Sam Altman
Reflections
The second birthday of ChatGPT was only a little over a month ago, and now we have transitioned into...
18 hours ago
The second birthday of ChatGPT was only a little over a month ago, and now we have transitioned into the next paradigm of models that can do complex reasoning. New years get people in a reflective mood, and I wanted to share some personal thoughts about how it has gone so far,...
Miguel Carranza
My role as a founder CTO: Year Seven
2024 has come and gone, and it’s time for my annual post. What a year for startups—like squeezing...
13 hours ago
2024 has come and gone, and it’s time for my annual post. What a year for startups—like squeezing five regular years into one. Do you remember the Apple Vision Pro, the DMA regulation, founder mode, or the o1 launch? All of that happened in just the last twelve months.
It’s also...
ntietz.com blog -...
Great things about Rust that aren't just performance
Nearly every line of code I write for fun is in Rust.
It's not because I need great performance,...
20 hours ago
Nearly every line of code I write for fun is in Rust.
It's not because I need great performance, though that's a nice benefit.
I write a lot of Rust because it's a joy to write code in.
There is so much else to love about Rust beyond going fast without segfaults.
Here are a few...
David Heinemeier...
Delusional dreams of excess freedom
Jim Carey once said that he hoped everyone could "...get rich and famous and do everything they...
4 hours ago
Jim Carey once said that he hoped everyone could "...get rich and famous and do everything they dreamed of so they can see that it is not the answer". And while I sorta agree, I think the opposite position also has its appeal: That believing in a material fix to the problem of...
Rest of World -...
YouTube Shopping wants to unseat TikTok Shop in Southeast Asia
The platform is partnering with Shopee to target the region’s growing shoppertainment spending.
9 hours ago
The platform is partnering with Shopee to target the region’s growing shoppertainment spending.
UX Collective
Reclaiming your humanity in an algorithmic world
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
8 hours ago
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
Dr Alun Withey
To Tip or Not To Tip: A Victorian Traveller’s Perspective
Like it or not, tipping is a big part of hospitality and the service industry. Debates about how...
5 hours ago
Like it or not, tipping is a big part of hospitality and the service industry. Debates about how much/whether to tip rumble on, but they are not new. Even in the 18th and 19th centuries, travellers were complaining about the amount of unwanted or unexpected extras they had to pay...
Common Edge
A Radical (and Totally Practical) Rethinking of U.S. Housing Construction
Vienna and Paris demonstrate that there are easier, less-expensive ways to build homes.
6 hours ago
Vienna and Paris demonstrate that there are easier, less-expensive ways to build homes.
NeuroLogica Blog
Plan To Build First Commercial Fusion Reactor
How close are we to having fusion reactors actually sending electric power to the grid? This is a...
5 hours ago
How close are we to having fusion reactors actually sending electric power to the grid? This is a huge and complicated question, and one with massive implications for our civilization. I think we are still at the point where we cannot count on fusion reactors coming online...
Transit Maps
Submission – Official Map: Madrid Cercanías Rail Network, December 2024
Submitted by Juan, who says: I send the new version of the Renfe-Madrid Cercanías network. It seems...
4 hours ago
Submitted by Juan, who says: I send the new version of the Renfe-Madrid Cercanías network. It seems to me that it has improved quite a lot the previous version. This previous version had crossroads, angles, etc. I would like to know your opinion about this new map. Transit Maps...
Scarlet Ink
Managers Make Teams Deliver More Value, Not Deliver More Output
True productivity for a team is measured by the value created, not the work completed. The job of a...
5 hours ago
True productivity for a team is measured by the value created, not the work completed. The job of a manager is to focus on the value hidden behind the piles of work.
