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Daniel Bourke
31 Simple Pleasures Simple doesn’t mean small.
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Computer Ads from...
Datamost Nightraiders Day Must Turn to Night Before Mankind Dares to Fight
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Essays - Benedict...
GenAI’s adoption puzzle Generative AI chatbots might be a life-changing transformation in the nature of computing, that...
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Generative AI chatbots might be a life-changing transformation in the nature of computing, that can replace all software, but so far, most of its users only pick it up every week or two, and far fewer have made it part of their lives. Is that a time problem or a product...
Quantum Frontiers
The most steampunk qubit I never imagined that an artist would update me about quantum-computing research. Last year,...
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I never imagined that an artist would update me about quantum-computing research. Last year, steampunk artist Bruce Rosenbaum forwarded me a notification about a news article published in Science. The article reported on an experiment performed in physicist Yiwen Chu’s … Continue...
Working Theorys
The Job Isn't Just The Job A meditation on the third and last human labor — Relational Labor.
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journal – Winnie Lim
pathological demand avoidance I first came across this term when I was browsing the subreddits for adhd and autistic women. After...
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I first came across this term when I was browsing the subreddits for adhd and autistic women. After reading more about it I realised belatedly (in my 40s) that I have been...
Old Vintage...
prior-art-dept.: The hierarchical hypermedia world of Hyper-G Prior Art Department and today we'll consider a forgotten yet still extant sidebar of the early...
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Prior Art Department and today we'll consider a forgotten yet still extant sidebar of the early 1990s Internet. If you had Internet access at home back then, it was almost certainly dialup modem (like I did); only the filthy rich had T1 lines or ISDN. Moreover, from a user...
FIRE v London
April 2025 – balmy weather, barmy markets Better late than never, I’m doing a quick update on April. More for the record than because anything...
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Better late than never, I’m doing a quick update on April. More for the record than because anything particularly notable happened in the portfolio, ignoring the mid month gyrations. It was a lovely month, April. I did a bit of travelling, but the UK had generally lovely spring...
The Ruffian
Why Is TikTok Such Rocket Fuel For Populists? Three Reasons It Gives Right-Wing Populists The Advantage
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Logistics of Road War in the Wasteland This week, we’re doing another ‘silly’ topic, but this being me, it is a silly logistics topic,...
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This week, we’re doing another ‘silly’ topic, but this being me, it is a silly logistics topic, because – as the saying goes – amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics. So we’re going to be professionally silly this week and talk about the logistics of vehicle warfare...
SatPost by Trung...
Three Netflix What-Ifs: Bezos, Arnault Blockbuster Netflix was founded in 1997 and went public in 2002. The $500B+ company's trajectory changed with...
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Netflix was founded in 1997 and went public in 2002. The $500B+ company's trajectory changed with three crucial pre-IPO negotiations.
Irrational...
Stuff I learned at Carta. Today’s my last day at Carta, where I got the chance to serve as their CTO for the past two years....
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Today’s my last day at Carta, where I got the chance to serve as their CTO for the past two years. I’ve learned so much working there, and I wanted to end my chapter there by collecting my thoughts on what I learned. (I am heading somewhere, and will share news in a week or two...
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We get laptops with annoying cooling fans because we keep buying them I don’t like laptops with loud cooling fans in them. Quite a controversial position, I know. But...
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I don’t like laptops with loud cooling fans in them. Quite a controversial position, I know. But really, they do suck. A laptop can be great to use, have a fantastic keyboard, sharp display, lots of storage and a fast CPU, and all of that can be ruined by one component: the...
Nothing Human
Book Review: Cochrane, Britannia's Sea Wolf As a military history buff, I’ve always found Hollywood action movies of the Die Hard or James Bond...
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As a military history buff, I’ve always found Hollywood action movies of the Die Hard or James Bond ilk hard to watch.
mtlynch.io
Notes from Simon Willison's Interview on Software Misadventures I just finished listening to Simon Willison’s interview on the Software Misadventures podcast. I...
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I just finished listening to Simon Willison’s interview on the Software Misadventures podcast. I learned a lot from the interview, so I wrote up my notes. This is not a summary of the whole interview, just the parts that were new to me or that I’d like to remember. Simon Willison...
Ink & Switch
Dispatch 011: Automerge 3.0 Beta, Sketchy Calendar, and a lab website refresh Some major updates to our open-source Automerge library, an introduction to Sketchy Calendars, and a...
