Curio 12 — a Markdown extravaganza - BrettTerpstra.com
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Curio 12 is out today with a metric ton of new features, and a few that make it an especially exciting update for me. I’ve been testing the beta for just a…
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Gmail.com’s massive redesign launches today
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Today, Google is making the biggest changes to Gmail since 2011. The huge redesign that leaked earlier this month is finally going live , and all the features…
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The United States is way behind other countries on robot ‘readiness,’ report says - The Washington Post
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Robots continue to enter workplaces. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images) The United States lags behind other countries in readiness for an increasingly automated…
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Facebook finally explains why it bans some content, in 27 pages - The Washington Post
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(Dado Ruvic/Reuters) SAN FRANCISCO — Among the most challenging issues for Facebook is its role as the policeman for the free expression of its 2 billion users.…
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9news.com | Buckle Up, Prime Members: Amazon Launches In-Car Delivery
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I gave Amazon the keys to my car last week and it went pretty well. Not that Amazon needed a lift (and the actual key was a digital one.) I was testing a new…
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Announcing IoT Inspector, A Tool to Study Smart Home IoT Device Behavior
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Tips for sane cable storage - BrettTerpstra.com
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Opinion | Hope in Arizona
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Opinion Phoenix — On Tuesday, there’s a special election in Arizona’s Eighth Congressional District, which Donald Trump won by 21 percentage points. It’s to…
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Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most: Steven Johnson: 9781594488214: Amazon.com: Books
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The Renegade Sheriffs
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Long tenures give sheriffs wide latitude to shape how the law is enforced. Illustration by Brian Stauffer On a Friday afternoon in March, 2013, a sheriff’s…
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Unrule of Law
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Illustration by Tom Bachtell In “ Unrule of Law ,” Amy Davidson Sorkin writes about Trump, Giuliani, and all the President’s lawyers.
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Brush pens are fun - get two for $7
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Brush pens are fun for drawing and lettering because you can vary the line thickness. And unlike a brush, which requires frequent dipping into an inkwell, a…
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IoT Inspector: Princeton releases a tool to snoop on home IoT devices and figure out what they're doing
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Silicon Valley’s Sixty-Year Love Affair with the Word “Tool”
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In his testimony before the Senate Judiciary and Commerce Committees on Tuesday, Mark Zuckerberg referred to “tools” dozens of times. Photograph by Mark…
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Helinox Chair One Camp Chair
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2-lb chair supports can support up to 320 lbs I bought this camp chair after visiting a friend who had one. He was a pretty large guy, weighing in at about 260…
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Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley: Corey Pein: 9781627794855: Amazon.com: Books
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Historic photo: George H.W. Bush, George W. and Laura Bush, the Clintons, the Obamas and Melania Trump huddle for a picture
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This Saturday, April 21, 2018, photo provided by the Office of former U.S. President George H.W. Bush, shows Bush, front center, and past presidents and first…
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No need for Trump to pardon personal lawyer at this point, adviser says
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Washington (CNN) There is currently "no need" to pardon President Donald Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen, White House Legislative Affairs Director Marc…
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Michael Cohen raid rattles Trump allies: Did feds seize president's communications?
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Video Should Trump be concerned Cohen could turn against him? The president disputes claims that his long-time lawyer Michael Cohen could turn against him while…
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Opinion | The Great Republican Tax Cut Backfire
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Did you have a happy Tax Day? Are you feeling grateful for the Republican tax cut? Evidently, most American taxpayers are not . In a sublime case of poetic…
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The myth of an ending: why even removing Trump from office won’t save American democracy
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Vox/Javier Zarracina When the president’s lawyer is getting his office raided by the FBI , and his former national security adviser has pleaded guilty to…
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How Long Can Trump's Long Con Last?
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In 1982, when Donald Trump was 36 years old, he began an annual ritual of lobbying Forbes magazine to include him on its list of the 400 wealthiest Americans.…
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Lawyers keep secrets locked up — so they get asked to do the dirty work
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Lawyers seem to be at the center of a lot of recent scandals This article was originally published on The Conversation . Lawyers seem to at the center of lot of…
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Opinion | Are Trump’s lawyers selling him a bill of goods, or is he not listening?
