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Can a smartphone be of any use if the internet/cell service goes down? Most messaging apps depend on having an active internet connection. All modern phones have WiFi mesh and Blue…

I'm an engineer at replit and I've been using this to find and fix a bunch of nasty bugs. I love the sense of confidence this gives me. When I have the recording captured — I know …

TIL many programming languages have built-in support for complex types (e.g. 2i in Ruby, 2j in Python) https://programming-idioms.org/idiom/77/complex-number

I think https://momentum.earth/ gets a few things right (no affiliation)

I think this article was very good. It captured the same though process I went through: from trying different apps, to trying to build my own, to realizing it’s all about human con…

Author here. After reading the comments I’m afraid my article didn’t communicate the main point clearly. The mental models suggested here are sweet, but: It’s not about how to expl…

Thanks! It made me wonder at the time: how many SaaS products out there include these ghost users in their metrics and revenue reports? How many users sign up for stuff they don’t …

What’s more, I think the incentives are not aligned. People who write content nowadays don’t usually have the reader in mind, but instead focus on promoting something (a tech, a to…