0A solver for the NYT Spelling Bee game
2025-04-02 •
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The text discusses the habits and tools of effective remote teams, including hiring for remote, using 'rubber duck' channels, having an RFC process, optimizing for quality of meetings, and publishing a company directory. The autho...
The text discusses various eponymous laws such as Hyram’s Law, Jakob’s Law, Amdahl’s Law, Gell-Mann Amnesia, Conway’s Law, Betteridge’s law of headlines, Goodhart’s Law, Chesterton’s Fence, and Cunningham’s Law.
0Type Theater, Pushing Left, and The Database
2025-01-31 •
The article discusses the importance of strong types and the concept of 'type theater' in software development. It highlights the benefits of type safety and the potential pitfalls of not rigorously validating data and database sc...
The text discusses the concept of 'type theater' in the context of using statically typed languages and gradual type systems. It highlights the importance of type safety and the potential pitfalls of not rigorously validating data...
0Matching and iterators in Rust
2024-02-26 •
The text discusses the utility of Rust's match expressions and iterators, particularly in the context of working with S3 buckets. It explains how to list all objects in an S3 bucket using Rust's version of the feature, and how to ...
0Introducing: Green Thumb Guide
2024-01-26 •
Green Thumb Guide is a chatbot designed to help people take care of their houseplants and gardens. It uses a knowledgebase of useful articles and can tailor its answers to the USDA Hardiness Region based on the user's ZIP code. Th...
0SQL Sage: Using LLMs to write better SQL
2024-01-18 •
The post is about using custom GPTs to teach SQL, specifically introducing the most useful one called SQL Sage. The author has extensive experience with SQL and has used various databases and tools. The GPT is specific to PostgreS...
The author talks about his interest in the history of computing and the internet, and his discovery of a full set of 4.3 BSD manuals at the MIT Flea Market. He discusses the contents of the manuals and the interesting connection b...
0A shopping list for new parents
2019-05-21 •
The text provides a shopping list for new parents, including recommendations for different stages of pregnancy and postpartum, such as maternity pillow, hot water bottle, contraction timer, voice memo app, baby tracker, white nois...
04 Rules for Designing Queues
2018-05-01 •
The text provides guidelines for designing SQS queues at Blissfully, specifically using AWS's Simple Queue Service (SQS) with AWS Lambda and sqs-lambda-bridge. It discusses the importance of priority, resource consumption, purging...
010 Sentences About Promises
2017-03-27 •
The text discusses the transition from Ruby to JavaScript, particularly the Promise pattern and the Bluebird promise library. It explains the dimensions of the Promise interface and the functions within it, such as then, map, each...
0Introducing niner.codes
2016-08-31 •
The author introduces niner.codes, a NATO phonetic alphabet helper, to address the challenges of foreign-sounding names and lossy VoIP lines. The app is a private notepad that translates everything written into NATO codewords, mak...
0Testing Postgres 9.5 with CircleCI
2016-03-10 •
The text discusses how to test Postgres 9.5 with CircleCI's experimental 'Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty' container, and how to force Rails to use the new version.