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Amazon's Silent Sacking(opens in new tab)
Companies are fighting back for quiet quitting and it's having a big impact.
Remembering the early 00s teen website scene(opens in new tab)
Choose optimism(opens in new tab)
React Server Components: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly(opens in new tab)
“At the same time, React has done nothing (besides an abandoned experiment in 2019) to improve their pitiful client-side story. It is a legacy framework created to solve Facebook-scale problems with Facebook-scale resources, and as such is a bad fit ...
Ambient Co-presence(opens in new tab)
Creating a subtle, peripheral, and synchronous sense of shared space and context on the web
Wireguard Vpn Ansible(opens in new tab)
title: Create WireGuard VPN with Ansible tags: [ansible, security, vpn, devops] author: twimprine layout: post
Don’t Start Pull Requests from Your Main Branch(opens in new tab)
When contributing to other users’ repositories, always start a new branch in your fork.
2023: The year in lists(opens in new tab)
Historical Trails(opens in new tab)
Giving people a visible, useful trail of where they've been over the course of an exploratory journey
Own Your Web – Issue 5: For Everyone(opens in new tab)
How To Choose A Career And Make It Sustainable(opens in new tab)
How to identify fitting work to you - avoid burnout, have meaning and enjoy work.
211: Stamp out test dependencies with pytest plugins(opens in new tab)
We want to be able to run tests in a suite, and debug them in isolation, and have the behavior be the same. If the behavior is different in isolation vs in a suite, it's a nightmare to debug. In ...
CSS @scope(opens in new tab)
Dwell and the Tools for Thought Hackathon(opens in new tab)
I worked on a little hackathon project at AGI House with Sasha. We won!
Ep 9: It's Pronounced "Zed Ess Haetsch", Austen(opens in new tab)
A fireside chat featuring new gear, old dotfiles, and updates on what we've been up to. Kiwi the puppy doesn't code Rust (yet), but she knows how to sit! Does she have the patience to sit through Jesse's Vim course, ...
A Chain Reaction(opens in new tab)
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Correctly Configure (Pre) Connections(opens in new tab)
We’re probably familiar with preconnect, but are we getting it right?
210: TDD - Refactor while green(opens in new tab)
Test Driven Development. Red, Green, Refactor. Do we have to do the refactor part? Does the refactor at the end include tests? Or can I refactor the tests at any time?Why is refactor at the end? This episode is to ...
Connecting LibSQL database with Python(opens in new tab)
Introduction LibSQL is an **Open Contribution** fork of SQLite. Open Contribution means that it allows suggestions and contributions from the community as oppos
Bouldering(opens in new tab)
My first introduction to bouldering was in 2017, in DUMBO Boulders in Brooklyn Bridge Park (now closed):
Replacing React: How Liveview solved our performance problems(opens in new tab)
“Performance challenges with a React SPA created an opportunity to explore Liveview. After two days of exploration, we were convinced Liveview provided a path forward, and within a few weeks, we replaced our React SPA with Liveview.”
Exchange Semester At Hanyang University ERICA(opens in new tab)
What is it like to go abroad to South Korea to do an exchange semester at Hanyang University ERICA campus? (Summer 2023)
why lowercase letters save data(opens in new tab)
Digging through my tool box(opens in new tab)
A deep dive into my tooling setup on the JS Party podcast
209: Testing argparse Applications(opens in new tab)
How do you test the argument parsing bit of an application that uses argparse?This episode covers:Design for Test: Structuring your app or script so it's easier to test.pytest & capsys for testing stdoutAdding debug and preview flags for debugging and ...
Default apps, 2023(opens in new tab)
Debugging manage.py commands in VSCode with Docker(opens in new tab)
I tend to run my Django application in a Docker container for all the benefits it gives when working with a team or deploying the application. It does however introduce extra hundles in everyday development.
Welcome To Terminal Trove(opens in new tab)
A warm welcome and introduction to Terminal Trove, a curation and showcase of the best of the terminal.
Accessibility annotation kits only annotate(opens in new tab)
Gratitude(opens in new tab)
How I got here is already far too long of a post, so I must include this for all the credits and gratitude I need to extend to those who made this possible. To my parents: who supported me every ...
OCaml + Rust: some comparisons(opens in new tab)
Following up on the first impressions post, let's solve a problem in OCaml and compare the Rust solution. In Response to how well received my last post was I thought I would follow up with some comparisons between how I ...
Hackers guide to the hackernews front page(opens in new tab)
Humorous article, completely unrelated to, and written before, the others ended up actually on the front page. The Goal: To get a post on the front page of the infamous Orange site... The Plan: There are four guaranteed strategies. No ...
Websites, politics, and preferences(opens in new tab)
Ocaml: first impressions(opens in new tab)
The Why I'm somewhat of a language nerd to begin with, and it was Rust that originally got me interested in the whole functional paradigm. Not due to it's lineage, but the heavy use of chained iterator methods in favor ...
Pain is information(opens in new tab)
Everything You Can Do with Python's bisect Module(opens in new tab)
While Python's `bisect` module is very simple - containing really just 2 functions - there's a lot one can do with it, including searching data efficiently, keeping any data sorted, and much more - and in this article we will ...
What Is Code & Context? The Modern Way To Study(opens in new tab)
Code & Context shows how studying at university should be done. A B.Sc. program combining Computer Science, Design and Entrepreneurship.
How I got here(opens in new tab)
My story, and how this is all possible Introduction My name is Preston Thorpe, I'm 31 years old and I've spent just under 10 years of my life in Prison (all for non-violent drug crimes.) I am currently incarcerated at ...
Please don't use React(opens in new tab)
“You should stop using React. In fact, you probably should have never used React in any of the projects you used it on. But before you pull out your sawed-off shotgun and shoot me, hear me out.”
Being a minor AI public figure(opens in new tab)
I was recently involved in moderating a chat with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue at the MIT AI conf: https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNJ9i78ICeg2YuemyAXmtStKvqr9l0Tao3xQWxmeAVjBALHnNnFvPXFlNSkdMfqA?pli=1&key=dTFRRHBTLVRZTEVCem0zal8tNVkxblh0V3k4VXhR
Ep 8: Junk Drawer Management(opens in new tab)
Managing project junk drawers and building the same thing over and over again. Desktop apps, backlogs, great UX, and a dang good time. --- Listeners, how do you handle project management?We'd love your feedback and to hear how you manage ...