Making Mistakes Means You're Doing Things
colemanm.org
With every interesting innovation, company, or product, you’re seeing the late stage of a long chain of missteps and failure. As long as you have the right mindset, mistakes are learning.
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Verifying your GitHub profile on Mastodon
til.simonwillison.net
Angus Hollands suggested a neat fix: use a GitHub Pages domain instead.
The Siege of Gondor
acoup.blog
This is the first part of a six-part series I expect to roll out taking a historian’s look at the Siege of Gondor in Peter Jackson’s Return of the King. We’re going to discuss how historically plausible the sequence of events is and, in the process, talk a fair bit about how pre-gunpowder siege warfare works.
kickscondor/fraidycat
github.com
Follow blogs, wikis, YouTube channels, as well as accounts on Twitter, Instagram, etc. from a single page.
Deciphering Mary Stuart’s lost letters from 1578-1584
tandfonline.com
We have found over 55 letters fully in cipher in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, which, after we broke the code and deciphered the letters, unexpectedly turned out to be letters from Mary Stuart, addressed mostly to Michel de Castelnau Mauvissière, the French ambassador to England. Written between 1578 and 1584, those newly deciphered letters are most likely part of the aforementioned secret correspondence considered to have been lost, and they constitute a voluminous body of new primary material on Mary Stuart – about 50,000 words in total, shedding new light on some of her years of captivity in England.
My Favourite Computer, An Old Mac
muezza.ca
Above all this computer allows me to step back, take a break, and relax from the stresses of my life and the modern world. I appreciate this computer for what it is and what it provides me, not what it was or could have provided me in the past.
Estimating Square Roots in Your Head
gregorygundersen.com
I explore an ancient algorithm, sometimes called Heron’s method, for estimating square roots without a calculator.
scottg521/spellcaster
github.com
Processing code to implement John Fairfield’s Spellcaster
How to make childhood memories last
npr.org
The brain perceives time based on how much information it is processing at any given moment, he adds, which in turn depends on how much attention we’re paying to what we’re doing and what’s happening around us.
“If you’re paying attention, you’re actually processing more units of information per unit of objective time,” says Tse. And that makes time feel subjectively longer.
Small Business Success Story: Past Lives
climb.pcc.edu
Past Lives is a 26,000 square foot maker-space located in Eastside Portland. Inspired by a life-changing accident and time spent in prison, founder Brandon Morlock created Past Lives to change the way work is done and provide second-chance employment for people coming out the prison system.