another link dump, some of these have been open for months and need to be closed or forgotten. It’s healthy to pay down the tab debt at least once a quarter.
- 10 Years of Meteor
- meteor had some good parts but missed the mark on several. I didn’t care for meteor at the time, but did go on to use Apollo GraphQL heavily at Credit Karma. It was ok, but perhaps overly complicated.
- Sidebar
- linked from the meteor piece, it’s a daily link aggregator
- Body Margin 8px | Miriam Eric Suzanne
- a few too many words on the history of browser resets, specifically the 8px body margin
- auth-helpers/packages/nextjs at main · supabase-community/auth-helpers
- supabase might have finally fixed their auth? I need to update this in [redacted]
- The new wave of React state management
- everything is new, again. this time it’s state management, because flow was fucked and redux is too repetitive, so we need more of these.
- pmndrs/zustand: 🐻 Bear necessities for state management in React looks cool though
- virgil/Overview.md at master · titzer/virgil
- [redacted] has been designing a programming language, so I collected this to send to him
- Google AI Blog: Minerva: Solving Quantitative Reasoning Problems with Language Models
- more AI research for the pile.
- Things You Should Know About Databases
- I can’t produce this knowledge a priori, but this tread over territory I was already familiar with from reading Martin Kleppmann’s Warthog book. (Everyone should read the Warthog book.)
- multiprocessio/datastation: App to easily query, script, and visualize data from every database, file, and API.
- another notebook alternative. under-designed imo.
- Tailscale · Best VPN Service for Secure Networks
- [redacted] is using this. But does look interesting, trad-VPN is so wasteful
- One-liner for running queries against CSV files with SQLite | Simon Willison’s TILs
- stoopid sqlite tricks
- AddyOsmani.com - Software Engineering - The Soft Parts
- thoughtful post from Addy about being a human who also works with other humans and also computers
- Notes on maintaining an internal React component library | Gabe’s blog
- The Bill Gurley Chronicles: VCs, Marketplaces, and Early-Stage Investing
- This might be the single most informative blog post I have ever read. It summarizes 20 years of Bill Gurley’s blog, which is just nugget after interesting nugget of shrewd analysis and galaxy-brain predictions that were more accurate than not.
- CSS: Flexible Repeating SVG Masks
- [redacted] designed me something like this for WebRTC.party and I did my own half-baked version and then found this post. For next time.
- I’m All-In on Server-Side SQLite · Fly
- more SQLite hype
- Local warming - Works in Progress
- I like the design. The content didn’t stick with me, but the design did.
- Elegant Six-Page Proof Reveals the Emergence of Random Structure | Quanta Magazine
- I always save the tab on this genre Math shit after I read half of it and move onto something else. I long for the timeline where I studied a bit harder and got the muscle memory worn into me to fully understand this realm instead of feeling like a lost child.
- How to write more clearly, think more clearly, and learn complex material
- How to Freaking Find Great Developers By Having Them Read Code | Freaking Rectangle
- Lotsa people opine on how to do interviews, or otherwise bemoan the modern leetcode-style panel interview, but this is a novel hot take. Analyzing is better than synthesizing.
- Reliably Send an HTTP Request as a User Leaves a Page | CSS-Tricks - CSS-Tricks
- Still hard to do! There’s a built-in
pingattribute on the anchor tag, but Firefox doesn’t support it.
- Still hard to do! There’s a built-in
- Agile and the Long Crisis of Software
- my favorite dead horse to beat: discourse on project management techniques! though this is a good history, the subject is fraught. It’s a distraction from building.
- What I learned as a hired consultant for autodidact physicists | Aeon Ideas
- good germ of a story here
- A Rust web server / frontend setup like it’s 2022 (with axum and yew) | Robert Krahn
- I deeply, deeply want to write Rust but feel like I can’t ever afford to slow down and suffer through the learning curve. I just end up writing JavaScript (TypeScript).
- Two-way writeups: Coda’s secret to shipping fast
- hey look, more discourse on project management techniques! this is good though, coda makes good tools
- Mapo Tofu | Cult Favorite
- I want to cook this!
- Sichuan(ish) Celery | Cult Favorite
- I want to cook this too!
- The SPACE of Developer Productivity - ACM Queue
- yet another piece adjacent to project management discourse. this time a framework to measure developer productivity. I discussed this with Sean in 2016/17 as being a multi-dimensional gradient descent problem.
- Nadia Asparouhova | Idea machines
- ”effective altruism”
- set -e, -u, -o, -x pipefail explanation
- I don’t write bash as regularly as I used to (thank god) and I can never remember which of these I need to do. Bash is the pits.