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What I did at Recurse Center
I spent the summer at Recurse Center, a programming retreat in Brooklyn, at the recommendation of my friend Cory. These are some things I did there.
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Life, Learning & Writing
The most popular blog posts about life, learning & writing on Hacker News. 613 posts.
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Withnail's Coat and I
He may have had tailoring from Hawkes of Savile Row, but Withnail’s coat has a more complicated history.
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A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words
A few days ago, The new York Times (owner of Wordle) announced that from 2 February it would start reusing some words from previous years. Their announcem...
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Everyone's Packing Up
I see a lot of posts about people leaving platforms. This one about leaving Reddit, this one about leaving WordPress, and a bunch of others about leaving Dis...
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A bug which affected only left handed users
Verily, some of our brethren (and sistren) be afflicted with a sinister disposition. While the righteous scroll using the thumb of their right hand - as is good and proper - an accurs'd minority swing the other way. Look, you try writing an interesting bug report without sounding like a clanker, OK! I try to optimise…
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The F Word
Back in 2005, when I first joined the SUNY Buffalo CSE department, the department secretary was a wonderful lady named Joann, who was over 6...
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French e, è, é, ê, ë – what's the difference?
A complete explanation of how e, è, é, ê, and ë are used in French, with rules, examples and pronunciation.
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Hunger beats tenure: Advice for junior engineers
The coding interview is dead, at least for my team at Anthropic. I've seen enough to know that it no longer provides signal. I have a spicily optimistic take: I think there's a huge opportunity for junior engineers.
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Good developers learn to program. Most courses teach a language
A bootcamp can teach you the syntax of a language in six weeks. The part that takes a decade is everything else: where the seams go, where the data flows, which decisions you are stuck with for the life of the codebase. This is a senior developer's argument for what learners should actually be looking for, after…
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Novellas with Groff
Don't even think about it: I won't publish this. Nor send it to you privately, which is mostly the same as publishing it.
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I Remain a Skeptic
I still do not use LLMs for anything I actually care about. There are a lot of reasons I could give: environmental, social, political. I could talk about ecosystem lock-in, learned dependence, self-soverignty, philosophical concerns, the intentional dismantling of labour bargaining power, and more. But before all of…
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Don't Subscribe So Casually
Or, why your AI subscription is worth analyzing
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Online Friends Are Real Friends
A few days ago I booked my flights to not only attend a professional event, but also visit and stay with one of my best friends next month. This will be the ...
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Using ThinkPad T480 as a mobile phone
A collection of Maroš Grego's works.
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Smart people don't think others are stupid (2012)
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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I dream of quieter computing
A quick note about future of computing and indieweb. It's about a 2 minute read.
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Tracking Costco gas prices
I reverse-engineered Costco's gas price API and built a live tracker covering every US warehouse, right as a Strait of Hormuz scare sent fuel prices climbing.
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Against Usefulness
In a Brooklyn warehouse, a man handed me a piece of paper that was a running computer program.
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A Year of 3D Printing
If you'd asked me a few years back if I thought I'd buy a 3D printer, I would have said no. My experience of 3D printers back when I was in college was that they were very slow, expensive, frequently failed mid-print, and needed constant calibration...
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Automating Immersive Reading
How Storyteller’s forced alignment algorithm works.
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Listen to Understand
You can captivate someone not by what you say, but by how you listen.
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"Just a little detail that wouldn't sell anything"
A blog about software craft and quality
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Book prizes don't work how you think
all the beans that's fit to spill
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Now is the best time to write code by hand
As more engineers use the irresistible LLMs their skills atrophy, practicing will make you special.
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We are going to kill "unalive"
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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Solar-based sleep patterns compared to modern norms
ex program, en farm