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Fond memories! My first job out of uni was building interfaces for embedded devices using XUL/javsacript/xpcom/c++. The technologies were fun to develop in at the time and it felt …

I too was going to mention Robodebt. In addition to wasting money, it caused all sorts of trauma to already vulnerable people - sadly in some cases leading to suicide ( https://en.…

I think my biggest recommendation is David Graeber. Perhaps something like Towards an Anarchist Anthropology. In a similar way to Kropotkin, Graeber challenges a lot of narratives …

haha great! You are correct - this is where i pulled the term from! Such a great book.

Can totally relate! The Dispossessed was another seminal book for me.

"Conquest of Bread" had a huge impact on my politics. It cut through the capitalist realist narrative that we're all in economic competition and that capitalism is the only sane so…

Satisfying static types AND 100% code cov is a significant burden. If you're intrigued by this approach, or perhaps by a similar approach with typescript, I highly recommend checki…

Great comment! This brought back so many similar memories - spending hours configuring Enlightenment and tweaking my desktop with transparency and flames (I hope Rasterman is still…

I had been thinking about building a reverb in max. Thanks for sharing! Also Valhalla's supermassive is one of my favorite reverbs.

This is a fantastic post and I really appreciate your rationale (having faced similar struggles). A limited but simplified set of Haskell libraries that offers similar ergonomic be…

I remember reading a great post on HN about a startup founder that deliberately discouraged people working long hours. They also had some interesting low bureaucracy practices. I r…

Some of the wildest sci fi I've ever read. So many mind stretching concepts are explored while still remaining a great story.