Curiositry - The Autodidacts (Page 2)

The search for a good offline dictionary for Linux

… proved longer than expected … »

Bookmarklet: Copy Ghost Post ID to Clipboard

Save several milliseconds with two lines of JavaScript … »

Backpack Activation Energy

Portrait of a gumption trap … »

20 years of Linux and I finally started using job control

And it’s amazing … »

How to drain pasta without a colander, without burning yourself

A cooking tip for unusually bright cave people … »

All Polymarket temperature markets have disappeared

Along with the money bet on them? … »

Order book depth chart (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Order_book_depth_chart.gif)

The bid-ask spread on used physical goods

For most of my life I fundamentally misunderstood buy & sell prices … »

The art of getting back on one’s horse

It’s a long process … »

Delusional Optimism & the Art of Sneaking Up on Your Goals

You can succeed, but you can't fail — because you aren't officially trying … »

Bothering to understand

First it makes you slow, then it makes you fast (maybe) … »

Curation and its side effects

Some fundamentals about how it works, and what to do when it doesn't … »

Studierender Mönch (Studying Monk) by Eduard von Grützner, 1890

The butterfly effect of revenge bedtime procrastination

Wasting time isn't bad because it wastes time … »

My criteria for a good Linux developer laptop

Well-built, cheap, and fast: I pick all three. … »

Some thoughts about backing up, which occurred to me after my laptop abruptly expired

I had other plans for what to write about, and also plans for the day that didn't involve disassembling my connection to the outside world with a screwdriver … »

Israel Beer Josaphat, aka Baron von Reuter

Sheep Music & Wedding Bands

On knowledge gaps and bookworm pronunciation syndrome … »

Old site, new site bookmarklets

A small utility that’s surprisingly useful during website migrations … »

Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam figured this out a few centuries before I did

Ideas Evolve in Dialogue

You can sort of have a conversation with a book. I sometimes write rude comments in the margins when I disagree with the author. But the Stoics recommend that when you’re insulted, … »