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I find the small (relatively speaking) homes of some of the big architects more fascinating than the big flagship buildings. Another example is Louis Kahn's Esherick House: https:/…

I always assumed that part of what made "the great architects" great was their skill in combining lofty visions with practical engineering, making houses that were at once artistic…

This is my favorite kind of website. An individual going into depth on a topic they're passionate (in the true sense of the word) about. Another example is Dan's Motorcycle Repair …

Looks interesting, I wonder to what extent they really want to make cars DIY-able again (as they state). On the one hand, they mention servicing is "easy" — just turn to their part…

I have a theory that these environmental regulations at least to some degree defeat themselves. They make engines more complicated, so more fragile and harder for an amateur (edit:…

I agree with this article. I just want to add one thing: the author mentions companies in general, CEOs and the media as culprits. I'd like to add the people working at those compa…

Speculating here but I'd say a big part of the reason Dan Luu has as big a reach as he has is that he isn't the kind of writer who'll change his style to accommodate the audience t…

Somewhat unrelated but Apple are mainly focusing on Apple Intelligence in these new announcements. The first version of OS X I used was Mavericks. In hindsight, that was the last g…

I agree that the mainstream web is becoming increasingly useless, but at the same time, there are counter-movements: search engines like Marginalia, decentralized communities and f…

Yeah, and it's not just the drivers. It's that everything is about money first and foremost in the sport. That seems to be what happens with any sport once it grows big enough. The…

I agree with the article, but was thinking along the same lines. What if a business actually takes a long-term view: investing in standards and fostering it's ecosystem instead of …

Not arguing with that. In discussions about Electron, there are often comments along the lines of "Electron apps can be fast if done right, just look at VS Code" and that just does…

Agreed on the power-user stuff and the courses. I use Obsidian in a simple way, but it's nice that the extensibility and the community is there. Unlike VS Code, Obsidian is (for me…

I'm not sure... someone else can probably give a better answer on this! Medicine, weather prediction, logistics and driving aids are a few possibilities that come to mind, but I do…

Some of the reasons put forth by Pinker: * a poor country prioritizes growth while a richer one can afford to consider the environment * a richer country has access to more efficie…

Having just read Steven Pinker's book "Enlightenment Now", I'm skeptical of any article that paints this cynical view of how humans are wasting the earth, living their short-sighte…

I agree that the article is a little heavy on the author's opinion — the quote above neglects to put the perils of software and machine learning in any kind of relation to their po…

I'd say the class name can be semantic whether it's semantic with regards to the components function, its form or something else. It's not self-evident to me that a name given to s…

Well, yes. So, in the hypothetical situation where classes are added just for styling, is it a given that the correct way to name it is a way that stays the same when the styling c…

> God I miss it. I miss the goal of just cleanly naming things what they are, not how they look. I think utility-first CSS has its benefits as well as it's drawbacks, but just rega…

If you expect income, you're not really looking to build a free product, are you? Seems to me, a paywall (or similar) is the honest way; those who get value from your product give …

As someone pointed out, it probably has to do with controlling the stack all the way from hardware to userspace. Increasingly, Apples UIs run on top of Metal and I get the impressi…

Bukowski's books glorify drinking like the movie Leaving Las Vegas glorifies drinking: the trailer may give you the impression they're about getting drunk and having fun, but sit t…

Sleep is awesome, yes. I don't quite get how people like Jocko Willink ( https://twitter.com/jockowillink ) function... but at least for me, the hours I sleep are rarely the limiti…

I like Terminal, but a very specific feature of iTerm2 I wish Terminal had is using one of the option keys as meta, while letting you keep the other for typing characters like "@" …