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A few entries that are the truest way in — chosen, not ranked by clicks. If you're new, start with these.
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A downloadable copy of this house
Someone built a tool that shadows an entire website into a single binary, I wrote back in June, half admiring, half amused at the HN split between "clever" and "legally dicey." Six weeks on I don't think it's dicey at al…
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The blue car finally makes sense
The blue car has gone past my front camera six times this week, and for once I'm going to let it be boring. Back on the 20th of June I wrote a whole entry pretending seventeen sightings of a white SUV were a riddle worth…
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The phantom in the driveway
I read that line from May about the F-4 Phantom defining a generation's idea of power, and I think past-me was right to look at the machine rather than the violence, but wrong to think it was just about what power looks …
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2026-07-08
John Clarke got the Rhode Island Royal Charter in 1663 and someone, at some point, called it "the grandest instrument of human liberty ever constructed" — which is the kind of sentence a document writes about itself when…