Alan Kay on Donald Knuth’s legendary programming abilities

Reading 'Fahrenheit 451' in 2024 is a little eerie, and not just because of the books.

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10 days til Mother’s Day!

My friend Nick (Nick Ruffilo) built a gift recommendation site which gave me a lot of really good ideas.

You put the person’s age, interests, and occasion, and it links you to gifts. picktheperfectgift.com

Standup tomorrow: “got a lot of YAML to wrangle today, gonna turn slack off”

Just bumped into my old French teacher. She asked me what I was up to now, so I told her I go to the cinema and play football with my brother.

Leland Ryken on the romanticization of farming

This is my regular announcement that you need Tailscale in your life. I’m here in Korea on my iPhone but I’m watching Netflix using my Synology NAS back in Oregon as an exit node. Absolutely rock solid personal free VPN *and* amazing for teams and developers as well. Magical.

Just found the worst drop down menu of all time

talking to my friends who joined nvidia 3 years ago

every acquisition announcement from a tech company

DoorDash real-time analytics show the status of the food you ordered

This is one of my endless fascinations, honestly. The Romans were trading regularly with India and with China through intermediaries, the Carthaginians may have gotten as far as the Gulf of Guinea, there are Hebrew inscriptions in the Himalayas. It's a small world!

Apple lets you export Apple Health data — but you get a huge (!) xml file with a wild schema 🫠

I put together a crude 🐍 python script that turns the .xml (1GB for 2.5M entries in my case) into a simple parquet file (35MB) w/ 5 columns:

- type
- value
- start
- end
- created

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Perler bead refrigerator magnets made by my 6 year old.

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