Four strange places to see London's Roman Wall(diamondgeezer.blogspot.com)

267 points by zeristor 11 months ago | 86 comments

Where is London's most central sheep?(diamondgeezer.blogspot.com)

229 points by GeoAtreides 1 year ago | 133 comments

25% of the 13 minute journey from Whitechapel to Paddington is spent not moving(diamondgeezer.blogspot.com)

47 points by edward 3 years ago | 41 comments

Asbestosis(diamondgeezer.blogspot.com)

270 points by zeristor 1 year ago | 200 comments

Waverley, the last seagoing paddle steamer(diamondgeezer.blogspot.com)

53 points by zeristor 2 years ago | 26 comments

London's Free Roof Terraces(diamondgeezer.blogspot.com)

314 points by zeristor 4 months ago | 148 comments

The Bayeux Tapestry: Woven by the Victors(historytoday.com)

36 points by prismatic 1 month ago | 19 comments

A History Today column arguing that the Bayeux Tapestry, returning to England, is a Norman artwork and that Anglo-Saxon perspectives must be sought elsewhere.

Grieving the loss of details(purplesyringa.moe)

448 points by signa11 20 days ago | 352 comments

A personal blog post by purplesyringa reflecting on grieving the loss of low-level coding details as the industry shifts toward vibecoding and architecture-focused work.

Reading QR codes without a computer(qr.blinry.org)

593 points by input_sh 2 years ago | 82 comments

An interactive explainer, written for a 37C3 workshop, teaching the anatomy of QR codes and how to decode them by hand using a cheat sheet.

Belgium legalises ethical hacking(law.kuleuven.be)

394 points by jruohonen 3 years ago | 57 comments

A KU Leuven CiTiP blog post discussing Belgium's new legal framework legalising ethical hacking and whether it threatens or helps cybersecurity.

The Economic Complexity of the Western Roman Empire(michelecoscia.com)

136 points by mikk14 12 days ago | 30 comments

Blog post by Michele Coscia applying economic complexity analysis to the economy of the Western Roman Empire.

I don't like NumPy(dynomight.net)

399 points by MinimalAction 1 year ago | 164 comments

A Dynomight blog essay critiquing NumPy's design, arguing its array broadcasting and indexing make complex computations confusing.