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I don't disagree with the sentiment, but Ballmer essentially made that money by simply not selling his Microsoft stock.

It's interesting how quickly my brain developed an AI detector for written language (this blog post screams ChatGPT). I wonder if it will stay effective, or if LLMs figure out a wa…

Is there a term for this style of writing? It's like a longform linkedin post. I don't mean this as a criticism, it just seems like written language is evolving to better capture o…

> Tech is a poor fit for agriculture. Incorrect. I worked for an Ag tech company for almost a decade. Ten years ago, farmers were downloading high resolution satellite imagery of t…

It is a batteries included _front end_ framework. You don't need to worry about compiling, routing, code splitting, etc. Most of the things you described should be handled by the b…

This is an unfortunate comparison. I actually chose Next.js because of its similarity to Rails - it's a batteries included, opinionated framework that favors convention over config…

Honest question - have you ever tried to use the actual web components API? It very much feels like a set of primitives to build a framework on top of. I can't imagine the amount o…

I'm surprised this wasn't on the front page. This caused quite a bit of trouble for me.

An alternative interpretation of the Marshmallow Test is that it is a measurement of trust as much as it is of self control. If you don't believe that the researchers are going to …

It's me... tried out cloudflare this morning. Bad timing.

Thank you so much for letting me know. Tried out cloudflare this morning, rolling it back.

We certainly do performance tests, and we also don't auto-update. The issue here was it was a slow leak, so it took time and significant load for the pattern of errors to present i…

A rebuttal to a popular piece advising against using ESLint as a formatter.

Reminds me of when filmmakers in the 90's rediscovered the Fisher-Price Pixelvision https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PXL2000

There are a large number of very incorrect statements in this article. > True to its de-facto tagline, change detection in React is “just JavaScript.” Then in the example, the auth…

> Do people not merge master into their branch before pushing? All that seems like mostly problem caused by having too long living branches. On projects with a high commit velocity…

I'm not sure why those sections were flagged for low contrast. Manually checking the contrast for those colors at https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/ shows that they are …

I had a few tasks last month that https://nginx-playground.wizardzines.com/ really helped with.

While we celebrate individuals, in my experience real work is done by teams of people, and there’s lots of research that shows heterogenous teams perform better than homogenous one…

The problem with this approach is that it pushes out a lot of people, especially women and minorities. When you are conditioned from birth to believe that you belong somewhere, a b…

I ported several large code bases off of CoffeeScript last year, mostly to JavaScript, but some to TypeScript. Simply being able to use ESLint is worth it (CoffeLint wasn't even cl…

What makes a talk memorable, or inspiring? Technical content aside, what makes some talks better than others? Giving a talk is easy, giving an _excellent_ talk is difficult.