Passing Time
Book Review: Primates of Park Avenue
Despite my quips, far from a hate read
an hour ago
Despite my quips, far from a hate read
dthompson
Guile-Bstructs 0.1.0 released
I'm pleased to announce that the very first release of guile-bstructs,
version 0.1.0, has been...
yesterday
I'm pleased to announce that the very first release of guile-bstructs,
version 0.1.0, has been released! This is a library I've been working
on for quite some time and after more than one rewrite and many
smaller refactors I think it's finally ready to release publicly.
Let's...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Pi in the Pentium: reverse-engineering the constants in its floating-point unit
Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of...
yesterday
Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of high-performance processors.1
The Pentium includes a floating-point unit that can rapidly compute functions such as sines, cosines, logarithms, and exponentials.
But how does the Pentium...
African History...
The pre-Islamic civilizations of west Africa
While West Africa has been part of the Muslim world since the late Middle Ages, as famously...
yesterday
While West Africa has been part of the Muslim world since the late Middle Ages, as famously demonstrated by the golden pilgrimage of Mali's Mansa Musa in 1324, Islam had only arrived in the region at the close of the 1st millennium.
Cheese and Biscuits
Vatavaran, Knightsbridge
It was Trishna in Marlebone, all the way back in something like 2009, that opened many Londoners'...
yesterday
It was Trishna in Marlebone, all the way back in something like 2009, that opened many Londoners' eyes - not least my own - to the possibilities of modern Indian fine dining. Now, I'm sure Vivek Singh (Cinnamon Club, 2001), Sriram Aylur (Quilon, 1999) and Cyrus Todiwala (Café...
A Smart Bear
Explore vs Execute
The two main business modalities are more different than you expect. When you hit PMF, it's a...
yesterday
The two main business modalities are more different than you expect. When you hit PMF, it's a culture-shift to switch from one to the other.
Old Vintage...
Refurb weekend: Atari Stacy
Ask any Atari Stacy owner how to open an Atari Stacy and the answer is always "never, if you can...
yesterday
Ask any Atari Stacy owner how to open an Atari Stacy and the answer is always "never, if you can avoid it." So I'll just lead with this spoiler image after the refurb to prove this particular escapade didn't completely end in tragedy:
see the much lighter and streamlined STBook...
Wuthering...
The books I read in December 2024 - From her earliest youth she had discovered a fondness for...
A different kind of month with a different category of reading.
CHINA
Mountain Home: The Wilderness...
yesterday
A different kind of month with a different category of reading.
CHINA
Mountain Home: The Wilderness Poetry of Ancient China
(5th-13th cent.), tr. David Hinton – The teenagers in The Story of the Stone
play various games based on their memorization of massive amounts of...
somenice
CircuitPython in 2025
This post is a wishlist for CircuitPython in 2025. Each year Adafruit asks the community to...
yesterday
This post is a wishlist for CircuitPython in 2025. Each year Adafruit asks the community to contribute their thoughts or requests for the open source microcontroller language as outlined on the Adafruit blog. In 2025 I would like a library for working with vectors, similar to...
Jonas Hietala
2024 in review
It’s time for my 15th yearly review.
Nerdy things I enjoyed
I read a lot of fantasy books this...
yesterday
It’s time for my 15th yearly review.
Nerdy things I enjoyed
I read a lot of fantasy books this year!
My favorite new series were The Kingkiller Chronicle, Gentlemen Bastards series, and The Stormlight Archive.
If you’re curious about Sanderson’s books but a little apprehensive...
Patterns in Humanity
2024 in writing
A brief recap of my 2024 posts
2 days ago
A brief recap of my 2024 posts
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
You Can Now Subscribe To My Blog via Email
I don’t think you should. I think you should use RSS.
But if you want posts delivered directly to...
2 days ago
I don’t think you should. I think you should use RSS.
But if you want posts delivered directly to your email, you can do that now.
However, disclaimer: I don’t know if I’ll keep this feature.
It costs me money.
And I don’t monetize my blog.
So sending you an email costs me...
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #50: The weird thing about London's New Year's Fireworks
Plus how the government should respond to Musk's nonsense, and an AI video that might just show us...
