Space
"When now?" Out of curiosity, I read a few novels that over the last year have received the highest praise on...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Out of curiosity, I read a few novels that over the last year have received the highest praise on social media and literary podcasts, and have appeared multiple times in newspaper Books of the Year choices and on prize shortlists, and one that even won a prize. I wanted to see...
Koos Looijesteijn -...
The most important question in design: who’s gonna pay me? Have you ever worried about the real impact of your work? Done a project in an exploitive industry?...
a year ago
Seth's Blog
The Jenga situation When an organization first sets out to have an impact, it discovers that it has no customers, no...
a year ago
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a year ago
When an organization first sets out to have an impact, it discovers that it has no customers, no clients, no constituents. So it shows up, it makes an offer and it listens. The early days are exciting. Customers are seen and heard and served. Variations are created and value is...
Computer Ads from...
Applied Analytics' MicroSPEED Test-Fly A $20 Million Jet On An Apple? Yes. With MicroSPEED
6 months ago
Josh Comeau's blog
Promises From The Ground Up The “Promises” API is a surprisingly tricky part of modern JavaScript. Without the right context, it...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
The “Promises” API is a surprisingly tricky part of modern JavaScript. Without the right context, it doesn’t make much sense at all! In this tutorial, you’ll build an intuition for how Promises work by getting a deeper understanding of JavaScript and its limitations.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Temp Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Hey, at least Kelvins would've been worse? Today's...
10 months ago
TheCollector
Augusto Pinochet’s Brutal Rule: A Look Inside His Regime undefined
2 months ago
The Modern House
Carefully composed: the bright reimagining of a Victorian garden apartment
2 months ago
Bits about Money
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Diaries of Note
It may lack elegance, but is infallible Jules Renard was a French author and playwright born in 1864 who is probably best-known for Poil de...
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Jules Renard was a French author and playwright born in 1864 who is probably best-known for Poil de carotte (‘Carrot Top’), a darkly comical autobiographical novel in which he recalls his terrible upbringing as a red-headed child in a detached bourgeois family. Aside from his...
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The Story of Thebes From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten...
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From its captivating mythology and fantastic history, discover this important yet forgotten city-state...
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Are Robots About to Level Up? Today’s AI largely lives in computers, but acting and reacting in the real world — that’s the realm...
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Today’s AI largely lives in computers, but acting and reacting in the real world — that’s the realm of robots. In this week’s episode, co-host Steven Strogatz talks with pioneering roboticist Daniela Rus about creativity, collaboration, and the unusual forms robots of the future...
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This tedious battle against the mountain is almost over At 3:15 pm on 22nd May 1963, Luther ‘Lute’ Jerstad and his teammate Barry Bishop became the second...
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At 3:15 pm on 22nd May 1963, Luther ‘Lute’ Jerstad and his teammate Barry Bishop became the second and third Americans ever to reach the summit of Mount Everest, following an arduous journey that began alongside a formidable team of 17 other Americans, 32 Sherpas, and 909 porters...