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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Spot On Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This will be written one day when a traveler comes...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This will be written one day when a traveler comes upon the ruins of Ohio. Today's News:
Maps Mania
Slim City
8 months ago
Mazdak
Stock Buybacks: A Popular Yet Polarizing Practice Stock buybacks have become a prevalent practice in the financial world, but they also generate...
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Stock buybacks have become a prevalent practice in the financial world, but they also generate significant debate. This article dives into the concept of buybacks, explores their motivations, and examines the arguments for and against them. What are Stock Buybacks?
Seth's Blog
Feeding the algorithm The marketing consultant told the client that they have to post three times a day on LinkedIn. “It...
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The marketing consultant told the client that they have to post three times a day on LinkedIn. “It doesn’t matter if it’s good.” The SEO consultant explained that the website had to be loaded with keywords, and that a big budget needed to be set aside to develop inbound links....
Herbert Lui
Friends pay full price Several months ago, I met a new friend and gave them a copy of Creative Doing as a gift. They...
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Several months ago, I met a new friend and gave them a copy of Creative Doing as a gift. They responded that they would buy another copy, saying, “Friends pay full price.” It was refreshing, the complete flip of the usual friends and family discount. (Or in my case, giving gift...
Stephen Wolfram...
The Making of A New Kind of Science I Think I Should Write a Quick Book… In the end it’s about five and a half pounds of paper, 1280...
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I Think I Should Write a Quick Book… In the end it’s about five and a half pounds of paper, 1280 pages, 973 illustrations and 583,313 words. And its creation took more than a decade of my life. Almost every day of my thirties, and a little beyond, I tenaciously worked on it....
Ralph Ammer
Immanuel Kant—What can we know? If you are interested in truth, be it in the form of scientific knowledge or artistic beauty, there...
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If you are interested in truth, be it in the form of scientific knowledge or artistic beauty, there is no way around Immanuel Kant’s ‘Critique of Pure Reason’. In this book Kant asked the simple question: “What can we know?“ And his answer is foundational to how we experience and...
diamond geezer
Count update After a week of The Count, i.e. 25%, here's what I said I'd count and some of what you asked me to...
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After a week of The Count, i.e. 25%, here's what I said I'd count and some of what you asked me to count. Sorry, some of your suggestions proved terribly impractical. Count 1) Number of visits to this blog: 22300 Count 2) Number of comments on this blog: 209 Count 3) Number of...
TheCollector
How Did Libyan Migration Influence Egyptian Religion? undefined
a month ago
A Smart Bear
Not disruptive, and proud of it I remember "disruptive" when it was called a "paradigm shift." You should be worrying more about...
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I remember "disruptive" when it was called a "paradigm shift." You should be worrying more about making something people want to buy, and less about disrupting everything.
Passing Time
How Dangerous is Rock Climbing? There is an adage in climbing—there are old climbers, and there are bold climbers, but there are no...
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There is an adage in climbing—there are old climbers, and there are bold climbers, but there are no old bold climbers. I plan on getting pretty old.
Londonist
The Shard Is Lighting Up With The St George's Cross For The Lionesses Turns out The Shard is an England supporter.
a year ago
Daniel Marino
Making Generative Art I saw Joshua Davis give a talk over 10 years ago, and I was mesmorized. Not just by how engaging he...
11 months ago
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I saw Joshua Davis give a talk over 10 years ago, and I was mesmorized. Not just by how engaging he was, but more so with the work he was doing with generative art. I had never heard of generative art before, but I immediately fell in love with the concept of it. I like to draw,...
Old Structures...
The Back Side I’ve discussed the old Croton Distributing Reservoir several times before. It was the southernmost...
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I’ve discussed the old Croton Distributing Reservoir several times before. It was the southernmost visible part of New York’s first really good water system, and occupied the same spot that the New York Public Library does today: 40th to 42nd Street, from Fifth Avenue to a little...
Rest of World -...
Can a church exist exclusively on the internet? Inside the emerging virtual-preaching economy in internet-obsessed Kenya.
5 months ago
Explorations of an...
2022 Part 5: October, November, December (Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand) October I was only home from Peru for a week when it was time to leave on the next adventure. While...
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October I was only home from Peru for a week when it was time to leave on the next adventure. While Laura jetted off to Scotland to attend a friend's wedding, I flew to Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, located on the island of Borneo to lead a tour for Worldwide Quest. I really enjoyed...
Matt Mazur
Reflecting on My First Year as a Full Time Indie Founder At the beginning of 2023 I went full time on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker business, after 13...
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At the beginning of 2023 I went full time on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker business, after 13 years of working on it on the side. A year has passed, so I wanted to share an update on how things are going and some lessons learned. Preceden My main focus in 2023 was building AI...
./techtipsy
The optimization treadmill: why I keep changing my computing setup all the time I have a bad habit of changing my computing setups all the time. I tend to see new gear, then I...
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I have a bad habit of changing my computing setups all the time. I tend to see new gear, then I get some new ideas, and then I obsessively think about it for weeks and months until I just buy it. And then the cycle repeats. I’ve had time to think about why that keeps happening...
Arduino Blog
Zoo elephants get a musical toy to enrich their lives Everyone loves looking at exotic animals and most of us only get to do that at zoos. But, of course,...
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Everyone loves looking at exotic animals and most of us only get to do that at zoos. But, of course, there is a lot to be said about the morality of keeping those animals in captivity. So, good zoos put a lot of effort into keeping their animals healthy and happy. For more...
Grow With Less
Want More Traffic? Here Are 77 Headline Formulas You Need to Use! Your headline is the first part of your articles your readers see. And it may very well be the last...
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Your headline is the first part of your articles your readers see. And it may very well be the last part they see. That’s why a catchy headline is not nice to have, it’s essential. Without it your article may as well not exist because nobody will read it. But how do you write a...
Retail Design Blog
L’Oréal Office by M Moser Associates L’Oréal, a global leader in the beauty industry, recently collaborated with us to bring a new image...
