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192 items with this tag.

Apr 07, 2026
Daily broadsheet generator
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Apr 07, 2026
How much should you think about how React renders?
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Apr 07, 2026
Hugo Award Winners
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Apr 07, 2026
My advice on learning to program games
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Apr 07, 2026
React
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Apr 07, 2026
Software Architecture
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Apr 07, 2026
Software Development Culture and Teams
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Apr 07, 2026
We do not build products at tech companies, we sell features
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Mar 28, 2026
AI
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Mar 28, 2026
Code base graph explorer
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Mar 28, 2026
Community building
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Mar 28, 2026
Does cleaning up feature flags really matter?
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Mar 28, 2026
How useful are feature flags really?
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Mar 28, 2026
I have noticed a high correlation between AI users and Giphy users
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Mar 28, 2026
There will not be One Universal Interface
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Mar 28, 2026
Voice is a bad interface
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Mar 24, 2026
Board games do not exist until they have written rules
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Mar 24, 2026
Generative AI as compilers doesn't make sense to me
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Mar 24, 2026
Learning occurs when you write
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Mar 24, 2026
Your brain lies to you about what you think you've learned
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Mar 24, 2026
Programming as Theory Building
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Mar 20, 2026
A PFOG 2026 Retrospective
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Mar 20, 2026
now
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Mar 20, 2026
I want PuzzleScript for making games I like
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Mar 20, 2026
Needing to ask your coworkers for information is a feature, not a bug
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Mar 20, 2026
Philosophy?
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Mar 14, 2026
A portable folk (communal) computer
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Mar 14, 2026
The way LLMs talk drain me emotionally
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Mar 12, 2026
Create my own static site generator
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Mar 12, 2026
Don't tell me how many lines of code your LLM wrote
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Mar 12, 2026
I think AI has uses
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Mar 12, 2026
Interview strategy in 2025
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Mar 12, 2026
My game dev tech stack
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Mar 08, 2026
Communal computing (folk computing)
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Mar 08, 2026
Computing
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Mar 08, 2026
Folk Computer
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Mar 08, 2026
Is Tidy First antithetical to AI driven development?
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Mar 08, 2026
React seems antithetical to functional core, imperative shell
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Mar 07, 2026
How to make a successful indie game
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Mar 07, 2026
microgpt
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Mar 07, 2026
Boxed for functional TS
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Mar 07, 2026
Browsers can handle other protocols besides http
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Mar 07, 2026
Debating genre definitions is a waste of time
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Mar 07, 2026
Event organizing
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Mar 07, 2026
Facilitation
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Mar 07, 2026
Feeling of Computing (fka The Future of Coding)
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Mar 07, 2026
Functional Programming
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Mar 07, 2026
How do I get more comfortable with uncertainty?
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Mar 07, 2026
I love emoji
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Mar 07, 2026
I love richly linked blogs
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Mar 07, 2026
I really love when I read someone's well thought out blog post and they link me to a bunch of other really interesting sounding posts in that article
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Mar 07, 2026
I think React might be terrible at scale
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Mar 07, 2026
I think you should share titles at work
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Mar 07, 2026
I'm losing interest in games
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Mar 07, 2026
Map, filter, and reduce are built using recursion
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Mar 07, 2026
Metcalfe's law - networks become exponentially more valuable with size
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Mar 07, 2026
Must. Resist. Urge. To. Break. Established. Code. Pattern.
