tag:scarysize,2023:atoms2024-02-23T08:30:08.540412MjAyNC0wMi0yMVQwOToyMjowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==MjAyNC0wMi0yMFQxMzo0NzowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==This article gives an insightful overview of the states of carbon capture and sequestration. Even the largest facility produces about 25 times the CO2 it sequesters. Others are even less efficient. Globally, a single year’s output of wind and solar has avoided 35 times CO2 that has been sequestered in the last 50 (!) years.]]>MjAyNC0wMi0yMFQwOToyODowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Most recently complaining about the Arc browser, which uses a summary model for search queries. It won’t display „traditional“ search results. As if ads are the only way to make a profit in the space. There are options, there’s no law against offering more than one. Ryan Broderick had a great write up on this. Subscriptions work, if the content is worthwhile. There are many examples of media companies increasing their profits in the “digital age”: The Guardian, Slate, NYT, 404 Media, Defector. If nobody wants to read your click baity stuff to get the info that would have fit in 140 chars, maybe it’s okay if an AI summarises it.]]>MjAyNC0wMi0xOFQxMDozODowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Source). “Social democracy is unimaginable in a world where cloud-proles are reduced to automata, while almost everybody else works for free as cloud-serfs, without even realising that their labour replenishes the dominant form of capital”, writes Yanis Varoufakis. He outlines the concept of techno-feudalism in his recent book.]]>MjAyNC0wMi0wOVQxODozMDowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Link list, reading view.]]>MjAyNC0wMi0wOFQwODoxMjowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==banning e-scooters, Paris voted to triple parking fees for SUVs. Both vehicles are huge risk factors, but more generally are just fricking annoying. They block street crossings, visually and physically. Already narrow side walks have to bear them as an additional burden. In Hamburg, the SPD and Grüne are pushing for more dedicated scooter parking spots. There are currently 34 in all of Hamburg. At least a tiny sliver of hope.]]>MjAyNC0wMi0wM1QxMzowOTowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==trouble getting it out: „The problem with removing a bundled plugin is that it can break application signatures and cause problems with updates.“. Hey, it’s not a plugin if you can’t easily unplug it. It’s right in the name! That’s just hype driven, irresponsible product development.]]>MjAyNC0wMS0zMVQyMDoyNDowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Garbage Day newsletter posits two interesting questions that nobody else seems to ask: Do people actively seek out news content? And secondly, do they want summaries of information once they receive it? I agree with the resounding „No“ to both questions. Conversely, many emerging AI products assume just that.]]>MjAyNC0wMS0yMlQwODoyNTowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==a video (4min) of the impressive mission. The satellite-like spacecraft orbited the astroid a few times, then sprayed it with liquid nitrogen to loosen up dust to collect. It sent the dust back to earth and continues to travel to another, smaller astroid.]]>MjAyNC0wMS0xOFQxMToxMzowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Nutritionist Answers Diet Questions From Twitter” has some pretty useful, actionable insights around your diet. Related, the John Hopkins Institute for Medicine has an editorial on the effects of multivitamins. Spoiler, they don’t reduce risk for heart disease or cancer. They also found that they didn’t reduce risk for mental decline. The only exception being folic acid for pregnant women. It prevents neural tube defects in babies.]]>MjAyNC0wMS0xMlQwOTowOTowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==DHH suspects that GCP eliminates exit egress costs because of impending EU anti trust laws or to steal market share from its competitors. I think there’s also a tiny possibility that this might be step one in spinning down their cloud business. Not completely shutting down, but making larger cuts, focusing on the money makers.]]>MjAyNC0wMS0xMVQxOTo1NDowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==An interesting study on social influence. They replicated the Asch experiment on conformity and extended it by introducing incentives. It tests how individuals yield to a majority group in simple tests. They replicated the results of the original study, additionally, they analysed whether the big five personality traits had an influence on the results.]]>MjAyNC0wMS0wOFQxMDoyOTowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==An App Can Be A Home-Cooked Meal and 9 years of Apple text editor solo dev]]>MjAyNC0wMS0wNVQxODozMTowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==class action lawsuit to get 23andMe to enforce 2FA for all its users. They still say it's the user's fault for reusing passwords. It sort of is, but it's also hugely negligent not to offer better protection when storing DNA (!) data.]]>MjAyMy0xMi0zMFQxNToyMjowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==MjAyMy0xMi0yOFQyMToyNjowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Bluesky invite codes. That’s the Twitter/AT Protocol social thingy. Send me a message at atoms[at]franz.hamburg if you want one.]]