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deSign_r 6 months ago
The Chores of Ordinary Life
The Chores of Ordinary Life
The artist is always on call.
 ![](https://m.stacker.news/120856) _Creative is something you are, not only something you do. It’s a way of moving through the world, every minute, every day. The artist is always on call._  There’s no right or wrong time to do this work. It’s always happening. If we’re committed to the artistic or creative life, there are no “off hours.” You exist in a constant state of receptivity. Even if you’re washing the dishes or going for a walk, you’re still engaged on some level. This practice is about noticing where your thoughts and attention go when you’re not directly engaged in your craft. It’s about remaining open and receptive to creative inspiration, even when you’re involved in the chores of ordinary life. # ⊙
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The Chores of Ordinary Life \ stacker news
Creative is something you are, not only something you do. It’s a way of moving through the world, every minute, every day. The artist is always o...
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Meet SAIBA-45: a CyberPunk, free, open-source font
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GitHub - YuurinBee/SAIBA-45: SAIBA-45 Font [Open-Source Fonttype]
SAIBA-45 Font [Open-Source Fonttype]. Contribute to YuurinBee/SAIBA-45 development by creating an account on GitHub.
 ![](https://m.stacker.news/120836) ![](https://m.stacker.news/120829) SAIBA-45 is a display font that was inspired by CyberPunk, NeoTokyo, Mecha, Manga/Anime, Retro, Tech, and Futuristic styles. It was intended to be used for short-form and large-format displays, but not limited to this type of application. Efficient ways to experiment with this font are provided in graphic examples below, but include: distinct logotypes, stylized names and text, unique vector characters, bold titles, and more. The name SAIBA was chosen as the "katakazination" (transforming English to Katakana) of the English word "Cyber" to be pronounced with Japanese vowels and syllables. The word cyber translates to サイバー in Japanese, which is pronounced as "Saiba". The 45 in SAIBA-45 is reflective of the 45 degree angles used to create the prominent edges, defining the look and feel of the font. This font has been in development since 2021. > [!IMPORTANT] > **SAIBA-45 is a free, open-source fonttype and scalable vector graphics.**<br> > License: [GNU General Public License v3.0](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html)<br> > Author: [Formless Labs](https://www.behance.net/formlesslabs)<br> > Contributors: [YuurinBee](https://github.com/yuurinbee), [JSKitty](https://github.com/jskitty), [Joshua Fern](https://github.com/JoshuaFern)<br> > Contact: [YuurinBee](https://twitter.com/YuurinB)<br> ![](https://m.stacker.news/120830) ![](https://m.stacker.news/120837) ![](https://m.stacker.news/120838) ![](https://m.stacker.news/120831) ![](https://m.stacker.news/120832) ![](https://m.stacker.news/120839) ![](https://m.stacker.news/120833) ![](https://m.stacker.news/120840) ![](https://m.stacker.news/120834) ![](https://m.stacker.news/120835)
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Meet SAIBA-45: a CyberPunk, free, open-source font \ stacker news
SAIBA-45 is a display font that was inspired by CyberPunk, NeoTokyo, Mecha, Manga/Anime, Retro, Tech, and Futuristic styles. It was intended to be ...
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A Design for Erasure-Coded, Privacy-Preserving Blob Storage
Max (npub1kl…lx3vt) on Nostr
(Nostr-Native Distributed Storage System)
Nostr-Native Distributed Storage System
 # Nostr-Native Distributed Storage System The latest iteration of Garland, a privacy-preserving distributed storage system built on Nostr and Blossom, using erasure coding for durability and single-key recovery. ![](https://m.stacker.news/120809) This document describes a distributed storage system built upon Nostr and Blossom infrastructure that provides durable, privacy-preserving storage for immutable blobs through erasure coding across independent servers. The system maintains a hierarchical namespace analogous to a filesystem through content-addressed manifests organized in a Merkle DAG structure. State evolution is tracked via a cryptographically-linked hash chain of commit events, enabling complete auditability and straightforward disaster recovery. The entire dataset-including all historical state-remains recoverable from a single cryptographic key. This design prioritizes user sovereignty: the owner explicitly controls when changes are committed, which servers store their data, and when obsolete data is garbage collected.
