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My first thought was, "language". The Broca's area is on the left side of the brain, which is the center of control for logic, language and the right hand. It makes sense to me tha…

I don't understand why the author bought an iPhone. That's the deal - you do things Apple's way in exchange for not having to figure out how you'll do them. For most people this is…

On Writing Well, by William Zinsser. Hilarious, enlightening, affirming of everyone's need and ability to write well.

"But we'd like to give a type to this function. In most languages (Haskell, Typescript, C++, Rust, C#, etc.) there is no way to do that.[2] " Can't you do this with a GADT? With a …

Oh boy.

The first five chapters are unrelated to using the Cats library, and are an outstanding, illuminating introduction to how to think about FP in any language.

Li Haoyi! Thank you for developing your scala ecosystem and Hands On Scala. I just started using Scala again after a few years' break, using Mill, thanks to your recent blog post o…

I wish the world hadn't consolidated around Kubernetes. Rancher was fantastic. Did what 95% of us need, and dead simple to add and manage services.

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If I had a dime for every person that's asked for this.

I found the article compelling and illuminating, but I wish someone had proofread it for the grammar. Half a dozen times I had to reread a sentence and concluded it wasn't correct …

The invention of the steel core made the stone facade unnecessary to support the building, so most new buildings are covered in glass instead of stone. That's related to less ornam…

Ay, that's the spirit, lad. To borrow a phrase from the book Switch, "true but useless". And only technically true. Of course there are no actual second chances. Time only moves fo…

Becoming a Manager by Linda Hill. Not a how-to, but it gives you a preview of the challenge and the blind spots you might have as you become a manager. Another that I haven't read …

I'm on a Framework running Manjaro and i3. Love it. Very lightweight, love the keyboard, very snappy.

This is the CIA's published version of this document: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp80-00809a000...

DRY is about readability. If DRY makes the system more readable, do it. If not, don't.

DRY is about readability. If it makes the system more readable, DRY. If not, don't.