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The Game: A continually-run D&D campaign, since 1982
My name is Robert Wardhaugh and I am the Dungeon Master (DM). I am currently Professor of History at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada. The Game is mainly played from my basement set up…
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Mental illness, attention deficit disorder, and suffering
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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Things I don’t want to do to grow my side project
Life is to short to work on things you hate
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Getting Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable
Software engineering is cursed with uncertainty. When we’re solving big new problems with software, if the exact problem has been solved before, we could just reuse the solution that already exists. Frequently though, the exact problem (or combination of problems) hasn’t been solved before, and we need to come up with…
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I accidentally loaned all my money to the US government
Recently I learned that the US government offers a little gift called I-bonds, and that this is the month to buy them. Depending on your perspective, I-bonds are either free money or the only true money storage. They're zero-risk bonds with an interest rate that always matches or exceeds inflation. The interest rate…
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I've used all the notebooks
I jot, doodle, scribe, and scribble in several notebooks every day—it’s how I do my thinking.
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The appeal of using plain HTML pages (2019)
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Writing for Engineers
This article is available as Korean- (thanks to longfin ) and Chineese- (thanks to webup ) translation.
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Cool things people do with their blogs
Small and independent blogs are always full of surprises. The more blogs I stumble upon, the more …
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Bits of advice I wish I had known
UPDATE Several years ago on my 68th birthday I wrote up 68 bits of advice for my adult children, and posted them here. The bits were extremely popular, and they were widely shared by others. I was encouraged to write … Continue reading →
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Increasing the surface area of blogging
Open feeds, OPML, books, blogs and graphs
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Why Pessimism Sounds Smart
Optimism requires believing in an unknown, unproven future
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Tools for a Culture of Writing (2021)
A set of useful tools for cultivating a culture of writing, namely the RFC, the Decision Record and Decision Log, and the Pre-mortem/Prospective and Post-mortem/Retrospective
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Things I sort of believe about making music
I've now been recording music at home for most of my life. I started at around 14. I would record things into audacity, sometimes with my friend Cameron, but more often by myself. I had no real idea of how to write, arrange, or record music. Besides a few covers I would mostly record incredibly abstruse 'experimental…
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I sold 640 copies of my book in one year
A breakdown of selling 640 copies of my first product Deployment from Scratch.
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Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
How do habits work? How do you change your habits? How do you hold yourself accountable? This complete habits guide contains everything you need to know.
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No one expects young men to do anything and they are responding by doing nothing
Garbage in garbage out
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The Gettysburg PowerPoint Presentation (2000)
Good morning. Just a second while I get this connection to work. Do I press this button here? Function-F7? No, that's not right. Hmmm. Maybe I'll have to reboot. Hold on a minute. Um, my name is Abe Lincoln and I'm your president. While we're waiting, I want to thank Judge David Wills, chairman of the committee…
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“Multiple personality disorder” probably doesn't exist
TikTok culture can be incredibly toxic, but those on the left refuse to ever condemn it for fear of echoing conservatives
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My lazy Wordle strategy: same words every time
TL;DR: After the analysis in this post, I started using SLANT/PRICE/DOUGH/BALMY, but it may not be the best sequence for you.
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Practising Programming
When we see a world-class musician flawlessly play challenging music, it can be tempting to imagine that they were always able to do so. A moment’s thought makes it obvious that they must have had to spend huge amounts of time practising basic techniques in order to reach that level. What’s less obvious is that they…
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What chords do you need?
You famously only need four chords to play everything, or maybe it's only three. But how true is this really? I decided to go look and see what was common. I looked at a large number of transcribed songs, writing down which chords were used. This isn't perfect: some chords are more optional than others, but it's about…
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I'm a security engineer and I still almost got scammed
I was in the park with my son and his best friend. I saw 2 missed calls from a number I didn’t recognise. I Googled it - it was my bank. I told the other adults that I should call back in case it was important.
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Monetizing hobbies
I don’t know if this is a new trend or if I’m just noticing it now, but more and more the popular wisdom seems to be that you shouldn’t monetize your hobby. That if you do, it turns it into a job, a hustle1; that it sucks all the fun out of it. Putting aside for now the fact that some people might want to turn their…
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On leaving Turkey (2021)
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