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Finding Flow: Escaping digital distractions through deep work and slow living
Learn how to achieve flow state and defeat digital distractions through environment design, mindful breaks, and deep work practices for a more focused life.
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“A calculator app? Anyone could make that”
calculator-app - Chad Nauseam Home
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50 Years of Travel Tips
I’ve been seriously traveling for more than 50 years. So now I’ve got a few tips. There are two modes of travel; retreat or engage. People often travel to escape the routines of work, to recharge, relax, reinvigorate, and replenish … Continue reading →
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Softmax forever, or why I like softmax
[UPDATE: Feb 8 2025] my amazing colleague Max Shen noticed a sign mistake in my derivation of the partial derivative of the log-harmonic function below.
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Dinner at a North Korean Restaurant in Shanghai (2016)
Shrouded in secrecy and isolated from the world, North Korea exudes an air of mystery. Hardly anything is known about the country except media stories about their dear leader, Kim Jong Un – h…
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Watt The Fox?
I recently got a new notebook and noticed that the speakers would occasionally emit a faint but annoying white noise. This issue was only noticeable in a quiet room when no music or other audio was playing through the speakers.
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Basketball has evolved into a game of calculated decision-making
Basketball has evolved into a game of calculated decision-making. From a game of points, assists, and rebounds, it has progressed into using thousands of data points to optimize every element of the game.
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If you believe in "Artificial Intelligence", take five minutes to ask it
Here’s a Mastodon thread from a year ago. Just a quick check on how ChatGPT’s getting on … Me: Who reassigned the species Brachiosaurus brancai to its own genus, and when? ChatGPT…
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The Joy of Nand2Tetris
For the last month, I have been working through Nand2Tetris: The Elements of Computing Systems; Building a Modern Computer from First Principles . I recently completed part 1. This first half of the text illuminates the process of building a computer purely from elementary logic gates. Each chapter is comprised of an…
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A decade later, a decade lost (2024)
I woke up this morning about an hour ahead of my alarm, the sky already light, birds calling.
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Saying goodbye to FFmpegKit
Update (July 2026): I have started FFmpegKitNext, a source-only continuation of FFmpegKit’s build toolkit and wrapper library.
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The hardest working font in Manhattan
A story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of – and one you probably saw earlier today.
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George Eliot's reflections on AGI from 1879
Forgotten musings on the economics of AI, an intelligence explosion, and machine consciousness
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Siren Call of SQLite on the Server
At Terrateam, we are big fans of Fly.io. The service is hosted there and it’s served us well. Just deploy your TOML file, get your infrastructure, do something else with the rest of your day. One of the interesting sides of Fly is that they invest heavily in server-side SQLite. They’ve written a number of blog posts…
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The History of S.u.S.E
The other enterprise Linux company
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AI is stifling new tech adoption?
AI coding assistants are React evangelists.
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Linux kernel cgroups writeback high CPU troubleshooting
Read on to learn how we used network packet captures and BPF to debug web server performance, ultimately uncovering a Linux kernel performance issue. This investigation was a collaboration between myself and my colleagues.
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Does X cause Y? An in-depth evidence review (2021)
This summarizes the frustratingly ambiguous state of the evidence for pretty much any "Does X cause Y?" question you might have.
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Apple Resumes Advertising on X
Link to: https://www.macrumors.com/2025/02/12/apple-resumes-advertising-on-x/
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Who exactly needs to get approval from an institutional review board (IRB)?
IRB you kidding me?
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Anno 1800: Shadows of Beauty
While playing Anno 1800 , I noticed something which I’ve never noticed before in any other game (but to be fair, I don’t play too many city builders): The sun keeps a position relative to the camera and thus the shadows alway s fall from left to right:
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TSMC faces tough choices amid rumors for Intel foundry collaboration
Following a routine board meeting that did not present any surprises to the market, TSMC executives, alongside Taiwan’s Deputy Minister of Economic Affairs, are set to engage in negotiations with the U.S.
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Court Documents Shed New Light on DOGE Activity at Treasury Department
New court documents shed light on what a 25-year-old DOGE worker named Marko Elez did inside Treasury Department payment systems, including what Treasury staff did to limit his access. The documents indicate that the situation is more nuanced than previously reported.
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Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead
May 2026 update This post was written at a time of significant turmoil in my life, when multiple correlated events happened in quick succession. What I wrote in the post below is true, but a lot was left unsaid, as some things were still being investigated. At the time when I wrote the post, despite resigning from my…
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DOGE as a National Cyberattack
In the span of just weeks, the US government has experienced what may be the most consequential security breach in its history—not through a sophisticated cyberattack or an act of foreign espionage, but through official orders by a billionaire with a poorly defined government role. And the implications for national…
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Reassessing Wayland
So a bit under 3 years ago, I made my infamous Wayland rant post that is likely the most read post on this blog by miles. I should really actually write about music again one of these days, but that's a topic for another time. The language was perhaps a bit inflammatory, but I felt the criticisms I made at the time…
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Why young parents should focus on building trust with their kids
Today, when my 1.9-year-old daughter tried to grab and eat an unwashed orange, I asked her to give it to me so I could wash and peel it if she could wait for a moment. She did. It got me thinking about the marshmallow experiment, where the idea was that patience equals success. But … […]
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TeX and Typst: Layout Models (2024)
An exploration of the layout models of TeX and Typst.