Xerox scanners/photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents Please see the „condensed time line“ section (the next one) for a time line of how the Xerox saga unfolded. It for example depicts that I did not push the thing to the public right away…

None of my neighbors subscribe to my Substack newsletter, as far as I can tell. That’s fine with me. I don’t talk much about my vocation around here. We’ve lived in this house for many years (although we will be moving in a few days), and during that whole…

Homo sapiens migrated to the continent in waves – but the reasons for their early failures to overcome Neanderthals are a mystery

Describes how to create a Hex Tile Grid Map in Excel using Excel's charting capabilities

According to the major monotheistic religions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—humans have a special nature and destiny, different from and superior to

According to Albert Einstein, Kurt Gödel was the greatest logician since Aristotle. (Alfred Tarski, ever competitive, declared himself the world’s

It is entirely appropriate to celebrate Fyodor Dostoevsky’s 200th birthday with a biography of his second wife. For the arrival in 1866 of the

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Gilad Bracha recently posted an article "Bits of History, Words of Advice" that talks about the incredible influence of Smalltalk but bemoans the fact that:




...today Smalltalk is relegated to a small niche of true believers.  Whenever…

Understanding depression as an altered state of consciousness, like a dream or drug trip, could help people awaken from it

Bar-tailed Godwits regularly travel more than 7,000 miles non-stop. One enthusiast is spreading the word of their amazing migrations, with the help of a research project tracking 20 tagged birds in...

Knowledge and information are part of a continuum but not the same, and knowledge problems cannot be solved with information tools alone. ...

sourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git repos, bug tracking, continuous integration, and mailing lists.

There may not be a lot going on here hardware-wise, but that's part of the charm of this design.

An article on implementing OAuth user registration for a newsletter on a statically generated site using Cloudflare workers.

Roll up, Roll up! Read all about it! Champion cycle racers observed using a mechanically assisted gear changing mechanism

Realizing everyone you meet is massively flawed isn’t cheery, but it explains a lot.