Geometrick T-shirts
I had a T-shirt with a certain pattern that was fading out. I didn't know at the time that this had a name, and later learned it was a geometrical pattern that had certain interesting connections.…
Trains
In a bit of a grim co-incidence, soon after I wrote this earlier post, I find that in the space of a month, there have already been two people who were killed when hit by the Caltrain in Mountain View…
Inferior is Better
> Software that is better in principle comes with everything you need. Software that is inferior does not, and someone has to fill it in. They do it by building tools. > Every third-party “tool…
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Illuminating article about Chuck Moore and levels in Forth…
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A novel way to blog, using Curio…
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Car reflection, or … sinister robot.…
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An excellent HN comment (source) > Common Lisp and SmallTalk have rapid dev models by working in a running image, CLOG gives Common Lisp a foss visual IDE moving closer to its goal of marriage of…
How much better James Webb pics are!
"Two weeks of photos"…
James Clear quotes today:
1. "Many problems are minor when you solve them right away, but grow into an enormous conflict when you let them linger. As a rule of thumb, fix it now." 2. "Raise your ambition…
Hyper-tapping
There is a bewildering variety of niches in the world. Competitive Tetris play is one of them. Reading through an article like this one makes me giddy. Almost all players at the time maneuvered piec…
"The ring without words"
Self-descriptive: A rendition of Wagner's "The Ring" opera, without the words Listened to this twice, in parts, and it's spellbinding The above is a YouTube link, but your streamin…
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Some notes on remote work (source) > I've been working remotely on and off for 20 years, and consistently for the last 10 years. A few suggestions: > - Choose to not make every day the sam…