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How did I get so unhappy working in tech?
Click to read Mr. Chan's guide to substitute teaching, a Substack publication.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 816 posts.
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The Joy of Small Projects
When was the last time you completed a project? When was the last time you started a project? Have you every felt that you were trapped working on something that you don’t enjoy anymore? Size is something that I’m sure most developers with the drive to do side projects have felt. Recently I have been completing more…
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Taking Flight Without a Smart Phone
Reflections after one month with a feature phone
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I need to find an apartment
Long story short: I’ve taken a new position in Luxembourg and I have tofind an apartment, in a different country, in a reasonably short time.
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Patina and Intimacy
“Each one of us has, somewhere in his heart, the dream to make a living world, a universe.”
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An Account of the Shanghai Lockdown
Mandarin version by Misaka Clover | Japanese version The first time I came to Shanghai, in 2017, I was amazed by how developed the city was. My only other Asian experience was Mumbai, and compared to that, Shanghai was clean and organized. I was amazed by how you could pay for a laundrette with […]
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Back to India
This should provide some insight on why I made the move from the US back to India after a few years of work. And no, my work visa wasn’t expiring. The intent is not to try and convince more people to do the same, but at least get people in similar situations to talk about […]
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My Org Roam Notes Workflow (2021)
A description of my org-roam notes workflow, from writing the notes to publishing them on my website.
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This Bench Does Not Exist
We forced an AI to look at thousands of photos of memorial benches. Just because. Here are the results. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 100%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; }…
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How to control the metacognition process of programming?
by Laurence Chen There is a famous quote: Programming is thinking, not typing. After doing this job long enough, sometimes, I feel I am doing too much typing. No matter whether...
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Reading academic computer science papers
You read documentation and tutorials to become a better programmer, but if you really want to be cutting-edge, academic research is where it's at.
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Using Windows after 15 years on Linux
I've been using Linux exclusively for ~15 yrs. This is my first time using Windows after a 15-year break. This is how it's been going.
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A Square Meal – Foods of the ‘20s and ‘30s
[Content warning: Food, culture shock, milk] They say that the past is a foreign country, and nowhere is this more true than with food. The book is A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Gr…
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I need to stop being boring
This week, I felt pretty depressed and lost my motivation and focus. After launching Space4 , I got some signups from HackerNews , but no one was really using the app. Including myself.
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My attempted cult recruitment
Dark patterns in social behavior
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The PARA Method: A Universal System for Organizing Digital Information
Learn how to organize your digital life in seconds. Stop wasting time looking for information and gain greater focus on what matters most.
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Missing Darwin Notebooks Returned to Cambridge University Library
Charles Darwin’s iconic Tree of Life notebooks anonymously left in a pink gift bag, 15 months after launch of a worldwide appeal to find them
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Are you nice or kind?
Last week Avi and I went outside to unbury our car after the storm, a task we assumed we could do ourselves but ultimately involved our whole neighborhood.
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Are you a baby? A litmus test
Good morning! The other day some friends and I were reminiscing about an app idea we had years ago that would allow you to “blind cancel” on your friends. That is—flag if you were open to canceling a plan, which would only be revealed if the other person flagged it too. Basically, it was Tinder for bailing. This was…
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25+ years of personal knowledge management
In this post, I describe my entire Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) system and its evolution over 25+ years
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Olaf's New Menu Item
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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Study Tips from Richard Feynman
“Study hard what interests you the most.”
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Life advice from NYC chess hustlers
Marcel, E.G.G.S. and Nathaniel Tell All
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Book Review: The Programmer's Brain
There are some books which make you feel smarter just by having them on your shelf. This is one of them! I would consider it essential for anyone working with code - whether a wide-eyed newbie or grizzled veteran. How do human brains understand code? What neurological quirks do we all have? Which common mistakes can…
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Farewell, Elementary
I’m moving on; here’s to the future!
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Justice Clarence Thomas uncovered a seven-year-old bug in my program (2013)
Franklin Chen's personal website and blog
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I didn't return my Apple Studio Display
The Apple Studio Display is, unquestionably, a very good monitor. But the real question is, should you pay €1,800+ for it? I have been asking that question myself for the past ten days. Today I decided that while I can't recommend it, I wil