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I want to be left alone (2024)
Seriously. Please just leave me alone.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 668 posts.
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This blog is running on a recycled Google Pixel 5 (2024)
An absolute mammoth post about how I am running this blog site from a Google Pixel 5 Android phone using only Termux. It includes what inspired me, what I'm using for the setup, and my longform notes on the entire project.
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Static sites enable a good time travel experience
A static site with version control history enables me to travel into any point in the project’s past and serve the site as it was back in the day.
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Take something you don’t like and try to like it
it offers lessons on your nature
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I miss using em dashes
I really miss using em dashes in my writing. Ever since content creators started using ChatGPT to help (or supplement) their writing, em dashes have become indicators of AI use. Students are routinely caught with their pants down as professors flag an essay as AI-generated based on the presence of lists…
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Effective learning: Rules of formulating knowledge (1999)
This article will help you overcome one of the greatest difficulties you will face when trying to accelerate learning: formulating knowledge.
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Notes on Managing ADHD
Strategies and tactics for staying productive.
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My phone is an ereader now
I got a Kobo in 2016 after borrowing my mom's old one for a year before that. It probably is responsible for getting me reading again after high school. I used to be an avid reader, the sort of kid who would have to be told to put down the book and go to sleep, and who would then creep slowly to the bookshelf to pick…
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You Have to Feel It
You see a series of checkboxes checked. Schedules met. Requirements satisfied. Demos delivered. It's a good day. Good job, you, good job! A promotion is in sight.
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A blog does not need “analytics”
Analytics are a military and financial tool. Your blog is not and you shouldn’t surveil you readers.
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Will AI Replace Human Thinking? The Case for Writing and Coding Manually
Learning to Think Again, and the Cost of AI Dependency.
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I'll only buy devices with GrapheneOS
Authoritarianism is on the rise throughout the globe. Governments wants to monitor your social media accounts so they can make you disappear if you engage in wrongthink such as opposing wars or genocide. This is worsened by misguided laws like Chat control that would mandate scanning of all digital communication…
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Why do people keep writing about the imaginary compound Cr2Gr2Te6?
I was reading the latest issue of the journal Science , and a paper mentioned the compound Cr 2 Gr 2 Te 6 . For a moment, I thought my knowl...
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The McPhee method for writing deeply reported nonfiction
When I first started writing for a real publication, I taught myself “reporting” with a simple self-made curriculum unfolding over six or seven articles. The first two pieces I wrote from my head, with reference to things I already knew or to books I’d read. For the third, I actually got out of the house, but didn’t…
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Writing with LLM is not a shame
Do we have to disclaim how we use AI ?
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The cost of interrupted work (2023)
You’ve likely read lots of blog posts stating that it takes 23 minutes and 15 seconds to get back to work after an interruption, context switch, or meeting. Thus, “do you have five minutes” ends up not only costing those few minutes, but instead about half an hour. But where does that number come from?
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Developer's block
A blog on software development and other stuff
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The ROI of Exercise
The math on why exercise is a good deal.
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Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org
This was a tough decision, having used Gmail since 2007/2008. However, I had to draw the line and stop giving Google my data for free. The problem with email is …
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How to stop feeling lost in tech: the wafflehouse method
you need to sit for this one for 48h
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The value of hitting the HN front page
I’ve been a member of Hacker News (HN) since 2012. You can see my profile here . (Thanks to Jeff Beard for introducing me to it so many years ago.)
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From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent
After 15 years on macOS, I made the leap to Arch Linux using Omarchy. Here's what I discovered about the trade-offs, workflow changes, and why shorter battery life and fan noise haven't sent me back to my MacBook.
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Ted Chiang: The Secret Third Thing
I really like Ted Chiang’s writing.
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What could have been
Even if we manage to snap out of the AI bubble, we are never going to get these years back. I can only be left to wonder what could have been.
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Left to Right Programming
Programs Should Be Valid as They Are Typed
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D4D4
A co-worker of mine (the incomparable Yohei Manabe) was looking at some disassembled ARM code the other day, and discovered something weird. Lots of d4d4 instructions, scattered about. LLVM’s objdump says this is a relative branch to -0x58 . The weird part is that they were always unreachable.