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L’Oréal, a global leader in the beauty industry, recently collaborated with us to bring a new image and vision to...
Making software...
Easy Toggle Switches Easy Toggle Switches 2019-02-18 Sometimes there is a need to use toggle elements in-place of the...
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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
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky on Politics & Media undefined
a year ago
mtlynch.io
Go Programming Blueprints by Mat Ryer I’m a fan of Mat Ryer’s work, and his blog posts have had a significant impact on the way I program...
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I’m a fan of Mat Ryer’s work, and his blog posts have had a significant impact on the way I program in Go. I found the book hit or miss. Some chapters were fascinating and taught me valuable Go lessons, while others felt boring and got too bogged down in the minutiae of...
Londonist
Conkers In London: Where To Find Them, Where To Play Our hard-hitting guide.
a year ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
[Mirror] Central Planning as Overfitting
over a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Kid Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I mean it's frustrating. Why can't we just select...
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10 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I mean it's frustrating. Why can't we just select the year that the sun swallows the Earth and work backward? Today's News:
Lighthouse Blog
Hidden features
7 months ago
Seth's Blog
Redundancy has a half-life At first, this stop sign sign makes a lot of sense: Lives are at stake. Break the rhythm, turn...
11 months ago
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At first, this stop sign sign makes a lot of sense: Lives are at stake. Break the rhythm, turn something ignored into something noticed. The challenge with “highlighting” is that it fades. When everything is in all caps, nothing is. Exclamation points are like salt. When people...
Scarlet Ink
4 (More) Good Things and 2 (More) Bad Things and 2 Misunderstandings About Working at Amazon: From... A continuation of my previous article about my experiences at Amazon. What they do well, what they...
a month ago
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A continuation of my previous article about my experiences at Amazon. What they do well, what they don't do well, and in this article, I also mention a few common beliefs I disagree with.
Retail Design Blog
SUSHISAMBA Singapore Situated at the pinnacle of Singapore’s iconic Capital Tower, the newest member of the SUSHISAMBA...
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Situated at the pinnacle of Singapore’s iconic Capital Tower, the newest member of the SUSHISAMBA network, masterfully crafted by Kokaistudios,...
Willem's Blog
Minimalistic road bike with Gates carbon drive For the past few months I have been riding the Schindelhauer Siegfried Road bike with the Gates CDX...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
For the past few months I have been riding the Schindelhauer Siegfried Road bike with the Gates CDX Carbon Drive, read about this beautiful minimal bike in this post.
Londonist
The Archives With 100 Kilometres Of Historic London Documents LMA is a dream for lovers of London.
10 months ago
Melissa Penfold
ISABELLA’S INCREDIBLE CHRISTMAS COLLECTION It’s a bargain hunter’s paradise at Isabella Walker-Smith’s bumper Christmas Collection which has...
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a month ago
It’s a bargain hunter’s paradise at Isabella Walker-Smith’s bumper Christmas Collection which has stacks of table lamps in the style of Christian Liaigre, Kelly Wearstler, Ralph Lauren, and Aerin, from $80. There are quality travertine lamps, $280 a pair, and adorable rattan...
TheCollector
King Tut: The Life & Afterlife of the Boy Pharaoh undefined
a year ago
Seán Barry
Understanding TypeScript Generics TypeScript generics can be confusing for beginners. This article explains why they are useful and...
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over a year ago
TypeScript generics can be confusing for beginners. This article explains why they are useful and when to use them.
Asterisk
When Was the Last Time We Built a New City? California Forever wants to build a new city in Solano county. On paper, it would be an affordable,...
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9 months ago
California Forever wants to build a new city in Solano county. On paper, it would be an affordable, high-density urbanist wonderland — but can they actually pull it off?
HTMHell
#14 not my type Bad code <a type="button" class="button" href="/signup" tabindex="-1">Sign up</a> Issues and how to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Bad code <a type="button" class="button" href="/signup" tabindex="-1">Sign up</a> Issues and how to fix them The type attribute has no effect on the semantics of an <a> element. An anchor may have the type attribute, but the value should be a valid MIME type. Browsers may...
Calculated Risk
Q4 GDP Tracking: 2.1% to 3.3% Range From BofA: Since our last weekly publication, our 3Q GDP tracking estimate has moved up a tenth to...
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From BofA: Since our last weekly publication, our 3Q GDP tracking estimate has moved up a tenth to 3.0% q/q saar. Additionally, our 4Q US GDP tracker was unchanged at 2.1% q/q saar. [Dec 13th estimate] emphasis added From Goldman: We left our Q4 GDP tracking and domestic final...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Quadratic Payments: A Primer
over a year ago
The personal website...
How to get the best design feedback from your team In 2015, I wrote out my thoughts on creative feedback. Here’s that article in list format: Feedback...
over a year ago
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In 2015, I wrote out my thoughts on creative feedback. Here’s that article in list format: Feedback should be concise Feedback should be action-oriented Feedback should have a consistent format At the time, the Planetary design team was growing. We were grappling with one of the...
Common Edge
Light, Empathy, and Silence: The Architecture of Marina Tabassum A Q&A with the celebrated Bangladeshi designer.
7 months ago
Atoms vs Bits
My Cousin Went To Greece Once How relevant does your anecdote have to be before you'll mention it in a conversation?
a year ago
Tom Blomfield
Automate Everything Performing manual, repetitive tasks enrages me. I used to think this was a corollary of being a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Performing manual, repetitive tasks enrages me. I used to think this was a corollary of being a programmer, but I’ve come to suspect (or hope) that this behaviour is inherent in being human. But being able to hack together scripts simply makes it much easier to go from a state of...
CONTEMPORIST
A Modern Addition Is Perched Above This Home In Texas Architect Nicole Blair has shared photos of a modern addition that was built above an existing...