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Some major updates to our open-source Automerge library, an introduction to Sketchy Calendars, and a peek at our work on collaborative game development. Also some meta content—a refreshed website, and a talk about how we work.
Mazdak
Claude 4 Has Arrived: Anthropic’s AI Agents Raise the Bar for Autonomous Intelligence Anthropic has officially launched the Claude 4 model family, and with it, the frontier of artificial...
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IEEE Spectrum
32 Bits That Changed Microprocessor Design In the late 1970s, a time when 8-bit processors were state of the art and CMOS was the underdog of...
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In the late 1970s, a time when 8-bit processors were state of the art and CMOS was the underdog of semiconductor technology, engineers at AT&T’s Bell Labs took a bold leap into the future. They made a high-stakes bet to outpace IBM, Intel, and other competitors in chip...
Tech and Tea
Important Tech and Tea Updates (and snacks!) What paid subscribers and Founding Members will get in 2025: coaching tools, snack boxes, ad hoc...
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What paid subscribers and Founding Members will get in 2025: coaching tools, snack boxes, ad hoc coaching sessions, and behind-the-scenes experiments.
Commoncog
Cases from The Heart of Innovation Three cases from The Heart of Innovation, picked to demonstrate the ideas of Deliberate Innovation.
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Probably...
My very busy week I’m not sure who scheduled ODSC and PyConUS during the same week, but I am unhappy with their...
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I’m not sure who scheduled ODSC and PyConUS during the same week, but I am unhappy with their decisions. Last Tuesday I presented a talk and co-presented a workshop at ODSC, and on Thursday I presented a tutorial at PyCon. If you would like to follow along with my very busy week,...
Beautiful Public...
NASA Ames Research Center Archives In the heart of Silicon Valley, NASA Ames Research Center has the world's largest wind tunnel, and a...
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In the heart of Silicon Valley, NASA Ames Research Center has the world's largest wind tunnel, and a rich history of space and aeronautics innovation captured in a fascinating visual archive.
nanoscale views
How badly has NSF funding already been effectively cut? This NY Times feature lets you see how each piece of NSF's funding has been reduced this year...
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This NY Times feature lets you see how each piece of NSF's funding has been reduced this year relative to the normalized average spanning in the last decade.  Note: this fiscal year, thanks to the continuing resolution, the actual agency budget has not actually been cut like...
Construction Physics
How Japan Invented Modern Shipbuilding And conquered the shipbuilding industry in the process
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Castles in the Sky
Chelsea is not a metaphor. CITS #92 | May 22, 2025
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One Useful Thing
Making AI Work: Leadership, Lab, and Crowd A formula for AI in companies
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Escaping Flatland
When writing, look at what you are trying to describe more than at your words 9 reflections
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Society's Backend:...
Everything developers should know about from Google I/O 2025 An overview of important updates and why they're important
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Machine Learning for...
Everything developers should know about from Google I/O 2025 An overview of important updates and why they're important
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Res Obscura
Why were Belle Époque cities beautiful? It's not because they were "traditional" or "classical" — in fact it's just the opposite
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Artificial Ignorance
SEO for AI: A look at Generative Engine Optimization What happens when your customers come directly from ChatGPT?
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Ed Zitron's Where's...
The Era Of The Business Idiot Fair warning: this is the longest thing I've written on this newsletter. I do apologize. Soundtrack:...
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Fair warning: this is the longest thing I've written on this newsletter. I do apologize. Soundtrack: EL-P - $4 Vic Listen to my podcast Better Offline. We have merch. Last week, Bloomberg profiled Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, revealing that he's either a liar or a specific
The Marginalian
Is Peace Possible Is Peace Possible?, originally published in 1957, is the second title in Marginalian Editions. Below...
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Is Peace Possible?, originally published in 1957, is the second title in Marginalian Editions. Below is my foreword to the new edition as it appears in on its pages. How ungenerous our culture has been in portraying science as cold, unfeeling, and aloof from the human sphere. No...
Map of the Week
Panorama Italia Tapestry There was no Map of the Week last week. That is because I was on vacation in northern Italy with my...
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There was no Map of the Week last week. That is because I was on vacation in northern Italy with my wife and brother in law who provided some local knowledge and translation services. A typical vacation for me involves taking pictures of interesting maps I find along the way....
The History of the...
Can Directories Rise Again? With search getting worse by the day, maybe it's time we rebounded in the other direction. The long...
