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The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast covers software engineering at Big Tech and startups, from the...
28 minutes ago
The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast covers software engineering at Big Tech and startups, from the inside. We do deepdives with experienced engineers and tech professionals who share their hard-earned lessons, interesting stories and advice they have on building software.
After each...
Infinite Scroll
Why Are So Many Online Trads Still Single?
We asked single trads to tell us their secrets
40 minutes ago
We asked single trads to tell us their secrets
watchTowr Labs
Backdooring Your Backdoors - Another $20 Domain, More Governments
After the excitement of our .MOBI research, we were left twiddling our thumbs. As you may recall, in...
43 minutes ago
After the excitement of our .MOBI research, we were left twiddling our thumbs. As you may recall, in 2024, we demonstrated the impact of an unregistered domain when we subverted the TLS/SSL CA process for verifying domain ownership to give ourselves the ability to issue valid and...
Seth's Blog
Situational spending
Money is a story. But money is also an exchangeable commodity, valued by different people in...
an hour ago
Money is a story. But money is also an exchangeable commodity, valued by different people in different ways. And time is the wildcard. Situational spending is a trap that seduces us into forgetting that time passes and debt (or assets) remain. A couple about to wed might not...
Open Culture
Compare the “It Ain’t Me Babe” Scene from A Complete Unknown to the Real Bob Dylan & Joan Baez...
A Complete Unknown, the new movie about Bob Dylan’s rise in the folk-music scene of the early...
an hour ago
A Complete Unknown, the new movie about Bob Dylan’s rise in the folk-music scene of the early nineteen-sixties and subsequent electrified break with it, has been praised for not taking excessive liberties, at least by the standards of popular music biopics. Its conversion of a...
History Today Feed
The Rebecca Riots: Why Did Wales Rise Up?
The Rebecca Riots: Why Did Wales Rise Up?
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/08/2025 - 09:37
2 hours ago
The Rebecca Riots: Why Did Wales Rise Up?
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/08/2025 - 09:37
Atoms vs Bits
Making Sense Of Life Through Reincarnation
Again the melody returns
2 hours ago
Flashbak
From Window: A Photographer’s Obsession With His Wife And Freezing Time
“I work and photograph while hoping to stop everything. In that sense, my work may be some kind of...
2 hours ago
“I work and photograph while hoping to stop everything. In that sense, my work may be some kind of revenge drama about living now.” – Masahisa Fukase One morning in the summer of 1973, Masahisa Fukase (25 February 1934 – 9 June 2012) photographed his wife since 1964, Yoko...
Open Culture
The World in a Cloverleaf: A World Map from 1581
In 1581, the medieval cartographer and Protestant theologian Heinrich Bünting created a symbolic map...
2 hours ago
In 1581, the medieval cartographer and Protestant theologian Heinrich Bünting created a symbolic map of the world that adorned his book Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae (Travel Through Holy Scripture). Hand-colored and shaped like a three-leaf clover, the map put Jerusalem at its...
diamond geezer
Coppermill Stream
THE UNLOST RIVERS OF LONDON
Coppermill Stream
Tottenham Hale → Stamford Hill (1¼ miles)
River Lee...
2 hours ago
THE UNLOST RIVERS OF LONDON
Coppermill Stream
Tottenham Hale → Stamford Hill (1¼ miles)
River Lee Navigation Act authorised the creation of straighter cuts chopping off awkward meanders and the introduction of towpaths on both sides of the river. The sequential introduction of...
Global Inequality...
How the mainstream abandoned universal economic principles
(but forgot to mention it)
3 hours ago
(but forgot to mention it)
Noahpinion
Trudeau was a poor steward of Canada's economy
No one knows what ails Canada, but Trudeau didn't try very hard to fix it.
3 hours ago
No one knows what ails Canada, but Trudeau didn't try very hard to fix it.
The Ruffian
James Marriott on Neil Postman: Are We Making Ourselves Stupid?
A Conversation About 'Amusing Ourselves To Death'
4 hours ago
A Conversation About 'Amusing Ourselves To Death'
Paul Cudenec
Basketball, neo-imperialism and Zionism
Sport today is just another sector of big business – just another way of making money.
4 hours ago
Sport today is just another sector of big business – just another way of making money.
TheCollector
7 Women Artists Who Became Works of Art
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5 hours ago
Laetitia@Work
Flowers of Fire: How South Korea’s Feminists Inspired the World
Laetitia@Work #77
5 hours ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Certain Minimum of General Knowledge'
The Oxford-based English journal Critical
Survey in 1969 published a special issue titled “Fight for...
5 hours ago
The Oxford-based English journal Critical
Survey in 1969 published a special issue titled “Fight for Education: A Black Paper.” Among the contributors was Robert Conquest who a year earlier had
published his best-known and most influential book, The Great Terror, a
pioneering...
The American Scholar
Birthday Boy
The post Birthday Boy appeared first on The American Scholar.
6 hours ago
The post Birthday Boy appeared first on The American Scholar.
Commoncog
The 2024 Commoncog Recap
Everything that we covered in 2024, and what to expect in the coming year.
7 hours ago
Everything that we covered in 2024, and what to expect in the coming year.
Mazdak
Meta's Shifting Approach to Politics and Content Moderation
Meta is backtracking on its political content policy.
8 hours ago
Meta is backtracking on its political content policy.
Calculated Risk
Wednesday: ADP Employment
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.
mortgage...
10 hours ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.
mortgage purchase applications index.
ADP Employment Report for December. This report is for private payrolls only (no government). The consensus is for 143,000, down from 146,000 jobs added in...
The Marginalian
Don’t Waste Your Greening Life-Force: Hildegard’s Prophetic Enchanted Ecology
The year is 1174. Gravity, oxygen, and electricity have not been discovered. Clocks, calculus, and...
10 hours ago
The year is 1174. Gravity, oxygen, and electricity have not been discovered. Clocks, calculus, and the printing press have not been invented. Earth is the center of the universe, encircled by heavenly bodies whose motions are ministered by angels. Most people never live past...
diamond geezer
London's Unlost Rivers 10
It's ten years today since I started a blog series called London's Unlost Rivers.
Fray's...
11 hours ago
It's ten years today since I started a blog series called London's Unlost Rivers.
Fray's River
The RoxbourneEdgwarebury Brook
Deans BrookCuffley Brook
Merryhills BrookRiver Lea
The ChingThe Ravensbourne
River Roding
River Pinn
River ColneBurnt Oak Brook
Wealdstone Brook
Silk...
