: Out on a walk, April 5, set 3
: Out on a walk, April 5, set 2
: Out on a walk, April 5, set 1
: Chocolate milk’s circular remains
: Back here again after about a year-and-half Still need a “casual photo stream” and Instagram ain’t …
: Making a floating pyramid in Minecraft :-)
: “Anxiety is thought without control. Flow is control without thought.” (by James Clear)
: Hmph. Have to re-jig categories here, turns out my usage is pic-posting of different sorts.
: Deep-sea creatures are insane …
: Approve of this species-neural restroom
: The library is one of the last places where you can exist without the expectation of buying …
: On book stores as reading namespaces I noted an interesting trend in my “ebook management” patterns. while what book to read …
: A look at Gen-Z differences: youtu.be/h2g9fxVYd…
: Mearsheimer on Ukraine (new) youtu.be/W-b5zdDx1…
: Midjourney, a certain version of Mona Lisa
: Pynchon in Public www.atlasobscura.com/articles/…
: Midjourney with “doors of perception” refinement
: Microsoft of old Going through this old blog post (15 years ago!) Ironically, Microsoft unintentionally helped …
: I like “pseudo-cognition” more than “AI”
: remembering “dal” in a weird way ‘Im not the only one who remembers …
: Inspiration to write youtu.be/reqM7ZQOk… Don’t wait for inspiration Don’t wait …
: Reasons to favor micro.blog The “slow” social network For the “cold” …
: Interesting: Igor Tamm from Math stackexchange from Reddit
: Noticed two different kinds of “aircraft displays in airports”: San Jose: an abstract …
: On deciphering ancient Minoan scripts youtu.be/PiLyN9T2s…
: TIL about crazy “virtual kidnapping” phone scams: www.mercurynews.com/2023/04/2…
: Excellent chocolate (Trader Joe’s)
: An interview with Liu Cixin from 2018 (now that I’m newly energized about reading all his …
: Midjourney continues to be fun
: San Jose Mercury News’ Roadshow clarifies a question I’ve had for a while: Can I just …
: Testing cross-posting to Twitter
: Doodling at home with daughter
: Reading recommendation: www.thefp.com/p/the-pro… (By Martin Gurri)
: Reading recommendation: machinewar.substack.com/p/why-i-a…
: Fun “stuck in time”-ness I’m seeing music-wise during our time in Switzerland: Hotel lobby music is …
: Sun and moon, seen through clouds
: Gin and tonic (A covid-era discovery)
: On the psychology of layoffs in tech
: Getting to the heart of the matter (!)
: LiDaR is the gift that keeps giving, in the dense forests of South America: …
: It’s good to make things _for fun_https://austinhenley.com/blog/programmingasplay.html
: A strange choice for a wine brand (!?)
: On being normal while disconnected Interesting quote from Justin Murphy: We should try to disconnect from all of these …
: A not-so-long-ago article on SBF by Sequoia: web.archive.org/web/20221… “After my …
: Looking at Gemini and other “web bloat” fixes: youtu.be/I2Q35uFCq…
: On over-hyped claims and throwing around the word “wormhole” scottaaronson.blog
: Vaguely disturbing: www.palladiummag.com/2022/11/0…
: Interesting historical tidbit: early Lisp had several “similar” languages that died out: …
: “The forty year programmer” youtu.be/UPkJGU7It…
: A reasonable overview of Urbit
: It’s one thing to find evidence of an impact on Mars. It’s another thing to find water …
: An amusing anecdote from a HN comment: When I joined Sun in ‘86 I thought it was the pinnacle …
: A psychedelic take on generative AIs: return.life/2022/06/2…
: A somewhat off-trace but to-my-taste wish-list: www.otherlife.co/gifts/
: A review of “non-C-based” operating systems: …
: A comparison between languages I’ve noodled on it for a bit now, and I think the reason I like …
: A note on pedagogy of programming: web.archive.org/web/20050…
: Obligatory Octopus post – this time, an explanation for their brain complexity that suggests a …
: On the appeal of different types of languages From this HN comment: The central question for any programming language isn’t how comfortably …
: Interesting talk by Peter Thule: youtu.be/ibR_ULHYi…
: An interesting science v religion take: www.theguardian.com/science/2…
: The problem with Scheme is that there are too many of them; TIL about Loko scheme. …
: A range of Lisp typography (!) kazimirmajorinc.com/Documents…
: A short, tragi-comic account of GNU/FSF: www.spesh.com/danny/wri…
: Getting romantic about the craft of programming :-) thorstenball.com/blog/2020…
: On the difficult market for developer tools: www.kite.com/blog/prod…
: Level-headed assesment of blockchain: www.tbray.org/ongoing/W…
: Picking email providers is hard now, we’re spoilt for choice. I have similar thoughts on Fastmail …
: From an HN comment: Impactful? Designed and deployed credit card readers used in gas pumps back in …
: A random HackerNews comment: And now it hits me, for the first time, shamefully: the sense that …
