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My First 80 Days of VR for Exercise
Three months ago, during my first Think Week, I realized that consistently working out would meaningfully improve my long term health and happiness.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,211 posts.
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Telegram gains 1M users after Whatsapp ban
Brazil blocked Whatsapp for 48 hours, which benefits Telegram, it has gained more than 1 million new users and it seems like it keeps incre...
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Why I Chose Elixir Phoenix over Rails, Laravel, and Next.js
Why I chose Phoenix LiveView over Rails, Laravel, and Next.js
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Why I believe Rails is still relevant in 2019
Cloud-Native Full-Stack Software Engineer and Solutions Architect
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Why Exercise Is a Miracle Drug
Plus: How to save 100 million lives with 1/400th of our income
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Networking changes coming in macOS 27
We are under warning that macOS 27 is likely to remove support for AFP, and lately some additional requirements for connection to certain servers. This explains how these could affect you.
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Investing in lighting did great things for my mental and physical health
Controlling lighting is an extremely powerful force on your daily life satisfaction
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Building a Lightroom PC
Why I switched to Windows 10 from macOS and built a water-cooled and overclocked 5.2GHz 6-core PC for photo editing with Adobe Lightroom Classic CC.
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BusyBeaver(6) Is Quite Large
For overdetermined reasons, I’ve lately found the world an increasingly terrifying and depressing place. It’s gotten harder and harder to concentrate on research, or even popular scienc…
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Justice Stevens reads the fine print
Matthew Butterick
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Problems with RESTful APIs (2015)
Why you might benefit from letting this popular paradigm rest in peace.
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C++ Modules Might Be Dead-On-Arrival
In which I discuss a modules problem that is being ignored
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Software Developers: how to get a raise without changing jobs
Here’s how to boost your lifetime earnings by hundreds of thousands of dollars by getting periodic raises without changing jobs.
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Decompiling a Nintendo 64 game in 84 days
The original Snowboard Kids has been fully decompiled in only 84 days! In this post I delve into what changed and what lessons might apply to future projects.
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How Equifax Became a Private IRS
At a Goldman Sachs conference in December, Equifax CEO Mark Begor told investors that his company has a monopoly in an obscure but important area - selling data about your salary to third parties.
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Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence
Infrastructure “We should own our infrastructure.” A lot of people would instinctively nod in agreement with that statement. Yet who “we” refers to shifts depending on the type of infrastructure. Highways, railways, bridges, and ports require nation-scale efforts. The water supply is usually put into the hands of…
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I Was Google’s Head of International Relations. Here’s Why I Left
_The company’s motto used to be “Don’t be evil.” Things have changed._ 
Technology is not enough.
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By installing NAT, MIT stifles innovation
When I first arrived at MIT in 2010, I was awed by how much computing infrastructure was readily available. Dorm rooms had 100 megabit inter...
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The guidance system and computer of the Minuteman III nuclear missile
The Minuteman missile was introduced in 1962 as a key part of America's nuclear deterrent. The Minuteman III missile is currently the only U...
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Fish shell 2.0
fish 2.0 is now released! fish is a fully-equipped command line shell (like bash or zsh) that is smart and user-friendly. fish supports powerful features like syntax highlighting, autosuggestions, and tab completions that just work, with nothing to learn or configure.
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The Cost of an ACL Injury
A little over a year ago, I tore my ACL playing ultimate frisbee. I made a quick cut to lose my defender, and as I planted my foot to change directions, I felt a sudden pop in my knee. Next thing I know, I’m on the ground because my knee had given out.
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Why you should learn F#
Programming, Coffee and Indie Hacking
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Surprising Shared Word Etymologies
I find word etymologies fascinating . Every word we speak or write sits unassumingly on the surface of a rich history, sometimes spanning millenia.
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Why senior engineers let bad projects fail
When I was a junior engineer, my manager would occasionally confide his frustrations to me in our weekly 1:1s. He would point out a project another team was working on and say, “I don’t believe that …
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