Darek Kay
Grab browser links and titles in one click
When I copy a browser tab URL, I often want to also keep the title. Sometimes I want to use the link...
22 hours ago
When I copy a browser tab URL, I often want to also keep the title. Sometimes I want to use the link as rich text (e.g., when pasting the link into OneNote or Jira). Sometimes I prefer a Markdown link. There are browser extensions to achieve this task, but I don't want to...
Blog - Bitfield...
The magic function
How do you design user-friendly APIs in Rust? The answer is simple: you use
them! Let’s build a...
23 hours ago
How do you design user-friendly APIs in Rust? The answer is simple: you use
them! Let’s build a simple Rust CLI tool using what I call the “magic
function” approach.
Probably...
Confidence In the Press
This is the fifth in a series of excerpts from Elements of Data Science, now available from Lulu.com...
9 hours ago
This is the fifth in a series of excerpts from Elements of Data Science, now available from Lulu.com and online booksellers. It’s based on Chapter 16, which is part of the political alignment case study. You can read the complete example here, or run the Jupyter notebook on...
Archinect - Features
Architecture Community 2025 Predictions: Adaptive Reuse, Housing Failures, Diversity Efforts,...
Happy New Year! As we conclude Archinect's 2024 Year in Review highlights, we turn our attention to...
20 hours ago
Happy New Year! As we conclude Archinect's 2024 Year in Review highlights, we turn our attention to the fresh possibilities of 2025.
We asked our community of architects, designers, landscape architects, academics, AEC economists, industry experts, preservation advocates, and...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 099: Apocalypse Not
January 3, 2025.
18 hours ago
Mazdak
Meta's Fake AI Profiles, the TikTok Ban, Telegram Updates, and Microsoft's $80 Billion AI Investment...
Meta's AI Experiment: What Went Wrong?
8 hours ago
Meta's AI Experiment: What Went Wrong?
A Collection of...
Collections: Coinage and the Tyranny of Fantasy ‘Gold’
This week on the blog I want to take a brief detour into discussing historical coinage, particularly...
14 hours ago
This week on the blog I want to take a brief detour into discussing historical coinage, particularly in the context of modern fantasy and roleplaying settings. In particular, the notions I want to tackle are first how did ancient currency systems work in terms of value (what...
lcamtuf’s thing
Choosing an op-amp for your project
Just say no to LM741.
15 hours ago
./techtipsy
My very first Dungeons and Dragons campaign
In December 2024, I did something that I had never done before: I participated in a short (~6 hours)...
yesterday
In December 2024, I did something that I had never done before: I participated in a short (~6 hours) Dungeons and
Dragons campaign.
It was the nerdiest thing ever, and I loved it!
The setting
After another day of keeping a critical production service up, the whole team met up at...
There are two types...
The City of Yes Zoning Plan Is Moving Too Fast – My Daily News Op-Ed
The post The City of Yes Zoning Plan Is Moving Too Fast – My Daily News Op-Ed appeared first on...
2 days ago
The post The City of Yes Zoning Plan Is Moving Too Fast – My Daily News Op-Ed appeared first on There are two types of architecture—good architecture, and the other kind.
Stat Significant
6 Reasons to Be (Cautiously) Optimistic About Movies in 2025: A Statistical Analysis
Six reasons to be optimistic about the film industry.
2 days ago
Six reasons to be optimistic about the film industry.
Nat Eliason's...
Quarterly Author Update: January 2025
Book sales, Husk update, and a new podcast
2 days ago
Book sales, Husk update, and a new podcast
The Diff
In Credit Underwriting, Better is Worse
Plus! IRR; Structure; Financial Epiphytes; Shale; Weakening the Cartel
2 days ago
Plus! IRR; Structure; Financial Epiphytes; Shale; Weakening the Cartel
Math Is Still...
Scientists Re-Create the Microbial Dance That Sparked Complex Life
Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent...
2 days ago
Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the first time, biologists made it happen in the lab.
The post Scientists Re-Create the Microbial Dance That Sparked Complex Life first appeared...