2 days ago
Plus how the government should respond to Musk's nonsense, and an AI video that might just show us how video production is going to change.
The Ruffian
How - and Why - To Read...
...in a World That's Giving Up On It
2 days ago
...in a World That's Giving Up On It
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?
2 days ago
Meta's AI Experiment: What Went Wrong?
Probably...
Confidence In the Press
This is the fifth in a series of excerpts from Elements of Data Science, now available from Lulu.com...
2 days 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...
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...
3 days 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.
3 days ago
Classical Wisdom
Cicero and Leadership
Philosophy in Action?
3 days ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 099: Apocalypse Not
January 3, 2025.
3 days ago
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...
3 days 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...
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...
3 days 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...
3 days 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.
The Convivial...
The Cat in the Tree: Why AI Content Leaves Us Cold
The Convivial Society: Vol. 6, No. 1
3 days ago
The Convivial Society: Vol. 6, No. 1
./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)...
3 days ago
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...
4 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.
4 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
4 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
4 days ago
Plus! IRR; Structure; Financial Epiphytes; Shale; Weakening the Cartel
Quanta Magazine
Scientists Re-Create the Microbial Dance That Sparked Complex Life
Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent...
4 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...
Irrational...
Refining strategy with Wardley Mapping.
The first time I heard about Wardley Mapping was
from Charity Majors discussing it on Twitter.
Of...
4 days ago
The first time I heard about Wardley Mapping was
from Charity Majors discussing it on Twitter.
Of the three core strategy refinement techniques,
this is the technique that I’ve personally used the least.
Despite that, I decided to include it in this book because it
highlights how...
Retail Design Blog
LIGHT UP COFFEE by Spicy Architects
The Extraordinary within the Ordinary LIGHT UP COFFEE Shimokitazawa was originally a first floor...
4 days ago
The Extraordinary within the Ordinary LIGHT UP COFFEE Shimokitazawa was originally a first floor two-seat cafe and coffee roastery, with...
History Today Feed
What is Modernity?
What is Modernity?
JamesHoare
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What is Modernity?
JamesHoare
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Noahpinion
The Players on the Eve of Destruction
The insanity of war has returned to our world.
4 days ago
The insanity of war has returned to our world.
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Date me
if you like me, and you're interested but never thought to ask, just ask!
4 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...
4 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....
4 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
4 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...
4 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...
4 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,...
Mind Mine
on trading potential for something actual
just make a choice
5 days ago
Marcus on AI
25 AI Predictions for 2025, from Marcus on AI
With a review of last year’s predictions
5 days ago
With a review of last year’s predictions
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...
5 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...
5 days ago
Scott Posno Design has shared photos of a modern home they completed in Vancouver, Canada, that showcases a dark brick exterior.
Astral Codex Ten
H5N1: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
Don't give your true love a partridge, turtledoves, or (especially) French hens
5 days ago
Don't give your true love a partridge, turtledoves, or (especially) French hens
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...
5 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...
5 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...
Society's Backend
5 Highlights From Society's Backend in 2024
The top 5 articles and resources
5 days ago
The top 5 articles and resources
The Elysian
Social Development > Self-Development
We need one much more than the other.
5 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...
5 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...
Explorations of an...
2024 (Part 2 of 2)
June and July
I always sound like a broken record each year when discussing June and July. I was...
5 days ago
June and July
I always sound like a broken record each year when discussing June and July. I was fortunate to have a lot of field work in 2024 which kept me occupied for most of these two months. But it's one of the best jobs in the world as I spend each and every day outside,...
Paul Cudenec
For one people's resistance!
by Paul Cudenec
5 days ago
Atoms vs Bits
Modern Noble Lies
The high price asked for harmony
5 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...
5 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):
...
5 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....
