The Honest Broker
The 25 Best Online Articles of 2024
Here's my favorite longform writing of the year
21 hours ago
Here's my favorite longform writing of the year
The Elysian
This Chinese philosopher reformed politics in one generation
Mòzǐ replaced his corrupt government with a humanist one.
15 hours ago
Mòzǐ replaced his corrupt government with a humanist one.
Casey Handmer's blog
Part 8 Shikata Ga Nai
Part of the Mars Trilogy Technical Commentary Series. Contains spoilers for this chapter and earlier...
11 hours ago
Part of the Mars Trilogy Technical Commentary Series. Contains spoilers for this chapter and earlier chapters. Google Mars .kml. Literary commentary podcast. “Shikata Ga Nai” Japanese for “What else can we do?” “It is what it is,” “There is no other choice.” The final chapter of...
The American Scholar
Ho Ho Horror
Why not make this Christmas a little darker?
The post Ho Ho Horror appeared first on The American...
13 hours ago
Why not make this Christmas a little darker?
The post Ho Ho Horror appeared first on The American Scholar.
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Unitree Talent Awakening
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
an hour ago
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.
ICRA 2025: 19–23 May 2025, ATLANTA,...
A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 27, 2024 (Year in Review)
Hey folks! Year is coming to a close, so once again I’m going to offer a bit of an end-of-year...
2 hours ago
Hey folks! Year is coming to a close, so once again I’m going to offer a bit of an end-of-year reflection on the state of the project, along with a brief ‘what’s on the stove’ coverage of what may be coming up. Also, here’s a cat picture: In terms of the project itself, 2024 was,...
The Rational Walk
What I’ve Been Reading
This post is a list of books that I read in the fourth quarter of 2024, including Euripides, The...
yesterday
This post is a list of books that I read in the fourth quarter of 2024, including Euripides, The Stoic Emperor, The Intelligent Investor, The Trail, and more.
alexwlchan
Not all blog posts are created equal
For a while now, this website has been my own personal writer’s block.
I was struggling to write,...
yesterday
For a while now, this website has been my own personal writer’s block.
I was struggling to write, even when I had good ideas; if I wrote something I liked, I was often reluctant to publish it; if somebody asked to read the site, I’d wince before giving them the link.
Something...
The Modern House
Seeking sea spray: a collection of nine covetable coastal homes
Taking the Boxing Day Dip as inspiration for this week’s collection, we have gathered nine beachside...
yesterday
Taking the Boxing Day Dip as inspiration for this week’s collection, we have gathered nine beachside homes that would easily facilitate this bracing, peculiarly British tradition. Here, we’ve collected some of our most far-flung fantasies, from Cornwall to Norfolk and all the way...
Notes on software...
Picking up volleyball in NYC with Goodrec and New York Urban
I was so intimidated to go at first, but it is in fact easy and fun to
start playing beginner...
yesterday
I was so intimidated to go at first, but it is in fact easy and fun to
start playing beginner volleyball in New York. The people are so
friendly and welcoming that it has been easy to keep playing
consistently every week since I started for the first time this
August. It's been a...
Dreams of Space -...
Santa and The Space Men
It has been a while but here is a strange Christmas post for you. Something about Santa and Flying...
2 days ago
It has been a while but here is a strange Christmas post for you. Something about Santa and Flying Saucers seems to go together like White wine and Cracker Jack. Sort of sweet and tangy and gets your attention.
Santa and the Space Men is a play for children about how Santa is...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Some More 2025 predictions | Out-Of-Pocket
OOP readers always have some interesting ones
2 days ago
OOP readers always have some interesting ones
Map of the Week
Merry Gridmas!
Gridviz is a Javascript library for visualizing gridded (raster) data. They created a Christmas...
2 days ago
Gridviz is a Javascript library for visualizing gridded (raster) data. They created a Christmas themed map showing land use with holiday emojis.
