On Cash, in which a busker prompts Tim Bray to reassess his priorities
What happened was, I was walking through a train station on the way to work with the buds playing randomly on shuffle and a knifeblade of Real Music came in from outside so I had to pull them out of my ears, there was this young dude getting great electric sound out of a teeny amp doing a slow take on Little Wing with a really good voice: When I’m sad, she comes to me… plenty room between the notes and lots of soul in them. He looked a little hard-pressed; I put my hand in my pocket for some coin but there was no coin there because I live on plastic these days and that busker went unpaid that morning. Another reason for a thing I’m thinking of: Going back to cash.
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Squalid London - Craig Murray
I read it, I note that I am unsurprised, and I move on. That is what is wrong with me.
"Geohashing expedition 2018-08-23 50 -1"
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"Owning Your Content - Blottings"
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Cornell's Brian Wansink: A Crisis in Food Science
Not the most important point in the article, but an important point:
Wansink’s sense for harnessing buzz may have been a skill in the wrong domain. He’s a camera-friendly performer who might’ve done very well as a Bill Nye– or Neil deGrasse Tyson–type infotainer, in an industry where simplification to build a compelling narrative is not a bug but a feature, given the explicit mission to deliver an attention-grabbing-and-holding product to an audience.
"The Web I Want"
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"10 practices for readable code"
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Moneyland reviewed in the Economist
Say what?
Nevada, for instance, is creating ingenious corporate vehicles that add new layers of impenetrability—such as trusts that can be foreign in American law yet count as American under overseas regulations.
"ongoing by Tim Bray · Oh, Shenandoah!"
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"The Story of Why I Left Riot Games"
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"The Human Story, as Told by Our Genomes"
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"inessential: New World NetNewsWire"
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"Sapiens"
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Grilled Quali Eggs – Yan Can Cook
First catch your quali, as Mrs Beeton might have said.
"Glow"
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"RSS: The Persistent Protocol"
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Risk-taking
Baking a soufflé is no different from driving 150kph while drunk.
Ripped apart, as it deserved.
Photos for Mac isn’t a long term photo library option – Colin Devroe
Perhaps you’re not worried about moving from Mac to Windows or from Photos to another library manager, but you should be. Apple has already killed iPhoto in favor of Photos for Mac and lost a lot of functionality when they did. Who is to say they won’t do that again? Or discontinue the Mac altogether some day?
Switching between multiple open windows in the same application – ldstephens
Learn something new and useful almost every day.