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The answer to this problem as it's currently being pursued is renewable carbon feedstocks. Growing things like canola on marginal land, harvesting it and turning it into biofuels a…

In the logistics industry the commonly held wisdom is that there really isn't any accepted system for "how street addresses work". Different countries have completely different sys…

Systems like litdb typically include (or work alongside) a schema migration tool, which either reads the current structure of the database and writes that back to a TypeScript file…

Correct me if I'm misunderstanding, but this would allow me to register the desired conversion type for a basic postgres type, to and from JavaScript but not for the return value o…

Using `as` in TypeScript is a dangerous practice, since it sidesteps the entire type safety system. If it has to be used, it should be used minimally, in controlled circumstances. …

Using (from -> where -> select), how would you provide type hints on the where clause when your select includes non-table columns? SELECT COUNT(col_a) as count WHERE count > 0 Kyse…

Having recently been down this journey with kysely, these type-safe query builders still seem to have a large gap when it comes to the return types of SQL functions and opaque type…

Solar and wind definitely make the most sense wherever feasible, but it's important to keep in mind you can't just build solar and wind farms anywhere. China has moderately good so…

There are plenty of use cases where an established CSS framework is a good choice. For PoCs, internal tools or dashboards, or just short lived projects, you can get very far by uti…

One thing that's keeping my hand on the mouse and stopping me from going full keyboard, is the free scrolling mousewheel on logitech mice. I find it such an ergonomic and natural w…

Different levels of code quality are important for different teams / projects. Teams that are still discovering the domain and defining patterns should aim for a lower quality so t…

Mentioned in another comment, but if you like Baraka, seek out the film Man With a Motion Picture Camera (or Man With a Movie Camera), it's the progenitor of both Baraka and the qa…

Some amazing music that never seemed to go mainstream: The Cinematic Orchestra, great modern jazz with a beat. Try the album Everyday. If you're into film there's a version of the …

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I am working on this right now on a medium-sized project, and it's deceptively more work than we anticipated. While Vue's component API itself is remaining mostly backwards compati…

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A big mistake I made when I started mentoring other developers was making the answers to their questions too easy. I spent a lot of my early career crawling around on linux servers…

Some people just don't enjoy teaching that much. I think generally most people get satisfaction from helping others, but some devs just seem to prefer working mostly on their own. …

I agree this is an important skill (and attitude), but whether it's a core requirement for senior probably depends on the size of your shop. Senior devs who are keen to mentor, pas…

When I started at my current company, Senior Developer titles were given out by management. They didn't have the capability or the information to judge people based on technical sk…

The temperature scale on windy.com doesn't really go high enough to depict how hot it is in Australia today: https://www.windy.com/-Temperature-temp?temp,-27.917,137.109...

Without analyzing it too much this seems to be a perfect visualization of the mathematics of music theory. The lengths of string become quite a direct metaphor for the wavelengths …

Rebase has a lot of options, including squashing many commits into one or more "good" commits. This is usually a good thing if you have commits that are "work in progress" commits.…

The ability to quickly spin up a "radio broadcast" in Grooveshark for friends was amazing. With a small group of five friends we set up a Friday DJ rotation where one person would …