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What a great endorsement for Strunk and White! I love a precise insight, and I'll cede that unfamiliar word may be necessary. But a polemic that shit-talks the best authors of the …

Betteridge's law of headlines[0] in the wild. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline... >

One of the ironies of a vibe coded VHF teletext is that the LLM-pocalypse prompted dropping low-level network support (AX.25) from the Linux kernel, which is the basis of a lot of …

I'm down with killing restrictive zoning laws. But removing regulation has not historically been a great curb for the uber-wealthy.

And Gerrit has multiple review label that can be customized[0]. So you could require `Verified+2` (CI), `Code-Review+2`, and `Design+2`, for example. [0]: https://gerrit-review.goo…

Did you get it to suspend when you close the lid?

Very cool that GitHub actually put stacks in the UI vs. GitLab's `glab stack`[0] (which looks just like the `gh stack` part of GitHub's thing). One part that seems like it's going …

Ctrl-a interferes with readline shortcuts. I've been using Ctrl- : nothing, as far as I know, binds to that. unbind C-b set-option -g prefix C-Space bind-key C-Space send-prefix

> Today, with Git, we're all teaching swarms of agents to use a tool built for sending patches over mailing lists. That's far from what is needed today. Today, with English, we're …

I read the qntm book in Dec. TIL: there's a whole, rad backstory here. This scene is really arresting, which is how they get you. I kind of coasted through the book on this big ide…

This has a misleading title. This chart shows that the rate of year-over-year, month-by-month change is worse than 2020. But the number of tech jobs has grown by 12% since April of…

Meanwhile, the ADP report[0]: +63k in Feb. [0]: https://adpemploymentreport.com/ >

Very excited for git 3.0, and also ready to be immediately frustrated by it :D `jj` has done git users an amazing service simply by being a more intuitive VCS front-end is possible…

I've also been pondering the two uses of the word "roles" in this sentence. This sentence is the world's best sentence.

> English has a contrast between kinds of clause in which one kind has the standard correspondence between grammatical subject and semantic roles (when a verb denotes an action, th…