Seldo.com
What I've learned about writing AI apps so far
15 hours ago
NeuroLogica Blog
The Hubble Tension Hubbub
There really is a significant mystery in the world of cosmology. This, in my opinion, is a good...
23 hours ago
There really is a significant mystery in the world of cosmology. This, in my opinion, is a good thing. Such mysteries point in the direction of new physics, or at least a new understanding of the universe. Resolving this mystery – called the Hubble Tension – is a major goal of...
Mind Mine
just show up
stop postponing the act
14 hours ago
Fatih Arslan
Four years at PlanetScale
It’s been four years since I joined PlanetScale. In this post, I'm reflecting on my journey and...
22 hours ago
It’s been four years since I joined PlanetScale. In this post, I'm reflecting on my journey and accomplishments during this period.
CONTEMPORIST
A New Restaurant Design Inspired By The Food It Sells – The Waffle
Multidisciplinary design studio Masquespacio has shared photos of their latest project, Novu Waffle,...
11 hours ago
Multidisciplinary design studio Masquespacio has shared photos of their latest project, Novu Waffle, an innovative gastronomic space in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. With a focus on fun and immersion, Masquespacio has created a dynamic and cheerful environment where the waffle is the...
Matt Mullenweg
What’s in My Bag, 2025
It’s another year, I have ordered all the things and tested all the cables, there’s a little bit...
7 hours ago
It’s another year, I have ordered all the things and tested all the cables, there’s a little bit about tech and a little bit about life. Here’s what made the cut, now I’m going to be factoring in weight of everything as well. The flat-lay this year was taken at my sister...
Scarlet Ink
The Hidden Advantage of Sharp Edges — Why Being Disagreeable is Best
Anyone can be valuable if they have the right motivation, but strangely enough, being disagreeable...
23 hours ago
Anyone can be valuable if they have the right motivation, but strangely enough, being disagreeable multiplies that value.
UX Collective
Sidebar is back from its break
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
yesterday
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
Quantum Frontiers
Ten lessons I learned from John Preskill
Last August, Toronto’s Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control (CQIQC) gave me 35 minutes...
yesterday
Last August, Toronto’s Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control (CQIQC) gave me 35 minutes to make fun of John Preskill in public. CQIQC was hosting its biannual conference, also called CQIQC, in Toronto. The conference features the awarding of … Continue reading →
David Heinemeier...
Failed integration and the fall of multiculturalism
For decades, the debate in Denmark around problems with mass immigration was stuck in a...
yesterday
For decades, the debate in Denmark around problems with mass immigration was stuck in a self-loathing blame game of "failed integration". That somehow, if the Danes had just tried harder, been less prejudice, offered more opportunities, the many foreigners with radically...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Home Assistant Voice Preview is an unusable mess.
I just got a Home Assistant Voice recently. I was so excited to try it out as a programmable Alexa.
yesterday
I just got a Home Assistant Voice recently. I was so excited to try it out as a programmable Alexa.
Melissa Penfold
THE THINGS YOUR WEDDING GUESTS SECRETLY DESPISE
There’s a fairly well-established list of the things that wedding guests detest. Overly long...
yesterday
There’s a fairly well-established list of the things that wedding guests detest. Overly long ceremonies. Overly long toasts. Cash bars. A bachelor or bachelorette trip that sends its attendees into credit-card debt. A destination wedding in a remote locale that the couple has...
Jonas Hietala
Securing my partner's digital life
I’ve been with Veronica for over a decade now and I think I’m starting to know her fairly well.
Yet...
yesterday
I’ve been with Veronica for over a decade now and I think I’m starting to know her fairly well.
Yet she still manages to surprise me.
For instance, a couple of weeks ago she came and asked me about email security:
I worry that my email password is too weak.
Can you help me change...
ntietz.com blog -...
My writing process, and how I keep it sustainable
Recently, a reader wrote to me and asked about my writing process and burnout.
They had an image in...
yesterday
Recently, a reader wrote to me and asked about my writing process and burnout.
