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We Live in the Dependently Typed Future Now We Live in the Dependently Typed Future Now In the thirty-four days between the fourth of September...

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We Live in the Dependently Typed Future Now

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

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We Live in the Dependently Typed Future Now In the thirty-four days between the fourth of September and the seventh of October, the following things happened. Claude formalized Fermat's Last Theorem in Lean. OpenAI announced a finite-time blowup for the Navier-Stokes equations,...

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Does intelligence need a hard cap? Calls for a new kind of slowdown were the talk of The Curve. PLUS: Slinking back to X

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Does intelligence need a hard cap?

from Platformer [alt+shift+b] in startups

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Calls for a new kind of slowdown were the talk of The Curve. PLUS: Slinking back to X

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Agentic Primitives 101 Inside the harnesses that let AI carry a job across hours, days, and conversations.

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Agentic Primitives 101

from Artificial Ignorance [alt+shift+b] in AI

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Inside the harnesses that let AI carry a job across hours, days, and conversations.

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All About the Telescope (1980) Klushantsev, Pavel. Illustrated by Voishvillo, E., B. Kalaushin, and B. Starodubtsev. All About the...

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All About the Telescope (1980)

from Dreams of Space - Books and Ephemera [alt+shift+b] in history

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Klushantsev, Pavel. Illustrated by Voishvillo, E., B. Kalaushin, and B. Starodubtsev. All About the Telescope. Translated by Jan Butler. Moscow: Progress Publishers. (70 p.) 1980 This book was a translation of the 1972 Russian book: Klushantsev, Pavel. Illustrated by Voishvillo,...

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China-Pakistan Economic Corridor 2.0 Looks to the Sea Marine science and the blue economy are emerging as a new area of China-Pakistan cooperation,...

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China-Pakistan Economic Corridor 2.0 Looks to the Sea

from Beijing Scroll [alt+shift+b] in history

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Marine science and the blue economy are emerging as a new area of China-Pakistan cooperation, linking Gwadar with research, coastal industries and environmental management

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The Hidden Engineering of Pressure Regulators [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] If you have a fluid-filled...

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The Hidden Engineering of Pressure Regulators

from Blog - Practical Engineering [alt+shift+b] in science

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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] If you have a fluid-filled system of pipes in your life, whether liquid or gas, (and who among us doesn’t?) there’s a very good chance that it passes through a simple device at some point on its journey to you....

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Agent governance looks less like moral education and more like institutional economics how agents turn ruthless on paper first

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Agent governance looks less like moral education and more like institutional economics

from Strange Loop Canon [alt+shift+b] in AI

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how agents turn ruthless on paper first

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You Won’t Hear About These, Even In Myths (Atlassian Jira, Confluence (and more) Pre-Auth Arbitrary... Welcome back to yet another episode of "security was taken seriously". Being who we are (and...

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You Won’t Hear About These, Even In Myths (Atlassian Jira, Confluence (and more) Pre-Auth Arbitrary File Read CVE-2026-21589)

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

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Welcome back to yet another episode of "security was taken seriously". Being who we are (and constantly being exposed to what we see…), we recognize we have been doomed to eternal damnation as we keep on watching security best practices crumble behind “secure by design”

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🟣 TREND RADAR #21 :: HUMAN DRIVERS Brand Patronage, Witchy Scents & Cute-washing

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🟣 TREND RADAR #21 :: HUMAN DRIVERS

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

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Brand Patronage, Witchy Scents & Cute-washing

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I deleted my favorite feature, and the image got better: Direct Binary Search (DBS) in OpenDithering When I created OpenDithering back in June, the feature I was proudest of was the Auto-tune button....

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I deleted my favorite feature, and the image got better: Direct Binary Search (DBS) in OpenDithering

from Style over Substance [alt+shift+b] in technology

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When I created OpenDithering back in June, the feature I was proudest of was the Auto-tune button. It did the slider work for me: it compared the dithered result to the original image, nudged the settings, and repeated until the image stopped improving. Over the summer it grew...

