Articles by Tomte
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Animals can give blood too (blood.co.uk)

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Skeeto/w64devkit: Portable C and C++ Development Kit for x64 (and x86) Windows (github.com/skeeto)

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The Bastard Operator from Hell (bjash.com)

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Calculus Made Easy (1910) (calculusmadeeasy.org)

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The Map of Mathematics (quantamagazine.org)

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Paper Plotter (felixboiii.github.io)

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A Veteran Teacher Shadows Two Students and Learns a Sobering Lesson (larrycuban.wordpress.com)

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The Data Journalism Handbook 2 (datajournalism.com)

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Seeing Theory (brown.edu)

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Chemical habitability of Earth and rocky planets prescribed by core formation (nature.com)

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14-Year-Old Is Using Origami to Imagine Emergency Shelters (smithsonianmag.com)

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The Controversial Framework of Dispensationalism Behind the Rapture (thecollector.com)

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Does the Measured Abundance Suggest a Biological Origin? (sagepub.com)

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Fontemon (coderelay.io)

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Six Math Essentials (macmillan.com)

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Preserving the Open Web: Inside the New Wayback Machine Plugin for WordPress (archive.org)

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Fli4l (wikipedia.org)

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A Brief History of the Fist Bump (2008) (time.com)

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Pandoc in the Browser (pandoc.org)

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Release Pandoc 3.9 (github.com/jgm)

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I am my own legal department: the promise and peril of "go independent" (2024) (citationneeded.news)

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Why Was a Dead Pope Put on Trial at the Cadaver Synod? (thecollector.com)

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What did the groundhog see? Punxsutawney Phil's winter prediction is in (cnn.com)

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Gambling with Research Quality (tomstafford.substack.com)

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[flagged] Guest Post from an Iranian (scottaaronson.blog)

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She was a broke teenager stranded in a town. Then two nuns saved the day (cnn.com)

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Collections: The Late Bronze Age Collapse, a Brief Introduction (acoup.blog)

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Microsoft explores bringing top menu bar to Win 11 with new PowerToys feature (windowscentral.com)

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The RAM Nightmare: How I Lost My Sanity (and Almost My Deadline) (davidrevoy.com)

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OpenSUSE Governance Proposal (gitlab.com/jeffmahoney)

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2026 OSI Elections Update (opensource.org)

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Bananapedia (github.com/madavidcoder)

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OK, I reread that classic paper by Paul Meehl, and (columbia.edu)

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Doomsday Clock 2026: Atomic scientists set new time (cnn.com)

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TikTok investigating why some users can't write "Epstein" in messages (npr.org)

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Blocking Claude (aphyr.com)

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What Were the Crusades and Why Do They Still Matter? (thecollector.com)

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Sometimes Your Job Is to Stay the Hell Out of the Way (randsinrepose.com)

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Is Particle Physics Dead, Dying, or Just Hard? (quantamagazine.org)

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Linux Conclave (kernel.org)

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Kangaroo takes out Tour Down Under peloton (abc.net.au)

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White whale spotted off Crescent Head coast in 'unusual' summer sighting (abc.net.au)

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A Massacre in Mashhad (newyorker.com)

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Zensical (zensical.org)

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Grok TiddlyWiki – Build a deep, lasting understanding of TiddlyWiki (groktiddlywiki.com)

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List one task, do it, cross it out (oliverburkeman.com)

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FreeBSD 15 trims legacy fat and revamps how OS is built (theregister.com)

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The Copyrightability of Fonts Revisited (matthewbutterick.com)

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Patents and Open Source: Understanding the Risks and Available Solutions (opensource.org)

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Prompt Repetition Improves Non-Reasoning LLMs (arxiv.org)

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Act for the Better Protection of Whistleblowers (HinSchG) (gesetze-im-internet.de)

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The BoardGameGeek Hall of Fame 2026 – Day 1 Inductee (boardgamegeek.com)

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Cows can use sophisticated tools (nautil.us)

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WTO Awards Caribbean Country Right to Ignore US Copyright (2007) (slashdot.org)

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They Wanted a University Without Cancel Culture. Then Dissenters Were Ousted (politico.com)

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Trump tells Norway's PM he has no obligation to 'think purely of peace' (euronews.com)

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Open-Science-Land (expedition-open-science.org)

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It is 2026; where were we? (zverok.space)

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Our top Core Web Vitals recommendations for 2023 (web.dev)

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Fear and Loathing of the English Passive (2010) (ed.ac.uk)

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Iran report says 16,500 dead in 'genocide under digital darkness' (thetimes.com)

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Not-Such-Better-Living Through Chemistry (2023) (science.org)

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The Theory Underlying Concept Maps and How to Construct and Use Them (2008) (ihmc.us)

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Thoughts and Observations Regarding Apple Creator Studio (daringfireball.net)

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Some (3b1b.co)

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Running Factorio from over 1k floppy disks (pcgamer.com)

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Are There Accumulating Microplastics in Human Tissue or Not? (science.org)

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Open Roberta Lab (open-roberta.org)

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Wikipedia celebrates 25 years of knowledge at its best (wikimediafoundation.org)

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Weird Debugging Tricks the Browser Doesn't Want You to Know (norbauer.com)

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Vital Synth: How to Use It and Where to Begin (2025) (landr.com)

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Markiplier Will Open Iron Lung on 2,500 Screens with No Distributor (indiewire.com)

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Unraveling Principal Component Analysis (peterbloem.nl)

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Nigerian musical artists in Canada are rewriting the rules of the industry (cnn.com)

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A Clinical Trial Nightmare (science.org)

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I Was Kidnapped by Idiots (theatlantic.com)

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How to Fire Your Boss (1970) (theanarchistlibrary.org)

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Guide for Newcomers – SCP Foundation (wikidot.com)

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Things I've quit doing at my desk (justinjackson.ca)

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Words (2013) (justinjackson.ca)

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Kalpa Desktop (kalpadesktop.org)

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An Open Letter to Bigot Diners (2013) (sushiwhore.wordpress.com)

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Amazon Flags 'Low-Time' and 'Zero Badgers' as It Cracks Down on RTO (businessinsider.com)

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Postcards Connecting the World – Postcrossing (postcrossing.com)

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Google: Don't make "bite-sized" content for LLMs if you care about search rank (arstechnica.com)

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Unique 'mugging' behaviour attracts intrigued whale watchers to Queensland (abc.net.au)

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'Books are going to take longer to get to libraries' (tcj.com)

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Blosxom: The Zen of Blogging (blosxom.com)

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The Valley of the Shadow of Death (2008) (texasmonthly.com)

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WikiFlix (toolforge.org)

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Crusted Interpreter: The whole typed affair (youtube.com)

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Shame Surrounding Spreadsheets (rubenerd.com)

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Promoting AI Agents (world.hey.com)

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Debunking the AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit (platformer.news)

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A Solid Load of Bull (loup-vaillant.fr)

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Threat modeling as code: exploring pytm (2024) (maciejgaleja.com)

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Image Glitcher (patorjk.com)

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Breaking Down the Spike Lee Double Dolly Shot (2013) (andsoitbeginsfilms.com)

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How to Create 3D Graphics for Game in Excel Using Formulas (exceltable.com)

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Patents and Open Source: Understanding the Risks and Available Solutions (opensource.org)