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Arc BrowserTheir words
Arc Browser: I tried Kagi but too many apps are incompatible with Safari so RIP. set to default.
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pnpmTheir words
Used to recommend yarn. now brew install pnpm as fast node package manager
5 August 2025
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Close to the MachineTheir words
Ellen Ullman's Close to the Machine is a memoir I couldn't believe I hadn't read earlier. Many of her observations about engineering culture feel as relevant today as when she was a programmer in the 1980s
24 July 2025
23 July 2025
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AI will not replace the best programmers; it will make them ten times more productive than they are today.Their words
So the great programmers will be even better, but there'll be even 10X even what they are today. And because there, you'll be able to use their skills to utilize the tools to the maximum, exploit them to the maximum.
21 July 2025
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12 July 2025
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it's a luxury good like you're not paying the penalty for that the people who embrace it and think that they can just ask AI for everything or they can just look everything up but they don't have to understand the copy pasta that they slam into their project they're the ones who going to suffer
Their words now
Where I get fired up, and this ties back to the AI discussion, is when that's turned into this meme, that programmers no longer have to be competent. I mean the AI is gonna figure it out. The generators is gonna figure it out. I don't need to know SQL, active record is gonna abstract it away from me. No, no, no dude, hold up. The path here is competence.
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I enjoy it even almost like as a sort of pair programmer AI pair programmer who doesn't drive who's just there to give suggestions to know the API to do all these other things but the second it starts wanting to autocomplete my code I'm like yeah I'm out bro
Their words now
I love chiseling my code and the way I use AI is in a separate window. I don't let it drive my code. I've tried that. I've tried the cursors and the wind surfaces and I don't enjoy that way of writing. And one of the reasons I don't enjoy that way of writing is I can literally feel competence draining out of my fingers.
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On changing their mind
I used to think it required more churn to get progress to stay on the leading edge of new stuff. And I wrote this before I experienced the indignity of the 2010s in the JavaScript community.
11 July 2025
9 July 2025
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korrents.com
Permissive licences are the better way to release free software and free content, because they maximise adoption.On changing their mind
Historically, I was a fan of the permissive approach (eg. my blog is under the WTFPL). More recently, I am warming up to the copyleft approach.
4 July 2025
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korrents.com
Most conditional branches in software are strongly biased toward one outcome rather than close to fifty-fifty.Their words
most branches are heavily "biased" one way or another - e.g. a "branch taken" rate of 10% or 90% is more common than 50%
3 July 2025
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governing frontier AI requires standards for safety and security, incentives for the leading AI developers to follow those standards, and evidence that the standards are being followed.
16 June 2025
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I think the platform that Lean and other software tools, so GitHub and things like that will allow experimental mathematics to scale up to a much greater degree than we can do now.
12 June 2025
11 June 2025
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clients want a lot more from a software vendor than a solution that performs ABC by XYZ date.
10 June 2025
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korrents.com
AI agents can now do real cognitive work, and writing software is permanently changed as a result.Their words
2025 has seen the arrival of agents that can do real cognitive work; writing computer code will never be the same.
9 June 2025
8 June 2025
From one piece How I program with Agents 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Graphics chips have far more room for future performance gains than CPUs, which are nearing physical limits.Their words
GPUs are not nearly as restricted in their future progress as CPUs which are far more constrained in how they can physically improve (compiler-driven ILP only goes so far).
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Most software has too few users or too short a lifespan for long-term maintenance costs to matter.Their words
Very few programs ever reach the point that they are heavily used and long-lived. Almost everything has few users, or is short-lived, or both.
6 June 2025
5 June 2025
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I do. If you have a passion for computer science, I would. Computer science is obviously a lot more than programming alone, so I would. I still don't think I would change what you pursue. I think AI will horizontally allow impact every field.
3 June 2025
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Opaque, inert and obstructive elements might occupy the same place as full-screen command line interfaces — a powerful niche UI that was a marker in history, passed on by the windowed environment of the multi-tasking, graphical user interface revolution.
2 June 2025
From one piece My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts 3 beliefs · fly.io
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All progress on LLMs could halt today, and LLMs would remain the 2nd most important thing to happen over the course of my career.
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LLMs can write a large fraction of all the tedious code you’ll ever need to write. And most code on most projects is tedious. LLMs drastically reduce the number of things you’ll ever need to Google.
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The code in an agent that actually “does stuff” with code is not, itself, AI. This should reassure you. It’s surprisingly simple systems code, wired to ground truth about programming in the same way a Makefile is.
30 May 2025
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Anthropic prompt engineering documentationTheir words
I still think Anthropic have the best prompting documentation of any LLM provider.
24 May 2025
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The Design of the Unix Operating SystemTheir words
The Design of the Unix Operating System - Maurice J. Bach (Prentice Hall, 1986)
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The AWK Programming LanguageTheir words
The AWK Programming Language - Alfred V. Aho, Brian W. Kernighan, Peter J. Weinberger (Addison Wesley, 1988)
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Expert C ProgrammingTheir words
Expert C Programming - Peter van der Linden (Prentice Hall, 1994)
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Linux Kernel Development, 3rd Ed.Their words
Linux Kernel Development, 3rd Ed. - Robert Love (Addison-Wesley, 2010)
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Understanding the Linux Kernel, 3rd Ed.Their words
Understanding the Linux Kernel, 3rd Ed. - Daniel P. Bovet, Marco Cesati Ph.D. (O'Reilly, 2005)
23 May 2025
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Their words
That’s because most clean energy jobs are in deployment and maintenance rather than manufacturing, and since higher costs slow down the rollout of renewables, increasing prices reduces the total number of people working in clean energy (even if the number working in manufacturing increases).
14 May 2025
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Usesrcmnd.app
WaveboxTheir words
Wavebox — bundles Gmail and Google Calendar into a single open source app on desktop and keeps this outside browser tabs.
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Likedrcmnd.app
FirefoxTheir words
Firefox — primary browser, because its open source.
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HomebrewTheir words
Homebrew — package manager; I track my setup in this Brewfile repo.
12 May 2025
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Carbon capture and storage cannot be economically competitive without a policy that prices carbon.Their words
CCS can never be competitive in the sense of working economically in the absence of a policy framework to price in the cost of carbon, unlike clean electricity.
Why Tony Blair needs to reset his climate resetliebreich.com
8 May 2025
30 April 2025
From one piece Tim Sweeney: Fortnite, Unreal Engine, and the Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #467 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I think the big thing to realize for indie developers right now is there's massive, massive competition in every major genre, and it's very unlikely that unless you just happen to be the world's best at a particular thing that you're going to release a game in an existing highly competitive genre and win.
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But the metaverse and 3D gaming in general needs something that's rather more powerful, more safe, more scalable, and more capable than JavaScript because the metaverse is actually a more difficult technical problem than a webpage.
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The biggest limitation that's built up over time is the single-threaded nature of game simulation in Unreal Engine. We run a single-threaded simulation. If you have a 16 core CPU, we're using one core for game simulation and running with the complicated game logic because single-threaded programming is orders of magnitude easier than multi-threaded programming.
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A lot of what they're facing isn't the challenge of learning a new art. It's friction introduced by failures of programming language design.
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But there are other parts of programming languages that are not subjective but should be fundamental. And when you look at type systems, there is a way to do type systems that gives you mathematical proofs. And every other way of type systems that doesn't give you mathematical proofs is just worse and should ultimately be rejected.
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Major Linux distributions are increasingly shipping system libraries with frame pointers enabled by defaultTheir words
This is getting easier in the lastest versions of Fedora and Ubuntu (e.g., Ubuntu 24.04 LTS) which are shipping system libraries with frame pointers by default.
29 April 2025
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Their words
Everyone’s software is good enough these days. The barriers to entry are low. To stand out, you need to make your product feel great. One way of doing that is through animations.
22 April 2025
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That's much better than current FSD, but much worse than humans or Waymo.
21 April 2025
19 April 2025
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most rewrites fail and most people are over-optimistic about how long they will take
17 April 2025
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Deploying a new technology at scale takes decades, far longer than the people building it imagine.Their words
Deployment at scale takes so much longer than anyone ever imagines.
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These systems will be absolutely central to the economy, technology, and national security, and will be capable of so much autonomy that I consider it basically unacceptable for humanity to be totally ignorant of how they work.
