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I’m pretty sure reading /r/AmItheAsshole is harmful to my psyche, and yet… … and yet why shouldn’t I be able to participate in this collectively harmful behavior? I don’t have good enough stories so I …

It's the update you've all been dreading: The admission by me that I've still been suffering from writer's block for well over a full year now, and that I don't rightly know if I'll ever …

First observed by Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Donati on June 2, 1858, Donati's Comet (aka Comet Donati) was the first comet to be photographed. The post Astronomy: various views of Donati’s comet in the night …

The Secret to Coffee Shop Success: Choosing the Perfect Location Opening a coffee shop is a dream for many aspiring entrepreneurs. A place where people come together, work, and enjoy good coffee—what could be better? …

In a nutshell: -Chiswick’s neighbourhood coffee shop -Offering pinball, a Japanese arcade, fresh pastries…and coffee -An effortless welcome served with meticulous care Chief Coffee: serving you coffee, pastries and…pinball If you find yourself walking along …

I don't normally do blog challenges, but I got pinged by ~hyde with the call, so here goes: Why did you start blogging in the first place? I don't remember a specific thing that got …

Twenty twenty-four was not a typical harvest (and, is there even such of a thing?). ¶ But it wasn't a bad harvest either, and in any case illustrates the rhythms, the rise and fall, of …

The Guy Who Did This ‘We’re All Trying to Find the Guy Who Did This’ Charlie Warzel / theatlantic.com That Zuckerberg should look out over his kingdom and see it as “out of touch” isn’t …

Unlike the assembly of some of my more recent year-end favorite photo lists, I can’t bemoan a lack of options this time around. My curated “not-so-short” list of personal photo favorites from 2024 on Flickr …

I’ve always wanted to find great case studies from people building things. Not high level blogposts dictating “this is how you should do X”, but “here’s the 20 things we tried and the data we …

“Seattle AM General trolleybus downtown, 1986” by Steve Morgan is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Ridership-based route productivity measurements—those which compare a route’s average number of riders to its cost of operation—are common within transit …

In Thailand I spoke to Florian Glatz, probably the first crypto focused lawyer in Europe and possibly the world and co-founder of Common Ground, an on-chain social network. Florian also helped author some part of …

This screenshot basically sums up “the internet as we know it”. For the past decade or so the social internet has consisted of a handful of websites that the vast majority of people frequented. The …

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. ***I can sensationally declare that I haven't seen a single film that came out in January 1985. …

May 1 – June 21, 1521 (Hellerick) Propelled by fear, habit, and a steady wind at its back, the fleet sailed south by southwest out of Cebu City for almost 24 hours, passing between the …