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As a few others have said Plaid is actually rather cheap if you only have a handful of accounts. I created my own personal finance tracker when Intuit Mint shut down and Plaid cost…

There are some studios who do this already (A24 for example who have produced a number of relatively popular films). But agreed that the big studios have focused on sequels and for…

This is essentially the definition for complexity that Ousterhout argues for in the book A Philosophy of Software Design. I highly recommend reading it if you haven’t, it’s very go…

https://marginalia-search.com/ is a great way to find small indie blogs

Which part of Michigan are you in? I know some people that live up in northern Michigan where they don't bother salting the roads in the winter and just put down sand instead which…

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To me these blog posts seem more like a company that wants to differentiate itself from openAI and others by putting out high quality technical content to be consumed by developers…

Any executive who is fully bought in on the AI hype could see someone in their org recommending this as working against their interest and take action accordingly.

I never thought I’d see a discussion about the Underwood NIL drama on a databases blog post but here we are.

The yearly ruby release announcement getting to the top of hackernews every year certainly seems to imply that it’s not a dead language

I’ve thought the same in past years but for last year’s aoc I didn’t try to finish all the puzzles in December and let myself work on them whenever I had time throughout the year. …

As a fellow first-time parent with a 1 month old at home this captured a lot of feelings that I’ve experienced recently. Thanks for taking the time to write such a thoughtful artic…

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert Caro. Fascinating book about Robert Moses’ rise to power in New York and how he managed to exert considerable infl…

Wow I had no idea this behavior existed. Now I’m wondering how much time I’ve wasted trying to figure out why my pipelined greps don’t show correct output

Some of these things like a visual history of changes you can get from using a git client like sourcetree. For other things you listed I’m not sure that they actually make your lif…

To echo some other comments here I use DBeaver as my daily database IDE but it doesn’t work well with SQLite. This looks like a great tool for handling that use case