Anarchy Unfolds
Age of Empires but make it Solarpunk
My favorite strategy game re-imagined
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escape the algorithm
ETA's Best links of 2024
Relinking some Links links
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blag
How bloom filters made SQLite 10x faster
This is the fascinating story of how researchers used Bloom filters cleverly to make SQLite 10x...
23 hours ago
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Benny Kuriakose
Hiring Experienced Engineers and Architects at Benny Kuriakose and Associates
Benny Kuriakose and Associates is now inviting applications, which offer an opportunity for...
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African History...
on the Nubian priests of Rome and the Moors of Spain
When the 12th-century West African scholar Ibrahim al-Kanemi moved to the city of Seville in Spain...
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Cheese and Biscuits
Tuétano Taqueria, San Diego
On the shortest day of the year, in the middle of the gloomiest and wettest of England's gloom and...
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Quantum Frontiers
Finding Ed Jaynes’s ghost
You might have heard of the conundrum “What do you give the man who has everything?” I discovered a...
10 hours ago
You might have heard of the conundrum “What do you give the man who has everything?” I discovered a variation on it last October: how do you celebrate the man who studied (nearly) everything? Physicist Edwin Thompson Jaynes impacted disciplines from quantum information theory to...
GeoCurrents
Hope and Peril in Somaliland
As noted in the previous GeoCurrents post, the incoming Trump administration is considering the...
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The faded world: my experience with cataract
<![CDATA[I always preferred the light theme and never figured what's the fuss with the dark theme....
yesterday
<![CDATA[I always preferred the light theme and never figured what's the fuss with the dark theme. Until cataract came.
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A Smart Bear
When you have nothing: How to find potential customers to interview
How do you find potential customers to interview before you have a product, a website, or even a...
yesterday
How do you find potential customers to interview before you have a product, a website, or even a name?
Wuthering...
The Story of the Stone, volume 4 - It was an eerie, desolate night.
At the two-thirds mark, after 80 chapters of the 120, three
big changes hit The Story of the Stone...
yesterday
At the two-thirds mark, after 80 chapters of the 120, three
big changes hit The Story of the Stone (c. 1760 / 1791). First, David Hawkes, the original translator
of the Penguin edition, dies; John Minford finishes the job. Second, the author of the novel, Cao Xueqin,
dies,...
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Why some engineers get trusted with high-impact work
It’s fun and rewarding to work on critical tasks. But there’s only so much important work to go...
yesterday
It’s fun and rewarding to work on critical tasks. But there’s only so much important work to go around. Worse still, the chances to work on…
ben-mini
Making My SQL Skills Obsolete
Quick Update: I updated my domain to ben-mini.com! All old URLs and the RSS feed under...
yesterday
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By far, the most useful LLM app I’ve made is the Kibu Schema God:
I try not to make my posts too...
lcamtuf’s thing
A 15-minute intro to resin casting
At one point in my life, I penned an epic, 110-page opus on hobby manufacturing.
2 days ago
At one point in my life, I penned an epic, 110-page opus on hobby manufacturing.
Marcus on AI
o3, AGI, the art of the demo, and what you can expect in 2025
OpenAI’s new model was revealed yesterday; its most fervent believers think AGI has already arrived....
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OpenAI’s new model was revealed yesterday; its most fervent believers think AGI has already arrived. Here’s what you should pay attention to in the coming year.
Contemporist...
Before + After - A Mid-Century Modern Kitchen Renovation
Blaine Architects together with Marshall Interiors, have completed the renovation of a mid-century...
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The Ruffian
The Enigma of Luigi Mangione
And the Madness Of His Apologists
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a small life
A few weeks ago my host emailed me that for some reason google bot was hitting my site so much that...
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A few weeks ago my host emailed me that for some reason google bot was hitting my site so much that it slowed down the entire server – since it was affecting...
Christopher Butler
Organization – Office – 2024
After the kitchen, the office is still the most used room in our home. This is how we have optimized...
2 days ago
After the kitchen, the office is still the most used room in our home. This is how we have optimized it this year.
About a year and a half ago, I wrote a long entry to this blog about how we keep this office space organized. While much of it is still as it was then, it is...
Chris Grossack's...
$\mathsf{B}\text{Diff}(\Sigma)$ Classifies $\Sigma$-bundles
I’ve been trying to learn all about topological (quantum) field theories, the
cobordism hypothesis,...
