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- Convenient, Anytime, Light Fitness
Exercise is expensive not because of the fee, but the overhead around it. Make "starting" cheap and movement happens.
- The Marble Maze Board I Played as a Kid, Now on a Phone
From the 1889 "Pigs in Clover" craze to a Swedish wooden maze to a phone screen — what gets lost when a hands-on toy goes digital.
- Why Most Compressors Can't Hit 50KB
One-shot compression is guessing; a two-stage search is solving. We ran both against a 2400×1600 image to see where the difference actually comes from.
- Why Text Copied Out of a PDF Is Full of Line Breaks
A PDF has no concept of a "paragraph" — only characters placed at coordinates. So the line breaks you copy out are layout residue, not text meaning.
- Hello, Broaden!
Some ideas used to stay ideas because building them was out of reach. That reason has grown thin — and that is the background this site exists against.