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Occasionally, in a moment of dazed wonder...

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At some point I stopped trusting my memory. Information I might need to recall later had to get recorded somewhere, or it was as good as…

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There’s a phrase I hear every now and then that always makes me curious about how English will look in the future. The phrase goes like this…

A little while ago I abruptly noticed that dark themes have become really popular. It looks like this development extended past mobile and…

I try my best to not take my mental health for granted, and to be grateful that my brain chemistry allows me to do the things I want while…

I don’t remember who it was that recommended Robert Martin’s Clean Code to me (a fantastic book, but not discussed in this post), yet what I…

If you’re reading this, the odds are pretty good that you’ve had the exquisite delight of travelling by airplane in North America. If you’re…

A post by a Russian Instagrammer showed up on my feed the other day. It contained an interesting metaphor that I had seen...

We were talking about the stifling amount of transhumanist-themed sci-fi shows on Netflix et al. when a friend of mine, who is a big fan of…