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This one time, I doubled the speed of our bulk mailing app by reading the template in, setting as a variable, and using that instead of reading the template inside the loop each ti…

What worked for me: come up with a bit of patter or a general “surrounding script” that you wrap your answers with. JFK did this sort of thing to buy himself time to think. You can…

For me, portability trumps pixel count at the moment. I haven’t used a multiple monitor setup for about 10 years now, and that works just fine - adding another monitor adds only th…

Making the case (and sounding like an oil exec) that we need to be consuming more energy. I agree: access to energy is vital to our future, but if we’re boosting efficiencies and b…

So, don’t ship cars then. Tweak cities for micro mobility and walking. Also: a couple of burned and sunk ships is a much cheaper price to pay than climate change. If the cost of th…

This could be tricky! More and more, programmers are moving away from the stereotype of white dude who likes to play computer games in their spare time, and is always on the lookou…

I lerned to touch type using Dvorak in 2001. I’m useless at Qwerty! If it’s the only way you can realistically learn to touch type, stick with it. Absolutely no RSI - but I might j…

At this one job I had, the org basically ran on stored procedures. Like thousands of them. So I whipped up a couple of functions and keybindings so if the cursor was on the name of…

At one job, the order came on down from on high that we had to do timesheets, but we had to log precisely 7.2 hours a day. So I made a little emacs lisp function to adjust my times…

S3, cloudfront, route53 for the hosting. Your text editor of choice for generating. Git for version control :)

Global logistics service, with side aim of distributing surplus food to areas that need it. Big data backed surgery scheduling for units with high contention, to minimize patient l…