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Date me
if you like me, and you're interested but never thought to ask, just ask!
2 days ago
if you like me, and you're interested but never thought to ask, just ask!
Handprinted - Blog
Projects for the Year Ahead
Are you looking to start the year by learning a new skill or starting a fresh project? Perhaps you...
2 days ago
Are you looking to start the year by learning a new skill or starting a fresh project? Perhaps you just need a boost of inspiration? We've put together some projects to get you going for the year ahead.
Introduction to Linocut
Did you get some new tools for Christmas and you'd...
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases
Working in large established codebases is one of the hardest things to learn as a software engineer....
2 days ago
Working in large established codebases is one of the hardest things to learn as a software engineer. You can’t practice it beforehand (no…
Lighthouse Blog
Improvements and fixes: December 2024
2 days ago
DYNOMIGHT
Why I’m skeptical of minimum prices for ride-sharing
The Attorney General of Massachusetts recently announced that drivers for ride-sharing companies...
2 days ago
The Attorney General of Massachusetts recently announced that drivers for ride-sharing companies must be paid at least $32.50 per hour.
Now, if you’re a hardcore libertarian, then you probably hate the minimum wage. You already disagree with this policy, so you need no convincing...
37signals Dev
Monitoring 10 Petabytes of data in Pure Storage
As the final part of our move out of the cloud, we are working on moving 10 petabytes of data out of...
2 days ago
As the final part of our move out of the cloud, we are working on moving 10 petabytes of data out of AWS Simple Storage Service (S3). After exploring different alternatives, we decided to go with Pure Storage FlashBlade solution.
We store different kinds of information on S3,...
Dreams of Space -...
Space Ship to the Moon (1952)
Happy New Year!
A "Space Ship to the Moon" is your present for a new year. I really like the...
3 days ago
Happy New Year!
A "Space Ship to the Moon" is your present for a new year. I really like the illustrations in this book. The story is OK but the visions of spacecraft, a space station and mining on the Moon are worth seeing. This is a relatively low cost book used so if you like...
Contemporist...
A Dark Brick Exterior For A Home Surrounded By Trees
Scott Posno Design has shared photos of a modern home they completed in Vancouver, Canada, that...
3 days ago
Scott Posno Design has shared photos of a modern home they completed in Vancouver, Canada, that showcases a dark brick exterior.
Ralph Ammer
Xunzi vs. Mengzi – Are People (No) Good?
About 2300 years ago, the great Chinese thinker Xunzi 荀⼦ wrote: “Human nature is bad“. But he wasn’t...
3 days ago
About 2300 years ago, the great Chinese thinker Xunzi 荀⼦ wrote: “Human nature is bad“. But he wasn’t just having a bad day. The question—Are humans fundamentally good or bad?—is a major fork in the road. How you answer this question profoundly impacts your morals and how you live...
Map of the Week
Fastest Growing and Shrinking Cities
This map shows the fastest growing and shrinking cities in the United States and Canada using 2023...
3 days ago
This map shows the fastest growing and shrinking cities in the United States and Canada using 2023 data.
The map appears on Visual Capitalist and the data is only for the city populations, it does not reflect the overall metropolitan areas. The top seven population gainers are...
The Elysian
Social Development > Self-Development
We need one much more than the other.
3 days ago
We need one much more than the other.
Quentin Santos
Rust Gotcha: last() on DoubleEndedIterator
tl;dr: don’t call last() on a DoubleEndedIterator How do you efficiently get the last part of a...
3 days ago
tl;dr: don’t call last() on a DoubleEndedIterator How do you efficiently get the last part of a space-separated string in Rust? It will be obvious to some, but the obvious answer of s.split(' ').last() is wrong. The mistake is easy to make; I encountered it in a recent MR I...
Atoms vs Bits
Modern Noble Lies
The high price asked for harmony
3 days ago
The high price asked for harmony
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
3 days ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of December.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, updated the documentation for our various projects.
Left, added support for unicode input(Mastodon).
Rabbit Waves, added a page on Air to Ground...