2 days ago
I’ve been trying to learn all about topological (quantum) field theories, the
cobordism hypothesis, and how to use $(\infty,n)$-categories. This is all
in service of some stuff I’m doing with skein algebras (which are part of a
“$3+1$ TQFT” often named after Crane–Yetter, but...
computers are bad
2024-12-21 something over New Jersey
There were thousands of reports: strange aircraft, floating through the sky. A
retrospective sum of...
2 days ago
There were thousands of reports: strange aircraft, floating through the sky. A
retrospective sum of press accounts finds that some 100,000 people were
reported to have witnessed aerial intruders. Despite the scant details
associated with most reports, an eager press repeated the...
Last Place Comics
Boys Club vs Girls Club, Part 2
The post Boys Club vs Girls Club, Part 2 appeared first on Last Place Comics.
3 days ago
The post Boys Club vs Girls Club, Part 2 appeared first on Last Place Comics.
Probably...
Political Alignment and Outlook
This is the fourth in a series of excerpts from Elements of Data Science, now available from...
3 days ago
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./techtipsy
The IPv6 situation on Docker is good now!
Good news, everyone! Doing IPv6 networking stuff on Docker is actually good now!
I’ve recently...
3 days ago
Good news, everyone! Doing IPv6 networking stuff on Docker is actually good now!
I’ve recently started reworking my home server setup to be more IPv6 compatible, and as part of that I learned that
during
the summer of 2024 Docker shipped an update that eliminated a
lot of the...
Raptitude.com
How to Avoid Getting Lost in Thought
Say you’re walking through Death Valley, trying to find your way back to the highway. Luckily you’ve...
3 days ago
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A Collection of...
Collections: On Bread and Circuses
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place...
3 days ago
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nanoscale views
Technological civilization and losing object permanence
In the grand tradition of physicists writing about areas outside their expertise, I wanted to put...
3 days ago
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Construction Physics
Energy Cheat Sheet
Building an intuition about energy
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Ian Betteridge
Ten Blue Links, “your time is up” edition
This week… But first, an announcement! TLDR: Over the holidays, I will be migrating this site from...
3 days ago
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Wrong Side of...
Will the last young professional to leave Britain turn off the lights?
'Get out as early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself’
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samwho.dev
Turing Machines
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text-wrap: pretty;
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3 days ago
body {
text-wrap: pretty;
}
@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
* {
transition: none;
animation: none;
}
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turing-machine {
width: 100%;
display: block;
position: relative;
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turing-machine...
Atoms vs Bits
Jethro Tull: A Beginner's Guide To Turnips
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Dec. 21 is Winter Solstice — Why We Have Seasons on Earth
Saturday, Dec. 21 will be the winter solstice – the shortest day and longest night of the year, with...
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There are two types...
Notes on Beyond Architecture: The New New York
The post Notes on <i>Beyond Architecture: The New New York</i> appeared first on There are two types...
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The post Notes on <i>Beyond Architecture: The New New York</i> appeared first on There are two types of architecture—good architecture, and the other kind.
Strange Loop Canon
No, LLMs are not "scheming"
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Uncharted...
100,000 Gifts
What happened in 2024 and what will happen in 2025
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What happened in 2024 and what will happen in 2025
Weighty Thoughts
Scaling is a Choice
Progress in tech is rarely “inevitable.” Looking at semiconductors and AI.
4 days ago
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Escaping Flatland
Things I learned working with artists
As I said in “Lessons I learned working at an art gallery,” I had several observations that I...
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As I said in “Lessons I learned working at an art gallery,” I had several observations that I couldn’t fit into that post—so lets continue today.
CrimethInc.
News from the Front: The Reflections of a Russian Anarchist in Rojava : On the Collapse of Assad,...
The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in...
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One Useful Thing
What just happened
A transformative month rewrites the capabilities of AI
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Odds and Ends of...
Christmas Mailbag!
Is Elon Musk actually smart? Will HS2 ever be properly finished? Do I like Dominic Cummings? And...
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Noahpinion
Macroeconomics: The predator of foolish regimes
One thing no ruler can control.
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The Modern House
At home with our favourite interiors influencer, Akilah Cohen
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Handprinted - Blog
In the Studio 2024
What a busy year in the studio! Thank you to everyone who has joined us for a workshop, event or...
