David Bieber

Browserflow is live!

How to qualify for the US Olympic table tennis team.

Today I received an unexpected email from Facebook.

Remember, David, you’re only writing for yourself.

web.dev (former known as Lighthouse) is a tool for measuring your website’s performance and getting tips for how to improve it.

Recently I added tags to my snippets.

In this snippet I chronicle making a Cloud flow that tracks my progress in Eleven Table Tennis VR, a virtual reality table tennis game I’ve been playing a bunch over the last month.

This is an incomplete snippet.

My friend Dan Olshansky recently launched a new company GetSoils.com.

The world population is about 7.9 billion people.

I wanted to write about backlinks today but didn’t get a chance (except you’re reading it, so of course I did get a chance in the end).

Yesterday and two days ago I started writing a snippet called “sensible units – per capita isn’t enough”.

This is an incomplete snippet.

I’m going to sleep.

If you Google “Python set intersection”, you get a number of results about the set.intersection function.

For the last few weeks I’ve been playing virtual reality table tennis quite a lot.

About two month ago I encountered a snippets dry spell.

Adriana and I recently acquired a VR headset (an Oculus Quest 2), and I bought the game “Eleven: Table Tennis VR”.

For the March 2021 Climate Change Peer Learning Group, I spent a couple of hours learning about Oil Pricing.

My topic for the March 2021 Peer Learning Group was “Laser Eye Surgery.”

We have two simultaneous Peer Learning Groups running this month, one on all manner of miscellaneous topics, and one specifically on climate change.

Suppose you know $A$, and you know $A \to B$.

This snippet is a silly, currently unworkable, but in my opinion still worthwhile idea to improve the healthiness of video games.

Last month I wrote a little Twitter bot for myself with the goal of reclaiming my attention from Twitter.

The “Efficient Minds Hypothesis” states that a person is able to reach whatever conclusions they are able to reach in a small finite amount of time.

In Roam Research, I’d like to be able to type “/terminal” to insert a shell into my current block.

After writing a snippet almost every day this year, the last week has been comparatively sparse.

In this snippet I introduce and implement, but do not condone, Python “Magic functions”.

Happy valentine’s day!

I wrote three Browserflow flows for Roam Research today.

Using the Roam JavaScript primitives I wrote yesterday it was extremely easy (less than 10 minutes, I think) to create a robust Browserflow flow for saving URLs to Roam Research.

At the end of this snippet I include some helpful javascript functions for accessing and inserting pages and blocks in Roam Research.

A common attention pitfall is to mindlessly type cmd-t t ENTER. cmd-t creates a new tab.

Someone recently asked me what DK’s Browserflow does beyond what e.g.

Twitter’s addicting.

In this snippet I list out things I plan to do to improve Peer Learning Group for a future iteration. 1.

Peer Learning Group is an experiment for learning new things and meeting new people.

As you can see from the snippet you’re currently reading, I’ve implemented a simple tool to help with focused reading.

This idea for an assistive technology for focused reading comes from accessiBe.

Hello!

I turned on the Kangaroo Auto-responder this morning.

The purpose of the Kangaroo Auto-responder is to: Avoid people expecting a response from me when I don’t realize they’re expecting a response, e.g. because I’ve forgotten about their message It should let me let my guard down a bit about feeling obligated…

#RoamGames are upon us!

You can use this form to submit feedback about the January 25, 2021 - February 7, 2021 Peer Learning Group.

Last updated on 2026-07-13.

I’d like to add margin notes to my website.1 I’d also like to learn how to use Fiverr.2 So, I’m going to hire someone on Fiverr to add margin notes on my website.

I don’t know if I like this idea, but I’m giving it a try; I’ve added a “Now” page to my website ( davidbieber.com/now).

I have a feature request for Clubhouse.

The implementation of hoist in my earlier snippet returned the values of local variables of all functions called by the hoisted function.

When looking through the food in your refrigerator, ask not “is this what I want to eat right now?”