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The Best Broadway Shows of All Time to See in NYC
3rd Nov 2023
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The Best Broadway Shows of All Time to See in NYC

from AFAR Media - Travel Stories, News, Reviews, Tips + Guides [alt+shift+b] in travel

3rd Nov 2023
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🟢 TREND RADAR #19 :: NATURE DRIVERS Adaptation under pressure
8th Jul 2026
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🟢 TREND RADAR #19 :: NATURE DRIVERS

from WHAT'S ANU [alt+shift+b] in creative

8th Jul 2026
Adaptation under pressure
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Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part I: Aristocrats, Retainers and... For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in...
7th Jun 2024
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Collections: How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part I: Aristocrats, Retainers and Clients

from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry [alt+shift+b] in history

7th Jun 2024
For the next few posts, I want to take a look at how some ‘tribal’ peoples raised armies, in contrast to the way that ancient (or later) states raised armies. As moderns, we are so familiar with the way that states function that the far older systems of non-state organization and...
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Accessibility is a requirement, not a feature Stop me if you've heard this one before: "We're putting accessibility (features) on the roadmap." Or...
6th Nov 2023
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Accessibility is a requirement, not a feature

from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Nov 2023
Stop me if you've heard this one before: "We're putting accessibility (features) on the roadmap." Or this one: "We don't need to make it accessible since we don't have any blind users 1 ." It belies an attitude that's all too common in the software industry: That accessibility...
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On Engineers and Influence (Based on yesterday’s tweetstorm and the ensuing...
17th Aug 2018
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On Engineers and Influence

from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Aug 2018
(Based on yesterday’s tweetstorm and the ensuing conversation, https://twitter.com/mipsytipsy/status/1029608573217587201) Let’s talk about influence. As an engineer, how do you get influence? What does influence look like, what is it rooted in, how do you wield it or lose it? How...
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Everything You Need to Know About the Ten Commandments The lists of commandments in Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5 are almost identical to each other,...
1st Jul 2025
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Everything You Need to Know About the Ten Commandments

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

1st Jul 2025
The lists of commandments in Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5 are almost identical to each other, diverging significantly only in the reasons they each give for keeping the Sabbath day. This list—often called the Decalogue—is what is popularly known as the Ten Commandments. However,...
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Prisons aren't filled with harmless pot smokers The American incarceration rate explained
19th Sep 2025
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Prisons aren't filled with harmless pot smokers

from Patterns in Humanity [alt+shift+b] in history

19th Sep 2025
The American incarceration rate explained
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SQLite Slaps why SQLite is cracked
18th Jun 2024
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SQLite Slaps

from blag [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Jun 2024
why SQLite is cracked
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Mar ’25: Anticipating tariffs What’s in the news? Talking about the news in March, give nwhat’s been happing on the tariff front...
11th Apr 2025
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Mar ’25: Anticipating tariffs

from FIRE v London [alt+shift+b] in finance

11th Apr 2025
What’s in the news? Talking about the news in March, give nwhat’s been happing on the tariff front over the last few weeks, seems a bit pointless. We entered March with a lot of drama about Ukraine, and some notable ‘ceasefire’ activity on the diplomatic front. We finished March...
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love letters to places i'll never meet a spooky digital seance
1st Nov 2023
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love letters to places i'll never meet

from escape the algorithm [alt+shift+b] in creative

1st Nov 2023
a spooky digital seance
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Improve your sleep by blocking light Over the past few weeks I have been experimenting with wearing a sleep mask in bed, blocking all...
23rd Jan 2020
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Improve your sleep by blocking light

from Willem L. Middelkoop [alt+shift+b] in technology

23rd Jan 2020
Over the past few weeks I have been experimenting with wearing a sleep mask in bed, blocking all light. Our bodies produce the sleep hormone, melatonin, in darkness. Living in an environment awash in artificial light, is therefore exactly the sort of thing that disrupts one's...
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Some incomplete thoughts about Gödel I saw another article on Gödel’s incompleteness theorems linked from Reddit today. It’s a topic I’ve...
17th Nov 2020
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Some incomplete thoughts about Gödel

from Neil Madden [alt+shift+b] in technology

17th Nov 2020
I saw another article on Gödel’s incompleteness theorems linked from Reddit today. It’s a topic I’ve wanted to write about for some time. Although many articles do a decent job in giving an idea of what the big deal is (and this one is pretty good), they can sometimes give a...
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Ten Blue Links, “Peter and the whales” edition 1. Required reading of the week Let’s start with something a little doom-laden: how societies...
3rd Aug 2025
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Ten Blue Links, “Peter and the whales” edition

from Ian Betteridge [alt+shift+b] in creative

3rd Aug 2025
1. Required reading of the week Let’s start with something a little doom-laden: how societies collapse. How “civilisations” meet their ultimate end isn’t just an academic exercise, for two reasons. First, with climate change starting to bite, it’s easy to see how
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The craftsmanship revival we kept predicting might finally be real Laetitia@Work #104
2 weeks ago
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The craftsmanship revival we kept predicting might finally be real

from Laetitia@Work [alt+shift+b] in life

2 weeks ago
Laetitia@Work #104
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I Have a Design Portfolio For the longest time, I’ve shared my work through blog posts or social media, rather than having a...
3rd Jun 2024
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I Have a Design Portfolio

from Carl Barenbrug RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in life

3rd Jun 2024
For the longest time, I’ve shared my work through blog posts or social media, rather than having a typical portfolio. But I’ve decided it’s time to pull together a more cohesive collection of my work, focusing on product design and creative direction. My projects are usually...
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AI Homelab Part 2: what I learned building my own chatbot When I first started playing around with LLMs, I used Ollama on my M1 Mac Studio.
8th Jul 2026
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AI Homelab Part 2: what I learned building my own chatbot

from Basta’s Notes [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Jul 2026
When I first started playing around with LLMs, I used Ollama on my M1 Mac Studio.
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Multiple input MACs When working with Message Authentication Codes (MACs), you often need to authenticate not just a...
27th Oct 2021
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Multiple input MACs

from Neil Madden [alt+shift+b] in technology

27th Oct 2021
When working with Message Authentication Codes (MACs), you often need to authenticate not just a single string, but multiple fields of data. For example, when creating an authenticated encryption mode by composing a cipher and a MAC (like AES-CBC and HMAC), you need to ensure the...
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Beautiful shadows have beautiful colors
15th Jul 2024
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Beautiful shadows have beautiful colors

from Koos Looijesteijn [alt+shift+b] in design

15th Jul 2024
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SystemSix SystemSix is a desk calendar project that displays the weather forecast and phase of the moon on an...
15th Mar 2022
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SystemSix

from Engineers Need Art [alt+shift+b] in technology

15th Mar 2022
SystemSix is a desk calendar project that displays the weather forecast and phase of the moon on an e-ink display.
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Mark Lynas: The Nine Planetary Boundaries ### The Quantified Planet “About 74,000 years ago,” Lynas began, “a volcanic event nearly wiped out...
7th Mar 2012
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Mark Lynas: The Nine Planetary Boundaries

from Long Now [alt+shift+b] in science

7th Mar 2012
### The Quantified Planet “About 74,000 years ago,” Lynas began, “a volcanic event nearly wiped out humanity. We were down to just a thousand or so embattled breeding pairs. We’ve made a bit of a comeback since then. We’re over seven billion strong. In half a million years we’ve...
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On Apple slowing down its phones Build world’s best smartphone CPU & release a CPU governor to slow it down via software update...
22nd Dec 2017
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On Apple slowing down its phones

from Abishek Muthian [alt+shift+b] in technology

22nd Dec 2017
Build world’s best smartphone CPU & release a CPU governor to slow it down via software update 😑 This isn’t an isolated incident, Li-ion batteries have been plaguing the tech industry. While other parts of the smartphone like displays, compute power, data transfer, storage...
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Rosabeth Moss Kanter: Enduring Principles for Changing Times ### Principles against panic "Everything looks like a failure in the middle." Any new enterprise,...
10th Nov 2007
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Rosabeth Moss Kanter: Enduring Principles for Changing Times

from Long Now [alt+shift+b] in science

10th Nov 2007
### Principles against panic "Everything looks like a failure in the middle." Any new enterprise, Kanter explained, encounters roadblocks. As the obstacles multiply, the situation looks hopeless. That's when deeply held principles and the long view are most needed to get you...
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The political orientation of the ChatGPT AI system Applying the Pew Research Political Typology Quiz to a state-of-the-art AI Language model
5th Dec 2022
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The political orientation of the ChatGPT AI system

from David Rozado Substack [alt+shift+b] in AI

5th Dec 2022
Applying the Pew Research Political Typology Quiz to a state-of-the-art AI Language model
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Defend Your Cookies with Essential Web Security Tactics Illustrated notes on the essentials of web security
8th Feb 2020
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Defend Your Cookies with Essential Web Security Tactics

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Feb 2020
Illustrated notes on the essentials of web security
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A few thoughts on designing Redreach
3rd Jun 2025
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A few thoughts on designing Redreach

from Dominik Sobe's Thoughts ツ [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

