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It's so fascinating to me that the graphite cores start out as long floppy strings of graphite. Looks kind of like cooked black spaghetti. I wasn't expecting that.

> The biggest lesson I take is that "social networks" are not about protocols but about how we use the existing infrastructure. It's also not about scale and breadth. Focused socia…

That's a really good point. And I agree that kind of confidence in craftsmanship is something that's missing from agentic coding today... it does make slop if you're not careful wi…

Yes! Good points! I think what I meant for point 1 was more "outputting something" vs "creating something". In my mind that encompasses materializing something into the world to ac…

That's interesting. I have been thinking about how the vastly different reactions people seem to have to agentic coding could be influenced by what they value about coding. To me i…

I think coding can be an endurance sport sometimes. There are a lot of points at which you have to bang your head against a wall for hours or days to figure out the smallest issue.…

Same! After years in engineering management I'm building so many small side projects thanks to Claude Code. I'm creating at a breakneck pace. Claude Code has mostly raised the leve…

As somebody who used em-dashes a lot pre-ChatGPT, I have genuinely struggled with feeling I should change my writing style to appear more human. I would be happy with a double dash…

Some of the most searched numbers are surprising. Why are 8487798767697884826576, 119104105114108, or even 3551 so high up the list? See most searched here: https://numberresearch.…

I have noticed that my writing ability has atrophied since I was writing essays in school. Now at work most of my writing is slack messages. Writing longer more thoughtful pieces a…

I have been using Tauri for a macOS app I'm making[1] and it has been great. The app is only 11MB and I've had most of the APIs I'd need. However, there are still some rough edges …

If you're interested on a dive into building game engines, I've enjoyed some of Cherno's videos [1] on developing his game engine Hazel [2][3]. It's cool to see the amount of work …

Being made "redundant" isn't just an synonym for being fired. It has a specific legal meaning in the UK [1]. When employees are made redundant they are entitled to certain rights i…

An interesting question about Stop Killing Games is if this should apply to software more broadly. If a company shuts down should they open source their product so people can conti…

No, they do not want to force publishers to keep a game online. The initiative just wants developers to provide a way for users to keep using a game after it has gone EOL by allowi…

Desktop Commander is new to me so I'll check it out. I'm excited for these kinds of coworking tools that have a lot of leeway to act on systems more broadly. I have been using Clau…

Oh I was just at GopherCon! I was on the Mongo booth.

Hey Manish! Congratulations to you and your team on the round! It's a phenomenal achievement. You mentioned transactions... I work for MongoDB so I just wanted to add that MongoDB …

Cool! Looks like a really nice interface.

Thank you! As an aside, is there a reason you're not using a write concern of "majority"? If you have w:3 in a three node cluster then if one node goes down, writes are going to st…

I think it's fair to say that it might take some time to regain trust. Just want people to know that the software is being improved and large strides have been made in this area.

I'm not disagreeing with anybody else's test results. Just want to say that MongoDB has matured a lot and people should test out the newer versions to see how they fare. Kind of in…

When did you perform the test? Can you remember what MongoDB version you were using?

Plenty of people are successfully using MongoDB for real, customer supporting data at a large scale. There's a selection of users on the website for a start: https://www.mongodb.co…

The Jepsen tests [1] have been run against MongoDB - while older versions presented edge-case opportunities for data loss, that's no longer the case with recent versions. The Jepse…