>MjAyMy0xMi0yN1QwOTo0NTowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==higher thermal conductivity than air. If you want to thaw something frozen quicker, put it in a room temperature water bath.]]>MjAyMy0xMi0yNlQxODo0NzowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==MjAyMy0xMi0yNFQwODowNjowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==how good Uniqlo’s self-checkout is. Uniqlo is a big Asian fashion retailer. They have a store in Hamburg that I went to, and I’ve got to say that the checkout experience is spectacular. You just have to dump your clothes in a bin, confirm the list of items on an iPad-powered register, pay, and leave. Please give me that experience at a regular supermarket's self-checkout. Both Edeka and REWE are horrible UX-wise. As the article states, they only shift the labor of scanning everything from the cashier to you. Uniqlo's process actually makes it more efficient.]]>MjAyMy0xMi0xOVQxMToxNjowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Rémusat wrote about a 1830 political meeting.]]>MjAyMy0xMi0xNVQwNzoxNDowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==longer posts haven’t seen an addition in the last year.]]>MjAyMy0xMi0wN1QwODo0NDowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==another 17% of its employees. If you’re currently hiring, here’s a list of all those talented people.]]>MjAyMy0xMi0wMVQxMzoyODowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Password Rules Are Bullshit” situations: I couldn’t use my randomly generated, 64-character password because I wasn’t allowed to use my first or last name in there. It contained a single capital L.]]>MjAyMy0xMS0yMlQxMDo1MjowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==capable hands /s]]>MjAyMy0xMS0xOVQwNzozMDowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==This post by the Marginalia search engine’s creator inspired me.]]>MjAyMy0xMS0xOVQwNzoyNTowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Hades, a rogue-like from Supergiant Games. Before that, I played a bunch of Dead Cells. With over a hundred hours on both games, I’m allowing myself a little comparison: They’re both extraordinary if you're into the genre at all. Dead Cells is a little less casual, especially if you consider all the DLCs. It becomes overwhelming when you come back to it after a longer break. All the little decisions that go into your build increase significantly with each extension. It’s also more demanding in terms of mechanics. Enemies punish you hard when you do screw up those mechanics. On the other hand, the game is much more rewarding when you succeed. Hades has all these aspects, but tuned down. It’s perfect for an hour or so in the evening. Its pace is more forgivable. You don’t have to clear all the floors flawlessly to have a realistic chance at succeeding at your run. Both games are great on the Steam Deck, I haven’t turned on my Windows PC this month.]]>MjAyMy0xMS0xNlQwNzozNjowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==„Small Web“ site. It’s a directory of small (personal) blogs. The site helps you randomly pick one that has fresh content. So, you always land on something recent and dead pages are filtered out. Not that dead content is bad, but Kagi tries to find people that you can actively „follow“.]]>MjAyMy0xMS0xMlQxMToxMTowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==video on improving text editing on mobile. The accompanying website is here. Editing (not writing) sucks on mobile, both on Android and iOS. This looks to improve that by unifying gestures.]]>MjAyMy0xMS0wOFQyMDozNTowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==A Thousand Streams in Your Pocket” Kristin Graziani explains Spotify’s new royalty model. It also makes it kind of obvious why there’s a huge outcry from distributers. Those sitting between Spotify and actual artists. The won’t continue to bank micro payouts from Spotify while maintaining thresholds for payouts towards their artists.]]>MjAyMy0xMS0wNVQxNjowNTowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Charles's Rules of Argument” from 2004 still applies today. The piece discusses how to avoid online arguments altogether. And if you do find yourself in one, use this two-step approach: (1) State your case (2) Clarify any misunderstandings. Martin Fowler summarized this concisely as "only reply once".]]>MjAyMy0xMS0wNVQxNTo1OTowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==You and your 1544 partners don’t value my privacy. Edit: The pictured banner lead me to search for a new banner blocking extension. I’ve used Super Agent in the past, but everything even slightly popular needs to be a hustle. So, they started charging money. A quick web search and a Reddit post (talk about a hustle…) lead me to Hush. Open source, native iOS and macOS, does the job.]]>MjAyMy0xMC0zMVQxNToyNjowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==pay for DNA data from 23andMe? They could just wait for their next security breach.]]>MjAyMy0xMC0yNFQwOTo0NTowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==MjAyMy0xMC0xOVQxOToxMTowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==But here we are. I think this is as much on the user as it is on the company. If you allow simple passwords, users will use simple passwords. If you want to allow easy passwords at least have the courtesy to check against known breaches.]]