488 bookmarks

2024-11-20

539.

Lost In The Future

www.wheresyoured.at/lost-in-the-future

Case in point: Regular people have spent years watching the price of goods increase "due to inflation," despite the fact that the increase in pricing was mostly driven by — get this — corporations raising prices. Yet some parts of the legacy media spent an alarming amount of time chiding their readers for thinking otherwise, even going against their own reporting as a means of providing "balanced" coverage, insisting again and again that the economy is good, contorting to prove that prices aren't higher even as companies boasted about literally raising their prices. In fact, the media spent years debating with itself whether price gouging was happening, despite years of proof that it was.

538.

Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls, Company Documents Show - WSJ

www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-knows-instagram-is-toxic-for-teen-girls-company-documents-show-11631620739?ref=wheresyoured.at

2024-11-14

537.

The Deep History of Your Apps: Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and Early Object-Oriented Programming - CHM

computerhistory.org/blog/the-deep-history-of-your-apps-steve-jobs-nextstep-and-early-object-oriented-programming
536.

Porygon Was Innocent: An epileptic perspective on Pokémon's “Electric Soldier Porygon”

www.animefeminist.com/porygon-was-innocent-an-epileptic-perspective-on-pokemons-electric-soldier-porygon

2024-11-12

535.

Don't Do This - PostgreSQL wiki

wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Don't_Do_This
534.

Binary vector embeddings are so cool

emschwartz.me/binary-vector-embeddings-are-so-cool

2024-11-11

533.

IMG_0416

ben-mini.github.io/2024/img-0416

2024-11-09

532.

Why ECC

danluu.com/why-ecc
531.

Stabilizing the Obra Dinn 1-bit dithering process

forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40832.msg1363742

2024-11-06

530.

Опора для коллег

t.me/pmdaily/1234

2024-11-05

529.

The Dual Nature of Events in Event-Driven Architecture

www.reactivesystems.eu/2024/10/31/the-dual-nature-of-events-in-eda.html

2024-11-02

528.

The Cult of Microsoft

www.wheresyoured.at/the-cult-of-microsoft

2024-11-01

527.

Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend

programmingisterrible.com/post/139222674273/write-code-that-is-easy-to-delete-not-easy-to

2024-10-29

526.

Gravity is not a force

superposer.substack.com/p/gravity-is-not-a-force
525.

HTML Form Validation is heavily underused

expressionstatement.com/html-form-validation-is-heavily-underused

2024-10-28

524.

Здоровье кодовой базы

kordum.netlify.app/posts/2024-07-14

2024-10-27

523.

The American Housing Crisis: A Theft, Not a Shortage – Economics from the Top Down

economicsfromthetopdown.com/2024/10/23/the-american-housing-crisis-a-theft-not-a-shortage

2024-10-26

522.

A Modern CSS Reset • Josh W. Comeau

www.joshwcomeau.com/css/custom-css-reset

2024-10-19

521.

API Versioning at Monite

dev.to/monite/api-versioning-at-monite-3ba3
520.

The Copenhagen Book

thecopenhagenbook.com

2024-10-16

519.

You Can't Make Friends With The Rockstars

www.wheresyoured.at/rockstars

There is nothing special about Elon Musk, Sam Altman, or Mark Zuckerberg. Accepting that requires you to also accept that the world itself is not one that rewards the remarkable, or the brilliant, or the truly incredible, but those who are able to take advantage of opportunities, which in turn leads to the horrible truth that those who often have the most opportunities are some of the most boring and privileged people alive.

2024-10-12

518.

Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships

read.engineerscodex.com/p/good-programmers-worry-about-data
517.

Liskov’s Gun: The parallel evolution of React and Web Components

www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/liskovs-gun

2024-10-11

516.

I’m Running Out of Ways to Explain How Bad This Is

www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/10/hurricane-milton-conspiracies-misinformation/680221

This reality-fracturing is the result of an information ecosystem that is dominated by platforms that offer financial and attentional incentives to lie and enrage, and to turn every tragedy and large event into a shameless content-creation opportunity. This collides with a swath of people who would rather live in an alternate reality built on distrust and grievance than change their fundamental beliefs about the world. But the misinformation crisis is not always what we think it is.