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From one piece Superhuman's secret to success | Rahul Vohra (CEO and founder) 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I then asked myself, is the position of speed unique? and is it available? And the answer was overwhelmingly yes because almost no software was being sold or has ever been sold on the value proposition of speed.
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Well, I strongly believe that we should make business software like we make games because when we make products like we make games, people find them fun. They tell their friends. They fall in love with them.
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And that's why when you have a missionritical product like email where you are interfacing with customers with candidates with investors it turns out to really matter. Email is mission critical. So it's not something where you can simply launch with a halfbaked product.
22 March 2025
From one piece ThePrimeagen: Programming, AI, ADHD, Productivity, Addiction, and God | Lex Fridman Podcast #461 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Sometimes you have to move fast at the sacrifice of knowledge, and I'm totally on board for that, but I worry that what we'll create is an entire generation of incompetent programmers who can do some amount of things well, but anything that is unique, bespoke, or requires some extra like little elbow grease, might become very difficult. It might cause a whole chasm where juniors remain juniors forever.
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The sense that programming is mostly web programming is a social construct of Twitter, not a picture of the field.Their words
And so we often talk about programming in perspective of web, or something that's pretty narrow, and I think that's just a social construct of Twitter more than anything else, that actually I don't believe it's that representative of the entire programming world out there.
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Most of the time I'm not thinking, I'm programming. I know what I want to do, I want to go as fast as possible because I've been just doing it for so long and I'm so familiar with the general space that it becomes a huge problem for me. I cannot tell you how many times that I've been purely bottlenecked by the fact that I just can't type fast enough and I just need to get it out of my head onto the text editor.
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The editor obviously does not make the programmer, but I think it says a lot about your character as a programmer if you don't know how to use your editor well.
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And if you truly make yourself irrelevant, I would challenge you that you're just doing something that was just slightly too complicated to automate.
18 March 2025
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Brave BrowserTheir words
I recommend Brave browser
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1PasswordTheir words
Combine this with a browser extension to create and Autofill them super fast. For example, I use and like 1Password
16 March 2025
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Their words
The new trend toward vibe coding and vibe design may be upending the user-centered design paradigm that has remained based on the same ideology since the first UX design projects at Bell Labs, starting in 1947.
12 March 2025
9 March 2025
From one piece Performance of the Python 3.14 tail-call interpreter 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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However, with so many different software projects out there, each moving so rapidly and depending on and being used by so many other projects, it becomes practically-inevitable that some regressions "like that one" happen, almost constantly.
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I'm hopeful this framework will turn out to be a much more robust style for writing performance-sensitive code, especially over time and as compilers evolve.
7 March 2025
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Vibe coding can execute instructions, but deciding what the software should do and why is not automated. Product managers and designers must still do user research, market analysis, and creative brainstorming. In that sense, vibe coding changes the implementation phase more than the planning phase of the product lifecycle.
4 March 2025
2 March 2025
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Claude 3.7 SonnetTheir words
As a Python and JavaScript programmer my favorite models right now are Claude 3.7 Sonnet with thinking turned on, OpenAI’s o3-mini-high and GPT-4o with Code Interpreter (for Python).
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Treating errors generically is a mistake that leads to fragile software, poor observability and worse experiences.Their words
This is what leads to slop JS/TS software. Treating errors generically like this is a mistake. It leads to fragile software, poor telemetry/observability/debugging, and as a result worse experiences
12 February 2025
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You Need a Budget (YNAB)Their words
You Need a Budget (YNAB) is a simple to use (but sophisticated under the hood) bit of budgeting software that uses the principles of human habits and behavioral finance to make you more conscious and efficient in your spending.
3 February 2025
From one piece DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters | Lex Fridman Podcast #459 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The big picture is that I don't think it's going to be a cliff. I think a really good example of how growth changes is when Meta added stories. So Snapchat was on an exponential, they added stories, it flatlined.
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I think that they're trying to shift the narrative. They're trying to protect themselves. We saw this years ago when ByteDance was actually banned from some OpenAI APIs for training on outputs. There's other AI startups that most people, if you're in the AI culture, were like they just told us they trained on OpenAI outputs and they never got banned.
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until there are feedback loops of open source AI, it seems like mostly an ideological mission. People like Mark Zuckerberg, which is like America needs this and I agree with him, but in the time where the motivation ideologically is high, we need to capitalize and build this ecosystem around, what benefits do you get from seeing the language model data?
From one piece DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters | Lex Fridman Podcast #459 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The important thing about, hey, is cost a limiting factor here? My view is that we'll have really awesome intelligence, like AGI, before we have it permeate throughout the economy.
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To some extent, training a model does effectively nothing. They have a model. The thing that Dario is sort of speaking to is the implementation of that model, once trained to then create huge economic growth, huge increases in military capabilities, huge increases in productivity of people, betterment of lives.
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But really the software engineering agents I think can be done faster sooner than any other agent because it is a verifiable domain. You can always unit test or compile, and there's many different regions of it can inspect the whole code base at once, which no engineer really can.
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But what happens when every company can just invent their own business logic really cheaply and quickly? You stop using platform SaaS, you start building custom tailored solutions, you change them really quickly.
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And they're decent, their hardware is better in many ways than in NVIDIA's. The problem is their software is really bad and I think they're getting better, right? They're getting better, faster, but the gulf is so large and they don't spend enough resources on it or haven't historically, right?
30 January 2025
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Usesrcmnd.app
CursorTheir words
It is a fork of Visual Studio Code with AI-based auto completion and code generation built-in. It’s my go-to for programming with AI assistance at the moment.
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llmTheir words
This is a command line tool with plenty of plugins that lets you prompt different models. Think of it as a command-line version of Open WebUI. It’s particularly useful for quick scripting and basic automation.
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I mean, I've been doing this for over 15 years. If there were any shortcuts, I'd be all over them. There are patterns and there are frameworks, but there's no shortcuts.
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So I foresee a world with far more specialized code, with fewer generalized packages, and more readable tests.
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31 December 2024
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The C Programming LanguageTheir words
The C Programming Language - I've finally gotten to the point in my career where I can appreciate the elegance of this book.
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korrents.com
Discriminated unions are the most important TypeScript feature, and everyone should be using them more.Their words
the most important typescript feature is discriminated unions and everyone should be using them more
16 December 2024
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The Coding Career HandbookTheir words
guides, principles, strategies and tactics from code newbie to senior developer.
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De-Coding The Technical Interview ProcessTheir words
A fresh take on navigating the tech the interview process, tailored for frontend engineers. She wrote the book after she found Cracking the Coding Interview to be too Java/backend-focused. The book comes with 1, 2 and 4-week learning plans as well. A great book to start with.
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Become an Effective Software Engineering ManagerTheir words
A hands-on book for people transitoning to management, starting at a new company or looking to make more of an org-wide impact.
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Tidy First?Their words
"Tidy First? is the first in a series of books about software design. Kent has been coming back to the topic of “taming” software design in a digestible format."
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Building a Career in SoftwareTheir words
An excellent book to navigate how to grow at tech companies. I like the opinionated and concise advice Dan presents, across a variety of topics.
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Workers AITheir words
Workers AI has dope models for your use. No API keys when used inside Workers.
6 December 2024
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A personal website is an autobiography. I wish everyone had one. The more we share, the better.
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This is especially severe for open weight models, where deployment is essentially irreversible and mitigations can’t be improved later.
6 November 2024
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Structure and Interpretation of Computer ProgramsTheir words
The essence of software engineering.
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Lambda the UltimateTheir words
Everything I know about programming language theory, I owe to this site.
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HaskellTheir words
The programming language for the 21st century.
5 November 2024
14 October 2024
From one piece Response to DHH 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Building a business on open source is a good thing; the objection is to trademark abuse, not to commercial use.Their words
I think it’s fantastic when businesses are built on open source, the WordPress ecosystem is at least 10B+ a year; Automattic and WP Engine are less than 5% of that.
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An open source project’s trademarks must be defended, and that defence is separate from the software’s licence.Their words
Trademarks must be protected, as evidenced by Rails trademark policy.
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Many software investors eschew hard tech startups because of their capital intensity, but it’s hard to deny that huge returns are possible in hard tech: just consider SpaceX.