4 days ago
What a busy year in the studio! Thank you to everyone who has joined us for a workshop, event or open access studio session. Let's take a look at what's being going on in the Handprinted Studio in 2024:
WORKSHOPS
2024 has been packed with workshops, taught by our team as well as...
DYNOMIGHT
Things to argue about over the holidays instead of politics III
How much should a couple talk if they are having dinner in a restaurant, after being together for...
4 days ago
How much should a couple talk if they are having dinner in a restaurant, after being together for one month/year/decade?
If it’s safer to face backwards in vehicles, then what is it that’s shared by infants in cars and soldiers on military planes but no one else?
Among rock bands...
Willem's Blog
Data versus Feeling
Do you rely on data or on your feeling when running a Marathon? I decided to run two marathons to...
5 days ago
Do you rely on data or on your feeling when running a Marathon? I decided to run two marathons to find out the differences!
Matt Mullenweg
Falling Snow
The talented Felix Arntz has given an incredible Christmas gift to the WordPress community with his...
5 days ago
The talented Felix Arntz has given an incredible Christmas gift to the WordPress community with his fast, light, and accessible Snow Fall plugin, which is live on this site and you can install on yours. I hope everyone is having a happy holidays! Search for “snow fall” in your...
The Codist
How Many Hours Can You Code?
How many hours a day can you write code, and at what point does the quality of your work go down?...
5 days ago
How many hours a day can you write code, and at what point does the quality of your work go down? Even more important is how many weeks and months of that max effort you can still be effective.
In my life, there have only been three periods where I
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The Best Books I Read in 2024
My first fiction-heavy roundup
5 days ago
My first fiction-heavy roundup
Passing Time
How I passed the time in 2024
Essays, books, albums, & reviews
5 days ago
Essays, books, albums, & reviews
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Making o(m)g:image, Part III: The HTML
This is part three of my series of posts describing how I made my quiz game o(m)g:image.
Project...
5 days ago
This is part three of my series of posts describing how I made my quiz game o(m)g:image.
Project Announcement
Pt. I: Design Iterations
Pt. II: As Little JS As Possible
Pt. III: The HTML
o(m)g:image is presented like a quiz:
You get one question at a time
When you choose an...
Stat Significant
What Are the Most Commonly Used Movie Clichés? A Statistical Analysis
Exploring the cliché phrases that dominate movies.
5 days ago
Exploring the cliché phrases that dominate movies.
Computer Things
Formally modeling dreidel, the sequel
Channukah's next week and that means my favorite pastime, complaining about how Dreidel is a bad...
5 days ago
Channukah's next week and that means my favorite pastime, complaining about how Dreidel is a bad game. Last year I formally modeled it in PRISM to prove the game's not fun. But because I limited the model to only a small case, I couldn't prove the game was truly bad.
It's time...
AI Snake Oil
Is AI progress slowing down?
Making sense of recent technology trends and claims
5 days ago
Making sense of recent technology trends and claims
Confessions of a...
Reflections on 2024 and Exciting Plans for 2025
Looking back at what we accomplished in 2024, and plans for 2025
5 days ago
Looking back at what we accomplished in 2024, and plans for 2025
Map of the Week
My Favorite New Jersey Drone Map
Here is my favorite “map” showing the drone hysteria over New Jersey. It’s from Instagram...
5 days ago
Here is my favorite “map” showing the drone hysteria over New Jersey. It’s from Instagram user wmh_x_0, aka Oona Harrigan.
It is based on these maps of drone sightings that have been going around the internet.
The “globe” text is there because she is known for designing sad...
Josh Thompson
On Scooters as a class of vehicle/tool
Introduction
Often when I say “scooter”, especially in the united states, the person thinks of...
5 days ago
Introduction
Often when I say “scooter”, especially in the united states, the person thinks of something different than what I mean. Here’s Denver’s Sportique Scooters, here’s one of their recent posts:
So that is the kind of vehicle I’m talking about when I say “scooter”.
I...
Trying to Understand...
The Year of Failing To Understand.
Not your usual end-of-year review.
5 days ago
Not your usual end-of-year review.
Blog - Bitfield...
Why you can't meditate
You can't clear your mind, or achieve bliss by sitting on a special
cushion. But you can start to...
5 days ago
You can't clear your mind, or achieve bliss by sitting on a special
cushion. But you can start to gently train your brain to stop craving
distraction and overstimulation. In this excerpt from Monk Mode, we'll see
how.
