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As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program
A blog about software craft and quality
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 662 posts.
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Don't be a meat proxy
Too often I ask a question in Slack or leave feedback under a merge/pull request or argue with friends in a WhatsApp group and get back:
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More German than many Germans
I just wanted to do an internship in Europe so it would be easier to find a job after graduation. That internship completely changed my life.
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A Rant About “Technology” (2005)
Ursula K. Le Guin on the presence of technology in her work
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Unraveling the mysteries of habit formation
Researchers研究者名Asaoka, Nozomi
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How to Exist
Here’s an experiment for a true daredevil. Sit there for a three minutes, following two rules:
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Why etymologies matter: How tracing words can illuminate history (2024)
How tracing words can illuminate history
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Online Friends Are Real Friends
A few days ago I booked my flights to not only attend a professional event, but also visit and stay with one of my best friends next month. This will be the ...
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The End of an Era
We knew this day would come. Some of us have known for decades, have been writing and pontificating about this since Ken Jennings lost at Jeopardy and Kasparov lost at chess. The writing was on the wall, and now the writing is everywhere. Literally. Artificial Intelligence is writing about as well as humans — at […]
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The Religion of Speed
At some point, “moving fast” stopped being a practical concern and became a moral position. You see it damn near everywhere now. How fast can we ship this...
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“Gravity is worth asking about”
A blog about software craft and quality
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The Productivity Mirage
What I once thought about programming productivity was wrong
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Superlogical
I authored 1 the announcement post on the Superlogical homepage , which describes the problem statement and what we're building. 2 Read that to learn more. This post is more of a personal statement about what led to this, how it relates to my recent work, and what comes next.
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Software for One
Robin Sloan wished for a HyperCard that could build a family app in a day. That world showed up.
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Substack writers, you need a website
Substack is convenient, but treat it as a distribution tool for your content. Your content should live on an independently owned website, which has a domain name you control and own. This way, you …
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I'd not buy a LG monitor
There is a video by Gamers Nexus making the rounds that makes me really angry. It reports about LG's latest practise to add blatant spyware to a monitor. Or to be precise to the *software* application associated with that monitor. The icing is that Windows apparently automatically downloads this software by default…
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Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management
Unattributed is a former IT person, discovering life after work.
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I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore
Disability, shame, and the hidden violence of a culture that equates productivity with value
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Canceling "Hey"
cancelling-my-hey - Chad Nauseam Home
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Should you wash your solar panels?
I have a small solar farm and the panels have got visibly dusty. Is cleaning them worthwhile? How much difference does it make? Let's find out.
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Using ThinkPad T480 as a mobile phone
A collection of Maroš Grego's works.
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Design is compromise
Compromise is neither good nor bad, it’s something we do every day. It’s decision making. Prioritizing. It’s finding the right balance between two competing ...
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Turn And Face The Strange
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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The Dark Night of Mathematics
What are we really doing?
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The Fedora 45 Sausage Factory
This is a walkthrough of how Fedora turns source code and packages into the artifacts you download and install. It follows the a package from a packager’s git push to a composed release: ISOs, cloud images, container images, and OSTree deployments.
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How to survive boiling water
A probiotic paradox
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Em dashes are amazing
An ode to a punctuation mark
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It's getting harder to focus every day
I’m feeling it right now. I had to set a timer for 15 minute on my computer and block all distractions to write this. If I didn’t force myself to focus I would easily get distracted by something after few minutes. Even when I’m doing things that I’ve been waiting to do it, I still feel the urge to do something else. I…
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Writing by hand is good for your brain
Because I am known to write using a fountain pen on paper, a number of people have pointed me to this post and its underlying research. I won’t rehash what is said in those sources, but the gist of it is that when you write things down by hand you’re recruiting more of your brain, which is a good thing.