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A common reaction I get to https://forty.news is that the stories “need sources” which I always find funny. I don’t hear the same demand of sources from every other news outlet (I …

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This started as a reaction to a conversational trope. Despite being a tranquil place, even conversations at my yoga studio often start with, "Can you believe what's going on right …

I just tried to put omarchy/arch on my 16” mbp. Everything worked (eventually… speakers and keyboard backlight needed special stuff) except for suspend or hibernate. After about a …

I tell people to get an LCD and xreal or viture AR glasses with the saved money. AR glasses are a WAY better display than a small OLED screen.

GPT-5’s results: Your Programming Philosophy You prefer elegant, high-level solutions that are intuitive and accessible to other developers. You likely favor functional programming…

Estimating: similar to planning, thinking through the whole problem and surfacing early anything that seems like not a big deal on the surface, but actually is. Estimate changes ov…

“Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.” It’s not the estimate that is valuable. It’s the estimating and seeing how/why the estimate changes over time that is valuable.

Use this to learn more about what is going on at the company and how you can provide more value in exchange for what you want. Want more money? Use this to figure out what the comp…

Business doesn’t hate creatives, and is not specifically targeting creatives to automate them away. Any job that can be done as good for a lower price or better for the same price …

I was a psych major in undergrad, and did an experiment as a riff on stereotype threat and got a small effect. I had the participants solve brain teaser puzzles and the only differ…

This is the most maddening thing about all content now. It's all platform based and every platform wants to constantly push/"recommend" things to you and your kids. Right now I use…

Sure, and they even go on to say that the article is about “what helps to explain the differences in outcome between two genetically identical people.” However it’s clear that is n…

From the link: Results The analysis of the data revealed no significant difference between MZA twins (reared apart) and MZT twins (reared together) in regards to personality measur…

Personality is ~70% determined by genetics, not life experience.[0] I’m surprised that someone interested enough in the topic to write such a long post wouldn’t put the time in to …

I tried to use Charles on Robin Hood, but it looks like they use cert pinning to prevent it.

> They typically borrow the form and structure of an in-person conference without considering whether those still make sense online, and whether the goals of an online conference s…

Thanks! Was surprisingly hard to find something that looked good on Amazon. I'm thinking it has to be matte for the full effect. Probably worth checking out an art supply store.

Love it, going to try them out. What paper do you use?

Right, the less it looks like printer ink and printer paper.

I just got an axidraw and I’ve been having a lot of fun with it. Because it can just use SVGs as is, I could plot a “still”[0] from one of my existing generative pieces[1] minutes …

I hesitate to recommend this because of how woo woo it sounds, but... I had terrible pulsatile tinnitus (both sides) for over a year and half. I went to doctors, specialists, tried…

I built https://upfollow.app to help a product manager have a better relationship with the software engineers. It makes it easy to create calendar reminders to follow up on feature…

I just finished an MVP for a free tool to help delegated tasks get done. I was wondering if I did it all wrong, but like you say, I would have a very hard time describing a managem…

You might find my survival guide for founders who depend on devs to get things done useful. It covers topics like how not to lose key information if a dev leaves, preventing endles…