30 September 2024
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FishTheir words
Fish - Alternative command line shell than Zsh, I still use Zsh though.
26 September 2024
From one piece WPE & Trademarks 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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This isn’t a money grab: it’s an expectation that any business making hundreds of millions of dollars off of an open source project ought to give back, and if they don’t, then they can’t use its trademarks.
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A company that will not accept a project’s terms is free to go and use a more permissive project instead.Their words
If WP Engine wants to find another open source project with a more permissive license and no trademarks, they are free to do so; if they want to benefit from the WordPress community, then they need to respect WordPress trademark and IP.
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Respect for trademarks and other intellectual property is part of what open source means, not a departure from it.Their words
WordPress is licensed under the GPL; respect for copyright and IP like trademarks is core to the GPL and our conception of what open source means.
24 September 2024
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Mastodon's web client is a heavy React app that breaks without scripting and loads slowly on old hardware.Their words
when you send someone a link to a post, they can't read it without loading the entire Mastodon frontend app into their browser, which will is a monster React codebase that will break if they have scripting disabled and also can take up to 30 seconds on older hardware.
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SafariTheir words
For browsers, I use Safari for browsing and Google Chrome for development.
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PostmanTheir words
I use MAMP for WordPress development, Postman for API testing, Notion for notes and task management, Slack and Discord for communication and Keynote for course presentations.
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VS CodeTheir words
I use VS Code as my main code editor for both; my daily work and recording courses and videos.
1 August 2024
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I’m also still not sure how much I like nix – it’s very confusing! But it’s helped me compile some software that I was struggling to compile otherwise, and in general it seems to install things faster than homebrew.
Their words now
I’ve mostly switched back to Homebrew, nix was interesting but overall I think it’s not worth the complexity for me
26 July 2024
25 July 2024
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korrents.com
Games should not be measured against any outside yardstick — not purpose, not pleasure, not politics.Their words
In my approach, I resist using any external value framework as an ultimate set of criteria against which to measure games’ worth - not purpose, not pleasure, not politics.
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Usesrcmnd.app
Firefox Developer EditionTheir words
Firefox Developer Edition for development/sandboxed work
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HoppscotchTheir words
Hoppscotch for testing APIs, after Insomnia turned to 💩
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BrewTheir words
Brew the package manager for macOS
8 July 2024
From one piece Geomys, a blueprint for a sustainable open source maintenance firm 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The thing open source can actually sell is not the code but access to its maintainers’ attention and expertise.Their words
Clients still pay a fixed monthly retainer to ensure the professional maintenance of the whole portfolio, and to get access to the expertise of all of Geomys’ maintainers.
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From the onset, I envisioned small firms of professional maintainers with thematic portfolios, accommodating diverse maintainers and project sizes, just like the specialized firms of other professionals.
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I started with a rather non-consensus hypothesis: companies want to pay for their critical open source dependencies, but most projects are not selling them a legible way to do so.
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At current deployment rates it will take Waymo about 20 years with ZERO fatalities to show they are net as safe as average human driver fatality rates (including the old cars, impaired drivers, etc. in that comparison baseline).
Perspective on Waymo's Safety Progresssafeautonomy.blogspot.com
16 June 2024
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I think life obeys universal principles. I think there is some deep underlying explanatory framework that will tell us about the nature of life in the universe and will allow us to identify life that we can’t yet recognize because it’s too different.
9 June 2024
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My hot take is that JS has the lowest bar of entry to building and being productive (a good thing) but one of the highest bars of any language and stack to building high quality, stable, and reliable software. Very few devs have the expertise to pull off the latter
2 June 2024
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On changing their mind
And for a long time, I thought that's what had worked. That this was why Ruby on Rails took off, became one of the most popular full-stack web frameworks of all time, inspired countless clones, and created hundreds of billions in enterprise value for companies built on it. But I was wrong. It wasn't the crusade that did it.
1 June 2024
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Next.jsTheir words
Web framework: Next.js
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TailwindCSSTheir words
Side note for CSS, I'm cool to use what ever tech available out there that makes my task done quickly & well, I have personally used Bootstrap 3 & 4, Bulma, Lostgrid, Materliaze, Skeleton, Tailwindcss, Styled-components, emotion, CSS modules, Tachyons & made my own micro CSS framework called Unnamed that has over 200 stars on GitHub. Still I prefer using Tailwindcss.
30 May 2024
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By all accounts, from people who become memory athletes, they weren’t born with some extraordinary memory, but they practice strategies over and over and over again. The strategy that they use for memorizing a particular thing, it can become automatic, and you can just deploy it in an instant.
23 May 2024
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From one piece Stripe's monorepo developer environment 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Reliable, stable developer tooling matters more than which specific technical choices a team makesTheir words
The best tooling in the world will struggle to make up for "regularly losing a day debugging your environment," and so getting that aspect right can easily outweigh almost any other decisions you make.
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Per-engineer productivity inevitably declines somewhat as an organization and its codebase growTheir words
It is almost inevitable that per-engineer productivity drops to some extent as an organization and codebase grows, even though it's also nearly-impossible to quantify that effect.
16 May 2024
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People are overreacting to the Remix React Router merge.
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That is, labs should make sure that the safety measures they apply to their powerful models prevent unacceptably bad outcomes, even if the AIs are misaligned and intentionally try to subvert those safety measures.
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korrents.com
When somebody accuses you of being arrogant about an idea, almost all they ever mean is that they disagree with you.Their words
Yeah, it is interesting because, when people react against you by saying you are being arrogant about this, 99.999% of the time, all they mean is I disagree. That’s all they really mean, right?
21 April 2024
19 April 2024
From one piece Copyleft licenses are not “restrictive” 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Their words
Copyleft does not impose restrictions, but it does impose obligations. The obligations exist to guarantee rights to the users of the software – in other words, to ensure freedoms.
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No free or open source licence may restrict what the software is used for, however objectionable the use.Their words
No such restrictions are found in free or open source software licenses, be they permissive or copyleft – all FOSS licenses permit the use of the software for any purpose without restriction.
15 April 2024
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Their words
I'm excited about what this means for the open-source community and research, with the gap between closed-source and open-weight models closing and SOTA-level conversational models being more easily accessible.
14 April 2024
10 April 2024
2 April 2024
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Their words
It marks a watershed moment in open source supply chain security, for better or worse.
1 April 2024
From one piece You Are All On The Hobbyists Maintainers’ Turf Now 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Their words
This is not the same world that you were part of. The complexity is off the chart; we are hidden layers and layers under the scaffolding. And we are used everywhere.
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Their words
If your plans for open-source sustainability or security do not align first and foremost with this population it is not going to achieve anything.
31 March 2024
25 March 2024
From one piece Preventing a “Space Pearl Harbor”: Rep. Turner leads the charge 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Satellites need self-defence zones: a keep-out rule around them is the only workable arms control in orbit.Their words
We accordingly proposed a framework of self-defense zones to “facilitate unilateral defense against a surprise attack on satellites.”
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Based on public commercial data that tells a lot about the military potential of these dual-use robotic spacecraft, we have shown that China can manufacture and deploy 200 such spacecraft as early as 2026, enough to cripple critical US satellites in geosynchronous, highly elliptical, and other orbits, and thus severely degrading space support to wartime operations.
24 March 2024
22 March 2024
From one piece Redis Renamed to Redict 2 beliefs · andrewkelley.me
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korrents.com
Handing stewardship of Redis to a company whose goal is extracting profit was a mistake for the projectTheir words
I think that was an unfortunate move because their goal is mainly to extract profit from the software project rather than to uphold the ideals of Free and Open Source Software.
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Their words
In short summary, the licenses limit the freedoms of what one can do with the software in order for Redis Labs to be solely enriched, while asking for volunteer labor, and having already
19 March 2024
18 March 2024
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Their words
So part of the reason that we deploy the way we do, we call it iterative deployment, rather than go build in secret until we got all the way to GPT-5, we decided to talk about GPT-1, 2, 3, and 4. And part of the reason there is I think AI and surprise don’t go together. And also the world, people, institutions, whatever you want to call it, need time to adapt and think about these things.
17 March 2024
16 March 2024
14 March 2024
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korrents.com
The lower a layer sits in the software stack, the harder it is for an individual developer to build in it.Their words
the lower we go in the stack, the harder it is for individuals to build.