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A Design for Erasure-Coded, Privacy-Preserving Blob Storage \ stacker news
Nostr-Native Distributed Storage System The latest iteration of Garland, a privacy-preserving distributed storage system built on Nostr and Blossom...
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Caligra: The Linux®-powered computer designed to accelerate Experts' work.
Caligra is a new computer company.
The Linux®-powered computer designed to accelerate your work.
 ![](https://m.stacker.news/120752) ![](https://m.stacker.news/120755) # Made for Making _Focus, control, privacy, and performance._ Caligra makes tools for technical environments. Situations where people depend on the results of your work. Where attention is important, and the flow state is precious. Where getting things done is what matters most. It’s a computer, built with a different set of principles. For whatever you’re making—we work for you. c100 runs Workbench, a Linux-based operating system built for technical work. It’s designed to get out of your way, so your team can deliver more. # Computers for experts Most people don’t write code or manage data, and consumer devices are designed accordingly. But change isn’t made by most people. Progress comes from the people whose work improves our understanding and ability. Scientists and artists. Engineers and designers. Hackers and painters. We think the world needs a brand of computing that stands behind creative technical work, dedicated to creating instead of consuming. Caligra is a new computer company. Our goal is to help you make the future. ![](https://m.stacker.news/120758) ![](https://m.stacker.news/120753) # We’ve removed the distractions, so it’s just you and your ideas. A clear space for deep thought. With a focus unlike anything available from big tech, Workbench is entirely dedicated to accelerating your work. ![](https://m.stacker.news/120754) ![](https://m.stacker.news/120757) Read more on [Pentagram](https://www.pentagram.com/work/caligra-c100-developer-terminal) and [Wallpaper*](https://www.wallpaper.com/tech/caligra-c100-developer-terminal) websites.
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Caligra: The Linux®-powered computer designed to accelerate Experts' work. \ stacker news
Made for Making Focus, control, privacy, and performance. Caligra makes tools for technical environments. Situations where people depend on the res...
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Caligra: The Linux®-powered computer designed to accelerate Experts' work.
Caligra is a new computer company.
The Linux®-powered computer designed to accelerate your work.
 ![](https://m.stacker.news/120752) ![](https://m.stacker.news/120755) ![](https://m.stacker.news/120756) # Made for Making _Focus, control, privacy, and performance._ Caligra makes tools for technical environments. Situations where people depend on the results of your work. Where attention is important, and the flow state is precious. Where getting things done is what matters most. It’s a computer, built with a different set of principles. For whatever you’re making—we work for you. c100 runs Workbench, a Linux-based operating system built for technical work. It’s designed to get out of your way, so your team can deliver more. # Computers for experts Most people don’t write code or manage data, and consumer devices are designed accordingly. But change isn’t made by most people. Progress comes from the people whose work improves our understanding and ability. Scientists and artists. Engineers and designers. Hackers and painters. We think the world needs a brand of computing that stands behind creative technical work, dedicated to creating instead of consuming. Caligra is a new computer company. Our goal is to help you make the future. ![](https://m.stacker.news/120758) ![](https://m.stacker.news/120753) # We’ve removed the distractions, so it’s just you and your ideas. A clear space for deep thought. With a focus unlike anything available from big tech, Workbench is entirely dedicated to accelerating your work. ![](https://m.stacker.news/120754) ![](https://m.stacker.news/120757) Read more on [Pentagram](https://www.pentagram.com/work/caligra-c100-developer-terminal) and [Wallpaper*](https://www.wallpaper.com/tech/caligra-c100-developer-terminal) websites.
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Caligra: The Linux®-powered computer designed to accelerate Experts' work. \ stacker news
Made for Making Focus, control, privacy, and performance. Caligra makes tools for technical environments. Situations where people depend on the res...
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Caligra: The Linux®-powered computer designed to accelerate Experts' work.
Caligra is a new computer company.
The Linux®-powered computer designed to accelerate your work.
