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Well-built, cheap, and fast: I pick all three.
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I had other plans for what to write about, and also plans for the day that didn't involve disassembling my connection...
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On knowledge gaps and bookworm pronunciation syndrome
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A small utility that’s surprisingly useful during website migrations
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You can sort of have a conversation with a book. I sometimes write rude comments in the margins when I disagree with ...
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Blogs are back. RSS is cool again. (Said the blogger to his RSS feed.)Here is a collection of small, independent dire...
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The big arguments for and against AI have been endlessly discussed, and I don’t feel I have much to add. AGI and exis...
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25 new human-written posts
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Judging a book by its content doesn’t work either
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Long, long ago, in a dotfiles directory far away, I had this snippet: bindsym control+semicolon exec date '+%Y-%m-%d'...
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Use AutoKey send_keys() to put clipboard content places where it can't normally be put
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Good quality ingredients hardly need seasoning. I only need to add spices if I’ve burnt the soup.
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How do you ask questions that people don’t just hippopotamus?
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Time for some night-owl counter-propaganda
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The blogosphere abounds with free advice, and one of the more frequently-repeated morsels is to “be prolific”, and qu...
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Much of what I do, in multiple fields, could be reduced to one skill: troubleshooting. I’ll define troubleshooting as...