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That seems a very strange claim that it's a reference to one minor use of a vastly larger tragic cultural phenomenon [1] without any other contextual indications that's the case? […

Australian flag. The black, red and yellow flag he replaced the Union Jack with is the Australian first nations flag

Yeah. 100% agree here. The Pandora algorithm was an absolute breath of fresh air relative to every other recommendation system. Just constantly surfacing new and interesting music …

In a recent thread talking about Flickr URLs I mentioned a couple of interesting technical features that Flickr had also done that I thought were worth celebrating. When gwern ment…

Flickr deserves a lot of praise for a number of technical advances that I wish had seen wider adoption. Their API was one of the first and honestly still one of the most enjoyable …

If you join HN and immediately start posting links to your own site you'll almost certainly be flagged by users.

It's just a question of ease. Where we lived in Bristol (Hotwells) we were exactly 28 minutes walk from Queen Square in the center of the city where I worked and 29 minutes in the …

So I'll caveat this by saying we were a couple of Australians living in the UK and one of the big differences we noticed between Australia and the UK is just how damn clearly delin…

When my wife and I lived in Bristol we developed a metric designed to measure how enjoyable a city was to live in that we called "time to sheep". Basically it's a measure of how lo…

Jeremy Morrell apparently started a blog in 2024, wrote 3 posts for it, and each one of them would make my "top 5 blog posts of 2024" list. https://jeremymorrell.dev/blog/

100% agree with this. I would say that the other highly likely mistake new managers make is trying to code their way out of problems. It makes sense, right? Previously when you're …

Honestly, in an industry that talks about how important collaboration is and then places the most authoritarian minded individuals as our lauded CEOs (Musk, Bezos, Gates, Jobs, etc…

Site Reliability Engineering.

I believe the most common definition for this context of "production" is "mass produced commercial vehicle"

One of the fun things you can do is using the set of places API methods. flickr.places.findByLatLon returns a placesId based on a supplied lat/long of somewhere you might be intere…

Flickr's API is still the best. Does everything you want it to. Has a few fun surprises that you didn't expect that make it even more fun to make things with. Simple to use. Well d…

It's probably not that complicated nor really that related to an agency. The simple fact is probably more that for a certain type of nerd with a literary bent Kate Beaton and Hark …

Coming to grips with the hidden influence of my own physicality has been a long term struggle for me. I realised over a long time that the fact that I was over six foot, male, whit…

Flickrs API still hasn't been beaten and it was one of the original APIs ever released. Frankly I thinks it embarrassing for us as an industry that it's still one of the simplest a…

Wikipedia Current events page is great https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events for an overview of major global events. For a lot of other topics around general knowledg…

I feel like this post just reached into my head and pulled out all my current thoughts about web development and the dominant architecture paradigm. I love it when someone articula…

Rock climbing and bouldering - often feels like the physical equivalent of trying to gracefully solve puzzles in much the same way I think about programming.

Pretty awesome experiment by jevans. This blog post details what she's trying to achieve and links to the two current games she's made so far about debugging problems.