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The opposite of doomscrolling: Every two weeks (roughly) I send you a collection of the best Internet reading I've found -- links to culture, technology, art and science that fascinated me. Full, free archives here. I'm Clive Thompson, a longtime science and tech reporter (Wired, New York Times ...
Hello there! It’s time for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — my latest “Linkfest”, in which I slowly and patiently di...
Hello there! Time for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — my latest “Linkfest”, in which I exhaustively read the entire...
Unfinished; posting anyway. Pizza and 2+1 offers go together like Apache Airflow and data engineering: Nobody knows w...
Interviews take a lot of energy. In general but this one in particular. And getting through it also deserves a little...
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Welcome! This is where you can find my most up-to-date writings.
Another influx of coupling thoughts, yet no greater truth to be found in them—how vexed I am, that I continue to writ...
The rhetorician sleeps again. Two olanzapines last night, 400 mg of liquid caffeine this morning. The uneasiness and ...
Less shit, not more. Especially with being more manic recently, my capacity to make decisions is disoriented by the c...
Exploring the universe from the inside out
It’s easy, once you know you can
How wise do our mentors need to be?
Make your projects 4-dimensional
Thoughts on software development, AI, and technology
In Which I Describe why some AI Skeptics need to Experiment
In Which I Learn that our Body Temperature is Lower than Commonly Believed
In Which I Vent my Frustrations about Using LLMs for Coding
Wie man nur mit HTML und CSS, ohne Javascript in einer statischen HTML-Datei einen Schalter baut, der die Schriftart ...
Heute habe ich gelernt, dass es in Unicode den code point U+1F574 (MAN IN BUSINESS SUIT LEVITATING) gibt. 🕴
FrankMoji ist eine Schriftart für Emojis, die an Clipart aus den 90ern erinnert.
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I was super-eager to attend my first Percona Live as a Perconian. While I was supposed to be at the one in the US in ...
I forget when I was first introduced to open source. Back when I got my first computer in 1978, most of the software ...
For $REASONS I decided to cancel my 1Password subscription. It renewed in February so I have time to get comfortable ...
Chuck Carroll's RSS Feed: A place where I complain about technology or dive into quasi-philsophical subjects.
On whether LLMs and agentic AIs are a positive and beneficial invention, I tend to lean more toward optimism. Althoug...
I recently switched from Namecheap shared hosting to Cloudflare Pages. I have two websites that are both plain text h...
I have music collection of over 12,000 tracks. I prefer to actually own my music (ie digital files) and being able to...
A container for all my views with excerpts from technology, travel, films, books, kannada, friends and other interests. I am Thejesh GN, friends call me Thej.
It’s been a crazy but good week. It’s also been a fun week. Last Friday was a long class at APU before the midterm ho...
I gathered a group of folks and did the BOF session at IndiaFOSS/2026. The idea behind the BoF session wasn’t to pres...
In one of my earlier blog posts, I mentioned that I have become more routine, more protective of my time, and indirec...
I’m a data scientist based in Amsterdam, currently working at Spotify. I work on projects aimed at enhancing the productivity and experience of developers, using research and data analysis to inform our platform strategies.
I have added several long conversational youtube videos into a playlist, hoping I’ll come back to the them some day, ...
I quite liked this metaphoric view of the morning ritual from Herbert Lui: A good morning ritual needs to be flexible...
I started using Claude Code in July last year. I was a Cursor user looking for something better, and I was skeptical ...
An online diary of a lady's misadventures in two worlds
Special Edition — Ego TL;DR:What's the difference between my ego in the real world and my ego online? This blog post ...
Special Edition — Colors TL;DR:Purple is my color. This blog post has approximately 301 words and may take 2 minutes ...
Special Edition — Take Two TL;DR:If I had another chance, I would have started this blog earlier. This blog post has ...
A practising self-memoir, recorded as an inconsistent logbook.
so. this story was supposed to go somewhere else. i had written it for a publisher's call, revised it, overthought it...
08th September. 9:10 am.i woke up earlier than usual today morning. why? did i fall asleep early last night without c...
september 7th. 1:40 AM - 4:05AM. sunday night - monday morning.i try to write and fail. i set in my mind to start a b...
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Highly anticipated features such as Undo/Redo, Copy/Paste, and more are now in the game!
R74n's latest minigame - a unique take on the word game genre - is out now!
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A digital garden exploring web development, the small/indie web, Gemini protocol, book reviews, and personal reflections.
On iOS, it’s possible to use a custom schedule to turn on the night shift (slightly tinted yellow-orange) mode separa...
This would have been a great opportunity to use “The Anthropocene Reviewed, reviewed” if not for the sake of my confo...
Kev Quirk started a personal blog challenge where you answer a few questions and “tag” a few people of your choosing ...
A wide-ranging blog with technical tutorials on Django, Python, and web development alongside travel guides and reflections on life abroad in Germany.
Sakura pens are great, but they’re hard to tell apart from one another, especially in a stuffed pencil case at the bo...
I have used Buttondown for almost a year now for All About Berlin’s newsletter. I could not find reviews for Buttondo...
I am subletting my apartment. These are the mistakes people make when they contact me about my listing. Kleinanzeigen...
A long-running blog mixing practical programming guides on Django, Node.js, and PostgreSQL with essays on developer careers, productivity, and personal growth.
I can’t believe it’s been over two years since I last published an article here! Time really flies. The crazy part is...
I can’t believe it’s been over two years since I last published an article here! Time really flies. The crazy part is...
As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a bit of a personal finance nerd. I’ve been carefully tracking my spending and investin...
An online journal exploring curious and obscure works that have entered the public domain, featuring essays, collections, and cultural commentary on historical art, literature, and media.
Erasmus called them “little moons” and George Puttenham praised them as “figures of tolerable disorder” (if used not ...
Choice excerpts from *Leaves of Grass* that speak to Whitman’s conception of immortality.
Early surgical diagrams that present patients prying themselves open for our anatomical gaze.
A personal blog with posts spanning book and movie reviews, technology projects, and commentary on social and political topics.
Note: this review contains spoilers What Worked the themes the curse of fame, the complicity of the public in that cu...
“Focus on the work, not your attachment to it.”
Note: This review contains spoilers What Worked Brandon Sanderson is known for his inventive world building and this ...
electronic brain surgery since 2001
My new favorite Terminal I have been using the XFCE terminal for decades now and it has always been good enough. Howe...
Home Assistant Transplant I have been running Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi 4 for about five years now. A short wh...
Retractable Cable USB-C Chargers (65W PD) Like all my other modern electronics, my Framework Laptop1) charges via USB...