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by sciencemadness 1538 days ago
My site is sciencemadness.org. I started it when I was still an undergraduate some 20 years ago now (!). It's mostly about chemistry and nuclear technology. My personal interests include chemistry, nuclear power, nuclear weapons, materials science, and post-fossil energy in general. I don't get to do much with those interests at my job, though. I'm a software engineer like many others here.

Content on my site has been linked from here a bunch of times [1] -- most often, my scan of the book Ignition! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants by John D. Clark:

https://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pd...

But I'd suggest checking out the whole library, not just that one book:

https://library.sciencemadness.org/library/

Also the forum:

https://www.sciencemadness.org/whisper/

It used to be very simple to register but I got tired of the endless cat-and-mouse games with link spammers. Now you'll need to email to get an account, and I deal with the registration requests at irregular intervals. But there's no gatekeeping. You don't need any particular qualifications or background to join.

I mostly participate here on HN under another account name that I don't want linked to this one. My real life identity is easily derived from my web site and I don't want that linked to everything else I say on HN.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=sciencemadness