3rd Jun 2025
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Jason Cohen: About the author Thanks for visiting. As a four-time entrepreneur, both bootstrapped and fundraised, resulting in two...
6th Feb 2023
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Jason Cohen: About the author

from A Smart Bear [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Feb 2023
Thanks for visiting. As a four-time entrepreneur, both bootstrapped and fundraised, resulting in two exits and two unicorns, I’ve been writing about startups for 16 years. I hope you’ll find it useful! As founder # Currently I’m the Chief Innovation Officer of WP Engine, which I...
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Let's talk about AI Many of you have asked me to write an essay with my thoughts on AI (Artificial Intelligence). So in...
11th Dec 2023
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Let's talk about AI

from The DESK Magazine [alt+shift+b] in design

11th Dec 2023
Many of you have asked me to write an essay with my thoughts on AI (Artificial Intelligence). So in the spirit of things, I've tasked ChatGPT to write this article for me.
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FYI: Broadcom is ruining Bitnami containers You'll need to switch off ASAP.
28th Aug 2025
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FYI: Broadcom is ruining Bitnami containers

from matduggan.com [alt+shift+b] in technology

28th Aug 2025
You'll need to switch off ASAP.
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Puppet and MySQL: create databases and users Puppet MySQL management couldn’t be easier. Most applications use some kind of SQL database, and...
6th Aug 2018
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Puppet and MySQL: create databases and users

from DevOps - Bitfield Consulting [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Aug 2018
Puppet MySQL management couldn’t be easier. Most applications use some kind of SQL database, and MySQL is a simple, easy to use, drop-in solution. In this article I’ll show you how to manage your MySQL servers, users, databases, and access permissions using Puppet.
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Create a Markdown Portfolio with Next.js So you've set out to create a new portfolio for yourself. You start gathering inspiration from...
7th Mar 2023
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Create a Markdown Portfolio with Next.js

from noahbuscher.com [alt+shift+b] in technology

7th Mar 2023
So you've set out to create a new portfolio for yourself. You start gathering inspiration from platforms like Godly and Minimal Gallery, draw some rectangles in Figma, and open your text editor. You pause. There's thousands of ways to build your website, how do you decide which...
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Only Solution to the Attention Economy is to Opt Out Only Solution to the Attention Economy is to Opt Out There is a spectacular, almost beautiful...
15th Jul 2025
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Only Solution to the Attention Economy is to Opt Out

from Stephen Diehl [alt+shift+b] in startups

15th Jul 2025
Only Solution to the Attention Economy is to Opt Out There is a spectacular, almost beautiful absurdity in modern life, blithely plugging our ancient, analog brains into a digital world that wants to eat them for lunch. Our grey matter, honed over eons to spot a lion in the...
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Curlew nest survival The Eurasian Curlew is designated as ‘Near-Threatened’ by IUCN/BirdLife. It is Red-listed in the UK,...
4th Jan 2023
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Curlew nest survival

from wadertales [alt+shift+b] in science

4th Jan 2023
The Eurasian Curlew is designated as ‘Near-Threatened’ by IUCN/BirdLife. It is Red-listed in the UK,  largely due to a rapid decline in breeding numbers. In this context, the fact that there are a few pink squares (indicating increased numbers) on the map showing breeding...
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Backing Up and Archiving to Removable Media: dar vs. git-annex This is the fourth in a series about archiving to removable media (optical discs such as BD-Rs and...
12th Jul 2023
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Backing Up and Archiving to Removable Media: dar vs. git-annex

from The Changelog [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Jul 2023
This is the fourth in a series about archiving to removable media (optical discs such as BD-Rs and DVD+Rs or portable hard drives). Here are the first three parts: In part 1, I laid out my goals for the project, and considered a number of tools before determining dar and...
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Strategic choices: When both options are good Real strategy means choosing between two good options and accepting all the consequences--even the...
22nd Feb 2026
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Strategic choices: When both options are good

from A Smart Bear [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Feb 2026
Real strategy means choosing between two good options and accepting all the consequences--even the painful ones you don't like.
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Book Review: What We Can Know Book Review: What We Can Know Ian McEwan has described What We Can Know as "science fiction without...
2nd Apr 2026
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Book Review: What We Can Know

from Stephen Diehl [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Apr 2026
Book Review: What We Can Know Ian McEwan has described What We Can Know as "science fiction without the science," which is both a fair warning and a precise advertisement. The novel is set in 2119. Rising seas and a cascade of nuclear wars (including a misfired Russian warhead in...
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Trader Joe's Parking Lot Hey Trader Joe’s, This is a bit of an open letter, inspired by a recent visit to the local Trader...
13th Dec 2023
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Trader Joe's Parking Lot

from Josh Thompson [alt+shift+b] in literature

13th Dec 2023
Hey Trader Joe’s, This is a bit of an open letter, inspired by a recent visit to the local Trader Joe’s. I just moved to this part of Denver, and now for the first time am living within like a 3 minute scoot of a Trader Joe’s. I know that some people like to complain about...
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Bitsnap, a screenshot capture tool for Medley Interlisp <![CDATA[I wrote Bitsnap, a tool in Interlisp for capturing screenshots on the Medley environment....
6th Mar 2025
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Bitsnap, a screenshot capture tool for Medley Interlisp

from Paolo Amoroso's Journal [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Mar 2025
<![CDATA[I wrote Bitsnap, a tool in Interlisp for capturing screenshots on the Medley environment. It can capture and optionally save to a file the full screen, a window with or without title bar and borders, or an arbitrary area. This project helped me learn the internals of...
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“Fantasy on a Fugue” (Revisited) This has been on my to-do list for 40 years. ... more ...
2nd Aug 2024
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“Fantasy on a Fugue” (Revisited)

from Charles Petzold [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Aug 2024
This has been on my to-do list for 40 years. ... more ...
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2025-09-02 As an experiment, I've machine-translated the help docs in Lua Carousel into 7 languages: Spanish...
2nd Sep 2025
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2025-09-02

from Freewheeling Apps [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Sep 2025
As an experiment, I've machine-translated the help docs in Lua Carousel into 7 languages: Spanish (Peninsular and Latin American) German French Japanese Chinese Portuguese Hopefully it...
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Interlude at Leonardslee, Horsham If there's one thing I've learned after nearly twenty years of writing about food in this country,...
18th Mar 2025
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Interlude at Leonardslee, Horsham

from Cheese and Biscuits [alt+shift+b] in travel

18th Mar 2025
If there's one thing I've learned after nearly twenty years of writing about food in this country, it's that fine dining can happen pretty much anywhere. If Ormskirk, an otherwise unremarkable town in Lancashire previously best known as the childhood home of Marianne Faithful...
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Building a data team at a mid-stage startup: a short story I guess I should really call this a parable. The backdrop is: you have been brought in to grow a...
7th Jul 2021
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Building a data team at a mid-stage startup: a short story

from Home on Erik Bernhardsson [alt+shift+b] in technology

7th Jul 2021
I guess I should really call this a parable. The backdrop is: you have been brought in to grow a tiny data team (~4 people) at a mid-stage startup (~$10M annual revenue), although this story could take place at many different types of companies.
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What Can We Learn about Engineering and Innovation from Half a Century of the Game of Life Cellular... Metaengineering and Laws of Innovation Things are invented. Things are discovered. And somehow...
18th Mar 2025
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What Can We Learn about Engineering and Innovation from Half a Century of the Game of Life Cellular Automaton?

from Stephen Wolfram Writings [alt+shift+b] in science

18th Mar 2025
Metaengineering and Laws of Innovation Things are invented. Things are discovered. And somehow there’s an arc of progress that’s formed. But are there what amount to “laws of innovation” that govern that arc of progress? There are some exponential and other laws that purport to...
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useLayoutEffect is a bad place for deriving state Today we'll talk about updating state inside useLayoutEffect in reaction to prop changes. Will it...
21st Sep 2021
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useLayoutEffect is a bad place for deriving state

from Vladimir Klepov as a Coder [alt+shift+b] in programming

21st Sep 2021
Today we'll talk about updating state inside useLayoutEffect in reaction to prop changes. Will it work? Is it safe? Are there better ways to implement such state changes? TLDR: it works, but leaves you with an extra DOM update that may break stuff. As we all know, useLayoutEffect...
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From Shell to Excel - with a little bit of HTTPS Write once, read everywhere
12th Aug 2024
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From Shell to Excel - with a little bit of HTTPS

from csvbase blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

12th Aug 2024
Write once, read everywhere
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Electric Vehicles
2nd Mar 2026
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Electric Vehicles

from xkcd.com [alt+shift+b] in comics

2nd Mar 2026
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Introducing Five’Em, a Texas Hold’Em variant The game of Five'Em was invented by two friends of mine, Ben Gross and Rich Berger, to combat...
14th Mar 2019
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Introducing Five’Em, a Texas Hold’Em variant

from the jsomers.net blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Mar 2019
The game of Five'Em was invented by two friends of mine, Ben Gross and Rich Berger, to combat Hold'Em fatigue. The rules are simple: You're dealt five hole cards instead of two, and after each round of community cards comes out (starting with the flop), you discard one of these...
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Building a container orchestrator Kubernetes is not exactly the most fun piece of technology around. Learning it isn’t easy, and...
1st Jul 2025
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Building a container orchestrator

from Alice GG [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jul 2025
Kubernetes is not exactly the most fun piece of technology around. Learning it isn’t easy, and learning the surrounding ecosystem is even harder. Even those who have managed to tame it are still afraid of getting paged by an ETCD cluster corruption, a Kubelet certificate...
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Trump and the Rise of Asia My interview with "Atlantico"
3rd Dec 2024
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Trump and the Rise of Asia

from Global Inequality and More 3.0 [alt+shift+b] in history

3rd Dec 2024
My interview with "Atlantico"
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Hello, stranger "Discover the transformative power of simple conversations in our tech-dominated world, as one...
12th Oct 2023
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Hello, stranger

from Willem's Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

12th Oct 2023
"Discover the transformative power of simple conversations in our tech-dominated world, as one individual delves into the lost art of talking to strangers and the profound connections it can forge."
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The first non-opioid painkiller For nearly two centuries, pain relief meant effective but addictive opioids. Scientists have finally...
6th Oct 2025
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The first non-opioid painkiller

from Works in Progress RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in science

