Writing

Writing is hard. You’re condensing your thoughts into more general concepts that can (hopefully) be understood by others. It’s equivalent to compressing a giant file (your mind) into some smaller artifact (some scribbles on a page).

Writing is valuable. It’s how we can give the gift of knowledge to the future. One can learn some concept and teach it to others with no investment other than the time spent compressing that knowledge.

Writing is introspective and philosophical. Writing delves into the nature of knowledge. What’s worth sharing with others?

The process of writing is good practice for thinking. It forces you to focus on communicating clearly. It makes you think about language and how to effectively convey concepts. It makes you consider if your examples are truly clear and engaging, or just a distraction not adding any value.

I’m really bad at writing. My thoughts are chaotic and disorganized and hard to communicate. Praciting writing gives me the chance to hone what I’ve been thinking about, and work “muscles” to help me communicate more clearly.

Posts from blogs I like

Pikmin 3: No Fruit, No Problem - 0 Fruit in 2h24m

Want to watch this in your video player of choice? Take this: https://cdn.xeiaso.net/file/christine-static/video/2024/pikmin-3-0-fruit/2/index.m3u8 Recently I saw @TheBacklogs do a Pikmin 3 challenge run where they collected 0 fruit to beat the game. I thought I could do better, so I beat it in 2 hours 24 minutes. Full run without commentary: https://youtu.be/nHFIn74-mLk @TheBacklogs' run: https://youtu.be/eSEUdgVX7o4 My website: https://xeiaso.net My Mastodon: …

via Xe Iaso's blog May 04, 2024

Copyleft licenses are not “restrictive”

One may observe an axis, or a “spectrum”, along which free and open source software licenses can be organized, where one end is “permissive” and the other end is “copyleft”. It is important to acknowledge, however, that though copyleft can be found at the opposite end of an axis with respect to permissive, it is not synonymous with the linguistic antonym of permissive – that is, copyleft licenses are not “restrictive” by comparison with permissive licenses. Aside: Free software is not synonymous with copyle…

via Drew DeVault's blog April 19, 2024

Airfoil

The dream of soaring in the sky like a bird has captivated the human mind for ages. Although many failed, some eventually succeeded in achieving that goal. These days we take air transportation for granted, but the physics of flight can still be puzzling. In this article we’ll investigate what makes airplanes fly by looking at the forces generated by the flow of air around the aircraft’s wings. More specifically, we’ll focus on the cross section of those wings to reveal the shape of an airfoil – you can see…

via Bartosz Ciechanowski February 27, 2024
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