: Clearly a labor of love and very cool: floor796.com
: “Tools for Thought” as medium, as computation, as cultural practice, as memory aid. …
: The right “introduction curve” for Kubernetes: matt-rickard.com/dont-use-…
: Haven’t had “an Octopus post” in a while: here’s them throwing things at …
: “The pursuit of beauty” This reads like a movie of sorts. Unbelievable. …
: Great old forth blog (from about 15 years ago!): www.ultratechnology.com/blog.htm
: Paradoxes of technological change Paradoxically, we often find it more comfortable to believe …
: A stock-sentiment-tracking service built on Lisp: feetr.io
: A grim use of the Apple Watch’s features: appleinsider.com/articles/…
: Looking at structures found in the Azores: www.youtube.com/watch
: A new space station lives ! english.news.cn/20221101/…
: On letting go of the GPL, by Martin Kleppman: For all these reasons, I think it no longer makes …
: Phenomenal tour of the Great Pyramid, feels like I’m right there! …
: Friedman describes the paradoxesl we’ve been led to, in the absence of clear priorities: I …
: Keyboards I wanted the Moonlander but ergonomics led me to the Kinesis Advantage2. Today, you can …
: People make the craziest artifacts as side-projects/hobbies: linusakesson.net/commodord…
: A whacky kind of “art” project: kylemcdonald.net/psac/
: From a HN thread It’s crazy and destructive that we are still using the unix paradigm in the …
: A “pre-historic” amputation: www.aljazeera.com/news/2022…
: Quote by James Clear: “What appears to be a rapid shift is often preceded by a gradual …
: Halloween sketching with my daughter
: A somewhat despairing article, from the Economist: www.economist.com/essay/201… (except …
: Elegant code, or inscrutable code golfing? You decide: “random walk in two lines” …
: Goddamnit, geeks have been righteously complaining about “feature-itis” and retreating …
: “Systems at scale”, w.r.t. money laundering: www.propublica.org/article/c…
: On creativity, failure, and progress Wisdom from Kourosh Dini: Any creative act is, by definition, one in which we don’t know what the …
: "Intelligence beyond the brain" www.youtube.com/watch Single-celled organisms are intelligent too “Intelligent …
: Quote from James Clear: Simple mindset shifts: I’m not hurt, I’m healing. I’m …
: Who made who From a HN comment Sometimes I wonder if we’re just giant machines built by microorganisms. It …
: NeoVim is now just as much of an extensible editor github.com/ggandor/l… (the easy use of …
: Was missing a Steve Yeggae rant: about.sourcegraph.com/blog/intr… Having tried and wanting …
: A quote from this HN post Programming has turned into gluing together mystery meat. You can’t …
: Interesting, I had initially dismissed this “crater full of ice” photo as …
: Attempting to predict the future of computing: bzogrammer.substack.com/p/the-nex…
: TIL it is possible to play Youtube videos in “picture-in-picture” mode: …
: Weekend of Lego with my daughter
: “Software to be thankful for” I would add a bunch of macOS desktop software to this, but …
: A word can exist in diverse media simultaneously: the physiological or spoken word, the chirographic …
: Okay, this is inspiring. I hope to be this active in my 60s (!) mainichi.jp/english/a…
: Closer to deciphering the Indus Valley Civilization script, perhaps: …
: Kourosh Dini really has the right approach for teaching habits/tools: Not coincidentally, my books …
: Something ambitious that I’ll need time to digest woodrush.github.io/blog/lamb…
: An instrument the size of an house: a giant pipe organ. youtu.be/JeB3JnKp8…
: Luxury doomsday bunkers: www.theguardian.com/lifeandst… Manages to be ridiculous and …
: A weirdly wonderful take on Terry Davis: return.life/2022/08/1… Modernity has a strong …
: An interesting anecdote about the development of the Soyuz transport vehicle: …
: Great overview of different financial eras with “computer analogies”: youtu.be/HcugCDf6s…
: Interesting new browser, “Arc”: www.youtube.com/watch arc.net
: TIL about “hyper-legible” fonts: brailleinstitute.org/freefont (I never thought about …
: Remembering the Queen From this article in the Atlantic The second Elizabeth was born on April 21, 1926, and has reigned …
: Scenes from a night-time stroll
: Some motivation by Charles Bukowski (on writing, but IMO more general): From here: if it doesn't …
: On the necessity of Engineering Managers (!) Wise words from this thread I work with a lot of technical founders who struggle to accept the …
: Late night #Youtube leads to:
: On food security and the end of abundance
: Wisdom from HackerNews: The longer I am a software engineer the longer I begin to understand that …
: A look at the engine that made the SR-71 Blackbird possible: youtu.be/MJrXUh0eZ…
: Surprised I never came across this earlier: Cliodynamics (Reminiscent of psychohistory !)