They had an image in their head that I could sit down at a computer and type up a full post on a given topic, but were unsure if that's the right approach when they start blogging.
And they were...
computers are bad
2025-01-20 office of secure transportation
I've seen them at least twice on /r/whatisthisthing, a good couple dozen times
on the road, and...
yesterday
I've seen them at least twice on /r/whatisthisthing, a good couple dozen times
on the road, and these days, even in press photos: GMC trucks with custom
square boxes on the back, painted dark blue, with US Government "E" plates.
These courier escorts, "unmarked" but about as...
Working Theorys
Digital Tug-of-War
On TikTok ban whiplash, digital trade, Harvard MBAs, and CEOs running it back.
2 days ago
On TikTok ban whiplash, digital trade, Harvard MBAs, and CEOs running it back.
Basta’s Notes
I'm going to run for president
And I want you to be angry, too
2 days ago
And I want you to be angry, too
African History...
The forts and castles of Africa: a brief architectural history.
For much of African history, the construction of fortresses and fortified structures was a mostly...
2 days ago
For much of African history, the construction of fortresses and fortified structures was a mostly urban phenomenon associated with large states.
Paolo Amoroso's...
I accepted the Blog Question Challenge
<![CDATA[MattoF has tagged me for the Blog Question Challenge which asks bloggers questions about...
2 days ago
<![CDATA[MattoF has tagged me for the Blog Question Challenge which asks bloggers questions about their background and motivations, tools, and workflows. It is a variation by Kev Quirk of a challenge originally created by Ava at Bear Blog.
I have accepted this fun challenge and...
Old Vintage...
The "35-cent" Commodore 64 softmodem
Rockwell famously used 6502-based cores in modems for many years, but that doesn't mean other 6502s...
2 days ago
Rockwell famously used 6502-based cores in modems for many years, but that doesn't mean other 6502s couldn't be used. If only there were a way to connect a Commodore 64's audio output directly to an RJ-11 plug ...
Convergent WorkSlate stuff I've got to catalogue. Officially...
journal – Winnie Lim
knowing how to be, when ill is also a skill
I had the second sitting of my root canal last tuesday, and while the procedure itself went pretty...
2 days ago
I had the second sitting of my root canal last tuesday, and while the procedure itself went pretty well, I developed some pain after a few hours had passed. I asked the...
On Test Automation
My career and a thought experiment
As is the case every year, 2025 is starting off relatively slowly. There’s not a lot of training...
2 days ago
As is the case every year, 2025 is starting off relatively slowly. There’s not a lot of training courses to run yet, and since a few of the projects I worked on wrapped up in December, I find myself with a little bit of extra time and headspace on my hands. I actually enjoy these...
A Smart Bear
"Stealth mode" and other f'ing brilliant strategies
Oh you secretive devil! The last thing you need is anyone finding out about your startup. Like...
2 days ago
Oh you secretive devil! The last thing you need is anyone finding out about your startup. Like competitors. Or customers.
Last Place Comics
Weather Man
The post Weather Man appeared first on Last Place Comics.
3 days ago
The post Weather Man appeared first on Last Place Comics.
Ken Shirriff's blog
Reverse-engineering a carry-lookahead adder in the Pentium
Addition is harder than you'd expect, at least for a computer.
Computers use multiple types of adder...
3 days ago
Addition is harder than you'd expect, at least for a computer.
Computers use multiple types of adder circuits with different tradeoffs of size versus speed.
In this article, I reverse-engineer an 8-bit adder in the Pentium's floating point unit.
This adder turns out to be a...
dthompson
Wasm GC isn’t ready for realtime graphics
Wasm GC is a wonderful thing that is now available in all major web
browsers since slowpoke...
3 days ago
Wasm GC is a wonderful thing that is now available in all major web
browsers since slowpoke Safari/WebKit finally shipped it in December.
It provides a hierarchy of heap allocated reference types and a set of
instructions to operate on them. Wasm GC enables managed...
