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The revolt of the reader
Reading is important to me. While I’m not a quick reader nor an especially voracious one, I have found that long-form reading has had a profound influence on me over my life.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,188 posts.
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The Facebook experiment has failed
I am signed into Facebook right now. At a quick glance, the entire list of posts on the first screen are irrelevant to me. If I scrolled down I can find 4 stories I actually care about, from a list …
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Mea Culpa – Dark Hours
Last week I launched a project called Dark Hours, which was a website utility to give you an idea of what could be seen in the sky that night. A developer who …
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Reinvent the Wheel
One of the most harmful pieces of advice is to …
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My Self-Hosting Setup
A blog on technology, Star Wars, and other random thoughts. Plus some half way decent photography!
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The Monospace Web
Monospace fonts are dear to many of us. Some find them more readable, consistent, and beautiful, than their proportional alternatives. Maybe we’re just brainwashed from spending years in terminals? Or are we hopelessly nostalgic? I’m not sure. But I like them, and that’s why I started experimenting with all-monospace…
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Learning Software Architecture
In reply to an email asking about learning software design skills as a researcher physicist:
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Inside a $1 radar motion sensor
I recently got some cheap microwave motion sensors, mostly because I was wondering how China managed to make a radar for under a dollar:
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Pev: Postgres ‘Explain’ Visualizer (2016)
Postgres Explain Visualizer (Pev) is a tool I wrote to make EXPLAIN output easier to grok. It creates a graphical representation of the query plan.
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I'm an addict
I like watching videos. A lot in fact. Today, I've spent over 6 hours watching youtube videos, an hour of reading through comments[1] on hacker news, 3 hours...
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The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner
A fabulously gay blind Romance author.
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Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated
There is a profound tension here: english specifications intuitively feel precise until you learn better from bitter experience. (It's all in that facial expression of the last frame.)
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Don't Waste the Good Days
If you’re feeling creative, do the errands tomorrow. If you’re fit and healthy, take a day to go surfing. When inspiration strikes, write it down. The calendar belongs to everyone else.…
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Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning
Translations: – العربية – Norsk 汉语 – tiếng Việt – Español – Italiano – Français – Magyar – Português – română – Deutsch – Suomi – Svenska – Čeština – Русско – Íslenska – Nederlands – ελληνικά – עברית – Audio Version
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Kind of Screwed
TL;DR version: Last year, I was threatened with a lawsuit over the pixel art album cover for Kind of Bloop. Despite my firm belief that I was legally in the right, I settled out of court to cut my losses. This ordeal was very nerve-wracking for me and my family, and I’ve had trouble writing […]
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I'm the mom in that viral Giants clip. Let me tell you about my husband
You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.
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How I Made $200k When I Was 16 Years Old Through Coding (2018)
About three years ago, I published a story about how the Twitter app I built in high school, Follow, reached 150,000 downloads in two…
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Art of Roads in Games
How games implement roads
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A detailed look at the router provided by my ISP
I have been living in my current apartment for more than a year now and I noticed I have never inspected my router which was provided by my ISP when I moved in. The only thing I changed in router is
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So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe
I am equally unsurprised and upset
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Hard numbers in the Wayland vs. X11 input latency discussion
Date: 2025-01-26 Git: https://gitlab.com/mort96/blog/blob/published/content/00000-home/00016-wayland-input-latency.md
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Self-host your fonts for better performance
This browser caching change kills the utility of cross-site resource CDNs like Google Fonts.
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Photos from inside a Typhoon class submarine
Тяжелый РПКСН проекта 941 по отечественной класификации: АКУЛА,по НАТовской Typhoon/ Это РПКСН III поколения. У корабля 2 прочных корпуса расположенных параллельно и несколько прочных модулей связанных единым наружным корпусом.Он несет 20 твердотопливных БР расположенных между прочными корпусами. В…
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OpenAI’s policies hinder reproducible research on language models
LLMs have become privately-controlled research infrastructure
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CAN Injection: Keyless car theft
This is a detective story about how a car was stolen - and how it uncovered an epidemic of high-tech car theft. It begins with a tweet. In April 2022, my friend Ian Tabor tweeted that vandals had been at his car, pulling apart the headlight and unplugging the cables.
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At this company, we are family
As I shared at our last family meeting, current economic conditions have forced family leadership to make many difficult decisions. I myself have reduced my golf outings to every other week, and you, undoubtedly, noticed that your mother’s car is no longer the current model year. Unfortunately, even these deep cuts…