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I’m a philosophy grad who learned to code a couple years out of school. Philosophy gives you a set of meta cognitive skills that help everywhere. It teaches you how to think. It sh…

As an engineering manager, I read and agree with this guy's critique. Coding is creative, uncertain, and vulnerable work, and if engineering managers are responsible for whatever l…

This was like five years ago that I had one, but as far as I remember, OP-1 isn't grid-based (though maybe some of the instruments are?). It's basically like a four track tape mixe…

From wikipedia: > A logic gate is an idealized or physical device implementing a Boolean function, a logical operation performed on one or more binary inputs that produces a single…

One thing that can make it fun, speaking as a former kid who grew up playing fiddle, is to get to play with other kids and connect with other kids through music. Maybe that's tough…

Oh man, you gotta charge more! This is insanely cheap. The average substack charges $5 a month, and you usually get an email a week at best.

I think you're right that the services themselves break, but more often than not, the failure mode is that what page you're monitoring changes its structure, and then every refresh…

Contra the above dude, I don't think it's all that strange for Facebook employees to profit directly off of their access to these systems. See this article about how employees char…

I will give you one breadstick (real)

Also it would be nice if this book could do all the deploying for me.

You've never put a number of elements together in a div, and added a class and styles to that div rather than each individual element? You should try it out.

I was just making a funny joke about how it was developed originally for cruise missiles. Though it turns out I was misremembering: it was made for guided missile destroyers. And i…

Don’t forget to count all the cruise missiles, too!

This is really helpful. I love the idea of reaching out on long-running and getting feedback directly - that seems a great qualitative way to get a sense of what's going on, and fi…

Wowwww this is lovely! Have you written anywhere about what you've done on the projects you've maintained along these lines? I think we'd all benefit from hearing more about what y…

Y'know, bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder both are things that are hard to handle. The latter is usually connected to having had a childhood that was so chaotic …

Hmmm, what parts feel harder or not described above? In my experience it really is just about learning the scales and the chords, like the author mentions. Then you just have to le…

I was very grateful to see this disclaimer: > I've spent months working on this program

Dumb question, but is there an equivalent concern for Vue? Or a reason why this kinda checking isn't necessary there?

It's not just that he has to sort winners from the losers. It's that he has to be the first most important seeming VC in their minds. And he accomplishes that with these blog posts…

Somehow I’d always end up doing this most right in the middle of finals.

Learning to play an instrument is usually about learning many many tiny discrete skills that build on one another and can be combined in creative ways to express what's most import…

Hey, I’m in the midst of that - of going from full-time tech work after nearly a decade, to a career as an artist (in film and music, mainly). I wonder what you mean by “working in…

As an indigenous guy getting into film and trying to get indigenous stories made, I really love this. Hope it comes together. Is the licensing you do for content that's already bee…