Items in 2017
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Work process vs technology
Do you have a plan for what happens if you lose your hard drive, or someone steals it? I understand your need for offline access, but personally I’m terrified of losing my laptop to the point that I use cloud backup services (Dropbox, but I’ve used and liked Backblaze in the past) to make absolutely sure that I don’t lose any data should my laptop get lost or stolen.
[... 81 words]Podcasts to love and fall asleep to
Not technically podcasts but the BBC’s radio output is still free to listen to from anywhere in the world (no ads!) and helps me get to sleep most nights. I just hit play in the browser on my phone.
[... 93 words]Where to find well-balanced rationals behind Trump policies?
Reddit’s NeutralPolitics is a reasonably well moderated community that may be relevant for this.
[... 30 words]San Francisco Recommendations: comics, fashion, food, and more
I’m not a huge comics person, but that said I strongly recommend a trip to Isotope Comics in Hayes Valley on a weekday. Go on a weekday when the owner is running the store. He is incredibly charismatic and positively vibrates with enthusiasm about comics. He also has an incredible collection of toilet seats lining the upper wall of the store, each one illustrated by a famous comic book artist. Make sure to ask him about them.
[... 122 words]A guide to the guides to Paris
You can’t go wrong with Atlas Obscura. I haven’t used it in Paris (I’ve used it successfully in many other places though, including Mexico City) but from glancing over their listings it looks like there are some real gems there: http://www.atlasobscura.com/things-to-do/paris-france. I’ve been to the Catacombs and they are astonishing.
[... 78 words]Help us plan a trip to the English countryside
The Mechanical Music Museum in Northleach in the Cotswolds is a hidden gem—definitely worth dropping in for their tour.
[... 37 words]Simple, delicious eating during long weekend in the mountains
My wife has had great success with this vegan 5 ingredient sweet potato black bean chili recipe—its pretty straight forward to make, scales up extremely well (we’ve fed 15 people using two pots before) and tastes even better if you reheat it on subsequent days.
[... 64 words]Wireless access points or mesh networking?
I recently acquired the Netgear Orbi based on this recommendation in the wirecutter and it provides excellent fast wifi across our whole apartment where our previous non-mesh router failed to do so (tested using fast.com)
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