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Popular perception of history are almost always constructed out of half remembered facts, myths and legends and very often have no real relation to what actually took place. In the western world the popular perceptions of the Ottoman...
It's been harder to fall asleep. Somehow, my brain is starting to think that my desk job is dangerous. Having to wake up to do things that I don't want to do is getting harder to white-knuckle through. And after spending 3 hours doing...
In July, at the start of this latest North American ‘distraction’, I experimented with various couplings. Trying all the ‘main stream’ examples wasn’t a cheap experiment and ended largely frustrated…The Microtrains 1015 (now very...
If you’re weighing Sonnet 5 against Sonnet 4.6 for everyday Claude Code work, here is the short version. Sonnet 5 is the better default for most jobs. It answers more concisely, runs much faster, and is now permanently cheaper than 4.6...
"When you boil it all down it's only album art", so said the critic who knows better. Pleasant packaging and mostly meaningless. But perhaps there's more of this sort of thing growing wild and free out there - however I've lost the will...
🍕 I’m JA Westenberg. I write essays about technology, philosophy, productivity, and what it means to be human. If you like ideas that take their time, you’re in the right place.While you’re here, a few things I’ve built: Kerouac, a...
Each year, I post a reader survey. This helps me learn who’s reading this blog. But it also helps me try to replicate psych findings and investigate interesting hypotheses. Some highlights from past years include birth order effects,...
A useful bonus feature of handwritten-publish is that if I use the built-intranscription and send the text with or instead of the handwriting image, that'swhat gets published. Effectively, I'm posting to micro-blog directly from my...
We lost the best the human. What shall we do now? #dollyparton #dolly
Each Thursday in the Disquiet Junto music community, a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have five days to record and upload a track in response to the project instructions. Membership in the Junto...
Continuation-passing style (CPS) is a programming style in which you pass one or more first-class procedures (continuations) to a function as arguments. When the function is done, it doesn't return a value in the usual way, but delegates...
Intro: too many projects, not enough timeAt some point in Column Tax's lifecycle, we grew such that as co-founder & CTO (and responsible for Engineering, Product, and Design) I wasn't personally leading every project. At that point, I...
I know, I know, another photo of the Castle?! That's just how it goes on a Disneyland photo blog. There will be more. But at least this one is pretty, with the colors popping in the afternoon sun. The blue sky helps; the slide is...
That's right, America's symbol of freedom, the wild Mustangs of the West; get 'em by the thousands for pennies on the dollar- perfect for someone's dining room table, all thanks to... Great American Orange Man!