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With search getting worse by the day, maybe it's time we rebounded in the other direction. The long forgotten directory. The post Can Directories Rise Again? appeared first on The History of the Web.
Laetitia@Work
How housing scarcity influences everything Laetitia@Work #81
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Trying to Understand...
Back To The Un-Table For more non-negotiations.
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xkcd.com
Baker's Units
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somethingaboutmaps
Planetfall Gentle readers, I have just wrapped up a fun side project that will be of great interest to a very...
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Gentle readers, I have just wrapped up a fun side project that will be of great interest to a very small number of you. The result of one of the most technically demanding efforts of my career, I am very pleased to share it with you. Most of you will wonder what this place is, …...
Citation Needed
Issue 84 – Rogue overseas support agents Coinbase’s substantial data breach coincides with a convenient terms of service update, while the...
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Coinbase’s substantial data breach coincides with a convenient terms of service update, while the GENIUS Act stablecoin bill regains momentum in the Senate
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Product Pseudoscience In his post about “Vibe Drive Development”, Robin Rendle warns against what I’ll call the...
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In his post about “Vibe Drive Development”, Robin Rendle warns against what I’ll call the pseudoscientific approach to product building prevalent across the software industry: when folks at tech companies talk about data they’re not talking about a well-researched study from a...
99% Invisible
Foreign in a Domestic Sense On a recent trip to Puerto Rico, producer Jeyca Medina-Gleason discovered a piece of her family...
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On a recent trip to Puerto Rico, producer Jeyca Medina-Gleason discovered a piece of her family history: a manila folder with her grandfather Tomás Velez Lopez’s photo attached to the front. Across the top in bold letters, it read “Division of Special Investigations” followed by...
The Elysian
Who should control AI? Nonprofits aren't our only option.
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AFAR Media - Travel...
6 Must-Visit Sonoma County Restaurants for Wine Pairings
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Blog - Practical...
The Most Implausible Tunneling Method [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] The original plan to get I-95...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] The original plan to get I-95 over the Baltimore Harbor was a double-deck bridge from Fort McHenry to Lazaretto Point. The problem with the plan was this: the bridge would have to be extremely high so that...
Archinect - Features
How Marcus Prize Winner Tiantian Xu Brought 'Architectural Acupuncture' to Students at... Throughout the Spring of 2025, award-winning Chinese architect Tiantian Xu delivered a studio at the...
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Throughout the Spring of 2025, award-winning Chinese architect Tiantian Xu delivered a studio at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in her capacity as the tenth recipient of the biennial Marcus Prize. As the semester progressed, Archinect spoke with both Tiantian Xu and the...
Both Are True
bits all the way down also: remember when you said you'd write something and then you just...didn't? i have a solution lol
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also: remember when you said you'd write something and then you just...didn't? i have a solution lol
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Healthcare Data Camp Applications Due Today | Out-Of-Pocket Plus future hackathon ideas?
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Cheese and Biscuits
7 Floor Malaysia Tea Room, Holborn In a world of sprawling Mercato Metropolitanos, Market Halls and Arcade Food Halls, the miniscule...
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In a world of sprawling Mercato Metropolitanos, Market Halls and Arcade Food Halls, the miniscule Holborn Food Hub is a reminder that food courts come in all shapes and sizes. I'm sure they had very good reasons for filling a space the size of a mobile phone repair shop with...
TokyoDev
Is There a Japanese Equivalent of Glassdoor? When interviewing with a Japanese company, you’ll naturally want to know: “Is this a good place to...
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When interviewing with a Japanese company, you’ll naturally want to know: “Is this a good place to work?” And while Glassdoor is the standard in English-speaking countries for employees leaving online reviews, the site is only rarely used in Japan, and then primarily by...
The American Scholar
“Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden appeared first on The...
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Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden appeared first on The American Scholar.
Wuthering...
How A Dance to the Music of Time works, so far - I always enjoy hearing the details of other... My writing here is often about what surprised me or did not.  So let’s have that about the first...
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My writing here is often about what surprised me or did not.  So let’s have that about the first four novels of Anthony Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time, the twelve volume sequence published from 1951 to 1975 and covering a refracted version of Powell’s life from his later...
Explosm.net
Comic for 2025.05.20 - Horse Race New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
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Rozado’s Visual...
