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I know Jira has support for linking tasks semantically (X blocks Y; is blocked by Z) but I wish more task managers had better support for this. A few do, but very few of those will…

For Sanderson specifically, his books are DRM-free wherever they are sold (apple/google/etc). Same goes for TOR publishing. Past that, most books aren't available for DRM-free purc…

I've got https://xavd.id , which I'm very proud of. @xavdid is my username across most sites (except for very old accounts, like this one)

As another commenter notes, programming with a specific goal in mind is a good way to start. People can't sit down and learn "math", it's too broad a subject. Instead, you sit down…

> if you're looking for performance you probably aren't just blindly using the standard library sort anyway That's so interesting- I think I have the opposite response. I figure un…

I loved my pebble(s). 2 great stories: 1. They supported 3rd party watch faces based on a file. There was a great little site that let you use a visual UI to build the file and, if…

I like some of their ideas for sure. I think it's a good starting point.

Sure, makes sense! It's a tough balance to strike, to be both informative enough to cover all the cases and slim enough to show only the breaking changes.

When you have to update your project's dependencies, you (presumably) look at the changelogs for each package to see if you can safely update. This experience varies wildly based o…

Thank you!

https://xavd.id/ It's basically just text and images, but I'm proud that I did the whole thing (content, design, implementation) and the overall attention to small details. Also, I…

I wanted to use this, but it doesn't handle Smart Sync, a feature I find myself really taking advantage of. But, I'm glad this sort of thing exists!

> obscure and difficult-to-predict I mean, I think there's something to that. Bash has a lot of arcane rules; I personally never write an `if` statement right, what with the `[[` v…

Do you have resources to this end that you'd recommend?

KFP is one of my favorite movies; I (an adult without kids) watch it yearly on my birthday. It's got so much heart and it's fight choreography is up there with other all-timers (ip…

It's not about 100% prevention. Nothing, short of 0 human contact, can guarantee that. It's all about adding layers of prevention that each drop your chances of catching it (and it…

When people turn a necessity (housing) into an investment (and by extension, a source of profit), then people/companies with means will buy up as much as they can and hold it, redu…

> the 10 movies or so I watch per year is cheaper than a subscription service. I think the value here _really_ depends on your usage patterns. For you, it sounds like individual di…

They have to strike an interesting balance- enough people have to find romantic success on the app (and tell their friends) to get new users, but not be so successful that too many…

The touch bar was very interesting tech! My favorite use was scrubbing songs/videos and being able to adjust the brightness of my monitor and screen independently. That's where the…

I go back and forth- each works much better than the other in certain situations, which makes it tough to 100% want one over the other. I only got a FaceID phone late 2021, so I'd …

(I'm a Zapier employee on the Dev Platform team; my comments are mine alone and don't necessarily reflect the opinions of my employer) You may find the Zapier's developer platform …

My employer makes a tool that does this! It's a screenshot tool we had been using internally for years that we released last year. It takes a sample of the colors in the image and …

I'm not sure it qualifies as "great", but I am a programmer! https://xavd.id/blog I write about all sorts of things, some of which are technical. Here's a favorite Python article: …

I like the idea of DRF, but when I only dive into it occasionally, I find it has much too much magic for my liking. "Just defined this class w/ this property and then it `just work…