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Willem's Blog
Abandoning my own tablet OS After a year of experimenting with Debian GNU/Linux on a Surface Go 2 I have returned to iPad Pro...
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After a year of experimenting with Debian GNU/Linux on a Surface Go 2 I have returned to iPad Pro and the Mac.
Vadim Kravcenko
Is 150K USD a reasonable rate to build a mobile app? So, you’ve been quoted a cool 50K for designs and 150K for your mobile app development. That’s a...
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So, you’ve been quoted a cool 50K for designs and 150K for your mobile app development. That’s a hefty sum, […] The post Is 150K USD a reasonable rate to build a mobile app? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
A Beautiful Site
Testing Support for :focus-visible The new :focus-visible CSS selector lets us remove unsightly focus rings that often result in...
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The new :focus-visible CSS selector lets us remove unsightly focus rings that often result in developers adding this to their stylesheets: /* Please don't do this */ button:focus { outline: none; } While unsightly to mouse users, a clear focus indicator is essential for proper...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Provider Directories, Physician data, and Ribbon Health | Out-Of-Pocket why can't I find any important info about my doctor lol
a year ago
Yale E360
In War Zones, a Race to Save Key Seeds Needed to Feed the World In conflict areas from Ukraine to Palestine, storage facilities holding seeds vital for future plant...
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In conflict areas from Ukraine to Palestine, storage facilities holding seeds vital for future plant breeding are being lost. Scientists are rushing to send some remaining seeds to a “doomsday” vault in Norway so they can be available to provide food crops in a warming...
Retail Design Blog
LIL MILAN first POPUP STORE in ROME. LIL Milan is a fresh new pure gold jewels brand with an essential and elegant style.The project aims...
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LIL Milan is a fresh new pure gold jewels brand with an essential and elegant style.The project aims to create...
A Beautiful Site
On Using Web Component Libraries We tend to think of components as things that belong to a framework. After all, React has...
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We tend to think of components as things that belong to a framework. After all, React has components, Vue has components, Angular has components…it's just how we've always used them. Because of that, people tend to refer to Lit and FAST Element as frameworks, but they’re not....
Epic Web Dev
Web Application Testing (workshop) Learn how to write tests that cover all of your backend and frontend code. Web Application Testing...
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Learn how to write tests that cover all of your backend and frontend code. Web Application Testing covers unit testing, E2E, integration testing, and more!
seangoedecke.com RSS...
What's next after the AI bubble bursts? In the mid-1800s, America went mad for rail. Over thirty thousand miles of rail were built in a five...
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In the mid-1800s, America went mad for rail. Over thirty thousand miles of rail were built in a five year period. This was all largely…
symmetry magazine
Kétévi Assamagan pays it forward Kétévi Assamagan's contributions to physics go beyond his research at the Large Hadron...
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Kétévi Assamagan's contributions to physics go beyond his research at the Large Hadron Collider. Kétévi Assamagan first became interested in physics in high school—because he had to be. His school in Togo, in West Africa, required students to declare a major....
Astral Codex Ten
Hidden Open Thread 375.5 ...
3 months ago
Retail Design Blog
glo flagship store by ZIKZAK Architects In Odessa, a flagship glo™ store with a conceptual interior based on the company’s updated brand...
9 months ago
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In Odessa, a flagship glo™ store with a conceptual interior based on the company’s updated brand book has opened. The...
Articles
When should you quit? It's natural for entrepreneurs to work on multiple projects. Starting a new project is easy; but you...
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It's natural for entrepreneurs to work on multiple projects. Starting a new project is easy; but you also need to learn how to quit a project.
NeuroLogica Blog
Rats! What killed off the dodo? Humans first arrived at Mauritius island in the late 1500s. They found on...
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What killed off the dodo? Humans first arrived at Mauritius island in the late 1500s. They found on this island fat flightless birds who nested on the ground and were a convenient way to restock their ship’s food supply. Within 80 years the dodo went extinct. But hunting was not...
Unpacked
Meta, News Outlets and the Canada Online News Act On Thursday last week, the Canadian Senate finally passed into law the Canada Online News Act, which...
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On Thursday last week, the Canadian Senate finally passed into law the Canada Online News Act, which will force tech giants (predominantly Meta and Google) to pay news organizations in Canada for content that is shared on these platforms. The foundational premise of the law is...
Maps Mania
The History Quiz Map!
3 months ago
Both Are True
i guess i wrote a song??? a guest post from Alex Gobrenko
a year ago
A Smart Bear
How to get customers who love you even when you screw up Customers love you when you're honest, even about your foibles. We forgive honest mistakes from...
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2 months ago
Customers love you when you're honest, even about your foibles. We forgive honest mistakes from earnest people, not stolid, cold, inhuman corporations.
Articles - Alex...
Thinking rationally about emotion In advertising, using emotion is entirely logical. Creative agencies have made this case...
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In advertising, using emotion is entirely logical. Creative agencies have made this case consistently. But in 2013 Les Binet and Peter Field bought some much-needed data to the discussion. In their seminal report, The Long and The Short of It, the duo analysed 30 years of...
A Beautiful Site
The HTML5 download attribute Years ago I showed you how to force a file to download with PHP. Now with HTML5, you [almost] don't...
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Years ago I showed you how to force a file to download with PHP. Now with HTML5, you [almost] don't have to do that anymore. The HTML5 download attribute is intended to tell the browser that a certain link should force a certain file to download, optionally with a certain name...
Seth's Blog
The prevailing conditions It doesn’t matter how hard you try, you’re not going to change the direction of the wind. That...
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It doesn’t matter how hard you try, you’re not going to change the direction of the wind. That doesn’t mean you can’t get good at sailing, though. And yes, if we do try, we can change the conditions in our household, community or workplace. It might feel like wind, but it’s...
macwright.com
Recently I watched a large part of All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace this month. This also counts...
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I watched a large part of All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace this month. This also counts as a “listening” item, because the theme song, “Baby Love Child” by Pizzicato Five, is also spectacular. Guitar Moves is a good series of interviews by Matt Sweeney, who I...
Londonist
9 Excellent Events Near London: January 2024 Dogs and beer - what more do you need?
a year ago
Asterisk
Michael Lewis’s Blind Side In Going Infinite, the famed chronicler of American finance proves he’s more interested in myths...
a year ago
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In Going Infinite, the famed chronicler of American finance proves he’s more interested in myths than morals — or even math.
AFAR Media - Travel...
What to Do in South Lake Tahoe, California
a year ago
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Applied Cartography
Bluesky is good Three months ago, I wrote Bluesky et al, in which I walked through the various platforms vying for...
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Three months ago, I wrote Bluesky et al, in which I walked through the various platforms vying for the dubious title of "Twitter's successor" and landed on Bluesky as being my favorite, perhaps less out of its ostensible inherent virtues and more out of the size of its...
Dominik Sobe's...
HelpKit hit $10000 MRR
over a year ago
Seth's Blog
But what if it’s voluntary? For more than 130 years, we’ve celebrated Labor Day in the US and Canada. And May Day has been...
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For more than 130 years, we’ve celebrated Labor Day in the US and Canada. And May Day has been around about as long. Around here, it’s become mostly a seasonal marker, but it was founded to devote just a day to something that deserves much more… to commemorate and celebrate the...
The Turn Signal RSS...
In-Car Climate Control Design: How It Has Gone Backwards and How to Fix It To illustrate how climate controls have evolved, I'll compare two generations of Mercedes S-Class:...
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To illustrate how climate controls have evolved, I'll compare two generations of Mercedes S-Class: the W140 from 1991, and the newest…
Product Identity
I'm writing a zine Will I become an author now?
7 months ago
Making software...
Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll 2019-06-20 When thinking about writing, designing and ultimately...
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Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll 2019-06-20 When thinking about writing, designing and ultimately publishing an ebook, most people don't think of using a static site generator. Having products like Amazon Publishing, LaTeX or even Microsoft Word available, why should you use...
Retail Design Blog
Dates fruit packaging by Mostafa Vafaei
a year ago
diamond geezer
Initial Silvertown data TfL are holding a Board meeting next week, and amidst the 252 pages of documentation are these...
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TfL are holding a Board meeting next week, and amidst the 252 pages of documentation are these statistics and revelations relating to usage of the Silvertown Tunnel thus far. Let's bash some figures. Early analysis of data up to 11 May shows traffic volumes across the combined...