Also if you visit the Gridmas page you can watch the snow fall over Europe. You can pan and zoom around, however if you try to go...
Old Vintage...
A mostly merry Southern Hemisphere Commodore Christmas
A merry Christmas and happy holidays from the Southern Hemisphere, where it's my year to be with my...
2 days ago
A merry Christmas and happy holidays from the Southern Hemisphere, where it's my year to be with my wife's family in regional New South Wales, Australia. A friend of the family had an "old Commodore" in their house and asked if I wanted it. Stupid question, yeah?
The...
Mind Mine
the taste issue
things i've loved this past year / things i'm excited about in 2025
2 days ago
things i've loved this past year / things i'm excited about in 2025
99% Invisible
New Year, New Neighborhood
Every year, millions of eyes turn to Times Square on New Year’s Eve. The ball drops, confetti flies,...
3 days ago
Every year, millions of eyes turn to Times Square on New Year’s Eve. The ball drops, confetti flies, and people around the world celebrate as one of the most iconic urban spaces transforms into a glowing, glittering symbol of hope and renewal. But this carefully orchestrated...
Overcoming Bias
What Priority The Innocent?
It is good if criminal law avoids punishing the innocent.
3 days ago
It is good if criminal law avoids punishing the innocent.
Infinite Scroll
Weekly Scroll: X-ocracy Now
The government is now run by Elon Musk's X
3 days ago
The government is now run by Elon Musk's X
anderegg.ca
Trying out GoodLinks
The weeks leading up to the holidays have been hectic. I’m behind on “internet stuff” since entering...
3 days ago
The weeks leading up to the holidays have been hectic. I’m behind on “internet stuff” since entering Christmas-mode, and have been looking for a better way to capture things I want to look at later. I’ve had this issue before, but solved it in an ad-hoc way. Previously I’d made...
Hidden History
Antarctic Snow Cruiser
In 1939, the United States began work on a colossal motor vehicle to be used for exploration and...
3 days ago
In 1939, the United States began work on a colossal motor vehicle to be used for exploration and field work in Antarctica. By 1939 Antarctica remained as one of the last unexplored regions on the planet. Norwegian adventurer Roald Amundsen had been the first human to reach the...
Unfiltered by Tim...
To Make Enough Money to Retire Early, Stop Doing These 7 Things
What Harvard research bizarrely shows about retirement
3 days ago
What Harvard research bizarrely shows about retirement
Society's Backend
Google Leads New AI Releases, OpenAI Gives First Glimpse of AGI with o3, AI Policy Will Be...
Society's Backend Reading List 12-23-2024
3 days ago
Society's Backend Reading List 12-23-2024
Citation Needed
Issue 72 – A seat at the table
The SEC is still busy even though it may soon be undermined, crypto industry capture of government...
3 days ago
The SEC is still busy even though it may soon be undermined, crypto industry capture of government continues to worsen, and several media outlets botch their crypto reporting at a time it’s needed most.
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Thank You
Soundtrack: Spinnerette - The Walking Dead - (Alt: Postmodern Jukebox - Radioactive)
Thanks so much...
3 days ago
Soundtrack: Spinnerette - The Walking Dead - (Alt: Postmodern Jukebox - Radioactive)
Thanks so much to everybody that has supported me in the last year. This newsletter started as a way for me to process the complex feelings I have about the technology industry, and still...
Josh Collinsworth
Things I enjoyed in 2024
Things I watched, read, played, got into, enjoyed, or did and would do again, in 2024.
3 days ago
Things I watched, read, played, got into, enjoyed, or did and would do again, in 2024.
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Indiana I-69 Time Zone Crossing
If you’re driving along Indiana’s portion of Interstate 69, say from Evansville to Bloomington, you...
4 days ago
If you’re driving along Indiana’s portion of Interstate 69, say from Evansville to Bloomington, you are going to cross a Time Zone boundary. It happens between Mile Markers 37.5 and 39.0, about forty minutes north of Evansville at normal highway speeds. But please note that the...
