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I got the same feeling. The writing is too punchy.

> With this bug, we are in the last case: the Response type is a non-POD struct (due to the std::string data field), so the default constructor is called. Response does not impleme…

I also read Meditations this year. Definitely not what I was expecting. It's not cohesive at all. My biggest takeaways were the inevitability of death and generally letting go of o…

> Grab’s engineering team went from 18 minutes for go get to 12 seconds after deploying a module proxy. That’s not a typo. Eighteen minutes down to twelve seconds. > The problem wa…

> The way Faulkner treats his characters, I treat domain name projects. I buy them with an intention to develop. And I let them take the lead. They’re the inspiration for the busin…

> What we’re doing here is instantaneous point-in-time recovery (PITR), expressed simply in SQL and SQLite pragmas. > Ever wanted to do a quick query against a prod dataset, but di…

It would be such a dream if I could get an ebook, pdf, and physical copy. I love O'Reilly books and have been lucky to have access the last few years because of school.

I recently read his networking guide as part of a class and it was invaluable. It gets you up to speed without overwhelming you with detail. It's a lightweight read.

I am currently enrolled in a operating systems course where Beej's guide to network programming was invaluable. Highly recommend!

- Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout - Leviathan Wakes by James Corey - UNIX: A History and a Memoir by Brian Kernighan - Efficient Linux at the Command Line by Danie…

I just started reading Your Erroneous Zones by Wayne Dyer, and the author has this to say about intelligence and happiness: > Taking charge of yourself involves putting to rest som…

> Assuming malice turns you into a cynic. In contrast, assuming stupidity keeps you curious. Curiosity is a superpower that you can leverage. It keeps you out of fight/flight and h…

I have been using pdf2htmlex with some success. https://github.com/pdf2htmlEX/pdf2htmlEX

Yesterday! For a question about sockets. I have started asking AI to provide sources for its answers so that I can make sure its not hallucinating. A lot of the time it points me t…

Stored procedures make sense if you are trying to make your backend less chatty with the database. The downsides are that they aren't version controlled. PLSQL and its variants can…

After using a split keyboard for 3 years, I can't imagine using a regular one. My hand and wrist pain disappeared witthin a week of switching.

Views are great. Stored procedures are cursed.

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