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That's on me - I saw v26 was released, but didn't realize they'd already done a point release in the ensuing 2-3 weeks!

It makes coming up to speed on an existing codebase a slog because you have to trace through everything back to its source. Oh, and because there are magic methods and properties g…

The example he gave where each dev gets a single feature done seems to skip over the opportunity that Dev A has - after she spends only "a couple days" on that feature to ship a si…

“code is cheap, show me the talk” - ie “show me you _understand_ the ‘cheap’ code”

notable nitpick: calling DC a “federal entity” is mixing up the concepts of nation and state. (It’s also major erasure of the culture of people - mostly Black - who actually live t…

...authored by [Julia Evans]( https://jvns.ca ) of tech-explainer fame :)

By fiat, of course. :) (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_pi_bill )

As a Sconnie native, the main thing that annoyed me about the letter system is that it's easy for the letters to rhyme; for example, near Verona (home of Epic!), there are (Dane) C…

Is the almost-24-bit limit related to the fact that 32-bit floats have 24 bits of significand? (cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-precision_floating-poin... )

“Craft” vs “delivery” is a false dichotomy. Someone who is “delivering” needs to understand what they are delivering! How can you support vibe-coded cruft that you don’t understand…

"woke" deployed as a noun really rankles me. But then, I guess that's the point eh - own those snowflakes, nothing matters, lol.

Same, and I actually learned from this book in a class from this very professor!

I can't find one either! Here's a 10-year-old article with a picture of it, though it looks slightly different now: https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20151204/west-loop/long-awai...

A bit of Deno trivia: it runs the big "Chicago Brick" video wall in Google's main office in Fulton Market; they open-source the code here: https://github.com/google/chicago-brick (…

Yes, but humans can be held accountable.

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