Bryan Braun - Blog
Made in 2024
Here are some things I made in 2024:
Music Box Fun: Advanced Editing (a new major feature):
...
3 days ago
Here are some things I made in 2024:
Music Box Fun: Advanced Editing (a new major feature):
Adds multiple-note selection for bulk operations on notes (like deletion, copy/paste, nudging and dragging)
Also includes a “space editor” for arbitrarily adding/removing space...
CrimethInc.
2024: Out of the Frying Pan, into the Fire : The Year in Review
It’s time to take stock of the year have just lived through and get oriented for the year ahead....
3 days ago
It’s time to take stock of the year have just lived through and get oriented for the year ahead. Here, we review the events of 2024 and our own contributions to the fight for a better world.
A year that began amid genocide in Palestine and war in Ukraine and Sudan is concluding...
The Map is Mostly...
Resist Summary
painfully quick thoughts about AI
4 days ago
painfully quick thoughts about AI
Nothing Human
Shallow Feedback Hollows You Out
the actually scary thing about social media
4 days ago
the actually scary thing about social media
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: Diffusion Model image generator in about 700 lines of pure SQL
Regular readers of my blog will be aware that SQL is an excellent tool for graphics. You can use it...
4 days ago
Regular readers of my blog will be aware that SQL is an excellent tool for graphics. You can use it to draw snowflakes, fractals, ray-traced 3D pictures, and many other things. SQL art is beautiful, albeit slow to generate. These days they say AI is taking over, and human-made...
nanoscale views
End of the year thoughts - scientific philanthropy and impact
As we head into 2025, and the prospects for increased (US) government investment in science,...
4 days ago
As we head into 2025, and the prospects for increased (US) government investment in science, engineering, and STEM education seem very limited, I wanted to revisit a topic that I wrote about over a decade ago (!!!), the role of philanthropy and foundations in these...
anderegg.ca
A look back at 2024, and what’s next for 2025
At the end of last year, I wrote about wanting to focus on the web in 2024. How did that shake...
4 days ago
At the end of last year, I wrote about wanting to focus on the web in 2024. How did that shake out?
Top level stats
I considered 2023 the first year that I honestly tried getting back into blogging. My goal then was to post something every month, and I managed that with 14 posts...
Ognjen Regoje •...
A review of the blog in 2024
I didn’t write much this year.
The projects that I worked on (at work) used up most of my creative...
4 days ago
I didn’t write much this year.
The projects that I worked on (at work) used up most of my creative mental capacity leaving little for writing.
The backlog is brimming, however.
Targets for 2024
❌ Publish at least 40 posts
11
❌ Reach at least 200k readers
Don’t have an...
99% Invisible
Hyperfixed: Dylan’s Supermarket Cold Case
We’ve all got problems. Sometimes your problem is a massive roadblock in your life, or maybe it’s...
4 days ago
We’ve all got problems. Sometimes your problem is a massive roadblock in your life, or maybe it’s this little thing that quietly annoys you that you’ve learned to grudgingly put up with. But regardless of the size of your problem, it would be so great if someone would just fix it...
Construction Physics
Morris Chang and the Origins of TSMC
Book review of the autobiography of Morris Chang.
4 days ago
Book review of the autobiography of Morris Chang.
Hidden History
The Story of the Cow
The history of the domestic cattle goes back at least 10,000 years. There are well over 1000...
4 days ago
The history of the domestic cattle goes back at least 10,000 years. There are well over 1000 distinct breeds of Cattle in the world today, and somewhere between 1 and 1.5 billion individual animals, making them, by some counts, the fourth most numerous mammal in existence behind...
Unfiltered by Tim...
When You Reach the Point of “F*ck It, I’m Gonna Try Anyway” Your Entire Life Changes Forever
“If there’s fire inside you, with nowhere to go, it burns you alive.”
4 days ago
“If there’s fire inside you, with nowhere to go, it burns you alive.”
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware, November 2024
The Ware for November 2024 is the NLP-16A by cherry-takuan. It’s a bespoke 16-bit CPU made entirely...
