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Re-using the heat in bathwater in Britain
FROM BEING A WASTE TO THE BATHER AND COUNTRY, AND FOR MAKING IT BENEFICIAL TO THE PUBLICK
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The weight of the clipboard
Happens to me when I cut something. A strange feeling.
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I use a Raspberry Pi as my daily computer
For over a year now, I use a Raspberry Pi 4 (with 8GB of RAM) as my daily desktop computer. I browse the internet, read and send e-mails, program software, edit photos, create images, watch Youtube videos and play games on it. Without any significant problems.
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The Home Computer Generation
A seemingly frightening realization regularly dawns on various pundits these days: Being a digital native doesn't automatically mean you're computer savvy. Due to a gradual transformation from general purpose tools to digital appliances, computers are now more than ever perceived as magical boxes by their users. Many…
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My Preferred Smart Home Vendors
A non-exhaustive list of smart home devices that work well with Home Assistant
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I'm making drugs for cats
For all the new readers who’ve joined since my post about effective altruism and elections, welcome!
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Patina and Intimacy
“Each one of us has, somewhere in his heart, the dream to make a living world, a universe.”
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Digital Gardening
A website is a lot like a garden.
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Writing Is Hard
Writing is hard. Especially if you start thinking. Never stop to think about what to write (unless you must), it will ruin the flow. Never stop to correct yourself, to judge or run a spellcheck. Don’t do that; that’s what editing is for. I’ve read the same tips again and again: Write first, edit later. […]
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Increasing the surface area of blogging
Open feeds, OPML, books, blogs and graphs
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I tricked myself into working out 3 times per week
…and why I think it'll work for everyone
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I plan to leave tech to pursue art
I've spent 240 hours the past 6 months drawing, and I'm eager to go all-in. I'm planning to apply to Sheridan's animation undergrad program in February, and have been busy preparing a portfolio for it. Here's some of my recent work, and a lil music video featuring my progress over the months.
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Books That Changed How I Hear Music
But none of them are music books
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What Artists Notice
Painters at work notice details we’d ignore. From those details they develop delightful insights into reality. What do I mean? Let’s look at Van Eyck’s “Arnolfini Portrait” and find out:
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Imitate, Then Innovate
Imitate, then Innovate is my motto for improving at any skill. It’s counterintuitive, but the more we imitate others, the faster we can discover our unique style.
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I had a dream
As I slept fitfully, still recovering from COVID, I had one of the more interesting dreams of my life: I was desperately trying to finish some PowerPoint slides in time to give a talk. Uncharacteri…
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What we lost
Who is this? Princess Leia, right? End of Rogue One. Wrong, this is not Princess Leia. This is. A photograph of Carrie Fisher in her role of Princ
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Farewell, Elementary
I’m moving on; here’s to the future!
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Letters about Soap (1997)
Our faculty members are world-class researchers and teachers who have attracted funding from federal agencies and industry for not only research, but also teaching, curriculum development and K-12 outreach. Faculty areas of expertise include cybersecurity, high- assurance computing, cyber-physical systems, artificial…
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If Programming Languages Were Futurama Characters
Map your (least) favorite programming language to your favorite Planet Express crew member based on its characteristics.
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Two Years of Life with PinePhone
On June 9th, 2020, early into a still raging pandemic, I received my PinePhone UBports Community Edition. It's incredible how fast these two years went by, and how much the PinePhone experience improved in the meantime. This is just a subjective post about what I remember, you may also consider it a
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How I finally get daily journaling done with a workflow on my iPhone
Hello, I’m Michael Sliwinski, founder of Nozbe - to-do app for business owners and their teams. I write essays, books, work on projects and I podcast for you using #iPadOnly in #NoOffice as I believe that work is not a place you go to, it’s a thing you do.
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How to make decisions like a poker player
Thinking in bets is a decision-making framework developed by poker player Annie Duke. Here's how it can make you a better decision-maker:
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Learning math? Think like a cartoonist
What's the essential skill of a cartoonist? Drawing ability? Humor? A deep well of childhood trauma? I'd say it's an eye for simplification, capturing the…
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Mental Model: Difficult Problems vs. Hard Work
How to model work that interacts with ambiguity
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Relearning to Learn
Many years ago, I took a test. It was the first step of our “Learning to Learn” class. After answering a series of multiple choice question, the form issued forth a proclomation: