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To commemorate the 250th anniversary of the publication of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, I will be presenting my forthcoming book Beyond the Adam Smith Problem (with Salim Rashid) and attending two conferences overseas, one in Paris...
Sometimes keyboards come with a 'Fn' key that allows some of their context-sensitive keys to do particular general-purpose functions. Sometimes these are implemented in careful, considerate and configurable ways... and other times they...
🤝 I just created a blogpost in Obsidian, pushing the end result to Pagecord for final tweaking and publishing. Very smooth, and I really like how easy my writing workflow has become. Well done Olly 👏For more information, see:...
Back to the theme of buildings that are both very old and not old, we’re proud to have been working at Fort Ticonderoga. In order to understand why three different countries wanted this fort you need to think about geography and...
I can't seem to stop photographing the "humpyard dogs", the locomotives that work the hump at Symington Yard in Winnipeg.
The value of a good friendship cannot be overstated. But friendships aren’t always smooth sailing, they can be just as challenging as romantic relationship, and just as fulfilling. In today’s Big Idea, author Laura Lekkos takes a deep...
The other day I wrote about the new tools that developers are using to get work done. Another topic I see discussed is different language models as part of the development process. I like to use and think about different programming...
Back in 2016 and 2017 I recorded a podcast called Syscast : interviews with people I admired in the Linux, open source and infrastructure world. Matt Holt about Caddy , Daniel Stenberg about curl , Seth Vargo about Vault , and a handful...
Humid, cool and overcast at sunrise — an orange glow. Two thin deer wander through the meadow at the edge of the woods, lowering their heads for a mouthful of bracken, some grass, a goldenrod tip …
Designing with and around "baggage"
My friend Seamus O’Mahony in his book on psychoanalysis describes Willfred Trotter, a fine surgeon and originator of the concept of the “herd instinct,” as a philosopher in “a profession that has no philosophers.” Those of us who have...
OSRM v26.6.1
Evergreen twins atop Flagstaff Mountain, Boulder, Colorado. The post Twin Pines appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.