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Mark Gurman: In speaking to more than a dozen people who have returned the Vision Pro over the past week, I’ve heard some similar reasons: The device is simply too heavy, too cumbersome to manage, headache-inducing and uncomfortable. The current lack of applications and video content doesn’t justify the price. The work features don’t make people more productive than just using a normal external monitor with a Mac — and …

Almost two week ago, Casey Neistat put out a classic Casey video called Sisyphus and the Impossible Dream. It’s all about Casey’s love/passion/obsession with running and a dream/goal/ambition to run a sub-three-hour marathon. I’ll let you guess how it goes. I saw a couple folks link to this video and I’m sure more people were talking about it on social media.1 The piece missing from those links—and the part glossed …

I have started building a very simple RSS reader for myself. I can add feeds and read posts. It runs locally for now using Laravel and SQLite. What was originally entirely built with Web Components backed by a couple of PHP and JSON files has turned into something else. I overdid it by relying on JavaScript (Web Components), but that was an effort to learn more about them. I’m glad …

Introducing our new favorite way to get our greens in: sautéed Swiss chard seasoned with garlic, sesame, and tamari. These greens are flavorful, tender, and restaurant-quality yet so EASY to make! Just 1 pan, 5 ingredients, and 15 minutes required. This versatile, nutrient-packed side pairs well with Asian-inspired entrées and makes a simple meal with rice + your choice of protein. Let’s make crave-worthy greens! Sesame Sautéed Swiss Chard from …

Tucked off Sloane Street in Belgravia is an enticing-looking mews with an interesting backstory. This is the story of Shafto Mews. Marking the entrance today is a fabulous archway, dating from c.1880. This grandiose opening connects mews with the surrounding terracotta mansions typified as Pont Street Dutch. The unique architectural term was coined by Sir Osbert Lancaster in the mid 20th century. It’s a nod to then striking red colour, …

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Each year, we try to put some rough numbers together. It can be depressing to look at other companies and see all the amazing stuff they produce and look back at yourself and wonder how unproductive you really are. You should never compare your life with someone else’s highlight reel – it’s too painful! The goal of this article is to layout some of our numbers in all the boring …

An unexpected splash of sunshine on Friday 16th February led to a window into a world of wonder. With almost Spring-like temps and semi clear skies I thought I'd take the new 60mm Macro lens along to Warriston cemetery. Get to know how to use it before we go off on holiday and I'm trying to read instructions in the sweating undergrowth being eaten by bugs, lens caps on the …

The first time I met Yoko Ono, at the Apple HQ in Savile Row in September 1969, I was impressed by her obvious engagement. She and John Lennon were doing a day of interviews, and I got my couple of hours on behalf of the Melody Maker. At that stage she was being treated by the media as a bit of a sour joke. The film she’d made of people’s …

The site Décapassion has just published a great article on French decathletes. I have already written about this superb site due to Frédéric Gousset. It is, to my eyes the best decathlon site on the web. For the Gousset family, decathlon is not just an athletic discipline, it's a passion.This time they published an article on the history of french combined events. It's in french but you should not let …

Here are the February 2024 statistics for this blog. I wrote three posts: Over Two Years of Recording my Calories & Weight January 2024 Book Reading List An Ariel Cake for My Daughter’s Birthday Google Analytics Users → 2,300 Sessions → 2,500 Views → 4,900 Google Analytics Graph for February Google Search Console Clicks → 1,190 Search Impressions → 60,000 Average position → 30.1 Google Search Console Graph for February …

Searching for John BindonBelgraviaBelgravia's story is one of dramatic transformation. Once a soggy expanse known as "Five Fields," notorious for highwaymen and muddy paths, it rose in the 19th century to become a symbol of elegance and wealth. This metamorphosis began with King George III's residence at Buckingham Palace, which spurred development in the area. But it was Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster, who envisioned a grand vision. Partnering …

The Bay | Photo credit: Susannah Breslin I have a few upcoming readings for my memoir, Data Baby: My Life in a Psychological Experiment, in the San Francisco Bay Area. On March 27, 2024, at 6:30 pm, I’ll be reading at Berkeley Public Library’s North Branch, in Berkeley, CA: “Author Talk with Susannah Breslin.” And, on April 27, 2024, at 11 am, I’ll be reading at Book Passage, in Corte …

This has been on the website for a few months now, but I have joined the editorial board for Experimental Mathematics, following the "reboot" led by Al Kasprzyk. Please submit your interesting and high-quality experimental papers, so that the journal can continue its role as a leading journal in this particular niche!

A post from Remy on Mastodon recently got me thinking: Been picking up some of the jsbin archive work. Today, there's currently 62 millions bins stored. The last full copy archive I ran (which downloads the full html, js + css into a single page) holds 42 millions bins, consumes 130gb and the names alone (not even the urls) takes up 750mb. That’s a lot of data, and I’d be …