: A look at Racket and Rhombus gopiandcode.uk/logs/log-…
: “Planta Sapiense”: www.theguardian.com/books/202…
: Some interesting comments in this post on what was lost with the loss of the old Usenet: …
: Magnatiles fun with my daughter
: Fun fact: Alligators can go up to two years without food !! www.totalreptile.com/how-long-…
: Fun fact: a Russian team was hunting for Atlantis near Britain in the late 90s 🤷♂️ BBC article A …
: Interesting overview of the types of computation in games (simulation + numerical + shading) and the …
: Steve Blank Balloon Wars: Part 16 of the Secret History of Silicon Valley
: youtu.be/r3mCQyJI2… Matt Damon explains things :-|
: The promise of Rust, and a perspective on the languages that came before: …
: In which I learn about the python concurrency landscape: superfastpython.com/python-co…
: From Kourosh Dini: Creating a rhythm is much easier than a habit. Do something twice, then actively …
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: Scheme in Excel? code-magazine.com/Article/2… :-O First Windows Subsystem for Linux, now …
: My daughter recently started reading “Wings of Fire”, and this sorta looked like a dragon on the …
: From James Clear: “Deconstruction creates knowledge. Recombination creates value.”
: Some Guix evangelism: gexp.no/it-wasnt-…
: A blend of FreeBSD and macOS? lunduke.substack.com/p/the-fre… Sounds too good to be true, but …
: Beer in a glass that someone gifted me
: On unifying “toy languages” and “real languages”
: On the bio-electrical science behind how organisms control anatomy through gene expression: …
: Looking into Neeva for when I ever decide to move off DuckDuckGo. “Ten years ago Google spent a …
: An entertaining Youtube channel which also promotes a much-needed “cultural …
: A look at “low-level” schemes (though still missing a mention of Gambit/Gerbil)
: Everything getting older Food for thought The Onion’s Our Dumb Century is a classic satirical look at the twentieth …
: Spectacularly contrarian take: “Use one server“ When you experience growing pains, and …
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: Two approaches to (web)publishing The “_just use Fossil_” approach is particularly novel!
: Public art in a surprising place Hilton Waikoloa’s art collection In pursuit of that goal, Hemmeter traveled to China, Japan, …
: Need to clean up storage :-|
: “_The Hajj trail_” Well made online rpg!
: The backstory of Marcel the shell
: Inferior is Better Software that is better in principle comes with everything you need. Software that is inferior does …
: Illuminating article about Chuck Moore and levels in Forth
: A novel way to blog, using Curio
: Car reflection, or … sinister robot.
: An excellent HN comment (source) Common Lisp and SmallTalk have rapid dev models by working in a …
: How much better James Webb pics are! “Two weeks of photos”
: James Clear quotes today: 1. “Many problems are minor when you solve them right away, but grow into an enormous conflict …
: Some notes on remote work (source) I’ve been working remotely on and off for 20 years, and …
: “_Fish on a rock_”, as seen in my daughter’s room.
