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jamierumbelow

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About jamierumbelow

I write code and prose

http://jamierumbelow.net http://jamieonsoftware.com http://littleleftover.com

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    https://ourworldindata.org/ I reach for it several times per week. Never struggle finding what I want, nor getting it into the shape I want it.

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    Looks great! I really like the developer dashboard - so many other OSS tools (eg langchain w/ loaders) trade off ease of debugging for setup speed.

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    GPT-3 powered summary: The author emphasizes the importance of the "move fast and break things" approach, which encourages shipping products quickly, but believes it is often under…

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    All good points, thank you - your distinction between iterate-to-build vs iterate-to-ship is an important one, and something that was in the back of my mind when I was writing. I a…

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    Something practical that helped me – I'm taking a year off drinking, and am 328 days through – was getting my friends and family to take bets heavily skewed against me. If I don't …

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    Hey, no judgement, and good for you for turning up for your team!

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    "I have a limited time" You blagged your way through a job interview, didn't you?

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    For something a little different, the Clojure codebase – particularly `clojure.core` – is extraordinary in its elegance and simplicity.

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    Rails is a great, progressive framework and I've learnt a lot about programming in general by taking the time to familiarise myself and work with it. Rails makes it very easy to wr…

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    Cambridge Geek Day

    Cambridge Geek Day is a full-day, one-track web conference based in the beautiful British city of Cambridge. Join us on November 21st for inspiring talks, a great atmosphere and fa…

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    The reason why everyone's having this problem is because I only released 20 coupons, which were used pretty quickly. I've released 20 more - they should work now!

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    Hello, thanks for the feedback. We've decide to go with the credit system because it means that we can charge less for shorter, more concise screencasts and it's less confusing for…