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1830 Tulare wetlands map
A map of California from 1830 showing wetlands in much of the Central Valley. (A bad copy has been making the rounds).
2023-10-31 california • history • lake • maps • tulare • wetlands
Gaza Tunnel map
A schematic map of the "Gaza Metro"
2023-10-31 gaza • israel • maps • tunnels • war
Content Credentials (photos)
Summary of C2PA, a cryptographic technology to authenticate an image was genuinely taken by a specific camera and owner
2023-10-30 c2pa • cameras • cryptography • leica • photography • photos • security • signatures
NY Neighborhoods
Discussion of a crowd-sourced detailed map of neighborhood names
2023-10-30 cartography • maps • neighborhood • newyork • nyc
Adblocking vs YouTube
Details of the cost of trying to keep ads out of YouTube while they do everything they can to force the ads on you
2023-10-29 ads • armsrace • ublock • ublockorigin • youtube
Helen Corbitt profile
The Julia Childs of Texas, bringing sophisticated foods to Dallas and Houston and the frontier
2023-10-29 cookbook • cooking • culture • food • history • texas • women
Solar laws in US
Map of which states have laws guaranteeing homeowners the right to install solar power. (from 2017).
2023-10-28 electrify • politics • propertyrights • solar • unitedstates • us
Cocinas de New Mexico
A 1990 cookbook of traditional New Mexico cooking, a charity project from the power company
2023-10-28 cookbook • cooking • food • greenchile • newmexico
Repository Formats Matter
2007 notes from Keith Packard about why the X Project migrated from CVS to git (instead of Subversion or Mercurial)
2023-10-27 dvcs • git • mercurial • software • tools • versioncontrol • x11
My Time in The Biden-Harris Administration
Alex MacGillivray on his recent time doing tech policy in the White House.
2023-10-27 biden • ai • amac • cto • government • policy • politics
Futuracha Pro Font
Dynamic font changes letter shape as you type
2023-10-26 artnouveau • design • dynamic • fonts • typography
Thurston Moore interviews Beck
From 1994, when MTV was about music and everyone was so young
2023-10-26 beck • interview • mtv • music • sonicyouth
WSJ: Twitter charts
Detailed third party stats showing Twitter's decline. See also https://archive.ph/xgXa1
2023-10-26 ads • business • elonmusk • socialmedia • twitter
Rhyton - Wikipedia
Generic name for drinking horns and other conical vessels
2023-10-26 archaeology • cup • drinking • history • sculpture
Trusting Trust code
Amazing analysis of the actual source code for Ken Thompson's deep backdoor in early Unix
2023-10-26 backdoor • computing • kenthompson • security • trust • unix
PLATO in 2023
Two services that emulate the groundbreaking 1970s educational networked computer service
2023-10-25 computing • history • plato • retrocomputing
Excel's two epochs
Excel spreadsheets can be references against two different epoch dates, 4 years apart
2023-10-24 badtech • compatibility • corruption • data • excel • macos
Masto Reader IO
A thread unroller app for Mastodon. Entirely in the browser, no data stored on their server (for bad and good)
2023-10-23 fediverse • mastodon • socialmedia • threadreader • threads • unroll
Design by Numbers rebooted
Influential 1999 design programming project reimplemented in modern Javascript
2023-10-23 art • dbn • generativeart • javascript • maeda • programming • tomwhite
Solar cell efficiency
NREL's chart comparing various solar power approaches. Consumer solar panels these days are about 28% efficient.
2023-10-23 chart • efficiency • electrify • energy • photovoltaic • pv • research • solar
1905 solar generator
Details of George Cove's thermocouple solar energy device from the beginning of the 20th century
2023-10-23 canada • electricity • electrify • georgecove • power • solar
Best printer 2023
Hilarious product recommendation article for a product category that is really simple
2023-10-23 affiliate • brother • chatgpt • funny • laserprinter • printer
Tatemó
Houston fine dining, a menu of corn
2023-10-22 cooking • corn • finedining • food • houston • maize • mexico
GPU computing
Nice overview for programmers
2023-10-21 gpu • parallelism • programming • simd
The Black Gold Tapestry
History of oil in human societies, embroidered in the style of the Bayeux tapestry
2023-10-21 art • bayeux • embroidery • fabric • history • oil • tapestry • via:metafilter
Circles in a square
A table and diagrams of best known circle packing
2023-10-20 circle • finite • geometry • math • packing
David Beebe profile
High school classmate makes good in Marfa as a combination of musician and public servant
2023-10-20 alpine • marfa • music • ranchera • texas
AI Emoji Generator
Tries to make custom reacji
2023-10-19 ai • art • emoji • generative • icons • reacji • slack • via:iandees
CFR[]
Fun drawing tool for simple generative art
2023-10-19 art • generative • logo • programming • via:lobsters
Twitter business collapse
Revenue is off 60-75% compared to 12 months ago
2023-10-05 ads • bankruptcy • business • elonmusk • failure • twitter • x
30 year old pickles
Extreme food preservation in Indian food
2023-10-04 achar • food • india • pickle
Commentary on the Apocalypse
8th century Christian document authored by Beatus of Liébana, paintings and text on the end of times
2023-10-04 apocalype • christian • history • religion • revelations • spain
Los Indianos de Asturias
Spanish emigrants who went to the Americas, made their fortune, then came back home to Asturias and lived like princes
2023-10-04 architecture • history • immigration • spain
Hórreo
Vernacular Spanish architecture, granaries
2023-10-04 architecture • farming • granary • spain • storage