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,...
7 hours ago
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...
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...
yesterday
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
yesterday
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...
yesterday
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...
yesterday
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
yesterday
things i've loved this past year / things i'm excited about in 2025
Overcoming Bias
What Priority The Innocent?
It is good if criminal law avoids punishing the innocent.
2 days ago
It is good if criminal law avoids punishing the innocent.
anderegg.ca
Trying out GoodLinks
The weeks leading up to the holidays have been hectic. I’m behind on “internet stuff” since entering...
2 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...
2 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
2 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
2 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...
2 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...
2 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.
2 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...
3 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.
3 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...
3 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...
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...
3 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...
Computer Ads from...
NCR PC4i
Growing with your needs
3 days ago
CrimethInc.
Sacrificial Violence and Retribution
In the following analysis, we explore the responses to two different extrajudicial killings as a way...
3 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...
3 days ago
💡
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.
3 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...
3 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...
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...
3 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...
3 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.
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
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...
3 days ago
Plus a British tech unicorn, a nuclear energy ticking time bomb and... New Zealand's weird Parliament.
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...
3 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?
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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
3 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...
3 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
4 days ago
My favorite strategy game re-imagined
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...
4 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?
4 days ago
Goal setting without a vision can be counter productive. Where are you trying to go?
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...
4 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...
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...
4 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
4 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...
4 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
<![CDATA[I always preferred the light theme and never figured what's the fuss with the dark theme....
4 days ago
<![CDATA[I always preferred the light theme and never figured what's the fuss with the dark theme. Until cataract came.
In May of 2024 my ophthalmologist confirmed what I surmised: both of my eyes were affected by cataract. It came earlier than my age would suggest but that's...
A Smart Bear
When you have nothing: How to find potential customers to interview
How do you find potential customers to interview before you have a product, a website, or even a...
4 days ago
How do you find potential customers to interview before you have a product, a website, or even a name?
Wuthering...
The Story of the Stone, volume 4 - It was an eerie, desolate night.
At the two-thirds mark, after 80 chapters of the 120, three
big changes hit The Story of the Stone...
4 days ago
At the two-thirds mark, after 80 chapters of the 120, three
big changes hit The Story of the Stone (c. 1760 / 1791). First, David Hawkes, the original translator
of the Penguin edition, dies; John Minford finishes the job. Second, the author of the novel, Cao Xueqin,
dies,...
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Why some engineers get trusted with high-impact work
It’s fun and rewarding to work on critical tasks. But there’s only so much important work to go...
4 days ago
It’s fun and rewarding to work on critical tasks. But there’s only so much important work to go around. Worse still, the chances to work on…
ben-mini
Making My SQL Skills Obsolete
Quick Update: I updated my domain to ben-mini.com! All old URLs and the RSS feed under...
4 days ago
Quick Update: I updated my domain to ben-mini.com! All old URLs and the RSS feed under ben-mini.github.io will automatically redirect, so no changes are needed on your end.
By far, the most useful LLM app I’ve made is the Kibu Schema God:
I try not to make my posts too...
lcamtuf’s thing
A 15-minute intro to resin casting
At one point in my life, I penned an epic, 110-page opus on hobby manufacturing.
5 days ago
At one point in my life, I penned an epic, 110-page opus on hobby manufacturing.
Marcus on AI
o3, AGI, the art of the demo, and what you can expect in 2025
OpenAI’s new model was revealed yesterday; its most fervent believers think AGI has already arrived....
5 days ago
OpenAI’s new model was revealed yesterday; its most fervent believers think AGI has already arrived. Here’s what you should pay attention to in the coming year.
Contemporist...
Before + After - A Mid-Century Modern Kitchen Renovation
Blaine Architects together with Marshall Interiors, have completed the renovation of a mid-century...
5 days ago
Blaine Architects together with Marshall Interiors, have completed the renovation of a mid-century modern home in San Mateo, California, for a young couple who wanted to update the kitchen, living room, dining room, and family room.
The Ruffian
The Enigma of Luigi Mangione
And the Madness Of His Apologists
5 days ago
And the Madness Of His Apologists
Noahpinion
What are the checks and balances on the power of Elon Musk?
The question we'll all be asking over the next year or more.
5 days ago
The question we'll all be asking over the next year or more.
journal – Winnie Lim
a small life
A few weeks ago my host emailed me that for some reason google bot was hitting my site so much that...
5 days ago
A few weeks ago my host emailed me that for some reason google bot was hitting my site so much that it slowed down the entire server – since it was affecting...
Christopher Butler
Organization – Office – 2024
After the kitchen, the office is still the most used room in our home. This is how we have optimized...
5 days ago
After the kitchen, the office is still the most used room in our home. This is how we have optimized it this year.
About a year and a half ago, I wrote a long entry to this blog about how we keep this office space organized. While much of it is still as it was then, it is...
Chris Grossack's...
$\mathsf{B}\text{Diff}(\Sigma)$ Classifies $\Sigma$-bundles
I’ve been trying to learn all about topological (quantum) field theories, the
cobordism hypothesis,...