Tech and Tea
On gentle personal growth in 2024
Reflections on things I’m learning and continue to learn this year.
4 days ago
Reflections on things I’m learning and continue to learn this year.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Making o(m)g:image, Part IV: URLs
This is part four of my series of posts describing how I made my quiz game o(m)g:image.
Project...
4 days ago
This is part four of my series of posts describing how I made my quiz game o(m)g:image.
Project Announcement
Pt. I: Design Iterations
Pt. II: As Little JS As Possible
Pt. III: The HTML
Pt. IV: URLs
The design of the game is simple:
Each page has one question with four possible...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Road Trip in Chile's Lake District with Hikes & Hot Springs
4 days ago
Artificial Ignorance
o3 is important, but not because of benchmarks
OpenAI's new model offers a peek at the future of AI investment.
4 days ago
OpenAI's new model offers a peek at the future of AI investment.
CONTEMPORIST
Exposed Wood Posts & Beams Add A Warm Rustic Touch To This Small Cabin
Still Architects has shared photos of a small contemporary cabin they completed in the Muskoka...
4 days ago
Still Architects has shared photos of a small contemporary cabin they completed in the Muskoka region of Ontario, Canada, where the Rosseau River flows into the lake. The 800-square-foot (74-sqm) cabin has a wood exterior with black accents. Its wood deck, with steps down to the...
Arduino Blog
See how this homemade spectrometer analyzes substances with an Arduino Mega
Materials, when exposed to light, will reflect or absorb certain portions of the electromagnetic...
4 days ago
Materials, when exposed to light, will reflect or absorb certain portions of the electromagnetic spectrum that can give valuable information about their chemical or physical compositions. Traditional setups use a single lamp to emit white light before it is split apart into a...
Computer Ads from...
NCR PC4i
Growing with your needs
4 days ago
Retail Design Blog
Hayat Restaurant by Ivy Studio
Located on De La Commune Street in Montreal, Hayat offers a luxurious and truly authentic dining...
4 days ago
Located on De La Commune Street in Montreal, Hayat offers a luxurious and truly authentic dining experience directly across from...
CrimethInc.
Sacrificial Violence and Retribution
In the following analysis, we explore the responses to two different extrajudicial killings as a way...
4 days ago
In the following analysis, we explore the responses to two different extrajudicial killings as a way to understand the different forms of violence that are coming to the fore in our society right now. In the appendix, we offer an incomplete roundup of various responses to the...
XO Capital - Field...
Everything I've learned about buying small software businesses over the past 4 years
💡
We started out buying 1 business for $25k in 2020. Our deals are now around $1M - $2M purchase...
4 days ago
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We started out buying 1 business for $25k in 2020. Our deals are now around $1M - $2M purchase price. So my notes below relate to a mostly linear path from $25k to ~$2M.
XO has been a tough ride. We had some wins, some losses and overall haven&
Paul Cudenec
The global mafia's NGO-backed industrial imperialism
Rockefeller Foundation trustee Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli is president/CEO of the ONE Campaign.
4 days ago
Rockefeller Foundation trustee Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli is president/CEO of the ONE Campaign.
Herbert Lui
Deliberate play
When I was a child, my parents enlisted me in piano class for the better half of a decade. Those...
4 days ago
When I was a child, my parents enlisted me in piano class for the better half of a decade. Those were long years. Every day, I was tasked with practicing two or three songs six times. During exam season, I would need to practice my exam songs ten times perfectly—which meant that...
Weighty Thoughts
Writing, Originality, and Why Does Anyone Care What I Write About?
Musings, Insecurities, and Thoughts on Writing a Book (or Substack)
4 days ago
Musings, Insecurities, and Thoughts on Writing a Book (or Substack)
Wrong Side of...
