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What if you went to a dog show, determined to pet every dog that was there? CC-licensed photo by Salon NYC on Flickr. You can sign up to receive each day’s Start Up post by …

A case for abandoning web analytics

Corey Quinn: I’m sorry Slack, you’re doing fucking WHAT with user DMs, messages, files, etc? I’m positive I’m not reading this correctly. [Screenshot of the opt out portion of Slack’s “privacy principles”: Contact us to …

Contre nos comportements stupides et criminels, l’apprentissage Nos amies les baleines Le chant des baleines est-il un langage avec une véritable grammaire et une signification précise ? Ou bien est-ce un chant « musical », …

Today's links You were promised a jetpack by liars: AIs and self-driving cars are the new jetpacks. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where …

Marketing teams have been using machine learning for more than a decade. In the early days of big data, it was common to hear people say that marketing was data’s killer app. As data science …

NEW RESOURCES Progressive Geographies, and machine-translated from French: André Breton’s manuscripts freely accessible on Gallica. “In partnership with the Atelier André Breton Association, and thanks to the exceptional generosity of Aube Elléouët-Breton, the poet’s daughter, …

Kiedyś, niemal na samym początku istnienia tej strony, podzieliłem się linkiem do projektu Pico8, “wyobrażonej konsoli do gier”, charakteryzującej się pikselowatą grafiką połączoną z nowoczesnymi... Read more

Back in March, talking about the People and resources added to my reading list in 2023, in the ‘Tech blogs’ section I wrote: This category was this close to remaining empty. However in November 2023 …

Despite growing up as a third culture kid used to travel, and having spent almost 20 years visiting various places around Japan, this spring brought a new experience: taking my kid on their first international …

When asked what makes this an “emotional support squid” and not just another stuffed animal, its creator says: They’re emotional support squid because they’re large, and cuddly, but also cheerfully bright and derpy. They make …

This post will be my attempt to package up my master’s thesis in a format that can be read comfortably. I’ve spent the last 15 months mostly on this topic, and if you’ve noticed that …

Apple did what needed to be done to get that unfortunate iPad ad out of the news; you know, the one that somehow found the crushing of musical instruments and bottles of paint to be …

By and large, the English language doesn't use diacritical marks. Even our loanwords are stripped of them; we drink in a cafe rather than the more pretentious café. This has a consequence for HTML and, …

Today, Downpour comes out! In case you don’t know, Downpour is the game creation tool I have been working on for the past few years. I started it after I left Niantic in October 2022, …

I’m on my way back home from Essen where I attended Mercator Forum, the foundation’s annual convening of its stakeholders, communities and grantee partners. This year it was hosted by Mercator’s Centre for Digital Society, …

Humans play. Dogs and cats play. The animals that we eat after they’ve spent a miserable life in warehouses like to play. Even insects. Bees, for example, have been found to engage in playful activities. …

A recurring problem I ran into with my projects is documentation. Especially with 3D printed parts or PCBs it's often required to generate preview images or PDFs so someone interested can take a look without …

This post on Windows Side-by-Side loading is a deeper dive into research I picked up at the tail end of 2023, in my free time between Christmas and New Year's.As we know, Dynamic-link library(DLL) Side …