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You may like a game my younger brother developed. Same genre as slay the spire. He and one other guy coded this together for a few years. Really good reviews on Steam. https://stor…

This is a great episode.

I worry that increasingly sophisticated dynamic pricing could one day make it nearly impossible for anyone to get ahead.

This GOAL? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Oriented_Assembly_Lisp

Many people fail to appreciate the thermos. I think it is one of mankind's greatest achievements.

I wonder whether government testing actually makes a material difference in food/beverage safety. For example, when I worked for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, I was surprised…

This worked well for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT_dFRnmdGs

Anki, but a pseudo-terminal that drills you on a programming language's syntax. Utilizes spaced repetition. Aims to cement fundamentals needed before leet code.

Loved this piece. Especially that it is written in a Gonzo journalism style, including the author as part of the narrative, like a Hunter S. Thompson essay.

I sanity-checked it with two headshots of the same third party and it swung ~2.5 points, so it seems to capture state (lighting/angle/expression) more than trait. Then I uploaded m…

This framing has been helpful for me: Your workday isn’t a monolith; it is a series of tiny tasks. Try deconstructing your job to identify intrinsic motivation. Which micro-tasks d…

Reminds me of my old Renaissance Learning Neo 2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaSmart

I really like your photographs here: https://andyjohnson.uk/blog/2025/03/17/eigiau-walk/

What is your blog? Which do you recommend?

What is your blog?

Yes, this is exactly the distinction I was struggling to articulate. “Online” has collapsed into a single bucket that includes friends-only play, strangers, stores, chat, downloads…

The etymology I’ve heard isn’t even listed in the article. One theory traces “Kentucky” to early forms like Cantucky or Cane-tucky, referring to the region’s vast river-cane brakes…

A weak judgment betrays itself in the indiscriminate use of fine punctuation; for when the em-dash is made universal, it ceases to be distinguished, and becomes merely another form…

I wanted to share a quick piece of feedback from a potential reader's perspective: There are several small inconsistencies in the intro text (e.g., inconsistent capitalization of '…

The U.S. federal government is bad at redactions on purpose. The offices responsible for redactions are usually in-house legal shops (e.g., an Office of Chief Counsel inside an age…

Hypothetical for you: Learn more if you tried to figure it out yourself for 3 hours then used the LLM for the last hour to unblock/check your work? Or learn more by utilizing LLM f…

I buy the productivity argument, but I’m not convinced “30 minutes reading/tweaking agent output” is equivalent for learning to building it yourself. If your goal is the feature, t…