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Architect Nicole Blair has shared photos of a modern addition that was built above an existing bungalow in Austin, Texas. Owners Dylan and Annie, a landscape designer and a hairstylist, wanted to keep their backyard intact, and not move during construction nor disrupt the mature...
Paul Cudenec
The spirit of Sophia: our promise Our Beloved!
3 months ago
TheCollector
The Second Battle of El Alamein: How Was Rommel Defeated? undefined
8 months ago
Words and Buttons...
The Real C++ Killers (Not You, Rust) All the “C++ killers”, even these which I wholeheartedly love and respect like Rust, Julia, and D,...
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9 months ago
All the “C++ killers”, even these which I wholeheartedly love and respect like Rust, Julia, and D, help you write more features with fewer bugs, but they don't much help when you need to squeeze the very last FLOPS from the hardware you rent. As such, they don’t have a...
TheCollector
Anger & Sadness: How Do Stoics Handle These Emotions? undefined
11 months ago
Koos Looijesteijn -...
Build internal tools with YAML YAML is terrible, because a wrong indentation (was it spaces or tabs?) can break your application....
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YAML is terrible, because a wrong indentation (was it spaces or tabs?) can break your application. That aside, this looks very useful for many projects.
PostHog's RSS Feed
Why use feature flags? Benefits, types and use cases, explained What is a feature flag? Feature flags (aka feature toggles) are a powerful tool to help improve your...
a year ago
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What is a feature flag? Feature flags (aka feature toggles) are a powerful tool to help improve your product. They enable engineering teams to…
History Today Feed
Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs Petticoat Alley: London’s Forgotten Women’s Clubs JamesHoare Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:09
8 months ago
Retail Design Blog
Mooncake gift box set 1: Tianyun Yayue by BXL Packaging Design Grand Skylight Hotel and BXL have collaborated creatively to launch a mooncake gift box for the...
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Grand Skylight Hotel and BXL have collaborated creatively to launch a mooncake gift box for the Mid-Autumn Festival. Mooncake gift...
PHD Comics
12/14/21 PHD comic: 'To Touch The Sun' Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com ...
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Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com title: "To Touch The Sun" - originally published 12/14/2021 For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE!
bt RSS Feed
Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll 2019-11-01 After creating the ET-Jekyll theme almost two years ago, I...
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Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll 2019-11-01 After creating the ET-Jekyll theme almost two years ago, I finally got around to revamping the structure and improving a lot of minor performance issues. Items that have been surely needing of updates for the last couple of...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Writing raft ✏️⚡🔪 The club that’s write or die. If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all...
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over a year ago
✏️⚡🔪 The club that’s write or die. If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. – Stephen King, “On Writing” In 2022, I made a Ulysses pact to force myself to write—either write or feel the white-hot shame of (temporary)...
Computer Ads from...
Comics from 1982/02 Creative Computing Mag Time for some humor
7 months ago
Confessions of a...
Live Session: How Hyper-Threading (Simultaneous Multithreading) Works — A Microarchitectural... Learn about the microarchitecture implementation of SMT & its performance implications
6 months ago
TheCollector
The Art of Collage and Assemblage in Modern Art undefined
3 weeks ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
What does longevity medicine actually mean? | Out-Of-Pocket An interview with a practicing longevity medicine doctor
2 months ago
Identity Designed
Contemporary Art Now Designed by Knom, Madrid.
over a year ago
Retail Design Blog
32do Younghee Café and Restaurant by stof. + FFFAAARRR A new multi-dining space has opened in Seminyak, one of the most vibrant areas in Bali, Indonesia....
5 months ago
Making software...
Being More Efficient as a Designer and Developer Being More Efficient as a Designer and Developer 2019-09-28 I recently began working on a small side...
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Being More Efficient as a Designer and Developer 2019-09-28 I recently began working on a small side project (a marketing site / blog for an upcoming UX book I'm writing, but I have nothing to promote yet - sorry) and found myself circling around different static site generators...
Adventures In...
Analysis in the Browser Here is a two-pack with some small adventures with data in ArcGIS Online. The first is a smashing of...
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Here is a two-pack with some small adventures with data in ArcGIS Online. The first is a smashing of two fields into a new frankenfield ready for mapping, and the second shows how to create entirely new map layers and cram them with meaningful attributes. … Sometimes you have all...
Seth's Blog
Pay what you want It’s a fascinating payment model. For digital goods and other transactions where the marginal cost...
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It’s a fascinating payment model. For digital goods and other transactions where the marginal cost of one more sale approaches zero, “pay what you want” exposes how complicated the story we tell about money can be. When we add in the charity component, it becomes even more...
Mazdak
Buffett's $325 Billion Warning Is the legendary investor Warren Buffett sounding the alarm on the market? Berkshire Hathaway,...
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Is the legendary investor Warren Buffett sounding the alarm on the market? Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett's company, is sitting on a record $325 billion in cash after selling off major chunks of Apple and Bank of America stock.
Rest of World -...
Popular Chinese AI chatbots accused of unwanted sexual advances, misogyny Glow, known for its immersive role-play experience, lacks clear moderation rules.
a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
How to run a transparent startup There really hasn't been a single situation where transparency hasn't been to our company's...
over a year ago
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There really hasn't been a single situation where transparency hasn't been to our company's advantage. Most companies seem to share when necessary but…
swyx's site RSS Feed
Swyx Faves: Software Engineering Daily > "How to become a 10x engineer: listen to @software_daily everyday." - [Amjad...
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> "How to become a 10x engineer: listen to @software_daily everyday." - [Amjad Masad](https://mobile.twitter.com/amasad/status/956603016513167360)
Trying to Understand...
A Fistful of Clockwork Oranges What's it going to be, then?
a year ago
Willem's Blog
Your own addressbook and calendar cloud You can setup a CardDAV/CalDAV server to manage your own contacts, addressbook, agenda and task data...
over a year ago
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You can setup a CardDAV/CalDAV server to manage your own contacts, addressbook, agenda and task data and share it between your devices.
