Archive

2024  5

April  1

Now With Recipes

April 7, 2024 路 3 min 路 455 words 路 Josh

March  1

How we Lowered our Article Localization Costs a Full Order-of-Magnitude With LLMs

March 5, 2024 路 8 min 路 1683 words 路 Josh

February  1

How to Subscribe to Substack Newsletters with RSS

February 17, 2024 路 2 min 路 298 words 路 Josh

January  2

3 Unreleased Books that I Plan(/Hope) to Read in 2024

January 6, 2024 路 3 min 路 463 words 路 Josh

“What If…”

January 1, 2024 路 1 min 路 94 words 路 Josh

2023  41

December  2

A Simple Trick to Make Logging Onto Public Wifi Easier

December 30, 2023 路 2 min 路 413 words 路 Josh

Eulogy for Dad

December 19, 2023 路 9 min 路 1804 words 路 Josh

November  3

Don’t Ration Love

November 26, 2023 路 1 min 路 211 words 路 Josh

Never Do the Same Task Thrice

November 23, 2023 路 3 min 路 548 words 路 Josh

3 Neglected “People” You Should Blog For

November 1, 2023 路 5 min 路 972 words 路 Josh

October  5

Using Whisper and LLMs to Create Perfect Subtitles

October 22, 2023 路 6 min 路 1138 words 路 Josh

Note to Future Self: On Exercise

October 21, 2023 路 1 min 路 191 words 路 Josh

How I Quickly Found a Quote Buried in Dozens of Hours of Audio

October 15, 2023 路 8 min 路 1675 words 路 Josh

On Triggers

October 5, 2023 路 1 min 路 56 words 路 Josh

Sharpen Your Ax: On Mental Health

October 4, 2023 路 5 min 路 980 words 路 Josh

August  2

Fight for Rest

August 16, 2023 路 5 min 路 1016 words 路 Josh

Thoughts on Abundance

August 3, 2023 路 3 min 路 441 words 路 Josh

July  4

On ‘Us’ and ‘Them’

July 24, 2023 路 1 min 路 Josh

You Should Learn TOTP (Especially if You’re an Expat)

July 23, 2023 路 4 min 路 Josh

I Was Wrong: 4 Days to Save 6 Million Lives

July 15, 2023 路 4 min 路 Josh

When You Feel Like You’re Behind, Just Remember…

July 10, 2023 路 1 min 路 Josh

June  1

How to (Legally) Turn a YouTube Playlist Into a Torrent with Linux

June 28, 2023 路 14 min 路 Josh

May  5

I Want to Read Your Blog

May 20, 2023 路 2 min 路 Josh

How to Subscribe to Mailchimp Newsletters With RSS

May 18, 2023 路 3 min 路 Josh

Erring on the Side of Over-Communication

May 15, 2023 路 1 min 路 Josh

[Share] He Gets Us: Enemies

May 9, 2023 路 1 min 路 Josh

On “Impossible”

May 7, 2023 路 1 min 路 Josh

April  2

Choosing the Path of Learning

April 13, 2023 路 1 min 路 Josh

2 Months

April 6, 2023 路 3 min 路 Josh

March  5

Choosing Generosity

March 29, 2023 路 2 min 路 Josh

Draw a Line

March 14, 2023 路 2 min 路 Josh

Upwork is a Super Power

March 13, 2023 路 4 min 路 Josh

Address the Meta-Problem

March 12, 2023 路 1 min 路 Josh

Fighting Cholera With Sawdust

March 10, 2023 路 7 min 路 Josh

February  2

Important Questions

February 21, 2023 路 1 min 路 Josh

If You Can See It, It’s Legal

February 4, 2023 路 4 min 路 Josh

January  10

Walks Are a Super Power

January 31, 2023 路 1 min 路 Josh

Optimistic Intuition

January 26, 2023 路 2 min 路 Josh

Low Noise; High Signal

January 24, 2023 路 2 min 路 Josh

Fill Up Your Hope-Meter

January 22, 2023 路 1 min 路 Josh

3 Ideas from Math to Help Better Understand the World

January 19, 2023 路 3 min 路 Josh

A Song I’m Loving Today

January 11, 2023 路 1 min 路 Josh

Make Someones Day

January 10, 2023 路 1 min 路 Josh

A Few Webcomics I Love

January 9, 2023 路 3 min 路 Josh

Curiosity or Dismissal

January 6, 2023 路 1 min 路 Josh

A Tale of Two Bugs

January 5, 2023 路 6 min 路 Josh

2022  59

December  4

The Most Important Step

December 31, 2022 路 1 min 路 Josh

Solutions and Implementation

December 17, 2022 路 2 min 路 Josh

JWST is Cool! 馃殌馃専馃尃

December 4, 2022 路 3 min 路 Josh

Offline-First Computing

December 2, 2022 路 3 min 路 Josh

November  16

Culture of Redemption

November 30, 2022 路 2 min 路 Josh

Some Koine Greek Resources I use (Basically) Daily

November 30, 2022 路 6 min 路 Josh

Take One Step

November 22, 2022 路 1 min 路 Josh

3 Tips for Dealing with Timezones

November 21, 2022 路 6 min 路 Josh

Every Chapter of the Bible on One Page

November 19, 2022 路 2 min 路 Josh

Own Your Feed: Save Your Attention (and, maybe, the World?) with RSS

November 17, 2022 路 18 min 路 Josh

Add an Acid

November 15, 2022 路 2 min 路 Josh

Package Managers and Why They’re Awesome

November 10, 2022 路 6 min 路 Josh

“Race to the Top”

