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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 668 posts.
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Stamina Is a Quiet Advantage
Stamina is one of the most universally useful traits you can develop. It's a more broadly applicable advantage than things that are situationally useful.
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Chaos in the Cloudflare Lisbon Office
Cloudflare is now using a wall of waves in our Lisbon, Portugal office to create entropy and strengthen Internet security, turning liquid chaos into secure, unpredictable encryption.
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Teach, Don't Tell (2013)
This post is about writing technical documentation. More specifically: it's about writing documentation for programming languages and libraries.
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The School Car Pickup Line Is a National Embarrassment
Your grandpa probably really did walk 5 miles to school in a foot of snow. A look at the changing numbers for how American students get to school.
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Backyard Cyanide
There’s a bushy tree in my backyard with these dark red fruit — the kind that makes some primal instinct scream at you across millennia, but you can’t tell if it wants you to eat them or not.
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So Long and Thanks for All the Words: A Toast to Douglas Adams
A Toast to the Frood Who Really Knew Where His Towel Was
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Creative Fansubbing Techniques: Part 2
This is my second article about some curious fansubbing techniques that I found when watching anime. Want to know what they are? Read on to find out!
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Real Chilling Effects
A extraordinary pattern of government censorship and threats to speech
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My stupid noise journey (2023)
A tale of bad choices
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Magnesium Self-Experiments
3 magnesium self-experiments on magnesium ʟ-threonate and magnesium citrate.
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My 16-month theanine self-experiment
randomized and blinded, N=1
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Kill your Feeds – Stop letting algorithms dictate what you think
We used to control apps like Facebook and Instagram with our own choices. They became daily comforts, making the world seem a little bit smaller and closer by bringing the people that we cared about together in to one place.
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Discworld Rules
And LOTR is brain-rot for technologists
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Forget Twitter threads and write a blog post instead (2021)
All of the kool kids in Twitter land seem to be jumping on the bandwagon of a very annoying craze. Twitter threads. Please stop; write a blog post instead
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My Beancount books are 95% automatic after 3 years (2024)
Fang-Pen Lin's blog about programming
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Solving SICP
This report is written as a post-mortem of a project that has, perhaps, been the author’s most extensive personal project: creating a complete and comprehensive solution to one of the most fa…
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Youth and what happens when it's gone
And what happens when it's gone.
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Math Academy pulled me out of the Valley of Despair
Here’s to being a preserving student for life.
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A Few of the Birds I Love
The barn swallow’s flight, the mocking bird’s song, the cardinal’s color, and the hummingbird’s character.
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Write to Escape Your Default Setting
Writing serves as a foundation for clarity in thought. It can help you engage more deeply with your ideas.
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Goodbye K-9 Mail
Looking back on 15 years of working on K-9 Mail.
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Cross Views
Your camera has the ability to take three dimensional photos. Your screen has the ability to display three dimensional photos. You’ve probably never used either.
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ChatGPT Saved My Life (no, seriously, I'm writing this from the ER)
How using AI as a bridge when doctors aren't available can improve patient-to-doctor communications in real time emergencies
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Troubleshooting: A skill that never goes obsolete
Much of what I do, in multiple fields, could be reduced to one skill: troubleshooting. I’ll define troubleshooting as systematically determining the cause of unwanted behaviour in a system, and fixing it. Troubleshooting is often learned tacitly, in the process of explicitly learning “the skill”. Troubleshooting is…
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It’s still worth blogging in the age of AI
Although it might seem that AI will make it pointless, I still think it's worth blogging.
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Calendar.txt
Keep your calendar in a plain text file. Calendar.txt is versionable, supports all operating systems and easily syncs with Android mobile phone.
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The benefits of learning in public
Learning in public helps me grow as an engineer and seems to benefit others too. Here's why I should do more.