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Is it cynical to do what your manager wants?
When I suggest doing what your management chain wants, people call me cynical. Is it cynical to...
11 hours ago
When I suggest doing what your management chain wants, people call me cynical. Is it cynical to deliberately work on things your company…
Epic Web Dev
Testing Accessibility with Screen Readers (article)
Dive into the world of screen reader testing and discover why relying on a single tool isn't enough....
13 hours ago
Dive into the world of screen reader testing and discover why relying on a single tool isn't enough. Create genuinely accessible web apps that work for everyone
Calculated Risk
CoreLogic: US Home Prices Increased 3.4% Year-over-year in November
Notes: This CoreLogic House Price Index report is for November. The recent Case-Shiller index...
13 hours ago
Notes: This CoreLogic House Price Index report is for November. The recent Case-Shiller index release was for October. The CoreLogic HPI is a three-month weighted average and is not seasonally adjusted (NSA).
CoreLogic: Northeastern, New England States Continue to Lead US for...
alexwlchan
How I test Rust command-line apps with `assert_cmd`
Rust has become my go-to language for my personal toolbox – small, standalone utilities like...
14 hours ago
Rust has become my go-to language for my personal toolbox – small, standalone utilities like create_thumbnail, emptydir, and dominant_colours.
There’s no place for Rust in my day job, so having some self-contained hobby projects means I can still have fun playing with it.
I’ve...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Epicurean
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Currently reading through this stuff and the How To...
14 hours ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Currently reading through this stuff and the How To Live Your Life parts are like footnotes to page upon page of incorrect physics.
Today's News:
anderegg.ca
Apple and the AI divide
This morning I read a 404 Media article about Instagram showing people ads with AI-generated images...
15 hours ago
This morning I read a 404 Media article about Instagram showing people ads with AI-generated images of themselves. I thought this take from Sam Biddle was very good:
Never in my career have I seen such a giant gulf between What Companies Think Is the Most Important Thing in the...
TheCollector
Who Was Philip Melanchthon? (Life & Legacy)
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15 hours ago
Escaping Flatland
Bring everything into the conversation layer
A conversation is not an interface that lets you get to know each other; it is an interface that...
15 hours ago
A conversation is not an interface that lets you get to know each other; it is an interface that lets you savor and get enriched by the Otherness of each other. The richer the conversation becomes, the more this Otherness can be expressed and explored.
TheCollector
Hagia Sophia to Open Mysterious Underground Tunnels to Visitors
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15 hours ago
Birchtree
The day Birchtree grew up
Today's a symbolically big day for Birchtree! After doing this site and its many offshoot projects...
16 hours ago
Today's a symbolically big day for Birchtree! After doing this site and its many offshoot projects since 2010, I finally put a ring on it and registered Birchtree Productions LLC. 🎉
For you, this means basically nothing at all. Footers might be updated and I might invest in
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Social Inflation
Imagine you’re on a social network and you start getting tons of followers.
You love it! Your...
16 hours ago
Imagine you’re on a social network and you start getting tons of followers.
You love it! Your follower count is going up!
Instead of a nobody with a couple hundred followers, you’ve bypassed the 1k+ mark and it keeps going!
You’re ecstatic! This is the “next step” you were...
Computer Things
"Logic for Programmers" Project Update
Happy new year everyone!
I released the first Logic for Programmers alpha six months ago. There's...
16 hours ago
Happy new year everyone!
I released the first Logic for Programmers alpha six months ago. There's since been four new versions since then, with the November release putting us in beta. Between work and holidays I didn't make much progress in December, but there will be a 0.6...
Calculated Risk
Asking Rents Mostly Unchanged Year-over-year
Today, in the Real Estate Newsletter: Asking Rents Mostly Unchanged Year-over-year
Brief excerpt:...
16 hours ago
Today, in the Real Estate Newsletter: Asking Rents Mostly Unchanged Year-over-year
Brief excerpt:
Another monthly update on rents.
Welcome to the January 2025 Apartment List National Rent Report. The national median monthly rent closed out 2024 at $1,373 in December, after...
Marcus on AI
The Five Stages of AGI Grief
And a look at how people keep trying to redefine (or even revoke) the goalposts of what Artificial...
17 hours ago
And a look at how people keep trying to redefine (or even revoke) the goalposts of what Artificial General Intelligence means.
99% Invisible
Mini-Stories: Volume 20
Happy New Year! We’re starting 2025 with four more mini stories! This week we have a sleepy button,...
17 hours ago
Happy New Year! We’re starting 2025 with four more mini stories! This week we have a sleepy button, electric signs, a very important sticker, and video you can smell. Let’s get into it! Snooze Buttons In the 1950s, General Electric changed alarm clocks forever by adding a snooze...
David Heinemeier...
The social media censorship era is over (for now)
Mark Zuckerberg just announced a stunning pivot for Meta's approach to social media censorship....
18 hours ago
Mark Zuckerberg just announced a stunning pivot for Meta's approach to social media censorship. Here's what he's going to do:
Replace third-party fact checkers with community notes ala X.
Allow free discussion on immigration, gender, and other topics that were heavily censored...
Calculated Risk
ISM® Services Index Increases to 54.1% in December
(Posted with permission). The ISM® Services index was at 54.1%, up from 52.1% last month. The...
18 hours ago
(Posted with permission). The ISM® Services index was at 54.1%, up from 52.1% last month. The employment index decreased to 51.4%, from 51.5%. Note: Above 50 indicates expansion, below 50 in contraction.
Services PMI® at 54.1% December 2024 Services ISM® Report On...
IEEE Spectrum
Ensuring the Security and Resilience of Autonomous Fleets with Advanced Testing Frameworks
Autonomous systems, particularly fleets of drones and other unmanned vehicles, face increasing risks...
18 hours ago
Autonomous systems, particularly fleets of drones and other unmanned vehicles, face increasing risks as their complexity grows. Despite advancements, existing testing frameworks fall short in addressing end-to-end security, resilience, and safety in zero-trust environments. The...
Blog - Practical...
The Hidden Engineering Behind Texas's Top Tourist Attraction
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
I am on location in downtown...
19 hours ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
I am on location in downtown San Antonio, Texas, where crews have just finished setting up this massive 650-ton crane. The counterweights are on. The outriggers are down. And the jib, an extension for the...
