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I particularly enjoyed "The Great Bay" by Dale Pendell. It's a collection of short stories that are linked through the next 16,000 years of Californian history after a 2021 global …

Sampson Boat Company's rebuilding of Tally Ho: https://www.youtube.com/@SampsonBoatCo

I'm using orgmode as well on my emacs install under macOS. By using a simple org capture template bound to SPC-o-j (space, org, journal) a time stamped entry into my journal.org fi…

I'm a relative emacs noob, and have just switched from Doom emacs to rolling my own with a literate config file. I started noticing more and more ~ backup files in all my working d…

I keep my editor (emacs) window open for my LaTeX document, a second separate terminal window to compile my .tex document and see any errors that crop up, and a third window with Z…

Yes to this! Bamboo root structure (rhizomes) can be broken down into two basic types, leptomorph and pachymorph. Bamboo that belong to the leptomorph rhizome group can grow many f…

These are beautiful maps, and I'd love to add one to my collection. If anyone is a fan of adding depth to old maps, check out https://scottreinhard.com/Mapping-and-Visualization . …

If you're willing to put in the time with LaTeX, there is a very good package for generating some exceptionally beautiful family trees with the https://www.ctan.org/pkg/genealogytr…

Hi Blake! Kieran's dad here. So great to see your article on Hacker News. Your old bike is safely heading back to Colorado soon.

Agreed! Another metric to add might be $/Mb/Month. That way it's easy to compare disparate speeds.

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Ugh. So sorry to hear this. What a great player.

I've been using it for about 6 months now, backing up my home directory 3-4 times per week to an external HD. Would also agree that it's fast, easy to use, and also easy to recover…

I've germinated a few seeds (P. edulis 'Moso' & Fargesia Jiuzhaigou IV 'Black Cherry') purchased on AliExpress (very inexpensive). I planted about 200 seeds in July of last year an…

Ugh! As a former Apple fanboi, this is the reason I no longer own any Apple equipment. Apple products are beautiful, and very well designed, but so is a rhinestone straitjacket.

Accelerando available online. http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelera...

I'm a big fan of using vim and asciidoctor and an organized notes directory. I quickly jot down notes about certain projects or ideas using vim, then go back and format the notes a…

"A Pattern Language" by Christopher Alexander. Helped me to understand the language of architecture. What works and why, and what doesn't work and why. To this day I can still pick…

There are some consortiums that are starting to form: http://www.videoservicesforum.org/activity_groups/RIST_poste...

I agree that entering large numbers of manual transaction can be clunky, but for the occasional single transaction it can be pretty quick. For larger numbers of transactions, I've …

I'm a big fan of CLI accounting software (Ledger, Beancount and hledger) for my personal finances. Allows you to use a plain text file for recording your financial data. If you liv…