Paul Cudenec
An African henchman of the global mafia
The importance of Rwanda to the imperialist agenda is confirmed by the fact that alongside Agnes...
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The importance of Rwanda to the imperialist agenda is confirmed by the fact that alongside Agnes Binagwaho on the Rockefeller Foundation board of trustees we find fellow Rwandan Donald Kaberuka. [156]
Cremieux Recueil
Evaluating a Sitting Senator's Healthcare Claims
If you're a public official who wants to to use numbers, use correct numbers, and if you're going to...
5 days ago
If you're a public official who wants to to use numbers, use correct numbers, and if you're going to speculate, try not so speculate wildly, lest you end up telling brazen lies to the American people
The Elysian
Elysian gatherings around the world
Picnic with me in New Zealand, Australia, Japan, and San Francisco.
5 days ago
Picnic with me in New Zealand, Australia, Japan, and San Francisco.
Working Theorys
Two Shticks
Everyone needs two shticks.
5 days ago
Everyone needs two shticks.
On Test Automation
RestAssured .NET in 2024 - a review
As a (sort of) follow-up post to my yearly review for 2024, in this post, I would like to go over...
5 days ago
As a (sort of) follow-up post to my yearly review for 2024, in this post, I would like to go over the changes, bug fixes and new features that have been introduced in RestAssured .NET in 2024. This year, I released 7 new versions of the library, and while none of the versions...
37signals Dev
Announcing Hotwire Spark: live reloading for Rails applications
Today, we are releasing Hotwire Spark, a live-reloading system for Rails Applications.
Reloading the...
5 days ago
Today, we are releasing Hotwire Spark, a live-reloading system for Rails Applications.
Reloading the browser automatically on source changes is a problem that has been well-solved for a long time. Here, we wanted to put an accent on smoothness. If the reload operation is very...
Moneyness
After twelve years of writing about bitcoin, here's how my thinking has changed
What follows is an essay on how my thinking on bitcoin has changed since I began to write on the...
6 days ago
What follows is an essay on how my thinking on bitcoin has changed since I began to write on the topic starting with my first post in October 2012. Since then I've written 109 posts on the Moneyness Blog that reference bitcoin, along with a few dozen articles at venues like...
Computer Ads from...
Oberon International' Omni-Reader
Audio Engineers announce a revolution in taking words from page to your computer
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Audio Engineers announce a revolution in taking words from page to your computer
swyx's site RSS Feed
swyx in 2024 End of Year wraps
i was involved in 3 end of year-ish recaps today:
6 days ago
i was involved in 3 end of year-ish recaps today:
charity.wtf
“Founder Mode” and the Art of Mythmaking
I’ve never been good at “hot takes”. Anyone who knows anything about marketing can tell you that the...
6 days ago
I’ve never been good at “hot takes”. Anyone who knows anything about marketing can tell you that the best time to share your opinion about something is when everyone is all worked up about it. Hot topics drive clicks and eyeballs and attention en masse. Unfortunately, my internal...
99% Invisible
Mini-Stories: Volume 19
It’s that time again—mini-stories are back! Get ready for a whirlwind tour of short, surprising, and...
6 days ago
It’s that time again—mini-stories are back! Get ready for a whirlwind tour of short, surprising, and fascinating tales. This week we have punny highway signs, a PAC funded by exercise, the explosive history behind the Nobel Prize, and some long toes. Let’s get into it! Slow Down,...
The Works in...
Links in Progress: All the single people
And how China will lose 51 million people in 10 years
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And how China will lose 51 million people in 10 years
AFAR Media - Travel...
Where to Eat, Drink, and Unwind in Virginia Beach
6 days ago
Blog - Practical...
The Hidden Engineering of Wildlife Crossings
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
This is the Wallis Annenberg...
6 days ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
This is the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing under construction over the 101 just outside Los Angeles, California. When it’s finished in a few years, it will be the largest wildlife crossing (*of its kind) on...
Citation Needed
Businessweek: Crypto Got What It Wanted in November’s Election. Now What?
The industry is now in a position to weaken financial rules that might protect consumers from the...
6 days ago
The industry is now in a position to weaken financial rules that might protect consumers from the next crypto crash.
The Marginalian
Favorite Books of the Year: Art, Science, Poetry, Psychology, Children’s, and More
Because I read for the same reason I write — to fathom my life and deepen my living — looking back...