11 March 2024
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18 February 2024
17 February 2024
From one piece Muse retrospective 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Prosumer software needs tens or hundreds of thousands of users for its development costs to be sustainable.Their words
You need tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, to make the cost of development sustainable.
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Their words
After that, I think you have to be left with software that serves a deep and hard-to-replace purpose in people's lives.
13 February 2024
12 February 2024
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korrents.com
Programming is fundamentally the practice of making tradeoffs about what matters and what doesn't.Their words
Programming is the art of tradeoffs. You have to decide what matters and what does not.
4 February 2024
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30 January 2024
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Their words
I think that the enshittification framework goes a long way to explaining it, moving us out of the mysterious realm of the 'great forces of history,' and into the material world of specific decisions made by named people – decisions we can reverse and people whose addresses and pitchfork sizes we can learn.
27 January 2024
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23 December 2023
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Their words
Because patents have fixed term lengths, with small extensions to compensate for the year or so when the drug is under regulatory review, drug developers are incentivized to go after conditions where clinical trials can be completed quickly, all else being equal.
8 December 2023
5 December 2023
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Their words
In light of the increasing number of closed-source LLMs, it is important to continue to promote an open culture of sharing knowledge, data, and software, from which the NLP community has benefited greatly.
1 December 2023
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Likedrcmnd.app
GitHub CLITheir words
GitHub CLI - GitHub on the command line. Great for creating PRs, etc.
22 November 2023
8 November 2023
6 November 2023
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Their words
One thing that drives me crazy about the React ecosystem, and more specifically "tech influencers" and "thought leaders" in the space, is the infantilization of the developers using and working in it. I’m tired of reading takes like TypeScript generics, mapped types, etc should only be needed and used by library authors for most use cases. Or today’s discourse; Don’t use `useCallback’, ‘useMemo’, and React.memo. If you’re building anything beyond a simple CRUD app or a an incredibly focused app with few features, you _will_ need these features.
4 November 2023
1 November 2023
26 October 2023
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Their words
Despite evaluations, we cannot consider coming powerful frontier AI systems "safe unless proven unsafe". With current testing methodologies, issues can easily be missed. Additionally, it is unclear if governments can quickly build the immense expertise needed for reliable technical evaluations of AI capabilities and societal-scale risks. Given this, developers of frontier AI should carry the burden of proof to demonstrate that their plans keep risks within acceptable limits.
23 October 2023
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11 October 2023
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Their words
A number of commentators have consistently predicted that solar cost improvements will level out “this year” since about 1990, and yet if anything deployment, cost decline, and the learning rate have only improved.
22 September 2023
21 September 2023
1 September 2023
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Their words
What we don't want to happen with AGI, we want to happen with synthetic biology. What we don't want to happen online and software with language, we want for it to happen with bio-based materials.
30 August 2023
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Usesrcmnd.app
Visual Studio CodeTheir words
Visual Studio Code has been my main code editor for the past 3 4 +5 years.
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ArcTheir words
Arc, the main web browser I use.
23 August 2023
7 August 2023
29 July 2023
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9 July 2023
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Samsung Monitors - 28Their words
I use 2 Samsung Monitors - 28''. Best developer monitor bang for your buck hands down. Works well if you have a ARM based macbook pro.
7 July 2023
From one piece Are We Getting Rid of Product Managers? 2 beliefs · melissaperri.com
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korrents.com
Product management is merging with the GM role as more companies become software companies, not disappearing.Their words
As more and more companies become predominately software companies, I believe the Product Management role and GM roles are going to merge.
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korrents.com
Product management is not going away, but hiring product owners who just feed developers tasks should stop.Their words
I don’t think Product Management is going anywhere, but I do hope the days of hiring Product Owners who just feed developers tasks are done.
5 July 2023
29 June 2023
From one piece George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God | Lex Fridman Podcast #387 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Their words
It’s always harder to write software for more specialized hardware. A GPU is pretty generic. If you can’t write an in Nvidia stack, there’s no way you can write a stack for your chip. My approach with Tinygrad is first write a performant NVIDIA stack.
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Their words
Of course, when you talk to an AI that’s made by a big company in the cloud, the AI fundamentally is aligned to them, not to you. And that’s why you have to buy a tiny box. So you make sure the AI stays aligned to you.
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Their words
So almost if Codex or copilot are helping you, that actually probably means that your framework or library is bad and there’s too much boilerplate in it.
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Their words
But the real thing that I want is not something that like tab completes my code and gives me ideas. The real thing that I want is a very intelligent pair programmer that comes up with a little popup saying, “Hey, you wrote a bug on line 14 and here’s what it is.”
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korrents.com
Automating programming is harder than automating driving, because programming is tool complete and driving is not.Their words
I think driving is not tool complete and programming is. Meaning you don’t use the best possible tools to drive. Cars have basically the same interface for the last 50 years. Computers have a radically different interface.
24 June 2023
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Their words
At the same time, in order to reduce the probability of someone intentionally or unintentionally bringing about a rogue AI, we need to increase governance and we should consider limiting access to the large-scale generalist AI systems that could be weaponized, which would mean that the code and neural net parameters would not be shared in open-source and some of the important engineering tricks to make them work would not be shared either.
20 June 2023
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30 May 2023
From one piece RedwoodJS’ Next Epoch: All In on React Server Components 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Their words
When it comes to React Server Components, it's still the first inning.
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korrents.com
Building a secure, performant GraphQL API is tricky and adds real cost during early-stage app prototyping.Their words
While we love GraphQL for many use cases, implementing a secure and performant GraphQL API can be tricky and there is a definite cost to requiring it during early prototyping of your app.
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Their words
RSC is the future of React. The React team has made this very clear and we are lucky to be in touch with their amazing team members to help us along this path.
25 May 2023
10 May 2023
9 May 2023
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PeteyTheir words
The app costs a few dollars up front and then has an optional subscription for unlimited requests, but I would recommend going directly to OpenAI’s developer dashboard, creating your own account, and copy/pasting your own API key into Petey.
28 April 2023
26 April 2023
From one piece Performance Excuses Debunked 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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the logical conclusion would be that programmers need to take performance more seriously than they have been, not less!
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korrents.com
Performance-aware programming is a skill a working developer can learn in months rather than years.Their words
Learning basic performance-aware programming skills is something a developer can do in months rather than years.
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korrents.com
Software performance is central to long-term business success rather than a niche engineering concern.Their words
Software performance appears to be central to long-term business interests.
25 April 2023
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28 February 2023
From one piece "Clean" Code, Horrible Performance 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Giving up a decade or more of hardware performance to make programming more comfortable is not an acceptable trade.Their words
It simply cannot be the case that we're willing to give up a decade or more of hardware performance just to make programmers’ lives a little bit easier.
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korrents.com
The programming practices taught as best practice are ruinous for performance and should not be followed.Their words
The ideas underlying the “clean” code methodology are almost all horrible for performance, and you shouldn’t do them.
2 February 2023
From one piece I’m Now a Full-Time Professional Open Source Maintainer 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Their words
Volunteerism is self-evidently not sustainable, as people’s life circumstances change.
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korrents.com
Maintainers of widely used open source software are not adequately funded, and that is a real and unsolved problem.Their words
This experiment started from the observation that despite being critical for the functioning of the Internet—and, by extension, the economy—the role of open-source maintainer has not yet found a sustainable manifestation.
27 January 2023
21 January 2023
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Their words
The temptation to enshittify is magnified by the blocks on interoperability: when Twitter bans interoperable clients, nerfs its APIs, and periodically terrorizes its users by suspending them for including their Mastodon handles in their bios, it makes it harder to leave Twitter, and thus increases the amount of enshittification users can be force-fed without risking their departure.
17 January 2023
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Likedrcmnd.app
The Linux Programming InterfaceTheir words
The Linux Programming Interface by Michael Kerrisk – an exhaustive reference on how Linux works. There are about a million chapters, but every individual chapter is pretty short and I find it quite readable.
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Go standard library documentationTheir words
the Go standard library documentation is probably my favourite language reference
14 January 2023
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Their words, before
The Fed needs PCE inflation to average 1.96% for the remainder of the decade in order to hit their AIT target.
