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My clean comedy newsletter: https://substack.com/@yelluwcomedy Funny essays about nothing and everything.

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yelluwcomedy.substack.com 14d ago

The Greatest Invention Ever

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yelluwcomedy.substack.com 21d ago

Do not take us to your leader

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yelluwcomedy.substack.com 28d ago

The Little Things in Life

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yelluwcomedy.substack.com 1mo ago

The one where I go head-to-head against A.I

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yelluwcomedy.substack.com 1mo ago

The versatility of the word ass in the English language

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yelluwcomedy.substack.com 2mo ago

The Invention of Numbers [Humor]

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pyatl.dev 1y ago

Bitten by Unicode

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www.ulalaunch.com 5y ago

Paper Rocket Models

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femtostar.com 5y ago

Satellite constellation for secure, open, and private communications

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github.com 5y ago

Show HN: Simple utility to back up your PostgreSQL database to AWS S3

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makezine.com 6y ago

Build Your Own Thrust Vectored Rockets for Vertical Landings Like SpaceX

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www.starterstory.com 7y ago

How to write great copy for your online store

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github.com 8y ago

Show HN: I built a simple alexa skill that tells nighttime stories

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dev.to 8y ago

How to do technical blogging

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stephaniehurlburt.com 8y ago

A note on programmer salaries

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pablojuan.com 9y ago

Being an outcome engineer

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hackaday.com 9y ago

Tornado sirens in Dallas hacked

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www.allpar.com 9y ago

The Plymouth Sonoramic Commando Engine

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pablojuan.com 9y ago

An enum in my Python

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dev.to 9y ago

For developers who want to blog

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pablojuan.com 9y ago

Want to blog? Read this

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dev.to 9y ago

Things I do to keep open source projects healthy and stress free

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

Ask HN: What makes good documentation?

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codingwithempathy.com 9y ago

Rituals of shaming in the software industry

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www.uh.edu 9y ago

The engines of our ingenuity radio show

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dev.to 9y ago

I suck

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24pullrequests.com 9y ago

24 pull requests

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dev.to 9y ago

What to do when you feel stuck

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dev.to 9y ago

How bad software gets made

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medium.com 9y ago

My experience doing a tech Q&A session with a class third graders

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I don’t really get the appeal of using A.I. to write books. It’s a useful research and editorial tool that still requires thoughtful operation. But have it do the writing? It’s too shallow.

I use it to check the spelling and grammas of everything I post on my comedy newsletter[0]. As an ESL speaker, I do need some help with those areas. But the edits it typically recommends are just awful. Hyphen and em dash galore. A/B comparison and analogies that mimic the term “load-bearing”. I have to be extra careful to not let any of that slop slip through. At this point, I’m looking to work with a human editor. The AI is clearly showing not being up to par for it. At least in my experience.

[0] https://open.substack.com/pub/yelluwcomedy/p/the-free-and-wi...

Starting with a GR Corolla is not cheating, but he could have gone a little further. Swapping a 2GR V6 into Corollas is now the thing to do. Throw in a little nitrous or a turbo and you have a car capable of allowing you to live out your kamikaze dreams.

I’ve stopped all my open source contributions and projects. I’ve now moved my resources to organizing and supporting communities like python Atlanta. My commitment was always the community and not the code. I also want to see what will companies do once open source closes shop and fewer people know how to program. It’s why I’m making sure there is a local support network for those of us who still want to stay in software over the long term.

Organizer of python Atlanta here. If you’re interested in running your own ruby meetup and would like some assistance from someone from the trenches then email me. Happy to support the community.

Yes, the horse will take your job.

Yes, the written word will take your job.

Yes, fire job take.

Yes, the automobile will take your and the horse’s job.

Yes, we’re all doomed. Might as well go back up the trees and start hollering.

Big Banana Car 1 month ago

I would love to be able to rent it out and have the guy drive me around. I would dress up like Donkey Kong, too.

Besides lead gen, how about having ready to go packages for the diy people? You can probably have it drop shipped by other online providers. Lead gen is fine and all but I already get postered by a ton of lawn care sales people who basically provide the same service.

Been working on something since 2020. Working on another thing for the past three. Just soft launched the later. Will launch the older project later this year. Been using it daily since 2020 as a way to dog food it. If you take the long way there it’s more fun.

I grew up in Puerto Rico where houses are made of concrete or concrete blocks. Maintenance was lower because there were not much issues with termites, water damage, shingles, etc. My house made it through a category 5 hurricane with minor damage to the windows and some flooding. Now I live in a house made of wood in Georgia. I’m exhausted from all the maintenance and the extreme nickel and dime-ing from everyone. I bought new five years ago and the house now needs to be fully painted, a new A/C evaporator, and some other minor stuff. So, about $20K worth of “maintenance”. This plus the stress of having to live with the hopes that a hail storm does not hit and ruins my shingle roof. I’m hoping to sell it and rent until I move back to the island and live in a proper solid home. I would build a house here with concrete but code does not allow it.

Ferrari Luce 2 months ago

Looks like a melted down Pontiac Aztec. Though, I don’t see Walter White forking over money for it.

Whoever invented the first number was really smart. The person who invented the second number was even smarter, because they invented math. Suddenly, you could count and calculate things.

Then came the person who decided to organize numbers. In the old, old days, the number two was not between the numbers one and three. It was somewhere else and caused a lot of recounting. It’s why the pyramids took so long to build. But this person saw the messy pile of numbers and organized them in ascending order. Well, after inventing ascending order as well.

[See relevant image in linked post]

All of this happened because you couldn’t count things. Counting didn’t exist. Things were either too few or too many. Have you ever tried buying a car without numbers? It’s a salesman’s paradise, because without numbers, you would always have paid too much for a car you can only afford too little.

Sports were another disaster. The scoreboard was just a greater-than sign nested between the two team logos. Baseball, specifically, used to be even more boring. They kept playing innings until they felt they had played a full game. Winning was a matter of who would last the longest without knowing how much time had passed.

The ones really getting away with it were golfers. Everyone was either under or at par. It was impossible to prove you were awful at golf. These were happier times.

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