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Prusa is a 3D printer manufacturer which has a long history of being admired by the 3D printing community for high quality, open source printers. They have been struggling as of late, and came under …

From: https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/all-my-friends/pl.u-KRoNGI18eDm?a=join&it=bo1G4SM8NAbs9VX08The latest version of iOS—17.3—just dropped*, and with it comes a great and long overdue update to Apple Music: Collaborative Playlists. There’s delightful touches throughout, including emoji reactions per song, which strikes me as …

If you are interested in religion and gender in the ancient world like I am, there is a fairly strong likelihood that, at some point, you’ve encountered some version of the claim that, at one …

I’ve been writing about eyewear quite a bit this year. And as I mentioned recently, I’ve noticed that more men seem to be approaching spectacles as a collector’s item rather than a purely functional product. …

A as was changed in the 1997 redesign of the London Review of Books. There were no editorial innovations: the table of contents remained undifferentiated, giving the same emphasis to contributions be they book reviews, …

China After Mao by Frank Dikötter, 2022 Chinese Primer Zhou Enlai died in January 1976, and the Great Helmsman followed eight months later. After a brief tussle between factions, the Gang of Four was disbanded, …

https://meangreennation.substack.com Over on the first post on MGN Substack we listed the main reasons why we are moving over. The great challenge of writing consistently…

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Let ℤ² be the lattice of points in the plane with integer coordinates. You could think of these points as being the centers of the squares in a chessboard extending to infinity in every direction. …

What do the most effective people do to increase the velocity of their teams? There are several roles people take on teams, that make their teams move faster. I describe one of these roles today, …

Sari Azout on Artifact shutting down, reacting to the argument that “the market opportunity isn’t big enough to warrant continued investment in this way.” ”The market opportunity isn’t big enough” – for reading? For knowledge? …

Today I’d like to show you a small pen set that once belonged to my grandmother. For me it’s very special because of the stories […] Source

==== WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD ==== If you have not yet read the short story Melokuhle – good things, published recently by East of the Web, you are advised to do so before continuing to read …

Yep, even though I’ve been working as a software engineer for around 11 years now, I’ve actually never had a promotion. Every change in title I’ve had throughout my career has been through changing jobs. …

Traditionally, biltong was dried by hanging it in a cool and dry space with good ventilation, but nowadays, modern technology has introduced more efficient ways of drying biltong. One of these methods is using a …