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I looked at several alternatives before settling on GrapheneOS. Many made claims that sounded good but only GrapheneOS had deep technical documentation. I'm not an Android develope…

I've used Calibre for years and I like it a lot. It quite good for creating or editing e-books (oh the ghastly things you see if you look inside an e-book...) The Calibre UX is fin…

I don't have the latest statistics, but from 2009–2015 the average ACBL member age increased 0.44 years / year and was never less than 0.33 years / year. So the reality is nearly h…

An interesting pair is Saloons of the Old West (Richard Erdoes) and Jacob Hamblin Peacemaker (Pearson H. Corbett), not for contrasting views but rather contrasting visions of the U…

Go is a fabulous game (and AlphaGo is a wondrous software—I read the first technical paper immediately). But it's another thing I'd have to do online. Seattle had a go center in th…

I'm the author. What a weird surprise to see it at 4 am on Hacker News. If you play bridge on BBO you might be interested in my BBO Helper browser extension. It's popular with stro…

This is a huge pet peeve for me. Shouldn't this be a “solved” style problem in 2023! I'd gladly fire every tenth web designer responsible for this problem regardless of their other…

I second frutiger's recommendation of Elliptic Tales: Curves, Counting, and Number Theory . There should be more science and math books at this level but it's rare—either you're as…

This article is paywalled but here are the articles from Bridge Winners that it references: https://bridgewinners.com/article/view/confession-of-a-self-... https://bridgewinners.co…