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I had to double check myself at least a half dozen times, too

ooh now I want a Josef Albers Homage to the square version https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homage_to_the_Square

"We built it, it worked sometimes, so we threw it all out" is either the most honest engineering blog post I've read in a while or the plot summary of every project I've ever worke…

Just wanted to flag the use of the little "jump back to where I was reading" links on the footnotes is a feature I'll be implementing and using on every footnote I ever write for t…

"Law Enforcement Officer"

These days, it needs to be very clearly an example project/feature/whatever the take home is. If it even remotely smells like "real work" I'd be inclined to pass. I don't need to d…

Hey HN! I built this map for Santa Barbara Burger Week, a local event where ~40 restaurants each offer a $10 burger. The local paper publishes a list of participating restaurants b…

"Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle" is the new "but can it run Crysis"

how the heck did i even post this on this thread? god ive got too many tabs open

mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell

"English spelling has a reputation. And it’s not a good one." - never have i ever agreed with anything more different hill, but one I would die on is: as the letter "c" should make…

Trunk detects, quarantines, and eliminates flaky tests from your code base. Works with any language, any test runner, and any CI provider.

I totally get this side of things. I see the benefits of Agentic coding for small tasks, minor fixes, or first drafts. That said, I don't understand the pseudo-tribalism around spe…

The product makes notes from the transciptions, so this animation isnt wildly off base to have

I have had the alias `huh` for years, which is just `pwd; whoami` just to confirm I am where I think I am, and I am who I think I am

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