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I measured the pollution from my gas stove
Here's what I learned putting air quality monitors all over my house.
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Life, Learning & Writing
The most popular blog posts about life, learning & writing on Hacker News. 588 posts.
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I don't want to host services but I do
I don't want to self-host and think most individuals shouldn't host services for others. Yet I do it anyway, and even teach people how to.
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Resetting the timer in my toothbrush
It’s still good to use, I swear
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"A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" Simulated by GPT-4
A short simulation of Neal Stephenson's Illustrated Primer using GPT-4 and DALL·E 3.
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How I came to write “Tidy First?” tl;dr it took 18 years
Taking a software design course in college (Go Ducks!), we used Ed Yourdon (RIP) & Larry Constantine’s book Structured Design as a text.
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Putting Down the Pen: Reflecting on Oryx’s Journey
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans Dear everyone, I had always imagined 'penning' this farewell someday. You see, the journey of...
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Aspartame: Once More Unto the Breach
Like it or not, there’s a clear scientific consensus
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Crush Your Interviews with the Power of Storytelling
For interviews, it's not what you've done, it's how you explain what you've done. It's that fundamental difference which makes storytelling a critical interview skill.
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Don't be afraid to be wrong
Being afraid of being wrong can hold you back - know how to deal with it.
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Intravenous Caffeine
If there’s a hole in your body, you can put drugs into it.
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Elitism as the mid-career growth engine
Technical excellence begins in wonder but is honed by disgust
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Dandelion Root Recipes
Dandelion root recipes offer a variety of uses, from herbal teas to hearty dishes. Discover how to incorporate this nutritious root into your meals and remedies.
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Writing: Good career move, terrible career (2018)
I like to write, and occasionally I idly consider the possibility that I should do it for a living. Then I remind myself: writing is a…
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Chinchilla’s death
“With more careful calculations, one can win; with less, one cannot” — Sun Tzu, The Art of War .
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What is Social Status?
Understanding dominance, prestige, and power
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Stop making every conversation about yourself
agree/disagree in a conversation
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Ampersand (2015)
This & is called an AMPERSAND. And here's why...
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Gen Z Netiquettes
Lessons learned with (no) blood and (all) tears
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The work is never just “the work” (2022)
A deep dive on why projects always take longer and a framework to improve future estimation
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Remembering things that haven't happened yet
How will I know what I need to hear in a future I can't anticipate? Who will I be, and what will she want?
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I got paid to live in Antarctica
Sharing how I got paid to live in Antarctica, how to get a job on the ice, and everything you need to know about life at McMurdo Station.
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Shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it
As I watched him on stage, I thought about what made him extraordinary. It’s not his voice. He readily admits that his voice isn’t amazing.
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Fixing Classical Cats: How I got tricked by 28-year-old defensive programming
Every now and then, when working on ScummVM’s Director engine, I run across a disc that charms me so much I just have to get it working right away....
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Self-published Ansible book – 87k copies, 300k revenue, 41 revisions
I just published the 41st revision of my self-published book Ansible for DevOps, which has sold 87,234 copies as of this writing across LeanPub, Amazon (Kindle and paperback), and iBooks. There are multiples of that number of eBooks downloaded, as I've never DMCA'ed the sites that re-host the book illegally. I just…
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My long goodbye to Windows XP (2022)
Making glulam of the tree of knowledge.