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How to be a -10x Engineer
To become a -10x engineer, simply waste 400 engineering hours per week. Combine the following strategies:
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Man spends entire career mastering crappy codebase
Westbrook spent 35 years in a codebase that allegedly powers some sort of medical software somewhere. During his tenure, he contributed hundreds of lines of code to his projects.
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Clean your codebase with basic information theory
Cut out everything that's not surprising.
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IKEA-Oriented Development
To frugally furnish a codebase, imitate Ikea.
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Reactive Relational Algebra
databases plus wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff
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Knuth Airgaps and Knuth Buffers
Knuth knows how to maintain information hygeine.
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Why I Use Elm in 2023
Building UIs in HTML+CSS can be untenable. When making complex frontend experiences, I reach for Elm.
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Using {blocks} in Rust and Go for fun and profit
Did you know you can just whip out curly-braces all over the place in Rust and Go?
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Lil' Fun Langs
a pungent monad odor that attracts mathochists
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How/why to sweep async tasks under a Postgres table
I like slim and stupid servers, where each endpoint wraps a very dumb DB query. Dumb queries are fast. Fast queries make websites smooth and snappy. Keep those click/render loops sacred. Sweep complexity under a task table.