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this is unreadable

It is always great to see more people be vocal about the poison of flat design

RIP Pozin

Wow I've never thought about listening to music I like before?????

This seems focused on one very particular taste in music of droning semi-random lo-fi synthesizers. I find this unlistenable without any kind of percussion.

37 em dashes :(

> In reality, business logic doesn’t directly map to service boundaries Love this quote, it should be a poster on the wall of any dev who pushes Domain Driven Design on an engineer…

Is this article comparing apples and oranges? For example > loading the entire homepage only takes one query [if you're logged out] You can do this with Next.js SSR - there's nothi…

"Hi, how many words are in this sentence?" Gets all of them

Decades of science show it’s beneficial, and we keep seeing the outcomes validated in practice. Calgary removed fluoride from drinking water, saw a significant increase in dental c…

Which part of Europe are you in? Countries in Europe add fluoride to water, salt, milk, and Italy has naturally fluoridated water. > The European Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (EA…

Bluesky is currently a terrible product with a paltry number of users. The small dev team can’t compete with social media platform features. React Native means bad mobile UX.

I believe the Bluesky experiment is already over, and it was not successful. 1. Bluesky was advertised as a very open, resilient platform because of AT, impossible to fully censor,…

Idiomatic Go is using shortened variable names, not what's in this article. I thought that was common knowledge and part of the Go ethos? I also wouldn't consider grammar in commen…

I don’t know what your intentions or hypothesis are, but this is a dangerous place to be a novice in. Eye health is misunderstood and most people are ignorant of the basics. If you…

It’s very telling that most of the comments on the article are about Bell Labs, almost none of the comments are about the article. Few have actually read it! The writing is terribl…

What? How much money did this person make working on software they consider surveillance, before deciding they were comfortable enough to leave? Looks like they made enough money t…

I don’t know if this is being shared intentionally given the timing of “The Gospel” AI target finder, but it is truly horrific that AI is being used this way and as an accountabili…

This blog post is irrelevant. Stub the feature flag system in code and write tests for both cases.

It does sound painful to have to update a package version by updating an import string in hundreds of files

Lisp is an objectively goofy language,* I appreciate someone pointing out the pain points around trying to cobble together readability via indentation. * Not a bad language - well,…

I don't understand the "Requirements Met" section, that reasoning applies to almost any programming language. You chose Common Lisp because there's a JSON library?

It was fun to get to 100% completion and find all the secrets!