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Ignore Everybody.
Insights You Can See. Gapingvoid works with leaders to design culture intentionally.
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The most popular blog posts about life, learning & writing on Hacker News. 8,939 posts.
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An unexpected ass kicking (2012)
One afternoon in Portland, I walked into World Cup & Tea to do some work. Instead, I had an encounter with the guy who invented the computer: Russell Kirsch
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Coherence Penalty for Humans
This is a brief aside from my ongoing series about avoiding entity services. An interesting dinner conversation led to thoughts that I needed to write down. Amdahl's Law In 1967, Gene Amdahl presented a case against multiprocessing computers. He argued that the maximum speed increase for a task would be limited…
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Writing, technically
Listen in on Jane Street’s Ron Minsky as he has conversations with engineers working on everything from clock synchronization to reliable multicast, build systems to reconfigurable hardware. Get a peek at how Jane Street approaches problems, and how those ideas relate to tech more broadly.
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My five-year experiment with UTC
Transform Your Time Management Forever! Discover how switching to UTC eliminated time zone confusion, boosted productivity, and simplified global scheduling for remote work.
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I switched from Mac to a Lenovo Chromebook
Documenting my journey switching away from Mac to a Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14
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The internet needs our love
It’s noisy out there. We are inundated with sensational headlines every minute, of every day. You almost could make a full-time job of sorting the fun, i
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Reflections on quitting my job
Programming lessons I’ve learnt over the last 7 years.
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How to identify and misidentify a brown recluse spider (2005)
How to Identify and Misidentify a Brown Recluse Spider by Rick Vetter Staff Research Associate, UC Riverside Dept. of Entomology
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Reflections
The second birthday of ChatGPT was only a little over a month ago, and now we have transitioned into the next paradigm of models that can do complex reasoning. New years get people in a reflective...
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Neo – Desired Word Processor for Authors
I should start by saying that yes, I’ve used the word processor you’re about to mention. I’ve tried them all. From yWriter and Scrivener, to Hank’s Writer and OpenOffice, to FocusWriter and Page 4. I’ve probably tried writing apps that you’ve never heard of. I’m the guy in the middle of the Venn diagram […]
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A guide to reduce screen time
An extensive guide with over 40 tips to learn how to reduce your screen time. Understand the causes and meet your objectives with these tools and techniques.
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Pie doesn't need to be original unless you claim it so
View this post in browser Your pie doesn't need to be original (unless you claim it so) Imagine you bake a delicious peach pie over the weekend, and you...
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Teenage Haskell
I’ve been inspired by the efforts of others (Chris Smith, Manuel Chakravarty) to try teaching children haskell as a first experience of programming. Haskell has a reputation of being a "…
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Five hundred days using Ubuntu Phone
Today is my five hundredth day of using the Meizu MX4 Ubuntu Edition exclusively as my mobile phone. This is a nice piece of hardware (go...
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My ideas are shitty so I'm going on an Internet diet
Hi 👋 you're reading a pretty old post! I started writing on here back in high school and this page may not reflect my current views. Recommend checking out related articles and categories down below, I've likely published more recent thoughts on this topic.
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How I failed to land a remote position
I started looking for a remote position, telecommuting in other words, as a software engineer last November. It took me 3 months to apply to…
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My WordPress Slack Ban
A couple of days ago, I got banned from the WordPress community Slack. As this is about WordPress, I figure I should use my WordPress blog to talk about it. Everything that day revolved around a small…
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Where my mouth is
For many years, i've been convinced that programming needs to move forward and abandon the Algol family of languages that, still today, dampens the field. And that that forward direction has been signalled for decades by (mostly) functional, possibly dyna...
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