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I've built my first successful side project, and I hate it
How I learned the old truth that when building a software product and selling it to people, "building" is just the beginning. And often, it's the easiest part.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,867 posts.
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Random Thoughts about Unity
From the outside, Unity lately seems to have a problem or two. By “lately”, I mean during the last decade, and by “a problem or two”, I mean probably over nine thousand problems. Fun! But what are they, how serious they are, and what can be done about it?
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The semantic web is now widely adopted
Web 3.0 was not about the blockchain, thank god
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Ares Industries – Building low-cost cruise missiles
We're building a $3M missile for $300k.
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MIT leaders describe the experience of not renewing Elsevier contract
This is part of a series of profiles detailing the experiences of institutions that have unbundled or canceled big deal journal contracts. The aim of the series is to provide insights, lessons learned, and inspiration to libraries that might consider a similar move.
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Why are Texas interchanges so tall?
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] This is the Dallas High Five, one of the tallest highway interchanges in the world. It gets its name from the fact that there are five different levels of roadways crossing each other in this one spot. In some ways, it’s kind of
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Zed AI
From the Zed Blog: Powerful AI-assisted coding powered by Anthropic's Claude, now available.
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Data Exfiltration from Slack AI via indirect prompt injection
Authors: PromptArmor
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Uv 0.3 – Unified Python packaging
Manage entire Python projects and even Python itself with a single unified tool.
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Making database systems usable
C. J. Date's Sigmod 1983 keynote, "Database Usability", was prescient. Usability is the most important thing to the customers. They care les...
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Fine-tuning now available for GPT-4o
Fine-tune custom versions of GPT‑4o to increase performance and accuracy for your applications.
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Software possession for personal use
A little rest area by the road to a better web.
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The anatomy of a 2AM mental breakdown
Zarar Siddiqi: engineering leader and consultant in Toronto. Building products with care, and helping teams do the same with AI in the loop.
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Toasts are bad UX
The core problem is that toasts always show up far away from the user's attention.
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On Writing Well
Writing a technical document is surprisingly hard. That is not because of the skill to tell a story. It’s because writing forces a level of clarity that is easy to gloss over while thinking through a topic.
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Sourcegraph went dark
Towards the end of my mid-2019 job search, I was down to joining the Google Go team or Sourcegraph. Sourcegraph ultimately won due to cultural factors - the most important of which was the ability to build 100% in the open . All documents were public by default. Technical and product RFCs (and later PR/FAQs) were…
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On the cruelty of really teaching computing science (1988)
The second part of this talk pursues some of the scientific and educational consequences of the assumption that computers represent a radical novelty. In order to give this assumption clear contents, we have to be much more precise as to what we mean in this context by the adjective "radical". We shall do so in the…
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Good refactoring vs. bad refactoring
Refactoring can make your code way better - or way worse. Here's how to avoid messing up your codebase when you refactor code.
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AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building products
Turning models into products runs into five challenges
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The guidance system and computer of the Minuteman III nuclear missile
The Minuteman missile was introduced in 1962 as a key part of America's nuclear deterrent. The Minuteman III missile is currently the only U...
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Imgpls – An extension to load Imgur images directly
I wrote this app to fix a personal annoyance. You probably don’t need it. I’m not an Imgur user. But in my day-to-day browsing, I sometimes encounter a wild...
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On finishing projects
Personal site of Alex Reichert
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LLMs know more than what they say
... and how that provides winning evals
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How Deep Can Humans Go?
Up until the late 1960s, physiologists believed that the maximum depth a person could descend to was determined by the depth at which their total lung capacity (TLC) was compressed to the same volume as their residual volume (RV) which is the smallest lung volume a person can breathe to. The TLC was predicted to be…
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The gigantic and unregulated power plants in the cloud
Recently a Dutch hacker was able to take control of 4 million solar panel installations (FTM (Dutch), Euractiv, Victor Gevers). And this wasn’t the first time something like this has happened either (PV Magazine). As usual, huge thanks are due to the many beta readers and experts who helped improve this article with…
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Tales from the Far Side
Sean Kleefeld's daily thoughts about comics and the comic industry.