Leaving behind the history written in letters of blood
Reflections on the Revolution in Europe, Part 3
4 days ago
Reflections on the Revolution in Europe, Part 3
Common Edge
Why Is NYC’s Mandatory Composting Program So Invisible?
The city is rolling out an ambitious effort to divert organic waste from landfills. Is it set up for...
4 days ago
The city is rolling out an ambitious effort to divert organic waste from landfills. Is it set up for success?
NeuroLogica Blog
The Jersey Drones Are Likely Drones
The latest flap over drone sightings in New Jersey and other states in the North East appears to be...
4 days ago
The latest flap over drone sightings in New Jersey and other states in the North East appears to be – essentially nothing. Or rather, it’s a classic example of a mass panic. There are reports of “unusual” drone activity, which prompts people to look for drones, which results in...
UX Collective
Our top UX stories this year
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
4 days ago
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
Rest of World -...
The Philippines is creating a ChatGPT rival that speaks Filipino and Taglish
ITanong will be a local version of ChatGPT, its developers say, built with considerably fewer...
4 days ago
ITanong will be a local version of ChatGPT, its developers say, built with considerably fewer resources.
Irrational...
Wardley mapping of Gitlab Strategy.
Gitlab is an integrated developer productivity, infrastructure operations, and security...
4 days ago
Gitlab is an integrated developer productivity, infrastructure operations, and security platform.
This Wardley map explores the evolution of Gitlab’s users’ needs,
as one component in understanding the company’s strategy.
In particular, we look at how Gitlab’s strategy of a...
History Today Feed
‘Disputing Disaster’ by Perry Anderson review
‘Disputing Disaster’ by Perry Anderson review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/23/2024 - 10:26
4 days ago
‘Disputing Disaster’ by Perry Anderson review
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/23/2024 - 10:26
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #48: The most important week of Labour government so far?
Plus a British tech unicorn, a nuclear energy ticking time bomb and... New Zealand's weird...
4 days ago
Plus a British tech unicorn, a nuclear energy ticking time bomb and... New Zealand's weird Parliament.
Open Culture
Read J. R. R. Tolkien’s “Letter From Father Christmas” To His Young Children (1925)
J.R.R. Tolkien is best known for the sweeping fantasy landscapes of Lord of The Rings and The...
4 days ago
J.R.R. Tolkien is best known for the sweeping fantasy landscapes of Lord of The Rings and The Hobbit. Apart from being a celebrated author, the Oxford University professor of Anglo-Saxon was also a devoted father who doted on his children. In 1920, a few short years after Tolkien...
Quantum Frontiers
Finding Ed Jaynes’s ghost
You might have heard of the conundrum “What do you give the man who has everything?” I discovered a...
4 days ago
You might have heard of the conundrum “What do you give the man who has everything?” I discovered a variation on it last October: how do you celebrate the man who studied (nearly) everything? Physicist Edwin Thompson Jaynes impacted disciplines from quantum information theory to...
Mazdak
Can Quantum Break Crypto? Trump to Rescue TikTok? Tech in Defence ...
Google’s Quantum Breakthrough: Should Crypto Be Worried?
4 days ago
Google’s Quantum Breakthrough: Should Crypto Be Worried?
ntietz.com blog -...
Feel, don't think
I started playing clarinet in fourth grade, and dabbled in other instruments..
I never stopped...
4 days ago
I started playing clarinet in fourth grade, and dabbled in other instruments..
I never stopped entirely, but I took years-long breaks from playing music.
Earlier this year, I picked up a new instrument while I was very sick.
I got a wind synth, the Roland AE-20.
It was a somewhat...
Ryan Mulligan
Scrolling Rails and Button Controls
Once again, here I am, hackin' away on horizontal scroll ideas. This iteration starts with a custom...
4 days ago
Once again, here I am, hackin' away on horizontal scroll ideas. This iteration starts with a custom HTML tag. All the necessities for scroll overflow, scroll snapping, and row layout are handled with CSS. Then, as a little progressive enhancement treat, button elements are...