5 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
6 days ago
painfully quick thoughts about AI
Nothing Human
Shallow Feedback Hollows You Out
the actually scary thing about social media
6 days ago
the actually scary thing about social media
The Honest Broker
The Honest Broker's 20 Most Popular Articles From 2024
Phew, I published 171 articles this year—here are the ones you liked the most
6 days ago
Phew, I published 171 articles this year—here are the ones you liked the most
Infinite Scroll
Weekly Scroll: MAGA's Civil War
The MAGA Civil War and a recap of recaps
6 days ago
The MAGA Civil War and a recap of recaps
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...
6 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...
Overcoming Bias
What Culture Can You Trust?
Star Wars came out when I was 17, and made a big impression on me; I loved it.
6 days ago
Star Wars came out when I was 17, and made a big impression on me; I loved it.
Birchtree
Was 2024 a good year? Oh, and all the metrics and earnings info you could ever want.
2024 was a weird year for the Birchler household. Without getting into the details, two things put a...
6 days ago
2024 was a weird year for the Birchler household. Without getting into the details, two things put a damper on the year right from the jump: a health issue and a radical increase in monthly spending. I won't go into the details here, but over the course of
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,...
6 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...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Metabolism
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
He wakes up and the first thing he does is insist...
6 days ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
He wakes up and the first thing he does is insist that professional grade ninja stars are an investment.
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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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
IEEE Spectrum
In 2025, People Will Try Living in This Underwater Habitat
The future of human habitation in the sea is taking shape in an abandoned quarry on the border of...
6 days ago
The future of human habitation in the sea is taking shape in an abandoned quarry on the border of Wales and England. There, the ocean-exploration organization Deep has embarked on a multiyear quest to enable scientists to live on the seafloor at depths up to 200 meters for weeks,...
Construction Physics
Morris Chang and the Origins of TSMC
Book review of the autobiography of Morris Chang.
6 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...
6 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...
journal – Winnie Lim
looking back at 2024
Every year I tell myself I should start writing this post earlier so I don’t have to rush at the...
6 days ago
Every year I tell myself I should start writing this post earlier so I don’t have to rush at the last minute, but every year I fail to do so. Next year,...
Flashbak
Views of Polar Regions: Watercolours By Queen Victoria’s Spy
Illustrator Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith (26 December 1776 – 21 September 1859) was an...
6 days ago
Illustrator Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith (26 December 1776 – 21 September 1859) was an English artist, naturalist, antiquary, illustrator, natural historian, soldier, explorer, writer and spy. That’s quite the package for a man who produced these drawings and...
Wrong Side of...
Technology indistinguishable from magic
Our age of miracles: the medical breakthroughs of 2024
6 days ago
Our age of miracles: the medical breakthroughs of 2024
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.”
6 days ago
“If there’s fire inside you, with nowhere to go, it burns you alive.”
Open Culture
The Complete History of the Music Video: From the 1890s to Today
If you want to understand the history of music videos, you must consider a lot of things that are...
6 days ago
If you want to understand the history of music videos, you must consider a lot of things that are not obviously music videos. The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star,” the first selection of MTV’s inaugural broadcast, must surely count as a music video — but then, it was...
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...
6 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...
Seth's Blog
The reality of meliorism
Nearly 150 years ago, George Eliot gave us a name for our project. She pointed out that we could...
6 days ago
Nearly 150 years ago, George Eliot gave us a name for our project. She pointed out that we could ameliorate the problems of the human condition, day by day, year by year, toward better. Max Roser highlighted three sentences that seem like they can’t all be true: “The world is...
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...
6 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...
6 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...
diamond geezer
Summing up 2024
The last day of the year is an excellent time to tot up what you've been doing all year... assuming...
6 days ago
The last day of the year is an excellent time to tot up what you've been doing all year... assuming you've been counting, which obviously I have. Cue my Counts of 2024.
(If you don't count these kinds of thing, look at all the fun you're missing out on)
the number of London...