>MjAyMy0xMC0xNFQxNTowNDowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==How To Like Things. A pleasant explainer how you go about liking things. Why would you want to like new things? How do you go about? Finding joy in the things you don’t like (but want to). I even got a personal example related to the previous post on Java: While I never liked Java, I learnt to appreciate it. Not for its verbosity, not for its build system, not for Spring but for its ubiquity. It’s literally everything, especially at Spotify. I can ask about a thousand colleagues if I have an issue with it. I can read and understand another team’s code, heck, even help them fix a bug. The barrier is just so fricking low. That’s how I like Java. (And how it’s such an huge enabler for Clojure).]]>MjAyMy0xMC0xM1QwODoxMTowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Java for Everything.]]>MjAyMy0wOS0yN1QxOTowMTowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==MjAyMy0wOS0yMVQyMTowODowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==lead the way.]]>MjAyMy0wOS0xOVQyMjowMDowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==main website. All the post links should still work, they redirect to the post on the new site.]]>MjAyMy0wOS0xNlQxMzo1MzowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==I wrote about a few weeks ago went on to win the ACX review contest. Well deserved! The author, Brandon Hendrickson, has his own Substack. There he tries to convey more of Egans theories on education.]]>MjAyMy0wOS0xMVQxMDoyOTowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Effectiveness of wearable activity trackers comes to the conclusion that “…there is sufficient evidence to recommend the use of activity trackers”. Specifically they notice an increase of 1800 steps per day, 40 mins more walking and an reduction of 1kg in bodyweight (on average). Fits with my anecdotal evidence.]]>MjAyMy0wOS0wOFQwOToxMzowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==1]. The discussion happened below this post describing how Chrome starts to directly track users. It’ll share a list of your “topics” with advertisers. I remember a huge uproar when they announced FLoC, they let that the attention cool down and basically turned it on.]]>MjAyMy0wOC0zMFQwODo0MjowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==paper’s site and here’s a demo on Hugging Face. The pessimist in me sees this abused for surveillance.]]>MjAyMy0wOC0yOFQxMzo1MzowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==MjAyMy0wOC0xN1QxNTowMzowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==DIY Espresso, a 3D printed espresso maker powered by liquid CO2 cartridges. Awesome!]]>MjAyMy0wOC0xNFQxNTozNTowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==This is what medium.com looks like in 2023. I’m so pleased to have moved my posts off from their on my own site. Own your content, but feel free to cross post to other platforms.]]>MjAyMy0wOC0xM1QxMDoxMDowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Credit card debt collection“, alternatively dubbed „waste stream management“ by patio11 goes into the intricacies of debt collection. As you might suspect, a lot of abuse happens within this system.]]>MjAyMy0wOC0wN1QwOToxMDowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==link) and for the article of the day (link). You can change the language by editing the subdomain of the url. I only found these feeds on the German front page, the English one weirdly doesn’t link to them.]]>MjAyMy0wOC0wNFQxNzoyNTowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Dictator Book Club: Putin. A review of Masha Gessen‘s „The Man Without A Face“. (Yes, I’m rediscovering Scott Alexander‘s blog)]]>MjAyMy0wOC0wMlQxOTo1MDowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==book review of Kieran Egan‘s The Educated Mind. In the book, Egan outlines his vision for a revamped education system. His primary critique on the status quo is that it ignores what students at a particular are naturally good at. He argues that kids in the elementary age are good at understanding stories, metaphors, binaries and jokes. We should use those as tools for teaching. In middle school, extremes, gossip, heroes and idealism join the party. High school students are eager to look at the big „simple“ questions, come up with general schemes, find their place in the world and seek certainty. I haven’t thought about education a lot, but that piece had me on the hook. It’s about a two hour read and I enjoyed every single minute of it.]]>MjAyMy0wNy0yOVQwODoyODowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==On Climate Change by Bert Hubert. The first time I heard about solar radiation management, injecting sulfur in the stratosphere to cool the earth. It has been a taboo until recently, but is gathering more acceptance. The sulfur converts to sulfur dioxide, which then reflects a tiny amount of sunlight back into space.]]>MjAyMy0wNy0yNVQxMDozNTowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==a study across 21 countries, 140k participants, and a 10y follow-up period found out. Daniel Lemire regularly posts science and technology links, highly recommended!]]>MjAyMy0wNy0yMlQxNTowOTowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==starts postings screenshots (!) of their tweets. „…It contradicts the principles of the Federal Government to provide the official communication of the Federal Chancellor and the government spokesman alone registered users of a commercial service…“. Yeah, so how about not using privately held platforms to communicate with your people? What a half-assed solution to a problem that was foreseeable from the minute they opened a Twitter account. It looks exactly like some kind of meme page.]]