4 days ago
The Ware for November 2024 is the NLP-16A by cherry-takuan. It’s a bespoke 16-bit CPU made entirely from 74HC00 NAND gates. Even the D-flip flops are made from NAND gates: Lots and lots of NAND gates… I got to meet the maker, who goes by Cherry Takuan, at the Chiba Institute of...
Drew Ex Machina
Top Ten Posts of 2024
Now that we are at the end of 2024, it is time to look back at this year’s material published on...
4 days ago
Now that we are at the end of 2024, it is time to look back at this year’s material published on Drew Ex Machina and see […]
Inverted Passion
2024 wrapped
This year’s review is going to be shorter than 2023 (and previous years) because I’m in Goa right...
4 days ago
This year’s review is going to be shorter than 2023 (and previous years) because I’m in Goa right now for a holiday and I don’t feel like being in front of a screen for long. I mean, just look at this view and tell me that you’d rather be in front of a screen writing…
Read...
essay – snarfed.org
Tech pace layers
I’ve been a fan of Stewart Brand‘s Pace Layering for decades now. Really great framework for...
4 days ago
I’ve been a fan of Stewart Brand‘s Pace Layering for decades now. Really great framework for thinking about how different ecosystems and emergent forces interact. I’ve been thinking about a tech version of it for the better part of a year, and I finally took advantage of the...
The Marginalian
The Promethean Power of Burnout
"Burnout fully realised is also the decisive, exhausted moment in which we realise we cannot go on...
4 days ago
"Burnout fully realised is also the decisive, exhausted moment in which we realise we cannot go on in the same way. Not being able to go on, is always in the end, a creative act, the threshold moment of our transformation."
Tony Finch's blog
obfuscated C revisited
The International Obfuscated C Code Contest has a newly
revamped web site, and the Judges have...
4 days ago
The International Obfuscated C Code Contest has a newly
revamped web site, and the Judges have announced the 28th contest, to
coincide with its 40th anniversary. (Or 41st?)
The Judges have also updated the archive of past winners so
that as many of them as possible work on modern...
Citation Needed
Not just one bad apple: FTX's practices were business as usual in crypto
Adversary cases from the FTX collapse further expose how crypto companies do business: with secret...
4 days ago
Adversary cases from the FTX collapse further expose how crypto companies do business: with secret acquisitions of “grey area” businesses, buying influence, and creative accounting.
alexwlchan
My favourite books from 2024
I read 58 books this year – slightly down on last year, but I’m still happy with that number.
I...
4 days ago
I read 58 books this year – slightly down on last year, but I’m still happy with that number.
I spent a lot of time this on my own writing and crafting, and I had less time for books.
I returned to a couple of favourite authors and their latest releases – including Toshikazu...
Notes on software...
How I run a coffee club
I started the NYC Systems Coffee
Club in December
of 2023. It's gone pretty well! I regularly get...
4 days ago
I started the NYC Systems Coffee
Club in December
of 2023. It's gone pretty well! I regularly get around 20 people each
month. You bring a drink if you feel like it and you hang out with
people for an hour or two.
There is no agenda, there is no speaker, there is no structure....
Society's Backend
Resources to Get a Job in ML, Post-Transformer Architectures, What's in Store for 2025, and More
Society's Backend Reading List 12-30-2024
5 days ago
Society's Backend Reading List 12-30-2024
Both Are True
When You're Done with that Condom, Just Throw it Anywhere
just a lil guy
5 days ago
Marcus on AI
Where will AI be at the end of 2027? A bet
We, Gary Marcus, author, scientist, and noted AI skeptic, and Miles Brundage, an independent AI...
5 days ago
We, Gary Marcus, author, scientist, and noted AI skeptic, and Miles Brundage, an independent AI policy researcher who recently left OpenAI and is bullish on AI progress, have agreed to the following bet, at 10:1 odds, with criteria drawn from two earlier Substack essays by Gary...
Scarlet Ink
My 61k subscriber newsletter, about marketing, and a bit about relationships. An off-topic holiday...
An off-topic holiday newsletter. And a happy New Year to you!
