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I was introduced to Calvin and Hobbes (as well as Sam and Max) as a kid by a taxi driver when on holiday in Florida in the 90s. Loved both. It’s been a delight to re read them with…

I love the app. Each week I discover a new to me species of insect in my garden. When the AI fails to work (relatively rarely) the community usually quickly manually identify it. I…

I’ve recently moved to a house with a wood burner / back boiler and I can’t wait to replace it. It’s made me appreciate what a huge upgrade natural gas boilers were. I spend a mini…

Seems to me Surrogation is very similar to The Cobra Effect / Perverse Incentives ( https://www.geckoboard.com/learn/data-literacy/statistical-f... ) , or the McNamara fallacy: htt…

We switched from Trello to Clubhouse 3 years ago - having dabbled with JIRA a few times. We'd outgrown Trello (not enough structure) but didn't want to give up on the speed / ease …

At Geckoboard we have a Pi hooked up to a thermal receipt printer so that remote participants can print off their retrospective cards through Slack: https://medium.com/geckoboard-u…

I really rate this book so it’s great to see it getting some publicity! I think one misnomer is that to do stats right you just need to do the math right. But what analysis is done…

I built a Huxley Reprap Pro two years ago. The building experience was interesting, but fiddly. I needed a few spare parts along the way and getting them was slow. It feels very mu…