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by janvdberg 3y ago
I want to point out Ruben Schade bookmarks page. It's quite wonderful. An OPML file that is also a webpage. https://rubenerd.com/blogroll.opml
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by janvdberg 3y ago
Side-note: sites likes these are the old internet that I got to know and love and they embody the spirit of what makes the internet a wonderful place: highly niche sites run by dedicated, passionate people that could only be discovered by w
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by janvdberg 3y ago
Side-note: I will always be in awe of the BitTorrent protocol. A resilient and efficient piece of tech that at its height was responsible for LARGE amounts of internet traffic (facilitated by sites like the TPB) and was (mostly) developed b
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by janvdberg 3y ago
Could this actually be a response by Knuth? I doubt it. It doesn't read like him (i.e. I don't think he would call it 'Donald Shell's idea'). Also you don't have to print and mail Knuth. He doesn't use e-m
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AOL pretends to be the internet(thehistoryoftheweb.com)
166 points by janvdberg 3y ago|267 comments
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by janvdberg 3y ago
I love this as another example where restriction breeds innovation. More often than not this is found not in abundance but in limits.
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The Legacy of Bram Moolenaar(j11g.com)
36 points by janvdberg 3y ago|2 comments
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When the Wizards of the Web Met(thehistoryoftheweb.com)
1 points by janvdberg 3y ago|0 comments
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by janvdberg 3y ago
I agree repetition is key. But here's what I noticed from personal experience. When I first read something interesting, it might not stick. When reading it again (say: the same book a year later), knowing I must have read this very in
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by janvdberg 3y ago
More like an evergreen. The thing with evergreens is that there will always be someone who will encounter it for the very first time.
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by janvdberg 3y ago
Not to diminish the effort here, but I just want to point out (as someone who has tried lots of bookmark managers) that Floccus is everything I want from a bookmark manager (effortless sync across devices and just using the bookmark manager
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by janvdberg 3y ago
Wow amazing! I did not know this was available on YouTube. Thank you. It is kind of bonkers considering how well it works for a prototype that all-in-all (based on the comment by Lane Roathe) took just 48 hours to make!
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by janvdberg 3y ago
In the excellent Masters of Doom it is explained that Keen was the Mario-like game (i.e. sideways scrolling). They offered the tech to Nintendo as an option to port Mario to the PC. Nintendo declined, thus Keen was born. It was a vast leap
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by janvdberg 3y ago
https://j11g.com This is mostly a tech blog (Linux things) i.e. public notes to myself. On my other (Dutch) blog I write every day with travel updates or interesting things I learned from books: https://janvandenberg.
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Ask HN: Is something broken with the commenting system?
4 points by janvdberg 3y ago|3 comments
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AWS data centers reuse retired hardware(aboutamazon.com)
1 points by janvdberg 3y ago|0 comments
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Patrick Collison in conversation Sam Altman [video](youtube.com)
2 points by janvdberg 3y ago|0 comments
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Logging Shell History (2012)(jefftk.com)
2 points by janvdberg 3y ago|0 comments
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by janvdberg 3y ago
One tip for your .bashrc I only recently found out and can't do without anymore is one I picked up here (log all shell commands directly to a file): https://www.jefftk.com/p/you-should-be-logging-shell-history
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by janvdberg 3y ago
How come MS announces their Q3 earnings (2022) at the same time Google announces their Q1 (2023) earnings. That's a six month difference, how does that work?
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by janvdberg 3y ago
I know now :)
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by janvdberg 3y ago
These path shenanigans get even trickier when invoking WSL or Cygwin. Here's an alias from my Cygwin .bashrc (which took me way too long to figure out) where both the *nix and Windows style paths are invoked: alias ms='/cygdr
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The Early Days of Linux(lwn.net)
3 points by janvdberg 3y ago|1 comments
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by janvdberg 4y ago
Great! I've added your site to my RSS reader, looking forward to your posts.
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by janvdberg 4y ago
This is a great post and I strongly agree with almost everything the author says. But I noticed his previous post is almost a year old (June 22)? So is there another place he blogs?
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JSON vs. XML with Douglas Crockford(corecursive.com)
3 points by janvdberg 4y ago|1 comments
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by janvdberg 4y ago
I asked ChatGPT: The article discusses the problem of having too much information and too many choices, which can be overwhelming and lead to a feeling of not being able to accomplish everything. The author suggests that the solution is not
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Why Won't You Recycle My Batteries?(reasonstobecheerful.world)
1 points by janvdberg 4y ago|0 comments
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I don’t want a new phone, but I’m probably buying one(kooslooijesteijn.net)
204 points by janvdberg 4y ago|296 comments
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Celebrating Cerebration: On Creativity by Isaac Asimov(berthub.eu)
1 points by janvdberg 4y ago|0 comments

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