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Spaced repetition is complicated in hierarchical bodies of knowledge, like mathematics, because repetitions on advanced topics should trickle down to update the repetition schedules of simpler topics that are implicitly practiced (while being discounted appropriately since these repetitions are often too early to…
The other day I was playing around with Claude Code, experimenting with porting some C code to Rust - not for any particular reason, just because I was curious how well it could do. As these things happen, I got more and more invested in the process, instead of just letting Claude do something and noting what…
This article explains how to make antibiotics at home in the event of a collapse situation
New data suggests someone has compromised more than 21,000 Microsoft Exchange Server email systems worldwide and infected them with malware that invokes both KrebsOnSecurity and Yours Truly by name.
If you ever find yourself stressed, overwhelmed, sinking into stasis despite wanting to change, or frustrated when you can’t respond to new opportunities, you need more slack in your life. Here’s how slack works and why you need more of it.
You’ve heard of the 10x engineer, but I am here to tell you about the Wolf. They are an engineer, and they consistently exhibit the following characteristics:
Over-engineering for fun (and not much profit)
As you’re reading through our reviews or researching the best backpacks yourself, you may see a profusion of various technical terms being…
A reader recently sent me a video of a keynote speech, delivered in 2020 by the popular fantasy novelist Brandon Sanderson. The title of the ... Read more
(in which I bring this blog back to the “safe, uncontroversial” territory of arguing with people who think they can solve NP-complete problems in polynomial time) A few people have aske…
I've been typing for 20+ years and this is one of my favorite general purpose / programming keyboards when factoring in a few things.
You will never have enough IQ, nor money, nor time, nor energy.
a Review of my time in therapy
I am DesperateI am on a desperate search to find out who or what broke my students. In fact I am so desperate that I stopped class today to ask them who broke them. Was it their parents, a former…
m not sure how many of you know but for the past 10 days I have been fasting. Fasting you say? No, I am not protesting the demolition of a national park (not that I wouldn’t I love parks). For those of you not familiar with Ramadan it’s
I remember the first time I started to feel insecure as a web developer or even generally as a professional in any field. I was asked to…
Some of the strategies I use for managing my disability in the workplace.
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
The Future Does Not Fit in the Containers of the Past. Edition 195.
I’ve been at ThoughtWorks for 12 years. Who would have imagined? Instead of writing about my reflections on the past year, I thought I would do something different and post twelve key learnings and observations looking back over my career. I have chosen twelve, not because there are only twelve, but because it fits…
Bravo. Here's hoping I never reach the end of that vine. I like to think there's always more.
