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Live Stream from the Namib Desert
https://www.looduskalender.ee/n/en - check these as well (not so exotic, but still a lot of fun)
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Life, Learning & Writing
The most popular blog posts about life, learning & writing on Hacker News. 668 posts.
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New colors without shooting lasers into your eyes
Can optical illusions take you outside the human color gamut?
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The blissful Zen of a good side project
One of life's greatest simple pleasures is creating something just for yourself.
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Learning music with Strudel
Made in Notion, the connected workspace where AI agents and teams organize docs, projects and knowledge together.
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Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem?
Link to: https://tidbits.com/2025/12/17/compromised-apple-gift-card-leads-to-apple-account-lockout/
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You’re a slow thinker. Now what?
Figuring out how to lean in to my thinking style
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Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels
We are products with labels
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A decade later, a decade lost (2024)
I woke up this morning about an hour ahead of my alarm, the sky already light, birds calling.
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Why young parents should focus on building trust with their kids
Today, when my 1.9-year-old daughter tried to grab and eat an unwashed orange, I asked her to give it to me so I could wash and peel it if she could wait for a moment. She did. It got me thinking about the marshmallow experiment, where the idea was that patience equals success. But … […]
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The April Fools joke that might have got me fired
Everyone should pull one great practical joke in their lifetimes. This one was mine, and I think it's past the statute of limitations. The s...
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Why I don't discuss politics with friends
March 2025
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How to live on $432 a month in America
(For All Expenses)
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Ground control to Major Trial
When a $130M aerospace company chooses to endlessly abuse free trials instead of typing git pull, you start to question gravity, or at least common sense.
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Things that aren't doing the thing
Preparing to do the thing isn't doing the thing.
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MacBook Pro Insomnia
Update (01.08.2025): fixed broken link, typo, clarified problematic behaviour For a number of years now I have a MacBook Pro Silicon M1 Max. It worked beautifully. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, I started noticing that the battery drained over night when I left the notebook somewhere, not connected to power. This got…
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The AirPods Pro 3 flight problem
Testing Apple’s latest noise-cancelling earbuds at 39,000 feet reveals a potential flaw most users won’t notice, until they fly.
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Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief
If someone had told me 12 months ago what was going to happen this past year, I wouldn’t have believed them. Skipping swiftly past all the political, economic and social turmoil, I come to th…
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Tips for stroke-surviving software engineers
This is a pretty niche topic; I don't imagine there are many of us out there. Actually, to be strict, I'd say this advice is tailored to people who've had hemorrhagic stroke in the parietal lobe…
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Boring tech is mature, not old
Talking about my description of tech as “boring” to be a compliment, and how to think about it.
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The Lost Art of Research as Leisure
Where have the amateur researchers gone, and how do we bring them back?
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Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your Own
Why I self-host my websites, newsletter, and homelab—and the satisfaction that comes from building and using your own digital tools.
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The Framework Desktop is a beast
I've been running the Framework Desktop for a few months here in Copenhagen now. It's an incredible machine. It's completely quiet, even under heavy, stress-all-cores load. It's tiny too, at just 4.5L of volume, especially compared to my old beautiful but bulky North tower running the 7950X — yet it's faster! And…
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Take the pedals off the bike
Apparently if you want to teach kids how to ride a bike you're supposed to take the pedals off first, and now my mind will never be the same again.
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The fuck off contact page
How to get people to NOT contact you
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My experiment living in a tent in Hong Kong's jungle
8. The Homelessness Experiment - Corentin Trebaol
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“Are you the one?” is free money
One of my wife's guilty pleasures is reality TV, usually ones centred around dating - the more American, the better. By extension, I absorb some of this noise and I'm happy to admit I can sometimes get invested.
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The librarian immediately attempts to sell you a vuvuzela
Imagine entering the biggest library in the world. You peer down an incredibly long aisle with wooden bookshelves brimming with books. You can see multiple such corridors, all lit with a comfortable warm light. There’s a rich smell of old paper. You can hear some muted voices, perhaps arguing in a whisper. It’s…
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Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time
The worst toy is one with many pieces that my kids dump on the ground and then play with for only 2 minutes.