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All of the posts in Derek Lowe's "Things I Won't Work With" series are excellent and worth a read. Do be sure to read the comments as well, there's some gold in
by Bjartr 4y ago
All of the posts in Derek Lowe's "Things I Won't Work With" series are excellent and worth a read. Do be sure to read the comments as well, there's some gold in there.
- kadoban 4y agoI wish there was a way to filter to just that series on this blog. Or maybe there is and I just haven't found it? I've read I think all of them before, but they're fun to reread here and there. His other writing is similarly great, but much of it is for a far more chemist audience.
- bramblerose 4y agoThe best I've found is using Google with a site: filter -- https://www.google.com/search?q=%22things+i+won%27t+work+with%22+site%3Ascience.org https://www.google.com/search?q=%22things+i+won%27t+work+wit...
- ce4 4y agohttps://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=Corante.com&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
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- bradrn 4y agoThere was indeed such a filter at one point. But alas, they seem to have removed it in their recent redesign…
- mattkrause 4y agoI still see a "Category" panel on the right-hand side, and clicking on the name of a category (like "Things I won't work with") seems to show posts just from that category. Not all of them are titled "Things I won't work with", but others seem still on-theme. If it doesn't show up in your browser, try this: https://www.science.org/topic/blog-category/things-i-wont-work-with https://www.science.org/topic/blog-category/things-i-wont-wo...
- kadoban 4y agoThank you! Yeah I think it's not visible on my browser, maybe because mobile? At least they didn't remove the functionality, just hid it :/
- mattkrause 4y agoD'oh. The whole panel vanishes when I shrink the window down (macOS Safari and Firefox on Linux).
- lelandfe 4y agoThe poor man’s responsiveness: hide the stuff that doesn’t fit
- bradrn 4y agoOh, thank you! Not sure how I missed that… (I suspect it’s a recent addition, though; I don’t recall that panel being there last time.)
- chaxor 4y agoI think FOOF is the most well known 'thing i won't work with' article
- josephcsible 4y agoI'd put that one in second place, behind ClF3.
- cratermoon 4y agoIt certainly has the most appropriate name.
- greenbit 4y agoProbably if you record the sound of it airing its grievances and play that back slowly enough, "foof" is exactly the sound it makes.
- pdntspa 4y agoI know nothing of chemistry (not even high school) and that series is AMAZING
- ce4 4y agoThe blog was formerly hosted on corante.com, search for this and you get all the early submissions on hn, too: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=Corante.com&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...