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Good Vibes: A Claude-Code Case-Study
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Artistic Trends in AI Music
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Sat Aug 23, 2025 9:34pm PST
Don't Follow Your Dreams, Follow Your Tools [video]
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Turning Neighborhoods into Communities
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Permacomputing 101 [video]
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Fri Aug 22, 2025 4:56pm PST
Feelings Wheel
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You Feel Like Shit
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Fri Aug 22, 2025 2:02pm PST
I guess I was wrong about AI persuasion
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Fri Aug 22, 2025 2:02pm PST
Why is choral music harder to appreciate?
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ShipGoo001
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Thurs Aug 21, 2025 12:57pm PST
Church Planting: When Venture Capital Finds Jesus
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Economics and AI Take Off
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Thurs Aug 21, 2025 12:56pm PST
The Cornervery: A 90-Degree Stapler
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Thurs Aug 21, 2025 12:56pm PST
China versus the US in the Competition for Global Talent
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Wed Aug 20, 2025 9:32pm PST
Fractal drum machine plays any beat [video]
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MIT Maker Portfolio: 3D-Printed Marble Machines [video]
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Why you can’t grow cool-climate plants in hot climates
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Reserve First
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Underlines and Line Height
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Tues Aug 19, 2025 2:38pm PST
Maybe You're Not Trying
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What Do You Mean?
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Microschool Movement Grows in U.S., Raising Quality Concerns
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Tues Aug 19, 2025 2:37pm PST
Enslaved Cyborg Cockroaches Used as Cheap Rescue Robots
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Mon Aug 18, 2025 10:09pm PST
How to Vaccinate the World
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Mon Aug 18, 2025 2:33pm PST
Elesevier says "there is no consent needed from authors"
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VHS-C: When a lazy idea stumbles towards perfection [video]
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OpenAVMKit: A Free and Open Source real estate valuation library for Python
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Mon Aug 18, 2025 2:29pm PST
How Does a Blind Model See the Earth?
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Sun Aug 17, 2025 12:19pm PST
Futarchy's fundamental flaw – the market – the blog post
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Adactio: Journal–Style Your Underlines
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Sun Aug 17, 2025 12:18pm PST
My GitHub subscription gets cheaper every month thanks to US dollar devaluation
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Sun Aug 17, 2025 12:17pm PST
Linear scan register allocation on SSA
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Dicing an Onion, the Mathematically Optimal Way
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Winding Down
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The Montana Mini-Computer (Feat. Carson Gross) [video]
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How to Use Snprintf
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GPT 5 completed Pokémon Red in just 6,470 steps
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Fri Aug 15, 2025 3:48pm PST
Gleam Gathering 2026
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Have you ever noticed that people dressed better in the past?
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I turned my old 3D Printer into a Robotic Camera Rig [video]
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The Flower Designer
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Piecework
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Fri Aug 15, 2025 12:51pm PST
The Microscopic Forces That Break Hearts
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Thurs Aug 14, 2025 11:58pm PST
Why Did AC Adoption Accelerate Faster Than Predicted? Evidence from Mexico
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Thurs Aug 14, 2025 11:58pm PST
The rising returns to R&D: Ideas are not getting harder to find
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New Noise Cameras Pit Drivers of Fast Cars Against Their Neighbors
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Thurs Aug 14, 2025 3:39pm PST
Oreos Combined with Reese's? Inside the Manhattan Project of Snacks
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Build Canada
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Thurs Aug 14, 2025 1:16pm PST
Dynasties, Selection, and Talent Allocation Among Classical Composers
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The Photographic Periodic Table of the Elements (2017)
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Symbol.wtf
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Thurs Aug 14, 2025 1:15pm PST
Researchers Beware of ChatGPT's "Wikipedia Brain"
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Wed Aug 13, 2025 5:34pm PST
Hire Me
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Localhost: Omar and Andrés on the Folk Computer Gadget [video]
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Help improve federal mass transit policy
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Payload Fraction
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Wplace – Paint the World
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Wed Aug 13, 2025 2:17am PST
Fading Audio is ROUGH on CPUs [video]
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Tues Aug 12, 2025 9:06pm PST
How I Use Computers Now [video]
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God created men; Sam Altman made them equal
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So you think you can heritable?
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Fluid-Filled Earplugs for a Perfect Fit
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People Mostly Have Babies via Sex
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Chess, but there are NO TURNS [video]
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Mon Aug 11, 2025 1:19pm PST
Most of America Opposed the Moon Landing
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A stern letter to the drawbridge operator
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Protocols for Publishers
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The Kuzma Self-Playing Guitar System
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Mesmerizing Hypnoloid, a Kinetic Desktop Sculpture
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Angus Willows designs a better coat hanger
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Sat Aug 9, 2025 1:39pm PST
Genius, Rejected: Emergent Ventures versus the System
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Sat Aug 9, 2025 1:37pm PST
The Wedding Wars
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Herasight Embryo Screening Tool
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Fri Aug 8, 2025 3:12pm PST
Donating my Playdate earnings to The Cybersmile Foundation
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What Does Consulting Do?
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Faith in Finance? China's Temples Embrace Consumer Culture
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Fri Aug 8, 2025 1:52pm PST
A.I.-Driven Education: Founded in Texas and Coming to a School Near You
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The Paper Apps Backstory
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Thurs Aug 7, 2025 12:36pm PST
I Made My Own OS Using Zig [video]
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Baltimore Assessments Accidentally Subsidize Blight–and How We Can Fix It
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Gun Nerds Dismantle Infamous Pistol to Research If It Fires at Random
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Toy Experiments and Their Discontents
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What Makes a Mature Science
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Wed Aug 6, 2025 11:31pm PST
My Dream Productivity Device Is Done – and It's Becoming a Kit [video]
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Time in Australia
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How to Scale Proteomics
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My DIY modular charging station
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Claude's Suggested Essays from My Notes
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Tues Aug 5, 2025 7:10pm PST
Divergentism (2022)
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Tues Aug 5, 2025 12:49pm PST
Time Logging Helps You Regain Focus and Take Back Your Day
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Filtered for bottom-up global monitoring
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Tues Aug 5, 2025 12:48pm PST
Designing Calm Technology (1995) [pdf]
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No Retvrn
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Electrostatic motors are breaking all the rules [video]
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