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https://gaggiuino.github.io is neat, and I’ve loosely followed it as a lover of good espresso for the last couple of years. But it looks like they’ve change their stance to have th…

That’s my bad! Will expand those out and remove going forward. I shouldn’t be surprised that Amazon app does by default now.

No affiliate link there (at least not intentionally) that’s the link that Amazon app brings up with share/copy link functionality. Mods feel free to alter/delete as needed.

The same primary author just recently published a novel as well. If you enjoy the writing style of the readme/faq you may enjoy it too. Feels like it might be a good vacation read.…

For anyone new to it, the words you’re looking for are “continuous glucose monitor” (GCM), and “flash glucose monitor”. Popular brands of it in the US are Freestyle Libre and Dexco…

It likely has more to do with the “data” team being different than the “application” team at a lot of big companies. It leads to many handoffs and inefficiencies and so people do a…

By most measures https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=patio11 seems to be doing alright. But given the trajectory I’m not sure the anecdote holds.

| Webauthn with fido/u2f is supported on most websites and oidc providers. I wish that was true. I’ve found that webauthn is becoming more common in the last year, but is still rel…

Two things stand out to me: 1) the ability to create content, and have that content consumed, that lets new folks come up to speed. Reading and comprehending is a lot harder for a …

A lot of LBs in the 40s and 50s. I’d qualify those more as medium sized (but meaner) uglies :)

He’ll be missed. I’m a (relatively) young fan of his and been to several shows over the last 20 years. He’s of course best known for Margaritaville and Come Monday. But theres a we…

He’ll be missed. I’m a (relatively) young fan of his and been to several shows over the last 20 years. He’s of course best known for Margaritaville and Come Monday. But theres a we…

The same could be said for nearly every sales call that I’ve been on the receiving end of. It doesn’t make it “right”, but (nearly?) everyone who is involved in these conversations…

Here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36731320

Medieval Technology and Social Change - Medieval Technology and Social Change https://a.co/d/8RuGXQM Not a book, but the old Connections series is really wonderful for broad overvi…

Im going to join the mini-appreciate session here and add that there’s still lines from Geeks in Space that give me a smile and chuckle when they pop into my mind well on 20 years …

The never ending stream of articles of the form “Person with association to $topic has opinions on $topic” are exhausting and very seldom informative. Zooming out any distance at a…

Quite a formidable trivia player as well.

A “classic” paper in the space that might give some historical context to anyone interested, https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/the-internet-sucks-or-w...

Part of one of my merit badges back in my youthful boy scouting days was being able to demonstrate how to turn a pair of pants (jeans iirc) into a temporary life jacket. Seems like…

I’ll add to the Turing Tumble, it’s amazing, the creator of it has just started shipping their next thing: Spintronics, and I’m very much looking forward to going through it with m…