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I took it down as it was fairly rambling and didn't do a good job to explain (confused people). I'm building the MVP atm. If you're interested to learn more, you can write me at ke…

The internet was supposed to make humanity wiser. Instead, we built systems that prioritize recency over relevance, reward reaction over reflection, and fragment ideas from their o…

If there was a valid reason to write software that efficiently, besides idealism, I'm sure developers would do so. But there isn't in the vast majority of cases, so we don't. iow c…

I love seeing all these helpless billionaires and business owners flail trying to get people back in the office, with increasingly BS reasons. The world moved on and they can't sta…

The world has moved on from your viewpoint. Either catch up or get left behind.

Sure, if you want your best developers to leave. The question "Should I force...?" should always be met with the utmost skepticism. That's not the way to lead.

Every program you will ever write: Input -> Transformation -> Output. That may sound annoyingly simplistic, but internalizing that one concept gives you a foundation to break down …

Mines great. I'm sitting at it right now.

You can distill it even more than this. All we ever do as programmers is take some kind of data as input, process that data, and return new data as output. This is true for all sof…

That sounds bizarre, what restaurant was playing the Ultima theme song?

The Swimmer by John Cheever and The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula LaGuin are my favorite short stories. So much depth and feeling packed into such tiny packages!

Do understand you'll need to use Compile-to-JS languages to achieve this since browsers can only understand JS. You have some options given the recent popularity of Compile-to-JS. …

I interviewed to be a Gigster about a year and a half ago, and was accepted, but the more I considered it and saw how gigs were distributed (at that time mostly via Slack messages)…

There's a valid point being made in this blog post, about doing your homework and having a deferential attitude when learning a new skill set, but its couched in so much angry self…

Really excited about learning Elixir+Phoenix, possibly React too.

In some ways, I think so. To appeal to wider audiences, game makers have added a lot of hand-holding features over the years that in my opinion make the game world itself less imme…

So you charge for your courses but expect others to provide services for free? Don't be that guy.

Are you familiar with HTTP cache headers? Better to focus on your application and let the browser think about that stuff, if possible.

Video Platform Software Developer | Atlanta, Georgia | ONSITE | techjobs@playonsports.com PlayOn! Sports is a rapidly growing startup and the nation's largest producer and distribu…

Taoism has good advice for this kind of situation. You have to come to the realization that you can never control the outcomes of what you do in life. If you base your happiness on…

Some really good stuff to be found here. I recently listened to What I Believe by Leo Tolstoy, read by David Barnes ( https://librivox.org/what-i-believe-by-leo-tolstoy ), and both…

I hope Eric Raymond doesn't read your comment!

There's something hollow about this kind of art. It's too much of the intellect. I prefer the writing of someone like Cormac McCarthy - done with real craftsmanship and exploring t…

This is meditative and not scientific, but still a thought experiment: To consider, who am I between two thoughts?

Really funny, this feels like a real episode. Good job.