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Re: Do people IRL know you have a blog?
A short while before I came across bacardi55's call to conversation, I asked my wife if she wanted to see something cool. She said yeah. I showed her the Reading section, and explained that I was constructing the functionality to track my reading on my own website.
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Be careful of the examples you use. They stick
Introduction We spend huge amounts of time sweating the details of our products. We want to remove all the friction we can from using them and want to make sure we never leave our users confused. To get this right, we do a bunch of things: we use simple language, we make extensive use of context-sensitive…
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Your Life
every rectangle represents one week
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What I’ve Been Doing Since Quitting My Job
An update on my progress since going off to work on my own.
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Sending emails to my three-year-old
Personal Blog of Christian Haschek
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Do What You Love and Starve? (2006)
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Things I sort of believe about making music
I've now been recording music at home for most of my life. I started at around 14. I would record things into audacity, sometimes with my friend Cameron, but more often by myself. I had no real idea of how to write, arrange, or record music. Besides a few covers I would mostly record incredibly abstruse 'experimental…
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Tor in 2022
It has become a tradition for me to write a blog post at the end of each year, sharing my vision for the Tor Project for the upcoming year. Before talking about what I see for us in 2022, I want to reflect on 2021 and how this has been a year of resilience for Tor.
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The McPhee method for writing deeply reported nonfiction
When I first started writing for a real publication, I taught myself “reporting” with a simple self-made curriculum unfolding over six or seven articles. The first two pieces I wrote from my head, with reference to things I already knew or to books I’d read. For the third, I actually got out of the house, but didn’t…
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On Solitude
Over 15 years ago, I took my first device-free, silent, solitude experience.
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Reminder of Complexity
An impressive poster summarizing biochemical pathways reminds us how complex life is, and how interconnected the world is.
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The Builder's High
When I am in a foul mood, I have a surefire way to improve my outlook – I build something. A foul mood is a stubborn beast and it does not give ground easily. I
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Thanks, David Peter
Thank you to David Peter for your hard work making the world a better place through open source.
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Tips for immersive video calls
I spent way too long figuring out the how to make video calls feel natural. Here’s the best advice I came up with.
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How to Start Your Blog in 2023
A practical guide to starting a personal blog you can keep for years, without depending on social platforms or fragile tools.
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A beginner's guide to intermittent fasting (2012)
Considering intermittent fasting or a fasting diet? Learn the benefits of intermittent fasting and the intermittent fasting schedule I use.
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How I got my Japanese permanent residency
In 2018 I applied for and received Permanent Residency in Japan. The process I used is relatively new and unknown so I wanted to document it in case it might come in handy for someone else.
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Are Designers Crazy?
...or do I just need new glasses? I'm not a graphic designer. I find it hard to get into the mindset of excellence through beauty. I understand user flow, interactions, happy paths, delighting the user, humane design, and so on - but when it comes to the art of making something look nice I'm all at sea. I understand…
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What cold showers and exercise have in common (2014)
Can cold showers, winter plunges, and brisk walks in the chilly outdoors provide some of the same benefits as intense exercise—including weight loss and increased energy levels? Such a link …