6 days ago
Because I read for the same reason I write — to fathom my life and deepen my living — looking back on a year of life has always been looking back on a year of reading. This year was different — a time of such profound pain and profound transformation that it fused reading and...
Hidden History
The Great Horse Flu Epidemic of 1872
An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire...
6 days ago
An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire country. By the 1870s, the once-rural agrarian United States was beginning to emerge as an industrial power. The Civil War had spurred the rapid development of industry such as iron...
Infinite Scroll
Worst Tweets of 2024 - Dishonorable Mentions
All of the most horrifying posts on Twitter that didn't make the final bracket
6 days ago
All of the most horrifying posts on Twitter that didn't make the final bracket
Archinect - Features
Upcoming Architecture School Admission Deadlines You Shouldn’t Miss
As 2024 winds down, there’s still time to apply to architecture programs! Many schools are accepting...
6 days ago
As 2024 winds down, there’s still time to apply to architecture programs! Many schools are accepting undergraduate and graduate applications through January and February 2025 (and some even beyond that).
If you’re planning to start your architecture journey in Fall '25, check...
Birchtree
All the games I played in 2024, reviewed
I love movies, but I really love games as well, so I figured I may as well follow up my 2024 movies...
6 days ago
I love movies, but I really love games as well, so I figured I may as well follow up my 2024 movies of the year post with something similar for games. I’m not going to rank these, but I’ll give a few words on each one
NeuroLogica Blog
Factory Farming is Better Than Organic Farming
Some narratives are simply ubiquitous in our culture (every culture has its universal narratives)....
6 days ago
Some narratives are simply ubiquitous in our culture (every culture has its universal narratives). Sometimes these narratives emerge out of shared values, like liberty and freedom. Sometimes they emerge out of foundational beliefs (the US still has a puritanical bent). And...
Common Edge
Notre Dame Cathedral and the Rebirth of Artisanship
The miraculous rebuild was enabled by the century-old French system of trade guilds and education.
6 days ago
The miraculous rebuild was enabled by the century-old French system of trade guilds and education.
Old Structures...
Perspective
Anyone who’d read more than a few of these blog posts knows that sometimes I’ll write about...
6 days ago
Anyone who’d read more than a few of these blog posts knows that sometimes I’ll write about something just because it seems cool. Or looks cool. In this case, “cool” is two photos from Carol Highsmith, a professional photographer who was generous enough to donate her archive to...
Bartosz Ciechanowski
Moon
In the vastness of empty space surrounding Earth, the Moon is our closest celestial...
6 days ago
In the vastness of empty space surrounding Earth, the Moon is our closest celestial neighbor.
Its face, periodically filled with light and devoured by darkness, has an ever-changing, but dependable presence in our skies.
In this article, we’ll learn about the Moon and its path...
Posts on Nikita...
P99 Conf 2024
This year, I was invited to speak at P99 Conf. The format of a virtual conference was new to me, but...
6 days ago
This year, I was invited to speak at P99 Conf. The format of a virtual conference was new to me, but hats off to the organisers as it went very smooth for me. I presented a talk with the following abstract:
Low-Latency Mesh Services Using Actors
We’re transforming elfo, our Rust...
UX Collective
Has Duolingo’s Year in Review outshone Spotify Wrapped?
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
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Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
Rest of World -...
China’s AI elite rethink their Silicon Valley dream jobs
The West may lose out in the talent race amid U.S. national security and immigration hurdles
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The West may lose out in the talent race amid U.S. national security and immigration hurdles
Unfiltered by Tim...
It's Absolutely Pointless to Start Anything Unless You'll Do It Daily
The simple shift in thinking that'll help you work on less so you get deep focus.
6 days ago
The simple shift in thinking that'll help you work on less so you get deep focus.
Seth's Blog
If they know, they should tell us
Asymmetrical information creates real problems. And fixing the flow of useful proxies benefits both...
6 days ago
Asymmetrical information creates real problems. And fixing the flow of useful proxies benefits both sides. Cigarette companies knew a great deal about the addictions they were causing and the illnesses that resulted. If the public had known, they would have made different...
History Today Feed
Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
JamesHoare
Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:12
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Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island
JamesHoare
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Flashbak
Hunter S Thompson Sets Fire To His Christmas Tree (1990)
“’NO, HUNTER, NO! PLEASE, HUNTER, DON’T DO IT!'” – Hunter S. Thompson’s secretary Deborah Fuller...