TheCollector
5 Contemporary Artists Inspired by Baroque
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19 hours ago
Both Are True
2025 recap
what a year it's been
19 hours ago
Birchtree
The best app for gaming on the Vision Pro will soon be Safari
Andrew Fear writing for the official NVIDIA blog: PC Gaming in the Cloud Goes Everywhere With New...
19 hours ago
Andrew Fear writing for the official NVIDIA blog: PC Gaming in the Cloud Goes Everywhere With New Devices and AAA Games on GeForce NOW
Get immersed in a new dimension of big-screen gaming as GeForce NOW brings AAA titles to life on Apple Vision Pro spatial computers, Meta Quest 3
The Diff
Time Arbitrage and SaaS Pricing Power
Plus! Search UX; Mining Crypto; Moderation; News is a Distribution Business; AI as UI
20 hours ago
Plus! Search UX; Mining Crypto; Moderation; News is a Distribution Business; AI as UI
Arduino Blog
Prototype faster and smarter in 2025: Meet the Arduino Pro Portenta Proto Kit
Launching today at CES 2025, the Arduino Pro Portenta Proto Kit is here to revolutionize how...
20 hours ago
Launching today at CES 2025, the Arduino Pro Portenta Proto Kit is here to revolutionize how professionals approach prototyping. Designed to empower engineers, designers, and innovators from all walks of life, this kit provides everything you need to turn your ideas into...
Calculated Risk
BLS: Job Openings "Little Unchanged" at 8.1 million in November
From the BLS: Job Openings and Labor Turnover Summary
The number of job openings was little changed...
20 hours ago
From the BLS: Job Openings and Labor Turnover Summary
The number of job openings was little changed at 8.1 million on the last business day of November, the
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the month, hires and total separations were little
changed at 5.3...
Hidden History
The French Space Cat Felicette
France joined the Space Race in the 1950s, and one of her missions was a test flight involving the...
21 hours ago
France joined the Space Race in the 1950s, and one of her missions was a test flight involving the first (and so far only) cat to enter space. It did not end well for the cat. In the aftermath of the Second World War, France, under the leadership of General Charles De Gaulle, was...
Retail Design Blog
Moment Boutique Store by Modum Atelier
Moment boutique store is located in Cinnalane, Nanjing, where surrounded by a historic architectural...
21 hours ago
Moment boutique store is located in Cinnalane, Nanjing, where surrounded by a historic architectural complex, with the famous Ganxi Mansion...
Arduino Blog
This telescope can intelligently point itself anywhere in the sky
Known by their characteristic mounting solution, Dobsonian telescopes are the standard in amateur...
21 hours ago
Known by their characteristic mounting solution, Dobsonian telescopes are the standard in amateur astronomy due to their lower cost and ease-of-use. But after seeing how some of the larger, motorized telescopes at observatories can simply pivot to a target of interest, one member...
Calculated Risk
Trade Deficit increased to $78.2 Billion in November
The Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis reported:
The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S....
22 hours ago
The Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis reported:
The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis announced today
that the goods and services deficit was $78.2 billion in November, up $4.6 billion from $73.6 billion in
October, revised.
...
Retail Design Blog
MITHRIDATE store by SLT Design
Officially based in London, forward unisex fashion brand MITHRIDATE is led by brand founder Tina...
22 hours ago
Officially based in London, forward unisex fashion brand MITHRIDATE is led by brand founder Tina Jiang, and forms an integral...
Common Edge
NYC Finally Has Congestion Pricing—Now, the Free Parking Must Go
Giving away public space for automobiles makes little sense.
22 hours ago
Giving away public space for automobiles makes little sense.
TheCollector
The History of Left-Handedness: Why Is This a Bias?
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23 hours ago
Retail Design Blog
Gol Gav Zaban herbal tea by Mohsen Zeinali
Gol Gav Zaban herbal tea is a popular herbal product used for relaxation and health promotion . In...
23 hours ago
Gol Gav Zaban herbal tea is a popular herbal product used for relaxation and health promotion . In the design...
The History of the...
Progressive enhancement brings everyone in
Early computers faced unexpected failures, and that gave us graceful degradation. But on the web, we...
yesterday
Early computers faced unexpected failures, and that gave us graceful degradation. But on the web, we needed something different. We needed progressive enhancement.
The post Progressive enhancement brings everyone in appeared first on The History of the Web.
Rest of World -...
The little ride-hailing app that could catch Uber and Bolt in Kenya
Founder Kamal Budhabhatti’s winning strategy targets corporate clients.
yesterday
Founder Kamal Budhabhatti’s winning strategy targets corporate clients.
Retail Design Blog
via·1719 Wu Liangcai New Vision Field by Dayuan Design
When a building becomes a collective memory of a city, the meaning it carries is unique. Whenever...
yesterday
When a building becomes a collective memory of a city, the meaning it carries is unique. Whenever people mention it,...
TheCollector
What Was the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
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yesterday
Unfiltered by Tim...
The Biggest Wealth Transfer in History Is Happening Right Now
You can be a part of it if you choose.
yesterday
You can be a part of it if you choose.
Seth's Blog
Busy-ness and leverage
When I made breakfast this morning, I didn’t begin by making the blender. Someone else, a team with...
yesterday
When I made breakfast this morning, I didn’t begin by making the blender. Someone else, a team with more skills, resources and scale, built the blender. I simply bought it. That seems obvious–no one expects a from-scratch baker to make their own baking powder. And yet, our...
Open Culture
Why the Tavern Scene in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds Is a Master Class in Filmmaking
Ideally, a viewer should be able to identify the work of a particular auteur from any one scene that...
yesterday
Ideally, a viewer should be able to identify the work of a particular auteur from any one scene that the auteur has directed. In reality, it’s not always possible to do so, even in the work of filmmakers with highly idiosyncratic styles. But in the case of Quentin Tarantino, it...
History Today Feed
‘The Tree Hunter’ by Thomas Pakenham review
‘The Tree Hunter’ by Thomas Pakenham review
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/07/2025 - 09:36
yesterday
‘The Tree Hunter’ by Thomas Pakenham review
JamesHoare
Tue, 01/07/2025 - 09:36
FIRE v London
Dec ’24 – 2024 in review
And we’re off, into 2025. Before we get too far, it’s time to take stock (pardon the pun) of 2024....
yesterday
And we’re off, into 2025. Before we get too far, it’s time to take stock (pardon the pun) of 2024. I’ll follow the 7 point approach I’ve used for the last few years, starting with the wider market context. Q1 How did markets do? December saw falls across most asset classes –...
