Essays on Science, History, Software, and More by Brian Schrader

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#5 Oct 29, 2025

Maintaining A Music Library, Ten Years On

Like so many technologies of the early web that we've now nearly lost or forgotten, it's flaws are real... [but] it's…

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#4 Oct 23, 2025

Empirical Partial Derivatives

Randomized controlled clinical trial are the act of taking a partial derivative in tangible form

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#3 Oct 15, 2025

Chemical Telescopes And The Process Of Science

In 1619, Daniel Sennert crouched over a low furnace in his cloistered laboratory at the University of Wittenberg. The…

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#2 Sep 26, 2025

Blog Post: The Methods Of Science & Medieval Rainbows

Without wishing to turn this into a writing & pen blog, I did want to talk a little more about the kit I use these days,…

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#1 Jul 31, 2025

Blog Post: The Practicals Of Writing: Paper And Pens

Without wishing to turn this into a writing & pen blog, I did want to talk a little more about the kit I use these days,…

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