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Ty Cobb, left, and Jay Sekulow are among the members of President Trump’s legal team. (Jerry Cleveland/The Denver Post via AP; Steve Helber/AP) President Trump…
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Opinion | Sunday wrap: Trump on defense
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Opinion | An American Woman Quits Smiling
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Opinion I decided to stop smiling because I was tired. Tired of the “Can I get a smile?” and “Smile, it’s not that bad!” comments that are a too common part of…
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Opinion | The Republicans’ Big Senate Mess
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Opinion The Senate is supposed to be the staid chamber of Congress. But just as nobody got that message to the Republicans in Alabama who rallied around Roy…
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Opinion | Barbara Bush: Fake Pearls, Real Heart
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Opinion WASHINGTON — Barbara Bush was an expert at throwing shade, even before the term existed. When Congressman Dan Rostenkowski gave the first lady a shampoo…
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Opinion | Kim Jong-un Strings America Along
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Opinion Movement as the Trump administration prepares for a summit between the president and North Korea’s leader and sizes up a potential peace treaty between…
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Republican Lawmakers Can’t Stay Out of Women’s Bodies – DCReport.org
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Intrusive, Authoritarian GOP-Run Legislatures Try to Curtail Abortion Rights It’s no secret that Trump has thrown down with the anti-abortion movement. Indeed,…
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From Sandy Hook to the Holocaust, Truth Is Becoming Harder to Hear – DCReport.org
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Who Are You Going to Believe, the Liars or Your Own Eyes? We’re seeing a flood of disturbing news items all emanating from the same mindset that results in…
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Ross Douthat's Cassandra Cry Against Pope Francis
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Across every continent, in every country, Catholics “find themselves divided against one another,” writes the New York Times columnist Ross Douthat in his new…
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Building a better Kindle (or, Why Buttons Matter)
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Do you ever read something that feels like it was written just for you? That’s how I feel whenever Craig Mod writes about digital reading. His latest essay, “…
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The blurry line between 'fixer' and 'blackmailer'
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“Therefore whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered behind closed doors will be proclaimed from the…
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New Research (Again) Shows That It was Racism and Sexism--and Not "Working Class Anxiety"--That Elected Donald Trump
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America appears caught in a maelstrom of what I have described as "malignant reality," sustained by lies, half-truths, misunderstandings, willful ignorance and…
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Viozon AP-7S Tablet Stand — Tools and Toys
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Interior rejected staff advice when scuttling tribes' casino
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Emails show career employees circulating 'approval' letters just days before the department slammed the brakes on the Connecticut project. The heavily…
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Where Retirees Underestimate Spending
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Orchard Audio ApplePI DAC review : DACs - Volumio
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Hackers once stole a casino's high-roller database through a thermometer in the lobby fish tank
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An aquarium at a casino — but not the one in question. Ethan Miller/Getty Images The CEO of the cybersecurity firm Darktrace says hackers are increasingly…
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are we decentralized yet?
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are we decentralized yet? Contribute on Github Name Symbol Consensus Miners/voters Incentivized? # of entities in control of >50% of voting/mining power % of…
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The Mind-Expanding Ideas of Andy Clark
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Clark says that our minds extend out into the world, incorporating tools and other minds in order to think. Photo-Illustration by Alma Haser Audio: Listen to…
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Palantir Knows Everything About You
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Peter Thiel’s data-mining company is using War on Terror tools to track American citizens. The scary thing? Palantir is desperate for new customers. High above…
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“Is curing patients a sustainable business model?” Goldman Sachs analysts ask
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Regulate artificial intelligence to avert cyber arms race
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History of WWW and a Caution About Prematurely Judging Fintech
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Why does journalism need blockchain technology? – Maria Bustillos – Medium
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Blockchain technology by itself can’t answer this question, but it is the paper on which we can write the answer. (cross-posted from Civil ) Blockchain…
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Bake brown soda bread in a cast iron skillet
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If you have breakfast while traveling in Ireland you are bound to come across brown soda bread. Soda bread is super easy to make and a fantastic comfort food.…
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The Chemistry of Baking Brownies | LEAFtv
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The term "lab experiment" used in describing a botched recipe may be a joke, but good cooking routinely illustrates the benefits of applied chemistry. If your…
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Republicans have blundered again (surprise!). The Comey memos reveal just how bad. - The Washington Post
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What happened to winter? Vanishing ice convulses Alaskans' way of life
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Donald Trump attacks New York Times journalist over Michael Cohen article
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Opinion | This emperor is running short on clothes
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President Trump walks off Air Force One in West Palm Beach, Fla., on April 19. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP) It has been nearly three years since Donald Trump…
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Michael Cohen Has Said He Would Take a Bullet for Trump. Maybe Not Anymore.
