Scribing Along
I've gone through a few phases with my Kindle Scribe I started using it several months ago, but it didn't stick at first, and I even stopped using it for a while, thinking "my paperwhite…
Agam Brahma
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Monthly Recap: July 2024
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Major Update Short but memorable trip to San Diego * Really the best place (city + beach + lots of things nearby) * Torrey Pines beach * La Jolla beach park * Lots of family fun Minor update (…
Wesley Yang's story
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(clearing out old posts, this one is from three years ago ...) I'm enjoying Wesley Yang's Substack these days -- it's well-written, comprehensive, and inspiring. How did this come about?…
Clouds and trees
A guide to the sky
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Apps on our smartphones get a bad rap for wasting our time, and deservedly so. Most apps are either harmful, neutral, distracting, or just offer minor conveniences. But there's a special categor…
The scariest table …
… is the one showing the extent of US Debt (You should remind yourself that all those numbers are in the unit of millions of millions)…
Code blocks in Tana …
… are broken. I understand that we’re moving away from Markdown, all good. There’s no good way to quickly add a code block I would have liked to be able to quickly enter backticks and start writing…
Party switch
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A comment in a recent NYT article, that sums up the current moment: When I was a much younger man, the party of "progress" and "the future" and "youth" was the Democrati…
Monthly recap: June 2024
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Major update Yosemite trip with parents * Tenaya lodge * Park reservations made a big difference this year Minor update(s) * Jury duty (showed up, postponed to September) * Monter…
A sobering blog rant
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An engineering blog-post with a title like “the death of the junior developer”? Written by Steve Yegge? Gotta read it, right? Sourcegraph has their own chat assistant, Cody, but the point is more gen…
Trump from Mars, Biden from Venus
One surprising aspect of "political polarization" is the ways it's correlated with men vs women. From this NYT article about a post-debate poll: In the pre-debate poll, Mr. Trump had l…
“Insight Porn”
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The only reason I bother trawling through HN is for the occasional gem like this: (Source) Hacker News is just a part of the larger web. It's the same reason you see so many people arguing over…