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"01a0c54b-373f-7118-be16-bdd16c826f70", "title": "The supreme court needs competition.", "url": "https://deadpelican.com/wordpress/?p=353&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-supreme-court-needs-competition", "published_at": "2015-02-08T12:26:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54b-373f-7118-be16-bdd16cfe64c9", "title": "Past the peak of smartphones.", "url": "https://deadpelican.com/wordpress/?p=340&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=past-the-peak-of-smartphones", "published_at": "2014-12-06T20:56:33+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54b-373f-7118-be16-bdd16db53f67", "title": "Buying a lottery ticket isn’t such a bad idea.", "url": "https://deadpelican.com/wordpress/?p=343&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=buying-a-lottery-ticket-isnt-such-a-bad-idea", "published_at": "2014-12-06T12:40:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54b-373f-7118-be16-bdd16e188af1", "title": "The inversion of entropy.", "url": "https://deadpelican.com/wordpress/?p=344&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-inversion-of-entropy", "published_at": "2014-12-03T13:30:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54b-373f-7118-be16-bdd16e4b066a", "title": "I think I’ve solved the college tuition problem.", "url": "https://deadpelican.com/wordpress/?p=335&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=i-think-ive-solved-the-college-tuition-problem", "published_at": "2014-06-18T10:20:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54b-373f-7118-be16-bdd16f398bc5", "title": "A story about a lottery that nobody wins.", "url": "https://deadpelican.com/wordpress/?p=332&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-story-about-a-lottery-that-nobody-wins", "published_at": "2014-03-20T23:35:39+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54b-373f-7118-be16-bdd170381a42", "title": "I like to buy things with money.", "url": "https://deadpelican.com/wordpress/?p=329&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=i-like-to-buy-things-with-money", "published_at": "2013-11-21T11:53:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54b-373f-7118-be16-bdd1708efe83", "title": "Another thought on ipv6", "url": "https://deadpelican.com/wordpress/?p=323&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=another-thought-on-ipv6", "published_at": "2013-11-16T02:38:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c553-8037-70e8-b180-de00734d09c4", "title": "Speaking of protection money…", "url": "https://deadpelican.com/wordpress/?p=317&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=speaking-of-protection-money", "published_at": "2013-11-16T02:03:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c553-8037-70e8-b180-de00742e4475", "title": "Copper pipe heater without fire.", "url": "https://deadpelican.com/wordpress/?p=319&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=copper-pipe-heater-without-fire", "published_at": "2013-11-16T02:03:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c553-8037-70e8-b180-de0074db43fb", "title": "There should be two kinds of insurance.", "url": "https://deadpelican.com/wordpress/?p=314&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=there-should-be-two-kinds-of-insurance", "published_at": "2013-11-16T01:58:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c553-8037-70e8-b180-de00754a3a68", "title": "Sharkbite", "url": "https://deadpelican.com/wordpress/?p=310&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sharkbite", "published_at": "2013-11-03T22:18:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c553-8037-70e8-b180-de0075fce35d", "title": "Reset buttons", "url": "https://deadpelican.com/wordpress/?p=304&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=reset-buttons", "published_at": "2013-10-10T00:59:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c553-8037-70e8-b180-de0076df7123", "title": "Washing machines.", "url": "https://deadpelican.com/wordpress/?p=299&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=washing-machines", "published_at": "2013-09-24T11:11:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c553-8037-70e8-b180-de00775f2787", "title": "Investment diversification.", "url": "https://deadpelican.com/wordpress/?p=302&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=investment-diversification", "published_at": "2013-09-24T11:06:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c553-8037-70e8-b180-de00781b15ab", "title": "Hydraulic Door Closers", "url": "https://deadpelican.com/wordpress/?p=296&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hydraulic-door-closers", "published_at": "2013-09-12T00:45:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c553-8037-70e8-b180-de0078c13a57", "title": "Why is there a save button?", "url": "https://deadpelican.com/wordpress/?p=294&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=294", "published_at": "2013-08-31T00:19:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c553-8037-70e8-b180-de007908cf6c", "title": "A treatise on being average", "url": "https://deadpelican.com/wordpress/?p=292&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-treatise-on-being-average", "published_at": "2013-08-28T11:04:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55b-fbab-71f3-9a69-a0bd1395d037", "title": "Why did evolution invent eyelids but not ear 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2025

Quicker readingoriginal ↗
28 Dec 2025
Paintingoriginal ↗
28 Dec 2025
Almost free foodoriginal ↗
27 Dec 2025
inflation is a bad ideaoriginal ↗
24 Dec 2025
vms boot fasteroriginal ↗
7 Jul 2025

2024

A better engine.original ↗
17 Aug 2024
I just thought of a neat way to avoid git conflictsoriginal ↗
14 Jan 2024

2023

The earth is a giant battery. With one charge.original ↗
3 Dec 2023
An interesting idea for why time travel doesn’t exist.original ↗
30 Apr 2023

2022

Doctors and programmersoriginal ↗
11 Jun 2022

2021

SREs.original ↗
4 Sept 2021
The genius of the itaniumoriginal ↗
13 Aug 2021

2020

I think I have invented a new data structure, the stree.original ↗
5 Sept 2020
naming things.original ↗
25 Aug 2020
open source code reviewsoriginal ↗
23 May 2020
How to make printer ink cheaper.original ↗
1 Mar 2020

