Henry Dashwood @hcndashwood.bsky.social · 04/01/2026A series of blogs I've written recently on urban growth and spatial equilibrium: www.henrydashwood.com/posts/why-ci...henrydashwood.comWhy Cities Exist: The Fundamental Trade-offThe first post in a series on urban economics 110
Henry Dashwood @hcndashwood.bsky.social · 19/10/2025New 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...henrydashwood.comCalifornia: 1769-1848History of California from 1769 to 1848 000
Henry Dashwood @hcndashwood.bsky.social · 14/05/2025LA 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. 010
Henry Dashwood @hcndashwood.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Apparently we live in space with the only number of dimensions where you can create knots www.quantamagazine.org/dimension-12...quantamagazine.orgDimension 126 Contains Strangely Twisted Shapes, Mathematicians Prove | Quanta MagazineA new proof represents the culmination of a 65-year-old story about anomalous shapes in special dimensions. 000
Henry Dashwood @hcndashwood.bsky.social · 11/04/2025RIP Mark Darcy you’d have loved Pret’s latest innovations 020
Henry Dashwood @hcndashwood.bsky.social · 05/04/2025The government have made a python package called uwotm8 for converting LLM outputs from American to British spelling i-dot-ai.github.io/uwotm8/i-dot-ai.github.iouwotm8Converting American English to British English 010
Henry Dashwood @hcndashwood.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Fun to imagine the expletives this engendered 000
Henry Dashwood @hcndashwood.bsky.social · 05/04/2025“this deficiency of plowing may rank as mankind’s single greatest waste of time and energy” 000
Henry Dashwood @hcndashwood.bsky.social · 03/04/2025@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 122
Henry Dashwood @hcndashwood.bsky.social · 21/02/2025I've had these links floating around for months and never got around to posting them www.henrydashwood.com/posts/25-02-...henrydashwood.com25-02-21 RoundupSome links from the last month 000
Henry Dashwood @hcndashwood.bsky.social · 16/12/2024On 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...buildwithtract.comAnnouncing Scout | Build with Tract | Free, Instant Property AppraisalsWe are thrilled to announce the beta launch of our land viewer tool, Scout | We build tools to navigate the planning system, understand the potential of your land, and find you partners to help develo... 100
Reposted by Henry DashwoodHenry Dashwood @hcndashwood.bsky.social · 29/11/2024I 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...worksinprogress.newsHistory is in the makingIt's technology and ideas, not politics, that change our lives the most. History should reflect that. 002
Henry Dashwood @hcndashwood.bsky.social · 29/11/2024I 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...worksinprogress.newsHistory is in the makingIt's technology and ideas, not politics, that change our lives the most. History should reflect that. 002
Henry Dashwood @hcndashwood.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Has 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. 000
Reposted by Henry DashwoodHenry Dashwood @hcndashwood.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Here's something I wrote recently about the early history of California www.henrydashwood.com/posts/califo...henrydashwood.comCalifornia: the first three centuriesHistory of the settlement of California 001
Henry Dashwood @hcndashwood.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Here's something I wrote recently about the early history of California www.henrydashwood.com/posts/califo...henrydashwood.comCalifornia: the first three centuriesHistory of the settlement of California 001
Reposted by Henry DashwoodHenry Dashwood @hcndashwood.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Some notes I made about why the University of Waterloo seems to do so well www.henrydashwood.com/posts/univer...henrydashwood.comUniversity of WaterlooSome thoughts on the University of Waterloo 001
Henry Dashwood @hcndashwood.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Some notes I made about why the University of Waterloo seems to do so well www.henrydashwood.com/posts/univer...henrydashwood.comUniversity of WaterlooSome thoughts on the University of Waterloo 001
Henry Dashwood @hcndashwood.bsky.social · 20/11/2024On how Eric Mazur became the best teacher of physics at Harvard www.henrydashwood.com/posts/notes-...henrydashwood.comNotes on Generative Auto-DidacticismNotes on a better way to teach 100
Reposted by Henry DashwoodHenry Dashwood @hcndashwood.bsky.social · 19/11/2024New 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...henrydashwood.comOn BeowulfNotes on Beowulf 001
Henry Dashwood @hcndashwood.bsky.social · 19/11/2024New 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...henrydashwood.comOn BeowulfNotes on Beowulf 001