: On notation “Two notes” by Donald Knuth Collection of quotes on notation design
: Apparently, WordPerfect (I used the DOS version 25 years ago) is still around
: Beginner’s guide to tinkering with a very accessible game engine.
: Mind-opening take on how REST is not REST (but can be …)
: A local decades-old cold case solved: www.mountainview.gov/news/disp…
: “Interesting software”, the most under-rated list ever: fallows.substack.com/p/interes…
: “Hypertext and horror”: dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/1…
: “Hypertext, social media and totalitarianism”: www.markbernstein.org/WebAtWar/
: A slice of Kourosh Dini’s “flow” tips with OmniFocus: www.youtube.com/watch
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: Bird feeder getting some use.
: Gin and tonic with grapefruit
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: Avoiding conflating simplicity and size, in programming languages: arrdem.com/2022/07/0…
: From 1997, Python presented as the “best among 5”: web.archive.org/web/20040…
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: A pretty good “Scheme primer”: spritely.institute/static/pa…
: Yup, we watched it this weekend, had some weird buts but pretty enjoyable overall.
: Playing with “marbling paint” with my daughter
: Ancient Amazonian lived in densely populated cities (!) www.nationalgeographic.com/history/a…
: Seen at a new bookstore I found:
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: Bagels, cream cheese, honey. That’s it.
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: www.zumbarcoffee.com/collabora…
: Quote by James Clear “Formal education is not nearly as important as an unquenchable thirst …
: The (fiery ?!) remains of coffee
: On Scheme in Common Lisp I’d read through all of Erik Naggum’s posts in Xach’s archive several years ago, …
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: A guide to the world of Smalltalk: deprogrammaticaipsum.com/the-absol… …
: Looking back at Erlang, but also the rich history of telephony from which it (and distributed …
: Showcasing the history of Smalltalk, or rather the role of Smalltalk in the broader quest for a …
: A publication by US Army War College, from 1999, on the initial Russian urban combat in Grozny, as a …
: A sobering example of modern day war reporting
: A beautiful rendition of the Interstellar soundtrack
: A good scene composition from Dune, set to the best track from the soundtrack:
: “Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the …
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: My Urbit planet went into some sort of bad state. Eventually had to factory reset it.
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: Paradox of speed (a quote from James Clear): “Speed is important. Work fast and iterate. …
: Watching season 4 of Stranger Things, and had to lookup Vecna and saw the word “lich” …
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: From James Clear: “On the ground, a rock is just a rock. But when moving at high speed …
: The “weird elephant story” I heard someone talking about is real. www.news18.com/news/buzz…
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: On the functions of money Good bit of insight: In my opinion mixing the functions of medium of exchange and store of value …
: A breakdown of viewership by age for Stranger Things. So I don’t need to feel too bad about …
: Feel like I get to know about a new large-scale fraudster every day: nymag.com/intellige…
: A great video showing a quick overview of the features of Tinderbox by Eastgate. vimeo.com
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: Taming Complexity From tamingcomplexity.org Confused? Are you staring at a screen that lets you view almost every …
: Got this nifty Muji (can/bottle) opener as an anniversary gift, pretty good!
