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I like this rule of thumb: Spend more effort producing the work than it takes for someone else to consume it.

You can switch to the mentioned "delayed" mode if you're using pnpm. A few days ago, pnpm 10.16 introduced a minimumReleaseAge setting that delays the installation of newly release…

I don't usually think of Data when grouping values together in Ruby. Seems like I should. Lucian puts forth a good explainer of when and why they are helpful. To summarize, Data be…

"Business moves at the speed of trust." This is a good post exemplifying this axiom. It is one thing for a leader to be trustworthy. It's a different challenge to cultivate trust w…

+1 to Typecraft for reworking your Neovim setup. As a longtime Vim user, I adopted Neovim with my Vim .vimrc in order to use Copilot. With Typecrafts guidance, I switched to Lua co…

"Will not" allows the existence of a bridge but it's not on your route and you say you're not going to go over it. "Cannot" is the absence of a bridge or the ability to cross it.

Rapid ecosystem churn is my gripe with Javascript. I've generally found Rails and popular Ruby gems to be very durable over time.

There's was a story in Smithsonian magazine a few years ago ( https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/meet-ecologist... ) about an ecologist who more or less did what this ar…

A long post, but the final paragraphs sum up both the problem and the ask: "This was the last attempt to keep core-js as a free open-source project with a proper quality and functi…

“What’s so beautiful about creating products is that saying it in a poetic way, if you have that passion it naturally starts waves and those waves connect people. Then you don’t kn…

I was curious enough to look at this story a bit more. Some related, interesting tidbits: In 2004, Niger estimated 50% of farmland was using the farmer managed natural regeneration…

Thanks for sharing this. The lecture format helps draw out some of the implications of the Alexander's work. For example, "a healthy mind in a healthy body–in a healthy environment…

Bluetooth, a union of different communication protocols, after King Harold Bluetooth, 10th century uniter of Danish tribes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth#Name

I like to work through a process like this: what do I have to work with; whats important right now; what’s the next best step to go forward; do it. Again and again. None of your im…

Norwegia aka Norway :) "Because Indonesians come from Indonesia, and Russians come from Russia, Norwegians come from Norwegia." - Urban Dictionary

A "when to" should be added to this "how to". This might be cohesive in a smaller code-base, but it is not pleasant as "query objects" multiply. There are other ways of handling co…