November 9, 2022 路 2 min 路 Josh

The Kingdom of Heaven Is Like Vibranium

November 8, 2022 路 1 min 路 Josh

Fixing Wordpress Nginx “502 Bad Gateway” Error After Debian Upgrade

November 7, 2022 路 2 min 路 Josh

A Lost 1805 Discovery Could Have Stopped the Cold War

November 7, 2022 路 2 min 路 Josh

Make Friends With “One of Them”

November 6, 2022 路 3 min 路 Josh

Protocols Over Platforms

November 5, 2022 路 5 min 路 Josh

Creation Over Consumption

November 3, 2022 路 2 min 路 Josh

Epictetus on Using the Internet

November 2, 2022 路 1 min 路 Josh

October  6

Why to Stop Using Chrome/Safari/Edge, and What I Recommend Instead

October 25, 2022 路 4 min 路 Josh

Greening The Desert: A Scripture Compilation & Reading

October 13, 2022 路 5 min 路 Josh

Gandalf on Hard Times

October 7, 2022 路 1 min 路 Josh

On Thinking in Centuries

October 6, 2022 路 1 min 路 Josh

Former Facebook Exec.’s Thoughts on Attention Extraction

October 5, 2022 路 1 min 路 Josh

Let’s Do a Plastic Audit

October 4, 2022 路 1 min 路 Josh

September  7

Make Friends With the Blank Page

September 25, 2022 路 2 min 路 Josh

馃搫 Write Someone a Letter (Today)

September 22, 2022 路 1 min 路 Josh

3 Quotes on Simplicity

September 21, 2022 路 1 min 路 Josh

5-Second Trick for a More Modern LibreOffice

September 20, 2022 路 2 min 路 Josh

Have You Tried Turning It Off and On Again?

September 18, 2022 路 2 min 路 Josh

Unreasonable Persistence

September 15, 2022 路 1 min 路 Josh

The Problem is the Solution

September 7, 2022 路 1 min 路 Josh

August  3

The Internet Sabbath

August 27, 2022 路 3 min 路 Josh

Language Is Underrated

August 24, 2022 路 2 min 路 Josh

Peacemaking vs. Passivity

August 3, 2022 路 1 min 路 Josh

July  5

[Photo] Northern Lights

July 28, 2022 路 1 min 路 Josh

Trajectory over Position

July 26, 2022 路 1 min 路 Josh

Externalities and Loving Our Neighbors

July 17, 2022 路 3 min 路 Josh

Sanderson on Hypocrisy

July 11, 2022 路 2 min 路 Josh

Create Something Today

July 4, 2022 路 1 min 路 Josh

June  3

C.S. Lewis on the Best Time to Start

June 26, 2022 路 1 min 路 Josh

Churchill on Optimism

June 26, 2022 路 1 min 路 Josh

How to Message Someone on WhatsApp Without Saving Them as a Contact

June 13, 2022 路 3 min 路 Josh

May  4

Know Your NOs

May 27, 2022 路 1 min 路 Josh

We Are What We Eat

May 25, 2022 路 1 min 路 Josh

Doubt Your Anger

May 24, 2022 路 1 min 路 Josh

Hopeful History: Smallpox, and the Cow that Saved A Billion Lives

May 19, 2022 路 13 min 路 Josh M眉ller

April  3

Naratives & Worldviews

April 26, 2022 路 1 min 路 Josh

Attention & Life

April 25, 2022 路 1 min 路 Josh

Towards A Peaceful YouTube Experience: The “Improve YouTube!” Browser Plugin, and How I Use It

April 10, 2022 路 5 min 路 Josh

March  3

Consider the Edge Cases

March 11, 2022 路 1 min 路 Josh

4 Tools/Tips for a Healthier and Safer Internet

March 10, 2022 路 6 min 路 Josh

Truth Sets Free

March 8, 2022 路 1 min 路 Josh

February  5

Hard Problems

February 23, 2022 路 1 min 路 Josh

Spring Cleaning

February 23, 2022 路 1 min 路 Josh

You Need a Password Manager

February 22, 2022 路 6 min 路 Josh

You’re Wrong

February 22, 2022 路 1 min 路 Josh

Cycles

February 20, 2022 路 1 min 路 Josh

2020  4

October  1

Matthew 5 : A Translation for Today

October 20, 2020 路 5 min 路 Josh

July  2

A Comprehensive Guide to Successfully Breaking Up with Social Media

July 25, 2020 路 48 min 路 Josh

3 Reasons It鈥檚 Time to Update our Relationship Status with Social Media

July 9, 2020 路 16 min 路 Josh

January  1

Thoughts on Guns

January 1, 2020 路 9 min 路 Josh

2019  1

June  1

Digital Minimalism: Book recommendation

June 17, 2019 路 2 min 路 Josh