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Today I learned about poaceae - 2020 July 14
Today I learned about the poaceae, which is perhaps better known as the family of plant species of grasses. Turns out there's a lot more species of grasses than I realized, including some plants that you might not think would be in that category.
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I'm freezing new long form articles for a while - 2020 July 12
I'm putting a freeze on new long form content in an effort to clear out a growing backlog of drafts of long form content.
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Cache invalidation and UX - 2020 July 11
The use of caches in systems presents some challenges for a good user experience, I ran into a great example of these frustrations the other day.
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Creating a topo map - day 10 - 2020 July 09
Creating a topographic map - day 10. Finding some more beginner friendly routes and some historic photos of the nearby area from the era when this wall was built.
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Creating a topo map - day 9 - 2020 July 06
Creating a topographic map - day 9. Found a few more routes and a comment on why I've names things the way I have.
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Creating a topo map - day 8 - 2020 July 04
Creating a topographic map - day 8. Some history about why this structure was built.
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Trading card games and competitive play - 2020 July 04
Due to the covid lockdowns I've found I've played a lot more board games lately. During this time I've also been thinking about economics a lot more than I did before. This has led me to think about the economics of games especially when more serious competition is involved.
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Creating a topo map - day 7 - 2020 July 02
Creating a topographic map - day 7. I learned a lot about the image stitching process today from some frustrating first hand experiences.
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Creating a topo map - day 6 - 2020 July 01
Creating a topographic map - day 6. Climbed some new routes and sent some projects, now that some other people have climbed my project routes I feel a lot more pressure to document these routes properly and put them on some climbing sites.
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Creating a topo map - day 5 - 2020 June 30
Creating a topographic map - day 5.
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