Lighthouse Blog
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Arduino Blog
This unique wall sconce welcomes you home with warm light Have you ever walked through your front door after a long day of work and realized that your home...
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Have you ever walked through your front door after a long day of work and realized that your home just isn’t as inviting as it seems like it should be? While it may not work miracles, some nice and welcoming lighting can make a big difference. That’s why Lauren Palazzi made this...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Copyright Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Honestly, if you think Present is bad you should've...
a year ago
The Diff
Social Media as a Test of Human-in-the-Loop Generative AI Plus! Holdcos; Cash and Control; War Economies; In-Kind Dividends; Currency
3 weeks ago
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...
abdz.do - Have you...
Lamborghini Performance footwear 3d concept Lamborghini Performance footwear 3d concept AoiroStudio0503—23 ...
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Lamborghini Performance footwear 3d concept AoiroStudio0503—23 Hussain Almossawi is a talented 3D artist and art director based in Brooklyn, NY, USA. Recently, he created a concept work that reimagines what would happen if Lamborghini, the...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Lessons learned porting 50k loc from Java to Go I was contracted to port a large Java code base to Go. The code in question is a Java client for...
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I was contracted to port a large Java code base to Go. The code in question is a Java client for RavenDB, a NoSQL JSON document database. Code with tests was around 50 thousand lines. The result of the port is a Go client. This article describes what I’ve learn in the...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - AAAAAAAAAAA Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Have you tried tuning out all your coping...
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Have you tried tuning out all your coping mechanisms and focusing entirely on your unresolvable problems? Today's News:
The American Scholar
Look Out! Why did it take so long to protect The post Look Out! appeared first on The American Scholar.
4 months ago
Noahpinion
Grading the economic schools of thought Who got the 2020s inflation right?
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Dread Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Humans all just get called FC, like it's their...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Humans all just get called FC, like it's their initials. Today's News: Last 72 hours!
Calculated Risk
Question #7 for 2025: How much will wages increase in 2025? Earlier I posted some questions on my blog for next year: Ten Economic Questions for 2025. Some of...
5 days ago
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5 days ago
Earlier I posted some questions on my blog for next year: Ten Economic Questions for 2025. Some of these questions concern real estate (inventory, house prices, housing starts, new home sales), and I posted thoughts on those in the newsletter (others like GDP and employment will...
TheCollector
4 Villains From the Arthurian Legends Who Really Existed undefined
3 months ago
Londonist
Where To Watch The Six Nations 2024 In London Watch rugby greats battle it out at these pubs and bars.
12 months ago
Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 25 September-1 October 2023 The best articles from the past week.
a year ago
Interaction Magic -...
3 tips for co-designing with kids Designing future sports products with a group of 11 year olds.
a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Passions and Perturbations of the Mind' In his Dictionary (1755), Dr. Johnson illustrates fifteen words with citations from Robert Burton’s...
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11 months ago
In his Dictionary (1755), Dr. Johnson illustrates fifteen words with citations from Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621): addle, colly, costard, doter, to filch, to fleer, giddyheaded, griper, hotspur, to macerate, muckhill, mutter, oligarchy, quacksalver and squalor....
Beautiful Public...
1,000 Photos of Dolphin Fins Scars, scratches and wounds abound in these photos as encounters with unknown creatures and boat...
a year ago
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a year ago
Scars, scratches and wounds abound in these photos as encounters with unknown creatures and boat propellers leave their marks, imprinting a story of close escapes and cheating death.
Lighthouse Blog
How to combine multiple RSS feeds in one view
7 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Happy Birthday Marcus Aurelius! A Celebration of Virtue
8 months ago
nanoscale views
Reading material - orders of magnitude and difficult times Over the past couple of weeks (and more) I have found a number of things to read that I wanted to...
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Over the past couple of weeks (and more) I have found a number of things to read that I wanted to pass on.  First, if you'd like a break from the seemingly continual stream of bad news in the world and enjoy good "think like a physicist"/dimensional analysis/order of magnitude...
On Life and Lisp
The Apple GPU and the Impossible Bug In late 2020, Apple debuted the M1 with Apple’s GPU architecture, AGX, rumoured to be derived from...
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In late 2020, Apple debuted the M1 with Apple’s GPU architecture, AGX, rumoured to be derived from Imagination’s PowerVR series. Since then, we’ve been reverse-engineering AGX and building open source graphics drivers. Last January, I rendered a triangle with my own code, but...
AFAR Media - Travel...
What is a Dahabiya? A Guide to This Nile Cruise Option
a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Merchants of complexity It's hard to sell simple, because simple looks easy, and who wants to pay for that? Of course,...
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It's hard to sell simple, because simple looks easy, and who wants to pay for that? Of course, everyone says they want something simple, but the way they buy reveals that they usually don't. This is the secret that the merchants of complexity have long since figured out. That...
mtlynch.io
How I Collected a Debt from an Unscrupulous Merchant A few years ago, I learned a handy technique for resolving disputes with uncooperative businesses....
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A few years ago, I learned a handy technique for resolving disputes with uncooperative businesses. It’s simple to understand and easy to implement. You don’t need lawyers or a prominent social media presence. All it requires is for you to behave like an organized professional....
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Southern Heat, Part 4 (Bug Loop) Sure, the southern United States has more than its fair share of pesky bugs that most people...
a year ago
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a year ago
Sure, the southern United States has more than its fair share of pesky bugs that most people actively avoid. Mosquitos, horseflies, and palmetto bugs probably top that list. So it probably sounds strange that we devoted an entire day to insects, particularly to the appreciation...
Diaries of Note
Why have children or plant trees? M.F.K. Fisher was an accomplished author and gastronome who brought the art of food writing into the...
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M.F.K. Fisher was an accomplished author and gastronome who brought the art of food writing into the realm of literature. From the age of nineteen she kept a journal, and this entry comes thirteen years down the line as she cared for her beloved husband, the writer and artist...