Londonist
10 Things You Learn From Living In The Tower Of London William the Conqueror did NOT build those walls with a strong internet connection in mind.
a year ago
./techtipsy
No HDMI port on the ThinkPad T430? No problem! The ThinkPad T430 has a few options for running it with an external display: VGA port, which is...
a year ago
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The ThinkPad T430 has a few options for running it with an external display: VGA port, which is pretty much obsolete at this point mini DisplayPort connector on the laptop itself DVI or DisplayPort on a dock The mini DisplayPort port has annoyed me for as long as I’ve had this...
NeuroLogica Blog
ChatGPT Performs At University Level We are still sorting out the strengths and weaknesses of the new crop of artificial intelligence...
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We are still sorting out the strengths and weaknesses of the new crop of artificial intelligence (AI) applications, the poster-child of which is ChatGPT. This is a so-called large language model application using a “generative pre-trained transformer”. Essentially these types of...
Oxide Computer...
Moore's Scofflaws Years ago, Jeff Bezos famously quipped that "your margin is my opportunity." This was of course...
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Years ago, Jeff Bezos famously quipped that "your margin is my opportunity." This was of course aimed not at Amazon’s customers, but rather its competitors, and it was deadly serious: customers of AWS in those bygone years will fondly remember that every re:Invent brought with it...
Folklore.org:...
Eulogy for Brian Eulogy for Brian Howard, Macintosh hero, 1944-2010
over a year ago
Yale E360
Scheduling visits from the muse Eight years ago, I decided to start a blog. For most of the life of my blog, it was relatively...
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Eight years ago, I decided to start a blog. For most of the life of my blog, it was relatively inactive. And then, I just started pumping out a lot more blog posts in 2022 while attending the Recurse Center. What changed? I stopped relying on visits from the muse, and started...
davidyat.es
Game: Causality Couriers
over a year ago
Lennart Koopmann
Close Access Denial I’ve been working on nzyme full-time for 10 months now and I was struggling to find a good name for...
a year ago
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I’ve been working on nzyme full-time for 10 months now and I was struggling to find a good name for what its WiFi functionality does. The fact that it looks at not only WiFi but also Ethernet data does not help with that problem. If I have a minute to explain it, it’s no problem...
Adventures In...
Historical Topo Map Explorer (beta) The USGS Historical Topographic Map Explorer is getting an update, and you can try out this new beta...
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The USGS Historical Topographic Map Explorer is getting an update, and you can try out this new beta version, here: LivingAtlas.ArcGIS.com/TopoMapExplorer The United States Geological Survey has a rich history of creating exquisite topographic quadrangle maps. These topo maps are...
TheCollector
Giuseppe Verdi: The Bard of the Risorgimento (Bio & Facts) On January 30, 1901, as a hearse drove the coffin of Giuseppe Verdi to the cemetery in Milan, a huge...
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On January 30, 1901, as a hearse drove the coffin of Giuseppe Verdi to the cemetery in Milan, a huge crowd gathered to honor the greatest 19th-century Italian composer. As the small funeral procession advanced through the city, the people waiting along the route began to sing the...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Unsupervised Learning: Randomized Optimization Hill Climbing, Simulated Annealing, Genetic Algorithms, oh my!
over a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The product lens There has been a lot of discussion lately about the markets for startup financing. Many of the...
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There has been a lot of discussion lately about the markets for startup financing. Many of the discussions use words like “valuations…
swyx's site RSS Feed
Dwell and the Tools for Thought Hackathon I worked on a little hackathon project at AGI House with Sasha. We won!
a year ago
Both Are True
forget thanksgiving its time for fearsharing a new holiday (year two)
7 months ago
Calculated Risk
Wednesday: CPI Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. mortgage...
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Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. mortgage purchase applications index. Consumer Price Index for January from the BLS. The consensus is for 0.3% increase in CPI, and a 0.3% increase in core CPI.  The consensus is for CPI to be up...
TheCollector
What Is Black History Month? Originating in the United States, BHM has become an annual celebration of the history and...
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Originating in the United States, BHM has become an annual celebration of the history and achievements of black people in many countries across the world, such as the UK and Canada. The months predominantly used for celebration are February and October, with the celebrations...
CONTEMPORIST
This Kindergarten Design Features Vibrant Colored Glass Inside And Out SAKO Architects has sent us photos of a kindergarten they designed in Tianshui, China, that features...
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SAKO Architects has sent us photos of a kindergarten they designed in Tianshui, China, that features a white exterior with a kaleidoscope of colors. The kindergarten, built in a small provincial town, features white exterior walls with windows in the shape of local yao-tung...
Musings on Markets
Anatomy of a Market Crisis: Tariffs, Markets and the Economy! I was boarding a plane for a trip to Latin America late in the evening last Wednesday (April 2), and...
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I was boarding a plane for a trip to Latin America late in the evening last Wednesday (April 2), and as is my practice, I was checking the score on the Yankee game, when I read the tariff news announcement. Coming after a few days where the market seemed to have found its...
Wuthering...
everything in a being is always repeating - reading Gertrude Stein's The Making of Americans Since I actually read the thing for some reason I will write some notes on Gertrude Stein’s enormous...
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Since I actually read the thing for some reason I will write some notes on Gertrude Stein’s enormous The Making of Americans: Being a History of a Family’s Progress (1925).  It is a monster.  Why did I read it?  No, that is not the right questions.  There are good reasons to read...
mtlynch.io
Should I Invest in iBonds? In a recent Hacker News thread about preparing financially for a possible recession, a commenter...
over a year ago
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In a recent Hacker News thread about preparing financially for a possible recession, a commenter suggested investing in iBonds. iBonds are one of those investments I’ve seen in passing every time I read a personal finance book, but I’ve never paid much attention to them. When I...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Meaning Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The good news is that it's the default setting for...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The good news is that it's the default setting for all universes that come after this one. Today's News:
Writing - Andreas...
It’s hard to grow without trust Trust is a key enabler of growth (and conversely, lack of trust a key inhibitor).
a year ago
Retail Design Blog
Prologis Silicon Valley Offices by RMW The Silicon Valley office design integrates the landscape, culture, and user group’s needs, blending...
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The Silicon Valley office design integrates the landscape, culture, and user group’s needs, blending colors and architectural elements to mimic...
Good Enough
Actual Customer Support Is Remarkable What a sad thing to write. We believe in good software around here. There is a lot of poorly built...
over a year ago
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What a sad thing to write. We believe in good software around here. There is a lot of poorly built software on the Internet and in the app stores. Our motivation with Good Enough is to try to put together a few products that feel just right to the folks using them. The things we...
The American Scholar
Masters of Horror and Magic The German folklorists who helped build a nation The post Masters of Horror and Magic appeared first...
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The German folklorists who helped build a nation The post Masters of Horror and Magic appeared first on The American Scholar.
Yale E360
Email addresses are not primary user identities A lot of applications treat your email address as something immutable that is linked to you and...
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A lot of applications treat your email address as something immutable that is linked to you and which will never change. It can't be linked to someone else, and it can't change. This is, of course, not true. Email addresses do change. I changed my work email address recently...
Dominik Sobe's...
My Indiehacker Journey: Part One.
over a year ago
The Honest Broker
My 12 Favorite Problems A dozen things that drive my writing, research, thinking & actions
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
The Industrial Content Revolution A fundamental change in the structure the internet.
a year ago
Koos Looijesteijn -...
Knots 3D "Feel free to explore our knot catalog and learn how to tie over 150 knots! "
over a year ago
Good Enough
TIL: Merge nested attributes in Rails permit params I am working on a new product that's a bit more complicated than our prior releases. Getting...
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I am working on a new product that's a bit more complicated than our prior releases. Getting refamiliarized with nested parameters in Rails has been interesting. In this case imagine I have a discussion that, when creating it I also want to create the first comment. The...
Patterns in Humanity
Sweden's immigration taboo Immigration data kept behind closed doors
11 months ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
7 Tips for an Eco-Friendly Trip to Park City
7 months ago
Seeking Wisdom
Modeling Life: Equilibrium This is my 2nd post summarizing the key takeaways I got from reading the book Modeling Life. I...
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This is my 2nd post summarizing the key takeaways I got from reading the book Modeling Life. I recommend reading my earlier post first to get a good grounding on the foundations covered in the book. A system can exhibit three different types of behavior: equilibrium, oscillation,...
Retail Design Blog
ISSEY MIYAKE shop-in-shop by Moment Inc. Matsuya Ginza department store opened its doors in 1925, an ever since, it has been a fixture in...
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9 months ago
Matsuya Ginza department store opened its doors in 1925, an ever since, it has been a fixture in Tokyo‘s retail...