6th Oct 2025
For nearly two centuries, pain relief meant effective but addictive opioids. Scientists have finally made something better.
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Jun 2023: How I work with employees Some quick updates from me in June 2023
6th Jul 2023
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Jun 2023: How I work with employees

from Tony Dinh's Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

6th Jul 2023
Some quick updates from me in June 2023
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Never have a limit on your income Imagine two people. One is a toy maker. One is a masseuse. For the toy maker, that’s no...
6th Apr 2008
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Never have a limit on your income

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

6th Apr 2008
Imagine two people. One is a toy maker. One is a masseuse. For the toy maker, that’s no problem. Have the manufacturer make a million more. So which business would you rather be in? One that makes money while you do other things, or one that only profits by your own two...
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The 1-hour design principles workshop Design principles are a valuable tool for any team that works together towards a shared outcome....
19th Aug 2018
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The 1-hour design principles workshop

from The personal website of Matt Ström-Awn [alt+shift+b] in design

19th Aug 2018
Design principles are a valuable tool for any team that works together towards a shared outcome. Written well, design principles can create alignment, speed up decision-making, and increase the quality of the team’s output. Lately, I’ve worked with two of my teams to write design...
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No More Heroes. Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
6th Nov 2024
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No More Heroes.

from Trying to Understand the World [alt+shift+b] in history

6th Nov 2024
Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
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When Is Architectural Symbolism Hypocrisy? Like or loathe it, symbolism over substance has a long tradition.
2nd May 2024
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When Is Architectural Symbolism Hypocrisy?

from Common Edge [alt+shift+b] in architecture

2nd May 2024
Like or loathe it, symbolism over substance has a long tradition.
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New trend: extreme hours at AI startups Pulling 80+ hour work weeks – including weekends – is becoming the norm across AI startups, and is...
14th Aug 2025
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New trend: extreme hours at AI startups

from The Pragmatic Engineer [alt+shift+b] in technology

14th Aug 2025
Pulling 80+ hour work weeks – including weekends – is becoming the norm across AI startups, and is unlikely to stop while AI is so hot.
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How To Find And Keep Joy Today it’s all about passion. Find your passion. Live passionately. Inspire the world with your...
8th Aug 2022
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How To Find And Keep Joy

from Daily Stoic [alt+shift+b] in life

8th Aug 2022
Today it’s all about passion. Find your passion. Live passionately. Inspire the world with your passion. Passion, we tell ourselves, is the source of joy. The Stoics disagreed. In fact, they believed that passion(s) were what contributed to our misery. To the experts and gurus...
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We’re All One Crisis Away From Taking Unlicensed Research Peptides For health hackers, the risk is not experimenting.
3rd Jun 2026
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We’re All One Crisis Away From Taking Unlicensed Research Peptides

from Asterisk [alt+shift+b] in science

3rd Jun 2026
For health hackers, the risk is not experimenting.
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Online Communication & Social Hierarchy There are a plethora of ways to communicate online, both with people you know, and people you’ve...
20th Feb 2023
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Online Communication & Social Hierarchy

from Patrick Kayongo [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Feb 2023
There are a plethora of ways to communicate online, both with people you know, and people you’ve never met. But something the makers of these tools fail to mould to, is the social hierarchy and human structures in which they are used. There are three examples that come to mind....
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A list of ternary operators Sup nerds, I'm back from SREcon! I had a blast, despite knowing nothing about site reliability...
5th Nov 2024
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A list of ternary operators

from Computer Things [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Nov 2024
Sup nerds, I'm back from SREcon! I had a blast, despite knowing nothing about site reliability engineering and being way over my head in half the talks. I'm trying to catch up on The Book and contract work now so I'll do something silly here: ternary operators. Almost all...
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Gitcoin Grants Round 5 Retrospective
30th Apr 2020
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Gitcoin Grants Round 5 Retrospective

from Vitalik Buterin's website [alt+shift+b] in technology

30th Apr 2020
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Staying relevant Or not. My fears melted away. And in their place came acceptance. All this vast majesty of...
5th Aug 2025
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Staying relevant

from Jeffrey Zeldman Presents [alt+shift+b] in design

5th Aug 2025
Or not. My fears melted away. And in their place came acceptance. All this vast majesty of creation. It had to mean something. And then I meant something, too. Yes, smaller than the smallest, I meant something too. To God, there is no zero. I still exist. —  The Incredible...
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Expecting Better Really good book, and one I would recommend to anyone thinking about family planning. Nothing coy or...
3rd Nov 2023
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Expecting Better

from Applied Cartography [alt+shift+b] in technology

3rd Nov 2023
Really good book, and one I would recommend to anyone thinking about family planning. Nothing coy or clever to say; just thought it was solid, actionable, and sober without being a drag to read.
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Stay Awhile and Listen Developing games is a full-time occupation, so it is no surprise that I’ve had less time for...
31st Oct 2013
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Stay Awhile and Listen

from Code Of Honor [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Oct 2013
Developing games is a full-time occupation, so it is no surprise that I’ve had less time for blogging as I’ve started creating a new game. After a two-year stint helping other folks publish their games I’m back to coding and game design full-time and having a wonderful time. But...
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Chinatown Well, that was probably the most depressing final sequence I can remember in a film (especially one...
4th Aug 2022
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Chinatown

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Aug 2022
Well, that was probably the most depressing final sequence I can remember in a film (especially one so devoted to realism, or at least its brand of plausibility.)
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Implementing MVCC and major SQL transaction isolation levels In this post we'll build a database in 400 lines of code with basic support for five standard SQL...
16th May 2024
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Implementing MVCC and major SQL transaction isolation levels

from Notes on software development [alt+shift+b] in technology

16th May 2024
In this post we'll build a database in 400 lines of code with basic support for five standard SQL transaction levels: Read Uncommitted, Read Committed, Repeatable Read, Snapshot Isolation and Serializable. We'll use multi-version concurrency control (MVCC) and optimistic...
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What I Read in June 2025 - A life of agony was all for naught. My summer plan was to read, short, easy books, and I almost succeeded.  I read short, difficult...
3rd Jul 2025
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What I Read in June 2025 - A life of agony was all for naught.

from Wuthering Expectations [alt+shift+b] in literature

3rd Jul 2025
My summer plan was to read, short, easy books, and I almost succeeded.  I read short, difficult books in French, and accidentally read several grim, sad, violent books, alongside some playful nonsense.   FICTION The Field of Life and Death (1935), Xiao Hong – For example.  Ninety...
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The Unlimited Horizon, part 2 Previously: The Unlimited Horizon, part 1. Is there really that much more progress to be made in the...
27th Aug 2025
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The Unlimited Horizon, part 2

from The Roots of Progress [alt+shift+b] in science

27th Aug 2025
Previously: The Unlimited Horizon, part 1. Is there really that much more progress to be made in the future? How many problems are left to solve? How much better could life really get? After all, we are pretty comfortable today. We have electricity, clean running water, heating...
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Boring is good The initial, feverish enthusiasm for large language models (LLMs) is beginning to cool, and for good...
15th Sep 2025
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Boring is good

from Scott Jenson [alt+shift+b] in design

15th Sep 2025
The initial, feverish enthusiasm for large language models (LLMs) is beginning to cool, and for good reason. It’s time to trade the out-of-control hype for a more pragmatic, even “boring,” approach. A recent MIT report shows that 95% of companies implementing this technology have...
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New job, hello climate tech I have a new job! I’m doing climate tech at NCX (née SilviaTerra), using satellite imagery to...
31st May 2021
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New job, hello climate tech

from Ryan Barrett [alt+shift+b] in startups

31st May 2021
I have a new job! I’m doing climate tech at NCX (née SilviaTerra), using satellite imagery to prevent deforestation and sequester more carbon in trees. A few years ago, I looked around for a side project on the climate crisis. Nothing big, maybe 5-10 hours a week, but I was ready...
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Paying down tech debt: further learnings In a counter-intuitive observation: by making small, non-functional improvements, you gain more...
19th Sep 2024
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Paying down tech debt: further learnings

from The Pragmatic Engineer [alt+shift+b] in technology

19th Sep 2024
In a counter-intuitive observation: by making small, non-functional improvements, you gain more confidence in a new codebase, and can start to move faster.
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Expert Beginners and Lone Wolves will dominate this early LLM era After migrating this blog from a static site generator into Drupal in 2009, I noted: As a sad...
1st Mar 2026
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Expert Beginners and Lone Wolves will dominate this early LLM era

from Jeff Geerling [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Mar 2026
After migrating this blog from a static site generator into Drupal in 2009, I noted: As a sad side-effect, all the blog comments are gone. Forever. Wiped out. But have no fear, we can start new discussions on many new posts! I archived all the comments from the old 'Thingamablog'...
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Open Thread 410 ...
1st Dec 2025
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Open Thread 410

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1st Dec 2025
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A Tiny City in the Wilderness On Urbanism in the Middle of Nowhere
6th Apr 2025
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A Tiny City in the Wilderness

from Hickman's Hinterlands [alt+shift+b] in life

6th Apr 2025
On Urbanism in the Middle of Nowhere
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Lessons Learned from Working at Startups Self-note on some lessons learned from working at a variety of startups over my career
4th Dec 2024
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Lessons Learned from Working at Startups

from Charles Chen [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Dec 2024
Self-note on some lessons learned from working at a variety of startups over my career
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Who Can Know How Much Randi Zuckerberg Is Worth? cue hatred Part 1 here IV. Off topic: Randi strongly believes Facebook has a legitimate place in...
1st Mar 2014
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Who Can Know How Much Randi Zuckerberg Is Worth?

