I posted to reddit, asking if other programmers learned the craft via copy work: Did you copy/transcribe code from books when learning to program? Lots of self-selecting confirmation bias + survivorship bias. E.g. those that survived (and are on reddit and comment on questions) used this method, those that didn’t, didn’t. I guess I really want to hear stories of people that don’t learn this way. The copy-and-pasters (code copypastas? the horror!). What is “copywork with code” called...| Consumption Exhaust
Detailed analysis of a major, promising trial of Cognitive Functional Therapy for back pain| www.PainScience.com
Is Cognitive Functional Therapy evidence-based yet? Three years after the RESTORE trial, a follow-up report says…| www.PainScience.com
Personas as a contemporary practice are inherently tokenizing and reductionist.| ericwbailey.website
A detailed explanation of why I chose OCaml as the ‘default’ programming language for every project.| xvw.lol
Select Topic Area Product Feedback Body Hi everyone, I’d like to start a conversation about GitHub’s recent treatment of the Command Palette. As many of you know, it’s one of GitHub’s best features...| GitHub
Does long form content really work, or are marketers just chasing word count? Discover the truth behind the hype, and when long form actually drives results.| SEO Blog by Ahrefs
Silent Hill 2 is a good-looking and unflinchingly loyal remake of the beloved 2001 horror game, yet one that plays everything safe. Read our review here.| Rock Paper Shotgun
Disclaimer: This post will talk about things that have a concerning societal impact.| honestliving.substack.com
Everyone’s talking about microservices. Who’s actually doing it?| O’Reilly Media
My thoughts on how AI-generated code will change the software development industry and the world| Build Times
Words are good. Making more good words is good. Being better and faster at making more good words would be more good. Maybe we can get bette...| tsvibt.blogspot.com
Fang-Pen Lin's blog about programming| Fang-Pen's coding note
Thoughts on Ansible, Matrix, IRC, and the future of chat.| Emerald Reverie Blog
One of our core values is our tolerance for philanthropic “risk.” Our overarching goal is to do as much good as we can, and as part of that, we’re open to supporting work that has a high risk of failing to accomplish its goals. We’re even open to supporting work that is more than 90% […]| Open Philanthropy
One of the goals of this newsletter is to figure out ways to improve construction productivity and reduce the costs of construction, particularly residential construction (ie: housing) - if you could reduce the costs of construction, housing costs would fall as well.| www.construction-physics.com
Thoughs on the evolution of the Postgres development process.| vondra.me
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What we learned from our 2024 H1 developer survey| go.dev
Some thoughts around how volunteer work in F/LOSS exacerbates pre-existing lines of oppression, resulting in low diversity.| curlybracket
What we learned from our 2023 H2 developer survey| go.dev
The optional type annotations in Python is a big and relatively new thing. For the majority of its life, Python didn’t have any good solution for static type checking, and people coming to the language fell in love with it for different reasons. Today’s case study: how many old-school Python developers use type annotations? Specifically, we’ll be looking at the core developers because these are mostly people the most dedicated to the language.| blog.orsinium.dev
Here's what we learned by studying the commonality of reciprocal links on the web.| SEO Blog by Ahrefs
While a custom CSS scrollbar may seem flashy and fun, consider that it may present a significant, unnecessary barrier to access…| ericwbailey.website
Before the advent of evergreen browsers, you would need to go to the manufacturer’s website and manually download and install the update.| CSS-Tricks
Without accurate, relevant names, roles, and values present, it can be incredibly difficult, if not impossible for someone to use your digital experience. That’s exclusion. Hard stop…| ericwbailey.website