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Nobody ever paid me for code
Because mauve databases have the most RAM
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 7,741 posts.
Life, Learning & Writing
Any year
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A Blog Post with Every HTML Element
Patrick Weaver’s Website
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The Carrot Problem
It's not the crime, it's the coverup.
1894
My Overkill Home Network
In this post I will hopefully detail my entire home network. Some of this has been in separate posts explaining single items, but nowhere do I have all of the network in one post with all the changes since last year. Here is a full shot of the rack in
1895
Maybe the problem is that Harvard exists
An unhinged polemic
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I don't want to host services but I do
I don't want to self-host and think most individuals shouldn't host services for others. Yet I do it anyway, and even teach people how to.
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Therapy as a way of aligning with your subconscious
a Review of my time in therapy
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A Critical Problem (2017)
Apparently the management at Los Alamos doesn’t know what criticality safety is.
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Bye, Gemini
The Gemini protocol was a big part of my COVID-19 lockdown experience. Discovering this underground, small protocol, having long discussions on the mailing list, and most importantly for me, developing software. My terminal Gemini browser, Amfora, was my first public FOSS project, something actually intended for a…
1901
Math for kids outside of the Calculus Sequence
The Enrichment side of the "Accelerate vs Enrich" dichotomy in math education for kids who love math.
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Fantastic Learning Resources
People sometimes ask me: Alex, how do I learn X?. This article is a compilation of advice I usually give. This is things that worked for me rather than the most awesome things on earth. I do consider every item on the list to be fantastic though, and I am forever grateful to people putting these resources together.
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Edsger Dijkstra’s One-Day Workweek
Within my particular subfield of theoretical computer science there’s perhaps no individual more celebrated than Edsger Dijkstra. His career spanned half-a-century, beginning with a young ... Read more
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Memex is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed (2020)
How to keep an external brain using ideas from 1945 and technology from 2023.
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People who've received a black bar on Hacker News
I'm not sure when Hacker News started adorning a black bar on top of the website after a significant person passed, but I compiled a list of people who've received it.
1908
Just normal web things
A plea for us to get back to building websites that can do normal website things.
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Laniakea Books: Public domain books for everyone
Laniakea Books is a publishing house in London, England, which publishes public domain books only.
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Math Exposition on YouTube
This summer, 3Blue1Brown launched the third installment of the Summer of Math Exposition contest. Every year, I’ve been impressed and inspired by the quality of some of the videos in this con…
1911
Throw away your first draft of your code
The next time you start on a major project, I want you to write code for a couple of days and then delete it all . Just throw it away.
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Stopping at 90%
A common pattern is to stop short of the real finish line for your project. A little evangelism, documentation, and polish can go a long way.
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Cut out everything that's not surprising (2019)
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Fantasy meets reality
One of my favorite things to notice as a weirdo is when the good intentions of design slam into the hard reality of humans and the real world. It’s always interesting. Let’s start with …
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One week of empathy training (2019)
I've spent a week cosplaying as a disabled user. And I hate it. A couple of months ago, I attended a private talk given by a disabled colleague of mine. "Everyone should believe disabled people's stories about accessibility problems," she said. "But, given that people don't, here's what I want you to do. Spend one…
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Trying to become a better developer by learning more about aviation
In the last few months, I started geeking more about aviation-related topics. Mostly by watching A LOT of videos explaining how things…
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Button Pushes You (2022)
From reconfiguring the system to reconfiguring the user.
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How fast should you accelerate your kid in math?
We thought we were accelerating fast enough. Turns out we weren't.
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Critical theory is radicalizing high school debate
New rhetorical tactics are creating a generation of nihilists