from The Last Psychiatrist [alt+shift+b] in creative

1st Mar 2014
cue hatred Part 1 here IV. Off topic: Randi strongly believes Facebook has a legitimate place in the business world, and this makes me think Facebook is finished.  I realize this is a speculative trade to make.  The usual anxiety about Facebook's future is that teenagers aren't...
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Zvi's 2024 In Movies Now that I am tracking all the movies I watch via Letterboxd, it seems worthwhile to go over the...
13th Jan 2025
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Zvi's 2024 In Movies

from Don't Worry About the Vase [alt+shift+b] in AI

13th Jan 2025
Now that I am tracking all the movies I watch via Letterboxd, it seems worthwhile to go over the results at the end of the year, and look for lessons, patterns and highlights.
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Power, Vulnerability, and Soulful Collaboration A Conversation with Dechen McSweeney on the Nine Mistakes We Make in Relationship to Power
8th May 2025
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Power, Vulnerability, and Soulful Collaboration

from The Intimate Mirror [alt+shift+b] in life

8th May 2025
A Conversation with Dechen McSweeney on the Nine Mistakes We Make in Relationship to Power
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3 lessons from Jony Ive I nearly walked away from writing this essay. Trendy or current topics usually make me turn the...
27th May 2025
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3 lessons from Jony Ive

from The DESK Magazine [alt+shift+b] in design

27th May 2025
I nearly walked away from writing this essay. Trendy or current topics usually make me turn the other way, but I'm making an exception today. I'm not sure if you watched the interview with Jony Ive and Patrick (CEO of Stripe) last week. It's
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How to Build an AI Data Center This piece is the first in a new series from the Institute for Progress (IFP), called Compute in...
10th Jun 2024
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How to Build an AI Data Center

from Construction Physics [alt+shift+b] in architecture

10th Jun 2024
This piece is the first in a new series from the Institute for Progress (IFP), called Compute in America: Building the Next Generation of AI Infrastructure at Home. In this series, we examine the challenges of accelerating the American AI data center buildout. Future pieces will...
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Hour 9: Categorizing the content Now that we've cracked the API, we need to save all the content and categorize it.
24th Jun 2025
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Hour 9: Categorizing the content

from Yazin Alirhayim [alt+shift+b] in technology

24th Jun 2025
Now that we've cracked the API, we need to save all the content and categorize it.
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Video Gamer skills that make a Great Designer Enjoy your time with video games, do not see it as a waste of time as society thinks. This is YOUR...
8th Apr 2022
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Video Gamer skills that make a Great Designer

from Oykun Yilmaz [alt+shift+b] in design

8th Apr 2022
Enjoy your time with video games, do not see it as a waste of time as society thinks. This is YOUR time, use it as you like it. It will make you a better designer.
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GPT 4 and the Uncharted Territories of Language Language is a source of limitation and liberation. GPT 4 pushes this idea to the extreme by giving...
20th Mar 2023
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GPT 4 and the Uncharted Territories of Language

from fast.ai [alt+shift+b] in AI

20th Mar 2023
Language is a source of limitation and liberation. GPT 4 pushes this idea to the extreme by giving us access to unlimited language.
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Alicia Eggert: This Moment Used To Be The Future In _The Clock of the Long Now_, Long Now founder Stewart Brand wrote, in response to Zen poet Gary...
15th Dec 2022
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Alicia Eggert: This Moment Used To Be The Future

from Long Now [alt+shift+b] in science

15th Dec 2022
In _The Clock of the Long Now_, Long Now founder Stewart Brand wrote, in response to Zen poet Gary Snyder, the following musing on the nature of time: >THIS PRESENT MOMENT USED TO BE THE UNIMAGINABLE FUTURE Interdisciplinary artist Alicia Eggert’s work uses neon, steel, and...
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A Narrow Gate The long history of the Khyber Pass, from the archives
2nd Aug 2026
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A Narrow Gate

from Looking Through the Past [alt+shift+b] in history

2nd Aug 2026
The long history of the Khyber Pass, from the archives
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Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80's
7th Jun 2020
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Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80's

from Fabien Sanglard [alt+shift+b] in technology

7th Jun 2020
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What distinguishes quantum from classical thermodynamics? Should you require a model for an Oxford don in a play or novel, look no farther than Andrew Briggs....
27th Nov 2025
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What distinguishes quantum from classical thermodynamics?

from Quantum Frontiers [alt+shift+b] in science

27th Nov 2025
Should you require a model for an Oxford don in a play or novel, look no farther than Andrew Briggs. The emeritus professor of nanomaterials speaks with a southern-English accent as crisp as shortbread, exhibits manners to which etiquette influencer … Continue reading →
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The Role of Cognitive Load in Automotive UX Design Cognitive load refers to Cognitive load is not the same as cognitive distraction. Cognitive...
1st May 2023
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The Role of Cognitive Load in Automotive UX Design

from The Turn Signal RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in design

1st May 2023
Cognitive load refers to Cognitive load is not the same as cognitive distraction. Cognitive distraction is Cognitive load may lead to…
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Change your MAC address with a shell script For a while, I’ve had notes from Change or Spoof a MAC Address in Windows or OS X saved, so if I am...
18th Dec 2019
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Change your MAC address with a shell script

from Josh Thompson [alt+shift+b] in literature

18th Dec 2019
For a while, I’ve had notes from Change or Spoof a MAC Address in Windows or OS X saved, so if I am using a wifi connection that limits me to thirty minutes or an hour or whatever, I can “spoof” a new MAC address, and when I re-connect to the wifi, the access point thinks I’m on...
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Being an Amazon Seller in 2021; Year in Review I’m the founder and CEO of Viahart (est. 2010), an e-commerce focused educational toy company. We...
23rd Jan 2022
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Being an Amazon Seller in 2021; Year in Review

from Molson Hart's Blog - Molson Hart [alt+shift+b] in finance

23rd Jan 2022
I’m the founder and CEO of Viahart (est. 2010), an e-commerce focused educational toy company. We did $8.8 million in sales in 2021. This article is going to tell you what it was like to run this business in 2021 vs. 2020, amidst threats like the Amazon aggregators, supply chain...
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The rise of life expectancy Illustrated and explained
2nd Jul 2025
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The rise of life expectancy

from Patterns in Humanity [alt+shift+b] in history

2nd Jul 2025
Illustrated and explained
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The 8 Guidelines for Good Automotive UX Design The essence of automotive UX design turned into 8 fundamental guidelines aimed at designers in the...
1st Dec 2023
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The 8 Guidelines for Good Automotive UX Design

from The Turn Signal RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in design

1st Dec 2023
The essence of automotive UX design turned into 8 fundamental guidelines aimed at designers in the car industry
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Five Rides for 2025 Some lists are just worth making
5th Jan 2026
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Five Rides for 2025

from Scope of Work [alt+shift+b] in startups

5th Jan 2026
Some lists are just worth making
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The NYC tech scene is exploding The pace of innovation in the New York area is very impressive right now. Some of the top...
1st Feb 2010
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The NYC tech scene is exploding

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Feb 2010
The pace of innovation in the New York area is very impressive right now. Some of the top entrepenuers in the country are building and…
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You Have No Idea How Much Better You Can Feel Shake the snow globe
1st May 2023
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You Have No Idea How Much Better You Can Feel

from Nat Eliason's Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in life

1st May 2023
Shake the snow globe
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Information and Technological Evolution I spend a lot of time reading about the nature of technological progress, and I’ve found that the...
2nd Apr 2026
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Information and Technological Evolution

from Construction Physics [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Apr 2026
I spend a lot of time reading about the nature of technological progress, and I’ve found that the literature on technology is somewhat uneven.
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What if it isn't happening, AGI is not coming? Notes From the Desk: No. 28 - 2024.03.06
7th Mar 2024
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What if it isn't happening, AGI is not coming?

from Mind Prison: Notes From the Desk [alt+shift+b] in AI

7th Mar 2024
Notes From the Desk: No. 28 - 2024.03.06
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The most profound message in the history of junk literature I have always been a slow reader. I get discouraged by dense text and I struggle to finish books...
1st Jul 2017
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The most profound message in the history of junk literature

from Adrian Hanft, III: RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in life

1st Jul 2017
I have always been a slow reader. I get discouraged by dense text and I struggle to finish books thicker than the width of my thumb.
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All the bullshit I did as a kid (part 1?) My first computer, and the first computer I called a server
17th Jan 2024
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All the bullshit I did as a kid (part 1?)

from Basta’s Notes [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Jan 2024
My first computer, and the first computer I called a server
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Asia-Pacific, Part 3 (Japan: Tokyo Temples and Tourists) I arrived in Japan on a Friday evening, having lost an entire day crossing the International Date...
5th May 2023
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Asia-Pacific, Part 3 (Japan: Tokyo Temples and Tourists)

from Twelve Mile Circle – An Appreciation of Unusual Places [alt+shift+b] in cartography

5th May 2023
I arrived in Japan on a Friday evening, having lost an entire day crossing the International Date Line from Honolulu. But it also meant I got a free weekend in Tokyo before resuming work on Monday. It’s easier and cheaper to stay in a hotel all weekend than go half way around the...
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What do LLMs Want? Plus! Governance; Implementation Risk; Jailbreaking; In-Kind Deals; Revalued Inputs
1st Dec 2025
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What do LLMs Want?