Their words now
I assumed they intended inflation to average roughly 2% during the 2020s.
13 January 2023
12 January 2023
7 January 2023
6 January 2023
3 January 2023
1 January 2023
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korrents.com
Fifty years of miniaturisation have made robotic spacecraft better and cheaper explorers than astronauts.Their words
But fifty years of progress in miniaturization and software changed the balance between robots and humans in space.
31 December 2022
From one piece I am not a supplier 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Maintainers of widely used open source software are not adequately funded, and that is a real and unsolved problem.Their words
Hell even worse, a lot of the libraries that underpin the fabric of what we all call the digital economy have trouble getting enough money to pay for food.
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We are not suppliers. All the people writing and maintaining these projects, we are not suppliers. We do not have a business relationship with all these organisations.
22 November 2022
20 November 2022
14 November 2022
26 October 2022
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Template Metaprogramming with C++Their words
I spent the last few weeks reading Template Metaprogramming with C++ by Marius Băncilă. It is currently 50$ on Amazon. Though, technically, the book is about advanced 'template' techniques, it is much more broad and practical. It is one of the 'good programming books'. If you are an experienced C++ programmer, you should give it a peek
20 October 2022
13 October 2022
26 September 2022
8 September 2022
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The Four TendenciesTheir words
Our Tendency shapes every aspect of our behavior, so understanding this framework lets us make better decisions, meet deadlines, suffer less stress and burnout, and engage more effectively.
6 September 2022
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korrents.com
Electric bikes are worth their cost, flaws and all, because they bring the world nearerTheir words
Sure, electric bikes aren't cheap. But I believe they're a rare object to be well worth the cost. This in spite of their annoying flaws, their often bad software, their defective geometries. Because they open the world.
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Vanmoof X3Their words
The Vanmoof is much smarter — the brain and software within it are refined, the app good, the acceleration curves smooth — but the bike is all custom components, and they aren't the highest quality at that.
14 August 2022
25 July 2022
From one piece in which the word column has several meanings, none of them architectural 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Programming, of course, is forgetting, but we need to at least try to be aware of the costs of the abstractions we choose and consider who it is that ends up being forgotten.
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Their words
In my opinion the root cause of this bug is that when a white american developer sees a terminal they immediately interpret it as this idealized cartesian plane where they can lay out any writing they want in neatly-spaced characters that behave in "predictable" ways (in other words, behave exactly like English).
4 July 2022
15 June 2022
1 June 2022
From one piece Fiscal Policy under Low Interest Rates 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I have argued that the probability of a bad equilibrium is only marginally influenced by the level of debt, but can be much reduced by a contingent rule making the primary balance react to an increase in debt service.
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Multipliers are likely to vary a lot over time and space, but the bulk of the evidence is that they are different from zero, positive for spending, negative for taxes, and that they are stronger when monetary policy does not or cannot react to fiscal policy.
28 May 2022
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Usesrcmnd.app
NotionTheir words
System for notes, knowledge base, and project management. Helps organize and store references, documentation, and roadmaps.
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Usesrcmnd.app
Lucide IconsTheir words
Collection of open-source icons for use in web and mobile applications. Provides a wide range of icons for various use cases.
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Likedrcmnd.app
Edge BrowserTheir words
Modern browser with split-screen functionality. Helps organize different work contexts more efficiently. Yeah I know, I know. It's a Microsoft product.
17 May 2022
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Their words
Code has mass. Every additional line of code you don't need is ballast. It weighs your codebase down, making it harder to steer and change direction if you need to.
Professional Programming: The First 10 Yearsthorstenball.com
10 April 2022
7 April 2022
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korrents.com
Climate change is the existential crisis of our timeTheir words
Climate change is the existential crisis of our time. We need more ideas and progress in every sector, including software-based approaches to preventing emissions and sequestering carbon.
4 April 2022
1 April 2022
19 March 2022
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Likedrcmnd.app
Masters of DoomTheir words
Carmack is a legend to anyone who writes software, and the book offers an unflinching portrait.
2 March 2022
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Their words
Plain text files and a basic text editor are enough. This is everything you need for great thinking and writing.
27 February 2022
23 February 2022
8 February 2022
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7 January 2022
18 December 2021
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Their words
Free software is designed to be used commercially, but you have to do it correctly. This is a resource which is made available to companies who want to exploit it, but they must do so according to the terms of the licenses.
14 December 2021
13 December 2021
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On changing their mind
I used to think that this was unequivocally a win for open source. That to fight for attention with the commercial alternatives, we had to adopt the commercial playbook. Now I think it’s at the very least a mixed blessing.
11 December 2021
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korrents.com
Software upgrades that invalidate previously learned knowledge make programmers worse at their craft.Their words
When software "upgrades" invalidate my old knowledge, it makes me a worse programmer.
3 December 2021
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Likedrcmnd.app
Future EthicsTheir words
Bowles' 2018 book provides a useful survey of the various problems tackled by this nascent field, and the frameworks that have emerged to tackle them.
25 November 2021
19 November 2021
6 November 2021
20 October 2021
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FaunaTheir words
I typically recommend looking at serverless native databases like DynamoDB or Fauna however they do not work for all preferences or workloads.
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KyselyTheir words
To connect to these various databases I am using the incredible library by Sami Koskimäki called Kysely
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DynamoDBTheir words
I typically recommend looking at serverless native databases like DynamoDB or Fauna however they do not work for all preferences or workloads.
21 September 2021
13 September 2021
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7 June 2021
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Mixed onrcmnd.app
Mac OSTheir words
I have a lot of feelings about macOS: it is astonishingly painful for developers, but makes up for it with a consistent experience for users.
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Usesrcmnd.app
VimTheir words
For writing software I full-screen a terminal and use Vim. Ctrl+Z for a shell.
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DebianTheir words
Debian is a decent programming environment. It has some of the consistency properties like macOS, but fails unexpectedly.
3 June 2021
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20 January 2021
From one piece We Are Not Special 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Almost nothing programmers believe is unique to software is actually unique to software.Their words
Almost everything we think is unique about software appears in every other field of engineering.
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Software is far more consistent than any other kind of engineering.
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Their words
Plenty would kill to get the same kind of automated testing we treat as a given.
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Software is not uniquely unpredictable; other engineering disciplines are hit by the same surprises and overruns.Their words
To assume that software is uniquely unpredictable is a special kind of arrogance.
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Their words
We can change software much faster than anybody else can change their systems.
7 January 2021
3 January 2021
22 December 2020
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Likedrcmnd.app
WingetTheir words
I use it to setup a machine in an hour from the command line, versus a day before doing it manually.
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Windows TerminalTheir words
Windows Terminal - Finally Windows has a modern terminal. You can run shells like Command Prompt, PowerShell, and Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Windows Subsystem for LinuxTheir words
It really can't be overstated how WSL/WSL2 has put the cherry on top of Windows 10.
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AutoHotKeyTheir words
This little gem is bananas. It's a tiny, amazingly fast free open-source utility for Windows. It lets you automate everything from keystrokes to mice.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
WinMergeTheir words
WinMerge just gets better and better. It's free, it's open source and it'll compare files and folders and help you merge your conflicted source code files like a champ.
4 December 2020
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Usesrcmnd.app
GoatCounterTheir words
Other software I use to build stuff includes Netlify for hosting, GitHub for version control and collaboration, SVGO and TinyPNG for optimization, Kap for screen recording, GoatCounter for analytics, and Chrome and Firefox dev tools.
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KapTheir words
Other software I use to build stuff includes Netlify for hosting, GitHub for version control and collaboration, SVGO and TinyPNG for optimization, Kap for screen recording, GoatCounter for analytics, and Chrome and Firefox dev tools.
2 December 2020
25 November 2020
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Their words
But nobody will ever get to the billions of representative miles necessary to say anything compelling about expected safety until after they actually deploy their fleet.
22 November 2020
20 November 2020
From one piece A few ways to make money in FOSS 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Their words
And yes, you are building a business. You need to start thinking of your project as a business and of yourself as a business owner.
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Their words
The fast route — venture capital funded — is going to impose constraints on your business that will ultimately make it difficult to remain true to your open-source mission.
