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Waymo is peak American innovation. With way less money they could have built a reliable public transport network, but instead someone was like "what if we could find a way for empty vehicles to contribute to traffic too? There's no reason we can't have more cars on the road than there are drivers"

submitted 54 days ago • 120 comments

We need a new way to receive receipts and transactional messages from companies that isn’t email OR we need companies to stop using email for endless marketing campaigns. I gave you my email, not my permission to email me constantly.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Grace Ferguson - Voler is the best piece of music to be recorded this side of the millennium.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

First thing I did with a moment to myself after the Christmas chaos… install ghostty 👻

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

Guiness 0.0 wins the no/low alcohol beer competition by a mile.

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

The productivity paradox of the engineering team that uses AI tools like Cursor, Devin et al is that on the surface, more = good. In practice, more can mean less focus. Looking like progress doesn’t mean progress. Focus is THE secret sauce of amazing teams. Tools just help them along.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

My favourite seat on the tube is the ones you kind of stand up to use near the back of the carriage. Headphones are essential though as it is deafenly loud otherwise.

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

@chris.blue I’m thinking about starting a ”awesome-object-storage” repo on GitHub, but as you seem to be an authority on the matter of all new and amazing projects in this space I wanted to check with you first 😅

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

Prefixing you're AWS resources with env names? It's time to move your resources into their own accounts. If you want to make your life *a lot* easier, keep your production resources in the existing account, and start different environments e.g stage, dev. Please. Don't make a prod account.

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

Aside from Retool, are there any other examples of DSL workflows in @temporal.io that I can read about/watch?

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

If you’re in a bad mood just picture you’re in an MMORPG

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

The dirty little open secret to writing is that no one will ever know, nor care, how many drafts of a thing were written - people will only ever care about the crafted thing, and will, despite all knowledge to the contrary, assume it came out fully formed that way. No one thinks about shit drafts.

submitted 87 days ago • 167 comments

I keep dreaming about making an ecosystem of data ingestion tooling written in Rust. Think Snowplow but easier to manage and deploy.

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

fuck vpns

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

What would you use to create a low latency metrics service right now? Think dimension table for sub ms evaluation tasks eg views_last_30 for a user.

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

You're not "late to the party" when you enjoy an old book for the first time. Books don't have an RSVP deadline. The party started long ago, and guests show up when they're meant to.

submitted 91 days ago • 691 comments

I asked the electrician: - How bad is the previous installation? He replied: - This isn’t that bad, things change over time, things get old. You measure a good implementation on how easy it is to replace. This one is easy to replace. I love that way of thinking, it relates to programming as well.

submitted 92 days ago • 2 comments

Great role open with Bellingcat.

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

First time committing to an OSS project using uv today. I was up and running, with tests in less than 30 seconds. I’d made a pull request in less than 5 minutes. I don’t think I’ve ever been this productive working in code bases before.

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

The single leading indicator for success in a system design interview? Curiosity about the problem. Go slow to start and find out what you need to know. There will almost always be a curveball in there you wish you knew up front when it’s too late.

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

New look Zuck is giving small plates, orange wine and coke.

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

“The state of most social platforms right now is that users are locked in and developers are locked out. We want to build something that makes sure users have the freedom to move and developers have the freedom to build.” — @jay.bsky.team in @nytimes.com gift link:

submitted 97 days ago • 53 comments