Eric Bailey
These three links spell out a big uh oh for where things are headed when placed in context with each... Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal - 404 Media Thread by...
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11 months ago
Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal - 404 Media Thread by stillorangecrushed - Thread Reader App AI models fed AI-generated data quickly spew nonsense - Nature
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Against Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If you write a paper against that paper you're -2,...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If you write a paper against that paper you're -2, which is why negative even Erdos numbers are more prized. Today's News: Whew! Still traveling but trying to keep my update schedule sorta OK.
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for your weekend (#45) Intel; Canada's economy; infrastructure and state capacity; East Asian development; race in America;...
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Intel; Canada's economy; infrastructure and state capacity; East Asian development; race in America; corrupt nonprofits
HTMHell
Grouping form fields by Matthias Kittsteiner When I first stumbled upon fieldset and legend, I didn’t know much about...
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by Matthias Kittsteiner When I first stumbled upon fieldset and legend, I didn’t know much about HTML and especially not about accessibility. Everything I noticed was the special way a legend is displayed inside a fieldset – or rather: alongside the border of a fieldset. Fast...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 101: Strange bedfellows January 17, 2025.
6 months ago
Computer Things
Solving a math problem with planner programming The deadline for the logic book is coming up! I'm hoping to have it ready for early access by either...
a year ago
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The deadline for the logic book is coming up! I'm hoping to have it ready for early access by either the end of this week or early next week. During a break on Monday I saw this interesting problem on Math Stack Exchange: Suppose that at the beginning there is a blank document,...
Weighty Thoughts
Open AI's Valuation and a Favor to Ask A guest post and an in-person panel
11 months ago
Stoic Simple
The Intersection of Stoicism and Modern Psychology In recent years, there has been a growing interest among psychologists and mental health...
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In recent years, there has been a growing interest among psychologists and mental health professionals in the ancient philosophy of Stoicism. Despite being developed over two thousand years ago, many of the core principles of this philosophy have been found to be highly relevant...
The Solarchitecture...
Circadian rhythm and solar home design If our body is not tuned to our circadian rhythm, we can hardly be in flow with Life.
over a year ago
Josh Collinsworth
Classic rock, Mario Kart, and why we can't agree on Tailwind It's popular to say we can’t agree on Tailwind, but I posit we actually already do. I think what we...
a year ago
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a year ago
It's popular to say we can’t agree on Tailwind, but I posit we actually already do. I think what we actually disagree on isn’t the details of this (or any) specific software; it's in what we value, and how we each define assets and liabilities.
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Should more people be using urgent care? | Out-Of-Pocket is the rise of urgent care a good or bad thing?
a year ago
Herbert Lui
A strategy needs time A year ago, my friend Peter decided to position his agency to focus on CPG companies. While he and...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
A year ago, my friend Peter decided to position his agency to focus on CPG companies. While he and his team weren’t sure if the strategy would work, they stuck with it through trying times. Their effort and commitment amidst uncertainty paid off, and they’re seeing more CPG...
swyx's site RSS Feed
10,000 Loose Fans I broke past 10,000 Twitter followers on Saturday. Obviously this is a completely arbitrary...
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over a year ago
I broke past 10,000 Twitter followers on Saturday. Obviously this is a completely arbitrary milestone and pretty minor in the hierarchy of needs. I'm not celebrating.
Steven Scrawls
The Controversial Aftermath of the 777Linguine Interview The Controversial Aftermath of the 777Linguine Interview Longtime fans of popular EDM “angststep”...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Controversial Aftermath of the 777Linguine Interview Longtime fans of popular EDM “angststep” artist 777Linguine are “shocked” and “betrayed” after his polarizing statements yesterday that his latest album, NOMORETEARS2CRY, was written and recorded in a time of “profound...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Conversion Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You can get the CS dorks back to philosophy, but...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You can get the CS dorks back to philosophy, but only by a costly detour through fundamental physics. Today's News:
Opsbros
Volumer I've always wanted a good USB volume control, so I decided to design one.
over a year ago
Sean Carroll
Proposed Closure of the Dianoia Institute at Australian Catholic University Just a few years ago, Australian Catholic University (ACU) established a new Dianoia Institute of...
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Just a few years ago, Australian Catholic University (ACU) established a new Dianoia Institute of Philosophy. They recruited a number of researchers and made something of a splash, leading to a noticeable leap in ACU’s rankings in philosophy — all the way to second among Catholic...
Rozado’s Visual...
Mentions of Political Extremism in English Wikipedia A data-driven exploration uncovers disparities. Are they shaped by editorial choices or broader...
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A data-driven exploration uncovers disparities. Are they shaped by editorial choices or broader societal/historical dynamics?
Josh Thompson
Act a Fool, or: Motion vs. Action If you’ve started reading this article, but have only two minutes, don’t read what I’m writing. Go...
over a year ago
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If you’ve started reading this article, but have only two minutes, don’t read what I’m writing. Go read this article by James clear. It’s called “ The Mistake Smart People Make: Being In Motion vs. Taking Action”. I’ve linked it a third time here. Go read it. James starts with...
Astral Codex Ten
The Early Christian Strategy ...
8 months ago
Build In Public...
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Creators Building In Public Plus my new AI tool and the latest AI + Video tool I helped hunt on Product Hunt
4 months ago
TheCollector
A Day in the Life of a Medieval Woman in England “Medieval” has come to mean backward, uninformed, and brutal, particularly when looking at the lives...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
“Medieval” has come to mean backward, uninformed, and brutal, particularly when looking at the lives of women. This does not reflect the reality of the time but is an interpretation of a later age that sought to create a divide between the enlightened Classical world and their...
Arduino Blog
You can now run Arduino and MicroPython side-by-side on multi-core microcontrollers We’re excited to announce a powerful new feature that we have been working on in collaboration with...
a year ago
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We’re excited to announce a powerful new feature that we have been working on in collaboration with the MicroPython team!  Starting with the upcoming release (v1.23), MicroPython will offer support for Asymmetric Multiprocessing (AMP) on multi-core microcontrollers, based on the...
Quanta Magazine
Most Life on Earth is Dormant, After Pulling an ‘Emergency Brake’ Many microbes and cells are in deep sleep, waiting for the right moment to activate. Biologists...
a year ago
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Many microbes and cells are in deep sleep, waiting for the right moment to activate. Biologists discovered a widespread protein that abruptly shuts down a cell’s activity — and turns it back on just as fast. The post Most Life on Earth is Dormant, After Pulling an...
Wait But Why
Mailbag #2 We have a whole lot to talk about. The post Mailbag #2 appeared first on Wait But Why.
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We have a whole lot to talk about. The post Mailbag #2 appeared first on Wait But Why.
Chris Grossack's...
Life in Johnstone's Topological Topos 2 -- Topological Algebras In the first post, we introduced Johnstone’s topological topos $\mathcal{T}$ and talked about what...
a year ago
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In the first post, we introduced Johnstone’s topological topos $\mathcal{T}$ and talked about what its objects look like. We showed how the interpretation of type theory in $\mathcal{T}$ gives us an “intrinsic topology” on any type we construct. We also alluded to the fact...
Yale E360
To Help Growers and the Grid, Build Solar on Farmland, Research Says Two new studies suggest that devoting a small fraction of U.S. farmland to solar power would be a...
2 months ago
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Two new studies suggest that devoting a small fraction of U.S. farmland to solar power would be a boon both for the energy system and for farmers themselves. Read more on E360 →
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Flawed Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This could be the greatest school play of all time...
8 months ago
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This could be the greatest school play of all time if anyone out there had the guts to do it. Today's News:
Yale E360
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Akinwumi Adesina, outgoing president of the African Development Bank, is warning that foreign firms are underpaying for carbon credits from African forests. Read more on E360 →
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I recently migrated my blog to Jekyll and wanted to use the s3_website gem to deploy it. Everything worked out-of-the-box extremely well until I wanted to actually run the s3_website push command to deploy my site to the live S3 bucket. The command would hang for a really long...
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For over a century, scientists have wondered what is counteracting the force of gravity in the universe.
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Setting aside just one day for the Louvre is a classic first-time Paris visitor’s mistake. The place is simply too big to comprehend on one visit, or indeed on ten visits. To grow so vast has taken eight centuries, a process explained in under three minutes by the official video...
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By the 1260s, the Mongols controlled most of China, except for the Song Dynasty in southern China. Korea (Goryeo) remained independent but as a vassal state. Now Kublai Khan looked to Imperial Japan which lay not far. Kublai sent six diplomatic missions between 1268 and 1273,...
