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3d models and history of Italian Archaeological Sites registered on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
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"Open Culture scours the web for the best educational media. We find the free courses and audio books you need, the language lessons & educational videos you want, and plenty of enlightenment in between."
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A Cultural Exchange Program For The Borough Of Manhattan
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A Flickr set for all those other features of pubs which aren't the signs or the insignia (identifying the brewery or PubCo), e.g.: architectural details, statues, or windows.
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"Today will I take you through the keyhole to look at a group of software systems not well known to the public, which I call "Bank Python". Bank Python implementations are effectively proprietary forks of the entire Python ecosystem which are in use at many (but not all) of the biggest investment banks. Bank Python differs considerably from the common, or garden-variety Python that most people know and love (or hate). Thousands of people work on - or rather, inside - these systems but there is not a lot about them on the public web. When I've tried to explain Bank Python in conversations people have often dismissed what I've said as the ravings of a swivel-eyed loon. It all just sounds too bonkers."
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The pace layers diagram from Jeremy's talk at New Adventures.
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"Civilizations with long nows look after things better," says Brian Eno. "In those places you feel a very strong but flexible structure which is built to absorb shocks and in fact incorporate them.
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"Today, a visual feast—glimpses of libraries big and small, new and old, from across the globe"
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With a sufficient number of users of an API, it does not matter what you promise in the contract: all observable behaviors of your system will be depended on by somebody.
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"If you're building a web experience and want to stay fast, a performance budget can be critical. For success, embrace performance budgets and learn to live within them. Network & CPU limits on mobile can require asking hard questions like, "what is really important to my users?"
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"To promote and discuss the importance and beauty of African vernacular architecture"
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Serverless microservices allow us to do some pretty amazing things. This post outlines 19 common patterns that are being used in production on AWS.
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"When Ricardo Bofill stumbled upon a dilapidated cement factory in 1973, he immediately saw a world of possibilities."
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"The microservice architecture is an architectural style that structures an application as a collection of loosely coupled services, which implement business capabilities. The microservice architecture enables the continuous delivery/deployment of large, complex applications. It also enables an organisation to evolve its technology stack."
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A comprehensive reference database of dimensioned drawings documenting the standard measurements and sizes of the everyday objects and spaces that make up our built environment.
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Touches on playbooks, ok/not ok to break, Kubernetes, and Envoy
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Learn how browser turn your code into functional website from high-level architecture to the specifics of the rendering pipeline.
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The shortlist for the 2018 Architectural Photography Awards highlights the expertise of architectural photography with a record number of budding and professional photographers participating
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"As they evolved, illustrated figures in architecture (sometimes called ‘scalies’) have grown to have more personality, color and life, serving as more than a means to measure relative distances, heights and widths in renderings."
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Hat tip to Stuart Halloway… once again a 10 minute conversation with Stu grew into a combination of code and writing that helped me clarify …
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"In this article, we’ll take a look inside the JAMstack and see why supporters are calling it “the future of the internet”."
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"Large corporations using their power to influence politics seems like a very bad idea. Isn’t it still a bad idea, even if I happen to agree with the cause?"
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"Le Corbusier was a painter, writer, architect and planner, but he was also an adept promoter of novel designs and theories. So when he debuted his Maison Dom-Ino concept home, it boasted a light and elegant form, but was also cleverly named — its title referenced the look and modularity of gaming “dominoes” (with dots extruded to form columns) as well as “domus,” the Latin word for house."
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"Popular platform-as-a-service provider Heroku […] maintains a manifesto of sorts called The Twelve-Factor App. It outlines a methodology for developers to follow when building modern web-based applications. Despite being partly self-serving (apps built like this will translate more naturally to running on Heroku), there’s a lot of meaty best-practices worth examining"
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A methodology for building modern, scalable, maintainable software-as-a-service apps.
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It was brought to my attention recently that there is a dearth of introductory educational material available about modern network load balancing and proxying. I thought to myself: How can this be…
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Bret Victor's 2014 talk and comic explaining the idea of a "seeing space," like a workshop or maker space, but for enabling understanding instead of building.
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I used to think my frustration with open office plans meant that something was wrong with me. Everyone seemed so bought into the hype about how open layouts create transparency and collaboration.
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The transformation of these Poconos and Catskills resorts is like looking through some sort of dystopian View-Master.
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James Bridle on "scalies", the stock art people that architects use in renders to give a sense of scale.
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Good design is in the details, as they say, and great architectural design details are often site-specific, responding to local contexts and regional conditions. In places like the Pacific Northwest where rain is a defining factor of everyday life, designing for drainage is naturally essential but it also represents an opportunity to get creative. And one way to do that is with a kind of drain pipe alternative called a “rain chain.”
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Get to know the architect’s signature buildings
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A very long, but super interesting, article about how Stack Overflow moved to https. Lots of really interesting takeaways
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Brasília, seen from above, looks like a bird or a plane. Image: NASA Earth Observatory Part one of a three-part essay based on the talk I gave at Smashing…
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"This is a general design guide for networked APIs. It has been used inside Google since 2014 and is the guide we follow when designing Cloud APIs and other Google APIs. It is shared here to inform outside developers and to make it easier for us all to work together."
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Ever wondered what it'd be like to work at Dunder Mifflin or Pearson Hardman? Discover the 3D floor plans of your favorite TV shows in UltraHD
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