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How to Make Software Engineers Do the 'Right Thing'
The text proposes priorities for creating a culture of responsibility in engineering teams: logging bugs, doing blameless RCAs, keeping CI green, monitoring logs, and reinforcing continuous improvement.
For an Inclusive Culture, Try Working Less
The article argues that a more professional, bounded workplace can support inclusion better than an all-consuming social culture, because it reduces the norms people must share to belong.
Bitcoin and digital currency: A guide for your Mom
The text argues that digital currencies and blockchain are a major technological shift, comparable to the internet or even the invention of trade. It says Bitcoin is already a stable store of value, while Ethereum and other projects extend the trust model beyond money and reduce the role of intermediaries.
Deeply Ingrained Concepts
The page says several Western concepts are so ingrained they are hard to see, and points to science and other cultures as ways to rethink embodiment, dualism, free will, perception, and time.
Don't use MediatR by default on all .NET projects
The text argues that MediatR should not be added by default to every .NET project: the choice depends on the use case, and using internal messaging in dependent contexts can create unnecessary complexity.
YADR - Yet Another Dotfile Repo
YADR is an opinionated dotfiles repository for macOS that brings together configurations for Vim, Zsh, Git, Tmux, and terminal tools, with automatic installation and many shortcuts.
FalcoJournal
Repositório de um bullet journal feito com Falco, com arquivos de template, schema SQL, banco SQLite e README, além de um histórico de commits que mostra ajustes de entrada e modo escuro.
Falco
Toolkit for building full-stack web applications in F# with ASP.NET Core, focused on simplicity, integration with .NET libraries, and features like routing, request handling, and authentication.
33 JavaScript Concepts Every Developer Should Know
Repository with 33 core JavaScript concepts, each with explanations, practical examples, and curated resources, plus extensions on language mechanics, objects, memory, events, and data.
GitHub - karanpratapsingh/system-design: Learn how to design systems at scale and prepare for system design interviews
Course outline on system design covering networking, storage, databases, distributed systems, APIs, messaging, security, and interview patterns, plus worked designs for URL shortener, WhatsApp, Twitter, Netflix, and Uber.
GuideToMastodon
Guide introductive about Mastodon that explains how the network works, differences compared with Twitter and email, instances, privacy, migration, search, hashtags, and etiquette.
Asynchronous Programming
The page collects guidance for writing asynchronous code in .NET and ASP.NET Core. It emphasizes that async should propagate through the call stack, and it warns against blocking patterns, fire-and-forget mistakes, and misuse of task and cancellation APIs.
nexe
Nexe compiles Node.js applications into a single executable. The page highlights self-contained binaries, idempotent builds, resources added to the bundle, and compilation options and API.
LLMs are mirrors of operator skill
The author argues that AI is a matter of skill: LLMs reflect the operator’s level, which makes it harder to identify qualified operators and shows that the interview process is broken.
How To Choose The Best Agile Framework For Your Team
The text compares Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban, XP and FDD, highlighting how each framework organizes work, collaboration and delivery. It also shows how Assembla supports planning, tracking and release.
Clean Code: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The article praises Clean Code for naming, readability and code-smell awareness, but criticizes its outdated Java focus, dogmatic advice and verbose examples, especially the prime generator.
The Robots Won't Cause Massive Unemployment This Time, Either
The article argues that automation usually changes jobs by automating only part of a task bundle, which can raise the value of human workers, cut costs, and expand demand rather than cause mass unemployment.
More Testing Tips With C#
The post shares testing tips for C#: generating fake data with Faker.NET or Bogus.NET, using seeds to reproduce randomized tests, comparing output against reference files, and finding free ports or loopback IPs for integration tests.
Software Engineering Talent is Gold Right Now
The job market is weak, but experienced software engineers can automate tedious or semi-manual workflows, create marketing assets, and get high leverage from tools like ChatGPT and Cursor.
