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I've been creating small, hand-written websites to organise my files. It's a lightweight, flexible approach that I hope will last a long time.

We built a(nother) house optimized for LAN Parties.

The security system that underlies the internet makes use of a curious fact: You can broadcast part of your encryption to make your information much more secure.

A lot of my advice, especially to small businesses, involves getting more personal in their email newsletters. It remains a struggle to convince some businesses to include real names (not just the brand name), be a little less perfectionist in their designs, and write like a real human. The more

Dear God, the film base is gray, and I will never reach the end of scanning 120-format negatives. The spools are scattered, the tape is stuck to my fingers, the backing paper chokes the trash can i…

Network topology and the ghost of the digg homepage

Nature - Virologist Beata Halassy says self-treatment worked and was a positive experience — but researchers warn that it is not something others should try.

Some things I try to keep in mind.

Oct 20, 2024 at 8:58 PM I’ve been meaning to write this down for a while. Inspired to do so now by John Philpin’s post. I don’t have any insight on...

We play a lot of Fortnite at our house. It's a great game for teaching kids cooperative discipline, and in a remarkably wholesome setting to boot (no blood, cartoon styling). I've had no qualms involving all three of our boys from an early age in the family squad, including our two youngest from around age four. Since we started playin...

The world looks very different from how it did before the election. You may be wondering what you should do about that. I have one answer for you. You should write. You should create. Two reasons to write If you’re feeling depressed and anxious, then writing (or recording a podcast or a TikTok or whatever...

Less than 1% of your writing will be life-changing. 3% will be trivial to write. 4% will strongly resonate with others in a way you didn't expect. 5% will be quite good. 15% probably should've never been published. 26% will elicit a reaction you did not expect. Positive or negative. 28% will bec

Designing media to reflect how people think and learn

I now use Claude every day, multiple times a day, both in my work and personal life. This is a relatively new phenomenon: I basically never used Claude until 3.5 Sonnet came out. I had tried Claude before that, mostly out of a sense of duty, but I hadn't found him [1] particularly helpful. But 3.5 was a tipping point where Claude finally became smart enough to be worth the trouble of using. So what do I use Claude for?

Nowadays, it's the unforced errors in response to criticism that kill you

How I built a solar-powered, self-hosted website with a Raspberry Pi to explore sustainable, local-first web hosting.

Custody of your private keys is the foundation to Bitcoin’s trustless model.

I recently heard one of the more interesting insights about Silicon Valley I'd heard in a while. It explained something I’d wondered about for years. But I can't tell you what it was. There's too...

The best habit I made in 2024... I call it the “No Excuse Hour.” Sounds simple, but it changed everything. Here’s how it works and why you need it 1/ The “No Excuse Hour” is the first hour of my day.

If you find something that is true in more than one field, you’ve probably uncovered something particularly important.

The best time to stop a distraction is before it starts. The second best time is now.

You spend years trying to learn new stuff but then look back and realize that maybe like 10 big ideas…

Do "outline speedrunning": Recursively outline an MVP, speedrun filling it in, and only then go back and perfect. This is a ~10x speed up over the 'loading-bar' style (more on that below) Don't just read this article and move on. Go out and do this for the very next thing you make so y

003 | Explaining America's most boring sport to an alien

This is the final installment in the nine-part series. Full series: https://mailchi.mp/themarginalian/animated-universe-in-verse Words by Richard Feynman (transcript…