5 days ago
An off-topic holiday newsletter. And a happy New Year to you!
Weighty Thoughts
From 6 Weeks to 600 Seconds (or Less)
The revolutionary potential of utilizing AI for electronic hardware design
5 days ago
The revolutionary potential of utilizing AI for electronic hardware design
The Works in...
Three percent more Monaco: Links in Progress, infrastructure edition
Plus: high speed rail in Vietnam, India's first vertical lift sea bridge, and a £100 million bat...
5 days ago
Plus: high speed rail in Vietnam, India's first vertical lift sea bridge, and a £100 million bat tunnel.
Wrong Side of...
The Indian-American century
On the Anglo-Indo-sphere
5 days ago
Cheese and Biscuits
The Hightown Inn, Liverpool
Despite spending the first 20 years of my life about 100m up the road from the Hightown Inn (then...
5 days ago
Despite spending the first 20 years of my life about 100m up the road from the Hightown Inn (then the Hightown Hotel), I never really considered this grand old Victorian building to be much of a "local". I was far more likely to get the train to the Railway in Formby where most...
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Nicholas Radburn
On the Spot: Nicholas Radburn
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/30/2024 - 11:40
5 days ago
On the Spot: Nicholas Radburn
JamesHoare
Mon, 12/30/2024 - 11:40
Retail Design Blog
MR ER store by J&C Design
Chinese womenswear brand MR ER has opened a new branch on the premises of Yintai City, one of the...
5 days ago
Chinese womenswear brand MR ER has opened a new branch on the premises of Yintai City, one of the leading...
Rest of World -...
Kenya’s bus fleets want to go electric, but manufacturers can’t meet demand
Companies have ordered hundreds of EV buses — but they won’t arrive for years.
5 days ago
Companies have ordered hundreds of EV buses — but they won’t arrive for years.
Apoorva Srinivasan
diffusion models for protein generation
Introduction
Proteins are nature's versatile nanomachines— they have evolved to perform virtually...
5 days ago
Introduction
Proteins are nature's versatile nanomachines— they have evolved to perform virtually every important task in living systems. While nature has produced an incredible range of protein functions, these represent only a tiny fraction of what's possible in the protein...
blag
Collection of insane and fun facts about SQLite
Some of the interesting and insane facts I learned about SQLite
5 days ago
Some of the interesting and insane facts I learned about SQLite
Paul Cudenec
Keeping it in the deep-state family
It is obviously important for maintenance of the “Rockefeller” façade to have at least one person...
5 days ago
It is obviously important for maintenance of the “Rockefeller” façade to have at least one person bearing the family name on the Foundation’s board of trustees.
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #49: How bat protection regulations broke Britain's planning system
Plus how Europe isn't *all bad* at growth, why every Netflix film is forgettable, and why you should...
5 days ago
Plus how Europe isn't *all bad* at growth, why every Netflix film is forgettable, and why you should visit Jimmy Carter's hometown.
The American Scholar
The Snow Maiden
Our final episode of 2018 is a send-off to the solstice
The post The Snow Maiden appeared first on...
5 days ago
Our final episode of 2018 is a send-off to the solstice
The post The Snow Maiden appeared first on The American Scholar.
Christopher Butler
Year in Review – 2024
The highs and lows of the year in exhaustive detail.
This is going to be a long post. I’ve...
5 days ago
The highs and lows of the year in exhaustive detail.
This is going to be a long post. I’ve broken it up into a few sections, so if one is of greater interest, just hop to it.
Overview
At Work
Magnolia
Art
Reading
Music
DIY Projects
Overview
What a year!...
Open Culture
Hunter S. Thompson Remembers Jimmy Carter’s Captivating Bob Dylan Speech (1974)
51 years ago, Hunter S. Thompson wrote Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72, which “is still...
5 days ago
51 years ago, Hunter S. Thompson wrote Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72, which “is still considered a kind of bible of political reporting,” noted Matt Taibbi in a 40th anniversary edition of the book. Fear and Loathing ’72 entered the canon of American political...
