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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

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  The current tech layoffs are pandemic over-hiring correcting itself, with AI as the convenient excuse.

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  And I think what we're seeing right now with some of the layoffs is a testament to that, not AI. It's just that during the pandemic, a bunch of overhiring went on, and now AI is a convenient excuse to slim down. But I do also think AI is going to expose some roles as just not being productive ways for humans to spend their time, and therefore we must come up with new ways of spending their time.

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Neurologist at Oxford; studies apathy, motivation and attention after brain injury, and edits the journal Brain.

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  Personality is not fixed: the self is the product of a society of cognitive modules, and take one module away and the self changes.

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  So, I think the key point here is the self is not immutable. It's something that can change. People might think my personality is this way. It can never change. Well, your personality is the product of your society of mind.

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Founding executive editor of Wired and author of What Technology Wants and The Inevitable. Writes at kk.org and runs its long-running recommendation projects, True Films and Cool Tools.

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  Lack of money is rarely the actual blocker to achieving one's goals.

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  A lack of money is a convenient thing to blame because it feels concrete, but it's rarely the actual blocker for achievements.

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Software engineer and writer; worked on Mapbox and built Placemark and Simple Statistics, and blogs at macwright.com.

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  A software ecosystem made of many tiny modules from many different authors is unsafe against malicious actors and should give way to larger, vetted libraries.

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  Software that's composed of hundreds of little modules from hundreds of authors is a lovely idea that doesn't work with malicious actors.

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Investor and writer. Previously a partner at Andreessen Horowitz and a product leader at Twitter, Facebook, Snap and Microsoft. Writes essays and memos at sriramk.com.

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  The Odyssey

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  this will be the movie of the year, will leave a deep impact on any viewer and will go down as one of the great epic movies made

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Programmer and writer known for detailed source code reviews of classic game engines, and author of the Game Engine Black Book series on Wolfenstein 3D and DOOM.

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  IBM Model M SSK

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  Not having that cumbersome keypad eat up the space and pushing the mouse location further right is so convenient, it surpasses the 101/102-key version.

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Coffee consultant and author of books on espresso, roasting and brewing, including The Professional Barista's Handbook and The Coffee Roaster's Companion; writes about brewing gear and roast control at scottrao.com.

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  A good idea often fails to spread not for lack of merit but because no convenient way exists to implement it.

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  Sometimes, a good idea doesn't get traction because there isn't a convenient way to implement it.

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Engineer and teacher; wrote Kubernetes the Hard Way, was a distinguished engineer at Google Cloud, and retired from full-time work in 2023.

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  Having a model regenerate the same block of code over and over is insane however fast it feels — that is what functions and libraries were invented for.

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  So if you find yourself generating the same blocks of code over and over, even though it feels fast or convenient, it is still insane.

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Software engineer and writer; worked on Mapbox and built Placemark and Simple Statistics, and blogs at macwright.com.

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  Spurcycle carabiner

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  Very secure and convenient, and has a bottle opener which is really effective and one of the most unintuitive devices I've ever found: zero people have used it correctly on the first try.

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  Elgato Wave 3

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  Microphone: Elgato Wave 3. This, with the boom, is convenient and reliable. Big upgrade from the Blue Yeti I used previously.

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Co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc., the company behind Snapchat, which he started in 2011 while studying product design at Stanford.

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  Range, not a distinctive style, is what separates a designer from an artist, so a portfolio where everything looks alike is a bad sign.

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  Design is really about, you know, empathizing with your customer, empathizing with your audience, your viewer, whoever it is, and then building something that will really resonates with them. And And that means you need to have a an extraordinary amount of range.

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Founder and chief analyst of SemiAnalysis; reports on semiconductor supply chains, AI datacentre economics and what the chip export controls actually do.

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  Labour is a huge constraint on the AI build-out, and the way round it is to build data centres as modules in Asian factories rather than on site.

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  um humanoid robots maybe start to or robotics at least start to but the main factor is going to be for reducing the number of people is modularizing things and making them in factories in Asia

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Founder and CEO of Epic Games, creator of the Unreal Engine and of Fortnite.

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  The existence of boilerplate code is itself a failure of programming language design and of software modularity, not a job for AI to take over.

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  The topic of boilerplate code is an interesting one because the mere existence of boilerplate code is a failure of programming language and of the idea of creating software modules.

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Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".

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  Whoop

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  Summarizing all of that into my advice right now: Get Whoop for 9.5/10, reliable, convenient sleep tracking with an excellent app (once you get to know it a bit). Get Oura for 10/10 tracking, if you're ok with the ring form factor.

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  Oura

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  Summarizing all of that into my advice right now: Get Whoop for 9.5/10, reliable, convenient sleep tracking with an excellent app (once you get to know it a bit). Get Oura for 10/10 tracking, if you're ok with the ring form factor.

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Moroccan senior frontend developer writing at smakosh.com; builds side projects and client work under Smakosh LLC.

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  TailwindCSS

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  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.

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