The Ruffian
Notes On the Great Vibe Shift
The Extraordinary Impact of Trump's Second Victory
3 days ago
The Extraordinary Impact of Trump's Second Victory
Moneyness
Here’s why we tolerate fake check scams
Source: Better Business Bureau
The daily news is filled with personal stories about bad...
3 days ago
Source: Better Business Bureau
The daily news is filled with personal stories about bad experiences with banks. Here’s a recent example. In November 2024, a charity inadvertently accepted a fake check from a would-be donor.
The charity's bank allowed the charity to deposit...
Wuthering...
Read and To Read, in 2024 and 2025
What did I read in 2024?
The best book I read last year was Ovid’s Metamorphoses
(8 CE). Best...
3 days ago
What did I read in 2024?
The best book I read last year was Ovid’s Metamorphoses
(8 CE). Best books, really, in translations
by Arthur Golding and Charles Martin. My
“best book of the year” answer will never be interesting. America’s librarian Nancy Pearl asked, somewhere
on...
Arduino Blog
A Game Boy is the worst and best option for a car’s dash
If your car was made in the last decade, its dash probably has several displays, gauges, and...
3 days ago
If your car was made in the last decade, its dash probably has several displays, gauges, and indicator lights. But how many of those do you actually look at on a regular basis? Likely only one or two, like the speedometer and gas gauge. Knowing that, John Sutley embraced...
Citation Needed
Issue 74 – Stop asking me questions like “where does the yield come from”
Regulators and lawmakers eagerly prepare to abdicate any last traces of interest in the wellbeing of...
3 days ago
Regulators and lawmakers eagerly prepare to abdicate any last traces of interest in the wellbeing of everyday Americans as they suck up to the powerful billionaires who will soon be publicly calling the shots.
SatPost by Trung...
Garmin's ~$40B Pivot
The GPS pioneer took huge hits from Apple (iPhone, Watch) and Google (Maps). But huge R&D investment...
4 days ago
The GPS pioneer took huge hits from Apple (iPhone, Watch) and Google (Maps). But huge R&D investment helped turn the company from an automotive GPS firm to a leader in fitness watches and trackers.
Willem's Blog
Master of Change
In this post I discuss the brilliant book Master of Change by Brad Stulberg, providing a...
4 days ago
In this post I discuss the brilliant book Master of Change by Brad Stulberg, providing a thought-provoking guide to thrive in a changing world.
Musings on Markets
Data Update 2 for 2025: The Party Continued (for US Equities)
In my last post, I noted that the US has extended its dominance of global equities in recent years,...
4 days ago
In my last post, I noted that the US has extended its dominance of global equities in recent years, increasing its share of market capitalization from 42% in at the start of 2023 to 44% at the start of 2024 to 49% at the start of 2025. That rise was driven by a surge in US equity...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
The Slop Society
In the last week we've seen the emergence of the true Meta — and the true Mark Zuckerberg — as the...
4 days ago
In the last week we've seen the emergence of the true Meta — and the true Mark Zuckerberg — as the company ended its fact-checking program, claiming that (and I quote) "fact checkers have been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they've
Dreams of Space -...
The Eager Beaver Space Book (1962)
As I keep digging in my collection I have found Space Beavers! This was a promotional comic book...
4 days ago
As I keep digging in my collection I have found Space Beavers! This was a promotional comic book from Cities Service gasoline. It probably was a give-away with purchase. It reflects the early 60s where the Mercury launches had taken place and we were looking ahead to the future....
Castles in the Sky
How I Make Room for the Year
The first of a three part series marking the transition from 2024 to 2025
4 days ago
The first of a three part series marking the transition from 2024 to 2025
A Collection of...
Collections: On the Gracchi, Part I: Tiberius Gracchus
This week, we’re going to talk a bit about the brothers Tiberius (trib. 133) and Gaius (trib. 123-2)...
4 days ago
This week, we’re going to talk a bit about the brothers Tiberius (trib. 133) and Gaius (trib. 123-2) Gracchus, the famous Roman reformers of the late second century. There’s actually a fair bit to say about both of them, so we’re going to split this treatment over two weeks,...
