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Criticisms of “The Body Keeps the Score”
The popular book from the "world's most famous living psychiatrist" is riddled with blatant misrepresentations
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How to make websites that will require lots of your time and energy
Some lessons I’ve learned from experience. 1. Install Stuff Indiscriminately From npm Become totally dependent on others , that’s why they call them…
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Moving on from React, a year later
A retrospective on making the switch from React to StimulusJS at Scholarly
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They made computers behave like annoying salesmen
They made computers behave like annoying salesmen | exotext
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Agentic Coding Recommendations
Current recommendations of agentic coding.
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Lessons from Growing a Piracy Streaming Site
A personal account of building HeheStreams, facing the consequences, and going to prison as a startup founder who had a piracy website.
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Using the Internet without IPv4 connectivity
A technical blog about Rust, Linux and other topics.
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You can't design software you don't work on
Only the engineers who work on a large software system can meaningfully participate in the design process. That’s because you cannot do good software design…
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Compiling a neural net to C for a speedup
A cozy little corner of the web.
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A simple search engine from scratch
*if you include word2vec.
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The fate of "small" open source
By far the most popular npm package I’ve ever written is blob-util, which is ~10 years old and still gets 5+ million weekly downloads. It’s a small collection…
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50 Years of Travel Tips
I’ve been seriously traveling for more than 50 years. So now I’ve got a few tips. There are two modes of travel; retreat or engage. People often travel to escape the routines of work, to recharge, relax, reinvigorate, and replenish … Continue reading →
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Our efforts, in part, define us
What happens when something we enjoy doing that took effort becomes effortless? And what happens if that original effort was a foundation on which we saw value…
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Becoming a compiler engineer
I got a job!
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Getting bitten by Intel's poor naming schemes
Don't you love misleading documentation?
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Designing NotebookLM
Designer, builder, and visual storyteller. Now building Huxe. Previously led design on NotebookLM and contributed to Google AI projects like Gemini and Search. Also shoot photo/video for brands like Coachella, GoPro, and Rivian.
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Understanding Transformers Using a Minimal Example
Visualizing the internal state of a Transformer model
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Five companies now control over 90% of the restaurant food delivery market
Why is my $8 burger $23 after fees - An average reddit user
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Just use a button
One of the weirdest “debates” I seem to perpetually have with framework-enthusiastic developers is whether or not a <div> is “just as good” as a <button>. Spoiler: it’s not. Let’s dig in. The problem Among the React crowd, and also among people who seem to enjoy HTMX, I see a lot this… <div onclick="showSignIn()">…
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Thoughts on Daylight Computer
on the Amtrak from Denver to Sacramento When I get to write or read on a screen that’s reflecting the sun back at me instead of needing to be shielded from it, I get a dose of this feeling that this is what all computing could feel like. I want so much more of this in my life. This is a piece of hardware that makes me…
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Build It Yourself
We need a vibe shift on dependencies in programming.
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Railroad Tycoon II
Like a lot of boys, I grew up loving trains. And like a lot of men, I retain my fascination for them today.
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Ted Chiang: The Secret Third Thing
I really like Ted Chiang’s writing.
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Most Stable Raspberry Pi? Better NTP with Thermal Management
eBay affiliate disclosure: Links labeled “eBay affiliate link” lead to eBay. As an eBay Partner, I may earn a commission if you make a purchase. I’ve written before about building microsecond-accurate NTP servers with Raspberry Pi and GPS PPS, and more recently about revisiting the setup in 2025. Both posts focused on…
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Laid off for the first time in my career, and twice in one year
Laid Off for the First Time In My Career, and Twice In One Year - Dillon Shook
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I'm a laptop weirdo and that's why I like my new Framework 13
It turns out I've always done weird things to my laptops.
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What .NET 10 GC changes mean for developers
.NET 10 GC tuning shows how stack allocations, DATAS, and region sizing cut allocations, improve latency, and reduce your cloud cost.
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I Built My Own Audio Player
In 2025, playing your own music on an iPhone is surprisingly hard, unless you pay Apple or navigate a maze of limitations. So I built my own player from scratch, with full text search, iCloud support, …
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De-smarting the Marshall Uxbridge
This is the story of a commercially unavailable stereo pair of thebi-amped Marshall Uxbridge, with custom-built replacement electronics:active filters feedin...