From: Robin Sloan To: the lab Sent: December 2022 A year ofnew avenues Paris Street; Rainy Day, 1877, Gustave Caillebotte It’s so powerfully obvious to me, it might as well be written in ten-foot let
November 2022 In the science fiction books I read as a kid, reading had often been replaced by some more efficient way of acquiring knowledge. Mysterious "tapes"…
The story of 2022 was the emergence of AI, first with image generation models, including DALL-E, MidJourney, and the open source Stable Diffusion, and then ChatGPT, the first text-generation model to
Dissecting why everybody keeps talking about microservices. 02 January 2023 tl;dr Architecture is hard sometimes--people keep offering up some new idea that quickly becomes the mainstream "way to do i
Facebook acquired WhatsApp for 16 billion dollars, the largest startup acquisition to date. Cost per user was comparable to Google’s YouTube acquisition.
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My small contribution to raise your level of consciousness as you transition from buying food to buying … more things. The illusion of choice Americans think they have a lot of choice - but most of th
💡 Do you have a sign from NYCTrainSign? Try out the site that I created to get it working again. Back in 2017, NYCTrainSign was a company making replicas of…
Long story short: If you’re a subscriber to either Tweetbot or Twitterrific, you can help them out with three simple steps: Reinstall the app if you’ve already deleted it; otherwise, make sure you’re
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The News Mateusz Slodkowski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images By 2021, Spotify had paid to sign some of the biggest names in podcasting, and it was ready to start squeezing its competitors. The
Copyright from the defend-libraries dept Wed, Mar 22nd 2023 09:27am - Earlier this week there was finally a hearing in the case brought by the big book publishers to kill off libraries. That, of cours
Substack announced today that it’s introducing a new Notes feature that is designed to let users share posts, quotes, comments, images, links and ideas. Notes shared on the platform are displayed in a
Special report Ten years ago, on March 13, 2013, Google said it was discontinuing Google Reader, a popular application for reading RSS and Atom feeds. Google's decision to do so, part of a corporate i
Spotify’s new homescreen design goes hard on full-screen images and video. Image: Spotify Spotify is redesigning the core homescreen of its app, trying to make it easier for users to find new stuff to
First-principles thinking is one of the best ways to reverse-engineer complicated problems and unleash creative possibility. Sometimes called “reasoning from first principles,” the idea is to break do
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Just as every pregnancy, labor, and delivery is unique, so is every postpartum recovery experience. Postpartum women share many of the same postpartum experiences, though, and they have similar questi
Silvergate Capital Corporation said it will wind down operations and voluntarily liquidate Silvergate Bank, one of crypto's most prominent banks, raising concerns that crypto firms' access to the U.S.
Well, it happened. We knew it was coming. A prick pulled the plug. And what bothers me most about it is how Phony Stark did it. My mom passed away just before Christmas. Her decline was something ever
Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images The “work from home” revolution has been very good for political columnists who like to write shirtless in pajama pants and share too much personal information with t
Guest Essay The Deadly Lack of Imagination in the Democratic Party Dec. 19, 2022 Credit...Cristina Spanò By Mr. Frank is the author of “What’s the Matter With Kansas?” and, most recently, “The People,
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September 2022 I recently told applicants to Y Combinator that the best advice I could give for getting in, per word, was Explain what you've learned from users. That tests a lot of things: whether yo
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This is a story about oceans, hurricanes, fear and the time I almost killed a friend. In 1998, I had been working every job and grabbing every moment I could find on big sailboats. That fall, a skippe
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MessagesBrian Donohue@bthdonohueThreadSee new TweetsConversationparker.exe@ptAs a data point, the AngelList Access Fund did ~190 individual company investments last quarter down from ~240 in Q1 (our ATH). I think that’s probably fairly reflective of market deal pace.Quote TweetShai Goldman@shaig·…
Introduction Recently there has been substantial discussion around the downsides of service oriented architectures and microservice architectures in particular. While only a few years ago, many people
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From the beginning, we designed OpenAirplane to be failsafe. This timing will give us time to process payments, and provide for the orderly shutdown of the platform. We’ve always done our best to ensu
The goal of the 2009 Sepulveda Pass Freeway Expansion Project seemed simple. A carpool lane was to be added to reduce congestion on a 10-mile stretch of Los Angeles’s I-405 freeway, the second most co
TL;DR This is me ranting about crappy tech interview experiences You’re wasting my time; I am wasting yours This is my career rant for the summer of 2022. I’ve been on a run of unsatisfying (and unsuc
I cannot stop watching videos of Web3 boosters failing to explain the usefulness of the technology. I realize this is petty, but the videos are deeply cathartic. I’m talking about two clips in particu
Monday February 21, 2022 — Taipei, Taiwan I recently started compiling a list of defunct blogging platforms . It’s been interesting to see how websites die — from domain parking pages to timeouts to b
Sometimes financial decisions that are seemingly rational on their face can precipitate mass exodus of your best engineers. We Hired the CFO Last week as a favor to a friend, I sat in on a board meeti
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