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Patterns for Personal Web Sites (2003)
Guidelines for creating a living personal Web site.
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Life, Learning & Writing
The most popular blog posts about life, learning & writing on Hacker News. 602 posts.
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Revisiting Minsky's Society of Mind in 2025
AI Agents, Modularity, and Alignment
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I don't like curved displays
where my words occasionally escape /dev/null
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The Books of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
I discovered that they’d published a complete, illustrated version of the Earthsea cycle a couple weeks ago. I’m not overly fond of omnibus editions, but this is illustrated by Charles …
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Learning Is Slower Than You Think
What AI-optimized schools misunderstand about learning
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Breaking computers taught me to build them
My 12-year journey in software: how breaking computers taught me to build them.
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Community Is Motivation on Tap
A good community can have tremendous influence on one’s motivation. I never appreciated this fact enough so I wanted to write about it here.
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My thoughts on renting versus buying
I've read numerous articles about renting versus buying and most dive into financial projections while completely missing the bigger picture.
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YouTube audio quality – How good does it get? (2022)
You Tube is clearly used by a very large number of people. In general, they will be interested in watching videos of various types of content. One specific purpose is that it gets used to distribute, and make people aware of, audio recordings. A conversation on the “Pink Fish” webforum devoted to music and audio set…
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Thank you Google for breaking my YouTube addiction
Thank you Google for breaking my YouTube addiction | exotext
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A Supermarket Bag and a Truckload of FOMO
The day was nearing to a close. The sun has already set, but that Friday evening in Amsterdam was still warm. Unusually warm, in fact, for those late days in March – as if spring decided to bless my pilgrimage, for that pilgrimage was not jovial. I was sitting at a ramen joint, sipping on the broth. To my left, a…
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Obsidian Note Codes
I made a little plugin for Obsidian: Note Codes.
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How I built this website on a Raspberry Pi
A comprehensive tutorial on how to build a personal professional website on a Raspberry Pi.
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The importance of offtopic
My first big job in the industry had me as one of two people in Warsaw, with the rest of the team in Oslo. I’ve never seen any of my Norwegian co-workers at that point, but one the first pieces of direct feedback I got from my manager was: “the teammembers like you; they feel like you’re part of the team.”
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How I Choose What to Work On (2023)
A reader, "Moo", asked me to write about my process for entrepreneurship and how I choose what to write on. Despite being a lifelong entrepreneur and being relatively successful at...
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Why I Disappeared – My week with minimal internet in a remote island chain
My week with minimal internet in a remote island chain
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De-Clouding: Music
I’m going through a phase of figuring out what I can get out of the cloud and “own”. Particularly with regard to streaming services. I’ve never paid for Spotify. But I’ve had iTunes Match so that I can take all of the weird, not-on-streaming music that I have (I wrote about this back in 2013!!!!), […]
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Installing a mini-split AC in a Brooklyn apartment
Last year, 2024, we replaced four PTACs with a mini-split AC. I’ve been asked about it often enough (by neighbors, coworkers, friends) that I decided to write up the experience. Hopefully it&…
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Dinner at a North Korean Restaurant in Shanghai (2016)
Shrouded in secrecy and isolated from the world, North Korea exudes an air of mystery. Hardly anything is known about the country except media stories about their dear leader, Kim Jong Un – h…
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Million Times Million
Is a million times a million a billion or is it a trillion ? For my entire childhood, it was a billion, only for me to grow up and realise, as an adult, that it had better be a trillion!
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A blog does not need “analytics”
Analytics are a military and financial tool. Your blog is not and you shouldn’t surveil you readers.
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The Poison Pill to End the MMR Is Tylenol
If you think Tylenol is bad for babies, wait until you hear about rubella virus
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In defense of shallow technical knowledge
Whenever a new piece of technology comes out (these days, mostly AI) I go to some effort to understand it. Usually I end up writing a post about it, so I can be…
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Just Write
A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox.
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Writing with LLM is not a shame
Do we have to disclaim how we use AI ?
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I know you didn't write this
Exploring the ethics and productivity impacts of undisclosed AI-generated content in professional work, and why verification overhead is now the hidden cost of AI adoption.