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A short, tragi-comic account of GNU/FSF: www.spesh.com/danny/wri...…
Of moons and planets
Something fascinating from an “amateur analysis” of the moon’s orbit — the sort of thing I’m sure a lot of people wish they did but never do. In other words, the Sun exerts more than twice as much gr…
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A very memorable song from "You've got mail" (about 25 years ago):…
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Getting romantic about the craft of programming :-) thorstenball.com/blog/2020...…
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On the difficult market for developer tools: www.kite.com/blog/prod...…
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Level-headed assesment of blockchain: www.tbray.org/ongoing/W...…
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Picking email providers is hard now, we’re spoilt for choice. I have similar thoughts on Fastmail and iCloud: www.brycewray.com/posts/202...…
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From an HN comment: Impactful? Designed and deployed credit card readers used in gas pumps back in 1979. (Sold to Gasboy) Wrote a fine tuner to allow communication between satellites (precursor to…
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A random HackerNews comment: > And now it hits me, for the first time, shamefully: the sense that Urbit is Pynchonesque... it's often said of Pynchon that nostalgia for the 60s is the animatin…
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Remembering Erik Naggum http://jackkelly.name/blog/archives/2019/06/17/erik_naggum_10_years_on/index.html…
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More Magnatiles fun !!…
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Clearly a labor of love and very cool: floor796.com…