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Why I'm Optimistic about the Tech Recession

Silicon Valley is full of the stupidest geniuses you'll ever meet. The problem begins in the classrooms where computer science is taught.

Engineers from Legal & General take us inside Project Impala, an effort to transform the mainframe developer experience to deliver higher quality faster.

Posted on Friday 3 May 2024. 1,439 words, 26 links. By Matt Webb.

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Response to "The Small Website Discoverability Crisis"

There are a lot of small websites on the Internet: Interesting websites, beautiful websites, unique websites. Unfortunately they are incredibly hard to find. You cannot find them on Google or Reddit, and while you can stumble onto them with my search engine, it is not in a very directed fashion. It is an unfortunate state of affairs. Even if you do not particularly care for becoming the next big thing, it’s still discouraging to put work into a website and get next to no traffic beyond the usual bots.

Are your hyperlinks meaningful?

I'm a big fan of websites created from pure enjoyment, free of a monetised agenda. Website creation should revolve around fun.

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I present to you, a gift, a gift of a service that will "unrot" your links, cleverly named… . The service promises to prevent and undo link rot on lo…

Sometimes we get sent a tip that isn’t just a single article or video, but an entire blog or YouTube channel. Today’s channel, [Diy Otaku], is absolutely worth a watch if you want someo…

Software, organizations and complex systems through the lens of a software engineer.

Development logs are an important part of any project because they allow us to track progress, detect problems, and investigate incidents. Remember the value and advantages of development logs, and preserve as many logs as possible.

We'll explore some exciting research paper topics in machine learning. These topics cover everything from the basics to the latest topics.

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Never underestimate how far some flight simulator aficionados will go with their builds. No detail is too small, and every aspect of the look and feel has to accurately reflect the real cockpit. As…

I swear I never intended to publish a bunch more on TDD. But here we are. This is one from the archives, first published November 2010. It’s for TDDers who want to stretch their skills. In Tidy First? land we talk about the Succession Problem—in what order do we make decisions? The more, different orders you can manage, the more options you have for:

Sites such as Twitter/X have been overrun by automated accounts

As social networks become less reliable distributors of the news, consumers of digital journalism are seeking out an older form of online real estate.

I enjoyed Ezra Klein’s podcast conversation with Nilay Patel, the editor of The Verge. They talked about media and AI mostly

Cilium’s future involves not just Kubernetes and containers, but also VMs, edge use cases and other environments.

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Starting each comment with a prefix makes it clear what needs to happen. It enables the reader to see the intention of the comment at a glance.

In his book On War, Clausewitz defines friction as the difference between military theory and reality: Thus, then, in strategy everything is very simple, but not on that account very easy. Everything is very simple in war, but the simplest thing is difficult. These difficulties accumulate and produce a friction, which no man can imagine exactly who has not seen war. As an instance of [friction], take the weather.

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