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04.01.2026 08:45
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A series of blogs I've written recently on urban growth and spatial equilibrium:
www.henrydashwood.com/posts/why-ci...
New blog post from me!
A year ago, I started reading about the history of California. I wrote a blog about it. A year later, here is a sequel.
If you've ever wondered what went on before the Gold Rush, I hope you find it interesting!
www.henrydashwood.com/posts/califo...
LA gives subway car deal to Japan’s Sumitomo.
US manufacturer Morrison Knudsen mounts lobbying blitz to overturn the deal.
Transit board rescinds the contract.
MK refuse to submit new tender bids. No other US firm can meet specs.
Contract is given back to… Sumitomo.
Apparently we live in space with the only number of dimensions where you can create knots
www.quantamagazine.org/dimension-12...
RIP Mark Darcy you’d have loved Pret’s latest innovations
Harald Hardrada goes skiing
The government have made a python package called uwotm8 for converting LLM outputs from American to British spelling
i-dot-ai.github.io/uwotm8/
Fun to imagine the expletives this engendered
“this deficiency of plowing may rank as mankind’s single greatest waste of time and energy”
@jamierumbelow.bsky.social and I have decided to close down Tract, the startup we've been working on for the last year and a bit.
We've written a post mortem going over what we've learnt. You can read it here:
buildwithtract.com
Eleven Reader does the best text to speech in my opinion. You can upload ~anything but without knowing how the articles you're thinking of are formatted I couldn't say if it'll solve your specific problem.
I also use Matter's text to speech for my newsletter and RSS feeds.
I've had these links floating around for months and never got around to posting them
www.henrydashwood.com/posts/25-02-...
On Friday we launched the first version of Scout, our free tool for visualising planning data and infrastructure data. Lot's more to come - but hopefully you find what's up there now quite interesting!
buildwithtract.com/blog/announc...
This one was a satisfying little polemic
www.nytimes.com/2000/06/07/o...
I’d love to read a profile of Esri. I still don’t really know what ArcGIS has that open alternatives like QGIS, GeoJSON, OpenStreetMap etc don’t. But I assume it’s a lot
I first heard Stephen Davies give a version of this essay as a talk over decade ago and it changed my life. If you could give a teenager one thing to change their life I’d pick this
www.worksinprogress.news/p/history-is...
I first heard Stephen Davies give a version of this essay as a talk over decade ago and it changed my life. If you could give a teenager one thing to change their life I’d pick this
www.worksinprogress.news/p/history-is...
Has anything good been written on how to document a codebase?
I don't mean tools for hosting docs etc. I mean advice for writing well so that a newcomer can learn how everything fits together at a high level and can then efficiently find whatever details they need to contribute.
Here's something I wrote recently about the early history of California
www.henrydashwood.com/posts/califo...
Here's something I wrote recently about the early history of California
www.henrydashwood.com/posts/califo...
Some notes I made about why the University of Waterloo seems to do so well
www.henrydashwood.com/posts/univer...
Some notes I made about why the University of Waterloo seems to do so well
www.henrydashwood.com/posts/univer...
And the talk that inspired the above post:
youtu.be/WwslBPj8GgI?...
On how Eric Mazur became the best teacher of physics at Harvard
www.henrydashwood.com/posts/notes-...
The communal bin system there is another highlight. The ones in the first photo extend several metres into the ground
New social media app means an opportunity to repost my very occasional blog posts.
Here's something I wrote during Covid about Beowulf and Tolkien, mostly based things Tom Shippey has written and said.
www.henrydashwood.com/posts/on-beo...
