An autodidact who enjoys building “web stuff”, reading large books, and hot-fixing his own software. Inquisitively pokes at a mechanical typewriter in attempt to prove the Infinite Monkey Theorem.
Here’s a small piece of advice, which I would like to have learned earlier: save the date. Put the date in filenames, but don’t stop there! Put it on everything: journal
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When I upgraded from Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04 LTS, I finally took the plunge and switched from the i3 window manager on X11 to Sway, an almost drop-in Wayland replacement. Here's
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Yesterday morning I saw, for the first time, a math problem trending on Twitter: $$8 ÷ 2(2+2) = \color{#990000} \textbf{?}$$ As the co-founder of algebrarules.com, I have received several emails about
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I don’t like revising. By the time I’ve finished writing a story or essay, I’ve seen each sentence so often my eyes cross and glaze over when I try to
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Intelligence* — as far as I can tell — is a variable, not a constant. It fluctuates, the same way a healthy person’s heart-rate varies over time. Graph it, and it looks like this:
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Elon Musk is planning to colonize Mars. If he succeeds, it could be one of the most important changes in human history. And, based on the surprising success of his previous ventures — including
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In this tutorial I’ll show how to convert manuscripts written in markdown into a variety of industry-standard formats, automatically, using Pandoc. Why bother? I write short-stories and essays in markdown, but many
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Ghost is a free, open-source, and beautiful piece of software that allows you to write and publish your own blog — while keeping out of the way. Heroku is a Platform as a Service
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A year ago we released EEGrunt and wrote an announcement post here on The Autodidacts, which included a brief overview of what EEGrunt was good for and a quick getting-started tutorial. EEGrunt is
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Mark Twain said, “there comes a time in every rightly constructed boy’s life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.” As the youngest brother of
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