5 days ago
I’ve been trying to learn all about topological (quantum) field theories, the
cobordism hypothesis, and how to use $(\infty,n)$-categories. This is all
in service of some stuff I’m doing with skein algebras (which are part of a
“$3+1$ TQFT” often named after Crane–Yetter, but...
computers are bad
2024-12-21 something over New Jersey
There were thousands of reports: strange aircraft, floating through the sky. A
retrospective sum of...
5 days ago
There were thousands of reports: strange aircraft, floating through the sky. A
retrospective sum of press accounts finds that some 100,000 people were
reported to have witnessed aerial intruders. Despite the scant details
associated with most reports, an eager press repeated the...
Castles in the Sky
You're not Simon Sarris.
Castles in the Sky December 20, 2024
6 days ago
Castles in the Sky December 20, 2024
Archinect - Features
USC Students Try a ‘Bottom-Up’ Approach To Sustainable Housing Delivery in the School of...
Our latest Archinect Studio Pin-Ups takes a look at three studios at Archinect Partner School USC...
6 days ago
Our latest Archinect Studio Pin-Ups takes a look at three studios at Archinect Partner School USC School of Architecture, offered as part of their one-year Master of Advanced Architectural Research Studies (M.AARS) postgraduate program.
Led by instructors Julia Sulzer and Sascha...
Flashbak
The Months: Gardens of Art by Eugène Grasset
In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French...
6 days ago
In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French department store La Belle Jardinière to create 12 original works of art to be used as a calendar. Grasset’s woodcuts show women in fashionable costumes of the period each bearing a sign...
Last Place Comics
Boys Club vs Girls Club, Part 2
The post Boys Club vs Girls Club, Part 2 appeared first on Last Place Comics.
6 days ago
The post Boys Club vs Girls Club, Part 2 appeared first on Last Place Comics.
Probably...
Political Alignment and Outlook
This is the fourth in a series of excerpts from Elements of Data Science, now available from...
6 days ago
This is the fourth in a series of excerpts from Elements of Data Science, now available from Lulu.com and online booksellers. It’s from Chapter 15, which is part of the political alignment case study. You can read the complete chapter here, or run the Jupyter notebook on Colab....
The Marginalian
How You Relate to Anything Is How You Relate to Everything: Reclaiming the Spirit of the Christmas...
Because life is a cosmos of connection, because to be alive is to be in relationship with the world,...
6 days ago
Because life is a cosmos of connection, because to be alive is to be in relationship with the world, because (in the immortal words of John Muir) “when we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe,” how we relate to anything is how...
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Happy Holidays!
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
6 days 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,...
GeoCurrents
Will the United States Recognize Somaliland as Somalia Continued to Devolve?
Recent reports claim that the incoming Trump administration is considering giving diplomatic...
6 days ago
Recent reports claim that the incoming Trump administration is considering giving diplomatic recognition to Somaliland, a de facto independent state that broke away from the wreckage of Somalia in 1991. Republican representative Scott Perry of Pennsylvania has already introduced...
./techtipsy
The IPv6 situation on Docker is good now!
Good news, everyone! Doing IPv6 networking stuff on Docker is actually good now!
I’ve recently...
6 days ago
Good news, everyone! Doing IPv6 networking stuff on Docker is actually good now!
I’ve recently started reworking my home server setup to be more IPv6 compatible, and as part of that I learned that
during
the summer of 2024 Docker shipped an update that eliminated a
lot of the...
Raptitude.com
How to Avoid Getting Lost in Thought
Say you’re walking through Death Valley, trying to find your way back to the highway. Luckily you’ve...
6 days ago
Say you’re walking through Death Valley, trying to find your way back to the highway. Luckily you’ve got a good paper map. As you walk, you scan the territory around you for landmarks. You see some large-scale details: hills, rock formations, and gullies. Also some minute ones:...
Uncharted...
Deserts, Tornadoes, Hurricanes, Snow, Paradises, Swamps: Why Do People Live Where They Live in the...
Deserts, Tornadoes, Hurricanes, Snow, Paradises, Swamps
6 days ago
Deserts, Tornadoes, Hurricanes, Snow, Paradises, Swamps
99% Invisible
The Power Broker #12: Robert Caro
This is the twelfth official episode of our ongoing series breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize...
6 days ago
This is the twelfth official episode of our ongoing series breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Power Broker by our hero Robert Caro. We’ve waited until the evening to see how splendid the day has been, and for this final installment, there was only one guest...
Infinite Scroll
Flat Earthers and Belief in Belief
What flat earthers can teach us about politics
6 days ago
What flat earthers can teach us about politics
charity.wtf
On Versioning Observabilities (1.0, 2.0, 3.0…10.0?!?)
Hazel Weakly, you little troublemaker. As I whined to Hazel over text, after she sweetly sent me a...
6 days ago
Hazel Weakly, you little troublemaker. As I whined to Hazel over text, after she sweetly sent me a preview draft of her post: “PLEASE don’t post this! I feel like I spend all my time trying to help bring clarity and context to what’s happening in the market, and this is NOT...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 098: Flash Thinking
December 20, 2024.
