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Category Archives: Reading
How Boris Tane Uses Claude Code (hint: it’s Waterfall!)
In my feed today: How Boris Tane Uses Claude Code. He separates research, planning, and implementation phases, as he says: “Read deeply, write a plan, annotate the plan until it’s right, then let Claude execute the whole thing without stopping, checking types along the way.”
I might be the first to point out: this is Waterfall! Micro-waterfall?
The Feynman Lectures on Physics
This via Hacker News today: The Feynman Lectures on Physics. It’s a little bit annoying they use JavaScript instead of links to try and make it annoying/difficult for you to download the whole thing.
Semantic Compression
Casey Muratori explains his approach to not-so-object-oriented design (he calls it procedurally-oriented) and refactoring (he calls it compression): Semantic Compression.
Today I added procedurally-oriented to my spell check.
Old Book Teardown #18: Encyclopedia of Electronic Circuits Volume 5 (1994) | In The Lab
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Silly Job Title: Switch Switcher. I am the Switch Switcher!
In this video we take a look inside Encyclopedia of Electronic Circuits Volume 5 by Rudolf F. Graf and William Sheets.
Some circuits of interest included:
| Page | Circuit |
|---|---|
| 150 | Bug Detector |
| 224 | IR Pulse Audio |
| 256 | Simple Lie Detector |
| 257 | Chapter 49: Light Comms |
| 326 | Voice Disguiser |
| 373 | Chapter 61: Moisture and Fluid Detectors |
| 554 | Speech Scrambler |
| 556 | Chapter 93: Sound Effects |
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Yizhan Digital Microscope notes |
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Old Book Teardown #14: Encyclopedia of Electronic Circuits (1985) | In The Lab With Jay Jay
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Silly Job Title: Tome Pumper. I am the Tome Pumper!
In this video we take a look inside the Encyclopedia of Electronic Circuits.
The pages which have circuits I thought were interesting and will consider building are: 358, 415, 420, 520, and 597.
Here are the pages I scanned while working through the book:
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Yum Cha 3pcs Universal Metal Spudgers |
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Deep Work
A new post from Justin Sung: How to Effortlessly Enter DEEP WORK on Command. I assume “deep work” has something to do with Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World. But basically I guess they are talking about flow.
Mail Call #36: QuickStudy Cheatsheets and Soldering Stuff from Amazon | In The Lab With Jay Jay
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Silly Job Title: Electronics Guru.
In this video we see what arrived in the mail from Amazon. The main haul was my QuickStudy cheatsheets. But I also go this stuff too:
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Yum Cha 100pcs Heat Shrink Wire Connectors |
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I’m famous!
As I was flipping through the July issue of Silicon Chip magazine, I wasn’t expecting to see this!
How to Force Your Brain To Be Motivated (when you don’t feel like it)
DFUZ:
- Distinguish; feelings from thoughts from actions
- Fake; act like a motivated person and do the actions
- Uptime; spend more time on tasks as you get better at it
- Zone; make sure your environment is distration free, if you find yourself distracted make a note about what distracted you so you can remove it in future
I found Justin’s TEDx talk over here: Stop Studying. Start Learning.