15 November 2020
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28 October 2020
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The Sales Acceleration Formula: Using Data, Technology, and Inbound Selling to go from $0 to $100 MillionTheir words
Selling is hard. Building a repeatable model with a team that you attempt to rapidly scale is even harder. Fortunately, Mark Roberge, who was one of the very first employees at HubSpot shares the processes and frameworks he used to build a sales machine. If you like the principles behind Lean Startups, then his data- and experiment-driven approach to sales will be very appealing.
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Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of Salesforce.comTheir words
Want to know the story behind how Salesforce was built? This is that story in founder Marc Benioff's own words. At times I found him overly prescriptive without an appreciation for his unfair advantages he had (getting to start it while having a big salary at Oracle, having $6Mn in "bootstrapped funding", etc). However, he also helped pioneer the cloud and SaaS as a business model, so there are many great lessons to glean if you're building a high-growth SaaS business.
25 October 2020
2 October 2020
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Usesrcmnd.app
Breville Bambino Plus Espresso MachineTheir words
Breville Bambino Plus Espresso Machine and Baratza Encore ESP Pro Coffee Grinder - Developers need coffee, and I like mine HOT. The integrated milk steamer is a must-have, and since this machine takes freshly ground beans, the grinder allows me to tweak the grind size for perfect single dose espresso shots.
13 September 2020
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Usesrcmnd.app
Adobe Acrobat ReaderTheir words
To read papers, I use Adobe Acrobat Reader and sync them in the cloud. This lets me read, highlight, and sync my papers across devices (work laptop, personal laptop, iPad). Instapaper does the same for online articles.
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InstapaperTheir words
To read papers, I use Adobe Acrobat Reader and sync them in the cloud. This lets me read, highlight, and sync my papers across devices (work laptop, personal laptop, iPad). Instapaper does the same for online articles.
25 July 2020
16 June 2020
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Streamlabs OBSTheir words
Incredible software if you're going to start a Twitch stream.
14 May 2020
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Their words
The data paint an incredible picture: One that shows the price of solar electricity from utility-scale systems dropping by anywhere from 30-40% with each doubling of cumulative solar deployment.
9 May 2020
1 May 2020
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Their words
You cannot wing it when you're giving a drug to human beings.
24 March 2020
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4 February 2020
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Their words
Because arguably the majority of our time working on software is not spent writing it: we're reading code, trying to understand it, slightly tweaking and editing it.
How much do we bend to the will of our tools?thorstenball.com
30 January 2020
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24 December 2019
12 December 2019
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Better Touch ToolTheir words
I use Better Touch Tool for window management, custom keyboard shortcuts (via the Hyper key) and a few other things. Best mac software ever!
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Usesrcmnd.app
Quokka.jsTheir words
In my tiktoks, you'll see the JavaScript result inlined beside my code. That is using Quokka.js Pro version.
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Firefox DeveloperTheir words
Firefox Developer has been my main browser since January 2020.
10 December 2019
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SuperDuperTheir words
I'm currently running macOS Mojave, backed up with both Time Machine and SuperDuper to an external drive and BackBlaze to the cloud.
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BackblazeTheir words
I'm currently running macOS Mojave, backed up with both Time Machine and SuperDuper to an external drive and BackBlaze to the cloud. Overkill maybe, but after a major drive crash a few years ago, I'm not taking any chances.
21 November 2019
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JSLintTheir words
I improve my JavaScript with JSLint. I test my JavaScript on Firefox, Chrome, and Edge, in that order.
15 October 2019
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Likedrcmnd.app
BywordTheir words
For writing articles for my website, I compose in Byword, which is a Markdown text editor. (I like it because it syncs between my Apple devices.
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JekyllTheir words
I've run all my sites on Jekyll and GitHub Pages for a while now. I have found it easier to manage than WordPress (particularly as I know next to nothing about databases),
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DuckDuckGoTheir words
DuckDuckGo is my default search engine. Firefox is my default browser.
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Microsoft WordTheir words
When I'm writing articles etc that need to be shared with an editor, I typically write in Microsoft Word. I hate all word processing software, and anyone who insists that Google Docs is so much better than Word is a liar.
4 October 2019
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Usesrcmnd.app
NeoMuttTheir words
I use NeoMutt as my email client. It lets me comfortably compose all my mail in my favorite text editor, Vim.
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TridactylTheir words
Firefox is my favorite web browser. This is in large part due to Tridactyl, an add-on that makes the interface Vim-like, which makes the interface far more capable.
20 August 2019
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Likedrcmnd.app
TupleTheir words
Really great tool for remote pair programming. Like Screenhero used to be, but better.
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FigmaTheir words
Figma is like Sketch but a million times more performant and cross-platform. It's the most impressive web app I've ever used.
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REAPERTheir words
It's basically the Vim of audio editing software, so I wouldn't recommend it if you don't have the time and energy to heavily invest in customizing it for your workflow, but I can move like lightning in this thing.
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SizzyTheir words
Sizzy is a cool browser specifically for responsive design. It lets you view all of the breakpoints for a site at the same time and also does a good job auto-scaling fixed size viewports to fit whatever window size you're using.
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Audio Hijack ProTheir words
I use this to record all of my podcast interviews. Fantastic software, highly recommended.
7 August 2019
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BlenderTheir words
nnn file manager. Spreadsheet Calculator. Krita digital painting. Blender 3D editor. surf browser. Cozy audiobook player.
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Mini vMacTheir words
I run the Elementary GNU/Linux distribution, and Macintosh System 7 via Mini vMac.
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MicroTheir words
here's some notable software that I use daily. I also maintain an active list here. Fish Shell. Micro text editor. Toot Mastodon client. cmus audio player.
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cmusTheir words
here's some notable software that I use daily. I also maintain an active list here. Fish Shell. Micro text editor. Toot Mastodon client. cmus audio player.
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ElementaryTheir words
I run the Elementary GNU/Linux distribution, and Macintosh System 7 via Mini vMac.
17 July 2019
10 July 2019
From one piece Shape Up, chapter 2: Principles of Shaping 2 beliefs · basecamp.com
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Work that’s too fine, too early commits everyone to the wrong details. Designers and programmers need room to apply their own judgement and expertise when they roll up their sleeves and discover all the real trade-offs that emerge.
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Shaping is primarily design work. The shaped concept is an interaction design viewed from the user’s perspective. It defines what the feature does, how it works, and where it fits into existing flows.
1 July 2019
From one piece Fast Software, the Best Software 4 beliefs · craigmod.com
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Speed and reliability are often intuited hand-in-hand. Speed can be a good proxy for general engineering quality. If an application slows down on simple tasks, then it can mean the engineers aren’t obsessive detail sticklers.
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Fast software is not always good software, but slow software is rarely able to rise to greatness. Fast software gives the user a chance to “meld” with its toolset. That is, not break flow.
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Software should unbloat over time: the longer it is around, the more elegant it should become.Their words
I love software that does this: Software that unbloats over time. This should be the goal of all software. The longer it’s around, the more elegant it should become. Smooth over like a river stone.
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Speed in software is probably the most valuable, least valued asset. To me, speedy software is the difference between an application smoothly integrating into your life, and one called upon with great reluctance.
20 June 2019
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iTerm2Their words
On my laptop and desktop computers, I just have a Chrome web browser and terminal window open most of the time (I like iTerm2 for macOS).
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DropboxTheir words
I'd say the central piece of software I use is Dropbox, which syncs subsets of my entire filesystem across all of my computing devices: iPhone, iPad, laptops, and desktops.
30 May 2019
29 May 2019
From one piece Is High Quality Software Worth the Cost? 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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With this article I'll explain that this trade-off does not apply to software - that high quality software is actually cheaper to produce.
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Developers find poor quality code significantly slows them down within a few weeks.
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even the finest teams will inevitably create some cruft as they work
26 May 2019
24 May 2019
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Company sponsorships, not individual ones, are where open source funding has to come from.On changing their mind
I’ve seen recurring comments to the effect of “This is great, but individuals aren’t where the money’s at, it’s companies”, which is a position I’ve also previously taken.
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With companies, open source developers are selling a product. With individuals, they’re selling themselves.
26 April 2019
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Sublime Text 3Their words
Many years ago I bought a license for Sublime Text 3 and have been using it ever since. I don't use any IDEs, just a text editor.