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Cometh the Hour.... Cometh ... well, who exactly?

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Cometh the Hour....

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

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Cometh ... well, who exactly?

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Does Building More Housing Bankrupt Cities? The Numerate Case for Aesthetic Abundance

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Does Building More Housing Bankrupt Cities?

from Building Optimism [alt+shift+b] in architecture

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The Numerate Case for Aesthetic Abundance

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Hickmann's Highs and Lows In a recent post on Attila Bátorfy's Cabinet of Infographic Curiosities, he highlighted the...

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Hickmann's Highs and Lows

from Map of the Week [alt+shift+b] in cartography

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In a recent post on Attila Bátorfy's Cabinet of Infographic Curiosities, he highlighted the Czech-born geographer and statistician Anton Leo Hickmann and his early contributions to data visualization. Hickmann’s most influential work, the Geographisch-statistischer...

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The Beginning of a New Chapter My move from fractional work to full-time employment!

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The Beginning of a New Chapter

from Tech and Tea [alt+shift+b] in life

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My move from fractional work to full-time employment!

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A weird corner of healthcare: indemnity insurance | Out-Of-Pocket the economics are especially interesting

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A weird corner of healthcare: indemnity insurance | Out-Of-Pocket

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

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the economics are especially interesting

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Sony and Meta Explained: The Future of PlayStation VR Sony is transferring hundreds of VR patents to Meta. The decision may reflect past lessons and a...

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Sony and Meta Explained: The Future of PlayStation VR

from Obsolete Sony’s Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in history

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Sony is transferring hundreds of VR patents to Meta. The decision may reflect past lessons and a changing approach to PlayStation hardware.

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Three years later Reflections on October 7th

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Three years later

from Greater Still by Gaby Goldberg [alt+shift+b] in technology

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Reflections on October 7th

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It's a Gas! If everything worked as well as the product called Evapo-Rust, the world would be a much better...

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It's a Gas!

from Open for Business [alt+shift+b] in technology

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If everything worked as well as the product called Evapo-Rust, the world would be a much better place. That’s just one of the many lessons learned during my recent — successful! — project to transform my old, nonfunctioning gasoline-powered generator into something much better.

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In praise of questions Prende y se apaga sola, sale después de hora. CHARLY GARCÍA La máquina de ser feliz I’ve learned to...

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In praise of questions

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

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Prende y se apaga sola, sale después de hora. CHARLY GARCÍA La máquina de ser feliz I’ve learned to tolerate them, and sometimes even like them, but Zoom meetings are weird. Even in familiar contexts: I have weekly check-ins with … Continue reading →

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Computer History Museum × Meta’s Project Aria: Building an AI-Guided Tour for Everyone Editor’s Note: The Project Aria research demo described here is in early research and is not open...

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Computer History Museum × Meta’s Project Aria: Building an AI-Guided Tour for Everyone

from CHM [alt+shift+b] in history

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Editor’s Note: The Project Aria research demo described here is in early research and is not open for public viewing. Over the past few months, the Computer History Museum in Mountain View has partnered with Meta’s Project Aria to build an AI-guided museum tour experience. The...

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Anne Heggli, Jonathon Keats, & Adam Csank: Art & Science at the Nevada Bristlecone Preserve In a remote corner of the driest state in the country, Anne Heggli's team has been keeping watch...

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Anne Heggli, Jonathon Keats, & Adam Csank: Art & Science at the Nevada Bristlecone Preserve

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

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In a remote corner of the driest state in the country, Anne Heggli's team has been keeping watch over some of Earth’s oldest beings. Since 02012, Heggli’s NevCAN network has recorded conditions at the Nevada Bristlecone Preserve every eight minutes. The result is more than 120...

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If your team is happy, are you doing a good job? Brilliant jerks, ZIRP-era managers, and how psychological safety lost the plot. Part 3 of my...

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If your team is happy, are you doing a good job?

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

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Brilliant jerks, ZIRP-era managers, and how psychological safety lost the plot. Part 3 of my conversation with Dr. Cat Hicks.