Blog posts of...
000 A Sci-Fi Short Story
a year ago
Castles in the Sky
You are Giants to Me Castles in the Sky #37
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This Glowing Garden Of 25,000 Illuminated Roses Has Returned The Ever After Garden returns.
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Seth's Blog
Niching up Along the way, folks have talked about “niching down” as a way to help a project find focus. But...
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Along the way, folks have talked about “niching down” as a way to help a project find focus. But that’s backward. When we identify and embrace the smallest viable audience, we’re moving up. Up the quality hierarchy. Up in responsibility. Up in the likelihood that we’ll make an...
Louwrentius
The kind of sound you never want to hear from your computer The sounds of hard drives that have perished These sounds are only frightening or scary if you...
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over a year ago
The sounds of hard drives that have perished These sounds are only frightening or scary if you imagine your precious data only exists on that failing drive. If you make consistent and frequent backups and/or you run a fault-tolerant RAID flavour, it is but a nuisance.
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...
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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,...
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Trying to Understand...
The Wages Of Fear Things are going to get sweaty, soon.
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Flashbak
Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021 Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded...
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Good Morning was an American political humor magazine, first published in May 1919. It was founded by Ellis O. Jones, a former associate editor of Life magazine and editor of Ladies’ Home Journal who once called for the US Army and Navy to be disbanded and went on to head the...
The Marginalian
Curiosity as an Instrument of Love: Thoreau and the Little Owl "If you would learn the secrets of Nature, you must practice more humanity than others."
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TheCollector
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Coding Horror
The 2030 Self-Driving Car Bet It's my honor to announce that John Carmack and I have initiated a friendly bet of $10,000* to the...
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over a year ago
It's my honor to announce that John Carmack and I have initiated a friendly bet of $10,000* to the 501(c)(3) charity of the winner’s choice: By January 1st, 2030, completely autonomous self-driving cars meeting SAE J3016 level 5 will be commercially available for
Math Is Still...
How Pools of Genetic Diversity Affect a Species’ Fate A new, deeper understanding of how the breeding structure of species affects their genetic diversity...
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A new, deeper understanding of how the breeding structure of species affects their genetic diversity is giving conservationists better tools for saving animals. The post How Pools of Genetic Diversity Affect a Species’ Fate first appeared on Quanta Magazine
TheCollector
What Defined the Roaring Twenties? undefined
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
Air Quality, Breathing, and Health | Out-Of-Pocket What we inhale is a public health issue
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Anecdotal Evidence
'A Songful, Tuneful Land' "None can care for literature in itself who do not take a special pleasure in the sound of names;...
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"None can care for literature in itself who do not take a special pleasure in the sound of names; and there is no part of the world where nomenclature is so rich, poetical, humorous, and picturesque as the United States of America.”  Robert Louis Stevenson means place names. He’s...
Anecdotal Evidence
'On the Cello of Shared Grief' With the deaths of certain writers our reaction is shamefully selfish: Why did he do that to me? No...
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With the deaths of certain writers our reaction is shamefully selfish: Why did he do that to me? No thought for family or friends, or even other readers, merely one’s sense of personal betrayal. That’s how I felt seven years ago when Richard Wilbur died at age ninety-six, as...
journal – Winnie Lim
did i just do my first pull-up? Wanted to write a note but I guess this warrants a proper post since I’ve completed my main...
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Wanted to write a note but I guess this warrants a proper post since I’ve completed my main aspiration for 2024! Today while trying our home pull-up bar I realised I could...
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Part 3: The first walkable city in America in a century A new city has been proposed in California, and I’ve never been more captivated by a vision for the...
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A new city has been proposed in California, and I’ve never been more captivated by a vision for the future of my home state in my lifetime. This post is part of a series I’m writing about this bold proposal. As an urbanism nerd, the aspect of California Forever’s plan that I was...
TheCollector
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Math Is Still...
Math That Lets You Think Locally but Act Globally Knowing a little about the local connections on flight maps and other networks can reveal a lot...
a year ago
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Knowing a little about the local connections on flight maps and other networks can reveal a lot about a system’s global structure. The post Math That Lets You Think Locally but Act Globally first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Maps Mania
Mapping the U.S. Electoral Divide
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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...
macwright.com
Recently We saw this Monarch butterfly caterpillar at the pretty unusual Naval Cemetery Landscape. The...
a year ago
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a year ago
We saw this Monarch butterfly caterpillar at the pretty unusual Naval Cemetery Landscape. The landscape is just native pollinators and native plants growing wild, with a wood platform above the field so you can walk around and see the bugs and plants. It’s also built on a...
The Convivial...
Embracing Sub-Optimal Relationships The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 10
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Posts on Nikita...
Inside New Query Engine of MongoDB Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. MongoDB has recently released a new query engine coming in...
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a year ago
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. MongoDB has recently released a new query engine coming in version 7.0. I was one of the people working on this engine during my 2 years in MongoDB and I would like to share some technical details about it. Disclaimer: Prior to writing this...
TheCollector
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Weighty Thoughts
What is Defensibility? Back to basics for AI startups and others
8 months ago
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Thales the Milesian Like a lot of things we think are obvious today, financial options were first invented by a...
over a year ago
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Like a lot of things we think are obvious today, financial options were first invented by a philosopher: There is the anecdote of Thales the…
Notes on software...
Go database driver overhead on insert-heavy workloads The most popular SQLite and PostgreSQL database drivers in Go are (roughly) 20-76% slower than...
a year ago
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a year ago
The most popular SQLite and PostgreSQL database drivers in Go are (roughly) 20-76% slower than alternative Go drivers on insert-heavy benchmarks of mine. So if you are bulk-inserting data with Go (and potentially also bulk-retrieving data with Go), you may want to consider the...
Construction Physics
Building Apollo A review of Angle of Attack: Harrison Storms and the Race to the Moon
a year ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, September 29, 2023 (On Academic Hiring) Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman...