: Inspiration: doing tiny projects: tinyprojects.dev
: One day, I’ll pick up this thread of self-learning more math again: www.susanrigetti.com/math
: Lispworks color themes Setting color themes in LispWorks Downloaded and loaded this file Showing two of the in-built themes …
: How flexible is flexible Software Design for Flexibility: How to Avoid Programming Yourself Into a Corner was billed as the …
: Inspiring act of creation: akkartik.name/lines.htm… Have to check out itch.io properly one …
: A set of “table and chairs” at a place we stayed over the weekend
: OmniFocus improvements: An update from OmniGroup A review by someone who (like me!) has been …
: Of REPLs tonsky.me/blog/netw… Clojure does not need a REPL, it needs an Eval RPC protocol. To turn …
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: Making (“printing!”) objects with Sound! newatlas.com/3d-printi…
: A handy list of things to take care of when starting out on your own: …
: Lisp in the browser, playfully done. soi-disant.srht.site/entries/b…
: From this HN thread For me, the ultimate modern language would look something like Smalltalkish …
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: A minimalist scheme (R4RS, in 4K!) www.iro.umontreal.ca/~feeley/p…
: Fun take on the various bits of naming and pronunciation of Guix (“geeks”): …
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: New pyramids and villages in the Amazon The “Lidar payoff” continues! www.wsj.com/articles/… Many of the sites included …
: "The founder's gamble" Honest but scary: Of course the faith may be mistaken. The gamble come up short. In fact, …
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: Gobekli Tepe wasn’t a one-off Karahan Tepe
: On disinformation From a recent article in New York Magazine “Disinformation” was the liberal Establishment’s …
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: A very creative use of Reader-Macros within Common-Lisp https://gist.github.com/chaitanyagupta/9324402 (enable-json-syntax) (defun example-object () { …
: I don’t know if this is accurate (probably not), but certainly a fun way to browse, courtesy …
: Fly, A possible alternative to Heroku: christine.website/blog/fly…. However, I can …
: “The Face in the Tank” (Taken from a picture of a blown up tank’s turret lying on the ground)
: Interesting premise, from six years ago yet … oddly contemporary for a scifi movie. …
: A promising new Outliner! www.hogbaysoftware.com/bike/ (I’m a Roam convert right now, and a …
: Land trains: the largest land vehicles ever built www.thedrive.com/news/3364… The TC-497 is a truly remarkable feat of engineering. Capable of …
: Black hole sun Big respect for the technology that makes such imaging possible: public.nrao.edu/news/astr… …
: Giant prehistoric worm: www.atlasobscura.com/articles/…
: The deep complexity behind seemingly simple computer interactions: josh.works/dizzying-…
: Ellen Ullman’s memoirs and an attempt to get at the “nature of code” …
: The japanese influence in early “cyberpunk” sci-fi (here, Gibson’s Neuromancer): …
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: Croque Monseiur, deconstructed.
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: From James Clear: “The most important battles must be fought anew each day. Learn to love …
: A great montage out together for the Dark Crystal series from a couple years ago: …
: Roam is awesome, but the mobile app still has a ways to go
: Praise for Guile: www.draketo.de/software/…
: DIY conference details: www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/h…
: Comparisons between Neolithic cultures at opposite ends of the earth: …
: Climate change might be real if landfills begin to spontaneously combust: …
: An excellent set of bests practices for “textual websites”: seirdy.one/2020/11/2… …
: TIL Alexander Stepanov (of Elements of Programming) wrote a long overview of Scheme: …
: An explanation for relative stability being not normal (from this HN thread): After WWII many …
: “Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe” (2015) is a B-movie that packs in a whole Netflix …
: From James Clear: “If you know where you want to go in life, people tend to help or get out …
: This should really boost the world of Interactive-Fiction: intfiction.org/t/inform-… Now that …
: Low-code/no-code Great write-up: tomasp.net/blog/2022… Also, TIL how Hypercard allowed a “layered …
: Yanis Varoufakis on “techno-feudalism”: youtu.be/wNf3dN0VX…
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: A little soap bubble floating into the stormy sky.
: RIP Rom Clancy, we’re living in one of your novels now www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022…
: Was referred to the recent Gray Mirror article, but Curtis Yarvin has used the phrase three years …
: From six years ago, a look at something that should be too crazy to believe: …
: How electricity works is one of those things that I thought I knew, but there are subtleties to it: …
: Have been following John Mearsheimer for a while, and not going to stop now 🤷♂️ …
: Airships as carriers: www.airships.net/us-navy-r…
: Stats on Substack: backlinko.com/substack-…
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: Taking a break from my AppleWatch to try out a “just a watch” watch
: From Colter Reed It would be nice if we could do everything. All the good stuff, none of the bad. …
: Learning by watching (via Twitch): earthly.dev/blog/gola…
: The “two faces” of the moon: blog.jatan.space/p/the-two…
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: From James Clear: “Walk slowly, but never backward.”