Blog System/5
Hands-on graphics without X11
A crash course on direct framebuffer and keyboard access via NetBSD’s wscons
4 days ago
A crash course on direct framebuffer and keyboard access via NetBSD’s wscons
Weighty Thoughts
AI Reasoning—What is It?
The Significant Implications of Test-Time Compute
4 days ago
The Significant Implications of Test-Time Compute
Casey Handmer's blog
The Los Angeles wildfires are self-inflicted
I don’t ordinarily write about events “in the moment” but for this I will make an exception, as I...
4 days ago
I don’t ordinarily write about events “in the moment” but for this I will make an exception, as I was personally affected. Caveats aside, my family and I are safe, we evacuated for several days, and due to heroic efforts by professional firefighters and psychotically brave...
Cheese and Biscuits
etch by Steven Edwards, Hove
Hove is a very acceptable place to spend a day. I was last in the area when visiting the Urchin, a...
4 days ago
Hove is a very acceptable place to spend a day. I was last in the area when visiting the Urchin, a seafood-specialist gastropub and microbrewery (I bet there aren't too many of them around) which made the (pretty easy actually) journey down from Battersea more than worth my...
alexwlchan
randline: get a random selection of lines in a file using reservoir sampling
I’ve posted another command-line tool on GitHub: randline, which gives you a random selection of...
4 days ago
I’ve posted another command-line tool on GitHub: randline, which gives you a random selection of lines in a file:
$ randline < /usr/share/dict/words
ultraluxurious
$ randline 3 < /usr/share/dict/words
unexceptionably
baselessness
salinity
There are lots of tools that solve...
Jorge Arango
LLMs Give You Power User Abilities
LLMs are a general-purpose technology with seemingly endless use cases. Among my favorite is...
4 days ago
LLMs are a general-purpose technology with seemingly endless use cases. Among my favorite is unlocking the potential of other technologies.
For example, all modern “desktop” OSs come with shell environments. If you know a bit of scripting, you can automate tasks in ways that go...
Paul Cudenec
The truth about Davos
Monday January 20 sees the start of the World Economic Forum’s 2025 meeting at Davos, Switzerland.
4 days ago
Monday January 20 sees the start of the World Economic Forum’s 2025 meeting at Davos, Switzerland.
Notes on software...
Logical replication in Postgres: Basics
This is an external post of mine. Click
here
if you are not redirected.
4 days ago
This is an external post of mine. Click
here
if you are not redirected.
Overcoming Bias
What Would Socrates Do?
Christians often ask themselves, as a guide to living, “What would Jesus do?” In her new book Open...
5 days ago
Christians often ask themselves, as a guide to living, “What would Jesus do?” In her new book Open Socrates, my podcast-cohost Agnes Callard suggests we instead ask “What would Socrates do?”
Escaping Flatland
A funny thing about curiosity
Following your curiosity, you can bring something new and beautiful into the world as a gift to...
5 days ago
Following your curiosity, you can bring something new and beautiful into the world as a gift to others. But to go there you have to do things that others will think stupid and embarrassing.
GeoCurrents
Utah’s Declining Fertility Rate and the Changing Mormon Church
On the U.S. Total Fertility Rate (TFR) map of 2008, Utah clearly stands out. At the time, the...
5 days ago
On the U.S. Total Fertility Rate (TFR) map of 2008, Utah clearly stands out. At the time, the state’s TFR was 2.60, well above the national average of 2.08. Utah’s relatively high birth rate has usually been linked to the demographic dominance of members of the Church of Jesus...
Both Are True
why isn't there an A24 for kids?
my toddler has terrible taste and I've had enough
5 days ago
my toddler has terrible taste and I've had enough
escape the algorithm
So you want to escape the algorithm
A primer
5 days ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Transcarent, AI Therapists, Interoperability, and more | Out-Of-Pocket
Plus Out-Of-Pocket is hiring!!
