DNS 101: An introduction to Domain Name Servers

Domain names provide the internet much more user-friendly way of referencing servers, but have you ever wondered how it works under the covers?

Changing Your Pricing Model: How Hired Went from a Transactional to a Subsc

Hired's Head of Global Revenue, John Kelly, explains how the company successfully transitioned from a transactional to a subscription model.

Insurance Quotes | Armadillo Insurance Agency

Armadillo Insurance Agency welcomes Texans around the state and is ready to help them find the insurance coverage that they need. Speak with our agents in Austin, TX to get started with a policy and learn how you can get a quote.

Visual guide to Agile methodologies for modern product management

Agile methodologies theory, practice, examples, and free templates for product development and product management teams.

Interested in improving your relationships? Try Nonviolent Communication

Nonviolent communication (NVC) is a popular method of conflict resolution that privileges unbiased evidence and specificity.

On Humility and Making Better Decisions

Dr. Daniel Kahneman features on the latest Farnam Street podcast and it’s a surprising episode. Kahneman wrote Thinking Fast and Slow. I admire Kahneman a great deal. Not for his Nobel or for his work, which are both impressive, but for his humility. Some of the key tenets of…

When 'Angels in America' Came to East Texas – Texas Monthly

Twenty years ago my hometown made national headlines when the local college staged an internationally acclaimed play about gay men and the AIDS crisis. The people I grew up with are still feeling the aftershocks.

Building An MRAM Array

Why MRAM is so attractive.

Google Analytics: Introduction to Cross-device Reporting | Practical Ecomme

There has been a seismic shift in website traffic in the past several years, from desktop to mobile. Google Analytics has rolled out the beta version of cross-device reporting to inform merchants of how their shoppers are interacting via multiple devices.

Teaching Ethics in Appalachia Taught Me About Bridging America’s Partisan D

There’s a language for talking about hot-button issues. And we’re not learning it.

The Story of France’s Most Extraordinary Pastry

Rustically simple, this baked good is delicious due to the high quality of its parts.

Spain's Happy Little Carless City - Reasons to be Cheerful

Wherever you find advocates for saner transportation, their dream scenario usually hinges on the same outcome: making cities blissfully free of cars. To this end, the Spanish city of Pontevedra, population 84,000, has done something remarkable: it has reduced car use in its…

A Lone Postman Delivers the Mail to the Far Reaches of the Big Bend

Not many people will drive the mail to places the U.S. Postal Service won’t. Seventy-one-year-old Gilbert Lujan is one of them.

Ad-Tech Experts Call for Third-Party Verification After the Death of the Co

Google’s proposals for machine learning-based frequency capping are questioned.

Old Dudes On Skateboards

The death of his life-long skateboarding friend prompts Aaron Gilbreath to get back on his board — at 44, with his toddler daughter in tow.

The Acid Farmers - Mike Jay

How Sandoz Pharmaceuticals produced the LSD that turned on the world

The Best Cast Iron Skillets

We found five cast iron skillets worth their weight in metal after examining heat conduction, frying dozens of eggs, searing steaks, and loads of baking cornbread.

The Cobra Effect: how linear thinking leads to unintended consequences

The world is much more complex than we realise. The Cobra Effect is when an attempted solution results in unintended consequences.

A Beginner’s Guide To Flight Tracking

Translations:English (UK)EspañolFlight tracking is an accessible and useful tool for open source investigators. Being able to track the movements of aircraft belonging to powerful individuals and armed forces can add important details to stories, or even uncover entire new…

Deep Learning with PyTorch: A 60 Minute Blitz — PyTorch Tutorials 2.4.0+cu121 documentation

Sinigang (Tamarind Broth With Pork and Vegetables) Recipe - NYT Cooking

This is the soup that made me like vegetables when I was growing up You always measure sinigang by sourness, which is so much a part of our cuisine — layers of acid coming from vinegar, fresh citrus, tamarind and unripe fruits Here, sour is a power move, hitting you all the way…

The Epic Hunt for a Lost World War II Aircraft Carrier (Published 2019)

In 1942, a volley of torpedoes sent the U.S.S. Wasp to the bottom of the Pacific. For decades, the families of the dead wondered where in the lightless depths of the ocean the ship could possibly be. Earlier this year, a team of wreck hunters set out to find it.

Jazz Night In America: The Playlist

A modern jazz survey at ground level, from stone classics to state-of-the-art jams.

Moroccan-inspired Santa Fe house asks $950K

The intricate front door signals what’s to come inside: 1,800 square feet of craftsmanship and detailing that even the staunchest minimalist could respect.

10 things you (probably) don't know about Go

The fast track to a life well lived is feeling grateful

Being ‘good’ need not take years of ethical analysis: just a few moments of gratitude can set you on the path to virtue

PyPy's New JSON Parser

Introduction In the last year or two I have worked on and off on making PyPy's JSON faster, particularly when parsing large JSON files. I...

Here Are the Urban Highways That Deserve to Die

The Congress for New Urbanism ranks the most-loathed urban freeways in North America—and makes the case for tearing them down.

The Board Game at the Heart of Viking Culture

An ancient game known as “hnefatafl” held immense symbolic and religious significance.

leah blogs: Ken Thompson's Unix password

Shackleton’s Medical Kit

‘Each box was like the distillation of all that we have learned as a species about our bodies and their infirmities, a time capsule of medicine.’

Why Robot Brains Need Symbols

We’ll need both deep learning and symbol manipulation to build AI.

Still Life

Covering Texas news, politics, food, history, travel, crime, music, and everything in between for fifty years.

I Worked at Capital One for Five Years. This Is How We Justified Piling Debt on Poor Customers.

The subprime lending giant is a textbook case in creating a corporate culture of denial.

Japanese manufacturers use decades of experience to dominate key chemical m

Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co., JSR Corp. and Shin-Etsu Chemical Co.: Three seemingly inconspicuous companies suddenly came into the spotlight in early July when Japan announced it would slap tightened export controls to South Korea on three key chemicals — photoresists, fluorinated…

How Supermassive Black Holes Were Discovered

Astronomers turned a fantastic concept into reality.

The Cure for Toxic Positivity

‘Hang in there!’ can do more harm than good

150 successful machine learning models: 6 lessons learned at Booking.com

How UMAP Works — umap 0.3 documentation

How Irish Butter Kerrygold Conquered America’s Kitchens

The salty, uber-yellow spread has seen double-digit growth almost every year for the past decade.

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The Troubling Economics of Food Halls

The troubling economics of this ubiquitous trend

New chips for machine intelligence

My history with Forth and stack machines (2010) | Hacker News

The Long, Loving Search for Betsy the Cow

"She's missing. I’m not going to quit her."

Under-Investigated Fields List (Version 1.0) - matthewmcateer.me

Nominations for fields that are not being researched as much as they should be

My fancy smartphone could never give me what the landline gave my grandmother

Company in old age versus the pressure of conversation.

What Really Happened at Sonia Rykiel

How an adored French brand ended up in liquidation.

Why Red Means Red in Almost Every Language - Issue 76: Language

Nautilus is a different kind of science magazine. Our stories take you into the depths of science and spotlight its ripples in our lives and cultures.

A terrible crime, a patient waiting for a transplant: The tragic, redemptive journey of one heart.

Three decades ago, a young man murdered his girlfriend and killed himself. What happened next to his heart was extraordinary.