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The 15 min City platform lets you explore how much worldwide cities are close to this ideal, by merging open data about venues within cities, population grids and routing algorithms. With 15 min City, you can check which activities or places are accessible to a neighbourhood on foot and by bike, and compare it to other urban areas. You can also check which city is the closest to the 15 minutes ideal looking at our city rankings in the map.

The case for less rigor and more nuance

Accompanying guide for this most excellent exhibition.

A good side-by-side of Changesets and Semantic Release.

Somehow missed this first time round.

Good thoughts about design systems being basically a platform function.

Missed this first time around. The demo technique is uncannily similar to how we've ended up working. This is a wonderful articulation.

“The national insurance rise, minimum wage increase and employment rights bill suggest the government is prioritising getting more people into higher quality jobs rather than just seeking to increase employment at all costs in the short run,” Aveek Bhattacharya, research director at the Social Market Foundation said.

Interesting take.

Basically: be a nice human.

Bypassing means not meeting your misinformed opponent head-on. This is not a clash of arguments or a battle of the studies. You are maneuvering an argument into a different position. It’s a kind of epistemological aikido — using someone’s movements and logic against them.

Python however is hard, because it is only available in English, and requires learners to learn complex programming concepts and syntax at once. Hedy is the easy way to get started with textual programming languages!

Exhaustive list of HomeKit devices.

Tailwind helps you build web pages quickly with a utility-first approach — but is it right for your project? Here we explore its benefits and trade-offs.

Sound Blocks explores the visualization of music, assembling piece by piece to create a harmonious whole.

Very satisfying.

Making homes more energy efficient through insulation and air tightness can give superior comfort levels while also cutting carbon and bills. However, traditional solid-walled buildings present particular challenges. Lisa Pasquale will show how superior comfort can be achieved on a modest budget with appropriate insulation materials and careful draught-proofing.

"Couldn't this have all been an email?"

The Stargate presents the saga of a mysterious artifact and its victims in a hallucinatory synthesis of science fiction and folk horror, where mind bending imagery and unsettling atmospheres converge in a surreal tale of primeval blood magic, interdimensional travel and grotesque otherworldly technology beginning in the Dark Ages and journeying into voids of deep space.

I wouldn't have imagined that I'd spend the first month of 2025 watching 20 minute long progressive death metal videos but I have no regrets.

As interpreted by Lucas Debiasi (via Russell).

An open specification for enriching containers with development specific content and settings.

Spirital successor to Vagrant?

Armed with little more than the principles behind them and some maths that has been solved for half a century, you can build an entire theory of how to invest your hard-earned savings. It tells you how much you should risk on the stockmarket, how much you should keep safe and what you can spend in retirement. It requires just a few facts about financial markets and some of the simplest, cheapest investment funds that asset managers offer. What is more, it was first formulated by a Nobel-prizewinning economist and is today almost universally accepted by his successors as the “correct” approach to investment and spending. Yet outside academia, almost no one has heard of it.

In 2004, two years before the launch of X (then Twitter), Michael Goldhaber, an American thinker, published an essay arguing that the internet would produce a new type of human, just as printing had. Homo typographicus would be followed by Homo interneticus. His “mentality significantly altered” by the effects of intense internet use, interneticus would be unmoored from time and space, disrespectful of old sources of authority and facing a constant battle for his attention.

Great article on commercially available assistive tech: AirPods Pro 2, Wandercraft Personal Exoskeleton, Emporia ME.6, Nobi Pendant light and Xigxag X-book.

Artists have always fretted about the pressure to conform, but the data-driven, music-as-content era feels different. “You are a Spotify employee at that point,” Daniel Lopatin, who makes abstract electronic music as Oneohtrix Point Never, told Pelly. “If your art practice is so ingrained in the brutal reality that Spotify has outlined for all of us, then what is the music that you’re not making? What does the music you’re not making sound like?” Listeners might wonder something similar. What does the music we’re not hearing sound like?

An excellent guide from Koto.

Smoke Signal is an event and RSVP management system.

A friendly introduction to the AT Protocol.

The "culture" of a society isn't a blob of random human activity, but an orderly ecosystem arising from the interactions between particular subunits. To maintain ecosystem health, we must reject the cynical “poptimist” framing of culture as a mere vehicle for entertainment and commerce and instead promote the benefits of

New-ish AEM model.

Team Topologies serves as our methodological foundation whenever we need to adapt our organizations, which we implement as soon as our strategy changes. We prefer a flow of small changes rather than a big bang reorganization.

Despite the fact that innovative cultures are desirable, and that most leaders claim to understand what they entail, they are hard to create and sustain. That’s because the easy-to-like behaviors that get so much attention are only one side of the coin. They must be counterbalanced by some tougher and frankly less fun behaviors: an intolerance for incompetence, rigorous discipline, brutal candor, a high level of individual accountability, and strong leadership.

And so the trend in UI design, for the past 15y, has been towards less information, fewer affordances, and turning free-standing pages into transient modals. Interfaces are stripped, made ephemeral, and apps become Fisher-Price toys for users to paw at.

Announcing Mozi

New Dopplr-like social network from Ev and friends.

I propose a new mode of interaction, where models play the role of computer (e.g. phone) applications: providing a graphical interface, interpreting user inputs, and updating their state. In this mode, instead of being an “agent” that uses a computer on behalf of the human, AI can provide a richer and more powerful computing environment for us to use.

Notes on the Practical Wisdom of AI Use

Now that they are focusing on products, AI companies as well as their users are re-discovering that software development, especially the user experience side of it, is hard, and requires a broader set of skills than AI model development.