5 days ago
Plus Out-Of-Pocket is hiring!!
Irrational...
Bridging theory and practice in engineering strategy.
Some people I’ve worked with have lost hope that engineering strategy
actually exists within any...
5 days ago
Some people I’ve worked with have lost hope that engineering strategy
actually exists within any engineering organizations.
I imagine that they, reading through the
steps to build engineering strategy,
or the strategy for navigating private equity ownership,
are not impressed....
Unfiltered by Tim...
A Japanese Ikigai is Bullsh*t And Won't Help You Figure Out Your Life
Ignore the self-help gurus
5 days ago
Ignore the self-help gurus
Handprinted - Blog
Kathryn Desforges: Meet The Maker
I'm Kathryn Desforges, a Devon-born, Yorkshire-based artist with a passion for printmaking, process,...
5 days ago
I'm Kathryn Desforges, a Devon-born, Yorkshire-based artist with a passion for printmaking, process, and material experimentation. I specialise in etching, lithography and woodcut, and alongside my studio practice, my career as a printmaking technician and tutor intertwines with...
Cremieux Recueil
National IQs Are Valid
National IQ estimates are robust, reliable, and realistic
5 days ago
National IQ estimates are robust, reliable, and realistic
Noahpinion
The Pettis Paradigm and the Second China Shock
Will tariffs help rebalance the global economy (and the Chinese economy)?
5 days ago
Will tariffs help rebalance the global economy (and the Chinese economy)?
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #52: A right to air conditioning?
Plus how New Zealand solved a housing crisis, dodgy Chinese robotaxis and Newsnight reviewing...
5 days ago
Plus how New Zealand solved a housing crisis, dodgy Chinese robotaxis and Newsnight reviewing videogames.
Society's Backend
Call of Duty has a data science problem
A lesson in why data science matters and what makes it so complex
5 days ago
A lesson in why data science matters and what makes it so complex
lcamtuf’s thing
Random object: Sony Mavica MVC-FD73
Floppy disk digital cameras, or why our views of technological progress are not always rooted in...
5 days ago
Floppy disk digital cameras, or why our views of technological progress are not always rooted in reality.
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Giving pushback to leadership
Saying no to leadership is sometimes necessary when you’re at the helm of a project. Whether they’re...
5 days ago
Saying no to leadership is sometimes necessary when you’re at the helm of a project. Whether they’re proposing a timeline that can’t be…
DYNOMIGHT
I am offering mentoring
What is this?
I am offering to act as a “mentor”, to you, in case that seems like something you’d...
5 days ago
What is this?
I am offering to act as a “mentor”, to you, in case that seems like something you’d find useful.
How will it work?
We will meet three times for 30 minutes. During those sessions, I’ll try to help you do whatever it is you’re trying to do. Then I’ll sit back and...
mtlynch.io
Overcoming Gotchas in Samsung Secure Erase
I have a few Samsung SSDs, and I always have trouble remembering the process of secure erasing them,...
5 days ago
I have a few Samsung SSDs, and I always have trouble remembering the process of secure erasing them, as Samsung Magician software is terrible.
Here are my notes for overcoming Samsung Magician’s gotchas in the process of secure erasing a Samsung SSD.
You need a Windows or MacOS...
Good Enough
TIL: Tiptap Excerpt Extension with Rails
While building Pika’s Stream of posts layout, we had need to add the capability to manage excerpts...
5 days ago
While building Pika’s Stream of posts layout, we had need to add the capability to manage excerpts in the Pika editor.
These excerpts would be used to show a small portion of your post in a post stream while offering a “continue reading” link for readers to click to read the rest...
Chris Grossack's...
Where Do Those Undergraduate Divisibility Problems Come From?
Oftentimes in your “intro to proofs” class or your first “discrete math” class
or something...
5 days ago
Oftentimes in your “intro to proofs” class or your first “discrete math” class
or something similar, you’ll be shown problems of the form “prove that for
$n^6 + n^3 + 2n^2 + 2n$ is a multiple of $6$ for every $n$”… But where do
these problems come from? And have you ever...
