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Making Penicillin at Home
This article explains how to make antibiotics at home in the event of a collapse situation
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Do I really need to get out the soldering-iron again?
So I had this idea that it would be nice to listen to music when I get home from work everyday, so I put all my ripped music onto my phone, and I bought some good quality over-ear headphones.
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From macOS to Windows and WSL
Writings about computing, agents, and the Internet.
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A blogging style guide
Here are 39 ways to make your blog more entertaining to read and more pleasurable to write.
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On Overcoming Pain
Breaking my knee this year was a difficult experience, but I did learn a lot from it . I now know more than I ever wanted to know about the anatomy of my knee and how the muscles work together to create the miracle of bipedal locomotion, and more importantly, I now know more about pain.
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Leaving NYC for Nashville
For ten out of the last eleven years, I’ve lived in two places: New York City and San Francisco. The last two years have been in NYC. After founding Ursa Labs , a not-for-profit open source development group, I felt it was time to make my home somewhere that isn’t either of those places. After some contemplation and…
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The Second Edition of “Refactoring”
I'm finishing a new edition of my Refactoring book. Here's details and periodic memos about my work.
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Hyperliterature
The vast majority of fiction on the web is nonergodic : stories presented as linear text. Yet, in an age where everyone has a supercomputer in their pocket, literature can take on any shape imaginable. In recent years, some pieces have taken advantage of these capabilities—not as a gimmick, but in a way that is…
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Whether to Use Anki or SuperMemo
Updated version If you haven’t read My Comparison Between Anki and SuperMemo, please do so. It’s not a prerequisite but if you do, you will understand the following content better.
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The Resistance Is Real – Why Side Projects Are So Hard
Today marks 15 full months that I’ve been working on a side project called Crafd. It’s a community for people who make things by hand: In that time I’ve: Talked to zero potential …
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Ditching the MacBook Pro for a MacBook Air
I'm Brad Frost, an independent creator, web designer & developer, teacher, speaker, writer, musician, and artist based in Pittsburgh, PA.
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My hiring experience as a submarine sonar operator in the Norwegian Navy
As some of you know I spent a year on a submarine. This is the story about how that came about.
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Flying for Thanksgiving
I grew up in Los Angeles and my parents would make a big deal out of Thanksgiving each year, even when it was just me and my sister, which I didn’t fully appreciate what a nice tradition they had created until I left home. There’s something about being able to rely on one thing each year that stays the same and…
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The Remarkable Brain Waves of High Level Meditators [video]
What’s going on in the brains of people who meditate? Anecdotal evidence suggests that meditation does something to people’s minds and bodies…quiets and calms t
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Skill Stacking: A Practical Strategy to Achieve Career Success
Skill stacking is a strategy that you can use to achieve career success. You can use it whether you want to build a business or have a dream job.
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We're in a Golden Age for Amateur Radio
When I started my ham life as KK6VSI in August of 2015, I wish I could have had the information I'm about to lay out here. Of course, most of the equipment didn't yet exist. So another way of looking at it is that my entry into amateur radio was perfectly timed for my generation's Golden Age of Ham Radio.
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A List of Open Questions
Misc thoughts, memories, proto-essays, musings, etc.
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An OCR cliche: Into his/her anus (2009)
Fill His Head First with a Thousand Questions2018343 points90 commentsLife, Learning & Writing details
In order to improve the quality of my transcription of the 1879 edition of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, I collate the text against the Google Books version. Although the OCR is faulty, it is helpful fo…
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Why I'm Ditching Android
I've been slowly de-Googling my life, so the next step is to get rid of Android, in favour of an iPhone.
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What Is The Morning Writing Effect?
Many writers anecdotally report they write best first thing early in the morning, apparently even if they are not morning people. Do they, and why?
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The Missing Computer Skills of High School Students
It’s been just over fours years since I started mentoring high school students at work , and I recently began mentoring my fourth such student. That’s enough students for me to start observing patterns. Of course, each arrives with different computer knowledge and experience, but there have been two consistent and…
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How a Month Without Computers Changed Me
I’ve sent a message to my family and delegated my open source projects to my friends. With my last tweet sent, I turn off my laptop, phone, and tablet. My Digital Sabbath begins in 10 minutes: no digital devices for the next month.
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Unicode Dicks
One of the things that has always slightly amused and puzzled me is that unicode lacks a "cock" glyph. I mean, it seems to have characters a...
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Indirection Is Not Abstraction
The concept of abstraction in software development is frequently misunderstood and confused with indirection. This is partially because of the keywords abstract and interface in statically-typed la...