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The one and only place I am persecuted is on HN. Without exception this is the most toxic community I have ever seen. HN is the worst possible example of an echo chamber. Every dis…

Cancel culture claims another victim. Social media and its consequences have been a disaster for nerds. Introverted nerds and intellectuals created the technology that enables soci…

RMS achieved precisely because he is a bad people person. He did what he believed needed to be done to reform the software industry the way he wanted it and he succeeded without re…

Yes. It's gatekeeping borne of jealousy. Keep introverted nerds in tech. Extroverted marketeers took our technology and perverted it into social media. Woz said of his time buildin…

Team players don't work alone. What has happened to all the introverts who work alone? They're not working in tech. Tech is for extroverts who get paid to copy from public GitHub r…

> They stream themselves coding at the same time each week without fail. Nope. Anybody who streams themselves coding is not a real coder. Coding is not rapid fire typing memorized …

I run a YouTube streaming server which theoretically will be blocked by Google after a burst of requests. I've found the very best way to avoid the problem is to have zero users. A…

As a techy person myself who doesn't care about design, where can I find techy people? Obviously not Hacker News. I'm extremely dissatisfied with Hacker News which is full of web d…

Jango. It's a music streaming service. No it's not Spotify. Yes I know you've never heard of Jango. So I spent the past few months scraping metadata for every song on Jango Radio a…

Searching all 2.5 million songs on Jango Radio https://jango-index.ml/ https://jango-index.ml/src/

Fascinating! I wished I could do this years ago. Funny thing is I once had a dream exactly like this where I copied on one computer and pasted on a different computer. And now it's…

Jango. It's internet radio like Pandora except it's not Pandora. Earlier this year I was distraught to discover that certain obscure songs I wanted to hear again had mysteriously d…