Articles by Tomte
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The CRA's Impetus to Openness (meshedinsights.com)

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Makesite: Simple, lightweight, and magic-free static site/blog generator (2022) (github.com/sunainapai)

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Writing HTML by hand is easier than debugging your static site generator (2024) (logicgrimoire.wordpress.com)

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The reason you don't 'get' Zettelkasten (2022) (arthurperret.fr)

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FOSDEM 2026 – Schedule (fosdem.org)

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Continuously hardening ChatGPT Atlas against prompt injection attacks (openai.com)

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32-bit x86 Position Independent Code – It's that bad (2015) (ewontfix.com)

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How to Eat a Tomato (2011) [pdf] (ruhlman.com)

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iOS 26.3 brings AirPods-like pairing to third-party devices in EU under DMA (macrumors.com)

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Houdini and the Magic of Logistics (tandfonline.com)

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In Which My Situation Is Discussed (textfiles.com)

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Asciidoctor (asciidoctor.org)

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Posit: Conf(2025) Quarto Talks (quarto.org)

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Incus 6.20 has been released (linuxcontainers.org)

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Why the Book of Esther Never Mentions God (thecollector.com)

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Harsh Environments: Space Radiation (2008) [pdf] (jhuapl.edu)

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24/192 Music Downloads are Silly Indeed (2012) (xiph.org)

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Rules for Reading the Epstein Files (politico.com)

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How GNU Guile is 10x better (2021) (draketo.de)

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Rules for Better Flashcards (2018) (juliensobczak.com)

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Principles of Economics (wikiversity.org)

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Reasons not to become famous (2020) (tim.blog)

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Ancient Greek Terms That Should Make a Comeback (classicalwisdom.substack.com)

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Fun Grid Facts (Hex Grids) (2014) (gamedeveloper.com)

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A wander through a weird landscape to the heart of compilation (2019) [pdf] (venge.net)

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14 years ago: the day Teller gave me the secret to my career in magic. (2009) (shwood.squarespace.com)

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Things Software Developers Should Learn about Learning (2024) (acm.org)

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Practical Tips for Cheating at Design (2018) (medium.com/refactoring-ui)

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Techniques in Persuasion from Antiquity (2023) (thecollector.com)

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Lines of code that will beat A/B testing every time (2012) (stevehanov.ca)

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How Scams Worked In The 1800s (2015) (npr.org)

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Girl Names That Were Originally More Popular for Boys (2021) (scarymommy.com)

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Das Flugsimulator 5 Buch (thomas-huehn.com)

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Command-Line Tools for Data Science (2013) (jeroenjanssens.com)

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Quotes from Marcus Aurelius' Meditations Explained (thecollector.com)

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Humble Book Bundle: Hacking (humblebundle.com)

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FOSDEM 2026 – Schedule (fosdem.org)

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Germany's Fuggerei is oldest social housing project (2022) (dw.com)

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The Secret Trial of the General Who Refused to Attack Tiananmen Square (nytimes.com)

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Something Big Happened in 1998 (openpath.quest)

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Black Inventors Who Changed the World (thecollector.com)

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The Great Ptolemaic Smackdown (2013) (tofspot.blogspot.com)

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HomeBox (homebox.software)

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"My friend group has a case of the Creepy Dude" (2012) (captainawkward.com)

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Clarence Thomas's Vision of Race (2019) (newyorker.com)

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The Land of the Free and the Elements of Style (2010) (ed.ac.uk)

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Secret Identities in Dwarf Fortress (2017) (aaai.org)

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Science is not the Enemy of the Humanities (2013) (newrepublic.com)

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Photography Composition: The Definitive Guide (2018) (antongorlin.com)

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

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1k True Fans (2008) (kk.org)

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Sully's "Miracle on the Hudson" safety advice not carried out (2016) (denverpost.com)

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A Note about Freeware (2003) (arachnoid.com)

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A New Philosophy of Defense (1986) (nybooks.com)

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My blog is a digital garden, not a blog (joelhooks.com)

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Side owned slaves. The other side started Black History Month. (2023) (npr.org)

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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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CC Signals: What We've Been Working On (creativecommons.org)

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An idea for getting approximately calibrated 50% subjective probability ranges (columbia.edu)

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A Brief History of the Spreadsheet (hackaday.com)

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Back Pain (2021) (thomas-huehn.com)

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Faking insanity: Forensic psychologists detect signs of malingering. (2012) (slate.com)

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Hong Kong's last major opposition party disbands amid Chinese pressure (theguardian.com)

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From Per-Content to Monthly Support (davidrevoy.com)

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RAG users want affordances, not vectors (softwaredoug.com)

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Hey Students, Considering Majoring in Sociology? (ihatesociology.com)

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Science E-Books (nasa.gov)

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Stirling V2 (stirling.com)

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Statistical Process Control according to W. Edwards Deming (2020) (thomas-huehn.com)

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Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect (nature.com)

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Mechanical power generation using Earth's ambient radiation (science.org)

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Native Sysmon functionality coming to Windows (microsoft.com)

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I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon (joinmastodon.org)

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Zensical – A modern static site generator built by the Material for MkDocs team (squidfunk.github.io)

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Zensical – A modern static site generator built by the Material for MkDocs team (squidfunk.github.io)

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The behind-the-scenes story of a WNBA controversy (cnn.com)

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Luigi Lineri, the Man Who Collects and Categorizes Stones (2024) (mossandfog.com)

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Layers of Deceit (2012) (slate.com)

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When Boris Yeltsin went grocery shopping in Clear Lake (2018) (chron.com)

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The Rise of the Science Sleuths (2024) (undark.org)

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Building a Hacker Space (2007) [pdf] (github.com/larsweiler)

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Mobotoys – Museum of Battery Operated Toys (mobotoys.org)

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'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers (nikkei.com)

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Open Source Security work isn't "Special" (sethmlarson.dev)

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"I traded my lucrative career as a mortgage broker to shepherd goats." (torontolife.com)

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New coeliac disease blood test set to enable diagnosis on gluten-free diets (abc.net.au)

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

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Dalai Lama vows he won't be the last leader of Tibetan Buddhism (cnn.com)

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What's wrong with AAA games? The development of the next Battlefield has answers (arstechnica.com)

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The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama (dalailama.com)

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Dalai Lama confirms he will have a successor after his death (bbc.com)

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Copyleft-Next (copyleft.org)

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Developing an Internal Tool for Our Puzzle Editor (nytimes.com)

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Just Speak the Truth (drewdevault.com)

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Tumblr's move to WordPress and Fediverse integration is 'on hold' (theverge.com)

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Exherbo (exherbo.org)

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A New Rust Packaging Model (guix.gnu.org)

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About that bogus claim that "chess grandmasters" burn 6000 calories per day (columbia.edu)

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Why Matt Mullenweg went to war over WordPress (theverge.com)