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Fonts In Use – Blog...
The arcane alphabets of Black Sabbath Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: fontsinuse.com Nick Sherman. License: All Rights Reserved....
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Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: fontsinuse.com Nick Sherman. License: All Rights Reserved. Black Sabbath’s first four studio albums – Black Sabbath, Paranoid, Master of Reality, and Vol 4, released in rapid succession between 1970 and 1972 – laid much of the...
journal – Winnie Lim
do what we can I was telling my partner that though I love the sense of accomplishment when I finish a travel...
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I was telling my partner that though I love the sense of accomplishment when I finish a travel sketchbook, it inhibits me from doing more travel sketching because the thought of completing...
Val Sopi
You Probably Can! "I can't do this!" —— that's what my mind was telling me. I was running on the beach when that...
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"I can't do this!" —— that's what my mind was telling me. I was running on the beach when that thought popped up in my head. It was pitch perfect weather. Morning. A vail of a cloud slightly blocking the full radiation of the sun. However, if meditation has taught me one thing,...
Farza's Newsletter
hans zimmer and me got a burrito in sf but it was just a dream my life is a lie man Hey everyone :).
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The Codist
What Is A Good Programmer? Am I a good programmer? The short answer is: I don’t know what that means. I have been programming...
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Am I a good programmer? The short answer is: I don’t know what that means. I have been programming for 52 years now, having started in a public high school class in 1973, which is pretty rare because few high schools offered such an opportunity back then. I
computers are bad
2025-07-27 a technical history of alcatraz Alcatraz first operated as a prison in 1859, when the military fort first held convicted soldiers....
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Alcatraz first operated as a prison in 1859, when the military fort first held convicted soldiers. The prison technology of the time was simple, consisting of little more than a basement room with a trap-door entrance. Only small numbers of prisoners were held in this period,...
Weighty Thoughts
The US Should Run Faster on AI Instead of Trying to Trip Up China Export Controls and Trump's New AI Action Plan
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 128: AI Action Plan July 25, 2025.
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Computer Things
Programming Language Escape Hatches The excellent-but-defunct blog Programming in the 21st Century defines "puzzle languages" as...
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The excellent-but-defunct blog Programming in the 21st Century defines "puzzle languages" as languages were part of the appeal is in figuring out how to express a program idiomatically, like a puzzle. As examples, he lists Haskell, Erlang, and J. All puzzle languages, the author...
Construction Physics
Where are Vacation Homes Located in the US? As of 2023, the US has around 142.3 million housing units: roughly one home for every 2.4 people in...
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Charlie Becker
Fumbling Toward Truth and Beauty in Used Bookstores CBL #95 | A dispatch from a Sunday at the store
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Laetitia@Work
Careless People: how power destroys empathy Laetitia@Work #83
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charity.wtf
How We Migrated the Parse API From Ruby to Golang (Resurrected) I wrote a lot of blog posts over my time at Parse, but they all evaporated after Facebook killed the...
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I wrote a lot of blog posts over my time at Parse, but they all evaporated after Facebook killed the product. Most of them I didn’t care about (there were, ahem, a lot of status updates and “service reliability announcements”, but I was mad about losing this one in particular, a...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet The Maker: Polly Marix Evans Hello, I’m Polly, and I’m a linocut printmaker based in the Eden Valley in rural Cumbria. Much of my...
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Hello, I’m Polly, and I’m a linocut printmaker based in the Eden Valley in rural Cumbria. Much of my work features a character known as Bun-Head, a feisty woman who has come to hold a special place in the hearts of her many followers.  My prints are simplistic, using contrasting...
Global Inequality...
New Capitalism in America Richest capitalists and richest workers are increasingly the same people
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nanoscale views
Research experience for teachers - why NSF education funds matter The beginning of a RET poster session Research Experience for Teachers (RET) programs are an...
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The beginning of a RET poster session Research Experience for Teachers (RET) programs are an example of the kind of programs that the National Science Foundation funds which are focused on K12 (and broader) education. This summer I hosted a high school physics teacher in my lab...
Trying to Understand...
Layer Upon Layer. It's Empires all the way down.
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Citation Needed
Issue 89 – Crypto wins in Washington with midnight calls, chocolate bars, and a $141 million threat Trump stands to profit from a $2 billion bitcoin bet as the crypto industry pushes through bills...
