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What you've got is in fact a people problem
In which I provide you with hundreds of dollars worth of software consulting, for free, in a single blog post.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 776 posts.
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I grew my Substack from 439 to 451 free subscribers in just 11 months
And how YOU can too!
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Nokia made too many phones
TextQuery is a desktop app to import data file as a table, query it using SQL.
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The story behind the NeuralRad organ and tumor segmentation cloud service
Late last month, I received a message.
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Cloudflare defeats patent troll Sable at trial
Last Thursday, on a clear, sunny morning in Waco, Texas, a jury returned a verdict after less than two hours of deliberation. The jury found that Cloudflare did not infringe the patent asserted against Cloudflare by patent trolls Sable IP and Sable Networks.
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Is the "modern data stack" still a useful idea?
My vote: no.
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100% User-Supported
If you want to build principled software, avoid becoming VCware. Stay user-supported. It is now possible for tiny teams to build principled software that mil...
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What it was like working for Gitlab
I joined GitLab in October 2015, and left in December 2021 after working there for a little more than six years.
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Mixed Reality gone in Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26052
UPDATE 2/9: Added an important known issue for Dev Drive users. Please see the known issues below. Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26052 to the Canary
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Privacy focused platform Skiff is joining Notion, Skiff to be sunset
Our co-founder Akshay talks to Skiff co-founders Andrew Milich and Jason Ginsberg about their startup's vision and journey to Notion.
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Why it's impossible to agree on what's allowed
On large platforms, it's impossible to have policies on things like moderation, spam, fraud, and sexual content that people agree on. David Turner made a simple game to illustrate how difficult this is even in a trivial case, No Vehicles in the Park . If you haven't played it yet, I recommend playing it now before…
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Thoughts on tech employment
The Washington Post writes The U.S. economy is booming. So why are tech companies laying off workers? This article has some good data, but I think misses the point with sub-heads like “Shine has co…
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Why Elixir Is the Best Language for Building a Bootstrapped, B2B SaaS in 2024
[This article is the companion to my presentation for CodeBEAM America 2024, Elixir is the One-Person Stack for Building a Software Startup. You can download the slides as a PDF or view them in Google Slides .]
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As much as you ever wanted to know about 155M artillery shell production
America: The Ultimate Crammer
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How to hire low experience, high potential people
Finding diamonds in the rough
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Paperwall: Chinese websites posing as local news outlets target global audiences
A network of at least 123 websites operated from within the People’s Republic of China while posing as local news outlets in 30 countries across Europe, Asia, and Latin America, disseminates pro-Beijing disinformation and ad hominem attacks within much larger volumes of commercial press releases. We name this campaign…
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Apple to EU: "Go fuck yourself"
There's a strain of anti-anti-monopolist that insists that they're not pro -monopoly – they're just realists who understand that global gigacorporations are too big to fail, too big to jail, and that governments can't hope to rein them in. Trying to regulate a tech giant, they say, is like trying to regulate the…
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Bluesky signups are now open to the public
Sign up for Bluesky! No invite code required.
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What happened with the Web Monetization API?
I was pretty hot on it for a minute. I wanted it to succeed and thought it had the bones to make it. Coil was the main startup trying to push it. They did the right thing by just making it work fir…
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The Apple Vision Pro
The Apple Vision Pro is a disappointment for productivity, in part because of choices made to deliver a remarkable entertainment experience. Plus, the future of AR/VR for Apple and Meta.
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Business advice plagued by survivor bias (2009)
Advice from "successful entrepreneurs" might be unreliable due to Survivor Bias. What's real, and what's random?
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OKRs Are Bullshit
It's a new year, time for a new rant! And yes, before you ask, the post title is deliberately provocative. You might say this is my ploy to get more paid subscribers, because only paid subscribers can leave comments and I expect that the title alone will make many of you want to comment. 😝
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Deno in 2023
2023 marked a significant step towards our vision of radically simplifying web development. Here are the biggest updates and what’s coming up next.
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The FAA's Hiring Scandal: A Quick Overview
An Air Traffic Control nightmare
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The worst users come from referral programs, free trials, coupons
Above: Many small business figured out the hard way why coupon sites generate worse users
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Designer News is dead
Designer News is dead. Designer News was an online community for product designers. For years it was the best forum to discuss designing software.
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Juno – A YouTube Client for Vision Pro
YouTube is probably one of the parts of the internet I consume the most, so I was more than a little sad when YouTube announced that they don’t have plans to build a visionOS app, and disabled the option to load the iPad app. This leaves you with Safari, and the website is okay, but definitely doesn’t feel like a…
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Thanksgiving 2023 security incident
On Thanksgiving Day, November 23, 2023, Cloudflare detected a threat actor on our self-hosted Atlassian server. Our security team immediately began an investigation, cut off the threat actor’s access, and no Cloudflare customer data or systems were impacted by this event
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We built our customer data warehouse all on Postgres
Engineering deep-dives, product updates, and company news from Tembo — the platform for running coding agents across your stack.