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Mar 07, 2026
Performance in React is tricky
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Mar 07, 2026
RSS is good
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Mar 07, 2026
Specificity is the soul of narrative
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Mar 07, 2026
Theory Building View of programming
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Mar 07, 2026
Working in public
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Mar 07, 2026
Writing documentation
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Mar 07, 2026
You shouldn't have your AI write your test cases
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Mar 07, 2026
Dear Functional Bros
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Mar 07, 2026
No Silver Bullet
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Mar 05, 2026
For good and bad, I cannot tell who reads my blog
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Mar 04, 2026
I like dating my notes
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Mar 04, 2026
Note Taking
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Mar 04, 2026
Prettify a JSON file with jq
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Mar 04, 2026
TypeScript interleave function
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Mar 02, 2026
If you want to convince me your AI tools are productive, stop comparing them to junior engineers
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Mar 01, 2026
Couchjam
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Mar 01, 2026
Slack Culture
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Mar 01, 2026
Stoop Coffee
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Feb 26, 2026
Becoming an em dash user
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Feb 26, 2026
It is easy to fall into a bad consumptive mindset when working with AIs
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Feb 22, 2026
Avoiding CSS background texture overscrolll
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Feb 22, 2026
I'm so over roguelikes
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Feb 21, 2026
AI generated code seems to be over wrought
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Feb 20, 2026
AI tools can help with cold starts
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Feb 20, 2026
I can't decide if I like an open on a React modal component or not
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Feb 20, 2026
I think I hate pull request review
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Feb 20, 2026
Ship Show Ask
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Feb 17, 2026
The Bullshit Machines
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Feb 15, 2026
2025 Year in Review
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Feb 15, 2026
Blocking my Social Media sites
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Feb 15, 2026
Close open loops
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Feb 15, 2026
Creative output
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Feb 15, 2026
Emphasize good thinking not good note taking
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Feb 15, 2026
Evergreen notes should be atomic
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Feb 15, 2026
Evergreen notes should be concept-oriented
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Feb 15, 2026
Evergreen notes should be densely linked
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Feb 15, 2026
Evergreen notes
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Feb 15, 2026
Getting lost in your knowledge management system is a fantastic way to avoid creating things
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Feb 15, 2026
I don't understand the point of Philosophy
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Feb 15, 2026
I think that trying to maintain streaks is bad for you
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Feb 15, 2026
Implementing an evergreen note practice
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Feb 15, 2026
Knowledge work should accrete over time
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Feb 15, 2026
Learn, Think, and Write in a system external to your brain
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Feb 15, 2026
Making games
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Feb 15, 2026
Making websites
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Feb 15, 2026
Most knowledge workers do not approach knowledge work seriously
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Feb 15, 2026
Most people take only transient notes
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Feb 15, 2026
Note-writing practices provide weak feedback
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Feb 15, 2026
Prefer associative ontologies to hierarchical taxonomies
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Feb 15, 2026
Reading inbox
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Feb 15, 2026
Taxonomy of notes types
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Feb 15, 2026
The alchemy of personal breakthroughs
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Feb 15, 2026
Write notes for yourself by default, disregarding audience
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Feb 15, 2026
Writing a piece becomes an editing process if you build on top of evergreen notes
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Feb 15, 2026
Writing and editing are two different tasks
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Feb 15, 2026
Writing forces sharper understanding
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Feb 15, 2026
You will NEVER be able to take every note
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Feb 15, 2026
Your natural salience filter is a great determinant of what’s most alive to you
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Feb 15, 2026
Your notes should surprise you
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Feb 15, 2026
Your personal system should never force you to work on what you don't want to do in the moment
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Feb 15, 2026
Your personal system should optimize for flexibility, following your whims, and managing your motivation to use it.
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Feb 15, 2026
Your systems should optimize for failure recovery
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Feb 15, 2026
Your systems will always fail you, no system is ever perfect
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Feb 08, 2026
Functional Core, Imperative Shell
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Jan 28, 2026
Ask people a thing they enjoyed recently instead of their favorite thing
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Jan 28, 2026
I find it easier to work with five 200 line files than one 1000 line file
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Jan 27, 2026
I hate working with React hook "UseHookResult" types
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Jan 25, 2026
We should ban Giphy
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Jan 21, 2026
Why am I not really interested in Claire Obscure?
