Recently updated blogs

I recently picked up a Bambu Lab P1S 3D Printer for around the house. After staying away from 3D printing for years, the combination of a friend’s experience with this printer (thanks, @make_with_jake!), holiday sales, looking for a hobby, wanting some one-off tools, and a handful of projects where it’d be useful finally got me to buy one. Having done half a dozen prints, thus far I’m pretty satisfied with …

What else would we be going to look at on a suburban street called Helleristningen, other than what this Norwegian word means: the rock carving. Situated in an area of housing in Åskollen, south of Drammen on the west side of Oslo Fjord, this street winds its way past a caged outcrop, which has carved upon it a remarkable depiction of an elk. This is not just an Elk. It …

GLA Economics published its latest macroeconomic scenarios-based forecast for London on 17th December. The two main outcome variables are real Gross Value Added (GVA) – a measure of London’s output – and workforce jobs (WFJ) – a measure of employment. We project both variables over the medium term (to the end of 2026). Further, we have developed three main macroeconomic scenarios for London founded on three sets of plausible narratives …

The arrival of winter always brings a desire to slow down, to cosy up, to hibernate a little. Winter storms have rolled in bringing cold winds, lashing rain and grey skies but here inside it is quiet, and still, and warm, and there is comfort and peace in the simple pleasures of reading a book or knitting a pair of socks. I'm up early each day to catch the sunrise, …

In March 2023, we shared the initial release of a set of global basemaps we designed for Amazon Location Service. In 2024, we undertook a design refresh to improve upon the original release, adding more detail and contrast to the suite of maps Amazon provides. To celebrate the release, we are excited to walk you through updates to the new styles, which are available now in Standard, Monochrome, and Hybrid. …

Moonbound update; media theorizing. Read here.

You can’t have the good without the bad — and I’ve always made an effort to talk about the bad times that happen while traveling! The top thing that people tell me is “You’re so honest,” and I make sure to tell the truth. Because yes — travel is fun and transformative and life-affirming. But it can also be uncomfortable, stressful, smelly, and expensive. It’s good to remember that, and …

# Wednesday, December 18, 2024 # notes on the garmin instinct 2 solar tl;dr: These are incomplete notes on the Garmin Instinct 2 Solar, after a year and a half of regular wear. The Instinct 2 is a smartwatch, first released in 2022, that focuses on activity tracking and fitness. It has 5 buttons and a monochrome non-touch display. In many ways it feels like one of the digital watches …

Hamilton’s quaternion number system is a non-commutative extension of the complex numbers, consisting of numbers of the form where are real numbers, and are anti-commuting square roots of with , , . While they are non-commutative, they do keep many other properties of the complex numbers: Being non-commutative, the quaternions do not form a field. However, they are still a skew field (or division ring): multiplication is associative, and every …

Hayden Beverage Corp. 2910 East Amity Rd. Boise, ID 83716 12.17.24 Dear Mr. Hayden, Three years ago I wrote you from the Idaho Maximum Security Institution to thank you for personally sponsoring an entire Boise State University humanities class at the Idaho State Correctional Institution. Today I write you as a student who recently completed … Continue reading "Many thanks to Dodds Hayden, Vice Chair for the Idaho Board of …

Roger Spitz, President of Techistential and Chair of the Disruptive Futures Institute, joined SOIF’s community event last October to inspire actionable thinking on navigating uncertainty. Author of the bestselling “Disrupt with Impact”, he shared insights into reframing disruption as a driver for systemic change. His book provides tools to help decision-makers navigate and respond effectively in an increasingly ‘UN-VICE’ world—Unknown, Volatile, Intersecting, Complex and Exponential. Systemic change has diminished the …

Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) offers a powerful way to write shared code across multiple platforms while still giving you the flexibility to define platform-specific implementations. A key part of achieving this is using the expect/actual mechanism, which allows you to define common APIs in your shared module and provide platform-specific implementations in the respective targets. This approach is particularly handy when building Compose Multiplatform apps, where you might need to perform …

Earlier this year, I prepared lectures on path tracing for master students at TU Delft. We decided to make recorded versions of these lectures available to the general public. I also wrote a simple Vulkan path tracer for illustrations in the lectures, which is open source now. You can watch the lectures on YouTube (113 minutes) to learn about basic principles of path tracing and all the importance sampling strategies …

Tracey’s project will focus on the Sanctuary Movement, and the entangled histories of immigration, colonization, and religion along the U.S./Mexico borderlands. Read on Places Journal