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Blind user of the iPhone
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Life is Beautiful
I haven’t slept. For much of last night, my daughter Ava cried out in her sleep with nightmares. Eventually her cries would wake us both. Instead of going back to sleep, Ava would chat with me about her day. I wish I could remember all the amazing things she told me at 2:00 AM.
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From macOS to Windows and WSL
Writings about computing, agents, and the Internet.
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Why Does A Good Kettle Cost $90+?
Yesterday morning I woke up to a house without electricity - that meant I woke up in a puddle of sweat because the fan was no longer turned on. It turned out that my housemate, while making coffee, had tripped the mains of the house. The kettle had caused the trip. It was no longer safe to use the kettle and so I had…
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My 300 Mile Lyft Ride From Chicago to Bradford
I mentioned this on Twitter yesterday: Here’s the full story on it. Yesterday I flew home from Spain, where I’d spent a week at the Celsius 232 festival in Aviles. It was a lovely time,…
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ASCII and Unicode quotation marks
Do not use the ASCII character 0x60 (grave accent) as a left quotation mark together with 0x27 (apostrophe), because it will look silly with modern correct fonts.
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The unstallable plane that stalled
The Cessna 185 Skywagon is a high wing, single engine aircraft: basically a Cessna 180 with six seats, a strengthened fuselage and a slightly more powerful engine. It’s a popular aircraft in remote…
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Moving my home media library from iTunes to Jellyfin and Infuse
Since 2008, I've ripped every DVD and Blu-Ray I bought to my Mac, with a collection of SD and HD media totaling around 2 TB today. To make that library accessible, I've always used iTunes and the iTunes Shared Library functionality that—while it still exists today—seems to be on life support, in kind of a "we still…
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How many Linux commands can a 7 year old learn?
How I taught my 7½ year old 4 bash commands in one hour
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Tracking Everything I Wore For 1 Year
Semi-Automated Clothes Tracker using NFC Buttons
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What the Dunning-Kruger effect is and isn’t (2010)
If you regularly read cognitive science or psychology blogs (or even just the lowly New York Times!), you’ve probably heard of something called the Dunning-Kruger effect. The Dunning-Kruger e…
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It's called a dance floor
Pound-for-pound, Vogue by Madonna is one of the most remarkable examples of artificial stereophonic sound ever produced.
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In praise of... text files and protocols
The other night I had to debug a problem where CMYK colors specified in an OmniGraffle file weren't making it into an exported PDF (or at...
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A Look Inside the Process of One of the World’s Most Efficient Studiers
Scott Young’s Graduation Gift to Study Hacks I have to give credit to Scott Young: it was talking blogs with him back in 2007 that ... Read more
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Frequent versus infrequent developers, in languages and so on
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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I accidentally built a spying app
A personal story about creating new products and their unintended consequences
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That Didn’t Need to Take an Hour
Have you ever finished something and thought to yourself, “That didn’t need to take an hour?” In my world, I have an endless stream of requests to do something for
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My 8 hour journey to a single character
I came into work on day not too long and was met with an unfortunate piece of information. The test we ran the previous night reported a 4% drop in accuracy (we found 4% fewer faces). I frowned. I had clearly screwed something up.