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A 60-Hour Work Week is Not a Badge of Honour
Your 60 hour work week is not a badge of honour. It is a problem. It means the business design has failed, or there's a breakdown in communication, or worse.
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As a developer, my most important tools are a pen and a notebook
Writing code is a part of being a software developer but often more important question is to figure what code to write and how and that I like to do away from computer with my notebook.
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Idea Debt
There is no book. There is only Idea Debt.
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How to rapidly improve at any programming language (2016)
Last year, I submitted a PR to the Clojure web request routing library, Compojure . Even though I was doing Clojure full time at work, there was still a lot for me to learn and always will be.
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Play deprivation is a major cause of the teen mental health crisis
Allowing more unsupervised free play is among the most powerful and least expensive ways to bring down rates of mental illness
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Proof you can do hard things
An Essential Piece to Your Life Resume
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What happens when you use a standing desk for two years
The video below is an update on the original post. At the time of the video’s recording, I had been standing for 5 years. cialis About me: I build Power 20, a suite of mobile exercise apps. It has now been two years since I started using a standing desk at work. No matter how long my...
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Roll-Invert-Unroll: An easier way to replace a duvet cover
This way of putting a cover onto a duvet might save you effort and time!
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Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice)
Let me preface this post by saying that no programmer should feel compelled to read any of these papers. I list them because I think that they provide a breadth of information that is generally useful and interesting from a computer science perspective. What you do with that information is your prerogative, including…
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Autogenerating a Book Series from Three Years of iMessages
Tired of waiting for iMessage to load my messages from years ago, I printed them all out in a set of paperback books.
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I fixed a parasitic drain on my car in 408 days
How I Fixed a Parasitic Drain on my Car in 408 Days
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The suck is why we're here
On a catchup call, I told my friend Nick Wignall how someone had trained an AI model to write blog posts in my style. It was a pure research exercise on their part. The idea was to train the tool on my past work, then give it the headlines and opening paragraphs of my 2025 […]
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The 7 Habits of Highly Overrated People
I remember having a discussion with a more tenured coworker, with the subject being the impending departure of another coworker. I said, “man, it’s going to be rough when he leaves, considering how much he’s done for us over the last several years.” The person I was talking to replied in a way that perplexed...
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I don't want the details
Why reasonable explanations are one of the easiest ways to avoid changing anything.
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Blogging can just be stating the obvious
John Gruber writes about those annoying popups every website seems to have now and while he does a great job tearing into these ubiquitous, user-hostile…
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ChatGPT Explained: A normie's guide to how it works
Once you understand a few core concepts, modern chatbots are less mysterious.
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The Factorio Mindset
Plus! The Carbon Rally; The Bridge; Housing and Rates; Full Stack Media; Buying Out Contracts; Diff Jobs
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The most obsolete infrastructure money could buy – my worst job ever
A trip deep into a retrocomputing jungle.
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I trick my well-developed procrastination skills
It took me 10 years to finish my PhD, so I would assume my procrastination skills are not that bad ;) … fortunately, nowadays, I use some basic rules to fight procrastination and have become quite efficient with it. The following three basic rules helped me a lot to organize myself.
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It's hard to write code for computers, but it's harder to write code for humans
How to build developer tools for happiness and productivity.
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Kottke.org is 25 years old today
I realize how it sounds, but I’m going to say it anyway because it’s the truth. When I first clapped eyes on the World Wide Web, I fell in love. Here’s how I de
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Safari 15 on Mac OS, a user interface mess
All in all, I liked what I saw at this year's WWDC keynote. Until Apple showed the new user interface of Safari 15.
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What Is Gridifcation
A 50-year comparison of Billboard’s top songs shows how recorded music became machine-perfect.
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I'm sorry
On Being A Journeyman Software Developer2013463 points177 commentscited by 9Life, Learning & Writing details
Yesterday I made a mistake . Without thinking, I put up a mean tweet about some code that Heather Arthur wrote. And I want to apologize. ...