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The hardest working font in Manhattan
A story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of – and one you probably saw earlier today.
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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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If you are useful, it doesn't mean you are valued
The difference can be subtle
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Kill your Feeds – Stop letting algorithms dictate what you think
We used to control apps like Facebook and Instagram with our own choices. They became daily comforts, making the world seem a little bit smaller and closer by bringing the people that we cared about together in to one place.
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We all dodged a bullet
That NPM attack could have been so much worse.
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Writing toy software is a joy
Why you should write more toy programs
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My 16-month theanine self-experiment
randomized and blinded, N=1
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All it takes is for one to work out
More than a decade ago, when I was applying to graduate school, I went through a period of deep uncertainty. I had tried the previous year and hadn’t gotten in anywhere. I wanted to try again, but …
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I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me
How I helped Claude AI extend its capabilities only for the same AI to reject my job application.
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Find Your People
Thank you to Bucknell University for inviting me to be this year's commencement speaker. And congratulations to the Class of 2025! Watch the speech on YouTube. Thirty-two...
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The average college student today
How things have changed
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Being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage
on starting, doing, being, and becoming.
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Almost anything you give sustained attention to will begin to loop on itself
When people talk about the value of paying attention and slowing down, they often make it sound prudish and monk-like. But we shouldn’t forget how interesting and overpoweringly pleasurable sustained attention can be.
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Face it: you're a crazy person
OR: why your brain needs a boxcutter
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How to win an argument with a toddler
You can’t. That’s because toddlers don’t understand what an argument is and aren’t interesting in having one. Toddlers (which includes defensive bureaucrats, bullies, flat e…
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Engineered Addictions
How silicon valley is putting a price tag on your attention - and relationships
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This is not the future
I thought about this when reading a mastodon post which commented on a news where a project adopted a "use Generative AI but disclose it" policy, because it is "the future" and "people are going to use it anyway".
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How we lost communication to entertainment
How We Lost Communication to Entertainment par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
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A Reddit bot drove me insane
I stumbled across a Reddit bot posting emotional rants about how bots are ruining Reddit; just to sell AI-generated books through affiliate links. A perfectly dystopian grift for the dead internet.
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Librarians are dangerous
A public service announcement
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How to improve your WFH lighting to reduce eye strain
I work from home everyday, I am susceptible to eye strain, eye pain, and dizziness. Having a working environment that’s as easy on my eyes as possible is of critical importance. I'd like to share what I've learned over the years in hopes that it can be helpful to you if you work from home, and like many, have…
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What if I don't want videos of my hobby time available to the world?
Running around in the woods, firing small plastic pellets at other people, in pursuit of a contrived-to-be-fun mission, turns out to be, well, fun.
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How to post when no one is reading
The path to creative mastery begins with years of silence. Publish anyway.
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Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?
Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next? Might good old fashion niche blogs be the solution to rampant social media misinformation, AI slop, and more?
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Unexpected things that are people
panlegal expressions of personhood
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This website is for humans
I don't want Google's shitty AI-generated ramen