Res Obscura
2,000-year-old wine and the uncanny immediacy of the past
Why artifacts like the Carmona Wine Urn, the Pazyryk Rug, and the Sword of Goujian are so important
6 days ago
Why artifacts like the Carmona Wine Urn, the Pazyryk Rug, and the Sword of Goujian are so important
Bits about Money
Bits about Money yearly recap and plans
What we covered in 2024, what are plans are in 2025, and a solicitation for supporting memberships.
6 days ago
What we covered in 2024, what are plans are in 2025, and a solicitation for supporting memberships.
The Elysian
What movement does the world need now?
Your answers to December's writing prompt.
6 days ago
Your answers to December's writing prompt.
Archinect - Features
Inside the Multidimensional Worlds of Squint/Opera and Journey
In 2022, two decades after their founding, creative agency Squint/Opera joined forces with fellow...
6 days ago
In 2022, two decades after their founding, creative agency Squint/Opera joined forces with fellow studios ICRAVE, 59, and VMI Studio under the banner of Journey, a "superpowered organization" bridging physical and digital design. Long before the merger, Squint/Opera had...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Tools As Ways of Being
I took notes from Sean Voisen’s call for more hybrid tools. He speaks for a moment on generative AI...
6 days ago
I took notes from Sean Voisen’s call for more hybrid tools. He speaks for a moment on generative AI and its inclusion into existing tools, but reading between the lines the insight I found was how our tools can trigger empathy for people and disciplines:
One of the greatest goals...
Map of the Week
Los Angeles Wildfire Extent
The extent of the forest fires in and around Los Angeles is horrific and may become even worse in...
6 days ago
The extent of the forest fires in and around Los Angeles is horrific and may become even worse in the next few days. The New York Times has some very detailed maps showing the extent of destruction. Here is a close up of Altadena from the Hurst Fire.
via New York Times -...
Computer Things
What are the Rosettas of formal specification?
First of all, I just released version 0.6 of Logic for Programmers! You can get it here. Release...
6 days ago
First of all, I just released version 0.6 of Logic for Programmers! You can get it here. Release notes in the footnote.1
I've been thinking about my next project after the book's done. One idea is to do a survey of new formal specification languages. There's been a lot of new...
Raptitude.com
The Tiniest Mission
Sometimes doing a small thing can be extremely satisfying, out of all proportion to how easy it is:...
6 days ago
Sometimes doing a small thing can be extremely satisfying, out of all proportion to how easy it is: placing a jigsaw puzzle piece into the right slot, wiping your phone screen spotless, returning a tool to its designated hook, or making a nice diagonal cut across a lovingly-made...
Marcus on AI
AI Agents: Hype versus Reality, redux
The contrast couldn’t be starker
6 days ago
The contrast couldn’t be starker
Stat Significant
What Are the Greatest Sequels of All Time? A Statistical Analysis
What are the best movie sequels, and why?
6 days ago
What are the best movie sequels, and why?
Math Is Still...
Mathematicians Discover New Way for Spheres to ‘Kiss’
A new proof marks the first progress in decades on important cases of the so-called kissing problem....
6 days ago
A new proof marks the first progress in decades on important cases of the so-called kissing problem. Getting there meant doing away with traditional approaches.
The post Mathematicians Discover New Way for Spheres to ‘Kiss’ first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Artificial Ignorance
The greatest movies never made
A look into the world of AI-generated movie trailer slop.
6 days ago
A look into the world of AI-generated movie trailer slop.
Birchtree
First look at my next big thing (members post)
I've been working on something new, but it's not ready for prime time.
6 days ago
I've been working on something new, but it's not ready for prime time.
Product Identity
Looking for humanness in the world wide social
This is the first part of a series on the identity of social networks.
6 days ago
This is the first part of a series on the identity of social networks.
Common Edge
Architecture Students on AI
What happens when a studio course offers AI tools and a real-world housing crisis.
