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Double-entry accounting models the source and destination of funds. If you keep all of your money in one bank account and neither owe anyone or have anyone that owes you, then doub…

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Animated Knots by Grog is a good reference, with excellent explanations, visuals, and in many cases fascinating supplementary commentary and history. Have fun!

Last year I laser-cut a replica of my phone out of wood. I looked at it, said the words "this is my phone", and put it in my pocket, where I normally carried my phone. You wouldn't…

I've personally kept eggs unrefrigerated in the tropics for more than 30 days. You just have to flip them every couple of days to keep the shell from drying out inside and cracking…

actually, sail boats and steam boats coexisted for many decades. Sail boats were used for grain and coal transport well into the 20th century, though as steam engine technology dev…

> VS Code still does not support Go projects in subdirectories This is annoying, but there is a workaround: add each folder with a go.mod file individually starting with the most n…

Creating paper nautical maps. NOAA has stopped updating 15% of all their nautical charts and will discontinue the rest by Jan. 2025. The proposed replacement for the beautiful maps…

Oh, so this isn't about Twitter censoring disgruntled FedEx customers? ;)

There was some trouble getting a release out the door some time back, due to lack of maintainers available to do it apparently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25076197 Though…

I'm creating SVG maps programmatically from geographic data and I want to post-process some of the elements in an editor (mostly simple operations: translate, rotate, scale). The r…

That tea is - for the most part - known as "chai" in India suggests a different origin (the world's languages are largely divided on the first sound in the word for tea: either Te …