Air Support in a Backpack: The Switchblade

In March 2022, it was reported that the United States was sending over some Switchblades to Ukraine.

Downtime is not an option – meet the stewards of the cloud | Aeon Essays

Hot, strenuous and unsung. There is nothing soft and fluffy about the caretaking work that enables our digital lives

The value of not flying

Why might people decline an offer of up to $10,000 just to keep their feet on the ground?

The Quest to Save the Pink Apples of Italy

Fruit fans, assemble.

Romance, Politics, and Ecological Damage: The Saga of Sable Island’s Wild Horses | Hakai Magazine

They’ve roamed free for hundreds of years, but is that freedom harming the ecosystem they call home?

Overexposed: A History of Fotomat

The tiny photo processing kiosks could be found everywhere in the 1970s and 1980s. And that was the problem.

When Did Peanut Butter Get So Cool?

Like coffee, ice cream, and chocolate, nut butter is having its connoisseur moment.

Supply Chain Process Optimization using Linear Programming

Understand how linear programming can be the most powerful tool for a supply chain continuous improvement engineer

Two-Sided Networks in Healthcare, a Founder’s Playbook

The most significant bottleneck in the adoption of healthcare technology to date has been distribution. Over the last decade, generations of digital health companies have struggled to reach escape velocity—not because their products and services weren’t transformative, but…

How to Structure Your Sales Compensation Plan to Deliberately Undersell by @ttunguz

In Deliberately Underselling as Sales Strategy, I wrote about the importance of sizing contracts below customer needs to ensure customer success. “A key part of the formula: crafting the right account executive compensation structure to reward this strategy.” I received a pile…

Productivity Tips And Tools For A More Efficient Workflow — Smashing Magazine

Who doesn’t love a good timesaver? In this post, we compiled useful productivity tips and tools that help you speed up routine tasks, enhance your development workflow, and stay organized.

How to Track Down Memory Leaks in Ruby

Let's explore how Ruby manages memory, garbage collection, and how to uncover a leak, in the first of this two-part series on memory leaks in Ruby.

Unlink Command in Linux

Learn about the unlink command, an alternate method of deleting files in the Linux terminal.

Under Anesthesia, Where Do Our Minds Go?

To better understand our brains and design safer anesthesia, scientists are turning to EEG.

Why is it so hard to give Google money?

Cinema’s greatest scene: ‘Casablanca’ and ‘La Marseillaise’

Casablanca is widely remembered as one of the greatest films of all time, coming in at #2 on the AFI’s top 100 list and similarly regarded by many other critics. You can quibble with its exac…

Emoji Kitchen Browser

Browse thousands of delightful Emoji Kitchen combinations, available in Gboard for Android.

The Digital Shopfloor: Industrial Automation in the Industry 4.0 Era

Stream Graphs Basics with Python's Matplotlib

The good-looking cousin of stacked area charts

Shamelessness as a strategy

I’ve enjoyed playing a game called Avalon recently. I won’t go too far into the rules, but it’s a hidden role game in the vein of Secret Hitler or Werewolf, where one team is “good”, trying to uncover who among them is “evil”, before the evil team wins.

How the Brain Allows the Deaf to Experience Music

Our sensory systems for hearing and touch overlap to stir a wealth of emotions.

The Magical Use of Uncommon Labels Fieldset and Legend

How to use Fieldset and Legend to create an amazing border effect.

4 Quick Tricks For Better Plots in Matplotlib

Easily adding arrows, multiple axes, gradient fill, and more

Mobile UX: Study Guide

Unsure where to start? Use this collection of links to our articles and videos to learn how to write and present information that aligns with users’ needs and online behaviors.

The mysterious inner lives of octopuses

Octopuses are problem-solvers, mischief-makers and notorious escape artists. They also appear to have a rich inner life – so what is it like to be an octopus?

fastai/fastbook: The fastai book, published as Jupyter Notebooks

The fastai book, published as Jupyter Notebooks.

Software Requirement Specification: How to make SRS for your project [with examples]

How to write SRS? What its key characteristics? To deliver a successful and robust software product, you should know an in-depth description of what to be developed. That’s why writing a clear, concise and easy to follow SRS documentation is a must.

What is the best way to write a PRD? With PRD examples from companies you look upto!

Always looking for learning opportunities in product and life.

https://docs.idew.org/principles-and-practices/practices/design-practices/design-requirements

Discovery vs. Documentation | Silicon Valley Product Group

The problem that I want to write about today has always been a problem, but in truth, the pandemic has made this problem substantially worse. In particular, I am worried about teams reverting back to the heavy use of artifacts such as product requirements documents (e.g. PRD’s)…

When Did Shaking Hands Become a Standard Way of Greeting Someone?

There’s ancient evidence for the custom of shaking hands, but did it mean the same thing then as it does today?

How to Make a Database Connection in Python for Absolute Beginners

3 steps (+examples) to connect to MS SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle and many other databases

A Traveling Jewish Deli Exhibit Tells an American Tale in Pickles and Pastr

“I’ll Have What She’s Having,” a traveling exhibit on the Jewish delicatessen, looks back at a vibrant institution fueled by immigration and irresistible food.

https://twitter.com/freakonometrics/status/1550439602594484225?s=12&t=5dAyRh9A5Nw53A3oNf4HPg

How to convert JSON to CSV using Linux / Unix shell - nixCraft

This page explains how to convert JSON to CSV format using Linux, macOS, *BSD or Unix command-line utilities.

5 tips for writing amazingly jargon-free product copy

These five tactics will help simplify and clarify your technical copy.

Ask HN: What are some cool but obscure data structures you know about? | Hacker News

Building classifiers with biased classes: AdaSampling comes to the rescue

An algorithmic approach to clean up your dataset and sharpen class assignments.

The 50 Greatest Fictional Deaths of All Time

The most tearjerking, hilarious, satisfying, and shocking death scenes in 2,500 years of culture.

Samoon | Traditional Bread From Iraq | TasteAtlas

Samoon is a traditional Iraqi yeast bread characterized by its unusual diamond shape. The bread is usually baked in a tandoor oven, and in Iraq, shops that sell samoon often have yellow diamonds painted on the outside to signify what awaits inside

Command Line | Graphviz

DOT rendering programs and utilities.

Introduction to TCP and Sockets

codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x: Master programming by recreating your favorite technologies from scratch.

Master programming by recreating your favorite technologies from scratch. - codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x

Small, Sharp Tools

A few words on the Unix philosophy of building small programs that do one thing well, and compose for comprehensive functionality.

Welcome | Handbook of Graphs and Networks in People Analytics

A technical manual of graphs, networks and their applications in the people and social sciences

An Introduction to Multithreading in Node.js

Let's dive into multithreading and how to use worker threads in Node.

Things I wish everyone knew about Git (Part II)

From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus

How Paper Catalogs Remain Relevant in a Digital Age

Whether or not you should pursue a catalog strategy is a question that deserves significant thought. As digital marketing becomes more complex, it may make a lot of sense to send out correctly designed catalogs to the right customers. For e-commerce retailers without physical…

Inside the Mind-Boggling World of the Antiquities Theft Task Force

You can't make this shit up

What’s So Funny? The Science of Why We Laugh

Psychologists, neuroscientists and philosophers are trying to understand humor.