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runemadsen

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About runemadsen

I explore code as a design material. Co-founder of designsystems.international and author of programmingdesignsystems.com. Former New York Times, O'Reilly Media and NYU.

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    We just did a whole visual identity around the quadtree concept. Take a scroll on this one! https://trace.systems/

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    Comment #44797414

    I just spent 25 minutes trying to install a command-line tool called citus_dump that Cursor told me could help port data between Postgres citus clusters only to find out that the t…

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    Comment #39222478

    My company Design Systems International ( https://designsystems.international/ ) designed this site during COVID in 2020 when the interest in mortality data suddenly exploded. Happ…

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    Comment #38283162

    I was just telling my wife this after looking up the "no rain" weather report and getting absolutely showered 5 minutes later in an hour-long rain storm. Weather reports suck so mu…

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    Comment #37983332

    I'm just rereading Katz' The Art of Fermentation, and it's an amazing book and encyclopedia about how fermentation is and has been used throughout the world. I highly recommend it.…

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    Comment #34899485

    Also! https://mechanic.design/

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    Comment #34536839

    No worries, I get it. That's another big problem!

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    Comment #34536250

    Nowhere did I say mental disorders are better or less harmful than physical disorders, and nowhere did I say that the experience is not the same from a patient's point of view. How…

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    Comment #34536125

    There is lots and lots of research into the similarities of Long Covid and other post-viral illnesses despite the fact that people only recently started reporting these symptoms: "…

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    Comment #34535876

    This is just so, so wrong in many ways. Read about post-viral diseases such as Me/CFS that closely mirrors what Long Covid sufferers are going through. Watch "Unrest" on Netflix. S…

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    Comment #34322407

    It's expensive to be poor.

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    Comment #33958625

    A much more thorough investigation of these ideas was done by Adam Harvey 11 years ago: https://ahprojects.com/cvdazzle/

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    Comment #33191356

    The Coding Train just launched a new website with their entire archive! https://thecodingtrain.com/

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    Comment #32512312

    This is a horrible excuse for the terrible banking system in the US. We have both instant payments in Denmark and laws to require banks to cover fraud.

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    Comment #31975032

    My experience with GitLab is that they accelerated very quickly in the beginning with a focus on new features. This made the whole ecosystem incredibly slow, and it's unbearable fo…

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    Comment #28606139

    You can't just throw out numbers like "25% sales tax" and think that it paints a clear picture of how it is to live and work in a country like Denmark. I'm Danish and have lived in…

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    Comment #26653426

    Logic Magazine is a lovely magazine and I highly recommend everyone to subscribe!

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    Comment #24698383

    I'm 6 months into my COVID illness, and I'm still having fatigue and breathing difficulties on a daily basis. It started with severe breathing difficulties, but I was never in the …

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    Comment #23189784

    I once made a Chrome extension called HeaderHunter to automatically notify users when a recruitment header is detected. It still works: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/he…

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    Author here. This makes me very happy to hear :)

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    Comment #22774774

    This type of site has excited for almost 15 years in Denmark (antikvariat.net). It's a shared archive and purchasing platform for all used book sellers, and it has proven to work e…