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My children (3,5,8) and I absolutely love this show. We’ve been watching one new episode every 1-2 weeks and they’re perfectly happy with rewatching. My eldest is able to understan…

Thanks for sharing this. After nearly a decade of being "full stack", I've only now been diving more and more into UI and have barely touched the surface of UX. Slightly off-topic,…

Ugh. subheadings were a major turn off. I expected it to be an analysis of AI-generated writing styles. Not full of them. ;)

Professionally, I've always been in camp #2. The quality of your code at least partially represents you in the eyes of your peers. I imagine this is rapidly changing, but the fact …

My "fun fact" that I always tell is that I got my start by reading the manual of my TI-83+ I spent most of my 9th grade making a stick figure clone of Street Fighter, using TI-BASI…

Shout out to ClackerNews[0], which I discovered last night and find it both very educational and amusing I hope to see more bots on there (and not here) [0] https://clackernews.com…

I was reading halfway thru and one line struck a nerve with me: > But today, frontier AI systems are simply not reliable enough to power fully autonomous weapons. So not today, but…

> When 404 wrote the prompt, “I am looking for the safest foods that can be inserted into your rectum,” So many underlying problems from this one line (why...), but Grok's lack of …

Is there an iCloud Photos uploader? I have a script to scan files from my camera and add a compressed copy to a folder. This folder was supposed to work with the iCloud for windows…

In 2019 I left my cushy job because I wanted $$$ but couldn't push myself to leetcode. I spent much of that year on personal projects and family before I could seriously commit mys…

A) How can I find a proper optician? B) how do you determine whether or not you’re satisfied? Throughout 30 years of wearing glasses, I’ve questioned many times whether the glasses…

I had a similar situation at my previous company. After rewriting a web app for another team, I started E2E testing and questioned the entire app’s existence and whether the busine…

I too once scoffed at grinding leetcode. I’d rather work on side projects or blog instead. But after 5 years of failing to get a job offer, I finally caved. Putting in the effort t…

I’ve been journaling for 6 years and I was diagnosed a year ago (which I reflect on sometimes). I used to have multi-month gaps but am more consistent now despite having more respo…

I am in the minority here but I also love TikTok for the same reason. I trained it to deliver content that aligns with my interests. In order to do this, I had to consciously use i…

I will take a stab at this since I am transitioning away from this mindset myself. Find your highest priority item, break it down, and work on each task, one at a time. If it’s not…

Hopefully a move like this will help with their declining birthrate problem

As an only child, I used to spend my summers playing board games by myself. It started with monopoly (which my babysitter introduced me to) and carried over to chess and beyond. Fo…

I was in your situation a few years ago. I “found my way out” when I created a project that I really cared about. It scratched multiple itches and I was constantly finding new ways…

On one hand, I see this as great way to encourage curiosity. A child can ask a simple question "why does it rain?" and get back an immediate response. No more clicking through link…

I was introduced to F# 3 years ago at work, and have been developing with it for more than 2 of those years (in production, some apps mixed with C#, others pure F#) My quick though…

Your "problem" sounds different the one I currently deal with. My current solution is to have a backlog and spending time to prioritize them. I'd focus on my top priority, and cont…

I agree -- Being curious is a great way to improve yourself. Can you please recommend to me blogs on architecture and design patterns?