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Just two resistors to say ‘I am a device, give me 5V’ - you only need more negotiation = a chip - to get more than 5V

Damn font getting smaller and smaller while my eyes stay the same

This is all a reference to the short story ‘Library of Babel’ by Jorge Luis Borges. I feel the page needs to make that a bit more clear! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_o…

https://www.alexandercowan.com/yellow-walkman-data-art-of-cu...

Love it, could you do Harold Cohen next?

It’s not an exaggeration to say that every day of the year, from maybe noon to midnight, these buildings are surrounded by people enjoying the city - walking along the river, going…

> lived locally for 10 years and visited only a handful of times That was a mistake

This is exactly what Upworthy did - they invented some of the clickbait headline formats that are still used today (for less positive news) https://web.archive.org/web/202311141817…

In Hong Kong, public outdoor escalators like the Central–Mid-Levels Escalator are a big part of public transport. They go one way - down from 6am-10am, otherwise up. They’ve regene…

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An app can be a home‑cooked meal, by Robin Sloan: https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/

Harold Cohen was a British painter in the ‘60s who ended up in the Stanford AI lab in 1971, using plotters (and initially turtle robots) to draw images created by a chunk of code h…

A favourite paper: “ A Microfluidic D-subminiature Connector” “ Standardized, affordable, user-friendly world-to-chip interfaces represent one of the major barriers to the adoption…

Seems like a larger format version of Lignilock wooden nails https://www.beck-fastening.com/en/innovation/lignoloc

I liked the way I could download the PDF without accepting cookies. Not sure if that was a bug or a feature but I liked it.

I saw and enjoyed bag piece at the recent Tate retrospective- pretty much as she describes it the contrast between the experience of the people inside the bag (giggling, wriggling)…

Her loft series in 1960 was an amazing moment in time - La Monte Young, John Cage, Marcel Duchamp etc https://press.moma.org/wp-content/files_mf/yoko_sectiontext_...

Such a wild take after looking at, for example, a propaganda poster captioned “Work together to develop pig breeding and new varieties of rice” where the artist has decided to make…

This idea has been around for a long time: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22429935-000-food-bla...

IIRC these are SVGs and excellent if you have a plotter