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You made a card stand for the Boston Celtics? The Celtics own that logo, selling it is clear trademark infringement. Same is true for most (all?) of the images on the post. Just because a customer provided the image does not mean they own the the trademarks or copyrights

It would be a it more compelling if every example, at least for me, didn't return `[error: NetworkError: A network error occurred.]`

Lots of growing love for returning to the template system and using HTMX with a bit of alpine sprinkled in as needed for interactivity.

Working with Django for the past 15 years has been a pleasure. Joining the community was a revelation. Serving on the board and as president of the DSF was a privilege. I look forward to 20 more years of code and community.

Archive link https://web.archive.org/web/20241221235110/https://www.mattm...

This is a good take on one of the many areas that companies need to change process in as they grow. Bad communication can hamper and destroy a company just as much as bad hiring, bad vision, bad money management.

I about the process in this write up though. There is communication and there is discussion. The article is framed in a way that suggests top down communication process needed to change so that a larger company could be sure that everyone is on the same page and aware of what they need to be aware of. Both examples then however name check the idea that feedback is expected at the least, welcome at best.

How are we meant to read this paragraph:

“Marketing says we’re an observability platform, not a tool.” It isn’t enough that our CMO said the words in All Hands. As a representative of Marketing, it’s important to me that our product, documentation, engineers who are speaking at conferences, and customer success people get the language consistent. That means I need to show up at department meetings and talk to people in their perspective. Next Monday I’ll talk to all of Engineering very briefly, and later to the docs team specifically.

It reads as if marketing has made a decision by fiat for the rest of the company to toe the line. No judgement there, that may well be how the company chooses to operate. What then is the need for "talk to people in their perspective"? Is various department perspectives going to change the marketing language, or is it just to placate everyone that they were heard? Why does the perspective taking not happen _before_ the decision as input on if the language should change?

The impact of Markdown becomes clear if we plot a random sample of content websites. (Disclaimer: the data is made-up, based on my perception of the state of the web)

It makes sense that your perception of the web has driven you to create a new tool and market it with a think piece. But to expand that to suggest you have effectively realized and filled a new vector space in the web is excessive

That sparse area just beyond the limits of Markdown is of vital importance to the web. These websites are not only a joy to read but also the ones that explore the web's possibilities, embracing the medium and evoking a truly web-native feel.

Currently, these websites are outliers created by individuals who care deeply about the reader's experience or by companies willing to invest extra effort. We need more of them.

Interesting to me that you have added "focus on this paragraph" coloring to your site. I'm not against that in principle, but you have placed it farther up the page than I prefer to read and scroll. So you care deeply about my experience, have created a whole tool to inhabit an area of web design that you think is undeserved, rationalize it based on feels, and, for me, deliver a poorer experience to show it off.

"The Website Wasteland", as you call it, is a good thing if this is the result of populating it.

Would you count Cargill[0]? Cause they are privately held, all in on the farming world, and have net income in the billions annually

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargill

Not ego, he's playing on the old Ivory Soap slogan "99+44⁄100% Pure"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivory_(soap)

The Transformers song almost certainly doesn't have that weird break as written. The Youtuber spends 18 minutes trying to figure out the music for what is most likely a production artifact - the recorded music didn't line up with the animation beats, so they did a hard cut on the audio track to make it fit.

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Salary range for both roles 120-180K

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Building a prototype with Dan Gelbart [0]. An engineer and inventor, he has an 18 episode playlist of every aspect of using a machine shop to build prototypes. It teaches machining. Shop use, thinking though physical creation where order of operations is paramount. Really just a great learning experience even if you never plan on doing machining.

[0]https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_tws4AXg7asrBv1MMAq4AO68...

Budgie Health | Multiple Roles | Full-time | Remote (US - EST or CST) or NY

Join us to make healthcare benefits less confusing. Backed by top VCs (Greycroft and Pear VC), we built a platform to help employees pick the right health insurance through a personalized recommendation. Following successful initial clients, we are growing the team to scale the platform and build more features.

Founding Engineer, Application - https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/pear/dacc60b8-f285-4806-95a1-d9aa08...

Founding Engineer, Data - https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/pear/8075a915-730d-4baf-bb0f-4c1b12...