6 days ago
A Collection of...
Collections: On Bread and Circuses
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place...
6 days ago
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
The Diff
The Nvidia Way is the Regular Way, Just Faster
Plus! Beware of DOGE?; Dual Listings; Search and Chat; Training Data; Bond Vigilantes with Chinese...
6 days ago
Plus! Beware of DOGE?; Dual Listings; Search and Chat; Training Data; Bond Vigilantes with Chinese Characteristics
nanoscale views
Technological civilization and losing object permanence
In the grand tradition of physicists writing about areas outside their expertise, I wanted to put...
6 days ago
In the grand tradition of physicists writing about areas outside their expertise, I wanted to put down some thoughts on a societal trend. This isn't physics or nanoscience, so feel free to skip this post.
Object permanence is a term from developmental psychology. A person (or...
Construction Physics
Energy Cheat Sheet
Building an intuition about energy
6 days ago
Building an intuition about energy
Birchtree
I’m Not a Panda Person
Niléane has a new webcam, Chris is downing in keyboards, and everyone installs some web-ass web...
6 days ago
Niléane has a new webcam, Chris is downing in keyboards, and everyone installs some web-ass web apps.
Watch it on YouTube or listen in your favorite podcast app!
Old Structures...
Embracing office-to-residential conversion in the ‘City of Yes’
A timely ‘Yes’ to converting older buildings is set to further fuel Manhattan’s current...
6 days ago
A timely ‘Yes’ to converting older buildings is set to further fuel Manhattan’s current office-to-residential boom. New York City Council recently passed Mayor Adams’ ‘City of Yes’ proposal to create over 80,000 new housing units across the city over 15 years. Among the historic...
Ian Betteridge
Ten Blue Links, “your time is up” edition
This week… But first, an announcement! TLDR: Over the holidays, I will be migrating this site from...
6 days ago
This week… But first, an announcement! TLDR: Over the holidays, I will be migrating this site from WordPress.com to Ghost. This may mean a little disruption, but I’ll try to keep it to a minimum. Why am I doing this? I’ve been a paying customer of WordPress.com for my site...
Retail Design Blog
space timefill Coffee Shop by SAISA STUDIO
space timefill is a medium-sized flat cafe inside an old residential complex. There is a small cloth...
6 days ago
space timefill is a medium-sized flat cafe inside an old residential complex. There is a small cloth running right in...
The Modern House
The house that art built: Paul Huxley and Susie Allen invite us into their west London home and...
6 days ago
History Today Feed
Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
JamesHoare
Fri, 12/20/2024 - 09:47
6 days ago
Habsburg Prague, Capital of the Renaissance
JamesHoare
Fri, 12/20/2024 - 09:47
Seth's Blog
The stories we tell ourselves
If it happened to us, our memory of it is a story, our record of it with us at the center. Even if...
6 days ago
If it happened to us, our memory of it is a story, our record of it with us at the center. Even if it’s on video, even if other people were there, our narrative and the context and the play by play belong to us. The useful question might be: “Is my story helpful?” And […]
Wrong Side of...
Will the last young professional to leave Britain turn off the lights?
'Get out as early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself’
6 days ago
'Get out as early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself’
Astral Codex Ten
Take The 2025 ACX Survey
...
6 days ago
diamond geezer
Mayfair
MAYFAIR
£400
London's Monopoly Streets
MAYFAIR
Colour group: dark blue
Purchase price:...
6 days ago
MAYFAIR
£400
London's Monopoly Streets
MAYFAIR
Colour group: dark blue
Purchase price: £400
Rent: £50
Area: 1km²
Borough: Westminster
Postcode: W1
Mayfair was mostly fields until the late 17th century when Sir Thomas Grosvenor, a Cheshire baronet, made an exceptionally...
Open Culture
The Junky’s Christmas: William S. Burrough’s Dark Claymation Christmas Film Produced by Francis Ford...
Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation...
6 days ago
Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation Christmas film oddly produced by Francis Ford Coppola. And, as you can well imagine, it’s not your normal happy Christmas flick. Nope, this film – The Junky’s Christmas – is all about...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Why Not Get Out of This Rut?'
"Books offer
what may be called a standing solution to the eternal and infernal
Christmas-present...
6 days ago
"Books offer
what may be called a standing solution to the eternal and infernal
Christmas-present problem.”
Well, yes
and no. I’m a graceless gift giver and receiver, especially when it comes to
books. People like my middle son are inspired and have a knack for...
The Elysian
Am I a Democrat or a Republican?
The case for going label-less.
6 days ago
The case for going label-less.
HTMHell
My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red
by Declan Chidlow
Setting the colour of text on a webpage is usually a simple affair involving...
6 days ago
by Declan Chidlow
Setting the colour of text on a webpage is usually a simple affair involving whipping it out the good ol' CSS color property. But this is HTMHell, dammit. None of that wishy-washy CSS nonsense here. No siree. We use HTML as the good lord intended and shalln't...
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body {
text-wrap: pretty;
}
@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
* {
transition: none;
animation: none;
}
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width: 100%;
display: block;
position: relative;
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