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What would it look like if social media were optimized for flourishing rather then engagement? Bring your own filter/ranking algorith? I wonder if there's not a fundamental conflic…

One of the beautiful things about coding is the immediacy of the feedback. Screw up and your program crashes. Get it right and the machine does what you want. Tests turn green - th…

My favorites that I read this year were: - Playground by Richard Powers: the ocean reminds us that we, along with our obsessions and rivalries, are small - Orbital by Samantha Harv…

Ha, I think that happens regardless of the tech you use. Just blame time.

It's very plausible that anxiety causes heart disease, anxiety causes insomnia, and insomnia leads people to use melatonin. Same with diphenhydramine, overactive inflammatory respo…

Yep, I agree with ya. Whoever moderated that away is lame.

The US has the strongest university and research system in the world. Wrecking that will be one of the worst acts of self-harm ever.

Yeah, sounds like the problems are more due to monorepos rather than with GitHub actions. Seems like the pendulum always swings too far. Overdoing microservices results in redundan…

I found it quite worthwhile to ask GPT4o to give an english summary of the paper linked in the Wikipedia article, _Bekräftartekniker och motstrategier - sätt att bemöta maktstruktu…

That this resonates with a bunch of hackers is kinda funny - code is such an ephemeral medium.

I also view coding as essentially creative. Programming was mostly a hobby in the days of 8-bit PCs. It was a profession for some decades. Maybe it will be a hobby again in 5 years…

...also, great scrabble word.

I don't know what the optimal population is, but here are a couple of arguments against the "ever greater" thesis. Diminishing returns kicks in at some point. The economic value of…

I tried to do a similar thing, but in New Zealand, for engineering or ML engineering roles, without success. The folks I know of that pulled it off either knew people from previous…

Fuck that guy Marl.

...by this website!

It will be interesting to see what happens, as the tools for remote/async work keep getting better, workers get better at doing it, and employers get more used to it. To the extent…

The echoes are there. Reason vs. loyalty to a known falsehood.

Every article about SOC2 should be illustrated with a Hieronymus Bosch-like hellscape.

This project has the best possible name for a port of Clojure.

The desktop client is really buggy and reflects poorly on Apple. Some say, an all-you-can-eat buffet of a big chunk of all published music is just too good to be true and can't las…

genius

Early career devs need to accumulate a few things, roughly in this order of importance: - projects where you made a key contribution, where you "owned" something - senior people wh…

I love our very knobby Korg SV-2.

A rainy day at a beachside café, lofi beats float on the breeze. Distantly, church bells ring, alien spacecraft hover ominously over a crowd of hungry zombies. The nuclear air-raid…