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Asymmetric Monstrosity: Home Edition Last year, I created a new map projection, the Asymmetric Monstrosity, designed to make somewhat of...

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Asymmetric Monstrosity: Home Edition

from somethingaboutmaps [alt+shift+b] in cartography

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Last year, I created a new map projection, the Asymmetric Monstrosity, designed to make somewhat of an artistic and educational statement about projections in general. I also made a physical world map to demonstrate it. Of course, there is a huge difference between a projection...

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WTF is context engineering? (with real examples) Say you're deploying an AI assistant that processes online order returns. For it to work, it would...

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WTF is context engineering? (with real examples)

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

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Say you're deploying an AI assistant that processes online order returns. For it to work, it would need access to your store's purchase policy, item…

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Stock Prices, Earnings and Cashflows: The AI Effect plays through! In a post at the end of August 2026, I talked about interest rates in 2026 and marveled at the...

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Stock Prices, Earnings and Cashflows: The AI Effect plays through!

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

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In a post at the end of August 2026, I talked about interest rates in 2026 and marveled at the capacity of equities to keep rising in the face of rising rates. I argued that the resilience of stocks during the year could be traced to higher-than-expected earnings being reported...

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The Sting The Sting belongs in the pantheon of films I'm deeply embarrassed to have not watched earlier. Not...

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The Sting

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

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The Sting belongs in the pantheon of films I'm deeply embarrassed to have not watched earlier. Not just because it's a great film — and it is — but because it is so incredibly my shit that I feel retroactively spurned for not having watched it sooner.

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Exile on Silicon Valley The golden window of tech may have expired. In 2010, I came across a video of Mick Jagger being...

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Exile on Silicon Valley

from Naz Hamid • Journal [alt+shift+b] in literature

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The golden window of tech may have expired. In 2010, I came across a video of Mick Jagger being interviewed (text version here). It was for a re-release of Exile on Main Street with 10 new tracks. During the interview he says this: But I have a take on that — people only made...

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We solved SQLite's single-writer limitation Multiple concurrent writers. Multiple processes. Same SQLite. No modifications.

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We solved SQLite's single-writer limitation

from Marco Bambini [alt+shift+b] in programming

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Multiple concurrent writers. Multiple processes. Same SQLite. No modifications.

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Radxa's Q8B has 2x the performance and expansion of the Pi 5 There was a time I'd look at a board like the Radxa Dragon Q8B (at left, above) and be like,...

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Radxa's Q8B has 2x the performance and expansion of the Pi 5

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

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There was a time I'd look at a board like the Radxa Dragon Q8B (at left, above) and be like, "there's no way I'd spend $209 on an SBC with 8 gigs of RAM". But we're in 2026, and seeing the 8 gig Raspberry Pi 5 going for almost the same amount, I figured I'd give it a shot. On...

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Inside a 1980s filter chip that uses switched capacitors Sometimes it's easier to identify an IC with a microscope. While sorting a box of old ICs,...

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Inside a 1980s filter chip that uses switched capacitors

from Ken Shirriff's blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

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Sometimes it's easier to identify an IC with a microscope. While sorting a box of old ICs, CuriousMarc came across some Harris ICs labeled "F1-10-5", a mysterious part number that didn't show up in any databooks. Since unidentifiable ICs are useless, he gave me one to...

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Building a new publication After a two-year absence from running a digital publication, namely Minimalissimo, I’m returning...

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Building a new publication

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

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After a two-year absence from running a digital publication, namely Minimalissimo, I’m returning with a new project. Just when I thought I was out... Okay, no Pacino impressions. I definitely needed that break from curation and probably also from the constraints of minimalism for...

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"You didn't do it right" Four sincere attempts at OKRs, four failures, and every time: "you didn't do it right." Maybe the...

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"You didn't do it right"

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

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Four sincere attempts at OKRs, four failures, and every time: "you didn't do it right." Maybe the framework doesn't fit you -- so how do you find one that does?

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CalVer 26.0: 10th Anniversary Edition A decade ago, a little bit of history was made. I didn't realize it, but a colleague made a great...

