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Who Owns My Name?
Does my name belong to me? Does my face? What about my life? My story? Why is my name used to refer to events I had no hand in? I return to…
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Life, Learning & Writing
Any year
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How I store my files
Have you ever lost important data? I have. I learned doing backups the hard way after I lost a entire book I had just finished writing!
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One Tenth of a Second
Notes on Jimena Canales book
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Evil programmer's tip: avoid “easy” things (2016)
My writing has recently prompted an anonymous commenter to declare that people like me are what's wrong with the world. Oh joy! – finally, after all these years of doing evil, some recognition! Excited, I decided to share one of my battle-tested evil tips, which never ever failed evil me.
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Coding with Character
Monospaced fonts are no longer just utilitarian tools—they can also be playful & fun
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In defense of hard counters in real time strategy games
This article is supported by my Patreon. If you like what you see, please consider contributing. I feel like hard counters get a bad rap in RTS games. There are a lot of arguments out there both fo…
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Smart Phone, Dumb Terminal
Using your phone as a dumb terminal with a Bluetooth keyboard
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Co-working with friends over video in virtual gather.town office
Starting March 2021, I’ve been spending the majority of my working time co-working with my friends over video in my virtual gather.town office. The sessions are usually pre-scheduled, last 2-16 hours, and we do brief check-ins every 30 minutes. Most people I co-worked with told me that they really enjoyed the…
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Farmers always worked from home
Farmers effectively work from home, and in the past majority of the population was farming. What can they teach us about Work-Life Balance?
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My First CSS
Insights from the Kablamo Engineering Team
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Don't Be Anti Car. Be Pro Something Else.
People hate change. They have something of a tendency to dig their heels in and be against it just because it is new and different. They as...
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Becoming a Chess Grandmaster
How exactly can one become a Chess Grandmaster? And who is the youngest ever Grandmaster? These and more questions I answer in this article.
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The Highest Forms of Wealth
Wealth is easy to measure but hard to value.
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If Richard Feynman applied for a job at Microsoft (2002)
Interviewer: Now comes the part of the interview where we ask a question to test your creative thinking ability. Don’t think too hard about it, just
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The value of doing a little
Often, doing a little is better than doing a lot.
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It doesn't take much public creativity to stand out as a job candidate
I’ve spent nearly twenty years blogging, giving talks and releasing open source code. It’s been fantastic for my career, and a huge amount of work. But here’s a useful secret: …
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Papers every developer should read at least twice (2009)
10 Papers Every Developer Should Read - (At Least Twice)
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My mindfulness practice led me to meltdown
How My Mindfulness Practice Lead Me To Meltdown
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How to Learn Stuff Quickly
As software developers, we're always learning new things; it's practically the whole gig! If we can learn to quickly pick up new languages/frameworks/tools, we'll become so much more effective at our job. It's sort of a superpower.
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I had to give a wrong answer to get the job (2017)
Back in 2007, I was searching for a software developer job at various companies. At one of these companies, the best strategy to get the job was to give a wrong answer. If this seems weird to you, let me explain what happened.
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The Perils of M1 Ownership
The primary admin account on an M1 Mac is its Owner, responsible for authorising the installation and use of second operating systems. Here’s what can go wrong with Ownership.
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The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday
Six years, no deadlines, and one rule: write some code every day. That slow, stubborn routine turned a side project into a sustainable search company.
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Building a vision of life without work (2015)
The number one question that people ask once you tell them you’re considering early retirement is: What will you do with your time?
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Lee Ross and the “Fundamental Attribution Error”
...and to the psychologist who put it on the map.
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Must-read psychology books
Regardless of where you are in the pathway of understanding how the human psyche works, this list of must-read psychology books will upgrade your personal library.
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Do nothing (2020)
The unreasonable effectiveness of doing nothing.
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How to manually merge two Apple IDs to one (2020)
Since 2020 is made for pain, I decided to make some big moves that I have been putting off for a while. The email migration took a while, but the new setup is so much better. My reliance on Google as a company is very minimal now. I am very
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I Stopped Using Emojis
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A Chemical Hunger: Mysteries
The study of obesity is the study of mysteries.
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My trust in software, an all time low
I don't think I've ever had more distrust and as a consequence distate for software than in recent years. I don't think its just me as a tech-nerd with artisanal tech-carpentry aspirations. I want people to build well, treat their users right and generally exercise some actual restraint. I see it very clearly and I…