Andrew Fraknoi –...
Celebrating the Centennial of Galaxies January 1 2025
On January 1, 1925, at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington, DC, astronomer...
5 days ago
On January 1, 1925, at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington, DC, astronomer Henry N. Russell read a paper contributed by a young astronomer named Edwin Hubble (who was too junior to earn a trip across the country from the California observatory where he...
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things: Build Something, Dammit! (#56)
Power vs. abundance; Chinese espionage; U.S. manufacturing woes; the growth of good jobs; Milei's...
5 days ago
Power vs. abundance; Chinese espionage; U.S. manufacturing woes; the growth of good jobs; Milei's successes
Jonas Hietala
A type checking error in Elixir 1.18
Although I’m a big Elixir fan, the lack of static typing has always been my biggest annoyance (and...
5 days ago
Although I’m a big Elixir fan, the lack of static typing has always been my biggest annoyance (and why I think Gleam is so cool).
I think static typing helps catch bugs earlier and in an automated way, leading to less buggy software and saves time in the long run.
To my great joy...
ntietz.com blog -...
Reflecting on 2024, preparing for 2025
If you do things a few times, they're a tradition.
This is the third time I'm writing one of these,...
5 days ago
If you do things a few times, they're a tradition.
This is the third time I'm writing one of these, so I guess it's an annual tradition now!
This is where I reflect on the year that's been, and talk some about my hopes and goals for the next year.
Reflecting on 2024
This year has...
Ryan Mulligan
Some Things About Keyframes
Whether you've barely scratched the surface of keyframe animations in CSS or fancy yourself as a...
5 days ago
Whether you've barely scratched the surface of keyframe animations in CSS or fancy yourself as a seasoned pro, I suggest reading An Interactive Guide to Keyframe Animations. Josh (as always) does an impeccable deep dive that includes interactive demos for multi-step animations,...
The Convivial...
Life Cannot Be Delegated
The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 15
6 days ago
The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 15
Eukaryote Writes...
Learn to write well BEFORE you have something worth saying
Lessons learned from trip reports and journal articles.
6 days ago
Lessons learned from trip reports and journal articles.
Patterns in Humanity
Age and infertility
Facts and misconceptions about maternal age-related infertility
6 days ago
Facts and misconceptions about maternal age-related infertility
Last Place Comics
Boys vs Girls Club, Part 3
The post Boys vs Girls Club, Part 3 appeared first on Last Place Comics.
6 days ago
The post Boys vs Girls Club, Part 3 appeared first on Last Place Comics.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Christmas Day
It’s Christmas circa 2004.
My teenage brothers, sisters, and I have all finished opening presents...
6 days ago
It’s Christmas circa 2004.
My teenage brothers, sisters, and I have all finished opening presents and we’re more than content to have absolutely nothing to do — it’s Christmas day after all!
But not Dad. He’s in the bathroom laying tile.
Again, this is Christmas day and Dad is on...
Confessions of a...
Linux Context Switching Internals: Part 1 - Process State and Memory
How does the Linux kernel represent processes and their state: A breakdown of task_struct and...
6 days ago
How does the Linux kernel represent processes and their state: A breakdown of task_struct and mm_struct
Mind Mine
are relationships actually “hard”?
on weak, unconvincing statements and expectations vs. reality
6 days ago
on weak, unconvincing statements and expectations vs. reality
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The Essential Greeks
6 days ago
African History...
The Meroitic script and the documents of ancient Kush (ca. 300BC-450CE)
The Meroitic writing system of the kingdom of Kush is one of the best-known, yet most enigmatic...
6 days ago
The Meroitic writing system of the kingdom of Kush is one of the best-known, yet most enigmatic scripts of the ancient world.
Trying to Understand...
Le Missile passera toujours ... mais qui est prêt à l’admettre ?
Another of my essays in French.
6 days ago
Another of my essays in French.
IEEE Spectrum
The Top 7 Robotics Stories of 2024
2024 was the best year ever for robotics, which I’m pretty sure is not something that I’ve ever said...
