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If you run a statically generated website, I recommend append-only generation, where you keep your `dist/` (or whatever web root) stateful between builds. This guarantees you don't…

This reminds me of Exist[1], although their inputs are mostly automatic and so the data quickly becomes overwhelming and tautological ("you spend more time active when you work out…

Location: Seattle, WA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Ruby, Go, Python, TypeScript Résumé/CV: https://twos.dev/cv.html Email: ben@twos.dev Ten years in the indust…

This is an amazing story and a clever innovation. I cannot fathom why the author is so upset about it.

I'm not the dev, but based on the source it looks like Mongo: https://github.com/vasanthv/webtag/blob/main/server/collecti...

Location: Seattle, WA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Go, Ruby on Rails, Python, TypeScript Résumé/CV: https://twos.dev/cv.html Email: ben@twos.dev Ten years in i…

One place I'm surprised I don't see this more is sets. In my experience arrays are used without a second thought when any collection type is needed.

Location: Seattle, WA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Go, Ruby on Rails, Python, TypeScript Résumé/CV: https://twos.dev/cv.html Email: ben@twos.dev Ten years in i…

- Location: Seattle, WA. - Remote: Remote or onsite in Seattle. - Willing to relocate: Not willing. - Technologies: Go, Ruby / Ruby on Rails, Python, TypeScript, AWS. Interested in…

Can you share some source material for improved happiness?

macOS’s new Stage Manager feature does this.

A desk mat, like the ones by Nordik [1]. It's like a giant mouse pad that also goes under your keyboard. I can't stand the size of normal mouse pads and I can't go without one beca…

I've found a good middle ground is to call myself an "amateur photographer", "amateur interior designer", etc. It leaves room for both motivation and humility.

The word that describes what the author calls destructive pessimism is defeatism—an expectation and acceptance of failure. This itself causes failure.

Yes. European cities were, in general, well-developed before the car was invented. US cities are built around the car. This means more space dedicated to parking, which means less …

For a little more on these with a focus on CSS and practical issues, I wrote an article a couple years back called Advanced Dashes: https://twos.dev/dashes.html

And The Man in Seat 61: https://www.seat61.com/