Much of what I do, in multiple fields, could be reduced to one skill: troubleshooting.
I’ll define troubleshooting as systematically determining the cause of unwanted behaviour in a system, and fixing it.
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TL;DR I made a thing and think it’s cool.
Have you ever wanted to send someone a link, not to a huge and confusingly-laid-out webpage, but to the one sentence that’
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When we launched NeuroBB in 2015, as the first (and only) independent EEG, BCI, and neurofeedback discussion forum, we chose the forum software Discourse. We chose Discourse not because it is easy, but
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Days, it turns out, are rather easily made.
The time required varies, but trends closer to making the bed, or making a cup of tea, than to making Ravioli. (If you are crazy
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Hello friends,
Below are four new posts and six old ones.
1. How to Get the Most Out of a Conference (Extroverting 101)
2. Implementing Elegant Timing (in which Immanuel gets stuck behind
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Hello friends,
Below are four new posts and six old ones.
1. How to Get the Most Out of a Conference (Extroverting 101)
2. Implementing Elegant Timing (in which Immanuel gets stuck behind
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If you’ve ever splattered your face, shirt, counter, and ceiling with coffee and grounds when trying to operate an Aeropress coffee maker, this is how to prevent it.
Blowouts happen when it
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Reality is detailed, and attention is finite. As I get older, I find myself noticing less. I think this is partly because adults are socialized not to stare, and to pretend like they
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Keyboard people invest time upfront memorizing keybindings, in order to save time in the long run. At least, that’s the theory. In practice, it’s more like this:
What if we crowdsourced
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At the risk of stating the obvious even more obviously than I usually do: sometimes the perfect approach involves tolerating imperfection.
Imperfection?! Yes. Specifically, the more macroscopic one’s view becomes, the more
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Figuring out how to upload a Ghost theme using the Admin API from Bash shouldn't have required heroic effort. Embarrassingly, it did.
↓ Jump to the script ↓
I cobbled a script together
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For those of you who are new: Welcome! We have three new posts for you. They aren’t entirely representative of what we usually publish, but our posts rarely are.
1. The Grug
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