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During a severe heat wave in 2023, scientists scuba diving off the coast of Papua New Guinea captured clownfish to measure their bodies. Between February and August, they calculated the length of 134 of these iconic, orange and white fish once a month, taking a total of six...
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When I teach cartography, I am deliberate about not presenting my students with any rules. I do not want obedience to memorized maxims — instead, I simply tell them about practices that I think are good ideas, and then I offer an explanation of my reasoning. The students can...
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The French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French readers in 1847. Baudelaire, who saw Poe as a  “sacred soul” and something of a kindred spirit, translated many of the American writer’s words into French, including Poe’s poem The...
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Science tells us that perpetual motion is impossible. Something about thermodynamics and physics. Does the same thing apply to emotional energy? Could you build a system that allows you to stay fully charged no matter what life throws at you?
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A month or two ago I wrote this post which expressed my frustration with various issues around private datasets as a way of measuring the mathematical abilities of language models. More generally I was frustrated about the difficulty of being … Continue reading →
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The American nation under the US Constitution began with a compromise that, among other things, quelled the founding fathers’ anxieties over slavery and racial equality before the law. As the United States grew in size and influence, the very same issue would bring future leaders...
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Graphists, animators, game programmers, font designers, and other graphics professionals and enthusiasts are often working with Bézier curves. They're popular, extensively documented, and used pretty much everywhere. That being said, I find them being explained almost exclusively...
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Charles Darwin’s work on heredity was partly driven by tragic losses in his own family. Darwin had married his first cousin, Emma, and “wondered if his close genetic relation to his wife had had an ill impact on his children’s health, three (of 10) of whom died before the age of...
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“The Shell” is born from a blend of diverse creative approaches, functional necessities, and spatial dynamics. It embodies Highsnobiety’s refined...
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And it can also do that If you were around when the Model T was first announced, you could have built the organizations that...
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If you were around when the Model T was first announced, you could have built the organizations that became Disney, McDonald’s and Holiday Inn, all of which were powered by cheap, plentiful cars. You could have become a major developer of suburbs, mortgage banking and even pop...
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What’s going on in the minds of people who appear to be comatose? This has been an enduring neurological question from the beginning of neurology as a discipline. Recent technological advances have completely changed the game in terms of evaluating comatose patients, and now a...
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Among the predictions in the annual decor trend report: Sprawling sectional sofas will yield to tidier seating, pastel hues to rich earthy shades. Oh, and…make way for murals. There will be a greater sense of playfulness and a push towards individualism. Limited budgets and a...
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The AI is coming May you live in interesting times, goes the ancient Chinese proverb. Recent developments in...
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May you live in interesting times, goes the ancient Chinese proverb. Recent developments in artificial-intelligence, especially image-generation, are putting that curse to the test. In the last year we’ve seen some incredible breakthroughs in image-generation with the release of...
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I think we need to stop trying to find customers for our products and start building solutions our customers are already searching for.
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How hard can it be to compute conversion rate? Take the total number of users that converted and divide them with the total number of users. Done. Except… it's a lot more complicated when you have any sort of significant time lag.
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You drool from it. You are happy. - Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s Voyage au bout de la nuit Finally, I have finished Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s Voyage au bout de la nuit (1932), known in English...
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Finally, I have finished Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s Voyage au bout de la nuit (1932), known in English as Journey to the End of Night.  That “end of night” is death.  The existence of death makes everything hateful and nullifies the value of anything else.  I gotta say that the...
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Great management and leadership books for the technical track In tech, we're fortunate to have separate management and technical tracks, though it's still...
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In tech, we're fortunate to have separate management and technical tracks, though it's still underdeveloped1. However, the path you take isn't very clear, it's not broadly understood what the responsibilities are, and there aren't as many resources out there as there are for...
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How Are Compilers & Transpilers Different? Illustrated notes on how compilers and transpilers are different
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Here’s Dave Rupert (from my notes): the goal of a book isn’t to get to the last page, it’s to expand your thinking. I have to constantly remind myself of this. Especially in an environment that prioritizes optimizing and maximizing personal productivity, where it seems if you...
Eric Bailey
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One of the coolest things about being someone who creates digital products is sometimes you get to create experiences that have never existed before. The history of websites, web apps, and native apps is full of countless widgets that let you enter and manipulate content in new...
Seth's Blog
Confusing status with skill The tenured philosophy professor at Princeton might not even be half as effective a teacher as the...
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The tenured philosophy professor at Princeton might not even be half as effective a teacher as the adjunct at the community college. The head of surgery might be relatively better at meetings and politics than they are at actually helping patients. Having a lot of social media...
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Recurse Center Day 15: B Tree Algorithms I translated B Tree Algorithms from CLRS to Python
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Diaries of Note
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti, best known as a poet, activist, and co-founder of the renowned City Lights Booksellers & Publishers, was a central figure in the Beat movement, and his A Coney Island of the Mind is one of the best-selling poetry books of all time. He also travelled far and...
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Known as the “Queen of Crime,” Agatha Christie was a prolific novelist and playwright from England. Some of her most-known works include books like And Then There Were None and Murder on the Orient Express. She invented beloved fictional detectives like the iconic Hercule Poirot...
Civic Hax
Chicago Parking Ticket Visualization Intro Hi there! In this post, I want to show off a fun little web app I made for visualizing parking...
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Intro Hi there! In this post, I want to show off a fun little web app I made for visualizing parking tickets in Chicago, but because I've spent so much time on the overall project, I figured I'd share the story that got me to this point. In many ways, this work is the foundation...
Saturday Morning...
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In a Warming World, Why Is the Southern Ocean Getting Cooler? Climate models predict that as the planet warms, so will the Southern Ocean. But for decades, the...
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Climate models predict that as the planet warms, so will the Southern Ocean. But for decades, the waters around Antarctica have grown mysteriously cooler. A new study shows why. Read more on E360 →
macwright.com
Remix notes Val Town switched to Remix as a web framework a little over a year ago. Here are some...
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Val Town switched to Remix as a web framework a little over a year ago. Here are some reflections: The Remix versioning scheme is a joy. They gradually roll out features under feature flags, so you have lots of time to upgrade. Compared to what seems like chaos over in...
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There are things in life that come over you sudden as a flash flood, total as an eclipse — the great loves, the great creative passions, the great urges to conquer a mountain or a theorem. They can feel like an alien invasion, like the immense hand of some imperative has seized...
99% Invisible
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Last year, an accident left my right arm and shoulder numb and paralyzed. After extensive testing, doctors determined that I had severely injured my right brachial plexus — a crucial nexus of nerve pathways carrying signals back and forth between my spinal column and right upper...
Ink & Switch
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This prototype mixes a history timeline with a chat-like interface. The result is useful for understanding changes and discussing a work-in-progress document.
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Ammonia is an important industrial chemical with an estimated worldwide production exceeding 150 million metric tons. About 70% of ammonia is used to make nitrate fertilizers. Unfortunately, the production of ammonia is energy and it's a major source of carbon dioxide emission. ...
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Beginning Programming I read a wonderful post, 3 Things I hate about “beginner” programming books, which I couldn’t agree...
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I read a wonderful post, 3 Things I hate about “beginner” programming books, which I couldn’t agree more with. Basically he has these points: Too long Too many examples like “Hello World!” No answers to exercises. Nr 1 is a pretty curious one. Even though I think a book is good,...
Seth's Blog
Digital prepwork It’s so tempting to simply begin painting a wall. After all, it’s pretty easy to lay down paint. But...
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It’s so tempting to simply begin painting a wall. After all, it’s pretty easy to lay down paint. But it turns out that masking and dropcloths, painstakingly put into place, save many hours compared to cleaning up a mess afterward. The same is true for what happens when we have a...
Steve Blank
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Bill Gurley was one of Silicon Valley’s smartest and most successful VCs. He recently gave a talk at the All-In Summit that was really two talks in one. The first part was railing against the consequences of regulatory capture on innovation and a second part, about the...
TheCollector
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Land Art, also known as Earth Art, is a name applied to artworks that operate within the natural realm rather than in artistic studios, using earth, stones, and other natural materials. In some ways, Land Art was a category of art rather than a coherent movement. Artists who...
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In 2008, a billion gallons of toxic sludge spewed across 300 acres of Tennessee in the middle of the night. It was just before Christmas. At the time, Jared Sullivan was in high school and remembers the disaster. For over fifty years a power company called the Tennessee Valley...
