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Rui Figueiredo
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Rui Figueiredo writes The Blinking Caret, a personal blog at blinkingcaret.com about programming and web. Since 2016, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 71 times, most often “Hack your brain to learn more, faster and better”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Rui Figueiredo's personal blog. You'll find posts here about .Net, JavaScript and any other thing that I might be interested in. Enjoy
Most-linked posts?
- Hack your brain to learn more, faster and better2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-08-08
- Microservices, but with Benefits2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-05
- Why composition is superior to inheritance as a way of sharing code2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-04-13
- What inverts in the dependency inversion principle?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-01-27
- Create Cross-Platform GUIs Apps with .Net Core and ElectronCGI2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-02-27
- I created a way to port Windows Apps to Linux2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-04-13
What Hacker News says?
I've been doing spaced repetition with Anki since 2013. I wrote about my experience here: https://www.blinkingcaret.com/2016/05/04/hack-your-brain-lea... If I could only give one advice to someone about improving their learning skills, it would be to learn about spaced repetition
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on “To Remember Everything You Learn, Surrender to This Algorithm (2008)”Submitted Everyone is watching what you do online. How user tracking with cookies works as a story · 131 points
HN discussionI've been using Anki since 2013 (almost 5 years). One really nice thing about Anki is that it has analytics. I currently have 4532 cards and my numbers are 99.18% correct answers for "Learning" (very young) cards, 98.44% for Young cards and 92.52% for Mature cards. No way I would be able to remember over 4000 pieces of information without spaced repetition. I truly believe this is the best learning "hack" there is.…
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on “Anki: Memorization with Spaced Learning”Submitted Rethinking email confirmation as a story · 72 points
HN discussionBeen using space repetition since 2013. It's unbelievably useful. Wrote about it in my blog with examples: https://www.blinkingcaret.com/2016/05/04/hack-your-brain-lea...
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on “Spaced Repetition”Submitted ElectronCGI – A Solution to Cross-Platform GUIs for .NET Core as a story · 66 points
HN discussionSubmitted Software Development as an Emergent System as a story · 58 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Road to Modern JavaScript as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why composition is superior to inheritance as a way of sharing code as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted I created a way to port Windows Apps to Linux as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to make a web page that looks like a desktop app as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why composition is superior to inheritance as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted What inverts in the dependency inversion principle? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hack your brain to learn more, faster and better as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Keeping secrets in ASP.NET Core as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted HTTPS in ASP.NET Core from Scratch as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Electron is Amazing as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Principle of Reasonable Expectations as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why composition is superior to inheritance as a way of sharing code as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted WCF Security Survival Guide as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What does it mean to be authenticated in ASP.NET MVC as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Power of Native as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I created a way to port Windows Apps to Linux as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted ElectronCGI 1.0 – Cross-Platform GUIs for .NET Core as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Concurrency with No Locks: TPL Dataflow in .Net Core, in Depth (Part 2/2) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted ElectronCGI – Cross Platform .Net Core GUIs with Electron as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Create Cross-Platform GUIs Apps with .Net Core and ElectronCGI as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dependency Injection Without Referencing Implementations as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Secure an ASP.NET Core Web Api Using Cookies as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted ORM-Less Data Access in .Net Core as a story · 2 points
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