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Overly analytical guide to escorting
The Overly Analytical Guide to Escorting
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Version Control for Structure Editing
That’s the headline for my latest project (with Tomas Petricek), presented at HATRA. [paper] [recorded talk] With this work I am finally confronting the demon cursing my work: version control. If w…
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You shouldn't invoke setup.py directly
The setup.py interface is an old convention from distutils, one that has bugs that cannot be fixed to bring it into line with modern Python packaging approaches. As a result, all direct...
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How to Create a SaaS and Compete with the Big Players as a Solo Founder
Nowadays in the internet it is pretty well known that you should validate your product before you even start building it. However, if the product already exists, then the market is already validated for you. Therefore you can consider yourself in a low risk position.
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Deleting an S3 Bucket Costs Money
Deleting an S3 bucket is harder than you think, and may even cost you money.
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A Meta-Scientific Perspective on Thinking: Fast and Slow (2020)
2011 was an important year in the history of psychology, especially social psychology. First, it became apparent that one social psychologist had faked results for dozens of publications (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diederik_Stapel). Second, a highly respected journal published an article with the incredible claim…
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Big Ball of Mud (1999)
While much attention has been focused on high-level software architectural patterns, what is, in effect, the de-facto standard software architecture is seldom discussed. This paper examines the most frequently deployed architecture: the BIG BALL OF MUD
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The SaaS Metrics That Matter
Plus now you can easily generate them using our secret sauce SaaSGrid.
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Was Google Earth Stolen?
[October, 2021]
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YouTube: filmmakers presumed guilty until maybe proven innocent
[ The following article, along with comments from Smartsound and Shockwave-Sound, was written by Tony Fleming and published with his permission. ]
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Tests aren’t enough: Case study after adding type hints to urllib3
Since Python 3.5 was released in 2015 including PEP 484 and the typing module type hints have grown from a nice-to-have to an expectation for popular packages. To fulfill this expectation our team...
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What to Learn
It's common to see people advocate for learning skills that they have or using processes that they use. For example, Steve Yegge has a set of blog posts where he recommends reading compiler books and learning about compilers. His reasoning is basically that, if you understand compilers, you'll see compiler problems…
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AWS is playing chess, Cloudflare is playing Go
AWS is playing Chess. Cloudflare is playing Go.
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I couldn't debug the code because of my name
I finally managed to switch to JetBrains Rider. Unfortunately, I ran into some problems. Here is how to fix UnicodeDecodeError.
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NixOS on Framework Laptop
The time has come to replace the work laptop (thanks, Mozilla!). Here is an adventure of setting up NixOS on a Framework laptop. I’m writing this on it right...
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Facts every web dev should know before they burn out and turn to painting
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
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The JavaScript ecosystem is a hot mess and so is software development
Nightmare scenario with the Javascript ecosystem mess
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Why nobody hires junior developers and what happens next
While the number of job opportunities for software developer skyrockets together with salaries all around the world, fresh grads and junior developers struggle to even get invited for the interviews. Why does it happen and can we do anything about it?
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Engineer demos how SpaceX is building fracked well gas plant
And your precious first principles math proves it
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How to Safely Think in Systems
While there are a decent number of folks out there modeling systems, there’s a much larger group of folks who think of themselves as systems thinkers but utilize techniques like modeling rather casually (a polite way of saying that they don’t use them). Even with modeling tools available, I’ve often taken the shortcut…
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NixOS and the Art of OS Configuration (2018)
You know how it is when you take a quick look at a framework for organising your dotfiles, and end up installing and configuring a new Linux operating system on an old MacBook Air? No? Just me then.
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Some reasons to work on productivity and velocity
A common topic of discussion among my close friends is where the bottlenecks are in our productivity and how we can execute more quickly. This is very different from what I see in my extended social circles, where people commonly say that velocity doesn't matter . In online discussions about this, I frequently see…
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Mezzano on Librebooted ThinkPads
I decided to try running Mezzano on real hardware. I figured my Librebooted ThinkPads would be good targets, since, thanks to Coreboot and the Linux kernel, I have reference source code for all the hardware.