| 1. | | Science, the Endless Frontier (1945) [pdf] (nsf.gov) |
| 109 points by otras 9 months ago | past | 16 comments |
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| 2. | | How much oranger do red orange bags make oranges look? (alexanderell.is) |
| 173 points by otras 9 months ago | past | 103 comments |
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| 3. | | Visualizing my strengths and areas for growth with RPG radar charts (alexanderell.is) |
| 2 points by otras 9 months ago | past |
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| 4. | | Harry Chapin and RATM: the problem with bleeding interests (alexanderell.is) |
| 1 point by otras on April 28, 2024 | past |
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| 5. | | All of the writing I did in a week as a software engineer (alexanderell.is) |
| 1 point by otras on Nov 18, 2023 | past |
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| 6. | | The Big Dig (wgbh.org) |
| 1 point by otras on Oct 22, 2023 | past |
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| 7. | | Scollay Square (wikipedia.org) |
| 1 point by otras on Oct 17, 2023 | past |
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| 8. | | Brute-forcing the NYT Digits game (alexanderell.is) |
| 1 point by otras on July 12, 2023 | past |
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| 9. | | Writing an RPC from Scratch (2021) (alexanderell.is) |
| 81 points by otras on May 2, 2023 | past | 15 comments |
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| 10. | | Things that are hard to measure, things that are easy to measure (alexanderell.is) |
| 2 points by otras on Feb 26, 2023 | past | 1 comment |
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| 11. | | In the desert, no service, and your partner's late to the rendezvous. What now? (alexanderell.is) |
| 3 points by otras on Feb 17, 2023 | past | 1 comment |
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| 12. | | Practice Being a Beginner (alexanderell.is) |
| 2 points by otras on Nov 2, 2022 | past |
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| 13. | | Learning by working on problems just outside of your reach (alexanderell.is) |
| 1 point by otras on Oct 3, 2022 | past |
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| 14. | | iPhones and action discoverability (alexanderell.is) |
| 396 points by otras on Sept 24, 2022 | past | 315 comments |
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| 15. | | The hobby buyer's fallacy: “I'd pursue my hobby if I just bought X” (alexanderell.is) |
| 2 points by otras on Sept 24, 2022 | past |
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| 16. | | Stubbornness and Programming (alexanderell.is) |
| 3 points by otras on Sept 11, 2022 | past |
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| 17. | | Writing a toy WebSocket server from scratch (alexanderell.is) |
| 157 points by otras on Aug 29, 2022 | past | 19 comments |
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| 18. | | What happens if you point two CNAMEs at each other? Not much, really (alexanderell.is) |
| 58 points by otras on Aug 15, 2022 | past | 8 comments |
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| 19. | | Sharpening the Axe for Programming (alexanderell.is) |
| 1 point by otras on Aug 6, 2022 | past |
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| 20. | | A Machine for Thinking: How Douglas Engelbart Predicted the Future of Computing (netguru.com) |
| 2 points by otras on Aug 1, 2022 | past | 1 comment |
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| 21. | | Funny artifacts in a 3D house scan (alexanderell.is) |
| 33 points by otras on July 30, 2022 | past | 3 comments |
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| 22. | | My false start when learning to program (alexanderell.is) |
| 1 point by otras on July 18, 2022 | past |
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| 23. | | Work Context, Home Context (alexanderell.is) |
| 1 point by otras on July 10, 2022 | past |
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| 24. | | How far behind a plane is its noise? (alexanderell.is) |
| 108 points by otras on June 12, 2022 | past | 70 comments |
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| 25. | | I only care about the helpful notifications, not the promotional ones (alexanderell.is) |
| 462 points by otras on June 5, 2022 | past | 355 comments |
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| 26. | | Playing with a 3D representation of RGB color space (alexanderell.is) |
| 2 points by otras on May 28, 2022 | past |
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| 27. | | Tunneling Wikipedia through WhatsApp to (maybe?) get around WiFi restrictions (alexanderell.is) |
| 369 points by otras on May 21, 2022 | past | 132 comments |
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| 28. | | The Aerodynamics of a Falling Maple Seed [pdf] (haw-hamburg.de) |
| 1 point by otras on May 16, 2022 | past |
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| 29. | | “I don't know the numbers”: a math puzzle (alexanderell.is) |
| 176 points by otras on May 8, 2022 | past | 111 comments |
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| 30. | | Getting Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable (alexanderell.is) |
| 127 points by otras on May 1, 2022 | past | 32 comments |
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