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CalVer 26.0: 10th Anniversary Edition

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

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A decade ago, a little bit of history was made. I didn't realize it, but a colleague made a great point, one of those real mind-changing points that seem too obvious to admit same-day. But, the next day, calver.org was born. At the time my team maintained the Python...

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Refurb weekend II: Alpha Micro Eagle 300 and friends This Refurb Weekend is a sequel in two ways. Six years ago I fixed the power supply and case fan in...

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Refurb weekend II: Alpha Micro Eagle 300 and friends

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

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This Refurb Weekend is a sequel in two ways. Six years ago I fixed the power supply and case fan in my 68EC030-based Alpha Microsystems Eagle 300, a more modernized and substantially faster Alpha Micro running AMOS, their unique DEC-inspired multiuser operating system. These...

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‘Masculine energy’ is costing companies billions Laetitia@Work #105

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‘Masculine energy’ is costing companies billions

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

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Laetitia@Work #105

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Writing a Demoscene Intro for the ZX Spectrum Download Now View on pouet.net Intro In the late 80s, I spent an embarrassing number of hours...

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Writing a Demoscene Intro for the ZX Spectrum

from markround.com [alt+shift+b] in programming

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Download Now View on pouet.net Intro In the late 80s, I spent an embarrassing number of hours hunched over my ZX Spectrum, typing in Sinclair BASIC programs and rudimentary assembler routines copied from magazines, trying to re-create the Amiga crack intros I’d seen round at a...

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September ’26: Income rush Last month saw “La rentree” – the return to the real world, after an enjoyable summer. Very much so...

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September ’26: Income rush

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

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Last month saw “La rentree” – the return to the real world, after an enjoyable summer. Very much so for me, as it happens – but with plenty of enjoyment still to be found. I’ve taken in Frida Kahlo at the Tate Modern, a spot of luxury in the south of France, a City ritual…...

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In Defense of Aesop’s Grasshopper Fun and other necessities, revisited

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In Defense of Aesop’s Grasshopper

from Passing Time [alt+shift+b] in life

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Fun and other necessities, revisited

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[RIDGELINE] Walking and Not Walking a Castle in Italy Ridgeline subscribers — Hello! It’s me, Craig Mod. I’m doing an event with David Marx in Tokyo this...

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[RIDGELINE] Walking and Not Walking a Castle in Italy

from Craig Mod — Writer + Photographer [alt+shift+b] in literature

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Ridgeline subscribers — Hello! It’s me, Craig Mod. I’m doing an event with David Marx in Tokyo this Friday night (17th) at Tiger Mountain, a small, hip bookshop. The in-person tix are all sold out, but it will be livestreamed, and there are still tickets for that bit. It costs...

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from plesiochronous to synchronous Up until the 1960s, telephone calls were carried as analog signals. There was a great deal of...

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from plesiochronous to synchronous

from computers are bad [alt+shift+b] in technology

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Up until the 1960s, telephone calls were carried as analog signals. There was a great deal of frequency division multiplexing onto open wire, and sometimes coaxial cables, but in the post-war period buried multipair telephone cables began to dominate. While the network was...

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Organising my cross-stitch patterns I have a lot of digital cross-stitch patterns and until recently they were a mess. My “collection”...

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Organising my cross-stitch patterns

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

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I have a lot of digital cross-stitch patterns and until recently they were a mess. My “collection” was a series of several hundred PDFs, disorganised and spread across my disk. Recently, I was looking for a pattern and it took me several minutes to find it. I had a brief moment...

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Making a Carborundum Gel Plate Akua Carbundum Platemaking Gel is a great new product that allows you to make high contrasted,...

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Making a Carborundum Gel Plate

from Handprinted - Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

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Akua Carbundum Platemaking Gel is a great new product that allows you to make high contrasted, textured intaglio plates. The gel can be screen printed onto a plate and printed with Akua Intaglio Inks. Drypoint Plastic makes a perfect plate with a wipe-clean surface. To make our...

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