from The Diff [alt+shift+b] in finance

1st Dec 2025
Plus! Governance; Implementation Risk; Jailbreaking; In-Kind Deals; Revalued Inputs
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Ten Blue Links, Jazz-hands Edition 1. The problem with cloud services is who owns them Ahh, the cloud. Or, as we used to call it, The...
19th Oct 2025
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Ten Blue Links, Jazz-hands Edition

from Ian Betteridge [alt+shift+b] in creative

19th Oct 2025
1. The problem with cloud services is who owns them Ahh, the cloud. Or, as we used to call it, The Cloud. The cloud was the future! Apps were all going to be in the cloud! Clients would be thin! Everyone would use a Chromebook! Everything which could possibly have
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Sep ’25: Gains continue, and I trim September was a busy month. In the middle of it we saw a disruptive tube strike. I don’t use the...
11th Oct 2025
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Sep ’25: Gains continue, and I trim

from FIRE v London [alt+shift+b] in finance

11th Oct 2025
September was a busy month. In the middle of it we saw a disruptive tube strike. I don’t use the tube that much so didn’t expect it to affect me much but two important meetings were postponed, one of which still hasn’t happened, so that event has stayed in my memory. Thank...
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How I Built This In Public: Joshua Xu Lessons from building HeyGen from 0 to $1m ARR in 7 months
5th May 2023
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How I Built This In Public: Joshua Xu

from Build In Public Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

5th May 2023
Lessons from building HeyGen from 0 to $1m ARR in 7 months
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2025 Riders Choice Awards We asked riders what they think of public transit. Here's which systems came out on top. The post...
8th Dec 2025
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2025 Riders Choice Awards

from News Archives | Transit [alt+shift+b] in travel

8th Dec 2025
We asked riders what they think of public transit. Here's which systems came out on top. The post 2025 Riders Choice Awards appeared first on Transit.
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Future of Work: 9 books I read in 2023 Laetitia@Work #65
5th Jan 2024
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Future of Work: 9 books I read in 2023

from Laetitia@Work [alt+shift+b] in life

5th Jan 2024
Laetitia@Work #65
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Scientists Re-Create the Microbial Dance That Sparked Complex Life Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent...
2nd Jan 2025
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Scientists Re-Create the Microbial Dance That Sparked Complex Life

from Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

2nd Jan 2025
Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the first time, biologists made it happen in the lab. The post Scientists Re-Create the Microbial Dance That Sparked Complex Life first appeared...
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Fairphone 5: my heavily biased overview after 58 days of use (and counting) After months of contemplating I finally pulled the trigger and got myself a Fairphone 5. The...
6th Mar 2024
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Fairphone 5: my heavily biased overview after 58 days of use (and counting)

from ./techtipsy [alt+shift+b] in technology

6th Mar 2024
After months of contemplating I finally pulled the trigger and got myself a Fairphone 5. The fact that iPhone X stopped receiving major iOS updates certainly helped make that decision. “But why? My Xiaomi/Oneplus/Samsung/other glued-together device is like so much cheaper and...
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July 2022
1st Jul 2022
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July 2022

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jul 2022
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How Bacteria Help Regulate Blood Pressure Kidneys sniff out signals from gut bacteria for cues to lower blood pressure after meals. Our...
10th May 2018
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How Bacteria Help Regulate Blood Pressure

from The Quanta Podcast [alt+shift+b] in science

10th May 2018
Kidneys sniff out signals from gut bacteria for cues to lower blood pressure after meals. Our understanding of how the symbiotic microbes affect health is becoming much more molecular. The post How Bacteria Help Regulate Blood Pressure first appeared on Quanta...
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Bacterial Complexity Revises Ideas About ‘Which Came First?’ Contrary to popular belief, bacteria have organelles too. Scientists are now studying them for...
7th May 2020
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Bacterial Complexity Revises Ideas About ‘Which Came First?’

from The Quanta Podcast [alt+shift+b] in science

7th May 2020
Contrary to popular belief, bacteria have organelles too. Scientists are now studying them for insights into how complex cells evolved. The post Bacterial Complexity Revises Ideas About ‘Which Came First?’ first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Local warming Gas heating is bad for the environment. But home-built heat pumps aren’t perfect either.
21st Apr 2022
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Local warming

from Works in Progress RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in science

21st Apr 2022
Gas heating is bad for the environment. But home-built heat pumps aren’t perfect either.
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Finding Campsites with Python My wife and I love to camp on the Oregon coast and the summer is always the best time to go. It also...
3rd Aug 2015
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Finding Campsites with Python

from Alex Meub [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Aug 2015
My wife and I love to camp on the Oregon coast and the summer is always the best time to go. It also ends up being the most competitive time to find a campsite. If you look up the handful of good campsites on the coast you will probably find that nearly every summer weekend is...
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Did Rome’s First Empress Kill for Power? Livia: “Mother of the Country” or “Evil Stepmother”? Behind the propaganda and bias, what is the...
1st Apr 2026
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Did Rome’s First Empress Kill for Power?

from Classical Wisdom [alt+shift+b] in history

1st Apr 2026
Livia: “Mother of the Country” or “Evil Stepmother”? Behind the propaganda and bias, what is the true story of Livia Drusilla?
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My Very Own Rival I’ve always marveled at people who are motivated purely by the love of what they’re doing. There’s...
12th Feb 2025
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My Very Own Rival

from matduggan.com [alt+shift+b] in technology

12th Feb 2025
I’ve always marveled at people who are motivated purely by the love of what they’re doing. There’s something so wholesome about that approach to life—where winning and losing don’t matter. They’re simply there to revel in the experience
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Gap Week: August 2, 2024 Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one)...
2nd Aug 2024
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Gap Week: August 2, 2024

from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry [alt+shift+b] in history

2nd Aug 2024
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one) whatever fresh COVID-19 variant is going around. Everyone is fine, but being sick left me pretty exhausted over the past few days with fewer productive writing hours available. Since I...
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Nobody Profits Intellectual property is a really dumb idea. “But piracy is theft. Clean and simple. It’s smash and...
18th Feb 2025
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Nobody Profits

from the singularity is nearer [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Feb 2025
Intellectual property is a really dumb idea. “But piracy is theft. Clean and simple. It’s smash and grab. It ain’t no different than smashing a window at Tiffany’s and grabbing merchandise.” - Joe Biden, 46th president of the USA Except it isn’t and Joe Biden is a senile moron....
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Emily Levine & Jill Tarter: Long Conversation 4 of 19 **This is one conversation out of the 19 that took place as part of the Long Conversation.[Media...
16th Oct 2010
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Emily Levine & Jill Tarter: Long Conversation 4 of 19

from Long Now [alt+shift+b] in science

16th Oct 2010
**This is one conversation out of the 19 that took place as part of the Long Conversation.[Media links for the other Conversations are available here.](https://longnow.org/seminars/02010/oct/16/long-conversation/)** Long Conversation, an epic relay of one-to-one conversations...
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Pentagonal antiprism planter with drip tray, 2023 Aged leather / dazzle camouflage / coming together? pushing apart?
13th Sep 2023
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Pentagonal antiprism planter with drip tray, 2023

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Sep 2023
Aged leather / dazzle camouflage / coming together? pushing apart?
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Introducing Nutrify 1.2: Calorie and Macronutrient Goals, Breakdowns and 57 New Foods Nutrify 1.2: Track calories and macronutrients with custom goals, detailed food breakdowns, and 57...
28th May 2024
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Introducing Nutrify 1.2: Calorie and Macronutrient Goals, Breakdowns and 57 New Foods

from Daniel Bourke [alt+shift+b] in life

28th May 2024
Nutrify 1.2: Track calories and macronutrients with custom goals, detailed food breakdowns, and 57 new foods in Nutridex. Available on the App Store.
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Color Photos Capture Life and Pollution Along the Ohio River in the Early 1970s In the early 1970s, the Ohio River was both a vital economic artery and a stark reminder of the...
2nd Jul 2026
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Color Photos Capture Life and Pollution Along the Ohio River in the Early 1970s

from Rare Historical Photos [alt+shift+b] in history

2nd Jul 2026
In the early 1970s, the Ohio River was both a vital economic artery and a stark reminder of the environmental costs of industrial growth. Barges carried coal, steel, chemicals, and other goods through the heart of the Midwest, while millions of people depended on the river for...
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Washington DC is Not a Popularity Contest IN 2009 PAUL GRAHAM WROTE A THOUGHTFUL ESSAY titled “Cities and Ambition.” There he proposes that a...
27th Sep 2024
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Washington DC is Not a Popularity Contest

from The Scholar's Stage [alt+shift+b] in history

27th Sep 2024
IN 2009 PAUL GRAHAM WROTE A THOUGHTFUL ESSAY titled “Cities and Ambition.” There he proposes that a great city is defined by the sort of ambitions it kindles—or perhaps more accurately, the sort of ambitious it gathers. As Graham puts it:
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Jakub and Szymon AI has gotten remarkably better in recent years; ChatGPT can do amazing things that we take for...
9th Sep 2025
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Jakub and Szymon

from Sam Altman [alt+shift+b] in AI

9th Sep 2025
AI has gotten remarkably better in recent years; ChatGPT can do amazing things that we take for granted. This is as it should be, and is the story of human progress. But behind the blinking circle, nicely abstracted away, is the greatest story of human ingenuity I have ever seen....
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Automatic Panorama Generation
3rd May 2011
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Automatic Panorama Generation