6 days ago
2024 was the best year ever for robotics, which I’m pretty sure is not something that I’ve ever said before. But that’s the great thing about robotics—it’s always new, and it’s always exciting. What may be different about this year is the real sense that not only is AI going to...
diamond geezer
2024 index
dg 2024 index
Beyond London
Rugby: The Midlands town that inspired a ball game, and what happened to...
6 days ago
dg 2024 index
Beyond London
Rugby: The Midlands town that inspired a ball game, and what happened to its radio masts [photos]
Crewe: The delights of the railway town were worth half a day... [photos]
Stafford: ...whereas this historic market town could have sustained me for...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Future Spells Only Disaster'
Several
weeks ago in a post I wrote about Robert Conquest I referred to “the essential
books...
6 days ago
Several
weeks ago in a post I wrote about Robert Conquest I referred to “the essential
books published in the twentieth century,” and listed some of the titles deserving
a place in that category. Most, I wrote, “are not found in the traditionally
defined literary categories; that...
Working Theorys
Writing Wrapped
I published 52 pieces this year (plus favorite tweets and an essay from the vault).
6 days ago
I published 52 pieces this year (plus favorite tweets and an essay from the vault).
Koos Looijesteijn
How to get good at anything creative
6 days ago
HTMHell
datalists are more powerful than you think
by Alexis Degryse
I think we all know the <datalist> element (and if you don’t, it’s ok). It holds a...
6 days ago
by Alexis Degryse
I think we all know the <datalist> element (and if you don’t, it’s ok). It holds a list of <option> elements, offering suggested choices for its associated input field.
It’s not an alternative for the <select> element. A field associated to a <datalist> can...
Overcoming Bias
Decision Selection Bias
As futarchy interest and activity are way up lately, this seems a good time to elaborate on one of...
a week ago
As futarchy interest and activity are way up lately, this seems a good time to elaborate on one of its most technical issues, one that @metaproph3t also discussed recently: decision selection bias.
The Honest Broker
In 2025, Your Boss Will Launch a Podcast
I warn about new grifts in my latest arts & culture briefing paper
a week ago
I warn about new grifts in my latest arts & culture briefing paper
Global Inequality...
To be young, perchance to dream
A review of Miloš Vojinović's “The political ideas of the Young Bosnia”
a week ago
A review of Miloš Vojinović's “The political ideas of the Young Bosnia”
Flashbak
Leeds Kids the 1970s
Self-styled ‘Luddite photographer” Eric Milese (“relatively recently gone digital – 2011”) named the...
a week ago
Self-styled ‘Luddite photographer” Eric Milese (“relatively recently gone digital – 2011”) named the picture below of kids ‘tobogganing’ down a dry, rocky slope in the northern English city of Leeds in the 1970s “The Cresta Run”. It is not the original Cresta Run, which is a...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Intel's $475 million error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug
In 1993, Intel released the high-performance Pentium processor, the start of the long-running...
a week ago
In 1993, Intel released the high-performance Pentium processor, the start of the long-running Pentium line.
The Pentium had many improvements over the previous processor, the Intel 486, including a faster floating-point division algorithm.
A year later, Professor Nicely, a number...
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Infinite Scroll Podcast: Substack founder Hamish McKenzie
An interview on where Substack sits in the digital media ecosystem
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An interview on where Substack sits in the digital media ecosystem
Birchtree
Apple’s 2024 report card: the Mac 💻
This is the third in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major product lines. I...
a week ago
This is the third in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2024 across their major product lines. I did this last year and you can read last year’s Mac report card here.
MacBook Pro
The MacBook Pro continues to get a relentless stream of updates, as
Calculated Risk
Schedule for Week of December 29, 2024
Happy New Year! Wishing you all the best in 2025.
----- Monday, December 30th -----
9:45 AM:...
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Happy New Year! Wishing you all the best in 2025.
----- Monday, December 30th -----
9:45 AM: Chicago Purchasing Managers Index for December.
Pending Home Sales Index for November. The consensus is for a 0.7% increase in the index.