Ink & Switch
Reflecting on 2024, Droste's Lair, Version control for game dev
A year-end note from our director; a recap of a recent unconf; Droste's Lair; a sneak preview of...
4 days ago
A year-end note from our director; a recap of a recent unconf; Droste's Lair; a sneak preview of version control for game dev.
Blog posts of...
Uncapped notes dont work for first rounds.
Uncapped safe notes misalign incentives in first rounds… let me explain why
4 days ago
Uncapped safe notes misalign incentives in first rounds… let me explain why
A Beautiful Site
Revisiting FOUCE
It's been awhile since I wrote about FOUCE and I've since come up with an improved solution that I...
4 days ago
It's been awhile since I wrote about FOUCE and I've since come up with an improved solution that I think is worth a post.
This approach is similar to hiding the page content and then fading it in, but I've noticed it's far less distracting without the fade. It also adds a two...
Anarchy Unfolds
Age of Empires but make it Solarpunk
My favorite strategy game re-imagined
5 days ago
My favorite strategy game re-imagined
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
St. Nick and Saturnalia
5 days ago
Benny Kuriakose
Hiring Experienced Engineers and Architects at Benny Kuriakose and Associates
Benny Kuriakose and Associates is now inviting applications, which offer an opportunity for...
5 days ago
Benny Kuriakose and Associates is now inviting applications, which offer an opportunity for experienced candidates and are open to...
Scarlet Ink
Why Your Vision is a Critical Ingredient in Goal Setting
Goal setting without a vision can be counter productive. Where are you trying to go?
5 days ago
Goal setting without a vision can be counter productive. Where are you trying to go?
Birchtree
My default apps of 2024
Last year I was the 27th of four hundred and freaking eight people to write about their default...
5 days ago
Last year I was the 27th of four hundred and freaking eight people to write about their default apps, and I though it would be fun to turn this into a tradition and revisit the list to see if anything has changed since last year.
✨ next to each change
Ian Betteridge
When dealing with Musk, Labour needs to understand the world has changed
There are plenty of objections to preventing Elon Musk from donating to Reform. The first is it’s...
5 days ago
There are plenty of objections to preventing Elon Musk from donating to Reform. The first is it’s politically motivated. A party shouldn’t (the theory goes) use its power in government specifically to target another party. Of course, Labour could do this in a way which prevented...
Cheese and Biscuits
Tuétano Taqueria, San Diego
On the shortest day of the year, in the middle of the gloomiest and wettest of England's gloom and...
5 days ago
On the shortest day of the year, in the middle of the gloomiest and wettest of England's gloom and wet, I thought it might be fun to review a taco shop in southern California, because it's days like this you need to remind yourself that there are places in the world where the sun...
The Marginalian
A Whole of Parts: Philosopher R.L. Nettleship on Love, Death, and the Paradox of Personality
"Death is self-surrender... Love is the consciousness of survival in the act of self-surrender."
5 days ago
"Death is self-surrender... Love is the consciousness of survival in the act of self-surrender."
African History...
on the Nubian priests of Rome and the Moors of Spain
When the 12th-century West African scholar Ibrahim al-Kanemi moved to the city of Seville in Spain...
5 days ago
When the 12th-century West African scholar Ibrahim al-Kanemi moved to the city of Seville in Spain and became one of the most celebrated Andalusian poets, he wasn't the first from his region to visit the Moorish kingdom.
escape the algorithm
ETA's Best links of 2024
Relinking some Links links
5 days ago
Relinking some Links links
blag
How bloom filters made SQLite 10x faster
This is the fascinating story of how researchers used Bloom filters cleverly to make SQLite 10x...
5 days ago
This is the fascinating story of how researchers used Bloom filters cleverly to make SQLite 10x faster for analytical queries. These are my five-minute notes on the paper SQLite: Past, Present, and Future
Paolo Amoroso's...
The faded world: my experience with cataract
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