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Software for One
Robin Sloan wished for a HyperCard that could build a family app in a day. That world showed up.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 7,740 posts.
Life, Learning & Writing
Any year
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Substack writers, you need a website
Substack is convenient, but treat it as a distribution tool for your content. Your content should live on an independently owned website, which has a domain name you control and own. This way, you …
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I'd not buy a LG monitor
There is a video by Gamers Nexus making the rounds that makes me really angry. It reports about LG's latest practise to add blatant spyware to a monitor. Or to be precise to the *software* application associated with that monitor. The icing is that Windows apparently automatically downloads this software by default…
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Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management
Unattributed is a former IT person, discovering life after work.
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I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore
Disability, shame, and the hidden violence of a culture that equates productivity with value
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Canceling "Hey"
cancelling-my-hey - Chad Nauseam Home
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Should you wash your solar panels?
I have a small solar farm and the panels have got visibly dusty. Is cleaning them worthwhile? How much difference does it make? Let's find out.
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Using ThinkPad T480 as a mobile phone
A collection of Maroš Grego's works.
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Design is compromise
Compromise is neither good nor bad, it’s something we do every day. It’s decision making. Prioritizing. It’s finding the right balance between two competing ...
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The Dark Night of Mathematics
What are we really doing?
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The Fedora 45 Sausage Factory
This is a walkthrough of how Fedora turns source code and packages into the artifacts you download and install. It follows the a package from a packager’s git push to a composed release: ISOs, cloud images, container images, and OSTree deployments.
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How to survive boiling water
A probiotic paradox
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Em dashes are amazing
An ode to a punctuation mark
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It's getting harder to focus every day
I’m feeling it right now. I had to set a timer for 15 minute on my computer and block all distractions to write this. If I didn’t force myself to focus I would easily get distracted by something after few minutes. Even when I’m doing things that I’ve been waiting to do it, I still feel the urge to do something else. I…
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Writing by hand is good for your brain
Because I am known to write using a fountain pen on paper, a number of people have pointed me to this post and its underlying research. I won’t rehash what is said in those sources, but the gist of it is that when you write things down by hand you’re recruiting more of your brain, which is a good thing.
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Does creatine make you smarter?
And why does the brain use creatine anyway?
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Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop
...so I vibe-coded a tool for finding more of them
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Back to Kagi
A reflection on returning to Kagi after trying some alternatives including the much worse search engine called Google.
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Never Enough
Comparison is the thief of joy.
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I Stopped “Creating Content”
Why did we all start talking about content, traffic, distribution, and conversions?
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Perfection is not over-engineering
The industry conflates perfection with over-engineering. They're not the same. Over-engineering is solving the wrong problem; a perfect solution exists once the requirements are clear.
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Stolen Buttons
Every website I visit, I steal a button from it. Check out my stash!
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I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned
Driven by curiosity, I decided to find out what the IndieWeb tag that kept showing up on some blogs and Mastodon toots was all about. I quickly…
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I started a “dirt notebook”
I love taking notes, but one problem that I have is that that I start cherishing every notebook that I start. I can't seem to keep my notes messy. Eventually...
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Three ways people respond to a problem (other than solving it)
Noticing responses to problems; there’s a whole set. The consultant’s reaction to each of these as they arise.
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My car’s OTA update broke Android Auto
Just yesterday morning, my brand-new MINI Countryman auto-installed software update 03/2026.54. How exciting! The release notes promised groundbreaking chang...
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Prioritize mental health, and why communication is so important
and why communication is so important
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Book prizes don't work how you think
all the beans that's fit to spill
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I also filed the corners off my MacBook
Modify your tools more!