Anecdotal Evidence
'There’s No Such Thing As a Synonym'
My favorite
literary non-form may be commonplace books, those magpie collections unified
only by the...
6 days ago
My favorite
literary non-form may be commonplace books, those magpie collections unified
only by the sensibilities of their hunter-gatherers. They are kept by industrious
readers and serve as literary Wunderkammern,
cabinets of bookish wonders that may reveal a reader’s truest...
essay – snarfed.org
Tech pace layers
I’ve been a fan of Stewart Brand‘s Pace Layering for decades now. Really great framework for...
6 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 American Scholar
“The Horses” by Edwin Muir
Poems read aloud, beautifully
The post “The Horses” by Edwin Muir appeared first on The American...
6 days ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully
The post “The Horses” by Edwin Muir appeared first on The American Scholar.
The Marginalian
The Promethean Power of Burnout
"Burnout fully realised is also the decisive, exhausted moment in which we realise we cannot go on...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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....
TheCollector
New Study Rewrites History of Stone Age Architecture in Near East
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a week ago
Calculated Risk
Question #5 for 2025: What will the YoY core inflation rate be in December 2025?
Earlier I posted some questions on my blog for next year: Ten Economic Questions for 2025. Some of...
a week ago
Earlier I posted some questions on my blog for next year: Ten Economic Questions for 2025. Some of these questions concern real estate (inventory, house prices, housing starts, new home sales), and I posted thoughts on those in the newsletter (others like GDP and employment will...
Both Are True
When You're Done with that Condom, Just Throw it Anywhere
just a lil guy
a week ago
Weighty Thoughts
From 6 Weeks to 600 Seconds (or Less)
The revolutionary potential of utilizing AI for electronic hardware design
a week 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...
a week ago
Plus: high speed rail in Vietnam, India's first vertical lift sea bridge, and a £100 million bat tunnel.
Apoorva Srinivasan
diffusion models for protein generation
Introduction
Proteins are nature's versatile nanomachines— they have evolved to perform virtually...
a week 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
a week ago
Some of the interesting and insane facts I learned about SQLite
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...
a week 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!...
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...
a week 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...
Ryan Mulligan
Some Things About Keyframes
Whether you've barely scratched the surface of keyframe animations in CSS or fancy yourself as a...
a week 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,...
Eukaryote Writes...
Learn to write well BEFORE you have something worth saying
Lessons learned from trip reports and journal articles.
a week ago
Lessons learned from trip reports and journal articles.
Last Place Comics
Boys vs Girls Club, Part 3
The post Boys vs Girls Club, Part 3 appeared first on Last Place Comics.
a week ago
The post Boys vs Girls Club, Part 3 appeared first on Last Place Comics.
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...
a week ago
How does the Linux kernel represent processes and their state: A breakdown of task_struct and mm_struct
Herbert Lui
I don’t miss RSS one bit…
Because I use it every day. I use NetNewsWire to read new posts. I subscribe to a bunch of...
a week ago
Because I use it every day. I use NetNewsWire to read new posts. I subscribe to a bunch of newsletters hosted on Substack—you can just type /feed after the URL and you’ll receive Substack through RSS. You can do the same with Medium. For other newsletters, I use Kill the...
GeoCurrents
The Cook Islands: Seeking Independence and Sovereignty, Or Already Independent and Sovereign?
In late December 2024, the government of the Cook Islands, an autonomous Polynesian polity in “free...
a week ago
In late December 2024, the government of the Cook Islands, an autonomous Polynesian polity in “free association” with New Zealand, announced plans to introduce its own national passports and citizenship. Currently, Cook Islanders are citizens of New Zealand while being considered...
Trying to Understand...
Le Missile passera toujours ... mais qui est prêt à l’admettre ?
Another of my essays in French.
a week ago
Another of my essays in French.
Working Theorys
Writing Wrapped
I published 52 pieces this year (plus favorite tweets and an essay from the vault).
a week 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
a week 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...
a week 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...
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”
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