Flashbak
A Walk Around Leeds in The 1970s
We’re shopping in 1970s Leeds as Eric Miles shows us around the city centre. We mooch past Austicks’...
yesterday
We’re shopping in 1970s Leeds as Eric Miles shows us around the city centre. We mooch past Austicks’ Bookshop, where as a teenager writer Alan Bennett worked part-time job. We pop into the County Arcade, walking amid the mahogany shop fronts, pink marble columns, and cast iron...
Coding Horror
Stay Gold, America
We are at an unprecedented point in American history, and I'm concerned we may lose sight of the...
yesterday
We are at an unprecedented point in American history, and I'm concerned we may lose sight of the American Dream.
Open Culture
Radio Caroline, the Pirate Radio Ship That Rocked the British Music World (1965)
Nowadays musicians can reach hundreds, thousands, sometimes millions of listeners with a few,...
yesterday
Nowadays musicians can reach hundreds, thousands, sometimes millions of listeners with a few, usually free, online services and a minimal grasp of technology. That’s not to say there aren’t still economic barriers aplenty for the struggling artist, but true independence is not an...
Odds and Ends of...
The social justice case for self-driving cars
Abundant mobility should be a moral crusade
yesterday
Abundant mobility should be a moral crusade
diamond geezer
The Silvertown Tunnel - what we now know
The Silvertown Tunnel - what we now know and what we already knew
What we now know: When it'll...
yesterday
The Silvertown Tunnel - what we now know and what we already knew
What we now know: When it'll open
Monday 7th April 2025, i.e. in exactly three months time. That's yesterday's genuinely new news. It'll be the first day of the school Easter holidays so traffic should be lighter...
TheCollector
The Popol Vuh: A Maya Myth Told in Dance and Song
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yesterday
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Democratical Enemies of Truth'
Like me, Matthew Walther
was attracted to the work Sir Thomas Browne by his “enchanting prose.” I...
yesterday
Like me, Matthew Walther
was attracted to the work Sir Thomas Browne by his “enchanting prose.” I see
from the title page that I bought The Prose of Sir Thomas Browne in the
Cleveland bookstore where I worked in April 1975. It’s a fat yellow paperback,
part of the Anchor...
The American Scholar
“The Horses” by Ted Hughes
Poems read aloud, beautifully
The post “The Horses” by Ted Hughes appeared first on The American...
yesterday
Poems read aloud, beautifully
The post “The Horses” by Ted Hughes appeared first on The American Scholar.
Global Inequality...
“To the Finland Station”
Trump as a tool of history
yesterday
Trump as a tool of history
CONTEMPORIST
Plants Cascade Down The Exterior Of This New Home
Architecture firm NAQI & Partners, has shared photos of a villa they completed in the heart of the...
yesterday
Architecture firm NAQI & Partners, has shared photos of a villa they completed in the heart of the coastal city of Nha Trang, Vietnam, that integrates plants and an indoor swimming pool into its design. The Nha Trang Pool Villa is the living space for a young family, balancing...
Mazdak
Trudeau's resignation, Dana White joining Meta's board, YouTube taking on TikTok, SuperIntelligence...
After nearly a decade in leadership, Justin Trudeau announced his decision to step down as Prime...
yesterday
After nearly a decade in leadership, Justin Trudeau announced his decision to step down as Prime Minister of Canada.
Birchtree
A lot changed for LLMs in 2024
I thought this was a fascinating post by Simon Willison: Things We Learned About LLMs in 2024
This...
yesterday
I thought this was a fascinating post by Simon Willison: Things We Learned About LLMs in 2024
This increase in efficiency and reduction in price is my single favourite trend from 2024. I want the utility of LLMs at a fraction of the energy cost and it looks like that&
Calculated Risk
Tuesday: Trade Deficit, Job Openings, ISM Services
From Matthew Graham at Mortgage News Daily: Mortgage Rates Barely Budge to Start New Week
The bond...
yesterday
From Matthew Graham at Mortgage News Daily: Mortgage Rates Barely Budge to Start New Week
The bond market and interest rates have arrived at the first full week of the new year almost exactly where they left off before the X-mas/New Year holiday weeks. ... Although the past 2...
lcamtuf’s thing
Weekend projects: Sketchy Sketch
Making a nicer version of a forgotten, electronic Etch-A-Sketch toy.
2 days ago
Making a nicer version of a forgotten, electronic Etch-A-Sketch toy.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Moo
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
The law showed no moooorcy.
Today's News:
2 days ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
The law showed no moooorcy.
Today's News:
Calculated Risk
Moody's: Retail Vacancy Rate Unchanged in Q4
Note: I covered apartments and offices in the newsletter: Moody's: Apartment Vacancy Rate Increased...
2 days ago
Note: I covered apartments and offices in the newsletter: Moody's: Apartment Vacancy Rate Increased in Q4; Office Vacancy Rate at Record High
Multifamily Continued to Defy the Supply Shock, Office’s Vacancy Rate Broke Another Record, Retail Rents Drift Higher with Tight Supply,...
Arduino Blog
Control your volume with a wireless rotary encoder, as you deserve
Every decent stereo sold since the invention of sound has included a knob on the front for adjusting...
2 days ago
Every decent stereo sold since the invention of sound has included a knob on the front for adjusting volume. There are influencers and entire communities dedicated to evaluating the feel of those wonderful knobs. So why would you settle for the mushy volume buttons on a remote?...
The Rational Walk
A Quarter Century of Investing
Lessons learned from a quarter century of active investing, along with annual performance...
2 days ago
Lessons learned from a quarter century of active investing, along with annual performance statistics.
CONTEMPORIST
A’ Design Award Announces Their Annual World Design Rankings
This article has been brought to you by A’Design Awards. A’Design Award and Competition have...
2 days ago
This article has been brought to you by A’Design Awards. A’Design Award and Competition have released their World Design Rankings (WDR) in Arts, Architecture and Design, with China taking first place, followed by the USA, and Japan. The World Design Rankings ranks all the...
The Honest Broker
I Share Private Journal Entries
Random jottings on music (and other topics) from my notebook
2 days ago
Random jottings on music (and other topics) from my notebook
TheCollector
What Is Philippians About?
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2 days ago
Infinite Scroll
Weekly Scroll: Meta Swallows the Slop
Plus: Elon's alter ego and Autistic Stew
2 days ago
Plus: Elon's alter ego and Autistic Stew
The Elysian
What my cooperative media ecosystem could look like
My vision for a federated nation of independent writer states.