14 April 2019
9 April 2019
From one piece Learn more programming languages, even if you won't use them 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Programming languages shape how programmers think, similar to how spoken languages shape thought.Their words
Languages shape the way we think*, each in their own peculiar way. That's true for programming languages as well.
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Each programming language embodies a distinct mental model for thinking about computation and writing programs.Their words
Each language contains a different mental model, a different perspective for thinking about computation and how to write programs.
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A programming language functions as a lens that shapes how a problem is perceived when solving it.Their words
Every programming language is a lens through which we can look at the problem we're trying to solve.
8 April 2019
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How Apollo flew to the MoonTheir words
This is far and away the best general-audience technical documentation of the Apollo missions I've read.
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Sunburst and LuminaryTheir words
The only reason it isn't higher on this list is that the content is a bit specialized and narrowly focused on the landing and the software and adjacent topics; it's definitely one of my favorite books here.
14 March 2019
From one piece Making money with licenses 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The thing open source can actually sell is not the code but access to its maintainers’ attention and expertise.Their words
While everyone is focused on putting up tollbooths, opportunities to “price” maintainer attention, and access to maintainers, remain undervalued.
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Free riding is not open source’s problem: the users who only download the code impose no cost on anyone.Their words
Most users don’t actually impose costs back to maintainers: they download the code and never interact with the project.
23 January 2019
17 January 2019
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9frontTheir words
My laptops generally run Alpine Linux or 9front (you can take that as an endorsement), or MINIX or OpenBSD.
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Arch LinuxTheir words
My workstation runs Arch Linux, but don't take that as an endorsement.
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muttTheir words
My text editor is vim. My IRC client is WeeChat and my email client is mutt.
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WeeChatTheir words
My text editor is vim. My IRC client is WeeChat and my email client is mutt.
15 January 2019
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ExpoTheir words
Depending on what I'm building, I like Chrome for web development and debugging, and the Expo toolchain for hacking on React Native.
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IA WriterTheir words
For longer-form writing, I switch somewhat randomly between iA Writer, Byword, and Medium (in the browser).
4 December 2018
3 December 2018
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21 Lessons for the 21st CenturyTheir words
In his fascinating new book 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, the historian Yuval Noah Harari creates a useful framework for confronting these fears.
31 October 2018
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There is nothing about a foundation that is inherently good, neutral, or charitable, simply because they have a 501(c) status.
20 October 2018
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Did you know, the tests you write with react-testing-library look almost identical to the tests you write with vue-testing-library. Magic things happen when you don't test implementation details. :)
18 September 2018
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The Rust Programming LanguageTheir words
If you were as I was and are contemplating diving into Rust, a couple of pieces of advice, for whatever they're worth: I would recommend getting both The Rust Programming Language and Programming Rust. They are each excellent in their own right, and different enough to merit owning both.
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RustTheir words
Let me close by offering a sincere thanks to those in the Rust community who have been working so long to develop such a terrific piece of software – and especially those who have worked so patiently to explain their work to us newcomers.
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Programming RustTheir words
not only did I buy the canonical reference (The Rust Programming Language by Steve Klabnik, Carol Nichols and community contributors), I also bought an O'Reilly book with a bit more narrative (Programming Rust by Jim Blandy and Jason Orendorff).
15 September 2018
10 August 2018
9 August 2018
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The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to MasterTheir words
This is about the craft of software development, and thinking about how to produce good code. As the name suggests, it's a very pragmatic and hands-on book. It really helped me on my journey as a software engineer, to be able to write quality code day in and day out, and be confident that it's going to work correctly.
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Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer ProgrammingTheir words
Another similar and also interesting book is Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming, which explains all the models of computer languages and how they fit together.
2 July 2018
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The right to fork is still critical as an implied threat to keep the system in check. But major political forks aren’t as common, and certainly not as top-of-mind, anymore.
30 May 2018
18 May 2018
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Phenomenology of SpiritTheir words
In order to understand Marx, you really do need to know something about Hegel. It's a mistake to think you could read Marx as a scientist or an economist without understanding the Hegelian framework of his thought. That's why I chose to begin with Hegel.
20 April 2018
3 April 2018
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WinSCPTheir words
I haven't seen any other software that's as stable as this one.
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Google ChromeTheir words
Google Chrome: What's a Web Developer without Google Chrome browser? The first thing I do with Safari is to get Google Chrome and install the latest version.
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MeldTheir words
Meld is a visual diff and merge tool targeted at developers. I am more inclined to use Meld than BeyondCompare as this is more stable than that.
1 April 2018
23 March 2018
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The more your tests resemble the way your software is used, the more confidence they can give you.Their words
The more your tests resemble the way your software is used, the more confidence they can give you.
22 March 2018
2 January 2018
From one piece Clojure - Rationale 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Locking is too hard for programmers to get right over and over again, so the language runtime should do that part.Their words
Locking is too hard to get right over and over again
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It reflects the reality that, for the concurrent programming future, pervasive, unmoderated mutation simply has to go.
1 January 2018
24 November 2017
17 November 2017
27 September 2017
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Sum: Forty Tales from the AfterlivesTheir words
Awesomely creative think-piece. 40 very short fictional stories about what happens when you die. The framework is inspiring for anyone: coming up with 40 different answers to any one question. But they’re also just brilliant ideas and powerful little fables. I just read it a 2nd time and love it even more now.
27 June 2017
22 June 2017
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UnityTheir words
I use a ton of software. Here's a list: Xcode, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Sublime Text, Corona SDK, Unity, Final Cut Pro, Versions, Perforce, VMWare Fusion, Messages, REAPER, Transmit, Coda, Dropbox, Skype, Dashlane, Slack, Terminal, Assembla, Airmail, Spark Mail, Google Docs, Pixelmator, Pixen, TexturePacker, Particle Designer, Tiled, iTunes + Music + Match, Screenium, Steam, Twitter, Facebook.
14 June 2017
17 April 2017
28 February 2017
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HP Z620Their words
At work, I mostly use an HP Z620 Workstation with an NVidia GPU card in it, running Linux, with a single 30" monitor.
27 January 2017
8 January 2017
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Society of MindTheir words
which plausibly breaks down the mind into modules and presents it as if it’s a big piece of software
5 January 2017
19 December 2016
25 November 2016
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Writing Solid CodeTheir words
This book had a big impact on me as young software developer. It was the first time I saw in print the principle "bugs that go away by themselves come back by themselves". It's something that I've often repeated to myself, and my team, if nothing else but to prepare us mentally for when that hard bug does come back. The chapter advising developers to "proactively step through your code during development, don't wait for the bug report" improved my productivity enormously, and I followed the practice for many years.
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The Unix Programming EnvironmentTheir words
The Unix Programming Environment is a book you can't read too soon. It's something I wish I'd come across years before I actually did. An authoritative and comprehensive manual for using Unix as a programmer, it clearly explains concepts such as inodes, hard and soft links, system calls, and the power of joining programs together via stdin and stdout. By the time I came across this book I already knew these concepts, but had never studied them before in one place, and in such a coherent manner.
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PeoplewareTheir words
But once you start to do so, it's a great book and probably the best one there is on programming management.
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Becoming a Technical LeaderTheir words
Becoming a Technical Leader is both an interesting and subtle book. At times it feels like a self-help book, at other times a Machiavellian explanation of how programming teams really wok. But in the end it's sincere and mature, and wants to help. Weinberg's introspective style will appeal to many programmers, and it appealed to me. This book is useful because it talks about many of the practical issues of becoming a technical leader or manager within a team of developers — and from many unexpected viewpoints.
30 October 2016
1 October 2016
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Operating System ConceptsTheir words
It covers concepts at a high level and hits the major points, but it's lacking in technical depth, details on how things work, advanced topics, and clear exposition.
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Higher Order PerlTheir words
A gentle introduction to functional programming that happens to use Perl. You could probably work through this book just as easily in Python or Ruby.
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Windows InternalsTheir words
The most comprehensive book about how a modern operating system works. It just happens to be about Windows.
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RefactoringTheir words
At the time I read it, it was worth the price of admission for the section on code smells alone.
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Linux Kernel DevelopmentTheir words
The other downside of this book is that the author loses all objectivity any time Linux and Windows are compared.
10 May 2016
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By contrast, WhatsApp was able to introduce end-to-end encryption to over a billion users with a single software update.