 ![](https://m.stacker.news/120752) # Made for Making _Focus, control, privacy, and performance._ Caligra makes tools for technical environments. Situations where people depend on the results of your work. Where attention is important, and the flow state is precious. Where getting things done is what matters most. It’s a computer, built with a different set of principles. For whatever you’re making—we work for you. c100 runs Workbench, a Linux-based operating system built for technical work. It’s designed to get out of your way, so your team can deliver more. # Computers for experts Most people don’t write code or manage data, and consumer devices are designed accordingly. But change isn’t made by most people. Progress comes from the people whose work improves our understanding and ability. Scientists and artists. Engineers and designers. Hackers and painters. We think the world needs a brand of computing that stands behind creative technical work, dedicated to creating instead of consuming. Caligra is a new computer company. Our goal is to help you make the future. ![](https://m.stacker.news/120753) # We’ve removed the distractions, so it’s just you and your ideas. A clear space for deep thought. With a focus unlike anything available from big tech, Workbench is entirely dedicated to accelerating your work. ![](https://m.stacker.news/120754) Read more on [Pentagram](https://www.pentagram.com/work/caligra-c100-developer-terminal) and [Wallpaper*](https://www.wallpaper.com/tech/caligra-c100-developer-terminal) websites.
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Caligra: The Linux®-powered computer designed to accelerate Experts' work. \ stacker news
Made for Making Focus, control, privacy, and performance. Caligra makes tools for technical environments. Situations where people depend on the res...
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Durable Consumables - On building for permanence in an age of obsolescence
Travers Nisbet
Durable Consumables - Travers Nisbet
Durable Consumables by Travers Nisbet - An essay exploring how accelerating technological progress compresses the economic lives of objects, and wh...
 ![](https://m.stacker.news/120325) > Economists distinguish between an asset's physical life and its economic life. The physical life is how long something can function. The economic life is how long it remains useful relative to alternatives. Technology products increasingly have economic lives far shorter than their physical lives. The thing still works. It's just been obsoleted. ... > The frontier keeps moving. Progress keeps accelerating. The rational response is shorter time horizons, faster replacement cycles, less investment in permanence. I understand the logic. I just wonder what we lose when fewer objects around us are built with the assumption that they'll still be here, still working, still ours, decades from now.
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Durable Consumables - On building for permanence in an age of obsolescence \ stacker news
Economists distinguish between an asset's physical life and its economic life. The physical life is how long something can function. The economic l...
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Systems, Stables and Stars
Hardik Pandya
Systems, stables and stars
Why mature organizations still rely on rockstars for critical work, and how systems raise the floor while stars raise the ceiling.
 ![](https://m.stacker.news/120324) # You can’t make everyone a star performer. I really wanted to believe I could. The instinct is to think “I’ll just coach everyone up to that level.” But the people who can operate in high ambiguity, synthesize across domains, make sound judgment calls under pressure, they’re fundamentally sparse. That’s what makes them exceptional. The goal isn’t to make your entire team interchangeable at the highest level. It’s to accept that star talent will always be non-fungible, and build accordingly. That means two things: First, you need these people on your team. Not later, not “once we can afford it.” If you’re facing problems that could reshape your trajectory and you don’t have anyone who can operate at that level, you’re hoping for luck. Second, you need to use them deliberately. They’re scarce. Burning them out on routine problems is waste. Failing to deploy them on the unprecedented stuff is also waste.
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Systems, Stables and Stars \ stacker news
You can’t make everyone a star performer. I really wanted to believe I could. The instinct is to think “I’ll just coach everyone up to that l...
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Critique • On elevating craft through critical thinking.
DOC • Critique
On elevating craft through critical thinking.
 ![](https://m.stacker.news/120323) > “The trouble with most of us is that we'd rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.” > `➪ Norman Vincent Peale` ## A tool to improve design effectiveness A design critique is a structured, collaborative session where designers, peers, and stakeholders evaluate a design artifact to provide constructive feedback and improve the design's effectiveness, quality, and alignment with user needs and business objectives. A good design critique is never about personal taste and should always strive to be as objective as possible. ## Critiques as necessary collisions A critique is not a governance mechanism, nor is it a group brainstorming session. It's a necessary collision. It’s the intentional application of adversarial thought to something that isn't finished yet. Its sole purpose is to pressure-test the underlying assumptions. Ultimately, critiques are about injecting constructive doubt into a designer's premature certainty before they build too much or go too far.
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Critique • On elevating craft through critical thinking. \ stacker news
“The trouble with most of us is that we'd rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.” ➪ Norman Vincent Peale A tool to improve desig...
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