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Nathan Paul
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A geeky student — interested in computers, minimalism, collaboration & the web.

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mmatt.net
November 17, 2024 at 2:12 AM
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dame.is
my friend rachel texted me randomly this evening and i’m not sure what’s happening but i don’t hate it
Beep boop Today 8:56 PM beep Boop to you too Badump badump ding dong Read 11:16 PM Today 11:16 PM Bing bong toot toot Delivered
March 20, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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samwho.dev
The consistency Randall Munroe has shown publishing xkcd 3 times a week for 20 years blows my mind. I know there are people who have done more for longer, but I’ve been reading xkcd since almost the beginning and the topics are close to home for me. Hits different.
March 9, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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anirudh.fi
For the past 4 weeks, @oppili.bsky.social and I have been building @tangled.sh—a fresh take on decentralized git collaboration platforms.

Tangled is built on atproto, and designed to be decentralized from day 0. Read the introduction here: blog.tangled.sh/intro
introducing tangled
a git collaboration platform, built on atproto
blog.tangled.sh
March 2, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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brodierobertson.xyz
We are 7 months away from Windows 10 EOL and Windows 11 market share is going down and Windows 10 going up amongst gamers, I don't know what there plan is but Microsoft better be thinking something up or they're in for some trouble
March 3, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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thomasfuchs.at
trillion dollar industry that will revolutionize everything
Googling for “bees in my computer”. Google AI Overview: “Bees can be present in desktop computers built after the l mid-2000s, but only at a microscopic level. These bees are a special breed of Apis Arithmeticam that perform basic computations in the CPU.”
February 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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xkcd.com
Suspension Bridge xkcd.com/3048
February 8, 2025 at 12:05 AM
polarhive.net
Wombat: Crawling @wikipedia.org!

It crawls through linked articles (brute force) and dumps to a db starting from a --seed-url

Future ideas include moving to a vector-db and introducing features like a "wiki race" where you compete against wombat to reach a target page using semantic search.
Visualization of Wikipedia articles starting from a --seed-url.
January 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
polarhive.net
sway: now flexoki'd
A screenshot of my desktop running sway. Now updated to match the flexoki colorscheme: https://polarhive.net/dots
January 11, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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stephango.com
Flexoki 2.0 introduces 88 new colors that feel like watercolor pigments on paper.

This is my attempt to bring the feeling of analog color to digital emissive screens. This version expands the palette to a full range of values for every color, without desaturating the pigment effect.
January 7, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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brodierobertson.xyz
Don't delete your C:\Windows\System76 directory
December 16, 2024 at 4:15 AM
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stephango.com
File over app · 2023
stephango.com/file-over-app
File over app is a philosophy: if you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve and read. Use tools that give you this freedom. File over app is an appeal to tool makers: accept that all software is ephemeral, and give people ownership over their data. In the fullness of time, the files you create are more important than the tools you use to create them. Apps are ephemeral, but your files have a chance to last. The ancient temples of Egypt contain hieroglyphs that were chiseled in stone thousands of years ago. The ideas hieroglyphs convey are more important than the type of chisel that was used to carve them. The world is filled with ideas from generations past, transmitted through many mediums, from clay tablets to manuscripts, paintings, sculptures, and tapestries. These artifacts are objects that you can touch, hold, own, store, preserve, and look at. To read something written on paper all you need is eyeballs. Today, we are creating innumerable digital artifacts, but most of these artifacts are out of our control. They are stored on servers, in databases, gated behind an internet connection, and login to a cloud service. Even the files on your hard drive use proprietary formats that make them incompatible with older systems and other tools. Paraphrasing something I wrote recently: "If you want your writing to still be readable on a computer from the 2060s or 2160s, it’s important that your notes can be read on a computer from the 1960s." You should want the files you create to be durable, not only for posterity, but also for your future self. You never know when you might want to go back to something you created years or decades ago. Don’t lock your data into a format you can’t retrieve. These days I write using an app I help make called Obsidian, but it’s a delusion to think it will last forever. The app will eventually become obsolete. It’s the plain text files I create that are designed to last. Who knows if anyone will want to read them besides me, but future me is enough of an audience to make it worthwhile.
November 26, 2024 at 3:26 PM
polarhive.net
@zen-browser.app + vimium c is magical!
Zen browser: Private Window with the floating toolbar mod enabled.
November 25, 2024 at 7:10 PM
polarhive.net
such design. much wow
@bsky.app feels so fresh!
November 16, 2024 at 8:38 AM