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Because I think it’s fair to say it’s becoming a standard format for ai agent specs docs etc. It’s not going away anytime soon.

Input: this project was a complete shitshow. Output: This project provided us with numerous unexpected learning opportunities and allowed us to demonstrate significant agility in a…

Watched the video. Yeah, it’s cheesy, it’s not perfect, but it’s pretty f-ing good nonetheless. IMO, this article reads like a stodgy old English professor berating a freshman essa…

https://www.anders.co/

Rob Pike is my hero

Also seeing outages relating to App Store Connect, currently unable to submit builds to TestFlight.

I have found enabling the codebase itself to be the “Claude.md” to be most effective. In other words, set up effective automated checks for linting, type checking, unit tests etc a…

I didn’t read the title closely enough and thought this was Uncle Bob recommending static sites.

Yes, there is a “Hello” in the noise, made visible through contrast and animation.

For this to truly be funny, it needs to be installed on on an unsuspecting user’s laptop, preferably some C-level type about to join an in-person board meeting.

Can you provide specific examples of threads that drift into politics?

https://archive.is/aISbM

https://archive.is/VSvpv

https://archive.is/4jyjL

Still an extraordinary experience after all these years and possibly the best use of horizontal scrolling I’ve seen. Lots of previous discussions and posts on HN: https://hn.algoli…

Yes, thanks for the clarification. One of this law firm’s main clients was one of the big tobacco companies. Also this was in the mid 90s before the big tobacco settlements.

Yes, after working as a dba for a law firm and discovering that I was the administrator for thousands of lawsuits against tobacco companies. In many cases the victim had already di…

Love shadcn, only gripe I have is I still need to use —-legacy-peer-deps due to using React 19.

I recently had an experience where I was trying out the AWS Bedrock service using their knowledge base quickStart. I followed their flow for creating a knowledge base and then play…

Fail: I tried “knulla”, Swedish for “to fuck” which it caught immediately. However, I then tried “prutta”, Swedish for farting and it did not catch that one. (Though it did flag it…

https://archive.is/7PL2a

I was at the talk Jeff gave earlier this evening at Cooper Union and I came away with a strong conviction of the power of this idea. To learn more, check out https://www.givedirect…

https://archive.ph/1T298

One more reason why technical interviews should be in person and, better yet, using a whiteboard only.