Doctors Restoring Bloodflow in Legally Dead Bodies to Retrieve Donor Organs
A procedure called normothermic regional perfusion pumps blood through deceased donors to keep organs viable, but it raises ethical concerns about death determination and brain circulation.
A love letter to React
The text says that React influenced LiveView and Phoenix by showing a model of reactive components, colocation between markup and code, HTML-aware components, and diff optimizations on the server and the client.
Use A Work Journal To Recover Focus Faster And Clarify Your Thoughts
The author says writing down what you are doing and thinking helps restore context faster after interruptions, makes switching tasks easier, and clarifies thought during long, messy work.
Dogmatic Slumber
The comic says Hume’s skepticism pushed Kant away from ordinary philosophy and toward a rational basis for morality and an account of experience, space, time, and causation.
A Brief History of Human Nature
A comic revisits philosophers’ definitions of human nature, from Plato and Aristotle to Derrida, and closes by joking that humans were made to stare at computer screens for 8 hours a day.
The Greatest Happiness Possible
A comic shows a being named “Utility Monster,” framing the idea of maximizing happiness through utility in a single punchline.
Knowledge Work Is Dying—Here’s What Comes Next
The piece argues that AI will commoditize knowledge work and raise the value of wisdom work built on emotional clarity, discernment, and connection, especially in leadership and teamwork.
What the Team Behind Cursor Knows About the Future of Code
Cursor’s team argues that code work is shifting from typing in an IDE to directing and reviewing AI agents, with planning, model choice, and long-running workflows becoming central.
Why Generalists Own the Future
The piece argues that AI weakens shallow specialist skill but strengthens generalists, who adapt across domains, ask the right questions, and use language models to work through novel problems.
How to Think About Time
The guide separates physical time from civil time, defines instants, durations, datetimes, periods, and time zones, and warns about ambiguous math, storage, and wall-clock use.
Who invented the idea of memes?
Dawkins coined “meme” in The Selfish Gene, but the essay argues that the underlying idea of cultural transmission predates him and keeps reappearing across science, philosophy, and art.
Superintelligence is impossible
The essay argues that superintelligence is overblown because intelligence is not a single unlimited scale. Using the No Free Lunch principle, it says gains in one domain require losses in others.
Futurists have their heads in the clouds
The text criticizes futurists for betting on implausible sci-fi scenarios and argues for predictions based on extrapolating already visible trends. It then lists likely changes by 2050 in technology, society, family, and politics.
Eating meat is good, says the philosopher
The essay tests an argument that eating meat can benefit domesticated animals by sustaining their existence, then rejects it as unsatisfying and ends with a more cautious view about eating animals with good lives.
Big Tech is replacing human artists with AI
The text argues that scaling laws will push advanced creative AI into Big Tech’s hands, making art, writing, music, and translation corporate-controlled and detached from consciousness.
Dungeons & Dragons taught me how to write alt text
The text uses Dungeons & Dragons to argue that alt text should start with the most important information, adapt detail to context, and consider tone, emotion, autonomy, and screen reader use.
Terence Tao: AI should not be a monopoly held by one or two companies
Terence Tao says AI is powerful but still limited, useful as an assistant, and risky for deepfakes and trust. He also warns against monopoly control and calls for some regulation.
Watercolor painting
Watercolor painting is a water-based painting method in which pigments suspended in a water-based solution are applied to paper or other supports, with transparency, washes, and glazing central to its practice.
Riemann hypothesis
The hypothesis says every non-trivial zero of the Riemann zeta function has real part 1/2. It is still unproved, but it controls many results about primes and arithmetic functions.
John James Audubon
French-American artist and ornithologist who turned bird study into The Birds of America, but whose work and legacy are marked by disputed claims, fraud accusations, and slaveholding.
J. M. W. Turner
English Romantic painter known for his expressive light, atmosphere and color in landscapes. Trained at the Royal Academy, he rose fast, experimented constantly, and helped raise landscape painting’s status.