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Last year I wrote a post about how I no longer use Feedly. Since I stopped using Feedly I haven’t missed it once. On the contrary, I have been very happy with NetNewsWire. In my post, I wrote that Feedly “started showing me pop-ups in case I want to track ’emerging exploits across the Web […]

1002. Type Design Resources 1003. The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We’re All Going To Miss Almost Everything 1004. En dash, em dash and hyphen; what’s the difference? (also ndash and mdash, or n-dash and m-dash) 1005. Why I Hope to Die at 75 1006. Let’s talk about margins 1007. What are the chances of survival […]

701. Margarine was invented in response to Napoleon III’s call for a cheap alternative to butter (Vaisey-Genser 2003) 702. People consistently underestimate others’ desire for feedback (Abi-Esber et al. 2022) 703. Dentists with shorter waiting times are more likely to propose unnecessary treatment (Gottschalk et al. 2020) 704. Teaspoons and tablespoons are unreliable dosing devices […]

On The Hub, a recruitment platform for Nordic startups, you can explore what Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Nordic startups aim to have an impact on. To explore the companies in greater detail, I decided to scrape data on all startups on the platform that share information on their SDG impact focus. In the figure below, […]

1748. Data Vis Dispatch: March 7, March 14, March 21, March 28 1749. Lists of curated books 1750. Beware the Propensity Score: It’s a Collider 1751. Are {tidyverse} function names getting longer? 1752. What to do with “null” results: Part I: Nonsignificant and underpowered, Part II: Nonsignificant but with sufficient data, Part III: Underpowered study, […]