Why Looking Premium Isn’t Enough I recently visited the Natural History Museum in Vienna and had an experience that stayed with me, not because of the exhibits, but because of lunch. If you don’t… |... Why Looking Premium Isn’t Enough I recently visited the Natural History Museum in Vienna and had an experience that stayed with me, not because of the exhibits, but because of lunch. If you don’t br...

Disappointment is a function of expectation - set it wrong, and even good can feel bad - www.linkedin.com/posts/bokriz...

“To simplify before you understand the details is ignorance. To simplify after you understand the details is genius” - James Clear

#TIL Amara’s law: people tend to overestimate the short-term impact of new technologies while underestimating their long-term effects

“The answers you seek are in the silence you are avoiding”

I wonder if AI adoption will teach people anything about systems and constraints. It can give insane productivity boost to a single engineer, yet the larger the organisation, the smaller the overall gain.

Unexpected Things that are People panlegal expressions of personhood

Did you know a river could have legal rights? You can read more about Unexpected Things that are People here - bengoldhaber.substack.com/p/unexpected...

AI's Dial-Up Era It is 1995.

One of the best analysis of the AI era I’ve read lately www.wreflection.com/p/ai-dial-up...

People are afraid AI will destroy humanity. It will. But not by some sort of super intelligence. Just by over consumption.

Reverse impostor syndrome Imposter syndrome is other people thinking you’re good, but you don’t believe it yourself. Reverse imposter syndrome is knowing you are good, but others don’t see it from the outside.

Reverse impostor syndrome - how many of you are suffering from that?

open.substack.com/pub/weskao/p...

The way we consume information. E.g. perplexity, which summarise results, over Google (even though they also try to utilise AI to give an answer to the search query)

Faster Go maps with Swiss Tables - The Go Programming Language Go 1.24 improves map performance with a brand new map implementation

#TIL Swiss Table - go.dev/blog/swissta...

People forget that sorting (as in SQL order by or Ruby sort_by) is not stable. Whenever you sort by a field that may contain the same value, and you need a stable order, you need a secondary sorting key that’s unique

One of the reasons I'm skeptical about the idea that AI "productivity" will lead to out-competing other companies is contained in this post. AI encourages adding adding adding adding (I just read a post excited about generating 150K lines of code in a weekend!!!), but "adding new stuff" != value

Secretary problem - Wikipedia

#TIL secretary theorem - en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secreta...

44 Harsh Truths About The Game Of Life - Naval Ravikant (4K) YouTube video by Chris Williamson

“people who believe we achieved AGI just failed Turing test on their side” - Naval Ravikant m.youtube.com/watch?v=KyfU...

The parental dead end of consent morality Consent morality is the idea that there are no higher values or virtues than allowing consenting adults to do whatever they please. As long as they're not hurting anyone, it's all good, and whoever mi...

“You think you want the paradise of nothing ever being asked of you, but it turns out to be the hell of nobody ever needing you.”
- DHH (from the post world.hey.com/dhh/the-pare... )

Upcoming JavaScript Features You Should Know About After 20 years of writing JavaScript, I've seen many changes - from callback hell to async/await. But...

Interesting to see more and more languages adopting the pipeline operator and pattern matching - dev.to/maxprilutski...

Today I Learned TIL is an open-source project by Hashrocket that exists to catalogue the sharing & accumulation of knowledge as it happens day-to-day.

#til Chrome allows to persist JavaScript overrides between page reloads - til.hashrocket.com/posts/n4pgka...

My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts My smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding.

OK I read it. It's clearly provocative but sounds like written in good faith. It's sense of humor is probably not for everybody (I enjoyed it 😛) but if you ignore it, and extract the essence, then it's just the truth.

fly.io/blog/youre-a...

Not sure how I feel about it, but obviously comes with the next #Rails

If you want to understand whether AI can think or will be able to think one day, read “The conscious mind”. Might not provide the answer but will give better understanding

If you ever go to Valencia, make sure to visit port Saplaya - the Little Venice

How to have the browser pick a contrasting color in CSS Have you ever wished you could write simple CSS to declare a color, and then have the browser figure out whether black or white should be paired with that color?

#TIL contrast-color #css webkit.org/blog/16929/c...

I know. Just pointing out - no-cache means you can cache, but must revalidate every time, while must-revalidate doesn’t require you to revalidate every time, just after the max-age. Naming is hard.

Wait… must-revalidate doesn’t necessarily mean that you must revalidate, only if it’s no longer fresh?

Thoughts on thinking • Dustin Curtis I have been stuck. Every time I sit down to write a blog post, code a feature, or start a project, I come to the same realization: in the context of AI, what I’m doing is a waste of time. It’s horrify...

“The irony is that I now know more than I ever would have before AI. But I feel slightly dumber. A bit more dull.” - dcurt.is/thinking

#TIL CSS shapes

Reservoir Sampling Choosing fairly when you don't know how many you're choosing from.

#TIL Reservoir Sampling - and the article provides a great explanation on what, why and how - samwho.dev/reservoir-sa...

15 years ago my brother gave me one of the first lessons in servant leadership. He said to me: a lot of people think being a manager is to manage your team and report to your boss, but the good manager reports to their team and manages upwards instead.