2024-10-10

515.

Scrum's "Product Owner" Problem - by Adam Ard

rethinkingsoftware.substack.com/p/scrums-product-owner-problem
514.

All We Have in This World Is Ourselves | Hacker News

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41797084

2024-10-09

513.

Женя Арутюнов. Три парадигмы проектирования

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwJiQGKQ9Lg
512.

A modest critique of Htmx

chrisdone.com/posts/htmx-critique

2024-10-08

511.

Founder Mode

www.paulgraham.com/foundermode.html

Why was everyone telling these founders the wrong thing? That was the big mystery to me. And after mulling it over for a bit I figured out the answer: what they were being told was how to run a company you hadn't founded — how to run a company if you're merely a professional manager. But this m.o. is so much less effective that to founders it feels broken. There are things founders can do that managers can't, and not doing them feels wrong to founders, because it is.

510.

A mischievous equation - The Pursuit of Happiness

scottsumner.substack.com/p/a-mischievous-equation

The way this equation is written, it leads to two sources of confusion, which I’ll call the “two myths”:

1. Many people wrongly assume that imports reduce GDP, because they appear in the equation with a minus sign.

2. Many people wrongly assume that if consumers become pessimistic and decide to spend less while saving more, this will cause GDP to fall. That’s because consumer spending appears in the equation with a positive sign.

509.

You're holding your AI wrong

cdibona.substack.com/p/youre-holding-your-ai-wrong

Why in Turing's name would I want to have AIs attend a meeting for me that I don’t want to go to myself? What’d the AI do to deserve this? Let me give you a litmus test: if you think you would rather send an AI to attend a meeting for you rather than waste your time, your life, on that meeting, consider just taking it to email, or not having that meeting at all. Don’t punish the poor AI, wasting all those kilowatt hours of GPU time on that nonsense. Think of the planet!

2024-10-07

508.

Building a Single-Page App with htmx

jakelazaroff.com/words/building-a-single-page-app-with-htmx
507.

How do HTTP servers figure out Content-Length? - aarol.dev

aarol.dev/posts/go-contentlength

2024-10-03

506.

Product Hunt isn't dying, it's becoming gentrified

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41700517
505.

I Don't Have LinkedIn

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41707218

Every time I think about linkedin I get this exhausted feeling thinking about dealing with it, updating, that horrible feed of generic "rah rah <empty emotional statement> company" posts that feel cold as ice ... all the unsolicited email they send me. I can't think of another site that makes me feel like that.

I have a profile, but it is as old as the last job I got and I have no desire to go to that site but I still feel tied to it to some extent.

I can't think of another site that has that weird combination of undesirable factors that I'm stuck with.

2024-10-01

504.

Piracy

blog.cobanov.cloud/blog/piracy

2024-09-29

503.

How Discord Stores Trillions of Messages

discord.com/blog/how-discord-stores-trillions-of-messages

2024-09-28

502.

The Other Bubble

www.wheresyoured.at/saaspocalypse-now

It's hard to overstate the significance of a collapse of growth in the SaaS market, as is it hard to overstate how dangerous generative AI is to its fortunes. While these companies had costs before, generative AI is multitudes higher than regular cloud compute costs, meaning that any new revenue growth from this software will be burdened by leveraging an increasingly-expensive solution to a problem that most of them have trouble describing.

And if the revenue never arrives, they'll be faced with the same problem as the rest of the tech industry — that they've run out of ideas to generate growth.

At that point, they'll have to reckon with the fact that there are too many software companies incapable of solving any problem other than "how do we find a new way to charge customers for something?"

2024-09-27

501.

If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s just chance. | MIT Technology Review

www.technologyreview.com/2018/03/01/144958/if-youre-so-smart-why-arent-you-rich-turns-out-its-just-chance

The strategy that delivers the best returns, it turns out, is to divide the funding equally among all researchers. And the second- and third-best strategies involve distributing it at random to 10 or 20 percent of scientists.

500.

OpenAI as we knew it is dead: Why the AI giant went for-profit | Vox

www.vox.com/future-perfect/374275/openai-just-sold-you-out
499.

XKCD 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today

simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/24/xkcd-1425-turns-ten-years-old-today

2024-09-26

498.

