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First clean water, now clean air
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Why obsessively following successful people online is dangerous
Convincing yourself that following more famous people online will lead to a better life is dangerous. You're simply wasting your time.
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Write for One Person
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Getting the World Record in Hatetris (2022)
HATETRIS is the world's hardest version of Tetris; it's Tetris that hates you. In this post, we chronicle our eleven-month journey to get the world record, and some of our wrong turns along the way.
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Is this Mahler? This sounds like Mahler
One of the most delightful parts of being a software engineer and hardware tinkerer is having the ability to solve my own specific (and often niche) problems. In this post, the particular problem I’ll be solving is the burning need to know what is currently playing on WQXR , NYC’s classical radio station.
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The window for great-grandmothers is closing
And maybe it wasn't that long to begin with
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Mental illness, attention deficit disorder, and suffering
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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My Left Kidney
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When is it better to think without words?
Non-verbal, blurry thinking is faster and can search in a broader way, but it is more error-prone than verbal thought.
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Narcolepsy is weird but I didn't notice
There are certain kinds of experiences that most human beings know very little about because a) they are rare, b) they can only be felt from the "inside", i.e., by the people who have them, and c) not all of those people choose to, or are good at, writing
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Writing an Interpreter in Go: The Paperback Edition
If you’d asked me a only few months ago if there’ll ever be a printed version of Writing An Interpreter In Go I’d responded with a “Huh, uummm, well, I don’t know. Maybe. Maybe if I’ll find the time and if there’s any interest.”
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Denied Entry
- Sorry, you're not allowed entry to the US on your ESTA. The lady who delivered this message to me this early Monday morning, worked behind the check-in counter at the Arlanda airport. I was there, trying to check-in to my two-leg trip to San Francisco to the Mozilla "all hands" meeting of the summer … Continue…
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Turning AirPods into a fitness tracker
A fun side project for a great cause featuring Core Motion, SwiftUI, a little help from AI, and a pair of AirPods to count 100 push-ups a day.
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916 Days of Emacs
Freedom is a state of mind
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John Locke’s recipe for Pancakes (2021)
A collection of philosopher John Locke’s papers at the Bodleian Library includes letters, accounts, poetry, notes on medicine and books, and recipes. When David Armitage posted this recipe fo…
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Social anxiety isn't about being liked
There’s this popular idea that socially anxious folks are dying to be liked.
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20 Years of "Not Even Wrong"
The first entry on this blog was 20 years ago yesterday, first substantive one was 20 years ago tomorrow (first one that drew attacks on me as an incompetent was two days later). Back when I starte…
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How I recorded an album on my own, in my room
Detailed overview of what I learned and what I did to record and publish an album on my own, from my room
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Don’t pay for 95% (2016)
Your car sits idle over 95% of the time. Your guest bedroom is occupied one week out of every 52. Your kids use the yard less than 40 minutes a week. Yet we consumers love to envision the maximum usage for a particular item - like a house or a car…
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The darker side of being a doctor
I’m a surgeon. I’d like to think that I’m resilient and well adjusted, having gone through medical school and rigorous surgical training. I’ve been a doctor for 13 years and much of that period has been spent training to be as good a surgeon as I could ever be. I have great family support, a physician wife who…
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Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division
Personal blog of Stephen Diehl - Software engineer writing about technology, programming, and the future
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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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