2 days ago
My vision for a federated nation of independent writer states.
Passing Time
Book Review: Primates of Park Avenue
Despite my quips, far from a hate read
2 days ago
Despite my quips, far from a hate read
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Push Notifications Are Organizational Marshmallows
It’s a notifications’ world, we’re just living in it.
Companies can’t help but try and get your...
2 days ago
It’s a notifications’ world, we’re just living in it.
Companies can’t help but try and get your attention via email, text, or push notifications and drive you to their app.
Push notifications in particular are a powerful tool — and where there’s power, there’s abuse.
I’m sure...
Calculated Risk
Heavy Truck Sales Decreased 10% YoY in December
This graph shows heavy truck sales since 1967 using data from the BEA. The dashed line is the...
2 days ago
This graph shows heavy truck sales since 1967 using data from the BEA. The dashed line is the December 2024 seasonally adjusted annual sales rate (SAAR) of 422 thousand.
Click on graph for larger image.
Heavy truck sales declined sharply at the beginning of the pandemic, falling...
Overcoming Bias
Fear Change
Evolution in animals selects not only for static features, like claws, but also for behaviors that...
2 days ago
Evolution in animals selects not only for static features, like claws, but also for behaviors that change with context.
Birchtree
Sign up for X to see that amber alert. Yikes
Kate Knibbs writing for Wired: Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About...
2 days ago
Kate Knibbs writing for Wired: Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About Missing 14-Year-Old
Earlier this week, the California Highway Patrol sent an Amber Alert push notification to phones in the Los Angeles area about a 14-year-old girl that authorities...
TheCollector
5 Ancient Roman Monuments & How They Survived to the Modern Day
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2 days ago
David Heinemeier...
Delusional dreams of excess freedom
Jim Carey once said that he hoped everyone could "...get rich and famous and do everything they...
2 days ago
Jim Carey once said that he hoped everyone could "...get rich and famous and do everything they dreamed of so they can see that it is not the answer". And while I sorta agree, I think the opposite position also has its appeal: That believing in a material fix to the problem of...
Calculated Risk
Moody's: Apartment Vacancy Rate Increased in Q4; Office Vacancy Rate at Record High
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Moody's: Apartment Vacancy Rate Increased in...
2 days ago
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Moody's: Apartment Vacancy Rate Increased in Q4; Office Vacancy Rate at Record High
A brief excerpt:
From Moody’s Analytics Economists: Multifamily Continued to Defy the Supply Shock, Office’s Vacancy Rate Broke Another...
Transit Maps
Submission – Official Map: Madrid Cercanías Rail Network, December 2024
Submitted by Juan, who says: I send the new version of the Renfe-Madrid Cercanías network. It seems...
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The Diff
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Math Is Still...
The Ocean Teems With Networks of Interconnected Bacteria
Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans,...
2 days ago
Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans, suggesting that the world is far more interconnected than anyone realized.
The post The Ocean Teems With Networks of Interconnected Bacteria first appeared on Quanta...
NeuroLogica Blog
Plan To Build First Commercial Fusion Reactor
How close are we to having fusion reactors actually sending electric power to the grid? This is a...
2 days ago
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Dr Alun Withey
To Tip or Not To Tip: A Victorian Traveller’s Perspective
Like it or not, tipping is a big part of hospitality and the service industry. Debates about how...
2 days ago
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Scarlet Ink
Managers Make Teams Deliver More Value, Not Deliver More Output
True productivity for a team is measured by the value created, not the work completed. The job of a...
2 days ago
True productivity for a team is measured by the value created, not the work completed. The job of a manager is to focus on the value hidden behind the piles of work.
Marcus on AI
Sam Altman thinks that AGI is basically a solved problem. I don’t. Here’s why.
Yesterday Sam Altman claimed in a new blog post that “We are now confident we how to build AGI as we...
2 days ago
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Common Edge
A Radical (and Totally Practical) Rethinking of U.S. Housing Construction
Vienna and Paris demonstrate that there are easier, less-expensive ways to build homes.
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Vienna and Paris demonstrate that there are easier, less-expensive ways to build homes.
Calculated Risk
Housing Jan 6th Weekly Update: Inventory down 2.4% Week-over-week, Up 27.3% Year-over-year
Altos reports that active single-family inventory was down 2.4% week-over-week.
Inventory will...
2 days ago
Altos reports that active single-family inventory was down 2.4% week-over-week.
Inventory will continue to decline seasonally and probably bottom in late January or February.
The first graph shows the seasonal pattern for active single-family inventory since 2015.
Click...
Birchtree
I strongly recommend Portal: Revolution (members post)
In this new series, I’ll be reviewing the media I experience (I don’t like saying I “consume” media)...
2 days ago
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TheCollector
What Was the League of Cambrai?
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UX Collective
Reclaiming your humanity in an algorithmic world
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Britain's sinking reputation
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‘Ocean’ and ‘Tracks on the Ocean’ review
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Actually Structured Journaling (Jan 2025)
I was very excited when I saw Cal Newport's episode on Structured Journaling come up, but I was...
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TheCollector
How Did the Victorian Dead Body Trade Operate?
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Open Culture
The Skeleton Dance, Voted the 18th Best Cartoon of All Time, Is Now in the Public Domain (1929)
The July 17, 1929 issue of Variety carried a notice about a laugh-filled new short film in which...
2 days ago
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Pseudocode for Intentionality
slug: intentionality
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swyx's site RSS Feed
(draft) On Intentionality
slug: intentionality
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Pseudocode for Intentionality
I've been interested in being more intentional with my work, time and life recently. Here is my...
2 days ago
I've been interested in being more intentional with my work, time and life recently. Here is my working definition of how to be more intentional.
Seth's Blog
The value of artifacts
An artifact is an object that holds or signifies an idea. A book on paper is an artifact: it’s the...
2 days ago
An artifact is an object that holds or signifies an idea. A book on paper is an artifact: it’s the object plus the words. Now that you can get the words in many other ways, the value of the book is changed. A wedding ring is an artifact. If lost, it has sentimental value far […]
Maps Mania
SPOT: the Natural Language Geolocation Map
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Atoms vs Bits
Modelling People Smarter Than Me
Models of models of models
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Paul Cudenec
The criminocracy's Colombian connection
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Juan Manuel Santos is a Colombian businessman and politician who was president of the South American country from 2010 to 2018.
