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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.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 8,940 posts.
Life, Learning & Writing
Any year
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Milton Glaser: Ten Things I Have Learned
Milton Glaser (b.1929) is among the most celebrated graphic designers in the United States. He opened Milton Glaser, Inc. in 1974, and continues to produce an astounding amount of work in many fields of design to this day.
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This One Hurts: Dr. Walter Bortz on Dr. John McCarthy
John McCarthy died four days ago. He was 84. His obit in the “New York Times” made specific reference to his generally attributed parenthood of artificial intelligence. John was my good…
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Thank you to our maintainers
To celebrate Maintainer Month, GitHub has invested an additional $500,000 to help sponsor the open source projects that it depends on.
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Is Self Hosted Blogging Dead?
Or, the case against hosted blogging options. More and more I find myself reading articles on blog networks, and by networks I mean Medium.
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Human Rapamycin Longevity Clinical Trials Begin
Today is a doubly important day: it marks the final day of the PEARL campaign and it is a celebration of another victory for the life extension community.
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Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now
The hottest project in AI right now is Clawdbot, renamed to Moltbot, renamed to OpenClaw. It’s an open source implementation of the digital personal assistant pattern, built by Peter Steinberger …
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Profession by Isaac Asimov (1957)
Profession , copyright ©1957 by Street and Smith Publications, Inc., from ISAAC ASIMOV: THE COMPLETE STORIES OF VOL. 1 by Isaac Asimov. Used by permission of Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc. For on-line information about other Random House, Inc. books and authors, see the Internet Web site at…
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Comfy Software: A software aesthetic for hackers with depression
A software aesthetic for hackers with depression.
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Magnesium Self-Experiments
3 magnesium self-experiments on magnesium ʟ-threonate and magnesium citrate.
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Kropotkin's 'The Conquest of Bread'
A blog containing essays, of varying cogency, about various things that my mind have wandered to.
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How to Fly 35,000 Miles, Visit 4 Continents, 9 Countries, and 15 Cities for $418
"I have to tell you sir, this is easily the most ridiculous itinerary I've ever put together," said the American Airlines operator the other night as I finalized plans for a worldwide adventure that would make Marco Polo blush. "Welp, that makes two of us!" I replied. And just like that, I had committed myself
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A Diablo 3 Story
TLDR: I made about 100 000 euro from Diablo 3 in exactly 1 year. Below I will tell you in great detail how. I want to dedicate thi...
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Pursue High-Quality Leisure
If I stop surfing the Internet, what am I going to do all day?
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Solve Less General Problems
Two decades ago when I first started working at Avid, one of the tasks I was assigned was porting our product (a consumer video editor - th...
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Why do drum sets have descending toms?
Before mic’ing became a necessity, acoustic drums were just that: acoustic. And when they needed to be louder, drum manufacturers made them bigger and longer. That led to some diameter and de…
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My solar-powered and self-hosted website
How I built a solar-powered, self-hosted website with a Raspberry Pi to explore sustainable, local-first web hosting.
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Don't Outsource Your Thinking (2015)
One of the most useful lessons I learned from working at Facebook had nothing to do with technology: Doubt the media. Always doubt the…
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Personal computing paves the way for personal library science
How the past of Personal Computing gives us a hint into the future of Personal Library Science
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How to Learn JavaScript Properly
Learn JavaScript Properly (For Beginners and Experienced Programmers) This study guide, which I also refer to as a course outline and a road map, gives you a structured and instructive...
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True Surprise
How many true surprises are there in life? This was the question I asked Mrs. Bastard when she was pregnant with our first child and wanted ...
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Inspiration vs. Imitation
An indie design engineer based in Brooklyn.
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South Pole Topography
The relentless accumulation (and management) of snow.
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Three Observations
Our mission is to ensure that AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) benefits all of humanity. Systems that start to point to AGI* are coming into view, and so we think it’s important to...
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The physical Apple Card is a case of form over function
Apple Card is not just the physical card you get in the mail when you sign up for an Apple Card. There are a lot of upsides to what Apple's doing with Apple Card and Apple Pay. I get it. And I also believe the physical titanium Apple Card is a marvel of engineering. Kudos to the metallurgists and designers who…