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a year ago
Fireside this week! I know we’re all anxious to get to the last part of our look at the Roman Republic – a discussion of Roman courts and the legal system – but academic job season is upon us and I needed to take a week to focus on getting some of those applications out. …...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Out-Of-Pocket 2021 Predictions | Out-Of-Pocket the future is easy to predict right
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Paul Graham: Essays
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TheCollector
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5 months ago
Basta’s Notes
Gumby Coin: a story about a 1958 claymation character, cryptocurrency, and pizza A grift, a failure, or a mistake?
a year ago
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The state of plugins on PostHog Update (May 2022): Plugins are now known as apps ! The plugin server has become an integral part...
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Update (May 2022): Plugins are now known as apps ! The plugin server has become an integral part of PostHog, as it is responsible for event…
Global Inequality...
The three German fears Historical origins of the malaise
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Letters of Note
I miss you so very much, Ryan In December of 1984, 13-year-old Ryan White was given 6 months to live after contracting AIDS during...
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In December of 1984, 13-year-old Ryan White was given 6 months to live after contracting AIDS during a contaminated treatment for hemophilia, a blood condition with which he had lived since birth. By June of 1985, keen to resume as normal a lifestyle as possible, Ryan attempted...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Wow Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Earlier he changed his name to Emperor but nobody...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Earlier he changed his name to Emperor but nobody was buying it. Today's News:
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A Modern Landscape Was Designed For This Californian Backyard SUBU Design Architecture has shared photos of a landscape design they completed for a home in...
a year ago
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a year ago
SUBU Design Architecture has shared photos of a landscape design they completed for a home in California. The client asked the designers to create a kitchen garden and an outdoor gathering space for her large family to celebrate birthdays and holidays. One area of the yard was...
David Heinemeier...
A writer's Ruby Programmers at large seem eternally skeptical of style. And I’m not just talking about the...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
Programmers at large seem eternally skeptical of style. And I’m not just talking about the stereotype of nerds in uncoordinated outfits or using pocket protectors. But style in the broad sense of aesthetics. Many appear imbued with fundamental opposition to the idea that how...
sbensu
Industrial macros Most industry codebases use macros, aka code-generation to solve practical problems like talking to...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Most industry codebases use macros, aka code-generation to solve practical problems like talking to the database.
Posts on Made of...
Git in pictures In my previous blog post, I discussed how git is distinctive among version control system in the way...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In my previous blog post, I discussed how git is distinctive among version control system in the way in which it makes the backend model that is being used to store data the most important element of the tool, and that experts use it by having the complete model in their head,...
TheCollector
The Sand Creek Massacre: A Horrific Tale of Betrayal & Greed undefined
5 months ago
The Modern House
A Day Well Spent with Andu Masebo
a year ago
lcamtuf’s thing
A 15-minute intro to involute gears Involute gears are everywhere: toys, kitchen appliances, cars. But what's so special about their...
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Data Boutique
Problems When Disclosing How Data Is Collected Recent news highlights how in-house data collection might not be taken well by users.
a year ago
journal – Winnie Lim
practicing is also a practice Most skills if not all requires practice. Recently I realised to be capable of the discipline and...
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a year ago
Most skills if not all requires practice. Recently I realised to be capable of the discipline and regularity that practicing needs, is a practicable skill too. We think of discipline as some inherent character...
Maps Mania
Sea Level Rise Maps
a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Estimated Reading Time Widgets Beware ye who enter, here be personal opinions. I’ve never understood reading time estimation...
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3 months ago
Beware ye who enter, here be personal opinions. I’ve never understood reading time estimation widgets. Why did these get so popular? Is it because they’re easy? I mean, you can grab one off npm no problem. Baldur suggests a theory in his piece about estimated reading times: At...
TheCollector
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8 months ago
Londonist
High Rocks: Stunning Views, Steam Trains And 18th Century Graffiti Oh, and a top-notch pub right across the road.
a year ago
SatPost by Trung...
Amazon's $43B ad business, explained Jeff Bezos long shunned ads. However, Amazon's juicy first-party data has enabled it to compete with...
a year ago
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a year ago
Jeff Bezos long shunned ads. However, Amazon's juicy first-party data has enabled it to compete with Alphabet and Meta in the new digital advertising landscape.
Copper • A blog...
Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software Some of you might remember the legendary comment of Eric Diven on a Docker CLI issue he opened years...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Some of you might remember the legendary comment of Eric Diven on a Docker CLI issue he opened years ago: @solvaholic: Sorry I missed your comment of many months ago. I no longer build software; I now make furniture out of wood. The hours are long, the pay sucks, and there’s...
NeuroLogica Blog
Dog Soundboards I am a lifelong dog owner, and like many dog owners am often impressed with how smart my dogs have...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
I am a lifelong dog owner, and like many dog owners am often impressed with how smart my dogs have been. They pick up on subtle body language and non-verbal cues, they seem to understand specific words, and they are capable of successfully communicating their wants and desires....
Explorations of an...
Parque Provincial Caá Yarí Our swing through Misiones province of northeastern Argentina was coming to a close with just a...
a year ago
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a year ago
Our swing through Misiones province of northeastern Argentina was coming to a close with just a couple of days remaining. When researching this part of Argentina, I kept noticing one particular area that had a number of interesting eBird reports, but very little information on...
NeuroLogica Blog
Making Computers More Efficient An analysis in 2021 found that 10% of the world’s electricity production is used by computers,...
a year ago
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a year ago
An analysis in 2021 found that 10% of the world’s electricity production is used by computers, including personal use, data centers, the internet and communication centers. The same analysis projected that this was likely to increase to 20% by 2025. This may have been an...
