A short tour through the literary devices that show up most often — and why they still matter for writers and readers alike.

A flat home network puts your laptop, your IoT gadgets, and your guests on the same wire. Here's how I carved my house into isolated zones with TP-Link Omada — VLANs, dedicated SSIDs, DHCP reservations, and firewall rules that actually keep them apart.

I recently reorganized my home network using a TP-Link Omada setup. The goal was not to build an enterprise-grade network, but to get something cleaner, safer, and easier to reason about.

If you've ever wondered what really moves the needle on happiness and health, the 85-year Harvard Study of Adult Development has a blunt answer: take care of your body and your relationships. That's it. Well… mostly.

TL;DR​

• Health basics matter: eat decently, move daily, avoid substances.
• Relationships matter more: the quality of close ties predicts happiness, health, and longevity.

Every team I have watched succeed had the same unglamorous thing in common: a plan they believed in, roles they understood, and enough trust in each other to execute without looking over their shoulder. Everything else — the rituals, the metrics, the org chart — is scaffolding around those three.

Have you ever wondered how a baby sees the world? Take a look at what they see as their vision develops over the first year.

References​

• Infant Vision Development: What Can Babies See? — HealthyChildren.org (American Academy of Pediatrics) — how a baby's focus, tracking, color perception, and depth perception develop month by month through the first year.

Have you ever wondered, "Why is my espresso shot running too fast or too slow? Why does my espresso taste sour or bitter? Why am I not getting any crema? Why am I getting channeling?" This video covers some common espresso issues and how to fix them.

• 0:59 Shots Too Fast/Slow
• 4:42 Shots Too Sour/Bitter
• 8:08 No Crema
• 10:07 Channeling

"Eating out of boredom happens to the best of us, but kuchisabishii is about shaping it as a natural feeling and a forgiving experience, rather than to shove down those feelings. For once we recognize and confront it, we end up making better decisions after the fact than exacerbating self-sabotaging behavior on guilt-triggered impulses."

Kaki Okumura.

A Murder at the End of the World," conceived by the imaginative minds of Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij, is a psychological thriller drama. The show is set in a desolate Arctic retreat in Iceland, the series introduces Emma Corrin as Darby Hart, an amateur detective with a penchant for hacking and a deep-seated drive to uncover the truth.

"Devs" is a television show that premiered in 2020. Created by Alex Garland, known for his work on films like "Ex Machina" and "Annihilation," "Devs" is a science fiction thriller that delves into the world of technology and determinism.

The story centers around a young software engineer, Lily Chan, who works for a cutting-edge tech company called Amaya. After the mysterious death of her boyfriend, who was working on a secretive project within Amaya's development division (Devs), Lily begins to investigate. Her search leads her into the heart of the company's secretive development team and its enigmatic CEO.

"Devs" explores themes such as free will versus determinism, the ethics of technology, and the nature of consciousness, making it particularly intriguing for those interested in programming, technology, and philosophical questions related to these fields.

In the quest to understand what truly motivates us, "Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us" by Daniel H. Pink stands out as a seminal work. Drawing on four decades of research on human motivation, it challenges the reward-and-punishment model most workplaces still run on and offers a more accurate picture of what actually gets us to do our best work.