Carl Sagan explains how the ancient Greeks knew the Earth was round and calculated its circumference over 2,000 years ago.

Got a sweet #solar and battery setup. After spending a lot of time looking at consumption graphs on #HomeAssisistant and changing daily habits… we’re having the first 100% off grid day!!! 🥳

@reckless.bsky.social I’ve been waiting for someone to fix the browser back button working on dismissing article comments since the day verge’s redesign went live. 🙌🏽 congrats to the engineer who resolved that jira ticket.

Went on @pablo.show to discuss the TikTok ban and my general discomfort with the reality that so much of news—and how society feels about many things!—is determined not by facts, but an algorithm.

Full pod: t.co/XuahklfkIt

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IDIOCRACY Opening Scene (2006) Mike Judge YouTube video by JoBlo Movie Clips

Was talking to friends about what will happen in our #AI powered #future… goes something like this but… worse? m.youtube.com/watch?v=sP2t...

GoDaddy Donates $500K to Support WordPress Community GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) just invested a half-million dollars in the WordPress community through a donation to The WP Community Collective , an initiative focused on funding and empowering WordPress contr...

Wow, GoDaddy donates $500k to the @thewpcc.bsky.social. Congrats @courtneyr.dev, et. al. aboutus.godaddy.net/newsroom/new...

Interesting view of #rain yesterday.

Not that useful, gets it wrong too often… time to turn this experiment off?

lol, a clip of a Tesla's vision system trying to understand a train

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Too much political commentary no matter where I go on the internet. So here’s a picture from my backyard. Blue skies, 🐦 and a happy jacaranda.

We probably need to stop using the floppy disk icon for “save” actions. Not sure #kidsthesedays know what that is anymore… #ux

Good holiday fun — EXIT advent calendar #boardgame — a puzzle a day for 24 days! Some rooms are quite challenging. Apparently I’m on the beginner box 🥹.

My fav was “let’s abstract that one more time”. I just wrote about this… on how people squint their eyes and say “those things seem similar” for very different domain areas or features. They go on to create spaghetti that’s hard to understand. dinethmendis.com/blog/enterpr... #programming #code

225. Systems Ideas that Sound Good But Almost Never Work—"Let's just…" Some engineering patterns that sound good but almost never work as intended

Really good one for programmers out there from @stevesi.bsky.social about concepts that sound good but very challenging to get working in reality — hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/225-system...

When I lived in 🇸🇬 as a kid, ppl could definitely afford software (OEM Windows was cheap). It was just as easy to walk to the market for a pirated CD. What that meant was kids bought all kinds of expensive apps like Photoshop for $5. It was almost-free IT education, raising the bar for the country.

The way some of the details are revealed makes more sense in the books, adding to believability. I am finding the show really engaging and exciting in a way the books weren’t at times. Writers did a good job with some of the new subplots introduced to shortcut the story, while adding to action!

Curious if people prefer #Silo storyline in the books or #TVShow…? They are quite different! #AppleTV+

I have 3 trees! Two regular ones with pink flowers and this black one. They are some of my favourite trees in the yard!

They definitely aren’t all journalists or have to follow the standards. However, there is a problem of attaching their branding/message to what pays the bills (which is the problem being highlighted I think). Definitely tougher distinction to make for a solo creator though.

This week, I wrote about how you have to make a different set of trade offs when writing software at a large company. Delivery is hard when there’s a lot of people involved. #Software #architecture has to take that to account! dinethmendis.com/blog/enterpr... #enterprise

Playing with animations on #ProcreateDreams… fun!

Crepe Myrtle time of the year again 💗 #flowers

Notebook – iA Watermark lines guide your pen. As your words come into focus, the lines fade into the background. iA Notebook, the notebook for writers.

This #notebook by @notebook.ia.net looks super cool ia.net/notebook

Wrote about my move to #wordpress and my experience rebuilding website with #gutenberg editor — dinethmendis.com/blog/wordpre... … writing is still a fun thing to do. #blog

I always followed the principles of drive: mastery, #autonomy and purpose as the basis for running teams. One of my recent learnings has been that these things are much harder to reach for if there isn’t a good base level of #discipline in our #execution. Get the basics right first.