Greg is a good software developer. Be like Greg.
Questionable Advice: “My boss says we don’t need any engineering managers. Is he right?”
Engineering labor takes concentration and focus. Context switching is expensive, and too many interrupts can be fatal. Management labor consists of context switching every hour or so, and being available for interruptions throughout the day. These are two very different modes of being, headspaces, and calendar schedules, and do not coexist well.
The implied web is based on the idea that people read interfaces through the glasses of their needs combined with previous web platform experiences. Driven by tasks, they are open to clues about solutions and need clear communication to comprehend and actively move through the interface. In short, people must recognise elements so they can act accordingly.
The witch-cult hypothesis is a discredited theory that the witch trials of the Early Modern period were an attempt to suppress a pagan religion that had survived the Christianization of Europe.
Relevant: Wicca.
“what do you think is the best vaporwave album of all time?”
Beautiful but might be the Betamax of the web…?
Amber Smalltalk – A new language and live environment made for the web.
The Amber language is deeply inspired by Smalltalk. It is designed to make client-side development faster and easier. Amber includes a live development environment with a class browser, workspace, unit test runner, transcript, object inspector and debugger. Amber is written in itself, including the compiler, and compiles into efficient JavaScript, mapping one-to-one with the JS equivalent.
Not sure what it does exactly but it sometimes looks beautiful.
This app lays out tiles based on an underlying square or hexagonal tiling pattern.
The I in LLM stands for intelligence.
The better the crap, the longer time and the more energy we have to spend on the report until we close it. A crap report does not help the project at all. It instead takes away developer time and energy from something productive.
One of my first calls was for a Mac Pro at a private residence. It was a logic board, which means the motherboard of the Mac. I wasn't thrilled, because removing and replacing the Mac Pro logic board was a time-consuming repair that required a lot of light. Instead of a clean workspace with bright lights I got a guy who would not let me go until I had watched how 9/11 was an inside job.
Relevant: 9 years of Apple text editor solo dev – Thoughts on building Paper as a solo maker.
Buchla Contactless – Playing Modular Synth Without Touching it, Literally.