GeoCurrents
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The second half of my lecture on continents has been posted on YouTube and can be found here. It begins with the geological conception of the terms “continent” and “continental,” and then pivots to show why the continental scheme is of little if any use for understating either...
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I’ve taken part in well over a hundred tech interviews now, on both sides. Some were fun, and some were pure cringe. I’ve been asked if I have kids (supposedly, people with children won’t have time to job hop), and if “I bet my ass I cost that much”. Fun times. But today I’d like...
Good Enough
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Have you thought about starting or restarting a blogging habit? Have you wanted to write on the internet, but at your own place and at your own address rather than on a social network? Have you been overwhelmed by the online writing options that you’ve found? Well, have we got...
somethingaboutmaps
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Kindly readers: I wanted to let you know that I’ve started another little publication, one which has nothing to do with maps, but I figure is worth telling you about anyway: I climb trees recreationally, and I’ve decided to start writing about my thoughts and experiences. Perhaps...
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February 24, 2024 Just outside of the city of Iquitos lies an expansive area containing white-sand forest. The particular forest types that grow on white sand are somewhat uncommon in the Amazon, yet the stunted tree growth provides quite the contrast to "typical" Amazonian...
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Is Google Maps fatally misleading drivers in India? It’s complicated Maintaining accurate maps is a daunting task in a country where road names and addresses are not...
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All modern multicellular life — all life that any of us regularly see — is made of cells with a knack for compartmentalization. Recent discoveries are revealing how the first eukaryote got its start. The post Meet the Eukaryote, the First Cell to Get Organized first...
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journal – Winnie Lim
from creativity to activity I started making websites and dabbling in photoshop when I first got my computer at 15. I never felt...
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I started making websites and dabbling in photoshop when I first got my computer at 15. I never felt particularly creative as a child and I hated art classes so when that...
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Thrilled to announce the publication of German edition of Atlas of the Invisible: Atlas des Unsichtbaren. It is published by Hanser, who also did an amazing job with our previous book Die Wege der Tiere, and available in all good bookshops across the German speaking world. Click...
Calculated Risk
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Mazdak
Move Your Business Abroad: A Step-by-Step Guide for Entrepreneurs Expanding your business abroad can be a great way to reach new markets, increase revenue, and...
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Expanding your business abroad can be a great way to reach new markets, increase revenue, and diversify your portfolio. However, it's important to do your research and take the necessary steps to ensure a successful transition. Here are some practical tips for entrepreneurs...
diamond geezer
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Need to get from London to Stansted Airport? A new player has entered the market and it's very green. Flibco, a Luxembourg-based company taking its first steps in the UK. They operate to airports in Italy, Belgium, Hungary, Spain and 15 other European countries, with the...
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Why Bridges Need Sensors (and other structures too) [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Almost immediately after I...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Almost immediately after I started making videos about engineering, people started asking me to play video games on the channel. Apparently there’s roughly a billion people who watch online gaming these days,...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Also every headline in astronomy should lead with Ptolemy Wrong Again. Today's News:
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Chinese startups once downplayed their origin. Now some celebrate it.  Following DeepSeek's rise, more Chinese companies are highlighting their roots as they expand...
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There’s an image that’s stuck with many of us from the early pandemic: dozens of cargo ships anchored off the coasts of US ports, stacked high with hundreds of thousands of containers filled with goods, just sitting there in a traffic jam. At the same time, grocery store shelves...
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Ferd.ca
Local Optimizations Don't Lead to Global Optimums I like to think that I write code deliberately. I’m an admittedly slow developer, and I want to...
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I like to think that I write code deliberately. I’m an admittedly slow developer, and I want to believe I do so on purpose. I want to know as much as I can about the context of what it is that I'm automating. I also use a limited set of tools. I used old computers for a long...
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How do you use variables in the HTML webpack outputs? Looking to inject variables from CI into the HTML your webpack build outputs? It's relatively simple...
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Seth's Blog
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Peter Drucker didn’t say “culture eats strategy for breakfast,” but reality rarely gets in the way of a good quote. But what does it mean? I think what ‘not Drucker’ meant was that MBA tactics will always be subverted by the power of systems, and that systems disguise themselves...
Londonist
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Josh Thompson
Upgrade your job So, apparently I send a lot of email about people trying to get cool jobs. Here’s yet another email...
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So, apparently I send a lot of email about people trying to get cool jobs. Here’s yet another email I sent to a friend, recorded here.  Hi [redacted], First I want to highlight is that flexible/remote jobs are just like normal jobs, but more people want them, so the companies...
HTMHell
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by Kilian Valkhof Focus is where the user is on your website. It's what makes it possible to navigate your site with the keyboard or other assistive technologies, and it's how a browser knows which form element you're typing in. It's vital to get right if you want to build good...
Open Culture
How Magician David Copperfield Made the Statue of Liberty Disappear (1983) In April, 1983, 50 million television viewers watched the illusionist David Copperfield make the...
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In April, 1983, 50 million television viewers watched the illusionist David Copperfield make the Statue of Liberty disappear, straight into thin air. If you’re north of 50, you perhaps remember the spectacle. How did he do it? 40 years later, the YouTube channel Mind Blown Magic...
Old Structures...
Partial Success I’ve been trying to decipher this item from a New York Public Library scrapbook: The title on the...
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I’ve been trying to decipher this item from a New York Public Library scrapbook: The title on the NYPL website is “Grand base ball match for the championship, between the Exclusive and Atlantic Clubs, of Brooklyn…” and the date is given as 1900-1945. (It’s also listed as a...
Naz Hamid — Journal...
✏️ Boy Meets Girl At the request of my much loyal readership (I’m looking at you Lacey), the story of how I came to be...
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At the request of my much loyal readership (I’m looking at you Lacey), the story of how I came to be with girl seems to be of interest. I know, I know. I disappear for a bit from writing and then I return smitten, enamoured and very much exploring a journey I’m quite glad to be...
Eric Bailey
“Evergreen” Does Not Mean Immediately Available
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Articles
Feeling threatened
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Birchtree
The post you knew was coming about the Switch 2 display Nintendo gave the Switch 2 it's grand unveiling today, and I think it looks great. $449 is a steep...
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Nintendo gave the Switch 2 it's grand unveiling today, and I think it looks great. $449 is a steep starting price, but considering the features and the fact we live in a world of inflation and significant tariffs on many goods coming into the US, it's
diamond geezer
The Swithinometer Yesterday was St Swithin's Day. n.b. It may not have rained for you but it rained where I was and...
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Yesterday was St Swithin's Day. n.b. It may not have rained for you but it rained where I was and that's what counts. I had to hide in a hedge near Heathrow to avoid getting drenched, and I thought ah well, rain every day until August 24th. disproved as rubbish, obviously,...
Maps Mania
Tour de Street View
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Quantum Frontiers
Astrobiology meets quantum computation? The origin of life appears to share little with quantum computation, apart from the difficulty of...
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The origin of life appears to share little with quantum computation, apart from the difficulty of achieving it and its potential for clickbait. Yet similar notions of complexity have recently garnered attention in both fields. Each topic’s researchers expect only … Continue...
Jonas Hietala
Incomplete game coming up Man I’m far too much of a perfectionist, with this mentality I’ll never get anything done -...
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Man I’m far too much of a perfectionist, with this mentality I’ll never get anything done - seriously. I spent far too many hours, even days, figuring out in my mind how the game should be and I started off going for nothing less than just that. But it turned out to be a lot...
Blog - Mac Pierce
Creating art out of a weapon. Using the Stuxnet Virus. How and why I made Portrait of a Digital Weapon, a piece of electronic art made from the Stuxnet...
over a year ago
Blog System/5
Beyond the 1 MB barrier in DOS Continuing the tour on how DOS apps used memory above the first MB
a year ago
Computer Ads from...
Plus Post: Lobo MAX-80 The Computer Tandy Should Have Built (at least according to the ad).
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Seth's Blog
A transformative summer Living indoors, connected to a screen, it’s easy for the months and years to blur together. The...
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Living indoors, connected to a screen, it’s easy for the months and years to blur together. The seasons used to matter more. But for young adults, they still do. Transitions are built around the seasons, and the headlong rush to a career is still sometimes interrupted by months...
Platformer
How OpenAI is building a path toward AI agents Building a GPT-based copy editor showcases their promise — but the risks ahead are real
a year ago
Herbert Lui
Document the moment A few days ago, I tried explaining why blogging was great precisely because it reached a smaller...
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A few days ago, I tried explaining why blogging was great precisely because it reached a smaller audience than social media.  The smallest audience is one—and that’s you.  Skateboarders bring a video camera to document the moment. They’ve done this since way before social media,...
