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Does SEO even matter these days? Google Search seems to be on the way out as the dominant discovery mechanism. Really a better discovery mechanism is what writers need that's more …

I've found this skill to work well: https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/tree/main/skills/produc...

A few things that have worked well for me: - Like normal software engineering - building small parts in isolation, verifying they work and then bringing them together to make the w…

I'm reading Accelerando at the moment and I kept thinking about The Quantum Thief. I enjoyed the Quantum Thief more, but Accelerando feels more relevant to the current times.

No many hit games started as mods. League of Legends is the one that immediately jumps to mind, but I know there are many more coming from Quake and Doom mods etc.

Probably now or the very near future you could have an LLM that's provably trained on dataset where the leaked spec isn't included in the dataset and have it perform the reverse en…

Your solution is for everyone in the world to foster a degree of self-discipline they've never shown any inclination for in the past? That doesn't sound like a scalable solution. T…

I don't know if you intended this to be only spent selfishly. But if you look to how the old robber barons spent their money they did things like giving the US a large portion of i…

It feels they should be a neutral payment system. They're implementing global policy otherwise due the monopoly they have, that's something that should handled at government/state …

How do you infer swimming in an ocean is dangerous?

It's telling this sentence has the student as one to blame, when it's a structural issue and the weight of the blame rests more heavily on the shoulders of the universities.

I also find this an interesting thought. Maybe an inability to monetize ideas in the space? I've read many many anecdotes over the years of Europeans learning or perfecting their E…

If you want to follow someone playing with this, there's Steve Grand, who wrote the original creatures game and kickstarted something a bit more ambitious https://www.kickstarter.c…

For me Mastodon misses some common workflows I have. When I find someone interesting I like to easily see who they follow with bios and then I may follow some of those. In Twitter …

I have been trawling through the Wizardry 1 decompiled pascal source code for the Apple II. Uncovering neat little bits like: PROCEDURE PAUSE1; (* P010011 *) BEGIN FOR LLBASE04 := …

Business of Software forum, as far as I can tell there's nothing similar anymore for a group of small one-person commercial software devs discovering how, and helping each other, t…

C++ is not a sane language for anyone with a passing familiarity. At least Rusts macros aren't literal text substitutions, a move towards the light.

The low-code, no-code niche that I see is writing shaders using visual graphs - blender, unity, unreal etc. I don't see that being replaced by LLMs in the near term. The context wh…

> There was a game on the PLATO network (circa '79 or '80) called "Oubliette" that nearly caused me to flunk out of law school. [...] Wizardry was in many ways our attempt to see i…

> imagine a non-arrogant programmer that actually does what you want I don't think this is going to be reality anytime soon. In order for the LLM or agent to do what you want, you'…

Singapore - great food, easy travel to the rest of Asia, very safe, English speaking, hires a lot of tech workers internationally. However it is hot and humid.

A tech worker can get a job with a visa pretty much anywhere that has a sector.