make something you would actually like| DYNOMIGHT
The world is in a lot of trouble right now. Many of us are wondering: how can I help?| evanhahn.com
Let's stop pretending that "without warranty" means "without expectation".| filiph.net
Why is French only spoken in Québec, and not all of Canada? All of the US? Yes, because Britain beat France in a war. But why?| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
Why Top Posting Has Won - 2018/06/13| www.solipsys.co.uk
When I was 25, backpacking through Europe, I stayed at a hostel. Other Americans found out I was from Mississippi. They didn’t say anything directly, but the...| DoomSouth
It's Not a Hypothetical, I've Already Lost My Job to AI For The Last Year| shawnfromportland.substack.com
This week we’re going to do something a bit silly, in part because I have to prepare for and travel to an invited workshop/talk event later this week and so don’t have quite the time fo…| A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
An executive with 8,000 indirect reports and 2000 hours of work in a year can afford to spend, at most, 15 minutes per year per person in th...| apenwarr.ca
The three-act ‘hero’s journey’ has long been the most prominent kind of story. What other tales are there to tell?| Aeon
You can hardly get online these days without hearing some AI booster talk about how AI coding is going to replace human programmers. AI code is absolutely up to production quality! Also, you’re all…| Pivot to AI
How to turn your time estimates into reliable predictions — and communicate them.| thesearesystems.substack.com
Slowing national population growth plus remote work spell big trouble for Midwestern cities| www.slowboring.com
This is something I've been thinking about for a while now and reading which is in a similar vein of thinking has prompted me to write about it. Basicall...| DREADFULS
One thing I have noticed a lot when a programmer is struggling to solve a problem, especially a novice, is that he is stuck worrying about the “best way” to implement the solution rather than actually understanding the problem he has. I believe a lot of this stems from not understanding the essence of what programming fundamentally is. Essentially Ordered Aspects In a previous article of mine, I state that “Programming is a tool to solve problems that you have in the domain of computers...| www.gingerbill.org
Originally from replies to a Twitter thread: https://x.com/TheGingerBill/status/1914389352416993395 This is not a structured argument against FOSS/OSS but my uncommon thoughts on the topic. I am not sure if I agree [that FOSS/OSS derives from the same thinking process as the ideology of communism], but I understand the sentiment. The fundamental issue is that software is trivially copyable. I have loads of issues with FOSS and OSS1. And part of this “ideology” (as presented in the origina...| www.gingerbill.org