Wonderful vi

world.hey.com/dhh/wonderful-vi-a1d034d3

2024-09-24

497.

The Subprime AI Crisis

www.wheresyoured.at/subprimeai
496.

It's hard to draw lessons from your own failures

world.hey.com/dhh/it-s-hard-to-draw-lessons-from-your-own-failures-d4608094

About bootstrapped and VC projects

2024-09-12

495.

Be a thermostat, not a thermometer

larahogan.me/blog/be-a-thermostat-not-a-thermometer
494.

Why Not Comments

buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/why-not-comments

2024-09-10

493.

Manual ’till it hurts

adactio.com/journal/21397

2024-09-09

492.

</> htmx ~ Web Security Basics (with htmx)

htmx.org/essays/web-security-basics-with-htmx

2024-09-01

491.

From Commodity to Asset: The Truth Behind Rising House Prices – Economics from the Top Down

economicsfromthetopdown.com/2024/08/22/from-commodity-to-asset-the-truth-behind-rising-house-prices

To do it, we need to (paradoxically) ignore house prices and instead, focus on income. The root driver of the housing crisis is that poor people can’t afford to buy houses or pay rent. And yet the rich have their cake and get to eat it too. Maybe … just maybe … if we took some of this money and gave it to the poor, then these folks could afford a place to live.

2024-08-31

490.

John Rawls and the death of Western Marxism

josephheath.substack.com/p/john-rawls-and-the-death-of-western
489.

Matt Stoller Explains Monopolies

www.wheresyoured.at/stoller

What makes monopoly a monopoly:

If you are a monopoly and then you do something to maintain that monopoly or to extend your monopoly, that's what makes it illegal. Like, if I just create a new product category, some widget that no one's ever heard of before, and I start making it and it's popular, I'm by definition going to have a hundred percent of the market. That’s not illegal.

What would be illegal is if I had a hundred percent of the market and then I said to my distributors: “Hey, if you want my thing that everybody wants, you can't distribute my rival's thing.” That's what turns it into an illegal conspiracy.

About connection between authoritarianism and monopolies:

John Sherman, of the Sherman Antitrust Act, said that if we will not be ruled by a monarch, we should not be ruled by an autocrat of trade. He was very explicit about the link between monarchy and authoritarianism and monopoly. And they were using the term monarchy because fascism hadn't happened yet, but monarchy did exist. In the 19th century, Americans were looking across the ocean and they were seeing a bunch of kingdoms. There was a little bit of democracy, but that's what they were really looking at. And they were like, we don't want that.

488.

Software estimates have never worked and never will

world.hey.com/dhh/software-estimates-have-never-worked-and-never-will-a41a9c71

2024-08-30

487.

Ad Hoc Infrastructure - by Kent Beck

tidyfirst.substack.com/p/ad-hoc-infrastructure
486.

We once more have no full-time managers at 37signals

world.hey.com/dhh/we-once-more-have-no-full-time-managers-at-37signals-f8611085

2024-08-28

485.

The Monospace Web

owickstrom.github.io/the-monospace-web

2024-08-27

484.

Four stages of competence - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_stages_of_competence
483.

Очень запутанная схема на слайде

bureau.ru/soviet/20240827

2024-08-24

482.

You Are NOT Dumb, You Just Lack the Prerequisites

lelouch.dev/blog/you-are-probably-not-dumb
481.

JS Dates Are About to Be Fixed

docs.timetime.in/blog/js-dates-finally-fixed
480.

Из всех искусств для нас не-искусством является кино

www.kommersant.ru/doc/1827909?stamp=634590218470249111

Михаил Трофименков о кодексе Хейса

479.

Monopoly Money

www.wheresyoured.at/monopoly-money

2024-08-21

478.

I've Built My First Successful Side Project, and I Hate It

switowski.com/blog/i-have-built-my-first-successful-side-project-and-i-hate-it

2024-08-20

477.

Millennials Are Becoming Boomers - A Wealth of Common Sense

awealthofcommonsense.com/2024/08/millennials-are-becoming-boomers

2024-08-19

476.

The Broligarchs Are Trying to Have Their Way - The Atlantic

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/08/tech-bro-male-billionaire-anti-democratic/679267
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