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My second monitor is my laptop screen. Great for keeping the music playback and IM chats on it, while the main screen is all editor and terminal windows.

You just have to set the font size to 16-18pt, as I saw many people do. (Brought my own 4K monitor to work, like I did the last few times.)

Bosses are those who hire and fire. Leaders are those who other people willingly follow.

C-suites have no grip on reality, because their subordinates are afraid of telling them truth. The subordinates just want to look better in the boss's eyes, and are afraid to be re…

Not so if it's embedded in something smart enough for its intended purpose. Think vision, spatial reasoning, speech synthesis, even some speech analysis. Think self-driving cars (a…

Since AOSP is open source, is it possible to reuse the Android HAL?

> Years ago, you had watched the same pattern play out in design. Organizations displaced design conviction with A/B testing UX changes. The system produced optimized outcomes but …

> As if licenses mattered They still do, if you want your changes be made public, or even upstreamed. No sane license that gives access to the source code forbids modification for …

Mere 25-30 years ago I saw some very chatty Java builds run faster if the terminal window was obscured or minimized. Slow console output held back the compilers.

To comfortably indulge in all that, inherit old money.

Tired: pass live DB model objects around, mutate them to accumulate random changes, call commit() five levels deep, experience the chaos as described by the author. Wired: fetch DB…

Not only do take-offs spend large amounts of fuel; the fact of a landing and the servicing and refueling in the airport also cost the airlines. Not having to land but instead havin…

These timelines are not arbitrary. They are dictated by the cost of money (for the VC). They have little to do with the target market situation, and totally don't care about techni…

> sit there for 10 minutes doing nothing Try that. Some of the best ideas get born during the "idle time".

The agent is your tool then. I suppose you have put some effort into tuning it, by writing and honing various .md files, providing MCP servers and access tokens where access is nee…

I think it's a false dichotomy. A good craftsman cares deeply about their tools. But the tools are a means to an end, not a toy. I have a bunch of small productivity tools I made t…

Huge SOTA models are like a floodlight. They elucidate a huge area at once. A fine-tuned small model is like a laser pointer. It only illuminates a tiny specific spot. But it can i…

Millions of people learn and practice functional reactive programming every day, without considering themselves software developers. They just use spreadsheets. Many of the lofty s…

Crewed sea travel should offer many hints. Its history is many centuries long.

Give your binary CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE capability, and run it as a regular user. Almost no daemons need to run as root.

I think that "Linux ran on mainframes" was said in jest. Even though Linux runs on mainframes pretty well even now.

Try asking this question to an LLM. (No, seriously.) Or to a search engine: https://share.google/dTJmGU38xw0kDSJlZ

Despite the fact that HTMX is a good solution in many cases, it's not the best solution in all cases. Ditto for React, and for any technology actually. Planning and consideration a…

Autocorrect to Department of Defense?

Or a more pedestrian debit card.