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Playbot is a Rust CLI + TUI that reads the currently playing track from your local Spotify desktop app and displays lyrics, artist info, album details and more — no Spotify or Geni…

plot twist: they leave it up, collect telemetry to match and understand the data behind pirating vs. owned emulation, find it useful to open the platform, focus on services, and bu…

imo this is the biggest thing deno and bun have going for them. running typescript from the shell is so nice and easy

Finally a competitor to dbt. the world needs this!

Privacy, longevity, nutrition science, trust, deep space exploration.

It seems like it's hard to cut through all of the SaaS companies to find jobs in deep tech (innovative companies inventing new technology). Is there a job board out there for this …

I mean I get why everyone wants everything to be fuse-compatible but some things just aren't meant to be done.

> Python’s standard library sucks Maybe for production ready microservices, but I've always thought Python's std lib was pretty expansive.

I mean, is anyone really surprised by this? LLMs (as I understand them today) only predict the next token based on previous tokens, so there's no actual logical cohesion to what th…

Hey everyone, Jk here. I cofounded Jetty Labs to build data tools. The tl;dr here is that data teams use a lot of tools and understanding how access is configured across the growin…

I won't be surprised if DE ends up just falling under the "software engineering" umbrella as the jobs grow closer together. With hybrid OLAP/OLTP databases becoming more popular, t…

There was an external audit in 2021 – https://research.nccgroup.com/2021/10/27/public-report-whats... .

Someone fix the grammar on that last statement! "We're don't view ourselves in competition with Meta"

I love this book! There is a lot of abstraction today that most software workers benefit from, but I think there is a lot of value in understanding lower-level mechanisms.

Isn't this... what everyone (that uses in-app browsers) does? I just assumed that's a big reason why one would use in-app over sending a person to their native environment, which i…

The concept seems cool and the price seems reasonable if the quality is high. But how does this translate to value for subscribers? It seems like the company is treating curation a…

Their podcast, "On the Metal" provides more context at the work they're aiming to accomplish.

> Computer Systems: A Programmer's Persepctive Can vouch for this one. Provides a great overview of systems through the lens of algorithms they are built on.

Shirer has a shorter book called The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler that was concise and clear. I look forward to reading this longer iteration on the same topic too.

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