Blog by Googler
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The Great Disappointment
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It’s 2025, and web development has never appeared more apolitical. On tech
influencers, without a cause.
4 days ago
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BJ’s Wholesale Club Membership Discount Offer (August, 2025)
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Groupon is offering BJ’s Wholesale Club membership discounts of $60 off of
the purchase of a new annual “Club” membership (normally $75) with
auto-renewa...
5 days ago
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Infinite Mac Construction Set
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*tl;dr:* You can now embed any OS from Infinite Mac into your website, from
1984’s System 1.0 through 2005’s Mac OS X 10.4. There’s documentation for
cus...
4 weeks ago
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It’s all about (sharing) the data, stupid: privacy meets antitrust
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I spent time with a group of privacy experts recently. We were discussing
the intersection of privacy and antitrust law. Traditionally, these two
field...
1 month ago
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Kill Data Pukes: Split KPIs, Diagnostic Metrics & Influencing Variables.
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Across every layer of the company, business people get too much data.
Hunting expeditions are launched to locate what’s relevant and useful. CMO
scorecar...
3 months ago
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Viewing the world with mathematics
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I have a very complex relationship with math. I minored in math but I was
really bad at it, and my classmates were regularly running rings around me.
My mi...
2 years ago
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Review: The Body - A Guide for Occupants
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I've bounced of a number of other Bill Bryson books before, so I approached The
Body with low expectations. To my surprise I found myself reading the book
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5 years ago
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All the Fitbit activity badges
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Fitbit has discontinued their Fitbit One step trackers, which seems like a
good opportunity to step back and reflect on wearing one for the last
decade or ...
5 years ago
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Jaguar I-Pace first impressions
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A mere three years after I got a ride in a prototype of the early Google
self-driving cars, Elon Musk launched Tesla's autopilot. I'd experienced
something...
6 years ago
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How I ended up writing opensnoop in pure C using eBPF
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Hello friends, it's been awhile. I recently had the opportunity to do a
deep dive on eBPF and I learned a lot in the process. There isn't a lot out
there o...
6 years ago
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Jack Test
Jack Test
7 years ago
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Prezentacje z 25 SEMcampu
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Jak już pisałem jakiś czas temu, w październiku odbył się się,
jubileuszowy, 25 już SEMcamp. Poniżej udostępniam materiały z wydarzenia.
Przemek Modrzewski...
7 years ago
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Food Survey Made Easy
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It's becoming a pretty difficult to dine together. Whether for business or
for pleasure.
More and more people have more particular food preferences: vegan,...
7 years ago
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Why Kotlin Is Better Than Whatever Dumb Language You're Using
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Ah, clickbait. Where would the internet be without it? The answer will
shock you!
But seriously, I didn't mean to insult your favorite language… much. ...
8 years ago
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Salmon: Super delicious & super-easy even for cooking n00bs! (#2 in
“Cooking for the Lazy” series)
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Tonight I ate some of the most delicious salmon EVER… and, just as
gratifying, I made it! Total prep & cook time: under 10 minutes
(seriously). Total co...
9 years ago
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Therapy Session Who Even Knows: I Am vs. I Do
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The fundamental human need for one human being to hear another human being
say to them: “You are not alone. You are seen. I am with you. You are not
alone....
10 years ago
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The un-phonetic alphabet
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Karl Fogel started this on the whiteboard in building 43 at Google in early
2006. The goal was to come up with an alphabet that, when used to spell out
wor...
10 years ago
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Learning colored pencils
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Having studied and practiced basic drawing & portrait sketching in graphite
for the last 8 months, I figured it was time to learn something about
color. Pa...
11 years ago
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Checkboxes that kill your product
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A little historical baggage can be a dangerous thing when multiplied by a
few hundred million individuals
11 years ago
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Hello Microsoft!
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On april 29th 2013, I joined Microsoft’s legendary Developer and Platform
Evangelism team, where I will initially focus on the Enterprise market. I
will re...
12 years ago
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Ci sono ancora...
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Ciao a tutti, ci sono, ci sono. Non sono sparito, anche se l'ultimo post è
del 2011. Sto solo cercando una casa alternativa per il mio blog e provando
nuov...
12 years ago
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Moving to twitter
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Not having time to maintain or update this site, I have disabled comments
and created a Twitter account, beyondsatire, where you can follow me.
13 years ago
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Protest Kiss, 10 years ago....
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Is kissing at protests a thing? From the 9/2001 IMF Protest in DC.
14 years ago
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Brain Slug Hat
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Laura made me this Brain Slug hat as an early Christmas gift! I just wanted
to share its awesomeness.
14 years ago
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Mammography Debate - When to Start Screening
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At what age is it recommended for a woman to start routine mammograms:
A. 40 years old
B. 50 years old
C. Neither A or B
D. Both A and B.
Until last year, t...
14 years ago
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What the press is saying about the new Google Mobile App for Blackberry
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Just a collection of links to different articles; probably I'll update it
later. Meanwhile, let me enjoy my 15 minutes.
CNET (Really in-depth): *Google ...
14 years ago
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Mug Shot - sans open mouth
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Loyal readers, you'll be pleased to know that I'm actually capable of
taking a photo with my mouth closed. :-)
We just launched a new website, where the ...
15 years ago
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Don't Be Evil
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So, [sorta] Health Care Reform actually really passed.
A year of dithering, noise, misrepresentation, back-room dealing, and Deity
knows what else, and now...
15 years ago
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Hope
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Several days ago I volunteered on a relief mission to Haiti that brought in
nearly 20,000 lbs of supplies. While the trip was brief, I did travel into
the ...
15 years ago
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