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Threads.net is the new app.net but with ads and interoperable
Meta's Threads.net sure looks a lot like App.net. Is Meta due for a pivot? The legislation the company supports suggests yes.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 518 posts.
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Compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT
Here's a fun experiment to try. Take an open source project such as yt-dlp and try to find it from a very generic term like "youtube downloader". You won't be able to find it because of all of the content farms that try to rank at the top for that term. Even though yt-dlp is probably actually what you want for a tool…
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Amazon's Silent Sacking
Companies are fighting back for quiet quitting and it's having a big impact.
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I'm skeptical of low-code
Low-code can be a great tool but it often fails to live up to its marketing
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Asking your customers what they want doesn't work
And how can you figure it out what they really need
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Things are about to get worse for generative AI
A full of spectrum of infringment
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"No inventions; no innovations" A History of US Steel
Last week, US Steel announced it was being acquired by Japanese steel company Nippon Steel.
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Mozilla 2023 annual report: CEO pay skyrockets, Firefox market share nosedives
Connect with Lunduke and other members of Lunduke community
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It's not microservice or monolith; it's cognitive load
How understanding cognitive load and team capacity can help you decide on an architectural style
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Will scaling work?
Data bottlenecks, generalization benchmarks, primate evolution, intelligence as compression, world modelers, and other considerations
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2023: Focusing on a single product pays off
The first year where I managed to keep my focus entirely on a single project.
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The life and death of open source companies
More thoughts on Open Source licensing and companies.
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Costs of running a macOS app studio business
I created The low-tech guys, a brand under which I develop macOS apps for a living. I started this business with a good friend of mine, thinking I could help him stop working long hours at his consulting job and ease into more creative work. However, getting to a state where you earn enough to live off the app sales…
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How Pinterest scaled
Pinterest's tech stack explained simply
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How big is YouTube?
How big is YouTube? It's not easy to find out, but we did two years of research and figured out how...
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Shitflation, shrinkflation, inflation database
A recent UK Channel 4 TV programme talked about the recent decline in quality of food: YouTube Channel 4
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The Hyperloop was always a scam
It's time to be honest about Musk's vacuum tube to nowhere
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Stratechery Year in Review
The most popular and most important posts on Stratechery in 2023.
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Google's True Moonshot
Google could do more than just win the chatbot war: it is the one company that could make a universal assistant. The question is if the company is willing to risk it all.
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Paying Netflix $0.53/H, etc.
People pay $0.50-$2.00 for an hour of digital entertainment.
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“Yes” means “no”: The language of VCs
A failed founder’s survival guide
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Microsoft forced people to install their browser (2010)
It was a happy time for PC users. Microsoft had just delivered Windows 95, an incredibly vast improvement over windows 3.1 and DOS.
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The New Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen
Some might remember a book I released in 2016, “The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen”. A lot has changed in the world since then, and Shenzhen is no exception.
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Risk management is not project management
Why shifting full accountability for high-risk tasks to third parties increases rather than decreases project risk.
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Chesterton's Fence: A lesson in second order thinking (2021)
A core component of making great decisions is understanding previous decisions. If we don’t understand how we got “here,” we run the risk of making things much worse.
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Maybe getting rid of your QA team was bad
If you have a QA team, please read this and give them a large raise.
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The UX of delivering parcels
I shipped identical boxes, less than a mile, with multiple delivery companies — one was seized by the police. This is the UX of delivering parcels.