>MjAyMy0wNy0yMVQxMDozNzowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==ongoing HN thread about a fly.io outage and the non-response of their support. You can read about multiple commenters migrating to AWS. It’s ridiculous how resilient the Amazon cloud is. But that’s what you get by dog fooding your product. They’ve got a whole other billion dollar business arm relying on their infra. A lot of smaller hosting companies don’t have that luxury and it shows in cases like this. When Bezos calls you because his bookstore is down once a week, you sure as shit put the effort in. And all your smaller customers profit from that. (And you‘ll profit too because you’re going to charge them for that extra 9).]]>MjAyMy0wNy0xN1QxMDowMTowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Shell Script RSS Publishing or „shinobi website“ is a shell script for generating and deploying a static website. It also publishes a RSS feed, alle based on .txt files and a bit of metadata. I like the simplicity of that. Wouldn’t be a good fit for me as I do most of my writing here on my phone. (Also not a fan of monospace fonts for longer reads)]]>MjAyMy0wNy0xNlQxNDoxMDowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==China is going green fast, faster than any other nation. It’s not just renewables, forestry and transportation too.]]>MjAyMy0wNy0xMVQxNDozNDowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==support page.]]>MjAyMy0wNy0xMFQyMToyNzowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future of Workplace Automation” from 2015 looks at the history of automation. It mentions ML only in passing. Otherwise, it goes very deep into affected jobs and skills. First time hearing about job polarisation, where mid-skilled jobs are substituted by tech. Moreover, my first encounter with the lump of labour fallacy. “AI and the automation of work” acts as the perfect segue to the latter piece. It, too, goes into the history of automation, but details LLMs and AGI specifically. “Why customers don’t want chatbots” finally adds a bit of product and UX perspective to the mix. The author warns that most of the chatbot hype is on the business side, while nobody is looking at the need of the customer.]]>MjAyMy0wNy0wNVQxNDo1NjowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==link to individual posts now, yey.]]>MjAyMy0wNy0wNFQyMDoxMDowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==goaccess as a web log analyser for a few years now. Only used the terminal view in an ad-hoc fashion until this week. Switched to generate an HTML report once a day. Love being able to check stats from my phone.]]>MjAyMy0wNi0yOFQxNTo0MjowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==The Deep Sea is a fun little web feature that lets you scroll through ALL THE depths of the oceans. I was fascinated the most by how deep penguins are able to dive. From a technical perspective, I like the simplicity. Kept me scrolling without being to much in my face.]]>MjAyMy0wNi0yN1QxMDowOTowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==AI is killing the old web, and the new web struggles to be born“. The „old web“ being the SEO optimised shit show of websites and social platforms. There’s a chance of those sites AI-cycling themselves into oblivion. Personal blogs and private, fractured forums might flourish from there self-inflicted downfall. I can already see glimpses of that in my bubble. AI has already been dictating what you consume online. All and every „home“ feed on social media is curated by tech. That isn’t to say AI is bad, we’re in the hype cycle where all the talk is about it replacing everything. I hope we will end up with it complementing is instead. That’s were technology has always shined the brightest.]]>MjAyMy0wNi0yMFQwOToyOTowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Simply explained: how does GPT work?” is a short, concise explanation of how LLMs work. It’s a very high-level take, explaining probabilistic approaches; no prior knowledge required. That whole probabilistic thing ties very well into “LLMs are good at playing you”. This one highlights the obvious limits of those models and warns not to anthropomorphize them. In “What are we going to do about ChatGPT”, Daniel Lemire argues that halting AI development for a given period wouldn't help anyone. It's not even enforceable. He gives a bit of history on similar initiatives.]]>MjAyMy0wNi0xNFQwOToxNjowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==“Speed matter: Why working quickly is more important than it seems”, a lovely blog post from James Somers. He describes how doing things fast, but not sloppy, improves your efficiency in the long run. Conversely doing things slow will make you want to do less of them, which leads you to do them even slower. There’s something true about that, it holds for fixing bugs, writing, but also for clean your bathroom. “The general rule seems to be: systems which eat items quickly are fed more items. Slow systems starve.”]]>MjAyMy0wNi0xMlQwNzoyOTowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==enshittified.]]