from Matt Keeter [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd May 2011
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One Definition of Wisdom Charlie Munger’s biggest business mistake, and what it tells us about wisdom.
14th Feb 2024
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One Definition of Wisdom

from Commoncog [alt+shift+b] in finance

14th Feb 2024
Charlie Munger’s biggest business mistake, and what it tells us about wisdom.
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IBM QRadar - When The Attacker Controls Your Security Stack (CVE-2022-26377) Welcome to April 2024. A depressing year so far - we've seen critical vulnerabilities across a wide...
12th Apr 2024
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IBM QRadar - When The Attacker Controls Your Security Stack (CVE-2022-26377)

from watchTowr Labs [alt+shift+b] in technology

12th Apr 2024
Welcome to April 2024. A depressing year so far - we've seen critical vulnerabilities across a wide range of enterprise software stacks. In addition, we've seen surreptitious and patient threat actors light our industry on fire with slowly introduced backdoors in the XZ...
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Table tennis scoreboard Last year, my uncles asked me to design an electronic table tennis scoreboard. Apparently, what they...
11th Nov 2025
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Table tennis scoreboard

from Willem Pennings [alt+shift+b] in science

11th Nov 2025
Last year, my uncles asked me to design an electronic table tennis scoreboard. Apparently, what they wanted wasn’t for sale (at least not in New Zealand). Since they’re very enthusiastic about the game, I agreed and created a design. It features: I’m using an ESP32...
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How I learned to stop worrying and wrote my own memory-cache Here I am, writing about performance optimization again. I'm a performance junkie. Constantly...
21st Jan 2023
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How I learned to stop worrying and wrote my own memory-cache

from Founder's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

21st Jan 2023
Here I am, writing about performance optimization again. I'm a performance junkie. Constantly monitoring and investigating bottlenecks for our SaaS helpdesk webapp is my favorite thing ever. And I'm proud to say that with thousands of clients, even some really big ones, our app's...
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Issue 63 – RobConf 2024 Coinbase responds to campaign finance violation allegations, Trump panders to bitcoiners, and I chat...
7th Aug 2024
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Issue 63 – RobConf 2024

from Citation Needed [alt+shift+b] in finance

7th Aug 2024
Coinbase responds to campaign finance violation allegations, Trump panders to bitcoiners, and I chat with Lyn Alden about sexism in bitcoin.
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THE WHAT TO COOK SHOW: surf and turf summer fajitas For the grand finale episode of this season of the What To Cook show, I bring you a fajita...
3 weeks ago
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THE WHAT TO COOK SHOW: surf and turf summer fajitas

from What To Cook [alt+shift+b] in life

3 weeks ago
For the grand finale episode of this season of the What To Cook show, I bring you a fajita feast! We’re headed to my backyard to grill up the most delicious summer spread of hanger steak, shrimp, and veg for fajitas, plus we’ll make a creamy charred jalapeño sauce and corn on the...
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Credit cards as a legacy system Credit cards have been in use for almost 75 years. Some long-ago decisions still cause consequences...
2nd Dec 2022
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Credit cards as a legacy system

from Bits about Money [alt+shift+b] in finance

2nd Dec 2022
Credit cards have been in use for almost 75 years. Some long-ago decisions still cause consequences in the present day. But change is possible.
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How to Use Power How do you gain power, use power, and identify those who have power, so that you may protect...
2nd Dec 2024
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How to Use Power

from Commoncog [alt+shift+b] in finance

2nd Dec 2024
How do you gain power, use power, and identify those who have power, so that you may protect yourself against them? Part two of three in a series on power in business.
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State (of Mind) Machine Reprinted from issue 28 of The Loop magazine from March 2014, with thanks to Jim Dalrymple.  It...
13th Mar 2014
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State (of Mind) Machine

from Three Letter Acronym [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

13th Mar 2014
Reprinted from issue 28 of The Loop magazine from March 2014, with thanks to Jim Dalrymple.  It seems ironic, that despite our invention of near-instantaneous global communication, we are still not the best species on the planet at actually telling each other how we’re feeling....
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Annoying blog post I spent a couple of hours this weekend going through some pull requests and issues to Annoy, which...
11th Nov 2014
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Annoying blog post

from Home on Erik Bernhardsson [alt+shift+b] in technology

11th Nov 2014
I spent a couple of hours this weekend going through some pull requests and issues to Annoy, which is an open source C++/Python library for Approximate Nearest Neighbor search. I set up Travis-CI integration and spent some time on one of the issues that multiple people had...
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First impressions of the new Gemini Deep Research (with 2.5 Pro) Google released an updated iteration of their Deep Research tool that uses the new 2.5 Pro model....
8th Apr 2025
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First impressions of the new Gemini Deep Research (with 2.5 Pro)

from Alex Strick van Linschoten [alt+shift+b] in AI

8th Apr 2025
Google released an updated iteration of their Deep Research tool that uses the new 2.5 Pro model. This was taken from a post originally made on Twitter, so please excuse the terseness. First impressions: a bit too eager to jump into a deep research task even when I just ask a...
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The Pull Request A brief and biased history. Oh yeah, there’s pull requests now – GitHub blog, Sat, 23 Feb 2008 When...
31st Aug 2024
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The Pull Request

from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Aug 2024
A brief and biased history. Oh yeah, there’s pull requests now – GitHub blog, Sat, 23 Feb 2008 When GitHub launched, it had no code review. Three years after launch, in 2011, GitHub user rtomayko became the first person to make a real code comment, which read, in full:...
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Why schedule something that doesn't exist? The first thing I did when making this post is I set it to be published tomorrow. Then, I left the...
5th May 2016
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Why schedule something that doesn't exist?

from Josh Thompson [alt+shift+b] in literature

5th May 2016
The first thing I did when making this post is I set it to be published tomorrow. Then, I left the room for a bit. I didn’t have anything to say. Or, I didn’t think I did. Yet, all over my computer, and in various list trackers and note-taking apps, I’ve got dozens of ideas to...
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What is Backend-as-a-Service? Plenty of people have heard of SaaS, or Software-as-a-Service, which is simply software made...
5th Dec 2022
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What is Backend-as-a-Service?

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Dec 2022
Plenty of people have heard of SaaS, or Software-as-a-Service, which is simply software made available by a third party over the internet. Think Salesforce, WordPress, or MailChimp. And most people know what a “backend developer” is, that is, someone who is responsible for things...
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Who are design systems for? I’ve spent the past few days feeling an immense amount of FOMO. A major design conference called...
14th Dec 2018
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Who are design systems for?

from The personal website of Matthew Ström [alt+shift+b] in design

14th Dec 2018
I’ve spent the past few days feeling an immense amount of FOMO. A major design conference called Clarity happened here in New York, and my twitter feed has been full of pictures and quotes from the very talented and articulate speakers. Lesson learned: go to more conferences. To...
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Cloak & dagger creativity camp “You cannot create an experience, you can create [conditions] for an experience.” — Seth
19th Jun 2019
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Cloak & dagger creativity camp

from Piotr Migdał's Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

19th Jun 2019
“You cannot create an experience, you can create [conditions] for an experience.” — Seth
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People keep anthropomorphizing AI. Here’s why Companies and journalists both contribute to the confusion
22nd Feb 2023
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People keep anthropomorphizing AI. Here’s why

from AI Snake Oil [alt+shift+b] in AI

22nd Feb 2023
Companies and journalists both contribute to the confusion
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Dress codes: The meaningful tailoring of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy By Robbie Collin. It’s a formative stage in every man's sartorial journey: when the height of good...
2nd Mar 2026
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Dress codes: The meaningful tailoring of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

from Permanent Style [alt+shift+b] in design

2nd Mar 2026
By Robbie Collin. It’s a formative stage in every man's sartorial journey: when the height of good taste means trying to dress like a spy from a film. There’s James Bond of course – and goodness knows there’s enough advice out there for anyo... > Read more
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Country Risk: My 2024 Data Update After the 2008 market crisis, I resolved that I would be far more organized in my assessments and...
24th Jul 2024
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Country Risk: My 2024 Data Update

from Musings on Markets [alt+shift+b] in finance

24th Jul 2024
After the 2008 market crisis, I resolved that I would be far more organized in my assessments and updating of equity risk premiums, in the United States and abroad, as I looked at the damage that can be inflicted on intrinsic value by significant shifts in risk premiums, i.e., my...
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Wendell Berry and the Promise of the Deep Life Wendell Berry died last week at 92 at his home in Port Royal, Kentucky, where he farmed his land...
2 weeks ago
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Wendell Berry and the Promise of the Deep Life

from Cal Newport [alt+shift+b] in AI

2 weeks ago
Wendell Berry died last week at 92 at his home in Port Royal, Kentucky, where he farmed his land using traditional techniques and wrote with ... Read more The post Wendell Berry and the Promise of the Deep Life appeared first on Cal Newport.
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Rome Pilgrimage: Jubilee Year, 2025 This July, Jenn and I journeyed to Rome as part of a Jubilee Year pilgrimage with a group of...
21st Jul 2025
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Rome Pilgrimage: Jubilee Year, 2025

from RhysTranter.com [alt+shift+b] in life

21st Jul 2025
This July, Jenn and I journeyed to Rome as part of a Jubilee Year pilgrimage with a group of colleagues from St David’s Catholic College. We passed through the Holy Doors of St Peter’s, St John Lateran, St Paul Outside the Walls, and St Mary Major, where the remains of Pope...
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September Café & Cake Designed by Chochoi Creative, Ho Chi Minh City.
13th Feb 2023
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September Café & Cake

from Identity Designed [alt+shift+b] in design

13th Feb 2023
Designed by Chochoi Creative, Ho Chi Minh City.
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Top 6 Underrated Places to Visit in the BVI
2nd Oct 2024
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Top 6 Underrated Places to Visit in the BVI

from AFAR Media - Travel Stories, News, Reviews, Tips + Guides [alt+shift+b] in travel

