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I’ve been spending the day playing with Claude 3.7 trying the vibe coding approach and I’ve been able to build some complex audio synthesis one off applications. I have no understa…

Can I run WebVM inside WebVM?

He graduated with a mathematics degree from Harvard so the concept of binary search would have likely been familiar to him. But you’re right, as far as I can tell, he never did any…

It’s both a username and a password

Very rarely do I so vehemently disagree with a particular argument in software. This idea epitomizes much of what is wrong in the industry. We can all agree security updates are es…

I changed my mind about what constitutes a fulfilling life for me. I realized that I personally could not live a life consisting solely of devotion to work and consumption of luxur…

The Lindy Effect is real.

Important to note that real income per capita isn’t actually flat, only household income but that’s likely because of household size changes. See here for disposable real income: h…

Safe: * Recession will happen that will affect the global economy causing at least a 30% decrease in major world stock indexes. * China will stumble in a major recession but the Co…

I tried interviewing with Asana and they rejected me on the basis that I didn't have a computer science degree. For the record, I've built apps that have generated millions in reve…

There's also a great Freakonomics podcast about this story http://freakonomics.com/podcast/make-me-a-match-a-new-freako...

Build tools are partly necessary because of how many old crusty browsers hang around out there. I mean, I still work on an app that has to support IE8. That's just ridiculous. As i…

If the Federal Reserve raises interest rates, what will the effect be for startups trying to raise money?

Awesome essay! It looks like some version of the source code at least is available here: https://github.com/macek/google_pacman

I've been looking at trying out AppHub https://apphub.io/ , which is comparable to CodePush. I'll have to try this. As it is, both are definitely useful for better handling upgrade…

The user is also the author of this, which will artificially inflate the number of commits a user has made of a calendar year. https://github.com/4148/greenhat Perhaps 4148 is test…