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Roll-Invert-Unroll: An easier way to replace a duvet cover
This way of putting a cover onto a duvet might save you effort and time!
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The most popular blog posts about life, learning & writing on Hacker News. 473 posts.
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Autogenerating a Book Series from Three Years of iMessages
Tired of waiting for iMessage to load my messages from years ago, I printed them all out in a set of paperback books.
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It's hard to write code for computers, but it's harder to write code for humans
How to build developer tools for happiness and productivity.
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I need to grow away from these roots
Installation artwork by Vitling
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Do not try to be the smartest in the room; try to be the kindest
Kindness beats brilliance in meetings. My Kind Framework for leaders: listen, be respectful, be empathetic and leave every meeting with a solution.
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Relearning math as an adult
I recently passed 100 days of practicing math every single day 💯 I’ve wanted to beef up my math chops for a while, but I needed a good reason that would justify the time investment. Plus…
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It’s an age of marvels
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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Enlightenmentware
Software that makes you a better programmer.
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The day I canceled my Spotify subscription
I used to be a big fan of Spotify. Today I cancelled my subscription.
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The anatomy of a 2AM mental breakdown
Zarar Siddiqi: engineering leader and consultant in Toronto. Building products with care, and helping teams do the same with AI in the loop.
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I organized a 20-acre game of Capture the Flag
Where an undergraduate at UT Austin writes about almost everything.
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How to think in writing
The thought behind the thought
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Making small games, which is fun in itself
Creating small games is an enjoyable endeavor in itself. So what constitutes a small game? According to the 'Small Game Manifesto', 1 it refers to games that conclude within 10 minutes and can be easily played on browsers.
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Why time seems to pass faster as we age
1/ I’ve been mega-obsessed with this feeling. A year as a 36-year-old seems so much shorter as compared to when I was a kid or even as a teen. It seems cosmically unfair – we have fewer years to live, and each year flies by faster. 2/ But, why is that happening? My tentative conclusion is that… Read More
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How to avoid losing items? Holding pens
When we are interrupted or need to hastily respond to a new demand, we often make quick decisions about where to place physical items. We always place them in locations which make sense given our current state of mind, but often that state of mind is fleeting, and so we forget where we put our things.
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Why don't we use awnings anymore (2022)
When you look at old black and white pictures of cities from before the 1950s you may notice something on most buildings that are no longer there today. Awnings. They were ubiquitous over nearly every window of buildings from the most basic single family home to massive buildings like The White House. Where did all […]
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How to grow professional relationships
My TJS model maps professional relationships across seven states, from zero-sum competition to toxic enmeshment, and why collaboration is the peak.
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I made a new backplane for my consumer NAS
codedbearder's blog
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Everything Is Just Functions: 1 week with David Beazley and SICP
Made in Notion, the connected workspace where AI agents and teams organize docs, projects and knowledge together.
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Gödel, Escher, Bach is the most influential book in my life (2022)
Musings on Hofstadter’s phenomenal book about computation, consciousness, and epistemology.
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Mental health in software engineering
I was pacing around my apartment at 2 a.m., palms sweaty, convinced the production database had already gone up in flames. It hadn’t, of course, but my
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A solution to The Onion problem of J. Kenji Lopez-Alt (2021)
Kenji López-Alt posed a mathematical problem on his YouTube channel about how to best cut an onion. I present a detailed solution.
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Notes on Tajikistan
Over the summer, I spent about two weeks in Tajikistan, mostly in Dushanbe (the capital) and various points along the Pamir Highway, which borders Afghanistan and later leads into Kyrgyzstan. This …
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So you wanna de-bog yourself
What I found in the mire
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Never Missing the Train Again
How I built a transit dashboard with Rust, Skia, and an old Kindle
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Programming languages that blew my mind (2023)
I’ve been a programmer since the age of 8, and some kind of developer for most of my life. Throughout my life as a coder, both hobbyist and professional, I’ve learnt plenty of programming languages that felt like cookie-cutter clones of each other, but also a few programming languages that changed the way I looked at…
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The Greatest Educational Life Hack: Learning Math Ahead of Time
Learning math early guards you against numerous academic risks, opens all kinds of doors to career opportunities, and allows you to enter those doors earlier in life (which in turn allows you to accomplish more over the course of your career).
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A bad day at the office
While looking for something else, I came across this rather incredible photo in the Imperial War Museum collection. That's a seaplane stuck 300 feet up a 350ft tall radio mast! If that's not amazing enough, the pilot was rescued by three men who climbed up to retrieve him. And he survived.