6 days ago
“’NO, HUNTER, NO! PLEASE, HUNTER, DON’T DO IT!'” – Hunter S. Thompson’s secretary Deborah Fuller before the writer torched his Christmas Tree In January 1990, Sam Allis was on assignment for TIME magazine at writer Hunter S. Thompson’s (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) home...
The Architectural...
The Classic Planning Herald International: A Window into the Global New Traditional Architecture...
The Classic Planning Herald International is a new quarterly magazine from the Classic Planning...
6 days ago
The Classic Planning Herald International is a new quarterly magazine from the Classic Planning Institute. The project offers insights into what is happening in the New Traditional Architecture community and aims to challenge the modernist dogma. In this article, Michelle Sofge...
Retail Design Blog
115 Bake House & JIM ‘s Recipe by sutearchitect
Cafe 115: A Transformation of a 60-Year-Old Commercial Building – Cafe 115 is a café that combines...
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Cafe 115: A Transformation of a 60-Year-Old Commercial Building – Cafe 115 is a café that combines coffee and homemade...
Alex Meub
The Magic of Solving Problems with 3D Printing
3D Printing has allowed me to be creative in ways I never thought possible. It has allowed me to...
6 days ago
3D Printing has allowed me to be creative in ways I never thought possible. It has allowed me to create products that provide real value, products that didn’t exist before I designed them. On top of that, it’s satisfied my desire to ship products, even if the end-user is just...
Open Culture
Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs
Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from...
6 days ago
Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from your holiday schedule to spend time celebrating The Insects’ Christmas, above. In addition to offering brief respite from the chaos of consumerism and modern expectations, this...
diamond geezer
Going unitary
Local government organisation in England is complicated, always has been, which is why the...
6 days ago
Local government organisation in England is complicated, always has been, which is why the government are keen to reorganise it.
There are 317 councils in England:
(upper-tier)
(lower-tier)
(unitary)
(unitary)
(unitary)
(unitary)
Logically it makes no sense that some shire...
somenice
Generative 3D Modeling
Recently Microsoft released the open 3D generation software Trellis. I decided to try a few tests as...
6 days ago
Recently Microsoft released the open 3D generation software Trellis. I decided to try a few tests as reviews had been quite favourable with results creating 3D models with “AI”. The website describes the technology as unified Structured LATent (SLAT) representation and there is a...
Anecdotal Evidence
'On the Cello of Shared Grief'
With the deaths
of certain writers our reaction is shamefully selfish: Why did he do that to me? No...
6 days ago
With the deaths
of certain writers our reaction is shamefully selfish: Why did he do that to me? No thought for family or friends, or
even other readers, merely one’s sense of personal betrayal. That’s how I felt
seven years ago when Richard Wilbur died at age ninety-six, as...
The American Scholar
“Guests” by Celia Thaxter
Poems read aloud, beautifully
The post “Guests” by Celia Thaxter appeared first on The American...
6 days ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully
The post “Guests” by Celia Thaxter appeared first on The American Scholar.
Astral Codex Ten
Links For December 2024
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6 days ago
Mazdak
Waymo in Japan, Veo 2 AI video, Snapchat Monetization ...
Google DeepMind has upped the game in AI video generation.
6 days ago
Google DeepMind has upped the game in AI video generation.
Arduino Blog
Turn your old Android smartphone into an Arduino screen with the RemoteXY app
Each component you add to your Arduino project increases its complexity and the opportunity for...
6 days ago
Each component you add to your Arduino project increases its complexity and the opportunity for mistakes. But most projects require some “auxiliary” hardware — components that you use to interact with the Arduino or to help it do the job you’re asking of it. Buttons and displays...
HTMHell
An HTML structure for a tab component
by Marco Bretschneider
Can you remember the day you first learnt about ARIA? Maybe the first fact...
6 days ago
by Marco Bretschneider
Can you remember the day you first learnt about ARIA? Maybe the first fact you learnt about ARIA was the first rule “Don't use ARIA, use native HTML instead“ - and so did I.
As someone who has been able to speak native HTML for many years, I always thought...
Applied Cartography
Linear
I invited nickd to join our Linear instance yesterday, which reminded me that I had a slew of notes...
