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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 • maps • history • tulare • lake • wetlands
Gaza Tunnel map
A schematic map of the "Gaza Metro"
2023-10-31 gaza • israel • war • maps • tunnels
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 • security • photography • photos • cameras • leica • cryptography • signatures
NY Neighborhoods
Discussion of a crowd-sourced detailed map of neighborhood names
2023-10-30 maps • nyc • newyork • neighborhood • cartography
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 • youtube • armsrace • ublock • ublockorigin
Helen Corbitt profile
The Julia Childs of Texas, bringing sophisticated foods to Dallas and Houston and the frontier
2023-10-29 texas • cookbook • cooking • food • culture • history • women
Solar laws in US
Map of which states have laws guaranteeing homeowners the right to install solar power. (from 2017).
2023-10-28 solar • electrify • propertyrights • us • politics • unitedstates
Cocinas of New Mexico
A 1990 cookbook of traditional New Mexico cooking, a charity project from the power company
2023-10-28 cookbook • food • cooking • newmexico • greenchile
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 • versioncontrol • git • mercurial • software • x11 • tools
My Time in The Biden-Harris Administration
Alex MacGillivray on his recent time doing tech policy in the White House.
2023-10-27 ai • policy • biden • politics • amac • cto • government
Futuracha Pro Font
Dynamic font changes letter shape as you type
2023-10-26 fonts • design • artnouveau • typography • dynamic
Thurston Moore interviews Beck
From 1994, when MTV was about music and everyone was so young
2023-10-26 music • sonicyouth • beck • mtv • interview
WSJ: Twitter charts
Detailed third party stats showing Twitter's decline. See also https://archive.ph/xgXa1
2023-10-26 twitter • elonmusk • socialmedia • business • ads
Rhyton - Wikipedia
Generic name for drinking horns and other conical vessels
2023-10-26 history • archaeology • drinking • cup • sculpture
Trusting Trust code
Amazing analysis of the actual source code for Ken Thompson's deep backdoor in early Unix
2023-10-26 security • backdoor • unix • computing • trust • kenthompson
PLATO in 2023
Two services that emulate the groundbreaking 1970s educational networked computer service
2023-10-25 retrocomputing • plato • history • computing
Excel's two epochs
Excel spreadsheets can be references against two different epoch dates, 4 years apart
2023-10-24 excel • compatibility • macos • data • corruption • badtech
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 mastodon • threads • unroll • threadreader • fediverse • socialmedia
Design by Numbers rebooted
Influential 1999 design programming project reimplemented in modern Javascript
2023-10-23 generativeart • programming • dbn • maeda • tomwhite • javascript • art
Solar cell efficiency
NREL's chart comparing various solar power approaches. Consumer solar panels these days are about 28% efficient.
2023-10-23 solar • efficiency • pv • photovoltaic • chart • research • energy • electrify
1905 solar generator
Details of George Cove's thermocouple solar energy device from the beginning of the 20th century
2023-10-23 solar • georgecove • canada • power • electricity • electrify
Best printer 2023
Hilarious product recommendation article for a product category that is really simple
2023-10-23 funny • printer • brother • laserprinter • affiliate • chatgpt
Tatemó
Houston fine dining, a menu of corn
2023-10-22 food • corn • maize • mexico • cooking • houston • finedining
GPU computing
Nice overview for programmers
2023-10-21 programming • gpu • simd • parallelism
The Black Gold Tapestry
History of oil in human societies, embroidered in the style of the Bayeux tapestry
2023-10-21 via:metafilter • art • history • oil • bayeux • tapestry • embroidery • fabric
The best known packings of equal circles in a squarercles in a square
A table and diagrams of best known circle packing
2023-10-20 geometry • packing • circle • finite • math
David Beebe profile
High school classmate makes good in Marfa as a combination of musician and public servant
2023-10-20 texas • marfa • alpine • music • ranchera
AI Emoji Generator
Tries to make custom reacji
2023-10-19 slack • emoji • reacji • generative • ai • art • icons • via:iandees
CFR[]
Fun drawing tool for simple generative art
2023-10-19 via:lobsters • art • generative • programming • logo
Twitter business collapse
Revenue is off 60-75% compared to 12 months ago
2023-10-05 twitter • business • elonmusk • ads • failure • bankruptcy • x
30 year old pickles
Extreme food preservation in Indian food
2023-10-04 food • achar • pickle • india
Commentary on the Apocalypse
8th century Christian document authored by Beatus of Liébana, paintings and text on the end of times
2023-10-04 christian • religion • history • spain • apocalype • revelations
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 spain • history • immigration • architecture
Hórreo
Vernacular Spanish architecture, granaries
2023-10-04 architecture • spain • granary • storage • farming