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Dishwashing detergent hack: Two ingredients (2015)
Run out of dishwasher detergent - here is my two ingredient dishwasher detergent hack that will get your dishes clean until you can restock.
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Balancing Outdoor Risky Play and Injury Prevention in Childhood Development
Free play is essential for children’s development and for their physical, mental, and social health. Opportunities to engage in outdoor free play—and risky play in particular—have declined significantly in recent years, in part because safety measures have sought to prevent all play-related injuries rather than…
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How to prolong lithium based batteries
Manufacturers take a conservative approach and specify the life of Li-ion in most consumer products as being between 300 and 500 discharge/charge cycles.…
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Who Lives with Their Parents?
All the data on young adults who live at home with their parents. What do they major in? How old are they? And how much money do they make?
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If you’re so smart, why aren’t you happy?
“Happiness is for stupid people.” That’s a common complaint I hear from smart overachievers. They think only dumb or lazy people can be happy. Entrepreneurs will say, “I don’t want to be happy because I want to be successful.” They worry that if they get too happy they’ll lose their desire and won’t work hard anymore…
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I'm tired of being on the network
You can tell how tired someone is of the always-online life pretty easily. When they get home, watch the distance between the phone and the body. The people who love being connected never let the thing leave them be it pocket, palm, face-down next to the fork. Everyone
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Good people refuse to do bad things
On the responsibility of engineers
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Fake shutters make me angry (2018)
Fake shutters make angry plain and simple. Once you understand why they may make you angry too, but understanding this simple design element can change the look of our neighborhoods! Come with me won't you?
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Why I often implement things from scratch (2006)
Once upon a time there was an Erlang programmer who needed an FTP server running on one of the hosts in a private network. In fact he didn't...
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Safari Ruined My Tuesday
Safari broke LiveView apps with an obscure CSS bug. My Tuesday is now gone.
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Why I Just Closed My LinkedIn Account
Python, Linux, Bicycles, Books, Games, Etc.
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My Keyboard
I use a Datahand keyboard . It’s the best thing that’s happened to my fingers and wrists since... It’s the best thing that has ever happened to my fingers and wrists. I see a lot of parallels between the Datahand and pure functional programming (lol). They both take lots of commitment. They change the entire way you…
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Code is run more than read (2023)
Code is read more than written, code is run more than read. I think this line of thought can be extended beyond code-writing, and used as a rule of thumb to identify problems and make decisions.
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Five memorable books about programming (2008)
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
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How I published a fake paper, and why it is the fault of our education system
I am currently too upset to be able to do a good job of writing this article concisely and effectively, so please be patient and read the whole rambling thing. Note also: I’m not upset about the existence of one such conference – the real problem are the publish-or-perish rules in colleges/universities that are…
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Advice for academic refugees
Recently I met a new coworker, a now-former professor who left academia.
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The IKEA Effect – Why managers fall in love with their own ideas
When and why the IKEA effect causes people to overvalue their own ideas. Examples of organisational pitfalls of the IKEA effect. 4 ways you can defend against the IKEA effect: 1) Acknowledge your unconscious bias; 2) Spike rough prototypes; 3) Talk to customers; 4) Run growth experiments
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Chain of Thought for Humans
These past few weeks, I’ve been conducting interviews, and I often open with “make sure you articulate your thoughts out loud, so I can follow along with your thinking”. This is primarily because I…
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Why I am always on the lookout for a PayPal alternative
Yash Gadhiya's personal blog
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LLMs predict my coffee
Why not benchmark with physical experiments?
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Observations on 6 Years of Journaling
My thoughts and experiences on how writing a daily journal improved my memory and understanding of myself.
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I made our office play personalized entrance theme music
How I hacked the office WiFi to play entrance theme music for my colleagues (and myself!)
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You might as well be a great copy editor
Alas, our minds automatically fill in gaps and cover over mistakes when we read.