Recently updated blogs

Andreas: But then PeskyPotato, who I’ve never interacted with before got in touch and mentioned that it should be possible to subscribe to RSS feeds from Youtube with the channel name in the URL as well. Turns out that this is not the case, it was a feature of their RSS reader instead. But here comes the amazing part. Apparently this annoyed them enough so they figured out that you …

In 2010, Coda Hale wrote How To Safely Store A Password which began with the repeated phrase, “Use bcrypt”, where the word bcrypt was linked to a different implementation for various programming languages. This had two effects on the technology blogosphere at the time: It convinced a lot of people that bcrypt was the right answer for storing a password. It created a meme for how technology bloggers recommend specific …

The mission: Provide a dashboard within the WordPress admin area for browsing Google Analytics data for all your blogs. The catch? You’ve got about 900 live blogs, spread across about 25 WordPress multisite instances. Some instances have just one blog, others have as many as 250. In other words, what you need is to compress a data set that normally takes a very long time to compile into a single …

These Boots Are Made For Walking The Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits says “These Boots Are Made for Walkin'” was a huge hit for Nancy Sinatra. The tune topped the Billboard Hot 100 for one week in 1966, becoming Sinatra’s first and only solo No. 1 single in the United States. So much played on radio and TV and at so many places in 1966, but also in expected …

Symbiotic Sense(s), an exhibition currently on view at the National Library of Latvia in Riga as part of the RIXC Art Science festival (see my notes on the conference), presents the work of artists who challenge the boundaries between self and other, human and other forms of life, natural and artificial. T(n)C (Agnes Varnai and Tina Kult), Retraining Laziness, 2023 Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner, My Want of You Partakes …

I have reviewed several of John L. French‘s works here, but one series of his that I have yet to get into is Bianca Jones. Jones is a Baltimore detective who becomes the unofficial “monster hunter” on the force, facing several foes and menaces with only the help of a strange bookstore owner and a […]

If you want to see what’s next in AI, just follow the data. ChatGPT and DALL-E trained on troves of internet data. Generative AI is making inroads in biotechnology and robotics thanks to existing or newly assembled datasets. One way to glance ahead, then, is to ask: What colossal datasets are still ripe for the picking? Recently, a new clue emerged. In a blog post, gaming company Niantic said it’s …

Uri Levine, a cofounder of Waze and the author of 'Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution,' argues that unicorn companies and bestselling books have a lot in common.

It may be almost December but I’ve got no intentions of wrapping up the year just yet. There are still plenty more albums to hit the review block and the latest finds perennial RSTB favorite Lee Baggett back at it once again. The West Coast songwriter has long lingered in the crumpled and creviced end of the Cosmic American canon and he shows no signs of digging out now. Waves …

$125,000 - Here is your chance at a great potential property in the heart of Okawville. This property was turned into a Museum in the late 1980's. Due to the preservation of this property, not ... Read more

The streets of London were crawling with tractors recently, protesting the changes to inheritance tax on farms. (Previously farms were exempt from inheritance tax; now farms worth over £1m will be subject to it.) My initial response was to buy the line that this would only affect a tiny minority of farms, and that it was shutting a pretty egregious tax loophole exploited by the likes of James Dyson and …

Happy Thanksgiving! At the Plimoth Patuxet open air museum, this path leads to the English village. However, due to recent archeaological digs in downtown Plymouth at the site of the original fort, historians have learned that the native Wampanoag people lived very close to the palisade. Previously they were believed to live nearby, but not this close. The museum is re-interpreting the palisade and the Wampanoag dwellings. A grant from …

It’s one of those things everyone’s heard of, but few truly understand. It sits quietly in the corner of the bathroom (or as an attachment to the toilet itself), radiating mystery and a slight sense of intimidation. Ask someone about it, and you’ll usually get a shrug or a vague explanation that trails off into awkward silence. Why?

Here it is: full Black Friday Sales Deals at Amazon (and a few other places) to find your absolute best holiday prices on coffee + espresso. Updated Nov 27, 5pm. The post Black Friday / Cyber Monday Deals 2024 appeared first on CoffeeGeek.

The groundwork for what we call today “signals” dates as early as the 1970s. Based on this work, they became popular with different fields of computer science, defining them more specifically around the 90s and the early 2000s. In Web Development, they first made a run for it with KnockoutJS, and shortly after, signals took a backseat in (most of) our brains. Some years ago, multiple similar implementations came to …