>MjAyMy0wNi0wNVQxMDo0MzowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Mitchell Hashimoto writes about approaching large technical projects. In his post he emphasises the importance of tangible results. Making every small iteration visible to keep yourself motivated. You’re not always building something visual like an UI. For those cases he suggests automated tests. I really like that! What helps me is having a frictionless, but manual way to deploy my project to a place where I can show it others. Even if it’s just an empty HTTP server starting up, showing “Hello World”. This allows you to get every small hack out of the door with ease.]]>MjAyMy0wNi0wMlQxMzoyNDowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Bye bye Reddit. I’ll especially miss /r/AskHistorians, /r/explainlikeimfive and the awesome bakers over at /r/Breadit.]]>MjAyMy0wNC0xN1QyMTozOTowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==MjAyMy0wMy0zMFQxNDozMzowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Backstage extension for Raycast. Raycast is an alternative to Spotlight, the launcher/search bar thing on macOS. The API’s design is well thought out. You get just enough levers to not feel constrained. But not too many to confuse you when considering an implementation. There’s a right way or no way. Awesome platform to build on.]]>MjAyMy0wMy0yNFQxNTozMzowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==“Minto Pyramid Principle”, a tool for clear and efficient communication. That lead me to untools.co, collection of methods around problem solving, decision making and communication.]]>MjAyMy0wMy0xOVQxNTozNTowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==model guide.]]>MjAyMy0wMy0xMlQxNzozNjowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==MjAyMy0wMy0xMVQwOToyNzowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Chris Voss on the Lex Fridman Podcast [8:47]]]>MjAyMy0wMy0wOFQyMTo1MzowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Enshittification of Platforms“.]]>MjAyMy0wMi0yOFQwOToxMTowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==People can read their manager’s mind, The Power of “Yes, if”: Iterating on our RFC Process, 35 Lessons from 35 Years of Newsletter Publishing. Looks like I need to implement list support for my blog.]]>MjAyMy0wMi0yNFQxMjoyOTowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==MjAyMy0wMi0yMFQxMzoxNTowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==MjAyMy0wMi0xN1QxMDowODowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==NYT posted about how they used a linear-chain conditional random field model to extract data from their recipe archive. There’s even some code on Github. Sadly, but understandably, they don’t provide training data or a pretrained model. Time come up with my own!]]>MjAyMy0wMi0xM1QyMDozNjowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==clojure.java.jdbc.]]>MjAyMy0wMi0wOVQyMTo0NTowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==pretty-recip.es (yeah I had to buy that domain)]]>MjAyMy0wMi0wMlQxNTo0MDowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Erlang: the coding language that finance forgot talks about how being proficient in another programming language (Erlang) can improve your coding skills in others. Specifically going from an „esoteric“ functional language to a non-functional one. I feel like there’s some truth to that. A good example are immutable data structures. Bringing this practice to JavaScript, Python et al makes for readable code. It takes some discipline when not enforced by a compiler. But that applies to other high level patterns and principles too. You don’t have to be an expert in those other languages, often an understanding of the key features suffices. Go build something in OCAML, Elixir, Clojure or Crystal. It’ll widen your horizon.]]>MjAyMy0wMS0yM1QxOTo1MzowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==layoffs for the first time from the inside. While not being affected myself, it was (and still is) a horrible process. Sitting there waiting whether you get an e-mail from HR or not is torturous. Reading the messages of people losing their job makes it so real. There’s a lot of criticism about how companies implement the decision to let people go. While a lot of that is valid on a case by case basis, there’s just NO good way to do this. Other than not doing it. There’re good and bad reasons leading up to the decision, but the implementation is always going to suck.]]>MjAyMy0wMS0yMFQxMDo0MzowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==docs explain the process and anatomy really well. One major downside is that you can’t use ESM modules. So you end up with a mixture of imports and requires. What a mess. Also went through the source code of the markdown extension that vscode is shipping with. It feels overly complex, gives me Java vibes.]]>MjAyMy0wMS0xOFQxMToxNzowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==MjAyMy0wMS0xN1QwOTo1MDowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Extreme questions to trigger new, better ideas” makes some good proposals. Makes you reconsider whether you’re building the right thing. Whether your organisation’s structure has purpose. Whether your processes make sense. It’s one of the downsides of doing everything iteratively, you tend to lose a sense of direction.]]>MjAyMy0wMS0wNVQxODo1MzowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==MjAyMy0wMS0wNVQwMDowMDowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Brandur‘s Atoms.]]>