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getup8

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About getup8

alex … at … wewander … dot com

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    https://www.getup8.com

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    I had a similar obsession with cocktails starting in 2019 after moving out of NYC and missing it. So I started making my way through the Death & Company book and it inspired https:…

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    We are considering using MD5 for user id + salt hashing for randomizing users for A/B testing. Should blake3 or xxhash work as a replacement for that use case?

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    It’s a 62 page PDF on how to win gold at the 10km speed skate…

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    10km speed skating. I believe the gold medalist, after winning, released this to basically say, “This is how I did it.”

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    I’ve just started going back to the office and for 1:1s especially, being in person is wayyyyy better. Most are usually taken as a walk around the block and you come back energized…

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    I just started working at “scale-up” (~400 people) company with a dev team of 50 or so, mostly men, in their late 20s to 30s, mostly without kids yet. They have great camaraderie a…

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    I’ve forwarded to a friend at FB. Will let you know if he’s able (or willing) to do anything :)

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    I’m a fan of just learning as you go. It sounds like you’ve built relatively simple apps so maybe try to build something more complex, even if a “stupid” idea. Try React or Vue wit…

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    https://www.CocktailLove.com I built last year on my paternity leave and haven’t had significant time to work on it since. I tried to monetize by selling Nick & Nora glasses on the…

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    I haven't tried standing yours up yet but will tomorrow! Do you have all the Drink and Tell/Told recipes as fixtures? Or just a few? Your repo is nice and clean, definitely learnin…

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    Thanks! I want to do a redesign actually but too many other things on the plate.. Right now related are just manual actually. I planned on creating some type of graph and computing…

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    Cocktails! I read the Death & Co book and it inspired me to create a site to house all the recipes (and hopefully more eventually) and track which ones I've made. https://www.Cockt…

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    I also use Google Docs. I think it's the easiest and fastest to keep up to date and synced across devices. I put main milestones ("version" releases) at top with core features I wa…

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    "Since 1998 the fund has generated an annual return of 5.8 percent, or 4,404 billion kroner."

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    Agreed. The public transportation is pretty weak and the highway infrastructure can't handle the current population as it is. San Diego is a pretty linear city with almost everythi…

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    In the article they state that it's potentially less economically productive to clear-cut due to all the other benefits the forest provides. Maybe they're talking about an idealist…

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    Somewhat an aside, but Raines Law Room in the Flatiron in NYC is a great little speakeasy/cocktail bar and brings back this vibe a bit.

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    I just took Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis at Columbia and really enjoyed [most of] it. Teacher was great and learned a ton. I applied to the Postbacc / Continuing Edu prog…

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    "open source software has been making the editing ease-of-use accessible to any JavaScript developer" What's a great open source mediumesque editor at the moment? Feel like the cho…

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    Eh, I'd give it a shot by I quit after the first few chapters. I didn't like the narrator's voice/tone at all and the writing was definitely not my favorite.

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