Retail Design Blog
SprintCo’s Journey of Innovation and Storytelling
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Open Culture
Bertrand Russell’s Message to People Living in the Year 2959: “Love is Wise, Hatred is Foolish”
Bertrand Russell, the great British philosopher and social critic, appeared on the BBC program...
2 days ago
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Miguel Carranza
My role as a founder CTO: Year Seven
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2 days ago
2024 has come and gone, and it’s time for my annual post. What a year for startups—like squeezing five regular years into one. Do you remember the Apple Vision Pro, the DMA regulation, founder mode, or the o1 launch? All of that happened in just the last twelve months.
It’s also...
diamond geezer
J20 M25
It's the motorway junction of the year, it's J20 M25.
(If the M20 had 25 junctions yes, that would...
2 days ago
It's the motorway junction of the year, it's J20 M25.
(If the M20 had 25 junctions yes, that would be better, but it only has 13 so we're off to Hertfordshire instead)
Kings Langley, one stop north of Watford Junction. Unlike J19 and J21 you can actually walk round it, which is...
TheCollector
How to Unlock Your Unconscious According to Carl Jung
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Anecdotal Evidence
'A Life That Is More Real Than Life'
My nephew and I were
talking about our teenage efforts to be “cool,” wearing irony like...
2 days ago
My nephew and I were
talking about our teenage efforts to be “cool,” wearing irony like Kevlar,
feigning sophistication while avoiding the shock of experience. Some of us
outgrow it and become open to life’s surprises. Others carry the stance latently
for life, like the...
The American Scholar
Amy Wetsch
Life, magnified
The post Amy Wetsch appeared first on The American Scholar.
2 days ago
Life, magnified
The post Amy Wetsch appeared first on The American Scholar.
Sam Altman
Reflections
The second birthday of ChatGPT was only a little over a month ago, and now we have transitioned into...
2 days ago
The second birthday of ChatGPT was only a little over a month ago, and now we have transitioned into the next paradigm of models that can do complex reasoning. New years get people in a reflective mood, and I wanted to share some personal thoughts about how it has gone so far,...
Calculated Risk
Sunday Night Futures
Weekend:
Schedule for Week of January 5, 2025
Question #2 for 2025: How much will job growth slow in...
2 days ago
Weekend:
Schedule for Week of January 5, 2025
Question #2 for 2025: How much will job growth slow in 2025? Or will the economy lose jobs?
Question #1 for 2025: How much will the economy grow in 2025? Will there be a recession in 2025?
Pre-Market Data and Bloomberg futures S&P 500...
Jonas Hietala
First impressions of Ghostty
There are two conflicting forces in play in setting up your computer environment:
It’s common to...
2 days ago
There are two conflicting forces in play in setting up your computer environment:
It’s common to find people get stuck at the extreme ends of the spectrum;
some programmers refuse to configure or learn their tools at all, while others get stuck re-configuring their setups...
ntietz.com blog -...
Great things about Rust that aren't just performance
Nearly every line of code I write for fun is in Rust.
It's not because I need great performance,...
2 days ago
Nearly every line of code I write for fun is in Rust.
It's not because I need great performance, though that's a nice benefit.
I write a lot of Rust because it's a joy to write code in.
There is so much else to love about Rust beyond going fast without segfaults.
Here are a few...
Birchtree
That app could probably be a website
P. Martin Ortiz writing for Rogue Engine: Your App Should Have Been a Website
Some companies push...
3 days ago
P. Martin Ortiz writing for Rogue Engine: Your App Should Have Been a Website
Some companies push for app installations because they gain access to more permissions than they would in the browser. Apps allow them to collect more data and track user activity, often under the...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Fit
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Choco-beefs are of course inferior to...
3 days ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Choco-beefs are of course inferior to beef-tensors.
Today's News:
TheCollector
The History of Braga, Portugal & 16 Must-See Historic Sites
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Marcus on AI
AI still lacks “common” sense, 70 years later
What’s obvious to people still isn’t always obvious to machines
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What’s obvious to people still isn’t always obvious to machines
dthompson
Guile-Bstructs 0.1.0 released
I'm pleased to announce that the very first release of guile-bstructs,
version 0.1.0, has been...
3 days ago
I'm pleased to announce that the very first release of guile-bstructs,
version 0.1.0, has been released! This is a library I've been working
on for quite some time and after more than one rewrite and many
smaller refactors I think it's finally ready to release publicly.
Let's...
Calculated Risk
Question #1 for 2025: How much will the economy grow in 2025? Will there be a recession in 2025?
Earlier I posted some questions on my blog for next year: Ten Economic Questions for 2025. Some of...
3 days ago
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Ken Shirriff's blog
Pi in the Pentium: reverse-engineering the constants in its floating-point unit
Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of...
3 days ago
Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of high-performance processors.1
The Pentium includes a floating-point unit that can rapidly compute functions such as sines, cosines, logarithms, and exponentials.
But how does the Pentium...
Birchtree
Bending the knee, $1 million at a time
M.G. Siegler on his blog, Spyglass: $1M Knee Pads
Of course, the point here, in the real world,...
3 days ago
M.G. Siegler on his blog, Spyglass: $1M Knee Pads
Of course, the point here, in the real world, isn't actually the money – though I would just note that as President, Trump will have access to thousands of warheads... – but what the money signals. That is,
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Wisdom for the New Year
3 days ago
Overcoming Bias
Feels Gone Wrong
The films A Complete Unknown, on Bob Dylan, and In Restless Dreams, on Paul Simon, make vivid to me...
3 days ago
The films A Complete Unknown, on Bob Dylan, and In Restless Dreams, on Paul Simon, make vivid to me the huge emotional appeal of becoming a musician like them.
TheCollector
Mangal Pandey: The Spark That Ignited the Sepoy Mutiny
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Calculated Risk
Question #2 for 2025: How much will job growth slow in 2025? Or will the economy lose jobs?
Earlier I posted some questions on my blog for next year: Ten Economic Questions for 2025. Some of...
3 days ago
Earlier I posted some questions on my blog for next year: Ten Economic Questions for 2025. Some of these questions concern real estate (inventory, house prices, housing starts, new home sales), and I posted thoughts on those in the newsletter (others like GDP and employment will...
African History...
The pre-Islamic civilizations of west Africa
While West Africa has been part of the Muslim world since the late Middle Ages, as famously...
3 days ago
While West Africa has been part of the Muslim world since the late Middle Ages, as famously demonstrated by the golden pilgrimage of Mali's Mansa Musa in 1324, Islam had only arrived in the region at the close of the 1st millennium.
