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I have been using a MacBook Pro M4 as my portable computer for the last half a year and wanted to share a few short impressions. As always, I am not a professional laptop reviewer, so in this article you won’t find benchmarks, just subjective thoughts!
Selling your soul has never been easier. Today, there are plenty of demonology books that teach you how to bargain with Lucifer, written by authors who have probably done this themselves on multiple occasions.
A discussion of why I don’t intend to turn Gwern.net into a book, and how trying to write a book can harm writers.
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Efficient memorization using the spacing effect: literature review of widespread applicability, tips on use & what it’s good for.
The pitfalls of analysis paralysis
I love coding. Ever since I bought my first computer (a VIC-20), I’ve been fascinated by computer programming. For many years I never thought of why I enjoyed it so much – I just knew I…
I once heard a saying – “Don’t feel pity on plants because they can’t move. Feel pity on us, because we have to”. I really didn’t have an appreciation for what this meant until the COVID pandemic hit, which restricted my movement for a couple of years, and I decided to spend some of my new-found time at home learning…
How to build a poor man's Polaroid camera - a DIY instant camera project with parts, assembly and photos.
It turns out that launching, losing, finding, and recovering a balloon is way easier than getting the imagery ready. Let's find out why! (If you see an image in this post, click it. If you regret i...
beyond the green owl, from streaks and potions to pedagogy and politics
…and I still don’t talk to my computer.
A while back I attended a Cloudflare board meeting and carried my laptop in a brown paper bag from a grocery store. This elicited a few com...
Internet links small groups, helping dissolve big groups; good, bad? But a bit sad.
In this post, I’m going to talk about suicide, and why I’m still on this planet. These are stories I’ve kept secret from my family, girlfriends, and closest friends for years. Recently, however, I had an experience that shook me—woke me up—and I decided that it was time to share it all. So, despite the shame I […]
My first job was both a blessing and a nightmare. It taught me more about the world than about software development, but those lessons were invaluable.
I'm sleep-deprived, completely exhausted, but incredibly excited about the whole experience. Here are my notes, impressions and a lot of pictures about FOSDEM 2024.
I am not angry, this is just the end of a love story, and i want to say goodbye.
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
Yesterday, one of my inter-web buddies IM’d me and asked if I had used Typhoeus before. I said yes, so he asked me if it was possible to follow redirects…
Turn a misbehaving computer off and on, or stop a misbehaving program and then start it again. Often, the problem goes away.
