The Obsidian team is growing from three engineers to four engineers.

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Speaking of which, my son is utterly stoked about the F1 race in Melbourne this weekend. Without a shred of evidence, I've decided that it's Kimi Antonelli's year. See you all in a few days :)

In any event, it's been weeks since I made meaningful progress on any of my projects. I don't know if it's just a lull or if I need a change, but I do know that I need to start prioritizing my health—I'm increasingly aware of the tangible impact on my kids if I don't.

The feeling is like being on a long bus trip, and suddenly, without explanation, every other passenger lights a cigarette. When something is ubiquitous, you can choose how to interact with it, but you can't choose whether you interact with it.

I've watched goal-oriented devs transition easily to LLM-based flows, but process-oriented devs are really suffering. It's easy to say that I can write code however I like, but that isn't how it feels.

It's a world where I'm in control, so of course I prefer it to the one I can't control at all—of course I prefer it to a universe of ceaseless obligations and bureaucratic tedium. I'm forced to ask: was it ever really about shipping software?

Overall I would say that coding brings me joy, but if I'm being honest, it's also escapism. Sometimes you drift from just doing what you love to wrapping yourself up in it, hoping never to be found.

It's bizarre and wonderful that I can write code as a hobby. As someone who works in a highly regulated field where casual dabbling is prohibited by law, the fact that I can participate at all has always been remarkable to me.

Increasingly I have thoughts like 'What if you just got really into yoga or cycling instead?' Such a suggestion would have been unthinkable to me in the past.

I have a busy surgical practice and young kids, I don't really enjoy LLM workflows, and it was almost impossible to keep up with new developments even before AI.

Recently I've been thinking a lot about what my life would be like if I just stopped programming. As I age, I'm not sure I can afford to have a hobby that is both all-consuming and totally sedentary—it's starting to take a certain toll.

There's lots of great info about this transition in @chrisnelder.bsky.social's podcast :)

For security reasons, your password must be between 8 and 16 characters and compatible with our plaintext storage format.

It seems we can now customize the select element, right? right?!

Demo: codepen.io/t_afif/pen/P... via @codepen.io

I definitely thought those signs just referred to vapes. Fascinating.

Legend B Bronze Medal DNS Did Not Start DNI Does Not Improve G Gold Medal NOC National Olympic Committee Rk Rank S Silver Medal

The legend on the olympic results site is in alphabetical order. The longer I look at it, the more I love everything about it.

"Hit as many clay targets as possible off a 3 m springboard before you hit the water" has real potential.

The remaster of Perimeters by AES Dana is out! If you enjoy any type of ambient electronic music, don't sleep on Ultimae Records. The entire catalog is a tour de force. Vincent Villuis is a generational artist and curator. A soundtrack for the film that is your life.

The TiVo was released in 1999. We lived this dream.

We just released a number of security patches across the Svelte ecosystem. If you use SvelteKit, the Vercel adapter for SvelteKit, Svelte, or devalue, you should upgrade.

The Vercel OSS Bug Bounty paid out over $14,000 for these reports!

I just ran `nix-collect-garbage` for the first time ever.

It ran for 2 hours and freed 1.3 TB of disk.

Wow. Note to self.

Serhii Tatarintsev's post on LinkedIn: Recently, I had conversation with a candidate that completely changed the way I think about interviews. Let me explain. At first, it seemed like they are not a particulary good fit — not a lot of experience in our field, no familiarity with our tech stack. That is, until I asked one simple question: “Do you have any references or recommendations?” “How about a reference from my good friend Ben Franklin?” — candidate winked at me and dropped a neatly arranged stack of bills onto the table. Needless to say, he was hired on the spot. So, sometimes it’s not the candidates that fail the interview — it’s you interview process that fails to ask the right question that would let them shine.

Serhii Tatarintsev's post on LinkedIn: Let's talk about technical interviews. We all agree that asking engineers to reverse the binary tree on a whiteboard is an outdated approach, right? But what do we do instead? Here is my solution. I ask them to reverse a real tree in my garden. I now have a whole orchard of upside-down apple trees and a whole team of exceptionally strong engineers. Not a single bug was found in my garden since we changed our interview strategy. It just shows you that in order to stay ahead in the industry built on innovation you always have to look for novel approaches even for decade-old problems.

contest is over, y'all. my colleague already won linkedin

What Is the F1 Halo? The F1 Halo is a safety device designed to protect drivers in Formula 1 cars. The given text is already well-formatted with the tag to indicate a paragraph. No additional formatting is needed.

the dawn of an era

Maybe they mean 'mad as a hatter' mad. Have you been posting animal tea parties?

I'm at the park that reminds me of the good times.

I'm at the park that reminds me of the better times.

I think there are a lot of places in std where you can sense that someone used a declarative macro not to avoid typing, but so that there is less code to look at.

It's as if they're trying to say "These things written out in full are the essence of this type, and deserve your attention."

theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...

chat, are we cooked?

GitHub - aristocratos/btop: A monitor of resources A monitor of resources. Contribute to aristocratos/btop development by creating an account on GitHub.

I believe btop can do this:

github.com/aristocratos...

A direction-aware and more realistic version.

Demo: codepen.io/t_afif/full/... via @codepen.io

ALCOA is a framework for ensuring data integrity and is essential to ensuring Good Documentation Practices. In the 2010s, four more principles were added to ALCOA to reflect the current happenings and it was renamed to ALCOA+. Recently EMA guidelines on computerised systems have introduced a tenth criterion, further refining the ALCOA framework to ALCOA++.

brb, preordering ALCOA+++