Grow With Less
Here Is What a Disappointing Experiment Taught Me About Headline A/B Testing After reading about the huge conversion boosts many bloggers got after A/B testing their headlines,...
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After reading about the huge conversion boosts many bloggers got after A/B testing their headlines, I assumed A/B testing the headlines of 73 articles I have published on my language learning blog French Together would be a no brainer. I could already picture myself writing a...
Josh Thompson
Tour of D3 for Clueless Folk Like Me D3 stands for Data Driven Documents, and it’s the coolest thing ever. Check out a few...
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over a year ago
D3 stands for Data Driven Documents, and it’s the coolest thing ever. Check out a few examples: Animated, interactive curves(dynamic) OMG Particles II(dynamic) simple map of the us(static) <= very little code Radial Dendrogram(static) circle wave(dynamic) Force-directed...
IEEE Spectrum
Why Are We Still Doing What Simon Says? In 1976, Ralph Baer and Howard Morrison, two game designers, happened to see a trade show...
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In 1976, Ralph Baer and Howard Morrison, two game designers, happened to see a trade show demonstration of an Atari arcade game called Touch Me. The game’s waist-high cabinet featured four large buttons on the top, which lit up in random sequence; the player had to push the...
A Collection of...
Gap Week: March 28, 2025 Hey folks! The conclusion of our look at the Siege of Eregion in Rings of Power will have to wait a...
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Hey folks! The conclusion of our look at the Siege of Eregion in Rings of Power will have to wait a week because I am off to a conference this week, the annual meeting of the Society for Military History, this year in Mobile, Alabama! I’m set to talk about how Roman military...
Himanshu Mishra |...
About Metakgp You can listen to this in background Before The Beginning - John Frusciante (YouTube)...
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You can listen to this in background Before The Beginning - John Frusciante (YouTube) :name-retracted: wrote - I wrote this couple of days…
Writing - Andreas...
The siren call of wrong-way dependencies Dependencies that point in the wrong direction are one of the easiest and most costly design...
10 months ago
HTMHell
#19 heading in the wrong direction Context: A simple page that displays the availability of a product. Bad code <h1>Product...
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Context: A simple page that displays the availability of a product. Bad code <h1>Product Status</h1> <h2>Is the product available?</h2> <div> <h3> <div> <div> <i> <h3 class="message is-success"> It‘s <a>available</a>. </h3> ...
Yale E360
Scientists Look to Changing Tree Color to Predict Volcanic Eruptions NASA scientists believe it may be possible to predict when a volcano will erupt by using satellites...
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NASA scientists believe it may be possible to predict when a volcano will erupt by using satellites to track changes in the color of surrounding trees. Read more on E360 →
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The Babe Ruth Effect in Venture Capital "How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball... The...
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"How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball... The harder you grip the bat, the more you can…
Sam Altman
How To Invest In Startups There is a lot of advice about how to be a good startup founder.  But there isn’t very much about...
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over a year ago
There is a lot of advice about how to be a good startup founder.  But there isn’t very much about how to be a good startup investor. Before going any further, I should point out that this is a particularly hard time to invest in startups—it’s easier right now to be a...
Charlie Becker
Get into Character Characters drive the story
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Outside Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This works great on children too. Today's News:
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Classical Wisdom
Homer Vs Hesiod Poets of War and Peace
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journal – Winnie Lim
psychological health vs physical health Travelling keeps me sane. It is only on this trip that I realised how much my brain craves being in...
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Travelling keeps me sane. It is only on this trip that I realised how much my brain craves being in some sort of engagement, and travelling is a way to keep it...
Common Edge
‘Even If a Project Fails, the Ideas Behind It Don’t Disappear’ A talk with Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin, authors of Atlas of Never Built Architecture.
a year ago
Tinloof - Blog
How to design an accessible carousel In this article, we provide a comprehensive guide to designing an intuitive and universally...
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In this article, we provide a comprehensive guide to designing an intuitive and universally accessible carousel for any web project. Outcome Carousels in UI are practical interactive elements that efficiently display images or content pieces without taking up too much vertical...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Kid Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I mean it's frustrating. Why can't we just select...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I mean it's frustrating. Why can't we just select the year that the sun swallows the Earth and work backward? Today's News:
Krebs on Security
Who is the DOGE and X Technician Branden Spikes? At 49, Branden Spikes isn't just one of the oldest technologists who has been involved in Elon...
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At 49, Branden Spikes isn't just one of the oldest technologists who has been involved in Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). As the current director of information technology at X/Twitter and an early hire at PayPal, Zip2, Tesla and SpaceX, Spikes is also...
Seth's Blog
Wanting and getting Modern marketing culture is designed to amplify our desires. To turn faint wants into desperate...
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Modern marketing culture is designed to amplify our desires. To turn faint wants into desperate needs. As a result, we’re intimately familiar with what we want. And we strive to get it. The problem with getting what you want is that now you have a hole, because you don’t want...
Retail Design Blog
The Royal Hotel by Giannone Petricone Associates Inc. Architects The Royal Hotel, in Canada’s historic town of Picton, Prince Edward County (PEC), Ontario,...
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The Royal Hotel, in Canada’s historic town of Picton, Prince Edward County (PEC), Ontario, reimagines a landmark Victorian hotel and...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.15.0 Hey there! It's been a while... With our last release being over a month ago, this new release has...
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over a year ago
Hey there! It's been a while... With our last release being over a month ago, this new release has the largest changelog to date, with 175 PRs merged…
Rest of World -...
The rise and fall of Koo, India’s once-thriving Twitter alternative The microblogging platform — India’s first in over 10 languages — went from booming international...
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The microblogging platform — India’s first in over 10 languages — went from booming international expansion to near closure in just four years.
Don't Worry About...
AI CoT Reasoning Is Often Unfaithful A new Anthropic paper reports that reasoning model chain of thought (CoT) is often unfaithful. They...
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3 months ago
A new Anthropic paper reports that reasoning model chain of thought (CoT) is often unfaithful. They test on Claude Sonnet 3.7 and r1, I’d love to see someone try this on o3 as well.
Spoon & Tamago
Roof That Connects Life and Nature: ROOF HOUSE by Tamada & Wakimoto Architects all photos by Kenta Hasegawa courtesy Tamada & Wakimoto Architects Set against the soft backdrop of...
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all photos by Kenta Hasegawa courtesy Tamada & Wakimoto Architects Set against the soft backdrop of Tochigi’s rural landscapes, ROOF HOUSE by Tamada & Wakimoto Architects reimagines how a home can engage with its environment. Rather than enclosing life within walls, this project...
Eric Bailey
Tailwind versus BEM
over a year ago
Jason Fried
Lighten your grip I recently took up drumming. Again. One of the first things you realize, other than you suck, is...
a year ago
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a year ago
I recently took up drumming. Again. One of the first things you realize, other than you suck, is that you’re gripping the sticks too hard. A tight grip denies certain degrees of freedom, limits subtlety, and ups the fatigue factor. Plus you give up the gift of bounce the drum...
The Marginalian
Emerson on the Singular Enchantment of Indian Summer (and a Better Term for This Liminal Season... "There are days... wherein the world reaches its perfection, when the air, the heavenly bodies, and...
8 months ago
Cheese and Biscuits
Interlude at Leonardslee, Horsham If there's one thing I've learned after nearly twenty years of writing about food in this country,...
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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...
Retail Design Blog
EPAM Offices by Tengo Design Tengo Design created a multifunctional office space for EPAM in Krakow, incorporating zones for...
a year ago
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a year ago
Tengo Design created a multifunctional office space for EPAM in Krakow, incorporating zones for employees, clients, coworking, and meetings, with...
Quanta Magazine
Science, Promise and Peril in the Age of AI An exploration of how artificial intelligence is changing what it means to do science and math, and...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
An exploration of how artificial intelligence is changing what it means to do science and math, and what it means to be a scientist. The post Science, Promise and Peril in the Age of AI first appeared on Quanta Magazine
The Prism
Wisdom from Marcus Aurelius 10 thoughts to improve the mind
a year ago
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Courtney Arnold Hello! I’m Courtney, a printmaker specialising in linocut. I live in a little town on the edge of...
8 months ago
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Hello! I’m Courtney, a printmaker specialising in linocut. I live in a little town on the edge of Dartmoor, nestled between moorland, farmland and the exquisite River Dart. The wonderful flora and fauna of these rugged and beautiful surroundings is my main inspiration. However,...
