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dichotomies are cringe

As networked programs change, the communication between sound programs inevitably becomes unsound.

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Instead of returning hostile 500 errors to users, a small async worker query pattern makes fault-tolerant design the default.

Any Turing-complete bootstrapped messaging protocol can transpile its bootstrapped client to other languages.

good enough

Taylor Troesh recounts his trip across the stack, from the front to the back and back again. Along the way, he divulges his custom operator confession. He currently works at Replenysh using Elm for sustainability.

a brief history of architecture

The old languages don't really run on the new computers.

Sometimes I think you successfully made a good human, despite my best efforts.

Breaking news: I got an Ozempic ad while watching Caramelldansen memes -- smells like a bad omen.

Naming things is already hard, and I'm here to make things harder.

Quiet is nice. Life is good. I'm alive. But anyway, I've been up here long enough -- the basement beckons.

Yes, repetition works. And meme culture has demonstrated that riffs/variations spread further and stick harder.

Our teeth evolved over hundreds of millions of years to be incredibly strong and to align precisely for efficient chewing. Our dental disorders largely stem from a shift in the oral environment caused by the introduction of softer, more sugary foods than the ones our ancestors typically ate.

you are now a passenger in your flesh.

create aggregate array_concat_agg(anycompatiblearray)

I collect hobbies, build things, incite chaos, and engage in elaborate tomfoolery.

Oversimplification is good.

I designed a game to convince myself to do basic household chores.

Of course they'll replace the steering column with a stupid touchscreen.

The emoji gods have not yet etched a half-star emoji into the emoji bible.

Guns, guns, and germs.

Cut out everything that's not surprising.

I hate SQL. Its verbose, inconsistent syntax feels like bathing in strangers' vomit.

There are plenty of excellent off-the-shelf SRS algorithms out there, but I needed something (1) optional, (2) debuggable, and (3) cheap.

It's lifetime licenses.

audio flashcards in a private podcast feed

uglify the UI for non-paying consumers

Subscribe to Eventbrite orgs via Apple Calendar, Google Calendar, or Microsoft Outlook.

Nontrepeneurs prioritize play when they've accrued the means to stop working. It's unclear why anybody would do otherwise.

But Cliff Stoll plays at the human-scale. He doesn't blame the universe for defying expectations.

It takes a very peculiar type of person to accidentally start a successful business.

I want to secure enough to purchase freedom, and then exercise that freedom to build nifty junk.

And Joe said, "The knowledge that I’ve got enough."

scripts for watching software licensure

Despite the headlines, Earth and its inhabitants are doing pretty okay.

My great-great-uncle was not actually buried under a tree in that backyard.

thanks for your patience (in advance)

How much does a polar bear weigh? Enough to break the AIs.

WHIMSICAL

Thanks to all of you who helped me recover my music.

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"I have found it to be a beautiful invitation to self-reclamation, and I feel it has been a lantern in my troubled search for the scattered pieces of agency that should have been mine from the beginning."

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Cry TWICE as hard.

Toucan Dan commands, "Paddle faster, Anne!"

Evergreens and oaks sprouted in unwanted places. Those trees have unwittingly become bonsai, confined to makeshift plastic pots.

The "cheap" web is a solarpunk philosophy of web design.

WishWell is a simple patronage service.

People pay ¨D0.50-¨D2.00 for an hour of digital entertainment.

...is a computer.

In a groundbreaking development, a team of renowned scientists unlocked a revolutionary method to discuss absolutely nothing in press releases.

This is the first study, to our knowledge, to dispel the myth that Santa visits children based on behaviour and suggests socioeconomic deprivation plays a greater role in determining a visit.

I've found that protein alone is a suitable proxy for tracking all other micronutrients. When I eat enough protein, I'm probably getting enough vitamins, minerals, etc.

To dismiss a god of children is unfair to everybody who was ever a child.

Consolidate non-essential purchases to fewer days.

An honest wishlist lays bare your values, motivations, and desires.

My wishlist is honest and sometimes embarassing.

Friends are cool. Spending money sucks; travel is exhausting.

Creation is a toilsome, boring, everyday thing. Historic plays can't be planned in advance.

To make memorable art, compress arguments/emotions into potent vehicles.

MVPs are for products. FPCs are for customers. Products aren't people.

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Play videos recently submitted to HN via the commandline.

Vises reduce movement in undesirable directions. They help you focus your energy in limited axes.

For some folks, family is a debt to be paid. They dole out love-shaped deeds in hope of karmic justice. They oblige to stave off guilt.

Rock the bloat!

Support wigwam culture!

Shortsighted engineering practices have eroded public trust in technology. We can reclaim that trust by building better things together.

Y'all'n't sophisticated.

Knuth knows how to maintain information hygeine.

Pseudoprose is pseudocode for writers.

101,721 words of cryptic nonsense.

I have 22 children at the age of 26 and most of them were born in the space of a year.

Replacing collocates with simpler substitutes is intuitively called "compression".

Good architects anticipate nature. They don't blame water for dripping. They don't blame people for peopling.

OpenAI provides a Google Form for opting out of data collection on ChatGPT.

They speak fearlessly but fairly. They're strong, yet nonthreatening. They push back while maintaining peace. I yearn for this powerless power.

I feel like a battery that can't keep its charge.

Strategy is the best weapon you wield against the infinite. Bad algorithms invite anxiety, overwhelmedness, and frustration. Good algorithms create pride, peace, and accomplishment.

Suddenly some of my accidental friends feel like obligations.

Mathematica remains an academic curiosity. Apple is, uh, sitting on Siri.

This guide will teach you how to transform your children from liabilities into assets.

Modern blowguns are Swiss-army-flavored. A baseline model retails for $299 and acts as a telescope, microscope, megaphone, pencil, camera, snorkel, food thermometer, pregnancy test, and flute.

select email_token(now(), 'hello@example.com');

I like slim and stupid servers, where each endpoint wraps a very dumb DB query. Dumb queries are fast. Fast queries make websites smooth and snappy. Keep those click/render loops sacred. Sweep complexity under a task table.

...in case you were wondering.

"Give a table of average penis sizes by country."

Some say he hasn't fallen once in 28 years.

P**fectionists have tastes that exceed their skills. You can't control your taste, but you can control your skill-level.

If you have waste and space, you're wasting space.

I'm no dietitian, but I've been eating for quite a while.

Corn isotopes everywhere! Has science gone too far?

My crystal ball shattered in my twenties, but the coin offers faith to the faithless.