1 January 2016
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Deep WorkTheir words
Podcast. Yes, yes, yes! We live very distracted lives and most of our working days are filled with shallow tasks and interruptions. Although programmers get the importance of flow, it’s so hard to achieve. Our environments don’t support it, and shallow work is just easier. The book makes a compelling case for why we should double down on deep work, and offers some practical strategies for achie…
29 December 2015
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It's well studied in a number of other contexts including healthcare, aviation, mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, and civil engineering, but we don't see it discussed in the context of software.
12 December 2015
From one piece Files are hard 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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as an application developer, writing to files safely is hard enough that it should be done via some kind of library and/or database, not by directly making syscalls
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Almost every software project I've seen has a lot of low hanging testing fruit.
26 November 2015
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MetapadTheir words
For editing text in Windows outside of VC6, I use Metapad; when I'm on a Mac or Linux, I use vim.
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Microsoft Visual C++ 6Their words
For programming, I spend most of my time in vintage Microsoft Visual C++ 6, released in 1998, because the workflow is superior to newer Visual Studios for me.
3 September 2015
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The known connection between geometry, logic, topology, and functional programming suggests that the connections between representations and types may be of fundamental significance.
13 July 2015
From one piece Pure UI 2 beliefs · rauchg.com
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And if I’m allowed to extrapolate, a clear path is now laid out towards a future where the steps to go from sketch to design to implementation are greatly more accessible to everyone with an idea.
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The main issue, however, is that underestimating the size of the state space is actually very easy. In other words, it’s difficult to come up with the complete list of questions that your UI needs to answer.
9 July 2015
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AudacityTheir words
For sound production, I love Audacity. I think Audacity is the only piece of software I actually like, rather than merely tolerate.
14 April 2015
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OutlookTheir words
I use Outlook to maintain my calendar and address book. I hate that program, too, but I can't find anything else that lets me sync locally to my iPhone without going through the cloud.
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HTTPS EverywhereTheir words
Firefox is my browser, with a whole bunch of security plug-ins like AdBlock Plus, BetterPrivacy, and HTTPS Everywhere.
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Windows 8.1Their words
I don't like software gadgets any more than I like hardware gadgets. I use Windows 8.1 – hate it – and Microsoft Word.
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EudoraTheir words
I still use Eudora for my e-mail (version 7.1, not the one based on Thunderbird), because I don't want my mail living in the cloud. I'd upgrade to something newer and better, but there isn't anything newer and better.
12 March 2015
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AsciiDocTheir words
Since the project I work on is a command-line tool that is primarily implemented in C, I use the usual CLI development tools, e.g. make, gcc, gdb, etc. The documentation is in AsciiDoc.
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croutonTheir words
I however recently started to experiment with crouton, which allows me install a chrooted Ubuntu (or other variants of Linux) on a Chromebook and I can use GnuCash there. So far, this set-up seems to be working well enough for me, so I may be able to lose the Vizio someday.
1 February 2015
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No matter what, you'll have to think about color constantly.
20 December 2014
18 November 2014
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If I had to guess, I'd say I probably work around hundreds of bugs in an average week, and thousands in a bad week.
7 November 2014
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It's true that controlled studies only tell you something about a very limited set of circumstances, but the fix to that isn't to dismiss them, but to fund more studies.
4 November 2014
From one piece 7 principles of rich web applications 2 beliefs · rauchg.com
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The distinction between websites and web apps will disappear: a blog and a CRM are reigned by the same UX principles.Their words
A flexible enough system that can share rendering code between browser and server and provides tools for progressively loading scripts and styles will probably eliminate the colloquial distinction between websites and webapps. Both are reigned by the same UX principles. A blog and a CRM are fundamentally not that different.
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JavaScript allows us to mask network latency altogether. Applying this as a design principle should even remove most spinners or “loading” messages from your applications.
7 October 2014
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Linux MintTheir words
I currently run Linux Mint on the Thinkpad.
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PrinceTheir words
Then comes Prince, which converts HTML and CSS to beautiful PDF files. (Disclosure: I'm the chairman of the board of YesLogic, the company behind Prince.)
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OperaTheir words
Thereafter, I install the Opera browser.
29 July 2014
30 May 2014
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Drunk Tank Pink: And Other Unexpected Forces that Shape How We Think, Feel, and BehaveTheir words
The idea that our brains unconsciously react to tiny signals is not new. But Alter gives us a blueprint for the way it works.
22 May 2014
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Photoshop CCTheir words
My main software is Photoshop CC, I do way more in it than I should, and use it for crazy things it was not intended for.
13 May 2014
12 May 2014
22 April 2014
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Amarok 1.4Their words
Back in 2009, my music player of choice was Amarok 1.4. This was by far the best music player I had ever used on Windows, Mac, or Linux, especially when combined with the wonderful ReplayGain plugin.
17 April 2014
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AtomTheir words
I write code in Atom, the text editor we've been working on for six years at GitHub. It's based on Chromium, so to customize it you can inspect it just like any other web element.
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BoxenTheir words
My development environment is managed by Boxen, Homebrew, and my dotfiles. I'm feeling good about all of that, which wasn't always the case if you were a Ruby developer five years ago.
3 April 2014
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GIMPTheir words
For photo editing I use GIMP, and if I need something deeper, my wife has a Mac with Photoshop, Illustrator, and software to make movies and burn DVDs.
13 February 2014
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Programming Interviews ExposedTheir words
Programming Interviews Exposed is a slim book that can be read within a few hours.
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The Art of Computer ProgrammingTheir words
The Art of Computer Programming by Donald E. Knuth.
5 November 2013
17 September 2013
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MySQL WorkbenchTheir words
On the higher-level, I relied on Oracle's MySQL Workbench for MySQL database interaction and GitHub for Mac for version control.
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StripeTheir words
On the low-level side, I was using PHP with jQuery for JavaScript and Stripe for credit-card processing.
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CSSEdit 2.5Their words
I admit a bit guiltily that for previewing and designing CSS, I turn to MacRabbit's CSSEdit 2.5, a version that's no longer shipping, as its functionality was absorbed into the company's Espresso Web site development software.
5 September 2013
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BBEditTheir words
For text editing that is not specifically related to programming the Mac and iOS, I rely heavily upon BBEdit, where I do most of my Python, HTML, JavaScript and PHP editing.
25 July 2013
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InstikiTheir words
This uses some software called Instiki, but another guy takes care of that, a whiz named Andrew Stacey - not me.
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WolframTonesTheir words
I've been recording electronic music using strange software like WolframTones, which lets you 'evolve' pieces using cellular automata, or QuasiMusic which generates sounds mathematically from quasicrystals - patterns that almost repeat but never quite do.
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IrfanViewTheir words
I spend a lot of time writing papers and preparing talks with free software: emacs for text editing, LaTeX for typesetting, and IrfanView for editing images.
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emacsTheir words
I spend a lot of time writing papers and preparing talks with free software: emacs for text editing, LaTeX for typesetting, and IrfanView for editing images.
2 July 2013
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Seagate 1 TB external hard driveTheir words
I carry around a 1 TB SeaGate external hard drive that has saved virtual machines of almost every version of every major operating system imaginable
31 January 2013
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Counter-StrikeTheir words
The last important piece of software I use is Counter-Strike. I've been playing Counter-Strike for well over 25% of my life now. These days I specifically play a modification of the game called Gun Game. It's ridiculous and mindless. The reason I play it, and the reason I say I "use" Counter-Strike is that you can get in 5 minutes of stress relief with Gun Game without having to commit to playing for 30 minutes or an hour. Each round lasts only around 5 minutes, you have fun, then you get back to being productive.
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LogicTheir words
It's hard to learn, but Logic is a beautiful piece of software. It's also hard to learn how to record using real studio equipment, so it should be no surprise that learning how to record with professional quality music software is difficult.
24 January 2013
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The Conceptual Framework of Quantum Field TheoryTheir words
I've recently gotten a copy of a wonderful new quantum field theory textbook, Anthony Duncan's The Conceptual Framework of Quantum Field Theory
19 January 2013
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The Lifecycle of Software ObjectsTheir words
Another masterpiece of SciFi by Ted Chiang: "The Lifecycle of Software Objects"
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