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This led me down a rabbit hole - didn't know Yogi Berra was responsible for so many witticisms.

Incredible article, as a lifelong Hendrix fan, nicely done.

Would happily take work chat, video conferencing in network-enabled Shenmue over Teams, Slack any day

would you consider needing to do community detection as a reason for using graph over relational?

The Goodreads of music. I'm a lifelong music nerd and have developed habits for finding and curating good music, both new and old. I'm codifying my habits and heuristics for discov…

the way by which things will scale is not only limited to the optimization of low level hardware but also just by brute force investment and construction of massive data centers, w…

It sounds like the author of this article in for a ... bitter lesson. [1] [1] http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html

In 2025 and beyond it is my sincere hope that we stop lauding articles that merely present problems without providing any substantive thoughts on how to solve them.

That sounds awesome. On TIGSource by chance? Care to share any?

In our case, we do a lot of client-side computing (for data privacy reasons). We also support hashing, and real-time events. These all have different implementations per language t…

Our product is open source and has several SDKs available in different languages. The commonly used ones are maintained by us, but we also have several that are maintained by the c…

You simply have not had a proper sauna before. It can get your body way hotter inside and out than a shower ever could

There is a distinction between Twine games, or choice-based games, and parser games, which are typically called Interactive Fiction games. One provides a pre-set list of choices at…

Sure; because it is a monolith, it makes things simpler by having just the one backend container to scale. So it's a matter of making more instances of it available (via # of pod r…

I've been working on a project that largely addresses this need. It's a distillation of knowledge gained from building web apps of my own as well as for startups for the past sever…

Great read. > Years later I ran into Phil at the symphony. I asked him I how he was able to come up with such a great script. He blushed and said he had worked on it for nine years…

I experienced a similar transition, albeit this was over 10 years ago. I've come to realize that a balance between both meatspace and hyperspace ends up being most satisfying. For …

For me it's been mostly a holistic approach: Making time for deep focus Prioritizing important work (whether its learning or executing on tasks) for the morning right after waking …

Realizing that one forgets the majority of what they learn day-to-day is a harrowing realization. It was for me, at least. I built this simple web app to help me keep track of what…

I used React, GraphQL, and Node.js The idea is one day folks could publicly share their learnings, and that one could participate in 'follower' paradigm similar to that of Twitter

that's fair. I am submitting this app quite early I've thrown in a screenshot on the landing page to help better inform what the user is getting into. that's all I can do for now g…