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The biggest losers: Metabolic damage or constrained energy?
Did the Biggest Loser contestants really damage their metabolism or was something else going on?
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1832
Coming home from the South Pole
Emerging from winter and preparing for our first flight!
1833
A Guide for Prospective Tea Monks
Inspired by Becky Chamber's Monk & Robot Series
1834
Advice to young people, the lies I tell myself
Discover insightful advice for young people, emphasizing choices, confidence, and personal growth through lived experiences.
1835
Behind the scenes: the struggle for each paper (2021)
The start of my sabbatical has given me a moment to reflect on my publications. But my CV only shows a list of neatly cataloged papers: title, authors, conference. Each one appearing no different from another. But how each paper ended up published is its own story, a story about people and opportunity.
1836
Simple Lasts Longer
🗺️ Too many invaders to keep track of; I really don't want to run another database; Web Storage to the rescue
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Retro on Viberary
Do fun projects
1838
The best way to get unstuck
I started dabbling in entrepreneurship over 20 years ago and have experienced the feeling of stuckness more than I can recall...
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Comics I Loved in 2023
Reflecting on comics that resonated for me in 2023
1840
Fixing Macs door to door
Fun stories from my time working as an AppleCare Dispatch contractor going door to door in Chicago.
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Hard disk LEDs and noisy machines
The little annoyances that alerted us developers of performance problems
1842
Choosing what to read
Like many people, I spend a lot of time reading. Since there is much more that I could read than there is time for, I have to make choices about what I should read. In this short post I’m going to outline what my reading choices have become and why. My aim isn’t to suggest that anyone else should make the same choices…
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Duty to Document (2023)
If you learn something the hard way, it's you duty to share your lessons with others.
1844
Everything will be alright in Iceland
On volcanoes, crises, and what we can learn from Icelanders
1845
An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020)
I made a messaging app for my family and my family only.
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Niklaus Wirth, 1934-2024: Geek For Life
Geek For Life
1847
Sit.
Notes on mental health, motivation and Agile.
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Think more about what to focus on
Including me
1850
My 3-year experiment as a digital nomad
As a full-time software engineer at Kapwing and full-time wanderer, I've learned a few things about how to be a digital nomad.
1851
Making small games, which is fun in itself
Creating small games is an enjoyable endeavor in itself. So what constitutes a small game? According to the 'Small Game Manifesto', 1 it refers to games that conclude within 10 minutes and can be easily played on browsers.
1852
Reasons to grow and keep big muscles
Life isn’t just about how long we live; it’s about how well we live it. We often hear about increasing our lifespan, but is a longer life worth it if we can’t move and become dependent on others? What’s equally, or even more important, is enhancing our healthspan—the period during which we enjoy a good quality of…
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Thomas Cochrane
in lowercase bullet points
1854
A new blog for 2024
DX engineer at Liveblocks. Articles on developer experience and web engineering.
1855
Notes on the Ivory Coast
I spent about ten days in the Ivory Coast, mostly in Abidjan, but also Yamoussoukro, Man, and Grand Bassam. (Note – The Ivory Coast is so French in culture and temperament that it insists on offici…
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$450 for a School Bag?
Every year, around March, a curious social custom occurs in Japanese families. Parents of kids entering elementary school visit the grandparents and gingerly tread the topic of buying the kids a very expensive item: a randoseru. And gingerly they must tread. The randoseru, a Japanese school bag, costs a whopping
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Procrastination is connected to perfectionism
Procrastination is a common issue , which occurs when people unnecessarily postpone decisions or actions, generally despite knowing that doing so is likely to cause them issues .
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The fresh start effect
I spent nearly five years working at the nutrition startup Lifesum in Stockholm, where we built a mobile app for tracking your diet and exercise.
1859
Orange Site Hit
I know I'm not alone in having a relationship with the orange site that is... weird. I generally dislike the culture there, it's almost impossible to read any of the comments without being frustrated about the industry I work in or am adjacent to and some of the people who inhabit it; but as a link aggregator of stuff…
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Fixing annoying blue standby lights
A simple and free fix for those annoying over bright blue standby lights on home electronics (TV, Stereo, Set top box, etc.)