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How to teach Git
An alternative way to teach Git
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,191 posts.
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Want an unfair advantage in your tech career? Consume content for other roles
Learning about roles you work with can provide a meaningful competitive advantage in the modern tech world
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How to deal with receiving a cease-and-desist letter from Big Tech
Although this article isn’t related to any of the 12 Challenges so far, it’s on a subject I’m developing for a potential future challenge.
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Pledging $300k to the Zig Software Foundation
The ZSF has posted their own announcement which clearly explains their mission and specifically what the money will be used for. Instead, I want to talk more broadly about why we've decided to support ZSF.
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Light Table 0.4 released
With this release our goal was to bring more people into the fold, to increase the number of languages we can eval, and to smooth out some of the core experience. After 0.3, we finally had a chance to move the ball forward some - from live modifying websites directly inside of LT to injecting code into NodeJS and…
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Understanding Python through its builtins
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US Intel
The U.S. taking an equity stake in Intel is a terrible idea; it also happens to be the least bad idea to make Intel Foundry viable.
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The open calendar, task and note space is a mess
The last few weeks I’ve been looking into the open calendar, tasks and notes space with the goal of finding or building a privacy-conscious and still practical system. This post is an exploration of the available technology in that space, its problems and how to solve them.
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Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11
A blog post about finding the oldest Windows application with a GUI that still runs on Windows 11
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Claude Code On-the-Go
Running six Claude Code agents in parallel from an iPhone. A cloud VM, Tailscale, mosh, and push notifications enable async development from anywhere.
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Agentic Engineering Patterns
Patterns for getting the best results out of coding agents like Claude Code and OpenAI Codex. See my introduction for more on this project.
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Open Source Tax Software
Filing taxes in America sucks. Your options are to do it by hand, pay someone like Intuit, or if you are below a certain income threshold get some tax software for free. The kicker is that free tax software is from Intuit who will try very hard to make sure that you either don’t find it in the first place, or try to…
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Advantages of incompetent management
What constitutes managerial competence? As a vague starting point for an answer, we could say that competent management sets achievable objectives and then achieves them, by organizing and incentivizing the necessary work.
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How many bathrooms have Neanderthals in the tile?
A Reddit poster finds an ancient jaw in his parents' new travertine. It may be more common than most people imagine.
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On React and WordPress
Big companies like to bury unpleasant news on Fridays: A few weeks ago, Facebook announced they have decided to dig in on their patent clause addition to the React license, even after Apache had sa…
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'Ugh fields', or why you can’t even bear to think about that task
Have you ever had a long-overdue task — a task which isn’t so bad in itself — but which you can’t even bring yourself to think about?
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How to get the whole planet to send abuse complaints to your best friends
It all begins with one scary email late at night just before I had to go to sleep:
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How to ask for help from people who don't know you
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Visual Information Theory (2015)
I love the feeling of having a new way to think about the world. I especially love when there’s some vague idea that gets formalized into a concrete concept. Information theory is a prime example of this.
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Kubernetes is a red flag signalling premature optimisation
If your company uses Kubernetes, you are likely expending energy on something that doesn't take you towards your mission.
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Why young parents should focus on building trust with their kids
Today, when my 1.9-year-old daughter tried to grab and eat an unwashed orange, I asked her to give it to me so I could wash and peel it if she could wait for a moment. She did. It got me thinking about the marshmallow experiment, where the idea was that patience equals success. But … […]
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Text Rendering Hates You
Rendering text, how hard could it be? As it turns out, incredibly hard! To my knowledge, literally no system renders text “perfectly”. It’s all best-effort, although some efforts are more important than others.
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Google broke my heart
For years, I thought of Google as a trustworthy helper on the Web. Especially where it mattered most, removing pirated copies of my books from Google...
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How will the miracle happen today?
When I was in my twenties I would hitchhike to work every day. I’d walk down three blocks to Route 22 in New Jersey, stick out my thumb and wait for a ride to work. Someone always picked me up. … Continue reading →
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