: From James Clear: You cannot remove struggle from life, but you can improve your ability to handle …
: Trying to explain music about lost futures youtu.be/1EaY4sfNU…
: I’ve always enjoyed learning about “non-C” operating systems: …
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: Hmm, there are “smartphone addiction” quizzes. (Though I suppose if you think you need …
: There are still lots of fascinating mysteries out there: www.nature.com/articles/…
: Definitely the weirdest insect I’ve seen so far: www.sciencefocus.com/nature/wh…
: Crows are smarter than they seem … www.statnews.com/2020/09/2…
: A good short story about things finally working out: danlebrero.com/2022/03/2…
: I always thought of David Allen (of GTD) as some sort of stodgy old guy. But I’m just … blown away …
: Tolkien apparently did a lot of painting, frequently drawing from and supporting, his stories: …
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: The poster child for publicly-released UFO footage might just be … video glare
: From Colter Reed: One of the greatest indicators of our future happiness and success is our …
: VDH on why classics matter with Clifton Duncan: youtu.be/6J04kREnO…
: Looking at “early” humans in the caves of the Yukon, 250 centuries ago: …
: A variety of shell-wannabes: github.com/oilshell/… (this is a wheel that has been re-invented …
: On Emacs as a “lifestyle choice”: arjenwiersma.nl/writeups/…
: For when you really need to pack your fridge …
: Looking back at the beginnings of hyper-text, hyper-media, hyper-fiction “A half-century of …
: Sun and clouds, refracted through wine
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: Distributed consensus using cellular automata: medium.com/nknetwork…
: From James Clear: “What starts as an excuse can easily become a habit. Don’t let a bad …
: Camus on “invincible summers” and more: lareviewofbooks.org/article/f…
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: The Unison language is really coming along well and is still futuristic …
: World War I had no good guys, no winners, just mediocre, small-minded politicians unable to step …
: Ernest Shackleton’s lost ship is found “For scientific discovery give me Scott; for speed and …
: On how “the perfect system, the perfect app” is a mirage: …
: An account of the now-forgotten “Buran” fully automated space shuttle, and the “Energia” heavy-lift …
: Fascinating account of someone’s “life story of programming languages” Inspiring, …
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: From James Clear: “Prime your environment to make the next action easy.” “Your …
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: Found this a good overview of the trends and limitations of computing hardware over the decades. …
: On complexity tamingcomplexity.org Confused? Are you staring at a screen that lets you view almost every …
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: Some graphic novels I’d want to read (came across them in the library today)
: “25 years of SmallTalk”, from 20 years ago web.archive.org/web/20010…
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: The Richat Structure I can’t believe I never heard of this before. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/92… …
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: While “The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window” was a bit …
: Interesting find that pushed back the homo sapien culture timeline quite a bit: …
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: Playing with my daughter’s magnifying glass
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: On re-making He-Man, badly Watching Masters of the Universe, and it’s terrible. Making myself watch it slowly just to …
: Watching episode one of Foundation, and catching up on all the differences from the book: …
: Something weird: a paper on the possible effects of of an ancient mega-tsunami in Peru: …
: Software lessons (Source) When you know something it is almost impossible to imagine what it is like not to know …
: TIL: Solarpunk and Lunarpunk www.egirlcapital.com/insights/…
: The biggest galaxy … Lurking some 3 billion light-years away, Alcyoneus is a giant radio …
: On not looking up (or down?) From this interview with David Sirota I felt like the movie was mostly about systems and the …
: On "psycho-cybernetics" From this Medium post Maltz came to the conclusion that our self-image is the cornerstone of our …
: (as an old-and-new Harry Potter fan ...) From The erasure of JK Rowling “given the degree to which her integration of ancient lore, magic …
: From James Clear: “If you’d like to do something bold with your life, you will have to …
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: Writing a children’s book for programming, in 1991: “Professor Fortran”
: On Ukraine in the last century Was Ukraine ‘invented’ by Lenin’s Bolsheviks? - by Ed West (extract from the …
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: On Complexity From tamingcomplexity.org Confused? Are you staring at a screen that lets you view almost every …
: On Markdown From the article "thoughts on markdown" Today, I will argue that Markdown’s primary users are …
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: This song was playing in the background at a restaurant, and it seemed old and familiar, and that’s …
: A bunch of old hypertext papers: www.cs.unc.edu/techrepor…
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: Something I’d like to have a transcript for, because it’s long, yet very insightful: …