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GeoCurrents
Mapping the Return of the Gray Wolf to California One of the most surprising aspects of the recovery of the gray wolf in the United States is the...
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One of the most surprising aspects of the recovery of the gray wolf in the United States is the return of the species to California. Wolves had been eliminated from the state in the 1920s and were not expected to return any soon time, if at all. But in 2011, a single wolf made...
David Heinemeier...
It's a Beelink, baby It's only been two months since I discovered the power and joy of this new generation of mini PCs....
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It's only been two months since I discovered the power and joy of this new generation of mini PCs. My journey started out with a Minisforum UM870, which is a lovely machine, but since then, I've come to really appreciate the work of Beelink.  In a crowded market for mini PCs,...
The Beauty of...
A Change of Course – Honing Network Rail’s Wayfinding Guidance Finding your way around a Network Rail station is becoming another step easier. The publication of...
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Finding your way around a Network Rail station is becoming another step easier. The publication of the most recent version of Network Rail’s Wayfinding design manual represents the latest step in the company’s quest to design the best possible signage system for stations. Given...
The Works in...
Tram trains How to build cheap transit in smaller towns
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Cheese and Biscuits
Bo.Tic, Corçà You will probably be aware that Catalonia has well more than its fair share of influential...
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You will probably be aware that Catalonia has well more than its fair share of influential restaurants, a tradition that runs from El Bulli through Can Roca and Disfrutar and has fanned out in all kinds of interesting ways across all levels of the culinary scene, from the most...
The Marginalian
A Plasticity of Being: What a Rare Bird of Prey Reveals about the Deepest Meaning of Intelligence “True teachers are called into being by the contradictions generated by civilization,” the poet Gary...
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“True teachers are called into being by the contradictions generated by civilization,” the poet Gary Snyder reflected in his reckoning with the real work of life. “We need them.” We have always needed them because we need each other, because we have always been each other’s...
TokyoDev
How to Network as a Developer (Without Feeling Sleazy) “One of the comments that sparked this article,” our founder Paul McMahon told me, “was someone...
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“One of the comments that sparked this article,” our founder Paul McMahon told me, “was someone saying, ‘I don’t really want to do networking because it seems kind of sleazy. I’m not that kind of person.’” I guess that’s the key misconception people have when they hear...
mtlynch.io
Migrating a ZFS pool from RAIDZ1 to RAIDZ2 p img { display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; } I recently upgraded my home...
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p img { display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; } I recently upgraded my home TrueNAS server and migrated 18 TB of data from a 4-disk RAIDZ1 ZFS pool to a new RAIDZ2 pool. The neat part is that I did it with only three additional 8 TB disks and never...
A Collection of...
Gap Week, July 25, 2025 Hey folks! I am on vacation this week, so you’ll have to wait till next week to get the next...
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Hey folks! I am on vacation this week, so you’ll have to wait till next week to get the next installment of “Life, Work, Death and the Peasant.” However, if you are looking for some ACOUP content to fill your Friday, I have a few suggestions! First, if you want some of my writing...
Commoncog
The Tatas: When Virtue Works Why are the Tatas so much less corrupt than their contemporaries? How is their conglomerate still...
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Why are the Tatas so much less corrupt than their contemporaries? How is their conglomerate still intact after five generations? The answer to an Asian conglomerate mystery, and Part 13 of the Asian conglomerate series.
Machine Learning for...
ML for SWEs #60: The skills software engineers should focus on to get involved with AI Curated SWE AI Content, Jobs, and Resources 7-22-2025
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Both Are True
writing my way home from jello to hello and back again
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Computer Ads from...
Plus Post: Gemini Galaxy 1 The cost effective solution to your computer needs for only £1,450
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The Ruffian
NEW PODCAST: Helen Thompson on Britain's Next Crisis Why a Fiscal Reckoning Is Imminent and What the Fallout Will Be
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Flashbak
Phenomena of Materialisation : Investigating The Naked Psychic Eva Carrière “Miss Eva prepared the heads before every séance, and endeavoured to make them unrecognizable. A...
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“Miss Eva prepared the heads before every séance, and endeavoured to make them unrecognizable. A clean-shaven face was decorated with a beard. Grey hairs became black curls, a broad forehead was made into a narrow one. But, in spite of all her endeavours, she could not obliterate...
Noahpinion
The anti-immigration backlash comes to Japan It was always bound to happen.
