I believe the technical term is sober. I have been sober for a few years because I couldn’t figure out how to responsibly recycle them after moving to the burbs. Thanks for the thought provoking question - I need to make time for this!
Am I the only non-Rustacean guilt tripped into looking for learn rust resources due to this high release cadence? Jokes apart - such a treasure to hear about the process of making software and everything in between and beyond in this podcast ❤️
@mcuban.bsky.social just for entertainment/science, have you ever evaluated ChatGPT’s response for political strategy question? I wonder if any politician is using LLMs for brainstorming political strategy, with some creative prompts that weaves in history, law, political science, ahem ethics
I am really interested to hear if @bcantrill.bsky.social got access to Gemini’s Daily Listen, and if it lives up to his prediction about curated podcast! I heard @oxide.computer and friends prediction episode just couple of hours before learning about Daily listen. Still on waitlist …
Step 1. New burner email.
Step 2. Mailgun + LLM to “keep chatting as Scott Hanselman would, but with outrageously long-widened sentences. If there are any request for money, always clarify the amount, but with an incorrect amount and act as the recipient.”
Step 3. Mirror replies to Bluesky
This episode was so delightful that I’m gonna re-listen after I finish reading AT protocol paper. This is a distributed computing warrior telling stories about their previous battle scars 🪖, taking you through their armory⚔️ and you can hear the rumbling of thundering herds in the distance. 🦬
Hours after reading this, it suddenly dawned on me, why not start right here.
So @irrational.engineering which conferences are you eyeing for 2025? Anyone else here you’d want to tag and ask the same? Would be fun if they did the same as well.
@oxide.computer recent pod on Tech Conferences is a must listen. I wish I was in the chat to ask - how do you find great conferences?iirc I remember reading @simonwillison.net building something in the early days of Twitter that’d discover conferences from social graph. What’d that be in 2024?
What do you call this recursive loop of intellectual growth? Head recursion! A _nod_ to tail recursion.
Book cover: Writing for Developers: Blogs That Get Read
The book that @sarna.dev and I co-authored on writing engineering blog posts is now published. And it’s flanked by the best imaginable “bookends”: a foreword by @bcantrill.bsky.social and an afterword by @scott.hanselman.com! Details and Amazon/Manning links at bit.ly/3AVPWn9.
www.ted.com/talks/nick_h... this 10 years old Ted talk was getting a lot of upvotes on Reddit last night. Tl:dw - there are only two outcomes of growing inequity- Police State or Pitchforks …
Crop rotation could be a useful strategy against over-plowing.
Can’t wait, can’t wait 🥹! If you would indulge, does this mean if the user redownloads the files, after Dec 10, the fanboy will get the for-ward and after-ward as a re-ward? (Sorry couldn’t avoid the puns)
Just bought the ebook of Writing for Developers from Manning. Was looking forward to (no pun intended) to reading the forward by @bcantrill.bsky.social after @oxide.computer and friends episode - it aint there! 😱 Similarly the Afterward by @scott.hanselman.com is missing! Nonetheless, buy it!
I am genuinely curious to learn what good ways you are listening to audiobooks that making it more rewarding. May be audiobooks are fine the way they are. Everything need not be perfect. Everything need not be about speed. Just enjoy the rough edges.
📞 Recall. Finally, the elephant in the room. You already have an opinion on this. And like you I deeply care about this topic, but believe it’s a separate problem/product than audio vs written books.
🏃🏽Speed. With practice you can increase your reading speed without sacrificing understanding or comfort. But cranking up the audio speed only makes them sound like Mickey Mouse … listening at 2.5 the speed is caping it.
🔖Clip and Bookmarks. While they are useful tools, buried deep inside the menu, I wonder, if they are widely used. Most of the time your hands are tied up, and if it’s not just in time capture - it’s too much friction to get back to it.
📝 #Notetaking and #Highlighting. These two are essential for condensing and anchoring ideas, which help in making long term connections. What if we could pause to record a short audio note that’d annotate the timestamp? What if like Kindle highlights, popular audio notes came with the book?
⏯️ Review. Sure, I can go back 30 seconds and re-listen, but that’s just a proxy for every device that the printed format uses for separating ideas - sentences, paragraphs, page.
🎧📚There’s a lot to love about #audiobooks. Reading is really a one way conversation because the author isn’t around to tell you the story in person. However, a few things need to change with audiobook players.
Sunday afternoon read … came highly recommended!