6 days ago
I invited nickd to join our Linear instance yesterday, which reminded me that I had a slew of notes I wanted to publish on our own experience of migrating from GitHub Issues to Linear, and some reflections on it as a product now that we've been using it for a few months.
One...
David Heinemeier...
The premise trap
The hardest part for me about collaborating with junior programmers, whether it's in open source or...
a week ago
The hardest part for me about collaborating with junior programmers, whether it's in open source or at work, is avoiding the premise trap. That's where the fundamental assumptions baked into the first draft of the code aren't questioned until you've already spent far too long...
The Honest Broker
Why Gregory Bateson Matters
Or what a counterculture might look like in the 21st century
a week ago
Or what a counterculture might look like in the 21st century
Mind Mine
transformations
surrender & renew
a week ago
Adventures In...
How to make this drought map in ArcGIS Online
Here’s how to make the drought map used in the Drought Aware app. This video covers creating a...
a week ago
Here’s how to make the drought map used in the Drought Aware app. This video covers creating a custom imagery basemap, modified to best support thematic data, and a styling method for the overlain drought polygons so they tint the imagery a color based on severity and have a...
Castles in the Sky
Courage and Moonshots
On Nikolai Fedorov's impossible dream and the ordinary courage of taking crazy ideas seriously
a week ago
On Nikolai Fedorov's impossible dream and the ordinary courage of taking crazy ideas seriously
Math Is Still...
The Year in Math
Landmark results in geometry and number theory marked an exciting year for mathematics, at a time...
a week ago
Landmark results in geometry and number theory marked an exciting year for mathematics, at a time when advances in artificial intelligence are starting to transform the subject’s future.
The post The Year in Math first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Scarlet Ink
Don't Let Others Run Your Life — Cut Your Schedule Like a Slasher Movie
If you don't make hard choices to focus on your top priorities, then you're choosing to fail at your...
a week ago
If you don't make hard choices to focus on your top priorities, then you're choosing to fail at your top priorities.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Strategy
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Don't you all use the SSMS trick at once or it'll...
a week ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Don't you all use the SSMS trick at once or it'll stop being offputting.
Today's News:
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Never Forgive Them
In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried...
a week ago
In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting worse, despite what tech’s “brightest&
Classical Wisdom
Beyond Stoicism
New Event: January 7th, 2025
a week ago
New Event: January 7th, 2025
Calculated Risk
3rd Look at Local Housing Markets in November
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: 3rd Look at Local Housing Markets in...
a week ago
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: 3rd Look at Local Housing Markets in November
A brief excerpt:
The NAR is scheduled to release November Existing Home sales on Thursday, December 19th at 10:00 AM. The consensus is for 3.97 million SAAR, up from 3.96 million...
TheCollector
The Brigantaggio: How Did Southern Italy Respond to Unification?
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a week ago
Transit Maps
Book Review: “Iconic Transit Maps” by Mark Ovenden, 2024
After 2003’s Metro Maps of the World and 2015’s Transit Maps of the World (our review here), this is...
a week ago
After 2003’s Metro Maps of the World and 2015’s Transit Maps of the World (our review here), this is Mark Ovenden’s third offering on the subject of global transit maps and diagrams. The question to be asked, then, is simply – is a new book on the same subject worth it? In a...
Society's Backend
MASSIVE New Model Releases from Google, OpenAI, and Meta Change the AI Landscape
Society's Backend Reading List 12-16-2024
a week ago
Society's Backend Reading List 12-16-2024
The Diff
What Would it Look Like if The Pod Shop Model Blew Up?
Plus! Economic Blocs; Benefits; Headlines; IP and Finance; Squaring the Global Imbalances Circle
a week ago
Plus! Economic Blocs; Benefits; Headlines; IP and Finance; Squaring the Global Imbalances Circle
Artificial Ignorance
Small newsletters, big ideas
A subscriber showcase full of hidden gems on Substack.
a week ago
A subscriber showcase full of hidden gems on Substack.
IEEE Spectrum
Unlock the Power of Agile for Hardware Teams
The Modified Agile for Hardware Development (MAHD) Framework is the ultimate solution for hardware...
a week ago
The Modified Agile for Hardware Development (MAHD) Framework is the ultimate solution for hardware teams seeking the benefits of Agile without the pitfalls of applying software-centric methods. Traditional development approaches, like waterfall, often result in delayed timelines,...
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