2nd Oct 2024
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How to Blow Up a Timeline NOTE: I’d been working on this piece on and off for a few weeks while trying to move to NYC and...
7th Jul 2023
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How to Blow Up a Timeline

from Remains of the Day [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Jul 2023
NOTE: I’d been working on this piece on and off for a few weeks while trying to move to NYC and settle into my new apartment, and just as I was about to publish it, Elon rate-limited Twitter and so, sensing a moment of weakness, Meta pulled up its launch date for Threads to...
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Ten years of experience in one hour From 1998 to 2008, I had this wild experience of starting a little hobby, accidentally growing it...
1st Jul 2011
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Ten years of experience in one hour

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Jul 2011
From 1998 to 2008, I had this wild experience of starting a little hobby, accidentally growing it into a big business, and then selling it for $22 million. So now people want to hear my thoughts. People ask my advice on how to approach situations in their lives or businesses,...
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The Discipline and the Discipline at the intersection of art and social science
2 weeks ago
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The Discipline and the Discipline

from Never Met a Science [alt+shift+b] in technology

2 weeks ago
at the intersection of art and social science
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Understanding the work - Thoughts on one day with three art events. A few thoughts on a few art events that happened around Boston Feb. 22nd.
22nd Apr 2020
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Understanding the work - Thoughts on one day with three art events.

from Blog - Mac Pierce [alt+shift+b] in creative

22nd Apr 2020
A few thoughts on a few art events that happened around Boston Feb. 22nd.
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Comic for 2025.06.01 - Everything New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
1st Jun 2025
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Comic for 2025.06.01 - Everything

from Explosm.net [alt+shift+b] in comics

1st Jun 2025
New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
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Atomic Design in&nbsp;1998 When you hear “atomic design,” you probably think of Brad Frost. Interestingly, he was not the first...
8th Feb 2018
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Atomic Design in&nbsp;1998

from Daniel De Laney [alt+shift+b] in technology

8th Feb 2018
When you hear “atomic design,” you probably think of Brad Frost. Interestingly, he was not the first person to develop that method of delivering design as components, or even the terminology. Brad published his atomic design article in 2013. While digging through the archives at...
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What Do Hospitals Care About? | Out-Of-Pocket Let’s look at three big priorities and a real hospital
11th Feb 2025
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What Do Hospitals Care About? | Out-Of-Pocket

from Out-of-Pocket Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

11th Feb 2025
Let’s look at three big priorities and a real hospital
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MkLinux and the pimped-out Apple Workgroup Server 9150 As is typical here in the Floodgap lab, it all started so innocently: rebuilding a flaky Apple...
2nd Aug 2026
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MkLinux and the pimped-out Apple Workgroup Server 9150

from Old Vintage Computing Research [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Aug 2026
As is typical here in the Floodgap lab, it all started so innocently: rebuilding a flaky Apple Workgroup Server 9150, the odd duck of the Workgroup Server line and older cousin to our beloved Apple Network Server. And then I just had to pimp it out for MkLinux. sui generis IBM...
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Lessons from a takeaway plastic bag About five months ago I got some take away food from our local Asian restaurant. They packaged the...
7th Jan 2018
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Lessons from a takeaway plastic bag

from Willem L. Middelkoop [alt+shift+b] in technology

7th Jan 2018
About five months ago I got some take away food from our local Asian restaurant. They packaged the food and gave me a plastic bag to carry it home. On my way home I was thinking about the bag. Although it has some nice styling printed on it, it's designed for single use only....
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How to Become an Asian Tycoon Every Asian tycoon becomes a tycoon in the exact same way. Learning to see this core pattern is half...
1st Apr 2025
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How to Become an Asian Tycoon

from Commoncog [alt+shift+b] in finance

1st Apr 2025
Every Asian tycoon becomes a tycoon in the exact same way. Learning to see this core pattern is half the battle.
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Priors for Autonomous Vehicle Development
30th Jun 2019
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Priors for Autonomous Vehicle Development

from Made by Ollin [alt+shift+b] in AI

30th Jun 2019
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Embedding models Embedding models are available in Ollama, making it easy to generate vector embeddings for use in...
8th Apr 2024
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Embedding models

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

8th Apr 2024
Embedding models are available in Ollama, making it easy to generate vector embeddings for use in search and retrieval augmented generation (RAG) applications.
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Revisiting LLM Geolocation Two Years Later In 2023 Bellingcat published “Can AI Chatbots Be Used for Geolocation?”. In that article, they...
21st Mar 2025
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Revisiting LLM Geolocation Two Years Later

from heavymeta.org [alt+shift+b] in technology

21st Mar 2025
In 2023 Bellingcat published “Can AI Chatbots Be Used for Geolocation?”. In that article, they examine the ability of LLMs to geolocate photos. They gave Microsoft Bing and Google Bard three photos of locations in Canada: the Edmonton City Hall Churchill Square, also in...
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Feb ’25: The top comes off What’s in the news? The Trump, is in the news. He gets more than enough coverage without me adding...
15th Mar 2025
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Feb ’25: The top comes off

from FIRE v London [alt+shift+b] in finance

15th Mar 2025
What’s in the news? The Trump, is in the news. He gets more than enough coverage without me adding to it. From the point of view of what affects portfolios like mine, a few things happened What’s going on with me? My personal life was quite busy in February. I visited the UK city...
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Omarchy is on the move Omarchy has been improving at a furious pace. Since it was first released on June 26, I've pushed...
5th Aug 2025
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Omarchy is on the move

from David Heinemeier Hansson [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Aug 2025
Omarchy has been improving at a furious pace. Since it was first released on June 26, I've pushed out 18(!) new releases together with a rapidly growing community of collaborators, users, and new-to-Linux enthusiasts. We have about 3,500 early adopters on the Omarchy Discord, 250...
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Pink, Soft, Glittering Developers A collection of observations on the rise of soft, sparkly, baby pink aesthetics among developers
13th Mar 2021
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Pink, Soft, Glittering Developers

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Mar 2021
A collection of observations on the rise of soft, sparkly, baby pink aesthetics among developers
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May Days 20 things to do in London in May 2025 1st May: Morris Dancing in Hammersmith/Islington. You've...
1st May 2025
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May Days

from diamond geezer [alt+shift+b] in travel

1st May 2025
20 things to do in London in May 2025 1st May: Morris Dancing in Hammersmith/Islington. You've already missed Primrose Hill/Greenwich. 1st May: IKEA opens at Oxford Circus. Come walk the flatpack maze and eat meatballs. 1st May: London May Day Rally. Up the workers from...
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Building a Wi-Fi Controlled Nerf Turret Earlier this year, I decided to build a 3D-printed Nerf turret with streaming video that is fully...
31st Jul 2022
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Building a Wi-Fi Controlled Nerf Turret

from Alex Meub [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Jul 2022
Earlier this year, I decided to build a 3D-printed Nerf turret with streaming video that is fully controllable from a web browser. It’s something a 6th grader would have thought was a good use of time, but for some reason as a dad in my thirties, I spent the last several months...
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Learnings after 4 years at ahrefs TBD
12th Oct 2024
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Learnings after 4 years at ahrefs

from sancho.dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Oct 2024
TBD
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Who Can Understand the Proof? A Window on Formalized Mathematics Related writings: “Logic, Explainability and the Future of Understanding” (2018) » “The...
9th Jan 2025
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Who Can Understand the Proof? A Window on Formalized Mathematics

from Stephen Wolfram Writings [alt+shift+b] in science

9th Jan 2025
Related writings: “Logic, Explainability and the Future of Understanding” (2018) » “The Physicalization of Metamathematics and Its Implications for the Foundations of Mathematics” (2022) » “Computational Knowledge and the Future of Pure Mathematics” (2014) » The Simplest Axiom...
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A better urbanism
5th Nov 2009
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A better urbanism

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

5th Nov 2009
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Exploiting Directory Traversal to View Customer Credit Card Information on Yahoo's Small...
10th Nov 2017
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Exploiting Directory Traversal to View Customer Credit Card Information on Yahoo's Small Business Platform

from Blog | Sam Curry [alt+shift+b] in technology

10th Nov 2017
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A nicer voltmeter clock Sometimes, electronic circuit design is mostly about wood
16th May 2026
1

A nicer voltmeter clock

from lcamtuf’s thing [alt+shift+b] in science

16th May 2026
Sometimes, electronic circuit design is mostly about wood
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Atypical Designed by Behalf, Saigon.
23rd Sep 2022
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Atypical

from Identity Designed [alt+shift+b] in design

23rd Sep 2022
Designed by Behalf, Saigon.
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The Pulse: Antigravity 2.0 takes ‘IDE’ out of its new IDE Feedback about the redesigned IDE is overwhelmingly negative due to bugs, poor UX & model support,...
11th Jun 2026
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The Pulse: Antigravity 2.0 takes ‘IDE’ out of its new IDE

from The Pragmatic Engineer [alt+shift+b] in technology

11th Jun 2026
Feedback about the redesigned IDE is overwhelmingly negative due to bugs, poor UX & model support, and eating through Gemini token quotas. Also: a clue that Antigravity’s own devs use other tools for their work?
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Crafting a chatbot people will use: Part 1
21st Jun 2017
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Crafting a chatbot people will use: Part 1

from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming

21st Jun 2017
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ML for SWEs 68: 43 Years Later, Developer Productivity Is Still a Billion-Dollar Problem 43 years later and we still can't measure developer productivity
1st Oct 2025
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ML for SWEs 68: 43 Years Later, Developer Productivity Is Still a Billion-Dollar Problem

from Machine Learning for Software Engineers [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Oct 2025
43 years later and we still can't measure developer productivity
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The Black Exterior Of This Home Leads To A Pink Kitchen Inside Paul Archer Design has shared photos of a home they completed in Wivenhoe, England, for an artist...
11th Jun 2024
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The Black Exterior Of This Home Leads To A Pink Kitchen Inside

from Contemporist Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in architecture