IEEE Spectrum
SwitchBot Introduces Modular Mobile Home Robot
Earlier this year, we reviewed the SwitchBot S10, a vacuuming and wet mopping robot that uses a...
3 days ago
Earlier this year, we reviewed the SwitchBot S10, a vacuuming and wet mopping robot that uses a water-integrated docking system to autonomously manage both clean and dirty water for you. It’s a pretty clever solution, and we appreciated that SwitchBot was willing to try something...
Cheese and Biscuits
Vatavaran, Knightsbridge
It was Trishna in Marlebone, all the way back in something like 2009, that opened many Londoners'...
3 days ago
It was Trishna in Marlebone, all the way back in something like 2009, that opened many Londoners' eyes - not least my own - to the possibilities of modern Indian fine dining. Now, I'm sure Vivek Singh (Cinnamon Club, 2001), Sriram Aylur (Quilon, 1999) and Cyrus Todiwala (Café...
TheCollector
5 Ukrainian Virtual Museums to Visit From the Comfort of Your Home
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Flashbak
Welcome To Holy Land USA: Inside America’s Jerusalem, 1980
“You can tell that Garry Winogrand was my hero. I learned so much from him about how to tell a story...
3 days ago
“You can tell that Garry Winogrand was my hero. I learned so much from him about how to tell a story or a joke within a frame” – Lisa Barlow, Holy Land, USA In 1980s, Lisa Barlow found Jerusalem in a turning off Connecticut’s Route 69. A huge cross on the roadside alerted …...
TheCollector
What Was the Political Significance of the Comintern?
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Seth's Blog
Working with problems
Situations have no solution, they’re not problems, they’re simply the way it is. Problems are...
3 days ago
Situations have no solution, they’re not problems, they’re simply the way it is. Problems are distinguished by the fact that they have solutions. But that doesn’t mean that the solution is obvious, easy or convenient. If the problem is important enough, we should pick the best...
TheCollector
10 Must-See Historic Sites in Texas
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A Smart Bear
Explore vs Execute
The two main business modalities are more different than you expect. When you hit PMF, it's a...
3 days ago
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.
diamond geezer
A2025
It's the road of the year. It's the A2025.
The best thing about the A2025 is that it starts by...
3 days ago
It's the road of the year. It's the A2025.
The best thing about the A2025 is that it starts by the sea. We're in Lancing, eight miles west of Brighton, so the beach is a long strip of shingle punctuated by wooden groynes. I stood by the oscillating water's edge and watched...
TheCollector
Why Do Famous Artists Recreate Old Works of Art?
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3 days ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Word Should Be Looked Through'
Carpenters work in wood
and welders in metal -- raw materials. Extend the logic just a little:...
3 days ago
Carpenters work in wood
and welders in metal -- raw materials. Extend the logic just a little: writers
work in words. An obvious point but one often forgotten or never learned,
especially by those who think they work in ideas. It’s a phenomenon I first
encountered while working...
Old Vintage...
Refurb weekend: Atari Stacy
Ask any Atari Stacy owner how to open an Atari Stacy and the answer is always "never, if you can...
3 days ago
Ask any Atari Stacy owner how to open an Atari Stacy and the answer is always "never, if you can avoid it." So I'll just lead with this spoiler image after the refurb to prove this particular escapade didn't completely end in tragedy:
see the much lighter and streamlined STBook...
Wuthering...
The books I read in December 2024 - From her earliest youth she had discovered a fondness for...
A different kind of month with a different category of reading.
CHINA
Mountain Home: The Wilderness...
3 days ago
A different kind of month with a different category of reading.
CHINA
Mountain Home: The Wilderness Poetry of Ancient China
(5th-13th cent.), tr. David Hinton – The teenagers in The Story of the Stone
play various games based on their memorization of massive amounts of...
somenice
CircuitPython in 2025
This post is a wishlist for CircuitPython in 2025. Each year Adafruit asks the community to...
3 days ago
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Critics
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
I found something lazier than graph jokes!
Today's...
3 days ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
I found something lazier than graph jokes!
Today's News:
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Ratchet effects determine engineer reputation at large companies
How do engineers become higher-status or lower-status at large tech companies? In other words, what...
3 days ago
How do engineers become higher-status or lower-status at large tech companies? In other words, what determines who gets promoted and who…
Jonas Hietala
2024 in review
It’s time for my 15th yearly review.
Nerdy things I enjoyed
I read a lot of fantasy books this...
3 days ago
It’s time for my 15th yearly review.
Nerdy things I enjoyed
I read a lot of fantasy books this year!
My favorite new series were The Kingkiller Chronicle, Gentlemen Bastards series, and The Stormlight Archive.
If you’re curious about Sanderson’s books but a little apprehensive...
computers are bad
2025-01-05 pairs not taken
So we all know about twisted-pair ethernet, huh? I get a little frustrated with
a lot of histories...
3 days ago
So we all know about twisted-pair ethernet, huh? I get a little frustrated with
a lot of histories of the topic, like the recent neil breen^w^wserial port
video, because they often fail to
address some obvious questions about the origin of twisted-pair network
cabling. Well, I...
The Marginalian
Wherever You Are, Stop What You’re Doing
Nothing magnifies life — in the proper sense of the word, rooted in the Latin for “to make greater,...
4 days ago
Nothing magnifies life — in the proper sense of the word, rooted in the Latin for “to make greater, to glorify” — more than the act of noticing its details, and nothing sanctifies it more: Kneeling to look at a lichen is a devotional act. We bless our own lives by recognizing and...
Patterns in Humanity
2024 in writing
A brief recap of my 2024 posts
4 days ago
A brief recap of my 2024 posts
Mind Mine
my phone is making me dumb
is yours too?
4 days ago
TheCollector
B-24 Liberators: The Aircraft That Ended the Reign of the U-Boat
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nanoscale views
This week in the arXiv: quantum geometry, fluid momentum "tunneling", and pasta sauce
Three papers caught my eye the other day on the arXiv at the start of the new year:
arXiv:2501.00098...
4 days ago
Three papers caught my eye the other day on the arXiv at the start of the new year:
arXiv:2501.00098 - J. Yu et al., "Quantum geometry in quantum materials" - I hope to write up something about quantum geometry soon, but I wanted to point out this nice review even if I haven't...
The Honest Broker
The Parable of Anna Akhmatova
Who is more powerful, the artist or the dictator?
4 days ago
Who is more powerful, the artist or the dictator?
