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Not knowing what Chatto is, the headline is giving "zendaya is meechee"

Not to be a curmudgeon, but why are they spending time on this? As an enthusiastic Raycast user, I would prefer to see them focus on making Raycast better, not finding new ways to …

I think this is less about the projects themselves and more about distribution channels like HN and ProductHunt being dead. When the zone is flooded by vibecoded apps of all kinds,…

Quick, someone build a "documentation for agent teams" thing and call it Clawnfluence

Agent orchestration seems to be the new hot problem to be solved in the ecosystem. See also Steve Yegge's most recent posts [1]. Curious to see what tools emerge as the winners of …

I always liken it to using Uber in ~2012. It was fun to get around major metro areas for dirt cheap. But then prices rose dramatically over the next decade+ as the company was forc…

I'd say Obsidian (just over five years old, since its first release), which is ironic because it's basically just a UI on top of text files.

Had me until claiming that InfluxDB was the first mainstream TSDB in 2013 . OpenTSDB (2010)? Graphite (2008)? RRDtool (1999)? Maybe Influx took off in a way these prior projects di…

The conference has to be called Dreamyforce

Outside of electricity fundamentals, this book is a great intro on how the grid works: https://www.amazon.com/Electric-System-Nonelectrical-Profess... Or a shorter alternative: htt…

Highly recommend A History of Modern Computing [1]. Starting with the ENIAC in the '40s through the successive generations of computing technology in the 20th century, it gives a f…

DNS and BIND, 5th Edition

I think this is a good question, but that it falls prey to the same conceit that befalls those who claim they could "build Twitter in a weekend". A picture-perfect sketch of a syst…

A former colleague of mine wrote a great article on this topic which summarized how the infrastructure group at Twitter thought/thinks about code review: http://glen.nu/ramblings/o…

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