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This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Barry Hess, whose blog can be found at bjhess.com. Tired of RSS? Read this in your browser or sign up for the newsletter. People and Blogs is supported by the "One a...
Giant jagged rocks reach into the sky at Sunshine Canyon, Boulder, Colorado. The post Big Jags appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.
In Japanese Buddhist temples and some Shinto shrines, there’s an awesome tradition of receiving a goshuin in exchange for a small donation.A goshuin is a piece of calligraphy, usually featuring the name of the temple and the date of your...
Midcareer Dissatisfaction. The Feed Is Fake. What’s New in Flutter. Real-time Face Detection. Software Engineering at the Tipping Point.We Don’t Lose Friends, We Just Stop Showing up. That's AI & more
Projects change. Photographs move from person to person, from tool to tool. A crime-scene photo passes from the investigator’s camera to a forensic analyst’s workstation to a prosecutor’s presentation software. A heritage digitisation...
I did a lot of data engineering work in my career. When you work a lot with data, you often get quick requests to extract some cold data and process it. Since the data is cold, it usually resides on S3. For example, one of the typical...
Just a quick note to highlight this new report on the use of 'dark patterns' in chatbot design. This is something I've touched on before (and have a paper relating to, in the deep abyss of academic procedure) but it's really good to see...
: The story of Juan Romero, the 17-year-old busboy who cradled dying Senator Robert F. Kennedy in 1968. How he lived with guilt for 50 years and eventually found peace.
How China Invented (and Abandoned) the ‘Overseas Chinese’
TL;DR Conway’s Law tells us that organisations create systems that mirror their communication systems. Jamie Dobson coin’s ‘Miell’s Law’ in a post about the work of our mutual friend (and his colleague) Ian Miell in his forthcoming book...
Trauma, like everything else, is typically effaced by time. The anniversary of the events of Memorial Day, 1995 still affected me deeply at the 24-year mark, but once I moved to Sunset full-time the following year, those old serpents...
We’re in TaiKoo Li QianTan (前滩太古里), a brand new, high-end shopping mall near the Huangpu River in Pudong. It’s a beautiful complex with four levels, viewing bridges, walls of white steel and vertical gardens (the first I’ve seen that...
🚨🚨Warning🚨🚨 I’m still feeling a bit sorry for myself. I can’t seem to shake it at the moment. Physically, mentally and emotionally I still just feel a bit off – not terrible or anything but definitely sub-optimal (and it isn’t like...