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The American Scholar
“Lament” by Thom Gunn Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Lament” by Thom Gunn appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Damn Interesting
Omiword, a Word Game In certain dialects of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese, the word for ‘four’ sounds very...
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In certain dialects of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese, the word for ‘four’ sounds very similar to the word for ‘death’1. Consequently, the number 4 is considered by many people in East Asian nations to be unlucky. It is not unusual for buildings in that region to skip...
Classical Wisdom
What is Freedom? Lessons from Epictetus, the Stoic-Slave
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Ed Zitron's Where's...
The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble Hey! Before we go any further — if you want to support my work, please sign up for the premium...
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Hey! Before we go any further — if you want to support my work, please sign up for the premium version of Where’s Your Ed At, it’s a $7-a-month (or $70-a-year) paid product where every week you get a premium newsletter, all while supporting my free
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Canon Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I don't know if we need any kind of formal Canon of...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I don't know if we need any kind of formal Canon of unread texts. I just think it'd be nice if we all failed to read the same cultural touchstones, you know? Today's News:
Out-of-Pocket Blog
What goes into SOC 2 and HITRUST? (with Vanta) | Out-Of-Pocket
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Blog System/5
Bazel and action (non-) determinism A key feature of Bazel is its ability to produce fast, reliable builds by caching the output of...
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RhysTranter.com
Rome Pilgrimage: Jubilee Year, 2025 This July, Jenn and I journeyed to Rome as part of a Jubilee Year pilgrimage with a group of...
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This July, Jenn and I journeyed to Rome as part of a Jubilee Year pilgrimage with a group of colleagues from St David’s Catholic College. We passed through the Holy Doors of St Peter’s, St John Lateran, St Paul Outside the Walls, and St Mary Major, where the remains of Pope...
Quanta Magazine
AI Comes Up with Bizarre Physics Experiments. But They Work. Artificial intelligence software is designing novel experimental protocols that improve upon the...
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Artificial intelligence software is designing novel experimental protocols that improve upon the work of human physicists, although the humans are still “doing a lot of baby-sitting.” The post AI Comes Up with Bizarre Physics Experiments. But They Work. first appeared...
Atoms vs Bits
Prisoners Dilemmas In Corporate America it's sad, honestly.
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Arduino Blog
Dive into satellite IoT with the new Arduino-compatible Iridium Certus 9704 Development Kit IoT (Internet of Things) devices can be very useful, but they do, by definition, require internet...
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IoT (Internet of Things) devices can be very useful, but they do, by definition, require internet access. That’s easy enough when Wi-Fi® is available, and it is even possible to rely on LoRa® and cellular data connections to transmit data outside of urban areas. However,...
Archinect - Features
Archinect City Guide: Get Your Portland Travel Tips from Chris Brown of Observation... Archinect City Guide dives into Portland, Oregon, today, featuring some of the favorite spots for...
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Archinect City Guide dives into Portland, Oregon, today, featuring some of the favorite spots for dining, gallery-hopping, and discovery shared by Observation Studio founding principal Chris Brown. (Avid Archinect readers will remember him from our Studio Snapshot of Linden,...
NeuroLogica Blog
The Epstein Files Hubbub I have been away on vacation for the last week and a half, so I thought I would ease back into...
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I have been away on vacation for the last week and a half, so I thought I would ease back into blogging with a light non-controversial topic – the Epstein Files. OK – let’s all take a collective deep breath. Everyone – and I mean everyone – I talk to about this issue has strong...
Common Edge
Dateline January 2026: Mayor Mamdani Unveils His Affordable Housing Plan! The new mayor creates the Affordable Housing Authority, bringing the power of government to bear on...
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The new mayor creates the Affordable Housing Authority, bringing the power of government to bear on a problem that the private sector has failed to solve.
Yale E360
Paying the People: Liberia’s Novel Plan to Save Its Forests Plagued by illegal logging and corruption, Liberia has been losing its forests at an alarming rate....
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Plagued by illegal logging and corruption, Liberia has been losing its forests at an alarming rate. But its new strategy to make direct payments to communities that agree to prohibit cutting and protect their trees is seen as a potential model for other developing nations. Read...
Retail Design Blog
Scented Coffee by No10-Architects Baoshan, a prominent global coffee-producing region, has witnessed a surge in boutique cafes amid...
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Baoshan, a prominent global coffee-producing region, has witnessed a surge in boutique cafes amid its thriving industry. Scented Coffee, a...
