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You gotta think outside the hypercube
A closer look at the tesseract and the ways we can render it on the screen.
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Rendezvous with Rama
Some musings on the novel "Rendezvous with Rama".
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So you want to write an “app” (2025)
I touched "every" OS so you don't have to
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Willingness to look stupid
Looking foolish is underrated.
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Let's Get Physical
This week has been… eventful. And when I say eventful, I can say this has been the funniest pentest I have ever been on in my life. Let me tell you about it!
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I love email (2023)
I constantly hear about how much everybody hates email. Look, I receive just as many spam messages and useless email-based notifications and stuffy vapid “regarding my previous email” work messages as the next gal. I get it. But I’ve found there’s something magical about email as a medium of communication, and as a…
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Good software knows when to stop
Good software knows what problem it solves and what needs to be tackled by another tool
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Poor Man's Polaroid
Hand-made Lights, Gadgets & DIY Electronics2026252 points56 commentsLife, Learning & Writing details
How to build a poor man's Polaroid camera - a DIY instant camera project with parts, assembly and photos.
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The Self-Help Trap: What 20 Years of "Optimizing" Has Taught Me
“We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.” — Aldous Huxley, Island It was cold out, but none of us were cold. I sat with five men in the mountains of Montana. As the sun set, the fire […]
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You Just Reveived
ex program, en farm
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Maybe there's a pattern here?
Inventors and impacts
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Why can't you tune your guitar? (2019)
Short answer: because math. Longer answer: because prime numbers don’t divide into each other evenly. To understand what follows, you need to know some facts about the physics of vibrating st…
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The View from RSS
What the web looks like when you subscribe to 2,000 RSS feeds.
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“It turns out” (2010)
"It turns out" became a favorite phrase of mine sometime in mid 2006, which, it turns out, was just about the time that I first started tearing through Paul Graham essays . Coincidence?
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Daily Driving GrapheneOS
I've been running GrapheneOS on my Pixel Fold for over half a year now and can finally provide some experience on what it's like. Also, the official hardware partnership was announced!
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Welcome (back) to Macintosh
For at least 10 years, every Time Machine set up I have been in charge of, or tasked with maintaining for someone else, has eventually run into an issue where it stops backing up successfully. The only solution has been to start over, to not inherit backup state and to manually delete the old backup. My experience…
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How to record and retrieve anything you've ever had to look up twice
Stop re-learning things you've already figured out. Two simple ways to document any process, and find it again when you need it.
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You don't have to
"In the year 5555, your arms are hangin' limp at your sides, your legs got nothing to do, some machine doin' that for you." Zager and Evans sang these words in 1969. Now, thirty-five centuries ahead of schedule, it's never been easier to tell the world "I didn't care about this and I don't care about you."
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Ape Coding [fiction]
Ape coding is the software development practice where a human developer deliberately hand-writes source code.
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Guilty Displeasures
When disliking something clashes with your identity
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Leaving Google has actively improved my life
In May of 2023, Google introduced “AI overviews” into their search engine.^1] This followed years of decisions leading to worse search quality and the consum...
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An ode to houseplant programming (2025)
Waxing poetic about hyperlocal phytoid software development
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The Hunt for Dark Breakfast
With a theoretical model of breakfast, can we derive the existence of “dark breakfasts,” breakfasts that we know must exist, but have never observed?
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Setting up phones is a nightmare
Some thoughts about my experience getting my parents' new devices up and running, and how bad it keeps getting today.
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The happiest I've ever been
It was around January 2020. I became the head coach of a youth basketball team.
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The Slow Death of the Power User
There’s a certain kind of person who’s becoming extinct. You’ve probably met one. Maybe you are one. Someone who actually understood the tools they used. Someone who could sit down at an unfamiliar system, poke at it for twenty minutes, and have a working mental model of what it was doing and why. Someone who read…
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I'm helping my dog vibe code games
My cavapoo Momo vibe coded playable Godot games. All I had to do was teach her to type, route her input to Claude Code, and build the right tools.
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I pitched a roller coaster to Disneyland at age 10 in 1978
A story about Disneyland's Space Mountain and a 10-year-old inventor.
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"Just a little detail that wouldn't sell anything"
A blog about software craft and quality