words don’t communicate, silence does
monks build monastery with modern tech
A group of carmelite monks uses CNC machines to laser cut all the stones and marbles to build a gothic monastery in the mountains near Meeteetse, Wyoming. None of them knew how to do it but learned everything by themselves. Many hands make miracles indeed.
doom captcha
Someone actually made a doom captcha where you need to kill three monsters in order to solve it. It’s actually harder than it seems. You can use the alt key to strife. Give it a quick try and dive into some nostalgia.
a method for magic
A short post to serve as a good reminder that what we think as magic is actually someone spending an unreasonable amount of time perfecting something. It doesn’t matter what you are going to get good at it when you spend time doing it over and over.
rich and lost
Vinay built up a successful company, Loom, and sold it to Atlassian for almost a billion dollars so now he’s very rich. This short post talks about his struggle post acquistion. The hn comments are rather entertaining ranging from pure contempt to empathy and compassion to great advices. We have really no idea what each person is going through our direct experience from every moment of their lives.
wiki timeline
This website converts any wikipedia article into an interactive timeline. Pretty useful tool to check out. You can directly search any topic on it too.
falsehoods about time
A list of falsehoods programmers believe about time. Things like are always 24 hours in a day, leap years occur every 4 years, there are 60 seconds in every minute. Very interesting to know about our misconception about time.
guten
Someone built a tiny thermal printer to print at 7AM everyday his schedule, a poem and a news article for new york times. A pretty cool project :)