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“The only good laws are the laws that make *me* more...

“The only good laws are the laws that make *me* more money.”

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/13/y-combinator-urges-the-white-house-to-support-europes-digital-markets-act/

Chronicle of how you make a hit game. Balatro is amazing even if I ripped through it in a couple of days.After playing through it with some...

Chronicle of how you make a hit game. Balatro is amazing even if I ripped through it in a couple of days.

After playing through it with some decks I didn't see really how the contents or the mechanics would change enough for it to be worth pouring more time into.

https://localthunk.com/blog/balatro-timeline-3aarh

At the Datadog Summit in London. It's a very educational and pleasant event (and a nice excuse for us to visit our London office).What...

At the Datadog Summit in London. It's a very educational and pleasant event (and a nice excuse for us to visit our London office).

What is funny is that the talks by the SRE engineers are so polished and abstract that I feel like I'm at one of those ‘high design’ conferences of yore. Please more black t-shirts and fewer shirts and turtlenecks.

Titanic is one of the few German institutions who know what their job is. https://23.social/@linuzifer/114080454886047677

Titanic is one of the few German institutions who know what their job is. https://23.social/@linuzifer/114080454886047677

I usually enjoy Cortex’s romps into productivity porn, but what struck me here is that they open with Grey discovering Asana and how he...

I usually enjoy Cortex’s romps into productivity porn, but what struck me here is that they open with Grey discovering Asana and how he spent the week setting his business and life up in it.

People are still discovering Asana?

Grey immediately and deeply gets what is powerful about Asana and what tradeoffs that entails.

I think that everybody who refuses to use Asana is forced to cobble together a broken version of it themselves. That seems true and will stay true.

https://www.relay.fm/cortex/164

Our work in software engineering consists mostly of learning and for me and my team a fair part of that is teaching. Both of these are...

Our work in software engineering consists mostly of learning and for me and my team a fair part of that is teaching. Both of these are immensely difficult and rewarding components of the job.

https://www.herostrat.us/posts/learning-the-hardest-problem-in-computer-science

Here’s a good article about platform teams that I got to read an early draft of. I can say from my own experience that all of these traps...

Here’s a good article about platform teams that I got to read an early draft of. I can say from my own experience that all of these traps are very easy to go into. Be aware and prioritize ruthlessly what works and what doesn’t work.

https://serce.me/posts/2025-01-07-six-sins-of-platform-teams

A beautiful lush essay and homage to an ubiquitous typeface without a name.https://aresluna.org/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan

A beautiful lush essay and homage to an ubiquitous typeface without a name.

https://aresluna.org/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan

I can relate to this because I’m using Cursor to write a bit of Gleam where it’s usually off entirely because this is such a small...

I can relate to this because I’m using Cursor to write a bit of Gleam where it’s usually off entirely because this is such a small language.

It would be annoying maybe if LLMs got us into a place where literally everything becomes a React+Tailwind application but so far I don’t see a huge risk that that will happen.

What is available and what is easy does of course influence what becomes popular, but nothing new there.

https://vale.rocks/posts/ai-is-stifling-tech-adoption

So much car traffic is absolutely unnecessary which makes it all the more galling that we allow people to poison everybody else by doing...

So much car traffic is absolutely unnecessary which makes it all the more galling that we allow people to poison everybody else by doing it.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/14/brake-pad-dust-toxic-exhaust-emissions

The long standing frustrations with git are over now that it's possible to to daily drive jj and get real work done with it. It has a...

The long standing frustrations with git are over now that it's possible to to daily drive jj and get real work done with it. It has a bit of a learning curve but once you get it, many tasks become simpler and faster.

Here's my example of how to use jj to deal with interruptions and speed up passing small changes.

https://alper.nl/dingen/2025/02/using-jj-as-a-manager/

Lots of people are going to have a problem with the truth going forward, so get those Wikipedia backups handy and start thinking about how...

Lots of people are going to have a problem with the truth going forward, so get those Wikipedia backups handy and start thinking about how to host it in a more distributed and resilient way.

https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-prepares-for-increase-in-threats-to-us-editors-from-musk-and-his-allies

Instead of creating real media alternatives here in Germany we’re forced to fund a broadcasting system that does little other than copy...

Instead of creating real media alternatives here in Germany we’re forced to fund a broadcasting system that does little other than copy YouTube formats and normalize fascists. https://mastodon.social/@adrianhon/114043880797637276

Wheel of Time is low key one of the best fantasy tv shows out right now. Each season is going from strength to strength and the next one...

Wheel of Time is low key one of the best fantasy tv shows out right now. Each season is going from strength to strength and the next one looks to be the best one yet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk0D4OV95bQ

A lot has been made of this talk about Egoless Engineering but I can say that for me it came at the exactly right time. In our platform team...

A lot has been made of this talk about Egoless Engineering but I can say that for me it came at the exactly right time. In our platform team we got to the point mentioned in the talk and are now working on #3: Empower Everybody Else.

https://egoless.engineering/#50

Obsidian is a knowledge worker’s lightsaber. It’s indispensable for any kind of serious work and it is now free to...

Obsidian is a knowledge worker’s lightsaber. It’s indispensable for any kind of serious work and it is now free to use.

https://obsidian.md/blog/free-for-work

Rare to see an actual apples-to-apples comparison of databases like this. Postgres comes out ahead versus Sqlite but as always, it...

Rare to see an actual apples-to-apples comparison of databases like this. Postgres comes out ahead versus Sqlite but as always, it depends.

https://www.twilio.com/en-us/blog/sqlite-postgresql-complicated

Another funny relic from the depths of version control: the Octopus Mergehttps://www.freblogg.com/git-octopus-merge

Another funny relic from the depths of version control: the Octopus Merge

https://www.freblogg.com/git-octopus-merge

This is the way “A Pattern Language” intended we should talk about patterns: applied and without making things more complicated....

This is the way “A Pattern Language” intended we should talk about patterns: applied and without making things more complicated. Patterns should simplify and be grasped immediately.

https://grantslatton.com/design-patterns

Filing this away for future reference when at some point we’ll want to get out of managed...

Filing this away for future reference when at some point we’ll want to get out of managed Kubernetes.

https://bilbof.com/posts/kubernetes-on-hetzner