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Jan 19, 2026
AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage
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Jan 19, 2026
Classifications are always wrong
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Jan 19, 2026
Talking to strangers on the internet is generally a waste of time
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Jan 19, 2026
Trying to measure productivity for knowledge work is a fool's errand
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Jan 14, 2026
GOTY 2025
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Jan 13, 2026
DMs are bad for work communication
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Jan 13, 2026
I think you should thread in Slack as much as possible
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Jan 13, 2026
You cannot use AI to disprove the existence of an API capability
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Jan 13, 2026
Are games the only medium without a clearly communicated duration?
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Jan 13, 2026
I think I prefer narrative driven games to be more like movies than novels
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Jan 10, 2026
Computational kindness
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Jan 09, 2026
2025 What I Read
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Jan 08, 2026
A secret web
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Jan 08, 2026
Killing community
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Jan 08, 2026
Never forgive them
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Jan 08, 2026
On the foolishness of "natural language programming"
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Jan 08, 2026
Parse, don't validate
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Jan 08, 2026
The Abolition of Work
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Jan 08, 2026
The Case for Embracing Cringe
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Jan 08, 2026
The Programmer Identity Crisis
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Jan 08, 2026
The Tyranny of Structurelessness
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Jan 08, 2026
The great paywall
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Jan 08, 2026
Who's Afraid of a Hard Page Load?
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Jan 08, 2026
Marginalia search
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Jan 05, 2026
Turing Complete User
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Jan 05, 2026
AI summaries are almost certainly unreliable
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Jan 05, 2026
ChatGPT Survey - Performance on NLP datasets
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Jan 05, 2026
Brandolini's Law
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Jan 04, 2026
Hallucinations
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Jan 04, 2026
LLMentalist
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Jan 04, 2026
Modern software quality, or why I think using language models for programming is a bad idea
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Jan 02, 2026
Problems with Tactics Games and Status Code v2
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Jan 02, 2026
Not Being an Asshole In An Argument
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Jan 02, 2026
Formatting dates in Vanilla JS
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Jan 02, 2026
Game Design is really fun when you create simple layers of systems to play with
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Jan 02, 2026
I love Elden Ring cheese. How do you get that into a turn based game?
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Jan 02, 2026
I want to make little systemic sandboxes
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Jan 02, 2026
Oblique Strategies
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Dec 30, 2025
December Adventure
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Dec 30, 2025
Should you be wary of overfitting to your own taste?
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Dec 23, 2025
I'm an American software developer and the "broligarchs" don't speak for me
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Dec 23, 2025
Making my notes public has made my note-taking feel more productive
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Dec 23, 2025
When do cryptic pieces of media work for me?
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Dec 23, 2025
Why do I struggle to play narrative heavy games?
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Dec 21, 2025
VR seems like a pointless technology
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Dec 21, 2025
Resonant Computing Manifesto
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Dec 21, 2025
Scrappy
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Dec 21, 2025
A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size
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Dec 21, 2025
AI Killed My Job - Tech workers
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Dec 21, 2025
AI is a Money Trap
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Dec 21, 2025
AI software assistants make the hardest kinds of bugs to spot
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Dec 21, 2025
Good Vibes - A Claude-Code Case-Study
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Dec 21, 2025
How ChatGPT Surprised Me
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Dec 21, 2025
LLMs are Slot Machines
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Dec 21, 2025
Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity
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Dec 21, 2025
No, AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive
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Dec 21, 2025
Stack Overflow data reveals the hidden productivity tax of 'almost right' AI code
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Dec 21, 2025
The CoPilot productivity paradox
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Dec 21, 2025
The Futzing Fraction
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Dec 21, 2025
The Rot Economy
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Dec 21, 2025
Thoughts on AI and AI-veganism
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Dec 21, 2025
AI Coding Sucks
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Dec 20, 2025
Making Wrong Code Look Wrong
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Dec 20, 2025
Adding a background texture is a good way to liven up a website
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Dec 11, 2025
Dealing with asserting and narrowing union types
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Dec 11, 2025
Don't use errors as control flow
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