Rest of World -...
Why the world should stop obsessing over LLMs Nandan Nilekani, the mind behind India’s digital revolution, says the future of AI will not be...
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Nandan Nilekani, the mind behind India’s digital revolution, says the future of AI will not be shaped by who builds the bigger model but by small systems designed to resolve real-world problems.
Seth's Blog
Resilience is a practice It’s easy to imagine that we should do our work and then, when it doesn’t work as we hope, improvise...
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It’s easy to imagine that we should do our work and then, when it doesn’t work as we hope, improvise to fix it. But perhaps our work is to show up ready and willing to deal with a future we didn’t expect. I keep writing about it because we all need to keep thinking about […]
History Today Feed
‘Make the Foreigner Pay’: When Britain Tried Tariffs ‘Make the Foreigner Pay’: When Britain Tried Tariffs JamesHoare Mon, 07/21/2025 - 09:23
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Open Culture
The Devilish History of the 1980s Parental Advisory Sticker: When Heavy Metal & Satanic Lyrics... Frank Zappa called them the “Mothers of Prevention,” the group of wives married to members of...
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Frank Zappa called them the “Mothers of Prevention,” the group of wives married to members of Congress who decided in the mid-80s to go to war against rock lyrics and whip up some good ol’ conservative hysteria. We’ve talked about this time before on this site, especially as...
Maps Mania
How Hazardous is Your Town?
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diamond geezer
Grove Park Nature Reserve For today's post I selected a six-figure grid reference somewhere in London, entirely at random, and...
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For today's post I selected a six-figure grid reference somewhere in London, entirely at random, and then visited the selected spot. That'll make a change from posting about railways, I thought. But I thought wrong. Random grid reference: TQ402727 Grove Park Nature Reserve...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Beware Also of Tellers of Tall Tales' Advice can be dangerous stuff. If taken and the result is unfortunate, disappointment and resentment...
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Advice can be dangerous stuff. If taken and the result is unfortunate, disappointment and resentment will likely follow. “Advice is offensive,” Dr. Johnson warns. Often it is motivated not by a wish to be helpful but simply by presumptuous egotism, a desire to impose one’s will....
xkcd.com
iNaturalist Animals and Plants
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Explosm.net
Comic for 2025.07.21 - Foreplay New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
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ntietz.com blog -...
Covers as a way of learning music and code When you're just getting started with music, you have so many skills to learn. You have to be able...
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When you're just getting started with music, you have so many skills to learn. You have to be able to play your instrument and express yourself through it. You need to know the style you're playing, and its idioms and conventions. You may want to record your music, and need all...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Zed debug setup for go server / Svelte web app Today I figured out how to setup Zed to debug, at the same time, my go server and Svelte web app. My...
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Today I figured out how to setup Zed to debug, at the same time, my go server and Svelte web app. My dev setup for working on my web app is: go server is run with -run-dev arg go server provides backend apis and proxies requests it doesn’t handle to a vite dev server that does...
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Ontario, Bonus Days On what was supposed to be the final morning, we entered Toronto Pearson Airport to catch an 11:00...
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On what was supposed to be the final morning, we entered Toronto Pearson Airport to catch an 11:00 am Sunday flight back to Washington, DC. We finally threw in the towel around 6:00 pm after American Airlines repeatedly postponed the departure due to mechanical issues with the...
BLDGBLOG
Seer A few weeks ago, The Economist looked at the growing problem of “ubiquitous technical surveillance”...
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A few weeks ago, The Economist looked at the growing problem of “ubiquitous technical surveillance” in the field of espionage. It describes the difficulty of maintaining a rigorous or believable cover story, for example, when genealogy websites might be consulted by adversarial...
BLDGBLOG
Seer A few weeks ago, The Economist looked at the growing problem of “ubiquitous technical surveillance”...
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A few weeks ago, The Economist looked at the growing problem of “ubiquitous technical surveillance” in the field of espionage. It describes the difficulty of maintaining a rigorous or believable cover story, for example, when genealogy websites might be consulted by adversarial...
Dreams of Space -...
My Weekly Reader March 12, 1962 Happy Moon Day! This is the last of this batch of My Weekly Readers. I hope you haven't gotten too...
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Happy Moon Day! This is the last of this batch of My Weekly Readers. I hope you haven't gotten too tired of this summer break. In this issue we celebrate the USA in Space. This March 12th issue celebrates John Glenn's success and looking forward to the next set of missions...