Salary range for both roles (120-180K)

Our tech: Python, Django, Pandas, Tailwind, Alpinejs, AWS Lambdas, S3, RDS

Why Budgie: People shouldn’t need a PhD to understand their healthcare. At Budgie, we are reinventing how Americans interact with their healthcare benefits. We believe that by translating complex healthcare data into simple financial experiences, we can empower people to make better decisions while saving time, money and stress. We are starting by modernizing how employees choose their health insurance plan. Ask your friends if they need help picking their health insurance and you will understand how big the opportunity is.

It would have been nice for the author to get into or link to a description of the convex hull algorithm since that was the speed up magic. Since they didn't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convex_hull_algorithms

At those temps I believe many metals will also end up being heat treated. And it sounds like the time will be dependent on how much hydrogel is present, so there will be at least a lower bound on what heat treatment you need apply. I wonder how that works with the shrinking, along with lots of other properties you may want of the end product

Link hugged to death. Archive http://web.archive.org/web/20221204204618/https://blog.plove...

Interesting. I think I have come out about the same but being rather self-serving, or at least not company first.. Doing something big for the company reflects well on me, improves my standing, and I can tout those achievements to others for other career growth. But I do make a point of working for companies where I think my own interests align with the role in the company

It's always about incentive misalignment. As an employee thinking Company first will improve the bottom line for the company. As an executive thinking company first may well eliminate me as an employee.

Why should an employee put the company interests above their own with that incentive alignment? The company should work to make the company's interests serve the individual interests of the employees

Saying many of our bits at the macro level can't repair themselves is a recognition of our biology and that state of medical science. It doesn't take away from the fact that life is amazing

Yes, under a strict definition those are organs. But under the more common usage "a part of an organism that is typically self-contained and has a specific vital function, such as the heart or liver in humans." [1] they are not.

As for the last paragraph, I don't agree "self repairing" and "alive" are the same

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=organ+definition

Most of our organs don't/can't self repair, so it is very surprising. Excepting skin which you may want to qualify as an organ, only the liver can regenerate. All of our other organs "repair" via scarring which may replace lesions but does not perform the function of the scarred organ.

https://killedbygoogle.com/ Lists the lifetime and EOL of everything Google has killed, along with a short blurb about the termination

Which country is "we"? The US has 14 Ohio class SSBNs in service until at least 2029

Unlikely, as those flights would be scheduled and the launch site publicized. It wouldn't absolutely preclude a masked nuclear strike, but that would be possible already with space launches.

Looks like they also have countdowns to add 4 more units to the interface - check out the lock tabs on top or the Countdown link in the hamburger menu. Looks to be they will have new interfaces in about 1, 3, 4, and 6 months. Guesses as to what will be added?

Number 1: You are outside the company hierarchy

This talks about not getting stuck in the politics of the company and having the authority/right to instigate change. It can be equally validly read as:

Number 1: If your company is hiring consultants that are outside the hierarchy you have a potentially toxic political business culture and should look for a new job

Yes, but of course your experience may vary. If you have been at the same job/company for 5+ years and not actively keeping abreast of the market it can be pretty easy to stagnate without realizing. I've interviewed a number or candidates that ran into this. They would be a good hire for a lower level position but the Catch-22 is that they are too "advanced" in years at least for that to be a satisfying role and compensation.

For myself I can say a definitive yes for 2 reasons - the first is at my current job all the interviewers test run new interview questions as a filter. If a preponderance of don't pass the question we don't use it. the other way I know for sure is that I have been actively interviewing for new roles in a lateral+ capacity. With an n<10 I have 100% pass rate into the interview process and a 75% rate of offer. My prep for interviews is Linkedin sleuthing of the companies and interviewers. If I ended up in an interview process that was asking for me to balance a tree I would likely fail, but I would also not want a job at a company that uses that question. For reference I am a top end IC (principal/architect/lead/etc.) with 20 years in complex web app dev.

There are a few that seem to be getting off the ground. Kyte is Uber for rentals and Turo is Airbnb for rentals. I've looked into both recently for family travel that makes a car that seats six for 4/5 days more expensive than the flights. Cancelled the trip due to Omicron, but both looked to fill the need for a good price and in different ways.

Getting 500 errors across the board on systems trying to hit s3

I see dreams but have no visualization in any state of wakefulness