The Strange Behavior of LLMs in Hiring Decisions: Systemic Gender and Positional Biases in Candidate... Hints of discrimination and lack of principled reasoning in frontier AI systems
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Strange Loop Canon
Betting on AI risk I. If you think the world will end because of AI, how do you bet on that?
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Nat Eliason's...
LAST CHANCE for the Husk Preorder Bundle! Just sending one last reminder that the Husk Preorder Bundle ends tomorrow, 5/20, at 11:59 Central...
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GeoCurrents
Canada’s Population Is Clustered Near the Southern Border, Yet Is Nonetheless Distanced from the... Although it is often claimed that 90 percent of the people of Canada live within 100 miles of the...
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Although it is often claimed that 90 percent of the people of Canada live within 100 miles of the U.S. border, this assertion is of dubious validity. Reputable sources put the figure closer to 80 percent. Statistics Canada more convincingly claims that 66 percent of Canadians...
Noahpinion
Is the U.S. in a "high-level equilibrium trap"? When countries start fearing the future, they stagnate.
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The Honest Broker
Can You Fool the Audience? The future of culture may depend on this question—and the answer is now evident
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ToughSF
The Laser Revolution Part I: Megawatt beams to the skies There’s a laser revolution coming: a time when megawatt-scale beams will radically transform how we ...
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There’s a laser revolution coming: a time when megawatt-scale beams will radically transform how we produce electricity, conduct war and even upset the nuclear world order. All they have to do it reach a certain convergence of price and power. And by current projections, it...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Wishes Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Remember how we're made in God's image and God is a...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Remember how we're made in God's image and God is a jealous God? Today's News:
Contemporist...
11 Outdoor dining areas that will make you want to eat outside every day Tired of eating indoors when the weather’s perfect outside? Whether you have a small patio, a...
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Tired of eating indoors when the weather’s perfect outside? Whether you have a small patio, a sprawling backyard, or a cozy balcony, the right outdoor dining setup can completely transform how you relax, entertain, and enjoy your space. From simple modern spaces to resort-style...
Classical Wisdom
Is Everything Becoming its Opposite? Heraclitus, Strife and the Need for Conflict
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Epic Web Dev
Server Components (RSC) in react-router are... actually good? (tip) Explore Remix's new React Server Components (RSC) preview in react-router! Learn usage, different...
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The Rational Walk
Greg Abel Steps into the Spotlight Greg Abel will step into the spotlight at the 2026 Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting with Warren...
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Greg Abel will step into the spotlight at the 2026 Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting with Warren Buffett sitting in the audience.
The Works in...
Why it's so hard to scale up new materials Getting substances out of the lab
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Global Inequality...
Nothing (meaningful) to say Mainstream economics’ inability to explain domestic inequality and competition between nations
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Quanta Magazine
‘Turbocharged’ Mitochondria Power Birds’ Epic Migratory Journeys Slight changes in the number, shape, efficiency and interconnectedness of organelles in the cells of...
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Slight changes in the number, shape, efficiency and interconnectedness of organelles in the cells of flight muscles provide extra energy for birds’ continent-spanning feats. The post ‘Turbocharged’ Mitochondria Power Birds’ Epic Migratory Journeys first appeared on...
Atoms vs Bits
A Better Birthday Song One that's actually happy, for a start.
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Yale e360
Taiwan to Ramp Up Gas Imports After Shuttering Last Nuclear Plant Having shut down its last remaining nuclear plant Saturday, Taiwan is working to secure new imports...
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Having shut down its last remaining nuclear plant Saturday, Taiwan is working to secure new imports of natural gas. Read more on E360 →
Common Edge
Can Quality Solve L.A.’s Housing Crisis? QUIMBY—Quality In My Backyard—is a movement to harness the urgency of YIMBYs to build neighborhoods...
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QUIMBY—Quality In My Backyard—is a movement to harness the urgency of YIMBYs to build neighborhoods that even NIMBYs can love.
NeuroLogica Blog
End of Life on Earth Let’s talk about climate change and life on Earth. Not anthropogenic climate change – but long term...
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Let’s talk about climate change and life on Earth. Not anthropogenic climate change – but long term natural changes in the Earth’s environment due to stellar evolution. Eventually, as our sun burns through its fuel, it will go through changes. It will begin to grow, becoming a...
Retail Design Blog
Horli Baking by True Thing Design Studio Located within the Hamasen Train Depot in Kaohsiung, Houli finds its home in the historic “Doo-Doo...