6 days ago
What happens when a studio course offers AI tools and a real-world housing crisis.
Astral Codex Ten
How To Stop Worrying And Learn To Love Lynn's National IQ Estimates
...
6 days ago
Uncharted...
Ten New US Cities: 1. Guantanamo City
Why we should turn Guantanamo Bay into Guantanamo City
6 days ago
Why we should turn Guantanamo Bay into Guantanamo City
Wrong Side of...
The Terrible Loneliness of Genius
The Canon Club: Vincent van Gogh
6 days ago
The Canon Club: Vincent van Gogh
Trying to Understand...
When Ukraine Is Over ...
How will they turn out the lights?
6 days ago
How will they turn out the lights?
Infinite Scroll
Stop Coping About TikTok
It's proving that it deserves the ban
6 days ago
It's proving that it deserves the ban
Retail Design Blog
Bun Pastry & Beverages by Architect Nonsense
Bun Pastry & Beverages is a small café located in Thaimuang District, Phang Nga Province, Thailand....
6 days ago
Bun Pastry & Beverages is a small café located in Thaimuang District, Phang Nga Province, Thailand. The project stems from...
Seth's Blog
Good advice
The cult of consulting suggests that if you simply had better advice from someone who knew more than...
6 days ago
The cult of consulting suggests that if you simply had better advice from someone who knew more than you, your problems could be solved. Generally, the advice isn’t really the hard part. There’s endless good advice just a click away. The art is in creating the conditions for...
History Today Feed
Who Was the Real Henry III?
Who Was the Real Henry III?
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/15/2025 - 09:30
6 days ago
Who Was the Real Henry III?
JamesHoare
Wed, 01/15/2025 - 09:30
Atoms vs Bits
80/20 Will Writing
It's not as hard as you think
6 days ago
It's not as hard as you think
Open Culture
Do You Really Need to Take 10,000 Steps a Day?
We are regularly urged to take 10,000 steps a day. However, it turns out 10,000 isn’t exactly a...
6 days ago
We are regularly urged to take 10,000 steps a day. However, it turns out 10,000 isn’t exactly a number anchored in science. Rather, it’s a product of marketing. According to a Harvard medical website, that figure goes back to “1965, when a Japanese company made a device named...
diamond geezer
Midwinter Day
Officially Midsummer Day is 24th June.
Midwinter Day.
Midwinter is today.
And midwinter is also...
6 days ago
Officially Midsummer Day is 24th June.
Midwinter Day.
Midwinter is today.
And midwinter is also 4th February.
astronomical definition of winter is the period between the winter solstice and the spring equinox. Winter is 89 days long so we're looking for the 45th day after the...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Art Is Wild As a Cat'
Nige tells me he attended
a reading at Cambridge given by Stevie Smith not long before her death in...
6 days ago
Nige tells me he attended
a reading at Cambridge given by Stevie Smith not long before her death in 1971.
“I remember [her],” he writes, “more for her extraordinary presence and her
eccentric, but very effective way of reading her work. . . . [A]t the time I
was a young...
The American Scholar
Casa Gorín
The post Casa Gorín appeared first on The American Scholar.
6 days ago
The post Casa Gorín appeared first on The American Scholar.
Christopher Butler
Persuasion is Plural
Earn attention before you use it.
Persuasion is never one thing. It’s at least two: first,...
6 days ago
Earn attention before you use it.
Persuasion is never one thing. It’s at least two: first, persuading someone to pay attention, and second, persuading them that your thing is worth their time, money, or effort.
Most marketers and designers focus their energy on the second...
./techtipsy
Backing up another PC with a single Ethernet cable
I was in a pinch.
I needed to make a full disk backup of a PC, but I had no external storage device...
6 days ago
I was in a pinch.
I needed to make a full disk backup of a PC, but I had no external storage device with me to store it on.
The local Wi-Fi network was also way too slow to transfer the disk over it.
All I had was my laptop with an Ethernet port, a Fedora Linux USB stick, and a...
