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I am not a Fastmail user but I completely doubt this. I have been using Gmail for 20 years and I have never seen a spam mail land in my inbox which has always impressed me. Everything else I have used from time to time does miss a few, which I guess it might be acceptable if you want to move to another host.

I still read programming books, especially if I want to check out a new language and get the gist of its capabilities and how are things are done in that specific environment. Also I prefer to read a book written by an author that I know has the experience and the insight to actually write the book than read random sources on the internet. Or maybe I am just used to it.

Time to re-re-re-re-N-watch this!

"covered/invisible knowledge" aka tacit knowledge

I have the same questions in my head lately.

Hey Mike! Alex from GR here. Good to see you around :)

Probably just let them vent until they adjust their habits and just chat with their co-workers, without the need to use this as an excuse. Then, they can enjoy the fast loading times :)

- How big things get done

- The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?

- The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition

- The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully

- Rework

Added them on my blog as well with a small review on each in case anyone is interested: https://www.alexanderlolis.com/my-2025-reads

Loved the article. I completely agree. We ALL need more thick days.

This has been my experience as well and I will probably end up paying for a tool because the free ones just don't work smoothly.

I was using SmartGit for many years and was very happy with it, until they made it subscription based and had to switch to SourceTree. It works but I do not find it very smooth at all. It hangs every now (using MacOSX) and in general the experience is not as smooth as it was with SmartGit. I am surprised that you are saying that you haven't come across any better tool.

This is pure awesomeness. It made my day.

I liked the article, but I also laughed a bit because <sarcasm>it was the engineers’ fault that they didn’t rise to the occasion and skip-level to save the company!</sarcasm>

Useful, but 10 years ago without JSONB in PG it wasn't really the answer to everything. But as of today, I am recommending PG to anyone that does not have a good reason or use case to NOT use it.

This comment sums up my view as well, but I must confess that I’ve designed architectures more complex than necessary more than once, just to try new things and compare them with what I already knew. I just had to know!

Not mine, but worth the read:

https://web.archive.org/web/20211228110510/kk.org/thetechniu...

I just run into this:

The dead Internet theory is a conspiracy theory which asserts that since around 2016 the Internet has consisted mainly of bot activity and automatically generated content manipulated by algorithmic curation, as part of a coordinated and intentional effort to control the population and minimize organic human activity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory

I recommend reading https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50364458-the-tyranny-of-...

Loved it. I am printing this as a booklet and placing it in my bookshelf. We should all try and listen to more experienced people more often. Even a small story from someones life can be eye opening.

Part of the game I guess. At least you get a heads up and you can prioritize moving away from it or forking it.

In a company that has lots of other devs and lots of paying customers, I wouldn't be able to do things that way, and for good reason.

Why not? You do the "sketching/mockup" of most of the flow (without going into too much design detail) in order for the team to understand better what you are going to build. Then, everybody can provide feedback based on their perspective, do a couple of iterations, then prototype (which if done well will be the initial version of the shippable solution) and then iterate again.

I always want to know what is the "intention" of the author/maintainer before I invest time in an open source project I want to use. I would love to see that with big bold letters at the top of each README.

https://archive.ph/bxiFP

Out of curiosity, why did you choose PHP for the backend?

What is this "extraordinary work" we are talking about here exactly?

This comment deserves more upvotes.

So many good memories from those old days. I still remember my ICQ number even though I have not used it for so many years. R.I.P. ICQ!

You might enjoy this one as well then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30878926

To have more experiences and expand your horizon. You never know where it will take you next. Even if it does not translate to more money, it will definitely give you a sense of self-accomplishment and MAYBE make you wiser.

This comment makes no sense to me.

How is Clojure a layer of abstraction that had to be removed and replaced with Java? What do you think that Clojure was abstracting exactly?

Same question for Typescript. In fact, Typescript is a layer on top of Javascript so I could say that you actually added one more here.