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> I’m going to add a recommendation in our docs for pgtestdb, particularly for users aiming to test end-to-end (i.e. job inserted by client → fully completed by worker). That's exa…

The title is a reference back to "Is Claude Code a Compiler?" by the same author, linked from the first sentence: https://commaok.xyz/ai/is-claude-a-compiler/ And then claim is att…

You won't make one at home, but cloud chambers[^1] reveal individual alpha particle tracks. There's one in the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris — blew my mind! [^1]: https://en.w…

Spotify's "Account privacy" dashboard lets you bulk-export an "extended streaming history" (i.e. everything you've ever listened to). I built this static tool for analyzing the res…

Large gems can be broken up and recut for sale. Destroys value (certainly the cultural value) but renders them salable.

His recent "Secret Life of Components" series covers lots of fascinating electromechanical tinkering, including many of the mechanisms in the Novelty Automation arcade machines: ht…

Basically linkblogging. I'm not sure this needs to be a separate feed; JSON Feed has a dedicated `external_url` field: > If `url` [optional] links to where you’re talking about a t…

After about a decade of experimentation (NetNewsWire, Feedbin, Miniflux...), I'm self-hosting a feed reader I wrote myself, running on a free hosted LibSQL db. - NetNewsWire was sl…

> An RTO mandate is also an excellent thing for a CEO to show investors they are doing, if they are not making money and lack better ideas. I think of Jeffrey Pfeffer's "social con…

A practical guide for integrating a custom linter into your Go project, a [light] screed against golangci-lint, and a defense of a simpler Go metalinter I’m experimenting with: gli…

From "Learning from Accidents" (Trevor Kletz): > Keep a 'black book' or 'memory book' in each control room, a folder of reports on accidents that have occurred. Do not include fall…

It's a good post, super clearly explained. I have to admit it makes me a little nervous about the future of Go packages — of course interfaces aren't intrinsically bad, but omittin…

Strongly statically typed languages let you safely refactor in ways that would otherwise be risky. This is my trick for one very common example: lifting an interface out of a concr…

I don't understand how this pertains to my comment. Nobody's arguing whether listeners will, as a matter of preference, avoid Google/Apple/Spotify podcast clients. Nobody makes a c…

This seems like an upstream concern with distribution, no? Nothing in this announcement indicates YouTube Music will attempt to control distribution. YouTube might give exclusive c…

Okay... here's an attempt at optimism. In one respect this consolidation makes more sense than the Play Music → YouTube Music switch: many podcasts cross-post episodes as YouTube v…

Link isn't loading for me––also on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/TheWozWonderbook

Deletion isn't the only option for escalation; Twitter could assemble a risk factor for a given account and opt to present captchas, for example, rather than automatically deleting…

Also, this reminds me of a Clara Labs (YC S14) project to hide unique IDs in unicode text: https://blog.claralabs.com/invisible-ink-a-simple-but-faulty...

Interesting. Did some quick poking around. Looks like the system adds a number of non-printing unicode characters into the string. In this thread title, for example, the textmark i…

Yep, we agree entirely! And I think most other technical debaters would, too. I don't talk to my friends at high speeds, my favorite speakers speak slowly, and I certainly wouldn't…

How do you feel about grindcore? Certainly it has musical and aesthetic merit, historical importance, and it demands talented composers and performers. Additionally, there is lots …