The Honest Broker
A Manifesto in Defense of Courtship
Today the Honest Broker gives love advice
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Today the Honest Broker gives love advice
Mazdak
Big Tech Layoffs, Musk Acquiring TikTok, ChatGPT's New Features, ...
Meta is executing a strategic 5% workforce reduction, but this isn't your typical layoff.
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Meta is executing a strategic 5% workforce reduction, but this isn't your typical layoff.
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A surprising scam email that evaded Gmail's spam filter
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U.S. TikTokers flock to Xiaohongshu, baffling and bonding with Chinese users
Americans are joining the Chinese social media app en masse to protest an imminent TikTok ban.
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Americans are joining the Chinese social media app en masse to protest an imminent TikTok ban.
99% Invisible
Ancient DMs
Archaeologists searching through the ruins of the very ancient past are always happy to come across...
a week ago
Archaeologists searching through the ruins of the very ancient past are always happy to come across an epic poem or a historical chronicle, but very often the hardest documents to find are the ones that tell historians something about everyday life. About what it was like to be a...
Classical Wisdom
6 Ancient Greek and Roman Classics Everyone Should Read
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anderegg.ca
Two flavours of open social media
Yesterday, the Mastodon team announced it would be handing over control of its project to a new...
a week ago
Yesterday, the Mastodon team announced it would be handing over control of its project to a new non-profit organization. The timing of this announcement is perfect given everything that’s happening with WordPress, Meta, and… well, everything else. To date, I think Eugen Rochko...
The Marginalian
The Countercultural Sanity of the Irrational: Pioneering Psychiatrist Otto Rank on the Blind Spots...
In one crucial respect at least, the human animal does not pass the mirror test of self-knowledge:...
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In one crucial respect at least, the human animal does not pass the mirror test of self-knowledge: We move through the world by impulse and emotion, then look back and rationalize our choices, declaring ourselves creatures of reason. Western civilization, with its structural bias...
Flashbak
A Kodachrome Trip To Lord Howe Island in 1961
in 1961, a groud of freinds took a flight to Lord Howe Island, an irregularly crescent-shaped...
a week ago
in 1961, a groud of freinds took a flight to Lord Howe Island, an irregularly crescent-shaped volcanic remnant in the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand, part of the Australian state of New South Wales. Many decades later the album of kodachrome photos they took were...
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Macaroni
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At least she holds back how the heat death is...
a week ago
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At least she holds back how the heat death is pointless and without meaning!
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The Life & Mysterious Disappearance of Glenn Miller
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Confessions of a...
Live Session: How Modern CPUs Execute Your Code: A Deep Dive into Performance
I hope you enjoyed the recent article on how Unix spell was designed to lookup a 250kB dictionary on...
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I hope you enjoyed the recent article on how Unix spell was designed to lookup a 250kB dictionary on a 64kB machine. Writing it wore me down.
Nat Eliason's...
Between Drafts: The Podcast for Writers and Aspiring Authors
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Calculated Risk
Part 1: Current State of the Housing Market; Overview for mid-January 2025
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Part 1: Current State of the Housing Market;...
a week ago
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Part 1: Current State of the Housing Market; Overview for mid-January 2025
A brief excerpt:
This 2-part overview for mid-January provides a snapshot of the current housing market.
tells the tale! I’m watching...
IEEE Spectrum
Asimov's Laws of Robotics Need an Update for AI
In 1942, the legendary science fiction author Isaac Asimov introduced his Three Laws of Robotics in...
a week ago
In 1942, the legendary science fiction author Isaac Asimov introduced his Three Laws of Robotics in his short story “Runaround.” The laws were later popularized in his seminal story collection I, Robot.
First Law: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow...
The Diff
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Hidden History
The Marco Polo Bridge Incident
For Europeans, the Second World War started on September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland. For...
a week ago
For Europeans, the Second World War started on September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland. For the United States, it began with the December 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. But for Asians, the war began on June 7, 1937, at the Marco Polo Bridge in China. The Second...
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