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Located within the Hamasen Train Depot in Kaohsiung, Houli finds its home in the historic “Doo-Doo Train,” once part of...
Arduino Blog
CamRo is a robot that captures awesome product videos at the touch of a button Presentation is always important — even in the maker community. Nice photos and videos get people in...
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Presentation is always important — even in the maker community. Nice photos and videos get people in the door and technical achievements keep them around. But recording nice videos can be difficult, which is why Cameron Coward developed this robot, called CamRo, to do the work...
Rest of World -...
Homegrown digital road maps turn into lifelines for West Bank’s Palestinians Community-built tech solutions are helping Palestinians navigate blockades and risks in the...
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David Heinemeier...
Have you tried the exact opposite? Have you thought about doing the opposite of whatever you're doing or considering? It's a really...
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Have you thought about doing the opposite of whatever you're doing or considering? It's a really helpful way to test your assumptions and your values. What does the opposite look like, how would it work? It's so easy to get stuck in a groove of what works, what you believe to be...
Seth's Blog
“They’re not paying me enough to care” This is an understandable sentiment. As jobs push people to be automatons and often offer little in...
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This is an understandable sentiment. As jobs push people to be automatons and often offer little in the way of respect, it’s easy to quietly quit. But perhaps, they’re not paying you enough to not care. Spending your days, day after day, not caring is a tragedy. They might not...
Open Culture
How Steven Soderbergh Directs a Scene & Makes It Great Steven Soderbergh was one of the earliest filmmakers to break out in what’s now called the...
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Steven Soderbergh was one of the earliest filmmakers to break out in what’s now called the “Indiewood” movement of the nineteen-nineties. He was early enough, in fact, to have done so in the eighties, with the Palme d’Or-winning Sex, Lies, and Videotape. His subsequent films have...
Maps Mania
The Atlas of Drowned Towns
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History Today Feed
The Hidden Diary of Samuel Pepys The Hidden Diary of Samuel Pepys JamesHoare Mon, 05/19/2025 - 08:44
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Flashbak
Tall Socks and Strangers: A Low-Level View of 1970s NYC “The whole county is my studio. I used to go work under a certain bridge if it was pouring, because...
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“The whole county is my studio. I used to go work under a certain bridge if it was pouring, because people used to hide there from the rain” – Mark Cohen     Mark Cohen shot from the hip, taking photographs with his camera hung low as his took a daily walk in New York … Continue...
TheCollector
What if the Aztecs Had Captured and Killed the Spanish Conquistadors? The place: Tenochtitlan, a metropolis built in the middle of a lake, with floating islands supported...
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The place: Tenochtitlan, a metropolis built in the middle of a lake, with floating islands supported by piles. The date: November 1519. Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés and his men must have been astonished. Tenochtitlan had more inhabitants than London or Paris and, in many...
diamond geezer
205 to Marble Arch TfL are chopping and changing two more buses in central London, specifically the 30 and 205,...
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TfL are chopping and changing two more buses in central London, specifically the 30 and 205, according to the results of a consultation released on Friday. This is despite their proposals receiving the support of less than 5% of respondents and widespread disapproval from all 22...
Anecdotal Evidence
'There Is Only Man' “You either fell under his spell and loved the wild ride of his prose, or you shunned or ignored...
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“You either fell under his spell and loved the wild ride of his prose, or you shunned or ignored it.”   Infatuation of the literary sort is likely possible only among the young. That’s my experience. I have discovered good writers in recent decades – Yvor Winters, C.H. Sisson –...
Christopher Butler
visual journal – 2025 May Catching Up
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Abort Retry Fail
The Tandy Corporation, Part 1 From leather shoe bits to the TRS-80
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The Changelog
How to Use SSH with FIDO2/U2F Security Keys For many years now, I’ve been using an old YubiKey along with the free tier of Duo Security to add a...
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For many years now, I’ve been using an old YubiKey along with the free tier of Duo Security to add a second factor to my SSH logins. This is klunky, and has a number of drawbacks (dependency on a cloud service and Internet among them). I decided it was time to upgrade, so I...
Quentin Santos
The ESP32-S2 reset pin RST defaults to high This is an addendum to the article about Espressif’s automatic reset. In that...
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RST defaults to high This is an addendum to the article about Espressif’s automatic reset. In that article, we observed the effect of the RST pin on the ESP32-S2-Saola-1RI board: I skipped over this topic quickly, so I am now taking the time to explain how the RST pin manages to...