: From "Here we go again" by Seth Godin The thing that gets us stuck isn’t us. It’s the script that …
: The world’s longest immersed tunnel www.youtube.com/watch
: From James Clear: “Simple is nearly always better. But if it’s going to be complicated, …
: On journaling over time From an email I had received from the Atticus Review: I’m still compelled to do morning pages, but …
: Valentine’s Day gift from us to us, after watching the compulsive wine-drinking in “_The Woman in …
: “Psycho Cybernetics” By Maxwell Maltz From this article Maltz came to the conclusion that our self-image is the cornerstone of our mental …
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: The Philosopher of Failure: Emil Cioran’s Heights of Despair self-contradiction is not even a …
: The Philosopher of Failure: Emil Cioran’s Heights of Despair The human condition itself is for …
: The Philosopher of Failure: Emil Cioran’s Heights of Despair Failure, then, was Cioran’s close …
: The Philosopher of Failure: Emil Cioran’s Heights of Despair The difference between regimes is less …
: Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » Why Quantum Mechanics? several indisputable realizations: I am …
: Missed this a few years ago, but a way of thinking about “what programs are” that I hope comes back …
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: Normally suspicious about “meditation apps. Tried “Headspace” and …
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: Uh, I wish I hadn’t found out about this … people buying “a string pf emojis” for hundreds of …
: Checking in on the upcoming LotR prequel: youtu.be/WO8RiRhWI…
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: Finding planets A planet was found near Proxima Centauri. But more interesting than that is how it was found: …
: Things (apps, services, products) to look forward to in 2023
: Seen at an elementary school nearby
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: Wrapped up another notebook from Nanami Paper
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: Looking at different ways of implementing “OOP-ish” methods, using Lua (Fennel)
: 10 Ways that Guile is … good
: The dream of nuclear fusion From the BBC “The JET experiments put us a step closer to fusion power,” said Dr Joe …
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: Guile-Macs Andy Wingo’s post from a decade ago, on the emacs-devel mailing list. Emacs and Guile have a …
: The Star Wars sequels as “the anti-trilogy”
: TWSBI 580 AL R, with blue ink
: I watch Youtube in “streaks”, presumably others do something similar. Now it’s a “watch everything …
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: I second the concept of changelogs as defined here, because I’ve been doing that for a few …
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: “There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in …
: Watching a bit of the H. P. Lovecraft documentary on Amazon Prime and … TIL that his father …
: Interesting perspective (via WSJ) on the “real winners” of the meme stock pump-and-dump
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: Just saw the trailer for Death on the Nile. youtu.be/dZRqB0JLi… Knew who it was when I heard …
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: On desire From this old article about Rene Girard: “We don’t even know what our desire is. We ask …
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: Mostly good, opinionated overview of CL/Scheme (and more)
: Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » Why Quantum Mechanics? Q: Why should the universe have been …
: From the City Journal: The age divide extends to more general questions. When asked, “Thinking …
: A fun anecdote from the New Yorker Biden has a personal history with Putin, too. During a trip to …
: On innocence and reality From this Marginalia post It is only now beginning to be borne in on us — very faintly, it must be …
: Colin Wilson’s books being re-issued: colinwilsononline.com/2018/09/2…
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: Quote from James Clear: “When rain falls, it flows downhill. If desired, you can collect the …
: Changing the script From “Here we go again” by Seth Godin The thing that gets us stuck isn’t us. It’s the …
: Gemini Is A Little Gem • AndreGarzia.com Gemini is not a replacement for the Web. It is just …
: Gemini Is A Little Gem • AndreGarzia.com Old-school paradigms have their place. They’re easy to …
: On using bookmark + highlight The bookmark + highlight feature is nice, some things I noticed though: a few rendering bugs while …
: Going to try out the premium experience here for a while. All or nothing, heh.
: Trolls “Trolls” are so overused. DreamWorks’ Trolls Troll in Harry Potter Trolls …
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: Here's some synchronicity in itself- I was thinking of using up Coincidentally ... Here's some synchronicity in itself: I was thinking of using up Audible tokens …
: Interesting perspective on different kinds of information youtu.be/MF5YAHoQM…
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: Finished reading *The Four Agreements Finished reading The Four Agreements I've read quite a few books that claimed to be what this book …
: Don Daily’s illustrated books There was an “Aesop’s Fables” that had been lying around for a few years, and we finally started …
: Pretty straightforward to sign in from iA Writer, which … I’ve been using for a while …
: This is the beginning of a (yet another) blogging journey.