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So where are we at with utility libs (tailwind/tachyon) vs inline css in js vs preprocessors (sass/scss) vs vanilla modern css?

As a solo dev, I use $5 VPS on OVH or Hetzner for peace of mind. I remember trying out GCP for some simple html or django thing a decade ago and it cost me $30/mo or something and …

>how fast they can run 100m after practice, while the real job is a slow arduous never ending jog with multiple detours and stops along the way I've always explained it as demonstr…

In a way, the government already has a 10-40% stake in everything through taxation.

I generally like having roommates, but when they're bad, they're BAD. I've also never done the communal cooking thing. Either they don't cook, are bad at cooking, or have dubious f…

tl;dr: I felt like death for 2 years probably because of long covid POTS. Feeling somewhat ok now. I had ridiculous nausea and other weird body issues appear out of the blue around…

I have a friend in his 40s and I asked him about his opinion on WFH. He doesn't like it. He prefers to go to an office and be around people. He also doesn't have much in the way of…

I don't know much about Greece and don't follow Greece at all. Every time I hear something about Greece, it sounds like a hot mess.

I was going to say it's expensive, but it's actually not outrageously more expensive than the current going rate for olive oil. It's $11/liter at Costco. Their refill can comes out…

>The number one thing not to do is other things. https://www.paulgraham.com/die.html

Reddit comes to mind. Who knows how much money they spent on their redesign with users hating it and actively choosing to use their old site design YEARS after they rolled out thei…

I've been using clojure as my main language for a decade. Few things can stay hyped that long. My last few jobs were in clojure so jobs do exist, moreso than in Common Lisp and Has…

I've currently reading Warren Buffett's biography, The Snowball by Alice Shroeder and "Sandy" Gottesman frequently appears. When I saw 2, I thought that sounds awfully like someone…

I setup Samba share on my LAN. It works well enough for my purposes. It's not super smooth as not every app let's me open a file directly from the network and I need to make a copy…

The really good investors are dumping their time into reading books and annual reports. I haven't found high quality investing discussion on the internet _anywhere_ yet. The closes…

For coke? ~20% of their revenue converts to net income. That's the amount after cost of goods sold and fixed costs.

>I'm surprised they have this much in 'assets' tied to 'not sexy + boring' things like "not the best foods/drinks for you" Buffett drinks five cokes a day and has said 25% of his b…

Reducing dependency on petroleum is a good idea yes. If not for the environment, then for national and economic interests. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_crisis List also l…

My previous company was doing this. I basically quit out of frustration. They weren't much better than picking random people off the street and pointing them at code. It bled into …

I've been reading two hours a day consistently for the past half year. I generally read with purpose and settled into a daily routine of reading a book on business, a book on progr…

tl;dr: stocks go down, investors less aggressive, tech job market stays dipped US Treasury Bonds are considered the risk-free rate. If you have $TICKER that you expect to yield 5%,…

I'm a cranky old man. I'm still on FF52 and pentadactyl. Tridactyl is still missing a modeline and has janky smooth scroll.