# Writing, essays, and collections **URL:** http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/c/essays/30.md [Latest](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/latest.md) · [Categories](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/categories.md) --- ## [About the Writing, essays, and collections category](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/t/about-the-writing-essays-and-collections-category/218)
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--- ## [Generative AI Policy](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/t/generative-ai-policy/310)
**Author:** [@0xDBFB7](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/u/0xDBFB7)\ **Replies:** 98\ **Last updated:** [October 17, 2026, 8:33pm UTC](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/t/generative-ai-policy/310 "2026-10-17T20:33:08Z")
I don’t apply generative AI or LLMs in my work at this time. You can trust that artifacts that I author (prose or code) haven’t involved them at any stage. I haven’t built up a coherent dogma about these tools yet; I’m t… --- ## [Blind](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/t/blind/414)
**Author:** [@0xDBFB7](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/u/0xDBFB7)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [July 19, 2026, 6:01pm UTC](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/t/blind/414 "2026-07-19T18:01:18Z")
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/03/dont-use-fake-bold-or-italic-in-social-media.html --- ## [Cool scientists](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/t/cool-scientists/198)
**Author:** [@0xDBFB7](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/u/0xDBFB7)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [July 18, 2026, 9:06pm UTC](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/t/cool-scientists/198 "2026-07-18T21:06:03Z")
Just a place to collect some badass scientists I come across. --- ## [Scientists who were successful with partners](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/t/scientists-who-were-successful-with-partners/23)
**Author:** [@0xDBFB7](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/u/0xDBFB7)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [June 29, 2026, 5:21am UTC](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/t/scientists-who-were-successful-with-partners/23 "2026-06-29T05:21:44Z")
I’ve had some preconceptions about academia and how relationships tend to work out, what with the two-body problem and all. Here I’m collecting things that fit into that category. --- ## [Book Review: Notes on matters affecting the health, efficiency, and hospital administration of the British Army, by Florence Nightingale](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/t/book-review-notes-on-matters-affecting-the-health-efficiency-and-hospital-administration-of-the-british-army-by-florence-nightingale/367)
**Author:** [@0xDBFB7](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/u/0xDBFB7)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [May 17, 2026, 8:45pm UTC](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/t/book-review-notes-on-matters-affecting-the-health-efficiency-and-hospital-administration-of-the-british-army-by-florence-nightingale/367 "2026-05-17T20:45:42Z")
Read through the internet archive: https://archive.org/details/b20387118/ the book starts with a letter. The book is highly quantitative. You might expect a treatise from a nurse of her era to be mostly anecdote - bu… --- ## [Review of 𝘈𝘯 𝘈𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘶𝘵'𝘴 𝘎𝘶𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘩 by Chris Hadfield](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/t/review-of-by-chris-hadfield/349)
**Author:** [@0xDBFB7](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/u/0xDBFB7)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [May 4, 2026, 2:26am UTC](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/t/review-of-by-chris-hadfield/349 "2026-05-04T02:26:58Z")
This is the second astronaut book I’ve read, after Samantha Cristoforetti’s Diary of an Apprentice Astronaut. In academia, we put a lot of emphasis on balance. I felt that Hadfield’s writing serves to some degree as an … --- ## [Review of 𝘚𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘯, by Mike Massimino](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/t/review-of-by-mike-massimino/404)
**Author:** [@0xDBFB7](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/u/0xDBFB7)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 26, 2026, 4:54am UTC](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/t/review-of-by-mike-massimino/404 "2026-03-26T04:54:28Z")
Both Mike and Kelly refer to The Right Stuff as this transformative experience that set them on this path. I’ve heard this aot from epople, even my friend Eric, but I admit to being a bit surprised. It’s been a while sin… --- ## [Crows](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/t/crows/331)
**Author:** [@0xDBFB7](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/u/0xDBFB7)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 9, 2025, 3:32am UTC](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/t/crows/331 "2025-08-09T03:32:41Z")
This morning I was feeling kind of confused, like maybe I didn’t know how to thrive in a world where AI I took the wrong bus home today. A heavy rain had just passed. At the stop waiting for the transfer, Lisa told me e… --- ## [Notes on Endurance by Scott Kelly](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/t/notes-on-endurance-by-scott-kelly/382)
**Author:** [@0xDBFB7](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/u/0xDBFB7)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 14, 2026, 11:57pm UTC](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/t/notes-on-endurance-by-scott-kelly/382 "2026-02-14T23:57:21Z")
Astronauts seem almost without exception to present a specific kind of warm, honest, transparent, but also restrained and clinical image, both to that intermittent panopticon of the public eye but also in less visible ci… --- ## [The Dispossessed, Ursula K Le Guin](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/t/the-dispossessed-ursula-k-le-guin/381)
**Author:** [@0xDBFB7](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/u/0xDBFB7)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 2, 2025, 9:13pm UTC](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/t/the-dispossessed-ursula-k-le-guin/381 "2025-01-02T21:13:06Z")
so many themes are addressed - it seems sometimes each page brings a new clarity to without being worthy. Duty, loneliness, friendship, the two-body problem, academia. it puts together all the to make you think it is con… --- ## [HTTPS URL Redirect using Fastly's host rewriting](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/t/https-url-redirect-using-fastlys-host-rewriting/350)
**Author:** [@0xDBFB7](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/u/0xDBFB7)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 28, 2025, 2:52pm UTC](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/t/https-url-redirect-using-fastlys-host-rewriting/350 "2025-09-28T14:52:53Z")
I help with IT for a local group. They have a simple static website which (for legacy reasons) is running on Google Sites. However, the custom domain feature of Google Sites only allows you to use a subdomain, like www.… --- ## [Posters](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/t/posters/124)
**Author:** [@0xDBFB7](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/u/0xDBFB7)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [September 4, 2025, 4:35am UTC](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/t/posters/124 "2025-09-04T04:35:50Z")
Want wall artwork without breaking the bank. 22+1⁄2 in × 28+1⁄2 in (572 mm × 724 mm) white bristol board from Shoppers Drug Mart ($1.5 apiece! cheap) A regular black sharpie A Creation P cut 630 Inkcut inkscape gimp pi… --- ## [Media that is culturally, historically or aesthetically significant to me](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/t/media-that-is-culturally-historically-or-aesthetically-significant-to-me/99)
**Author:** [@0xDBFB7](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/u/0xDBFB7)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 4, 2021, 3:28am UTC](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/t/media-that-is-culturally-historically-or-aesthetically-significant-to-me/99 "2021-12-04T03:28:06Z")
Books God Bless You Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut Paul Farmer - Mountains beyond mountains Aunt beast a wrinkle in time The Robot Builder’s Bonanza, Third Edition I was introduced to electronics and hardware via th… --- ## [Cars are valued more than people](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/t/cars-are-valued-more-than-people/226)
**Author:** [@0xDBFB7](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/u/0xDBFB7)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 30, 2024, 12:27am UTC](http://forum.0xdbfb7.com/t/cars-are-valued-more-than-people/226 "2024-12-30T00:27:35Z")
A friend of mine was employed at a local unhoused shelter and warming centre. My friend told me that, one day, this was converted from a general warming center to being a women’s shelter only. My friend tells me that, of…