Anecdotal Evidence
''In Prose, Plain as Pike, Pillory' Austin Clarke (1896-1974) was an Irish poet of the generation after Yeats, the slightly...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Austin Clarke (1896-1974) was an Irish poet of the generation after Yeats, the slightly older contemporary of Louis MacNeice and Patrick Kavanagh. In 1968 he published A Sermon on Swift and Other Poems, and the 117-line title poem appeared in The Massachusetts Review in 1970....
macwright.com
About Placemark.io Someone asked over email about why I stopped building Placemark as a SaaS and made it an open source...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Someone asked over email about why I stopped building Placemark as a SaaS and made it an open source project. I have no qualms with sharing the answers publicly, so here they are: I stopped Placemark because it didn’t generate enough revenue and I lost faith that there was a...
Castles in the Sky
Small Oven Syndrome A New Name for an Old Problem
a year ago
Citation Needed
Video: The Cryptocurrency Industry's Unprecedented Election Spending Let's talk about where the money came from, where it went, the cryptocurrency industry's political...
a month ago
AVC
Helium Mobile USV has been an investor in the Helium network since 2019. I have always loved the idea of using...
a year ago
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a year ago
USV has been an investor in the Helium network since 2019. I have always loved the idea of using web3 technologies to let consumers to “peer produce” a communications network creating a people-powered network. Helium started out powering communications between low-power “Internet...
Both Are True
parenting as improv yes and yes and yes and
2 months ago
diamond geezer
Bow Roundabout update #11 Major road works at the Bow Roundabout continue. They might even be halfway through, depending on...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
Major road works at the Bow Roundabout continue. They might even be halfway through, depending on when you think the start and finish dates are. new sliproad underneath the flyover is nearing completion. This'll carry westbound traffic from the contraflow lane on Stratford High...
Identity Designed
SeidrLab Designed by Mubien Brands, Santander.
a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Anatomy of a bad search result In a post last week, Paul Kedrosky noted his frustration when looking for a new dishwasher using...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In a post last week, Paul Kedrosky noted his frustration when looking for a new dishwasher using Google.  I thought it might be interesting…
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Homer: From 'Dark Ages' to Modernism
a year ago
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...
over a year ago
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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...
TheCollector
Brussels Statue Supposedly Damaged by Irish Tourist undefined
a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Don't Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump Don’t Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump 2022-09-10 Not enough people have personal blogs. This is a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Don’t Make a Blog, Make a Brain Dump 2022-09-10 Not enough people have personal blogs. This is a point brought up by many of those passionate about the “golden age” in the timeline of the modern internet. A time when websites were more like a small collection of winding...
The DESK Magazine
The best designers are artists As a young designer, I would have done everything to convince you that designers are not artists.
a year ago
This Space
39 Books: 1999 I've always preferred the Serpent's Tail edition of Pessoa's Book of Disquiet over the others...
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7 months ago
I've always preferred the Serpent's Tail edition of Pessoa's Book of Disquiet over the others published around the same time, such as from Quartet Encounters and Carcanet, the latter with a fussy variant on the title: The Book of Disquietude. But this one is the most pleasurable...
Paul Graham: Essays
The List of N Things
over a year ago
Making software...
Installing Ruby with RVM on Alpine Linux Installing Ruby with RVM on Alpine Linux 2023-03-16 For some on-going projects I need to switch to...
a year ago
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a year ago
Installing Ruby with RVM on Alpine Linux 2023-03-16 For some on-going projects I need to switch to different versions of ruby. Although there exist many step-by-step instructions on installing and configuring rvm for most Linux distros, there aren't many focused on Alpine "daily...
Old Structures...
Raking Sunlight Pro tip, as computer manuals said back when (a) everyone was not yet comfortable using a computer...
a year ago
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a year ago
Pro tip, as computer manuals said back when (a) everyone was not yet comfortable using a computer and (b) computer manuals still existed: environmental conditions can help in building investigation. For example, I like conducting facade inspections on very cold days because you...
Open Culture
What Is Religion Actually For?: Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury Weigh In In the nineteen-sixties, the music media encouraged the notion that a young rock-and-roll fan had to...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
In the nineteen-sixties, the music media encouraged the notion that a young rock-and-roll fan had to side with either the Beatles or their rivals, the Rolling Stones. On some level, it must have made sense, given the growing aesthetic divide between the music the two world-famous...
Home on Erik...
The Filter Bubble is Silly and you Can't Guess What Happened Next I'm at RecSys 2014, meeting a lot of people and hanging out at talks. Some of the discussions here...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I'm at RecSys 2014, meeting a lot of people and hanging out at talks. Some of the discussions here was about the filter bubble which prompted me to formalize my own thoughts. I firmly believe that it's the role of a system to respect the user's intent.
The Perry Bible...
Pop The post Pop appeared first on The Perry Bible Fellowship.
8 months ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
On Radical Markets
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TheCollector
What Are Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus Archetypes? undefined
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Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Edward Hopper From the comic “Powers”, Christian Walker sits by himself in a diner: Hopper’s 1942 painting...
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a month ago
From the comic “Powers”, Christian Walker sits by himself in a diner: Hopper’s 1942 painting “Nighthawks”: I’m a fan of Hopper, but this is his most famous work, so it’s not like it was all that difficult to place the reference. In his words, it’s a simplified version of reality...
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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...
Making software...
Working with `git` Patches in Apple Mail Working with git Patches in Apple Mail 2023-05-11 Before we begin: You could likely automate this...
a year ago
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a year ago
Working with git Patches in Apple Mail 2023-05-11 Before we begin: You could likely automate this process in a more streamlined way, but for most use cases this workflow should be fine. I recently covered how to work with git email patches in Evolution on Linux, so I thought it...
Willem's Blog
Cutting Cloud Costs Facing sky-high cloud costs, I found software optimisation vital. Discover how I saved 90% on cloud...
a year ago
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a year ago
Facing sky-high cloud costs, I found software optimisation vital. Discover how I saved 90% on cloud expenses!
Uncharted...
