Poisoning Well(heydonworks.com)

82 points by wonger_ 1 year ago | 98 comments

Lifestyle design from first principles(taylor.town)

59 points by surprisetalk 3 years ago | 35 comments

Developing Taste(emilkowal.ski)

44 points by cat-whisperer 6 days ago | 36 comments

An essay by design engineer Emil Kowalski arguing that taste and attention to detail differentiate software products now that functionality is commoditized.

NYC Apartment Aquaponics(erinmurphy.dev)

185 points by mm1119 3 months ago | 75 comments

Placemark is going open source and shutting down(macwright.com)

546 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 128 comments

Tom MacWright's blog post announcing that Placemark, his bootstrapped mapping/GIS startup, is shutting down and releasing its code as open source.

Project Gemini(geminiprotocol.net)

308 points by andsoitis 11 months ago | 173 comments

Replanting logged forests with diverse seedlings accelerates restoration(technologynetworks.com)

356 points by myshpa 3 years ago | 135 comments

Technology Networks news article on a study finding that replanting logged forests with diverse seedling mixtures significantly accelerates recovery.

List of individual trees(en.wikipedia.org)

333 points by wilson090 9 months ago | 109 comments

Wikipedia list of individual trees notable for their historical, national, locational, natural, or mythological significance around the world.

New York City should carefully measure a new tree(blog.willmeye.rs)

69 points by willmeyers 23 days ago | 13 comments

Blog post arguing New York City should measure new candidate trees, since its tallest carefully measured tree, the Queens Giant, was last measured in 2004.

Growing Trees(brashandplucky.com)

162 points by ibobev 3 days ago | 23 comments

Blog post explaining an implementation of procedural tree growth based on Palubicki et al.'s self-organizing tree models, covering light competition, resource allocation, and foliage rendering.

China has added forest the size of Texas since 1990(e360.yale.edu)

611 points by Brajeshwar 1 year ago | 527 comments

Yale Environment 360 digest article reporting that China has added forest area roughly the size of Texas since 1990.

Logging Sucks(loggingsucks.com)

486 points by FlorinSays 10 months ago | 169 comments

An essay by Boris Tane arguing that traditional application logging is broken and explaining how to make it better.