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fuzzygroup

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About fuzzygroup

I'm a progressive political activist based in the Midwest. Technically I specialize in Rails / Full Text Search with a focus on big data applications. I can be found at new.fuzzyblog.io and https://bsky.app/profile/fuzzygroup.bsky.social

I am the cofounder of Pollitify, https://www.pollitify.com/ a social network for progressive activists and the Polly software suite, a set of tools for progressive organizations.

Looking to do mutual aid in America related to food assistance / SNAP ? Sign up for a Pollitify Grant: https://www.pollitify.com/grants

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    No. While there has always been corruption, this is a different order of magnitude.

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    No. Large numbers of Americans aren't. Corruption and abuse of power is why we we have millions of people protesting. It may not be covered on the mainstream news but I was on the …

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    Comment #45875013

    A food aid grant program to help anyone do mutual aid. Its grass roots activism meets the current SNAP cut madness. https://www.pollitify.com/grants

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    I have three techniques that never seem to fail for me in increasing order of complexity. 1. Write a blog post about it. I'm an old school blogger and my best learning tool is to i…

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    Comment #34336237

    This is utterly fantastic and you are to be commended for your Crazy Mad Scientist genius!

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    In case any founders out there are wondering if a Hacker News post drives actual revenues, I needed to make a timeline today, remembered this, signed up, hit the limit and bought a…

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    Comment #34205693

    The problem with feed discovery is very, very real. Lots and lots of feeds exist that don't have link tags. I wrote Scott's Feed Finder to probe for them. Yes I'm biased but its a …

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    Comment #33952965

    Yes they should absolutely be banned.

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    Comment #33948153

    This is a fantastic podcast. I'd recommend it for any developer. Thank you Adam.

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    Comment #33502359

    2 and 3 along with constantly building side projects. you build enough side projects, to completion, and you get much, much better. One of my side projects even got venture funding…

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    Comment #33491542

    I'm a very, very happy HogBay customer. Two comments: the product is high quality and the support is outstanding. Recommended.

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    Comment #33428368

    I find the lack of string interpolation to be the one thing that kills me about javascript. The lack of it feels wrong and I can't get behind languages that don't have easy interpo…

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    Comment #33371012

    The article is free. The recipe is paywalled. You can tease the recipe out by curling the url: curl https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1023587-brunswick-stew -or- https://gist.git…

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    Comment #33274200

    You can mentor people. You can adopt. You can foster a child. You can engage with your community. You could be a boy scout leader. There are lots and lots of ways to engage with ki…

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    Comment #33118436

    Thank you. Seriously. Thank you. Nicely done.

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    Comment #33006359

    Agreed. The car manufacturers will lose control of the "car user interface" if they take on Apple's new CarPlay. My prediction tho is that some manufacturer will be desperate and t…

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    Comment #33006350

    I also wouldn't buy another car without CarPlay.

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    I'd strongly advocate for what I call "The Boy Scout Campsite Approach to Code Improvement". Boy Scouts have a motto "Leave the Campsite Better than You Found It". What I'd do is: …

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    I built a marketing automation system for Udemy content creators. Alas Udemy decided to block all crawling of their site which broke my ease of use proposition so I abandoned it. I…

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    Comment #32457421

    I'm currently doing an 18 hour drive and binging the Acquired podcast. Their analysis is excellent.

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    Comment #32252779

    This is really quite excellent. His thoughts on primary keys and the number of issues that Gitlab has are dead on.

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    Comment #32195041

    And I tried to sign up and got "Signups not allowed for this instance"