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TIL about "hyper-legible" fonts: brailleinstitute.org/freefont (I never thought about how "blurry letters" would be so hard to distinguish!)…
Obsolescence
My Powerbeats headphones broke apart today. I wanted to get a replacement, but I found it isn't made any more. I looked for the closest equivalent and didn't find one 1. I found this compar…
Remembering the Queen
From this article in the Atlantic >The second Elizabeth was born on April 21, 1926, and has reigned over Britain since 1952. She was six weeks older than Marilyn Monroe, three years older than Ann…
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Scenes from a night-time stroll…
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Some motivation by Charles Bukowski (on writing, but IMO more general): From here: if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it comes unasked out of…
On the necessity of Engineering Managers (!)
Wise words from this thread > I work with a lot of technical founders who struggle to accept the inevitable truth that taking the time to specify, coordinate, and resource what they want to do lea…
Golden Sections
I was inspired by this short Randall Carlson episode to re-construct the diagram in Wolfram Mathematica. It is a geometric construction of "the golden mean", and then viewing it as a ratio,…
Monthly Summary: Aug 2022
Major update(s) * Nearly a week in Big Island * A month-long saga of problems with my car came to an end, able to drive again Minor update(s) * Playdates * School re-opened!…
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Late night #Youtube leads to: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS9oPdlax0s&w=560&h=315]…
What's in a name
Three years ago, the New York Times published this article. It was about "the fourth spy" at Los Alamos (in addition to the previously known ones, Klaus Fuchs, Theodore Hall, and David Gree…
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On food security and the end of abundance…
Long 90s
While I was browsing the selection of streaming movies recently, and looking at the year each was made, I realized that in some subjective sense the kind of movies changed around 2011-13. For example…