Citation Needed
"The Monkey Fraud": An interview with Ryder Ripps An interview with Ryder Ripps, a defendant in the Yuga Labs v. Ripps case about Bored Ape Yacht Club...
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An interview with Ryder Ripps, a defendant in the Yuga Labs v. Ripps case about Bored Ape Yacht Club trademark infringement and racism.
Making software...
Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes) Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes) 2020-03-18 An extremely overlooked process for displaying fonts,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes) 2020-03-18 An extremely overlooked process for displaying fonts, images, documents, spreadsheets, etc. on the web is the use of base64 encoding. Although it may not be the most efficient (or easy) way to display and include these elements it can...
AI Snake Oil
I set up a ChatGPT voice interface for my 3-year old. Here’s how it went. Chatbots are likely to revive familiar debates about kids and apps
over a year ago
Platformer
Meta seeks to hide harms from teens But to change the conversation, the company will have to do more than tweak its settings
a year ago
A Smart Bear
Explore vs Execute The two main business modalities are more different than you expect. When you hit PMF, it's a...
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The two main business modalities are more different than you expect. When you hit PMF, it's a culture-shift to switch from one to the other.
Carl Barenbrug RSS...
Seeing Beauty in Basic To-Do Lists I like making lists. A lot of people do. And this is reflected in the abundance of to-do apps...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I like making lists. A lot of people do. And this is reflected in the abundance of to-do apps available today. There's a silly amount of them. Designed to augment and organise our lives, they end up being far more complex and clunky than they need to be. The rise of the...
Tinloof - Blog
Why most CMSes suck We're in 2023, and you mainly have 3 CMS options to build and manage your website: Monolithic CMS...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We're in 2023, and you mainly have 3 CMS options to build and manage your website: Monolithic CMS (e.g. WordPress, Hubspot) Modern website builder (e.g. Framer, Webflow)
Naz Hamid — Journal...
✏️ Mama and Me ‘24 Jen and I recently returned from our annual visit to see my family in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Taking...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Jen and I recently returned from our annual visit to see my family in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Taking photos with the family has become even more important as the years go by, and this core memory captured by Jen of my mama and me, is a great one for posterity. Read on...
Retail Design Blog
SKIN boutique by PAULO MERLINI architects Located in Saldanha, on the ground floor of a residential building, this two-storey commercial space...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Located in Saldanha, on the ground floor of a residential building, this two-storey commercial space was characterized by a relatively...
The Perry Bible...
The Good Knight The post The Good Knight appeared first on The Perry Bible Fellowship.
a year ago
diamond geezer
Unhidden London UNHIDDEN LONDON - Knightsbridge Step into secret parts of the underground network! An exclusive...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
UNHIDDEN LONDON - Knightsbridge Step into secret parts of the underground network! An exclusive behind the scenes tour exploring time-capsule corridors unseen by the travelling public for decades. For many years the London Transport Museum has run guided tours of secret...
Overcoming Bias
Romantic Decay As Cultural Drift For the last year or so I’ve focused on the idea that our world’s dominant monoculture is slowly...
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4 months ago
For the last year or so I’ve focused on the idea that our world’s dominant monoculture is slowly going maladaptive, due to cultural drift.
NeuroLogica Blog
BBC Gets Into UFOs Paranormal phenomena tend to wax and wane in the public interest. Typically a generation will become...
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Paranormal phenomena tend to wax and wane in the public interest. Typically a generation will become fascinated with a topic, but eventually the novelty will wear thin and interest will fade. But the flame will be kept alive by the hardcore believers. Wait long enough, and...
Herbert Lui
You won’t think your way out of overthinking Overthinking—making and updating plans, gathering information, talking to people—is only useful for...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Overthinking—making and updating plans, gathering information, talking to people—is only useful for protecting you from the pain of reality and the hard work it takes to learn.  It is not useful if you actually want to achieve your goal. What is useful is doing. Because you’ve...
A Beautiful Site
CSS reset with box-sizing fix For ultra lightweight projects where a framework is overkill, I tend to use Eric Meyers' CSS reset....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
For ultra lightweight projects where a framework is overkill, I tend to use Eric Meyers' CSS reset. And since I'm not a glutton for punishment, I also throw in the tried and tested box-sizing fix popularized by Paul Irish. Instead of searching for and combining these...
Quanta Magazine
New Cell Atlases Reveal Untold Variety in the Brain and Beyond Recent efforts to map every cell in the human body have researchers floored by unfathomable...
a year ago
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a year ago
Recent efforts to map every cell in the human body have researchers floored by unfathomable diversity, with many thousands of subtly different types of cells in the human brain alone. The post New Cell Atlases Reveal Untold Variety in the Brain and Beyond first...
Rozado’s Visual...
The political orientation of the ChatGPT AI system Applying the Pew Research Political Typology Quiz to a state-of-the-art AI Language model
over a year ago
Home on Erik...
New benchmarks for approximate nearest neighbors UPDATE(2018-06-17): There are is a later blog post with newer benchmarks! One of my super nerdy...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
UPDATE(2018-06-17): There are is a later blog post with newer benchmarks! One of my super nerdy interests include approximate algorithms for nearest neighbors in high-dimensional spaces. The problem is simple. You have say 1M points in some high-dimensional space.
xkcd.com
Square Packing
over a year ago
Seth's Blog
The Beatles and Taylor Swift When we’re in the middle of a cultural swirl, it’s normal to believe that everyone else is too....
a year ago
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a year ago
When we’re in the middle of a cultural swirl, it’s normal to believe that everyone else is too. That’s part of the magic of a cultural swirl–it’s our friends, our work, our world. Most of these moments are actually tiny pockets. An episode of the much-talked-about TV show...
diamond geezer
London's escalatoriest stations London's escalatoriest stations an FoI request last week which revealed all. We learnt that 89...
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2 months ago
London's escalatoriest stations an FoI request last week which revealed all. We learnt that 89 stations maintained by London Underground have escalators, and we learned how many there are at each. Here's the Top 10. 1) BANK/MONUMENT (35 escalators) Also a lot of them are...
TheCollector
How Did Carl Jung Influence Creative Art Therapy? Painting, writing, and dancing are not only mediums of art, but also channels through which our...
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Painting, writing, and dancing are not only mediums of art, but also channels through which our innermost self can speak. By the beginning of the 19th century, Carl Jung discovered that creative expression can uncover the unconscious activities of the mind. Based on his personal...
99% Invisible
Brilliantly Boring [EPISODE] If you’ve been paying attention to our Power Broker series, then you know that bad infrastructure...
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If you’ve been paying attention to our Power Broker series, then you know that bad infrastructure can cause harm. That makes it all the more important to recognize the thought and care that goes into the objects we use and see everyday. Nothing embodies that spirit of recognition...
Old Structures...
Housekeeping The two-site business is done. Oldstructures.nyc now redirects to Oldstructyres.com, so everyone is...
a year ago
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a year ago
The two-site business is done. Oldstructures.nyc now redirects to Oldstructyres.com, so everyone is seeing the same, new website. We’re still working some kinks out. If you have an email or WordPress subscription to the website, I think you’ll have to update it. Or maybe not, who...
AFAR Media - Travel...
52 of the Best Places to Visit in the U.S.
5 days ago
The American Scholar
Bastienne Schmidt The fabric of life The post Bastienne Schmidt appeared first on The American Scholar.
a year ago
Engineer’s Codex
4 Software Design Principles I Learned the Hard Way If there’s two sources of truth, one is probably wrong. And yes, please repeat yourself.
a year ago
wadertales
When mates behave differently Iceland’s 40,000 Oystercatchers are an interesting mix of resident birds and migrants, providing an...
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over a year ago
Iceland’s 40,000 Oystercatchers are an interesting mix of resident birds and migrants, providing an ideal system in which to study the costs and benefits of the two options, and to try to work out what influences whether an individual becomes a ‘resident’ or a ‘migrant’. I’ve...
The Marginalian
How the Octopus Came to Earth: Stunning 19th-Century French Chromolithographs of Cephalopods The art-science that captured the wonder of some of "the most brilliant productions of Nature."
over a year ago
Yale E360
City Lights Extend Growing Season for Urban Trees From New York to Paris to Beijing, urban trees are enjoying an extra-long growing season, a new...
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3 weeks ago
From New York to Paris to Beijing, urban trees are enjoying an extra-long growing season, a new study finds. Read more on E360 →
Contraption Co.
