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All clothing is handmade (2022)
Writing about an art quilt I made with reused textiles and what I hope it reminds us about the clothing that we wear and the people who created it.
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The most popular blog posts about life, learning & writing on Hacker News. 668 posts.
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I conditioned myself to fail
Over the years I've literally built hundreds of projects. Some with a lof of potential. Others just batshit crazy ideas. I started noticing a pattern. I'd...
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Being fat is a trap
This has been a difficult article to write. Partly because this is a painful topic for many, and partly because I have to be completely open and vulnerable to write about it. I only write this in the hope it can help others in similar situations. Nothing in this article is meant to judge you. If someone judges you for…
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Programming with chronic pain
The challenges of programming with chronic pain and what worked for me
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Asking good questions is harder than giving great answers
The tests we are using to assess the intelligence of AI are missing an essential aspect of human inquiry — the query itself
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I tried vibe coding in BASIC and it didn't go well
With the rise of LLM systems (or “AI” as they are annoying called), the term “vibe coding” is all the rage recently. So I wondered, how does vibe coding work with BASIC?
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ADHD Didn't Break Me–My Parents Did
I’m not suffering the consequences of ADHD. I’m suffering the consequences of an upbringing incompatible with it.
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How to start a school with your friends
We've taught over 100 classes to over 1000 students 🤓
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A Pixel Parable
An imagined town is at least as real as an actual town.
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Why effort scales superlinearly with the perceived quality of creative work
When I make something good, I often spend most of my time making thousands of high-precision edits on an artifact that I thought should have been finished hours ago.
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Air-dried vs. Kiln-dried Wood
Are they different to saw, chisel and plane? Does it matter?
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Effective learning: Rules of formulating knowledge (1999)
This article will help you overcome one of the greatest difficulties you will face when trying to accelerate learning: formulating knowledge.
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Shallow water is dangerous too
Content warning: risk to children Julia and I know drowning is the biggest risk to US kids 1-4, and we try to take this seriously. But yesterday our 4yo came very close to drowning in a fountain. (She's fine now.) This week we were on vacation with my extended family: nine kids, eight parents, and ten…
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Covers as a way of learning music and code
When you're just getting started with music, you have so many skills to learn. You have to be able to play your instrument and express yourself through it. You need to know the style you're playing, and its idioms and conventions. You may want to record your music, and need all the skills that come along with it.
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Why friction is necessary for growth
Why I think comfort leads to stagnation and overcoming friction leads to growth.
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You know more Finnish than you think
Linguistics illuminates the linguistically obscure – or so I’ve always thought. It’s a common theme of my online output that a little bit of historical linguistics goes a long way, maki…
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The Candid Naivety of Geeks
The candid naivety of geeks par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
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Inside the box: Everything I did with an Arduino starter kit
Diving into Elegoo Arduino Uno R3 Starter Kit, the most complete Arduino kit
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Four years of sight reading practice
I’ve been doing relatively frequent sight reading practice using an iPad app for four years. Here’s how I’ve automated some of the steps and what I’ve learned from the experience.
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Metabolic and cellular differences between sedentary and active individuals
We're discussing a paper that demands attention...
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The ROI of Exercise
The math on why exercise is a good deal.
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Failing to Understand the Exponential, Again
Posts and writings by Julian Schrittwieser
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I made a small LED panel
I bought a really small 8x8 LED panel a while ago because I have a problem. I just can’t resist a nice WS2812 LED panel, much like I can’t resist an e-ink display. These days I manage to stay sober, but once in a while I’ll see a nice cheap LED panel and fall off the wagon. It has now been thirteen minutes that I have…
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What happens to your online accounts when you die?
A few months ago, I heard of a work acquaintance's death via his company's social media. Shocking and abrupt - I had just met up with him (let’s call him George) for the first time. We joked over beers in a cozy little alleyway cafe, me and a coworker and George. It made me queasy to see George’s s
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Pierogi in Space
In a first for space cuisine, ESA project astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski will bring pierogi, the traditional Polish dumplings, to the International Space Station during the upcoming Axiom Mission 4.
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What could have been
Even if we manage to snap out of the AI bubble, we are never going to get these years back. I can only be left to wonder what could have been.
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The Sudoku Affair
Software design is a deliberate process, and requires deliberate effort.
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The Effect of Noise on Sleep
Using Apple Watch noise and sleep stages to quantify the effect of noise on sleep