10 Other Places Where Geniuses Hide Groups, networks, the Internet, IQ, state sponsorship, and many more
2 weeks ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, December 8, 2023 Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester...
a year ago
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a year ago
Apologies for running a fireside so quickly after the gap week, but with the end of the semester coming as the job market gets busier, I haven’t had time to finish the next post on shield walls just yet. That will come out next week for sure though, as it is close to done. For …...
Construction Physics
How the Car Came to LA Since at least the 1960s, urbanists have bemoaned the car-centric nature of US transportation. In...
a year ago
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a year ago
Since at least the 1960s, urbanists have bemoaned the car-centric nature of US transportation. In her 1961 “The Death and Life of Great American Cities," Jane Jacobs notes that “everyone who values cities is disturbed by automobiles”: Traffic arteries, along with parking lots,...
TheCollector
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5 months ago
Christopher Butler
visual journal – 2024 April 7 - April 12 Dreaming of secret worlds, minidiscs, buildings, portals. Do we all dream of a secret world — a...
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8 months ago
Dreaming of secret worlds, minidiscs, buildings, portals. Do we all dream of a secret world — a secret garden, a portal, Shangri La, an entrance to a heaven on earth? ^ actual sizes! ^ yours, truly
Math Is Still...
Michel Talagrand Wins Abel Prize for Work Wrangling Randomness The French mathematician spent decades developing a set of tools now widely used for taming random...
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The French mathematician spent decades developing a set of tools now widely used for taming random processes. The post Michel Talagrand Wins Abel Prize for Work Wrangling Randomness first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Eukaryote Writes...
Fiber arts, mysterious dodecahedrons, and waiting on “Eureka!” Why didn't we invent knitting before 1000 CE?
over a year ago
bt RSS Feed
My Cheapskate Commenting System My Cheapskate Commenting System 2022-02-03 My blog now has comments! Well, kind of… I went down a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My Cheapskate Commenting System 2022-02-03 My blog now has comments! Well, kind of… I went down a two day long rabbit-hole trying to find the best solution for implementing comments on my static website (generated via Jekyll FYI). There are a ton of options out there and many...
abdz.do - Have you...
Minimalist Weave Pattern artwork for your wall Minimalist Weave Pattern artwork for your wall abduzeedo0124—23 ...
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a year ago
Minimalist Weave Pattern artwork for your wall abduzeedo0124—23 I’ve been making some of the artwork we created on the site available as limited digital art for purchase on Etsy (only 100). There’s something about printed work that is...
Open Culture
David Lynch Releases on YouTube Interview Project: 121 Stories of Real America Recorded on a... Take a sufficiently long road trip across America, and you’re bound to encounter something or...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Take a sufficiently long road trip across America, and you’re bound to encounter something or someone Lynchian. Whether or not that idea lay behind Interview Project, the undertaking had the endorsement of David Lynch himself. Not coincidentally, it was conceived by his son...
Tom Blomfield
When to join a startup Something has changed in the last few years which has made an increasing number of people want to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Something has changed in the last few years which has made an increasing number of people want to join startups. It seemed to start around the time the Social Network movie came out - perhaps it’s just a coincidence, but part of me imagines a group of MBAs sitting around watching...
Anecdotal Evidence
'I'm Not a Funny Man' “All writers that are worth anything are humorists.”  It’s one of those preposterously broad...
a year ago
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a year ago
“All writers that are worth anything are humorists.”  It’s one of those preposterously broad observations you want to immediately endorse or dismiss, but if “humor” is defined liberally and we accept it as a spectrum ranging from the driest wit to slapstick, farce and bawdy,...
bt RSS Feed
Shiny, Animated CSS Buttons Shiny, Animated CSS Buttons 2021-04-27 Everyone can appreciate fancy, animated buttons - but often...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Shiny, Animated CSS Buttons 2021-04-27 Everyone can appreciate fancy, animated buttons - but often times they come with a performance cost: JavaScript. Luckily for us, we can create our very own shiny, animated buttons with pure CSS. The Demo Live CodePen Example The...
Home on Erik...
The lane next to you is more likely to be slower than yours Saw this link on Hacker News the other day: The Highway Lane Next to Yours Isn’t Really Moving Any...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Saw this link on Hacker News the other day: The Highway Lane Next to Yours Isn’t Really Moving Any Faster The article describes a phenomenon unique to traffic where cars spread out when they go fast and get more compact when they go slow.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Status Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Buncha people on patreon said the title was on the...
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Buncha people on patreon said the title was on the wrong side of the book but *I* say that's in THEIR in-group. Today's News:
Damn Interesting
Devouring the Heart of Portugal On the morning of Thursday, 04 December 1924, a tall and well-dressed Dutch trader named Karel...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
On the morning of Thursday, 04 December 1924, a tall and well-dressed Dutch trader named Karel Marang strolled along Great Winchester Street in the City of London, among the bustling crowds of bankers and brokers of the business district, unaware that the parcel he carried held...
Londonist
Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree: Where's It From? What's Its History? When's The Switch-On? Spruce up on your arboreal knowhow.
a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Revisited: big VCs investing in seed rounds A few years ago, the trend of companies raising smaller seed rounds combined with the emergence of...
over a year ago
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A few years ago, the trend of companies raising smaller seed rounds combined with the emergence of new seed funds caused many big VCs to…
Wuthering...
Seneca and Marcus Aurelius and their Stoic self-help books - I shall not be afraid when my last hour... The curious thing about Stoicism is its long-lasting survival in the self-help genre, curious at...
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a year ago
The curious thing about Stoicism is its long-lasting survival in the self-help genre, curious at least until I read Seneca’s Letters from a Stoic (1st C.) several years ago and discovered that it was a self-help book, one of the founding self-help books.  The Meditations of...
TheCollector
7 Museums to Visit in Athens undefined
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Feynman on knowledge, TransDigm's controversial business model, Costco's history, The Ozempic/Wegovy band-aid; Plus insights from Todd Combs, Michael Burry, Joel Tillinghast, and Lee Ainslie.