Why Ruby on Rails still matters An old tool endures in a Next.js world
4 months ago
Marcus on AI
AI influencer hype gone wild Reality is quite the opposite
8 months ago
Maps Mania
Hyperlocal Social Media
3 months ago
xkcd.com
Second Stage
7 months ago
Lighthouse Blog
Lighthouse now integrates with mobile reader apps
a year ago
Retail Design Blog
SISO Yoga studio by molae There’s no denying, yoga has permeated the lifestyle of urbanites across the planet, including those...
3 months ago
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There’s no denying, yoga has permeated the lifestyle of urbanites across the planet, including those living in Seoul. The city’s...
Tom Blomfield
Taking Risk I just spent a week talking with some exceptional students from three of the UK’s top universities;...
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I just spent a week talking with some exceptional students from three of the UK’s top universities; Cambridge, Oxford and Imperial College. Along with UCL, these British universities represent 4 of the top 10 universities in the world. The US - a country with 5x more people and...
Explorations of an...
Borneo: Manukan Island And The Tempasuk Plain October 18, 2024 Following our adventure at Trus Madi, our remaining time in Borneo had dwindled to...
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6 months ago
October 18, 2024 Following our adventure at Trus Madi, our remaining time in Borneo had dwindled to just three days. On October 19 we planned to visit a hide often attended by the Bornean Peacock-Pheasant.  This gave us October 18th as a free day.  After mulling over a few other...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - God Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is why He stopped answering prayers. Today's...
a year ago
Moneyness
China is slowly joining the economic war against Russia I recently shared a chart on Twitter showing Chinese exports of ball bearings to Russia. Here it...
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11 months ago
I recently shared a chart on Twitter showing Chinese exports of ball bearings to Russia. Here it is: Having accelerated after Putin's invasion of Ukraine to a run-rate of around US$5-7 million per month in 2023, Chinese ball bearing exports to Russia have been ratcheted down...
Ink & Switch
Local First Unconference [2023 / STL]
over a year ago
Matt Blewitt
Thoughts on User Safety: 2 Following up from last time, let’s explore the internal and insider fronts when moving beyond...
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over a year ago
Following up from last time, let’s explore the internal and insider fronts when moving beyond security towards safety for our users.
Tech + Economics +...
Curation is the last best hope of intelligent discourse. We live in an exponential growth age in terms of information quantity and generative capability....
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We live in an exponential growth age in terms of information quantity and generative capability. With tools like ChatGPT, anyone can conjure up rewritten Wikipedia articles, essays, code, poetry, and more with just a few prompts. This "democratisation" of content creation...
GeoCurrents
From Continents to the World Regional Model Despite my harsh criticisms of the continental model expressed in the preceding posts, I do think...
2 months ago
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Despite my harsh criticisms of the continental model expressed in the preceding posts, I do think that it should be taught to young students. In my ideal scenario, first-graders would be shown, ideally by examining a globe, that there are six very large masses of land that are...
Louwrentius
Belkin Gigabit USB 2.0 adapter works perfectly with Linux My ISP upgraded my internet connection speed to a whopping 120 Mbit. I am using a mac mini as my...
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over a year ago
My ISP upgraded my internet connection speed to a whopping 120 Mbit. I am using a mac mini as my internet router. As you may be aware, the mini has only one network interface, so I added a second interface using a USB to ethernet adapter. This adapter was limited to 100 Mbit, so...
Construction Physics
How China Is Like the 19th Century U.S. I spend a lot of time reading about manufacturing and its evolution, which means I end up repeatedly...
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I spend a lot of time reading about manufacturing and its evolution, which means I end up repeatedly reading about the times and places where radical changes in manufacturing were taking place: Britain in the late 18th century, the US in the late 19th and early 20th centuries,...
Explosm.net
Comic for 2025.06.28 - Meeting New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
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Dan Quach Blog
State of Data Engineering 2024 Q2 Data Engineering and AIChip Huyen, who came out of Stanford and is active in the AI space recently...
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Data Engineering and AIChip Huyen, who came out of Stanford and is active in the AI space recently wrote an article on what she learned by looking at the 900 most popular open source AI tools. https://huyenchip.com/2024/03/14/ai-oss.html In data engineering, one of our primary...
Joel Gascoigne
What it&#x27;s really like to grow a team when you&#x27;re focused on culture-fit * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s often...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s often interesting to look back and think about how much I’ve learned in the past year or two. Especially areas where I almost had no understanding at all. Company culture is one of those...
Applied Cartography
Weird test: internal link checking I wrote last month about using weird tests. Here's another example: checking for broken internal...
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I wrote last month about using weird tests. Here's another example: checking for broken internal links in our upcoming docsite redesign! const extractInternalLinks = (content: string): string[] => { // Check for internal links only, in the form of [text](/path). const...
The Diff
Longreads + Open Thread Kotkin, Luttwak, Poker, DRW, PCs, Statistics, AI, Hamilton
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Seth's Blog
Amplifying the fringes Culture is: “People like us do things like this.” We might even have a chance to choose our group....
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Culture is: “People like us do things like this.” We might even have a chance to choose our group. Hipsters do this, hippies do that. People in this town wear this outfit, students at this school hang out here on Saturdays… We might be born into a culture. Less agency, but just...
Ink & Switch
04 · Diff visualizations Prototypes to show changes on a document, such as red deletion glyphs and change summaries by...
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Citation Needed
Coinbase appears to have violated campaign finance laws with a $25 million super PAC donation Actively involved in contract negotiations with a federal government agency, Coinbase was likely...
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Actively involved in contract negotiations with a federal government agency, Coinbase was likely prohibited from making its $25 million contribution to the Fairshake crypto super PAC in May 2024.
AFAR Media - Travel...
Getaway to the Best of Palm Springs' Outdoors
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Common Edge
What Does Midcentury Modern Even Mean These Days? When a style becomes historical, its meaning becomes slippery.
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Electronics etc…
Rohde &amp; Schwarz AMIQ Modulation Generator - Teardown and Analog Deep Dive Introduction The Rohde & Schwarz AMIQ Modulation Generator WinIQSim Software Inside the AMIQ The...
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Introduction The Rohde & Schwarz AMIQ Modulation Generator WinIQSim Software Inside the AMIQ The Signal Generation PCB Analog Signal Generation Architecture: Fixed vs Variable DAC Clock Internal Reference Clock Generation DAC Clock Synthesizer I/Q Output Skew Tuning Variable Gain...
Nela Dunato Art &...
How to create a brand mood board A brand mood board is a collage that represents your core values and aesthetic brand qualities in a...
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A brand mood board is a collage that represents your core values and aesthetic brand qualities in a visual way. It’s the first step in translating these abstract concepts into visual language. Whether you decide to work with a designer or by yourself, creating a mood board is a...
Map of the Week
The Invasion of Ukraine Ukraine was invaded by Russia three years ago. Since the new president of the United States is in...
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Ukraine was invaded by Russia three years ago. Since the new president of the United States is in full surrender to Putin mode and wants to blame Ukraine for starting the war, I am posting this map, from February 27, 2022. It is to remind anyone that needs reminding of who...
Sean Carroll
What I Look for in Podcast Guests People often suggest guests to appear on Mindscape — which I very much appreciate! Several of my...
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People often suggest guests to appear on Mindscape — which I very much appreciate! Several of my best conversations were with people I had never heard of before they were effectively suggested by someone. Suggestions could be made here (in comments below), or on the subreddit, or...
Archinect - Features
The Fed Just Cut Interest Rates. What Does It Mean for Architects? In September 2024, the U.S. Federal Reserve cut the target range of interest rates for the first...
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In September 2024, the U.S. Federal Reserve cut the target range of interest rates for the first time in four years. The move was long anticipated by AEC commentators, who hoped that the lower cost of borrowing would begin to pull the sector out of a two-year stagnation in...
Fatih Arslan
Faculty of Architecture, METU Ankara The Faculty of Architecture of the METU (one of Turkey's elite universities) was always something...
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a year ago
The Faculty of Architecture of the METU (one of Turkey's elite universities) was always something that piqued my interest. It was built in 1960's, during the Brutalism era. It's one of the most sophisticated and well-known brutalist buildings in Turkey, especially in Ankara.
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FOSDEM 2024: my experience, some notes and tech tips I finally went to FOSDEM. I’m sleep-deprived, completely exhausted, but incredibly excited about the...
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I finally went to FOSDEM. I’m sleep-deprived, completely exhausted, but incredibly excited about the whole experience. I’ve split this post into three separate sections. overall notes on the conference and the city less technical, but sheds light on the FOSDEM experience the...