11th Jun 2024
Paul Archer Design has shared photos of a home they completed in Wivenhoe, England, for an artist who wanted a light-filled interior with room to work and to entertain.
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Inspiration from a child Explore the world together with your kids and reap the rewards of adventure and fun!
29th Sep 2021
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Inspiration from a child

from Willem's Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

29th Sep 2021
Explore the world together with your kids and reap the rewards of adventure and fun!
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Facilitating AI adoption at Imprint I’ve been working on internal “AI” adoption, which is really LLM-tooling and agent adoption, for the...
7th Dec 2025
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Facilitating AI adoption at Imprint

from Irrational Exuberance [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Dec 2025
I’ve been working on internal “AI” adoption, which is really LLM-tooling and agent adoption, for the past 18 months or so. This is a problem that I think is, at minimum, a side-quest for every engineering leader in the current era. Given the sheer number of folks working on this...
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A Horrifying User Experience After years of living in a cramped Tokyo apartment, I'm going to move to a slightly more spacious...
8th Oct 2012
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A Horrifying User Experience

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Oct 2012
After years of living in a cramped Tokyo apartment, I'm going to move to a slightly more spacious one. Finding an apartment went smoother than I could have imagined, and in half-a-day, I had found a new apartment. The following day I set out to take care of the tasks surrounding...
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Not As Giants Love Not As Giants Love Short story, ~2000 words A week ago, when I asked you if you still loved me, I...
4th Jul 2024
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Not As Giants Love

from Steven Scrawls [alt+shift+b] in literature

4th Jul 2024
Not As Giants Love Short story, ~2000 words A week ago, when I asked you if you still loved me, I thought the most painful thing you could’ve said was no. I don’t know if you remember, but when you said “Of course I still love you” and asked if I still loved you, I started to...
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Changing times (or, why is every layoff 10-15%?) Changing economic markets suggests a shift in how some companies should operate, as well as what...
9th Nov 2022
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Changing times (or, why is every layoff 10-15%?)

from Elad Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Nov 2022
Changing economic markets suggests a shift in how some companies should operate, as well as what risks to assume for 2023
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My Theme for 2026 I’m starting off 2026 with a post that likely won’t interest you at all. I’m only sharing it to 1)...
1st Jan 2026
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My Theme for 2026

from Jorge Arango [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Jan 2026
I’m starting off 2026 with a post that likely won’t interest you at all. I’m only sharing it to 1) think it through and 2) make myself accountable. It’s inspired by this video: Among other things, Pink suggests adopting a one-word theme for the year: “Not a sentence. Not a...
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Can You Stay? Can You Stay? examines one discrete variable among many complex and converging issues concerning...
17th May 2021
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Can You Stay?

from Blog - Guerrilla Cartography [alt+shift+b] in architecture

17th May 2021
Can You Stay? examines one discrete variable among many complex and converging issues concerning housing precarity, focusing on a part of the world with unique geography and social issues. Project Background This map is cut from the cloth of a capstone project I did in 2018 at...
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2023 Hottest Year on Record What everyone knew was coming is now official – 2023 was the warmest year on record. This means we...
2nd Jan 2024
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2023 Hottest Year on Record

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

2nd Jan 2024
What everyone knew was coming is now official – 2023 was the warmest year on record. This means we can also say that the last 10 years are the hottest decade on record. 2023 dethrones 2016 as the previous warmest year and bumps 2010 out of the top 10. Further, in the last half of...
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Possibly A Bad Idea John Zukowksy, a retired but still active historian, recently sent me a bizarre clipping from the...
1st Jul 2024
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Possibly A Bad Idea

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

1st Jul 2024
John Zukowksy, a retired but still active historian, recently sent me a bizarre clipping from the Chicago Tribune about a plane semi-faking bombing lower Manhattan in 1916. The short version of the story: DeLloyd Thompson, an early aviator of some note, took off from the airfield...
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Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious? I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a...
30th Sep 2023
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Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious?

from Global Inequality and More 3.0 [alt+shift+b] in history

30th Sep 2023
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
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Some things that make Rust lifetimes hard to learn After I wrote YARR (Yet Another Rust Resource, with requisite pirate mentions), one of my friends...
3rd Mar 2025
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Some things that make Rust lifetimes hard to learn

from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Mar 2025
After I wrote YARR (Yet Another Rust Resource, with requisite pirate mentions), one of my friends tried it out. He gave me some really useful insights as he went through it, letting me see what was hard about learning Rust from a newcomer's perspective. Unsurprisingly, lifetimes...
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What you know that just ain't so The fun bit about business is in all the answers you don't have. Should we be priced higher or lower...
5th Nov 2024
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What you know that just ain't so

from David Heinemeier Hansson [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Nov 2024
The fun bit about business is in all the answers you don't have. Should we be priced higher or lower or leave it alone? Should we chase these customers over here or those customers over there? Should we add more features or polish the ones we have? There's endless variation in...
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Working with AI: Two paths to prompting Don't overcomplicate things
1st Nov 2023
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Working with AI: Two paths to prompting

from One Useful Thing [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Nov 2023
Don't overcomplicate things
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Why autonomous trucking is harder than autonomous rideshare Recently, The Verge asked, “where are all the robot trucks?” It’s a good question. Trucking was...
10th Jan 2024
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Why autonomous trucking is harder than autonomous rideshare

from Kevin Chen [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Jan 2024
Recently, The Verge asked, “where are all the robot trucks?” It’s a good question. Trucking was supposed to be the ideal first application of autonomous driving. Freeways contain predictable, highly structured driving scenarios. An autonomous truck would not have to deal with the...
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Nothing shifted. | #106 Dispatches from vacation Summer 2026
3rd Jul 2026
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Nothing shifted. | #106

from Charlie Becker [alt+shift+b] in life

3rd Jul 2026
Dispatches from vacation Summer 2026
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Is the Human Washing Machine of our Dreams Finally Becoming a Reality? If you wandered the Osaka Healthcare Pavilion at Expo 2025 and felt like you’d stepped into a retro...
5th Oct 2025
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Is the Human Washing Machine of our Dreams Finally Becoming a Reality?

from Spoon & Tamago [alt+shift+b] in travel

5th Oct 2025
If you wandered the Osaka Healthcare Pavilion at Expo 2025 and felt like you’d stepped into a retro sci-fi spa, you weren’t imagining things. One of the talk-of-the-fair exhibits is a futuristic bathing pod — billed as a “Future Human Washing Machine” — that promises to wash and...
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Using Novela by Narative (updated) With the growing community interest in Gatsby, we hope to create more resources that make it easier...
4th Aug 2019
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Using Novela by Narative (updated)

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Aug 2019
With the growing community interest in Gatsby, we hope to create more resources that make it easier for anyone to grasp the power of this incredible tool.
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Why geeks should speak
2nd Nov 2018
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Why geeks should speak

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

2nd Nov 2018
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Language Modeling Reading List (to Start Your Paper Club) Some fundamental papers and a one-sentence summary for each; start your own paper club!
7th Jan 2024
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Language Modeling Reading List (to Start Your Paper Club)

from Eugene Yan [alt+shift+b] in AI

7th Jan 2024
Some fundamental papers and a one-sentence summary for each; start your own paper club!
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Final Fantasy IX I’ve noticed that if I want to give something a perfect score but know that it’s not a “perfect”...
28th Dec 2013
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Final Fantasy IX

from Writing [alt+shift+b] in technology

28th Dec 2013
I’ve noticed that if I want to give something a perfect score but know that it’s not a “perfect” thing, I always start off with “okay, so, it has flaws.”
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What I wrote in The Atlantic about the Clicktatorship When content matters more than the truth
4th Feb 2026
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What I wrote in The Atlantic about the Clicktatorship

from Can We Still Govern? [alt+shift+b] in technology

4th Feb 2026
When content matters more than the truth
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Momentum and mean reversion might just be volatility bias The Economist just published an article called The best, the worst and the ugly. By looking at...
13th Jan 2013
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Momentum and mean reversion might just be volatility bias

from Home on Erik Bernhardsson [alt+shift+b] in technology

13th Jan 2013
The Economist just published an article called The best, the worst and the ugly. By looking at historical performance for mutual funds, they find strong support for momentum and mean reversion. Picking the best or the worst fund over the previous five years gives great returns...
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Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS Tutorial on Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS
3rd Jul 2019
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Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Jul 2019
Tutorial on Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS
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The endless search for “here” in the unhelpful “click here” button
11th Nov 2021
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The endless search for “here” in the unhelpful “click here” button

from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Nov 2021
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Parsing arguments in Rust with no dependencies When pairing with my friend Emily, we had a choice of what to implement in her project: start a new...
4th Nov 2024
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Parsing arguments in Rust with no dependencies

from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Nov 2024
When pairing with my friend Emily, we had a choice of what to implement in her project: start a new feature, or add a command line argument parser? We opted for the latter, because it had to happen eventually and it was more well bounded. It ended up having a lot of depth! We...
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