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This may sound like a laundry list of random buzzword items -- but in reality these are all stakeholders to complete one seemingly simple task: converting blockquotes from Readwise format into Ghost Twitter Card format. First, I'd like to go on record stating that I hate writing regex.
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An experimental evaluation of the assumption of independence in multiversion programming – John Knight and Nancy Leveson Behind this dry title lies something very interesting. I first heard about this paper from Ralph Johnson in a newsgroup discussion about program correctness. It turns out that one of the avenues that engineers
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Orca is an esoteric programming language, designed to create procedural sequencers in which each letter of the alphabet is an operation, where lowercase letters operate on bang, uppercase letters operate each frame. The application is not a synthesiser, but a flexible livecoding environment capable of sending MIDI, OSC & UDP
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Sometimes you have to stop sharpening the saw, and just start cutting shit Some people tend to jump into problems and just start writing code. Other people tend to want to research and research and get caught in analysis paralysis. In those cases, set a deadline for yourself and just
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If you don’t have a good grasp of the universe of what’s possible, you can’t design a good system This is something I struggle with a lot as my responsibilities take me further and further from the day to day of software engineering. Keeping up with the
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Your data is the most important part of your system I’ve seen a lot of systems where hope was the primary mechanism of data integrity. In systems like this, anything that happens off the golden path creates partial or dirty data. Dealing with this data in the future can
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Look for technological sharks Old technologies that have stuck around are sharks, not dinosaurs. They solve problems so well that they have survived the rapid changes that occur constantly in the technology world. Don’t bet against these technologies, and replace them only if you have a very good reason.
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I was first attracted to open source – public code that everybody relies upon – after observing that its developers are creating trillions of dollars in economic value, while giving away their code for free. The common explanation for this discrepancy is that open source is a volunteer group effort, like Wikipedia.
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For me, it was open source developers that helped me make sense of the future. They've long experienced the frog-boiling that came with prior social norms of “everybody participates” butting up against the reality of “participation doesn't scale.” And they have to figure it out in
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Developers that don’t use GitHub Copilot right now 😂😂😂 (View Tweet) the value add of copilot is the minimization of the reliance on the internet. more time in the code editor == higher quality deep work. don't led side narratives blind you to this fact. unfortunately, along the way
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i see a lot of programmer blogs inform people on the homepage that they "love coding". it's unnecessary to say that. by virtue of fighting through the insane difficulty that is getting working code shipped, you almost have to love it by definition. loving to code