There seems to be a lot of contention lately about whether you should go all-in on the cloud or to keep things as simple as possible. Those on the side of “build for the cloud” often frame this as clo
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This is part 4 of a series. Part 1 is here, part 2 is here, and part 3 is here. Come back next week for my thoughts on the future of desktop search. I thought this was going to be the last blog post a
This is part 3 of a series. Part 1 is here, part 2 is here. Come back next week for my thoughts on the next 10 years of Tracker. This post took a lot of research. I wanted to properly answer the quest
This is part 2 of a series. Part 1 is here. Come back next week to find out more about the history and future of Tracker. It was only a single line in the release notes. There weren’t any new graphics
This is part 1 of a series. Come back next week to find out more about the changes in Tracker 3.0. It’s too early to say “Job done”. But we’ve passed the biggest milestone on the project we announced
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I was talking to one of my students earlier, and lent him a book to read over summer. It was only after he’d left that I realised that — for me at any rate — the book I’d given him is probably the mos
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My first experience with the Canon EOS R1 was in the sweltering heat of Phoenix, Arizona with a pre-production unit. There is of course, only so much that you can test with a pre-production unit under
(Image credit: Canon) The first whispers about the Canon EOS R7 Mark II have hit the internet – and it's claimed that the camera will be the company's first APS-C body to possess a stacked image senso
The moment we begin to see that there are infinitely many kinds of beautiful lives, we cease being captive to the myth of normalcy — the cultural tyranny that tells us there are a handful of valid way
“If you can fall in love again and again,” Henry Miller wrote as he contemplated the measure of a life well lived on the precipice of turning eighty, “if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can
I have shipped a lot of different projects over the last ~10 years in tech. I often get tapped to lead new ones when it’s important to get it right, because I’m good at it. Shipping in a big tech comp
I had the chance to do David Beazley’s SICP course towards the end of 2022. I have only good things to say. There are a lot of free resources out there [1]. Having Dave as a guide, I was amazed at how
It’s been more than five years since The PGP Problem was published, and I still hear from people who believe that using PGP (whether GnuPG or another OpenPGP implementation) is a thing they should be
Sometimes, I think I'm falling apart. Then, I talk to my friends. One spent a whole winter getting a babysitter for her toddler daughter in the middle of the day and then used the time to go to the mo
There’s no doubt that exercise does a body good. Regular activity not only strengthens muscles but can bolster our bones, blood vessels, and immune system. Now, MIT engineers have found that exercise
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In Brief Posted: 10:02 AM PST · November 9, 2024 Connie Loizos Standing desks don’t do squat, per new study Over the years, numerous startups have gained traction by designing, making, and selling sta
Exercise by leaning against a wall and lifting my arms? I’m sold (Image credit: Getty Images) I’m not a big fan of isometric exercises, which involve holding the body in one position for a set time. I
More than 200,000 students at one of the largest school districts in the nation have started the school year with a major change: no cellphone use allowed. “I’ve noticed such a big difference in the c
The American mainstream media, and its vital watchdog role that once made it a trusted, major institution in a flawed yet functioning democracy, imploded in 2024, and it happened in two ways — gradual
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Once upon a time, a long, long, long time ago, small children might get told off for being loud or unruly or, as we called it then, “disruptive”. Now? Not so much. In 2016, it’s cool to be disruptive.
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The voice that speaks for America belongs to one of the nihilists who threatens to castrate The Dude, the Jeff Bridges character in The Big Lebowski. After confronting the Dude who is taking a bath, t
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