2019

Planning and itches.original ↗
31 Oct 2019
A theory on why the mess is.original ↗
7 Aug 2019
The unnecessary size of the human brain.original ↗
16 Jul 2019
The internet is the digital version of globalization.original ↗
2 Mar 2019
SFINAEIBPoriginal ↗
5 Feb 2019

2018

Google Shark Jumpingoriginal ↗
18 Dec 2018
Things that are hard to google for (1).original ↗
13 Dec 2018
I found this amusing.original ↗
9 Dec 2018
A slightly better internetoriginal ↗
1 Dec 2018
Why do we need intake valves?original ↗
8 Nov 2018
Dumpster fireoriginal ↗
14 Oct 2018
Watching history happen.original ↗
3 Sept 2018
The UI designers who design invisible interfaces are just as bad as the software developers that implement them.original ↗
8 Jul 2018
Because chinaoriginal ↗
24 Jun 2018
E.T. Rebootoriginal ↗
8 Mar 2018
Hastening the collapse.original ↗
19 Jan 2018
Lobbyists.original ↗
12 Jan 2018

2017

Design by itch.original ↗
14 Dec 2017
Peak programmeroriginal ↗
3 Dec 2017
Missing letter soundsoriginal ↗
26 Nov 2017
The socialism of coding standards.original ↗
22 Nov 2017
Setting clocksoriginal ↗
22 Nov 2017
Rain.original ↗
5 Nov 2017
Open source softwareoriginal ↗
3 Nov 2017
Peak ZFSoriginal ↗
31 Oct 2017
The third level of opposable thumboriginal ↗
23 Sept 2017
What to do about identity theft.original ↗
21 Sept 2017
Different base number set conversions.original ↗
3 Sept 2017
Accomplishmentsoriginal ↗
2 Sept 2017
Random lettersoriginal ↗
27 Aug 2017
Progress in 2017original ↗
19 Aug 2017
It’s a good thing the roman empire died out when it did.original ↗
9 May 2017
C++ should have been called ++Coriginal ↗
9 May 2017

2016

Politicsoriginal ↗
15 Oct 2016
Droids make great beacons.original ↗
17 Sept 2016
A silly solution to the middle east problem.original ↗
3 Sept 2016
How the brain works, addendum: why you can’t live forever.original ↗
24 Aug 2016
Kirk is a bad deal in the long run.original ↗
31 Jul 2016
Regulating the internet is inevitable I think.original ↗
29 Jul 2016
I’ll never understand bad user interfaces.original ↗
11 Jul 2016
Washing your hands is the same as taking antibiotics.original ↗
12 Jun 2016
Flying Scope and The Great Dinosaur Divide.original ↗
23 May 2016
This is awesome, and github is not.original ↗
26 Mar 2016
root, not root and back again.original ↗
26 Mar 2016

2015

Today I realized we write our numbers backwards.original ↗
27 Dec 2015
THEY FIXED IT!original ↗
24 Dec 2015
Finished languagesoriginal ↗
7 Nov 2015
Software gone wrong.original ↗
4 Oct 2015
Software gone wrong.original ↗
4 Oct 2015
Software gone wrong.original ↗
4 Oct 2015
Save buttons and backups.original ↗
18 Sept 2015
Yet another note on star warsoriginal ↗
7 Sept 2015
Patentsoriginal ↗
15 Aug 2015
Gotta Get Gitoriginal ↗
9 Jun 2015
Transitioning to no money.original ↗
4 May 2015
Two circlesoriginal ↗
13 Apr 2015
The supreme court needs competition.original ↗
8 Feb 2015

2014

Past the peak of smartphones.original ↗
6 Dec 2014
Buying a lottery ticket isn’t such a bad idea.original ↗
6 Dec 2014
The inversion of entropy.original ↗
3 Dec 2014
I think I’ve solved the college tuition problem.original ↗
18 Jun 2014
A story about a lottery that nobody wins.original ↗
20 Mar 2014

2013

I like to buy things with money.original ↗
21 Nov 2013
Another thought on ipv6original ↗
16 Nov 2013
Speaking of protection money…original ↗
16 Nov 2013
Copper pipe heater without fire.original ↗
16 Nov 2013
There should be two kinds of insurance.original ↗
16 Nov 2013
Sharkbiteoriginal ↗
3 Nov 2013
Reset buttonsoriginal ↗
10 Oct 2013
Washing machines.original ↗
24 Sept 2013
Investment diversification.original ↗
24 Sept 2013
Hydraulic Door Closersoriginal ↗
12 Sept 2013
Why is there a save button?original ↗
31 Aug 2013
A treatise on being averageoriginal ↗
28 Aug 2013
Why did evolution invent eyelids but not ear flaps?original ↗
11 Jul 2013
Something good.original ↗
18 May 2013

2012

How it’s all going to end.original ↗
9 Dec 2012
Upgradesoriginal ↗
12 May 2012
Video of the future is annoying.original ↗
23 Mar 2012
The makersoriginal ↗
15 Feb 2012

2011

A solution to the wikipedia problem.original ↗
18 Dec 2011
I have invented the fastest computer in the world.original ↗
2 Dec 2011
Linux vs Windowsoriginal ↗
2 Sept 2011
Print going away.original ↗
23 Aug 2011
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