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A couple of key takeaways for me from this interview: AI can potentially help reduce Screen Time.

Identity is composed from a combination of elements built using “quicksilver” or “clay”.

Sports teams can be treated as community assets.

The best attribute of a physical book is its width.

Today I got a chance to finish my 2nd-pass over this article.

The technology choices for a software project should be influenced by it’s expected velocity.

I have always admired the RSS discovery feature from NetNewsWire.

Whenever I setup a new machine, the following Git commands are a staple: git config user.name "Your Name" git config user.email "your.email@domain.ext" I have always wondered what’s preventing a person from impersonating somebody other than themselves.

I admire most of the films from Tracksmith on their YouTube channel.

Linking content on the web is a superpower.

This is such an intriguing paper on the history of computing, hence mathematics.

Such an excellent read!

Really interesting take on the problem of knowledge discovery.

I don’t see a lot of talk about the “denominator problem”.

One of the most inspiring articles to study mathematics, especially as a full-time programmer aka Liberal Arts degreee in Mathematics.

Judge your projects according to your own standard, and don’t let the shiny objects make you doubt the worth of your work!

Amazing engineering work here!

This piece evoked the following emotions: Strong alignment in principle around how I envision Web technology (in general, any tech) to work.

I remember reading this article way back in my uni days.

Functions are verbs.

What is a “type” anyway?

Really neat article (and series) about program design from first principles.

Just as I am developing an interest in the Lisp family of languages, particularly Clojure, I discovered Kyle’s post on my feed.

I use Testcontainers for writing integration tests for my APIs.

When I was searching for ways to write integation tests in a project, I discovered Test Containers project.

This past week I triggered an incident on one of the production systems.

I use Apple Notes for taking quick notes, and a bin for random ideas that pop up in my head.

At work lately, I have been working with Terraform for our Infrastructure-as-code.

Fundamentally, a lot of API development is about gathering, manipulating, and tranferring data across processes.

Patagonia, Inc. is a fascinating brand.

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This article was originally posted on my Running Log Newsletter on Substack.

I was quite absorbed with this trilogy over the last couple of months.

Extremely engaging, fun pop “scientific” fiction.

Forwarded: Learning without Burnout I have the deep desire to be a life-long “learner”.

Forwarded: When This Number Hits 5200 - You Will be Dead Our time on this earth is bounded.

Forwarded: 80/20 is the new Half-Ass The Pareto Principle (also known as the 80/20 rule) is one of the cornerstone characteristics for detecting power laws.

Forwarded: The Animal is Tired The Mind-Body Problem is a debate in the Philosophy of Mind concerned with our human mind and its relationship with our bodies.

Forwarded: Don’t End The Week With Nothing In creative spheres, the habit of building and shipping work is a vital feature of high-performing individuals.

Forwarded: You Are Not ‘Behind’ Every high-performing individual wants to stay ahead of the curve.

Forwarded: Are you trading or gambling?

Forwarded: Best Story Wins Stories catch people’s imaginations.

Forwarded: The antidote to fake news is to nourish our epistemic wellbeing Epistēmē is a Greek word that refers to knowledge; giving a Greek name to an abstract concept makes it sound important.

Forwarded: How hard should I push myself?

Forwarded: What I’ve Learned in 45 Years in the Software Industry A lot of things to pick up from Joel Goldberg’s article after he retired from the tech industry.

Forwarded: How Not to Teach Recursion There’s a big difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Forwarded: Why do prime numbers make these spirals?

Forwarded: Today by Scott Thrift Jonathan Harris’ project Today is built around the idea of clicking a single photo and posting it online every single day.

Forwarded: Doing Old Things Better Vs.

Context My Downloads folder is a mess!