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Hitchhikers guide was a personality defining read for me when i was younger. I also recommend this video: Parrots, the Universe and Everything https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZG8H…

Culture is mostly generational habits, learnings, hacks etc. Poverty and scarcity for generations could scar people into adopting certain habits as a way to survive; and it can be …

I love gevent, but i never was 100% sure that nothing is secretly breaking or some weird thread safety issue. In a large SaaS app all sorts of 3rd party libs do weird background th…

https://archive.ph/kcVok

Easier said than done :-) Tests might cover more code than a single unit owned by different teams, thus end up with multiple owners. Prefer "squads" as the owners rather the indivi…

I've had success with strategies at introducing some abstractions/patterns at my current place(doing this alone for a enterprise SaaS company with 200-ish devs). It's weird that we…

https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/colorschemes/ ^ There's a host of built-in color schemes.

While agreeing somewhat with the post above, the answer isn't really so black and white but depends on your context, i.e. scale, app-complexity, search needs, data size etc. >the f…

>We build monuments for individuals not for committee. That's the second time i'm hearing that quote today from completely unrelated sources. The quote is from David Ogilvy, in cas…

>frequency of character triples What are character triples? Are they trigrams?

Disclaimer: I live in Chile, but not a Chilean national(nor of similar ethnicity), and certainly not a historian. The dispute is seen differently in Chile and is not as simplistic …

I second this, although i use `elpaca with use-package` instead: https://github.com/progfolio/elpaca It helps me keep the config consistent regardless of if something comes from ME…

I don't know about Trello, but i understand why B2B SaaS have this problem. The main issue is the ability to support various authentication systems, protocols, eg. Okta SSO, Google…

My building charges USD 40+ to replace the white rfid cards if you lose it and something similar for the remote control for the parking gate. So i just cloned all my cards and remo…

There is also https://meldmerge.org/ which i've used on Linux and Mac before.

Not sure where that quote originates from, but it's also seen here. The Argentina Paradox: microexplanations and macropuzzles by Taylor et al https://latinaer.springeropen.com/arti…

It's there on the readme/pypi home for both; unless i'm misunderstanding what you mean by "chained" from box import Box movie_box = Box({ "Robin Hood: Men in Tights": { "imdb stars…

In case anyone is looking for mature alternatives that are used in production https://pypi.org/project/python-box/ https://pypi.org/project/munch/

There might be people years from now that could benefit from your work. Caring about something and putting it out there is never in vain.

I must confess, i never read the original book/paper, just about it from various sources. I was under the impression that in "proper" TDD you always try and write the test first; s…

This also can be articulated as a sort of incremental TDD. - Write the scaffolding test to call the new "thing" - Add basic assert to check your thing was called with right input -…

Doh! I went and looked at the license. https://github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm/blob/main/LICENS... Comment from the author. https://github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm/issues/2…

One caveat for new users is that it requires some effort to use it. In many cases, if you're reading non mainstream books then it's on you to add those books and ISBN details + cov…

As others have pointed out, alternatives do exist. They just lack the network effect. I've recently moved to Bookwyrm. I was able to move import my Goodreads list, although many bo…

Yes, but do you(or someone else) have a recommendation of which scale does not do this? Something that's not consumer grade, but not "enterprise cost"