Dallas Fed Survey of Manufacturing Activity...
Moneyness
Someone is wrong on the internet about the SWIFT network
There's a chart that has been circulating for a while now on social media that shows payments...
a week ago
There's a chart that has been circulating for a while now on social media that shows payments traffic on SWIFT, a key global financial messaging network. Below is a version from the Economist, but I've seen other versions too.
Source: The Economist
When banks make...
Irrational...
How to effectively refine engineering strategy.
In Jim Collins’ Great by Choice,
he develops the concept of Fire Bullets, Then Cannonballs.
His...
a week ago
In Jim Collins’ Great by Choice,
he develops the concept of Fire Bullets, Then Cannonballs.
His premise is that you should cheaply test new ideas before fully committing to them.
Your organization can only afford firing a small number of cannonballs, but it can bankroll far more...
TheCollector
George Cassiday: Who Was the Man in the Green Hat?
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Seth's Blog
Fiblets
Organizations lie all the time. Big lies, sometimes, but usually small ones. Is the call volume...
a week ago
Organizations lie all the time. Big lies, sometimes, but usually small ones. Is the call volume actually unusually heavy? Did a chef really prepare this meal just for me? These fiblets are so common that they become part of the culture, a trope that lets the user know that this...
journal – Winnie Lim
chiang mai’s scenes of creativity
Chiang Mai is a city that is buzzing with creative energy, though I am not sure why. Is it the long...
a week ago
Chiang Mai is a city that is buzzing with creative energy, though I am not sure why. Is it the long history of their hill tribes and their crafts? I thought I’ll...
The Ruffian
Best of The Ruffian 2024
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Blog System/5
Revisiting the NetBSD build system
I recently picked up an embedded project in which I needed to build a highly customized full system...
a week ago
I recently picked up an embedded project in which I needed to build a highly customized full system image with minimal boot times and NetBSD was the best choice for it. Let's look at why its build system helps.
Casey Handmer's blog
Salton Sea statistics
I wanted to gain better insights into the Salton Sea level, evaporation, inflows and outflows. Step...
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I wanted to gain better insights into the Salton Sea level, evaporation, inflows and outflows. Step one was to gather publicly available data about its level, and collate it into a single graph. Here we see that despite the continual formation of Salton Sea advisory committees,...
SatPost by Trung...
11 Best Things of 2024
My favourite book, film, podcast, quote, meme, purchase and more for the year.
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My favourite book, film, podcast, quote, meme, purchase and more for the year.
McMansion Hell
on neuschwanstein castle (part 1)
This is an essay in two parts.
Neuschwanstein Concept Drawing by the stage designer (!!) Christian...
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This is an essay in two parts.
Neuschwanstein Concept Drawing by the stage designer (!!) Christian Jank (1869).
There exist in architecture clear precedents to the McMansion that have nothing to do with suburban real estate. This is because “McMansionry” (let’s say) has many...
mtlynch.io
The Case for Open Borders by John Washington
If you’re a liberal who’s interested in becoming a radical progressive, this is a good book for you....
a week ago
If you’re a liberal who’s interested in becoming a radical progressive, this is a good book for you. If you’re anyone else, you’re probably not the target audience.
somethingaboutmaps
Journey’s End
Nearly five years ago, I completed a project that, to my mind, remains the most significant of my...
a week ago
Nearly five years ago, I completed a project that, to my mind, remains the most significant of my cartographic career: An Atlas of Great Lakes Islands, manually printed in cyanotype, with a hand-stitched binding. I wanted to share this project with all of you, but there were only...
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An Orange Spiral Staircase Is An Eye-Catching Feature Inside This Apartment
Architecture and interior design firm S+PS Architects, has shared photos of a penthouse apartment in...
a week ago
Architecture and interior design firm S+PS Architects, has shared photos of a penthouse apartment in Mumbai, India, that has two eye-catching orange spiral staircases. Stepping inside the penthouse, there’s an open plan living room with a variety of sitting areas and decor that...
Paolo Amoroso's...
A brief experience with the Cardputer uLisp Machine
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