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Simple lasts longer: making a map stateful using scotch tape and Web Storage API
🗺️ Too many invaders to keep track of; I really don't want to run another database; Web Storage to the rescue
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Be more lucky
🍀 The science and the comedy of luck
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The search for tiles
🗺️ Adventures in mapmaking with Stamen Toner, OSM and the German Federal Agency for Cartography
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Read fewer books, feel better about it
📚 New Year resolutions, Goodreads and dopamine, a French blueprint for not being a dictator over yourself
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Paint it black: mapping Space Invader mosaics in Paris
🗺️ "I solemnly swear that I'm up to no good"
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One year of writing every week
🥳 The pnote newsletter is now 1 year old! Time for lessons learned
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Beyond the golden age: reflecting on 12 years at Google
📝 The golden age of Google as I’ll remember it; and what may lie beyond it
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How to give feedback
🎤 A 2-minute masterclass in feedback at a Parisian comedy club
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Hash Code: AI from DeepMind beats top human programmers
🏆 A "Deep Blue" moment for competitive programming?
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Seeing like a neural network: chihuahua or blueberry muffin
Blueberries and eyes, 300 million neurons, 3x3 masks are all you need
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Future, tense: the downside of a dopaminergic mind
💥 Dopamine makes us focus on things that make the future "better", but what about the present?
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Writing, inspiration and Steinbeck's hangover
"In fact, given the smallest excuse, one will not work at all"
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