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4,562 karma · joined March 4, 2017

https://alexanderell.is

The opinions stated here are my own, not those of my company.

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Player Piano (Novel)

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Science, the Endless Frontier (1945) [pdf]

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How much oranger do red orange bags make oranges look?

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Visualizing my strengths and areas for growth with RPG radar charts

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Harry Chapin and RATM: the problem with bleeding interests

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All of the writing I did in a week as a software engineer

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The Big Dig

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Scollay Square

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Brute-forcing the NYT Digits game

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Writing an RPC from Scratch (2021)

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Things that are hard to measure, things that are easy to measure

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In the desert, no service, and your partner's late to the rendezvous. What now?

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Practice Being a Beginner

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Learning by working on problems just outside of your reach

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iPhones and action discoverability

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The hobby buyer's fallacy: “I'd pursue my hobby if I just bought X”

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Stubbornness and Programming

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Writing a toy WebSocket server from scratch

alexanderell.is·157 pts·otras·
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What happens if you point two CNAMEs at each other? Not much, really

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Sharpening the Axe for Programming

alexanderell.is·1 pts·otras·
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A Machine for Thinking: How Douglas Engelbart Predicted the Future of Computing

hiddenheroes.netguru.com·2 pts·otras·
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Funny artifacts in a 3D house scan

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My false start when learning to program

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Work Context, Home Context

alexanderell.is·1 pts·otras·
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How far behind a plane is its noise?

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I only care about the helpful notifications, not the promotional ones

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Playing with a 3D representation of RGB color space

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Tunneling Wikipedia through WhatsApp to (maybe?) get around WiFi restrictions

alexanderell.is·369 pts·otras·
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The Aerodynamics of a Falling Maple Seed [pdf]

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“I don't know the numbers”: a math puzzle

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