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Design rules for writing
The other day I ran across a list of 17 questions to guide design attributed to the legendary designer Jony Ive. Anyone even remotely interested in design is likely familiar with the accomplishments of Jony Ive. However, even if you’ve never heard of the man, you’ve seen the fruits of his genius, ranging from Apple’s
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Three in one: Antarctica is more than just a heap of ice
The hits keep coming. A new report from the British Antarctic Survey tells us what many of us already suspected: the West Antarctic Ice Sheet’s days are numbered. The report covers melting of key ice shelves in the Amundsen Sea driven by warmer ocean waters and how the differences in projections where greenhouse gas emissions are slashed
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The Allure of Plain Text (for me at least)
As for me, I will use plain text. YouTube showed me a video the other day by a user named No Boilerplate titled “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Plain Text.” The video itself was quite well done and interesting and got me thinking about using Github as a project tracking tool. But it also got me thinking about
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Fragile Content: Link Rot and Information Hoarding
Confession: I’m an information hoarder. If I see something interesting on the internet, I’ll often download it, make a note, or save a link. Unfortunately, nothing lasts forever. About 10 years ago I used Evernote to keep track of things. I had daily lists and saved notes on all sorts of stuff. Over time I
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Technology to Save the World
Persistent droughts, historic floods, and killer heat waves: climate change is a growing threat to humanity. But climatetech may help us overcome this threat. But what exactly is climatetech? Simply put, climatetech refers to a wide range of technologies to improve resilience or mitigate climate change and its effects. Climatetech covers a few major areas,
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Timing is Everything for Knee Replacement Surgery
One of the things that has stuck with me since my mother had her knee replaced in the fall of 2005 was how she said her knee hurt less immediately after the surgery than it did before. Based on chatting with other people who have had joint replacements (or know people who have), this is