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Reading Aloud to Young Children Has Benefits for Behavior and Attention - The New York Times
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iStock It’s a truism in child development that the very young learn through relationships and back-and-forth interactions, including the interactions that occur…
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1Password for Open Source Projects
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We rely on open source software every day to develop 1Password. It's fair to say that 1Password wouldn't exist without the open source community, so we want to…
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Using GnuCash as a Freelancer to Track Finances and Prepare Taxes
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Abusing Linux's firewall: the hack that allowed us to build Spectrum
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Today we are introducing Spectrum : a new Cloudflare feature that brings DDoS protection, load balancing, and content acceleration to any TCP-based protocol.…
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Whois is dead as Europe hands DNS overlord ICANN its arse
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Already fixed? Neylon also points out that dozens of other registries that are not under ICANN's control already have solutions for the GDPR legislation. The…
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A game of tag that’s been going for 20+ years
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A group of high school friends has been playing an elaborate game of tag since reconnecting at a reunion almost 30 years ago. A few years ago, one of the…
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Zillow surprises investors by buying up homes
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Real estate platform Zillow changed up its business model this week, announcing that it plans to purchase and sell homes in Las Vegas and Phoenix. Zillow will…
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How To Be a Systems Thinker | Edge.org
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Conversation : TECHNOLOGY Until fairly recently, artificial intelligence didn’t learn. To create a machine that learns to think more efficiently was a big…
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Battery Free HD Video Streaming
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Umbrella Note
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A simple, beautiful and powerful open source application for writing and taking notes. Side Project: popcorncss Created 6 Apr 2017 side project for this month -…
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Telescope: News & RSS Reader on the App Store
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This app is only available on the App Store for iOS devices. Telescope: News & RSS Reader 17+ Follow top news, RSS & videos Alice Young 5 Ratings Free iPhone…
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Learn to Code for Free – Grasshopper
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Charting Death
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Death: Reality vs Reported Site and writeup by Owen Shen. Data collection and analysis by Hasan Al-Jamaly , Maximillian Siemers , Owen Shen , and Nicole Stone .…
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Exit strategies Part II: Surprising aspects of the 25th Amendment
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A Sobering Look at Fake Online Reviews — Krebs on Security
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Exclusive: Flickr bought by SmugMug, which vows to revitalize the photo service
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Top Takeaways From Studying iPhone X Owners
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BetterTouchTool - Customize your Input Devices! - BrettTerpstra.com
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Thanks to BetterTouchTool for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week! I’m a long-(long-)-time fan of this app, and I’m really excited to see it switching over…
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I tried Odlum's Irish Brown Soda Bread mix
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I tried the popular Irish brand Odlum's Irish Brown Soda Bread mix to see if it was better or easier than my standby recipe . Irish Brown Soda Bread is a staple…
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The evolution of music from 1680 to 2017
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I enjoyed the piano stylings of Lord Vinheteiro in this "Evolution of Music" video**. He plays a little music from each year, starting with 1680 and ending with…
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Why Indonesia's Bajau people can stay submerged under water longer than you or me
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This is amazing. A former post doctoral candidate from the University of Copenhagen's Centre for GeoGenetics has discovered that a group of aquatic nomads from…
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Why Republicans attack children – George Lakoff – Medium
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Radical conservatives have found a new target for their anger, scorn, and ridicule: Children. Conservative attack dogs have made a point of specifically…
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An FBI Raid Puts the Spotlight on ‘Fixer’
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Liev Schreiber as Showtime’s fixer ‘Ray Donovan.’ Photo: Showtime Networks Inc./Everett Collection In press accounts of Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Michael…
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