Calculated Risk
Real Estate Newsletter Articles this Week: Case-Shiller Index Up 3.6% year-over-year in October
At the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter this week:
Click on graph for larger...
4 days ago
At the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter this week:
Click on graph for larger image.
Case-Shiller: National House Price Index Up 3.6% year-over-year in October
Final Look at Local Housing Markets in November and a Look Ahead to December Sales
Fannie and Freddie: Single...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
You Can Now Subscribe To My Blog via Email
I don’t think you should. I think you should use RSS.
But if you want posts delivered directly to...
4 days ago
I don’t think you should. I think you should use RSS.
But if you want posts delivered directly to your email, you can do that now.
However, disclaimer: I don’t know if I’ll keep this feature.
It costs me money.
And I don’t monetize my blog.
So sending you an email costs me...
The Diff
Longreads + Open Thread
Paradigms, AI, Pentium, Netflix, China, SBF
4 days ago
Paradigms, AI, Pentium, Netflix, China, SBF
TheCollector
9 Artists Who Defined Art Nouveau
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Contemporist...
A Warm Wood Interior Contrasts With The Black Charred Cedar Exterior At This Ranch Lodge In Oregon
Architecture and Interior Design firm Hacker, has shared photos of Black Butte Ranch Lodge that they...
4 days ago
Architecture and Interior Design firm Hacker, has shared photos of Black Butte Ranch Lodge that they completed in Sisters, Oregon.
Birchtree
Samsung will release their phone first and still gets accused of copying Apple
Chance Miller on 9to5Mac: Samsung Is Already Working on Its iPhone 17 Air Copycat
Apple is expected...
4 days ago
Chance Miller on 9to5Mac: Samsung Is Already Working on Its iPhone 17 Air Copycat
Apple is expected to release an all-new “iPhone 17 Air” model this year, prioritizing form over function. A new supply chain report today reiterates what to expect from the iPhone 17 Air size and
Birchtree
I'm just gonna be your YouTube algorithm now
It turns out I like sharing the cool YouTube videos I see when there aren't any schedules or rules...
4 days ago
It turns out I like sharing the cool YouTube videos I see when there aren't any schedules or rules about how often I share them, so here's another collection I enjoyed recently.
An oldie but a goodie, I really loved what Scotty was doing back in
Calculated Risk
Schedule for Week of January 5, 2024
The key report this week is the December employment report on Friday.
----- Monday, January 6th...
4 days ago
The key report this week is the December employment report on Friday.
----- Monday, January 6th -----
No major economic releases scheduled.
----- Tuesday, January 7th -----
8:30 AM: Trade Balance report for November from the Census Bureau.
10:00 AM ET: Job Openings and Labor...
Birchtree
A quick, incomplete thought about Squid Game 2
This one thing about Squid Game really sticks in my craw…
4 days ago
This one thing about Squid Game really sticks in my craw…
TheCollector
Understanding Yourself Through Jung: A Guide to Individuation & Self-Discovery
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Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #50: The weird thing about London's New Year's Fireworks
Plus how the government should respond to Musk's nonsense, and an AI video that might just show us...
4 days ago
Plus how the government should respond to Musk's nonsense, and an AI video that might just show us how video production is going to change.
Flashbak
Jean And Rose – A Paris Photo Love Story From 1929
In 1929, Jean, 20, was living on rue Clairault, Paris. He worked at a brokerage house on rue de la...
4 days ago
In 1929, Jean, 20, was living on rue Clairault, Paris. He worked at a brokerage house on rue de la Grange Batelière. On December 11, Jean met Rose, 18, at the city’s Saint-Lazare metro station. She lived in the 15th arrondissement, and took classes in hairdressing at the École...
alexwlchan
How I use the notes field in my password manager
I use 1Password to store the passwords for my online accounts, and I’ve been reviewing it as a new...
4 days ago
I use 1Password to store the passwords for my online accounts, and I’ve been reviewing it as a new year cleanup task.
I’ve been deleting unused accounts, changing old passwords which were weak, and making sure I’ve enabled multi-factor authentication for key accounts.
Each...
The Ruffian
How - and Why - To Read...
...in a World That's Giving Up On It
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...in a World That's Giving Up On It
TheCollector
What Are Slavoj Žižek’s Most Intriguing Ideas?
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Seth's Blog
The system has fingerprints
We all make mistakes. We all do things that we then realize weren’t in our interest, or useful to...
4 days ago
We all make mistakes. We all do things that we then realize weren’t in our interest, or useful to the community. If we do it a second time, it’s worth taking a hard look at the system that set us up for failure. How did the system get here? Who benefits? When we can see […]
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Historic Sites in San Diego
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diamond geezer
The 25th bus stop on route 25
The 25th bus stop on route 25
I'm starting at the western end of the route, or at least where...
4 days ago
The 25th bus stop on route 25
I'm starting at the western end of the route, or at least where route 25 now starts following several sequential truncations. In 1950 the western end was at Victoria station, the 25 being the route that plied through Mayfair, then in 1992 this...
Noahpinion
How do we measure whether China's economy is "ahead" of America's?
Comparing economies is an inexact science.
4 days ago
Comparing economies is an inexact science.
TheCollector
What Is Absolute Idealism According to Hegel?
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4 days ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Man of the World Among Ascetics'
T.S. Eliot died sixty
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Q4 GDP Tracking: around 2.4%
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emphasis added
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lot of...
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Dragons campaign.
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Friday: ISM Mfg, Vehicle Sales
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.
Mortgage rates...
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Hovertext:
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Construction Spending Mostly Unchanged in November
From the Census Bureau reported that overall construction spending increased:
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Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims Decrease to 211,000
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Of...
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from Charity Majors discussing it on Twitter.
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Despite that, I decided to include it in this book because it
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MBA: Mortgage Applications Decreased Over a Two-Week Period in Weekly Survey
From the MBA: Mortgage Applications Decreased Over a Two-Week Period in Latest
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Only one London postcode area reaches the heady heights of 25 (because N tops out at N22).
Come...
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Only one London postcode area reaches the heady heights of 25 (because N tops out at N22).
Come with me to South Norwood SE25.
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Mortgage rates...
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mortgage purchase applications index.
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2025 anniversary quiz
a) established Jan 1675 (350 years): meridian telescopes
b) reigned Jan 1725 (300 years): a Great empress
c) written Jan 1775 (250 years): a comedy of errors
d) buffered Feb 1975 (50 years): City crash
e) reigned Mar 1625 (400 years): lost his head
f) born...
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