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Becoming the person who does the thing
Bad news: your internal identity dictates everything you do. Good news: you can change it
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,224 posts.
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What’s the best lossless image format?
In a blog post last year, I took a look at lossy image formats and how they stack up. This time, I thought it might be interesting to do a comparison of lossless image formats.
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CSS findings from the Threads app
A few interesting CSS findings from the threads app by Meta.
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Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux
Microsoft’s in-house Linux, the distribution that grew out of CBL-Mariner, just hit public preview as a general-purpose cloud OS you can run on any Azure VM and coming soon to WSL.
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Why did Heroku fail?
Fifteen years later, developers are still trying to recreate the developer experience of Heroku. Yet, those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Why did Heroku fail? Was it just incompetent managemen...
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Self-teaching, spaced repetition, and why books don't work
Listen now | "I was shocked with how intense, painstaking, and effective his learning process was"
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Using lots of little tools to aggressively reject the bots
Or using lots of little tools to aggressively reject the bots
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Analyzing multi-gigabyte JSON files locally
I’ve had the pleasure of having had to analyse multi-gigabyte JSON dumps in a project context recently. JSON itself is actually a rather pleasant format to consume, as it’s human-readable and there is a lot of tooling available for it. JQ allows expressing sophisticated processing steps in a single command line, and…
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Omarchy Is Out
My latest love letter to Linux has been published. It's called Omarchy, and it's an opinionated setup of the Arch Linux distribution and the Hyprland tiling window manager. With everything configured out-of-the-box to give you exactly the same setup that I now run every day. My Platonic ideal of what a developer…
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John Romero on his book “Doom Guy” and developing games at a small scale
I think the biggest reason so many indie games “fail” is that teams enter into making huge, overly ambitious projects that take years to release before they are ready. Indie teams do not spend enough time making smaller (and less profitable) games first before transitioning to multi-year projects.
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Your Bash Prompt Needs This
Have you ever had this happen to you? You start a program and then interrupt it with Ctrl-C, and Bash prints its prompt after the ^C you have typed:
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Vibe coding my way to a healthy family: Introducing Gamow Labs
Owen arrives On September 23rd, 2021, my first son Owen was born. Clearly inheriting his mom’s type-A personality, he arrived on his due date at a chunky 8.75 lbs. We were over the moon. Until we weren’t. At a few … Continue reading →
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Star Trek as a purely symbolic artifact of past times
Back to: I had a blog entry for you, but I eated it | Forward to: Beer, Boston (and books)
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Why bugs might feel “impossible”
Reasons why bugs might feel "impossible"
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If we had the best product engineering organization, what would it look like?
This is a transcript of my keynote presentation for the Regional Scrum Gathering Tokyo conference on January 8th, 2025. Watch the video here.
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Apple in China: who holds the keys?
Last week Apple made an announcement describing changes to the iCloud service for users residing in mainland China. Beginning on February 28th, all users who have specified China as their country/r…
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Infinite Grid of Resistors
There is a well-known puzzle based on the premise of an �infinite� grid of resistors connecting adjacent nodes of a square lattice. A small portion of such a grid is illustrated below.
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Cook: ‘China Hasn’t Pressured Us’
Link to: https://abcnews.go.com/Business/tim-cook-talks-vision-apple-breaks-ground-facility/story?id=67165042
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Class Action Targets Experian over Account Security
A class action lawsuit has been filed against big-three consumer credit bureau Experian over reports that the company did little to prevent identity thieves from hijacking consumer accounts. The legal filing cites liberally from an investigation KrebsOnSecurity published in July, which found that identity thieves were…
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Extracting Zooming Shots from 600 Hrs of Police Helicopter Surveillance Footage
In November of 2021, an anonymous source leaked 600 hours of police aerial surveillance footage to the non-profit transparency organization Distributed Denial of Secrets .
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Doing Everyone Else's Job
I find it very useful to be able to do everyone else’s job — it helps you learn how they work and what they need, and it helps even more when you need their job done, but they won’t do it themselves.
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The True Meaning of Technical Debt (2020)
"Know your enemy, know yourself, and in a hundred battles you will never be defeated"
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A good developer has a natural, almost visceral aversion to complexity
Code should be simple. Code should be butt simple. Code should be so simple that there’s no way it can be misunderstood. Good code has no nooks. Good code has no crannies. Good code is a round room with no corners for bugs to hide in. We all know this. So why does most code suck? Because it’s written
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It seems that OpenAI is scraping [certificate transparency] logs
lol. I minted a new TLS cert and it seems that OpenAI is scraping CT logs for what I assume are things to scrape from, based on the near instant response from ...
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