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  1. Crazy Walls, , more info

    A rare example of a crazy wall in the real world or, at least, as the background for a press photo.
    A rare example of a crazy wall in the real world or, at least, as the background for a press photo.(Thanks Šmingvin.)
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  2. TokyoDev | Articles, , more info

    A Win-Win: Multinational Development Teams at Givery
    [There is a shortage of skilled tech workers in Japan](https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/02/06/tech/japan-tech-firms-labor-shortage/), and a growing number of Japanese companies have responded by building new, multinational development teams. An in-house multinational team, which typically uses English as a first language, can allow a Japanese company to take better advantage of the global talent market. But what's it like for the international developers working on those teams? Are there communication issues with management? Is …
    By Sayana Takagi, 1,597 words
  3. Damien Mannion, , more info

    Python disrememberings
  4. print "Me", , more info

    Micro review: The Atrocity Archives (The Laundry Files, book 1)
    I like Charlie Stross in general, I really enjoyed Accelerando, and many people talked positively about The Laundry Files, so I decided to give it a go. I like the universe, where unspeakable horrors exist and governments have secret departments in charge of keeping the world safe. I like this premise already. But it’s a well trodden trope, and what differentiates this from, say, Hellboy, or Man in Black§ is …
    By gabriele renzi, 227 words
  5. Hotelblues.com, , more info

    All Good Things
    It finally seems to be happening. The old hotel I worked at is getting torn down. It seems weird to see it go. I wouldn’t have had this website without that hotel. Here is a link to the Beloit Daily News article about the place getting torn down.
    By Turk, 51 words
  6. Niche Museums: Find tiny museums near you, , more info

    The Vincent and Ethel Simonetti Historic Tuba Collection
    Vincent Simonetti collected his first historic tuba - a ~1910 Cerveny BB-flat Helicon - in Boston in 1965, while playing tuba on tour with the Moyseev Ballet Company. Today the collection has grown to more than 350 tubas, and is now the largest private collection in the world that is dedicated exclusively to members of the tuba family. The collection entirely fills five rooms of a bright yellow house in …
    By Simon Willison, 317 words
  7. Light from Space, , more info

    Andromeda: Our Galactic Neighbor
    Many things have been said about the Andromeda Galaxy, arguably the most majestic galaxy that amateur astronomers can image due to it's sheer size in the sky—many times larger than the Moon appears to us, but also many times dimmer.With the naked eye, even in dark skies it appears but a tiny little fuzzy patch. But once you start collecting those photons photographically with long exposures it comes to life.Total …
    By Thomas Fuchs, 154 words
  8. Plenge Gen @rplenge, , more info

    Advice to my younger self
    Last week I visited the University of Pennsylvania for a fireside chat with Roger Greenberg, a Professor in the Department of Cancer Biology, as part of the Wharton Undergraduate Healthcare Club (WUHC). I shared my personal history and answered questions from an audience primarily consisting of Penn undergraduate students. This inspired me to write down advice that I wish I could have given to my younger self. This blog is …
    By Robert Plenge, 228 words
  9. Zythophile, , more info

    No, the ‘Hymn to Ninkasi’ is NOT a recipe for making Sumerian beer
    It’s a claim you will find repeated in dozens – possibly hundreds – of places: that the so-called “Hymn to Ninkasi”, a poem in the Sumerian language to the goddess of beer, at least 3,900 years old, known from three fragmentary clay tablets found in and around the ancient city of Nippur, which stood between the Euphrates and the Tigris, is “effectively a Sumerian recipe for brewing beer”, “the oldest …
    By Martyn Cornell, 7,444 words
  10. Erik Bernhardsson, , more info

    It's hard to write code for computers, but it's even harder to write code for humans
    Writing code for a computer is hard enough. You take something big and fuzzy, some large vague business outcome you want to achive. Then you break it down recursively and think about all the cases until you have clear logical statements a computer can follow.
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  11. Jordan Mechner - Latest News, , more info

    Prince of Persia a 35 ans
    La semaine prochaine, nous fêtons les 35 ans de la sortie de Prince of Persia, en 1989. Les fans de PoP ont beaucoup à fêter, cette année : deux tout nouveaux jeux (The Lost Crown et The Rogue Prince of Persia), le remake des Sables du temps qui a été confirmé et arrivera en 2026, ainsi qu'un nouveau DLC pour The Lost Crown, sorti la semaine dernière. Aujourd'hui, j'aimerais partager …
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  12. Plainly & Painfully, , more info

    TRACK | variety – Plover
    5/5 golden merles Variety’s “Plover” is Texan avantpop rock composed of compelling narrative subversion, sticky melody and tone. The hook is a compacted material derived from descriptions of naturalistic imagery, the conflict of the domesticated and undomesticated in comparison to the authors interpersonal dilemmas. It’s thoughtful and pretty dang fun. I need my streams and mountains tempered by the grim specter of death. Gluck and Johnson, Bly and Ruefle. Some …
    By z-s, 222 words
  13. A Stick a Dog and a Box With Something In It, , more info

    Don’t Read This Book
    I’d like to feel that every reader of this blog gets value for money, so today I’m going to give you a real bonus and hand back the fifteen or so hours it would take to read Nexus, the latest 500 page outpuring from Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens and the sort of person who can describe himself as ‘one of the world’s most influential public intellectuals today’ without …
    By billt, 690 words
  14. Roads.org.uk, , more info

    A century of motorways
    A century of motorways This month marks 100 years since the opening of the world’s first motorway, the Autostrada from Milan to the Lakes.On 21 September 1924, if you were lucky enough to be living in Milan and wealthy enough to own a motor car, you might have driven your machine through the busy cobbled streets of the city to Viale Certosa, where the north western suburbs gave way to …
    By Chris5156, 3,807 words
  15. plasticbag.org – by Tom Coates – established 1999, , more info

    On the Social Web Foundation…
    About nine months ago, I ran into Evan Prodromou at an event at Meta. The social media giant was telling an audience of Fediverse and decentralized social veterans about its plans for its social network product Threads – focused primarily on its quite extraordinary plans to integrate it with the wider Fediverse. At the time, I wrote a very long blog post about the whole experience. It was a fascinating …
    By Tom Coates, 640 words