The Honest Broker
Could the Next Netflix or Spotify Be an Artists-Owned Cooperative? And other YouTube videos I'm enjoying right now
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TheCollector
What Is the Celtic Revival? (History, Art, and Impact) The Celtic Revival, which began in 19th-century Ireland, was a resurgence of popular interest in a...
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The Celtic Revival, which began in 19th-century Ireland, was a resurgence of popular interest in a variety of Celtic and medieval Irish traditions, including art, language, and mythology. The movement held great significance for Irish art history and archaeology, as well as for...
Spoon & Tamago
Flushing into the Future: Toto’s High-Tech Health Tracker Imagine sitting on your toilet and getting a personalized health report sent straight to your phone....
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Imagine sitting on your toilet and getting a personalized health report sent straight to your phone. No clinic visit, no awkward conversations. Just data, insight, and… well, your poop. This isn’t science fiction anymore. Toilets in Japan have long been known for their...
Irrational...
Commenting on Notion docs via OpenAI and Zapier. One of my side quests at work is to get a simple feedback loop going where we can create knowledge...
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One of my side quests at work is to get a simple feedback loop going where we can create knowledge bases that comment on Notion documents. I was curious if I could hook this together following these requirements: No custom code hosting Prompt is editable within Notion rather than...
Chris Grossack's...
Free Things Are Complicated (Especially the Sphere Spectrum!) I’ve spent the last week at CT2025, which has just come to a close. It was great getting to see so...
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I’ve spent the last week at CT2025, which has just come to a close. It was great getting to see so many old friends and meet so many new ones, and every time I go to a CT I’m reminded of just how much category theory there is in the world, as well as just how much I enjoy all...
Confessions of a...
x86 Assembly Exercise #1: Toy kill Program (Solution) A step-by-step walkthrough of the toy kill program using raw Linux syscalls.
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Spoon & Tamago
Joe Hisaishi’s ‘Summer’ Reimagined as a Short Film Originally composed as the main theme for Takeshi Kitano’s 1999 film Kikujiro, Joe Hisaishi’s...
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Originally composed as the main theme for Takeshi Kitano’s 1999 film Kikujiro, Joe Hisaishi’s timeless piece “Summer” has long been cherished in Japan as the soundtrack of nostalgic summer memories. Now, this beloved masterpiece is reimagined as a short film. Set in a high school...
Irrational...
Moving from an orchestration-heavy to leadership-heavy management role. For managers who have spent a long time reporting to a specific leader or working in an organization...
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For managers who have spent a long time reporting to a specific leader or working in an organization with well‑understood goals, it’s easy to develop skill gaps without realizing it. Usually this happens because those skills were not particularly important in the environment you...
The Elysian
An annotated reading of "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace" The techno-utopian poem by Richard Brautigan.
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Musings on Markets
To Bitcoin or not to Bitcoin? A Corporate Cash Question! In this post, I will bring together two disparate and very different topics that I have written...
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In this post, I will bring together two disparate and very different topics that I have written about in the past. The first is the role that cash holdings play in a business, an extension of the dividend policy question, with an examination of why businesses often should not pay...
Blog - Mac Pierce
And around we go... Making We're So Over, We're So Back The process of making an single purpose art PC that uses an aluminum casting as the radiator for a...
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Irrational...
Advancing the industry, part two. I’m turning forty in a few weeks, and there’s a listicle archetype along the lines of “Things I’ve...
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I’m turning forty in a few weeks, and there’s a listicle archetype along the lines of “Things I’ve learned in the first half of my career as I turn forty and have now worked roughly twenty years in the technology industry.” How do you write that and make it good? Don’t ask me. I...
the singularity is...
The World After Wireheading Hold my hand, grow my skin Erica Western Geiger Counter Do you have any addictions? You may not...
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Hold my hand, grow my skin Erica Western Geiger Counter Do you have any addictions? You may not register them as such, perhaps because they don’t lead to anything you consider harmful consequences. But you have them. In some ways, all your behavior is compulsive. What would the...
Drew Ex Machina
The Soviet Zond 3 Lunar Flyby: Revealing the Rest of the Far Side Naturally, the early history of space exploration is filled with firsts. Just six decades ago at...
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Naturally, the early history of space exploration is filled with firsts. Just six decades ago at this time, the world watched as NASA’s Mariner 4 spacecraft […]