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One day, I'll be good at producing quality software and will have intelligent things to say about it
https://www.myrmikan.com/pub/Myrmikan_Research_2024_02_15.pdf The fall of the US dollar?
More Apple scumbaggery 
Apple broke web apps in iOS 17 beta and hasn
PWAs demoted to OWB: Operating Within Browser
My favourite short story, I bought a little city by Donald Barthelme
Interesting talk on human behaviour / advertising
US elite 1% opinions vs pleb opinions: https://www.rmgresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Elite-One-Percent.pdf
Easy to forget as a programmer that we're here to solve problems - that's it. If Costco's solution works, there is no need to waste money modernising it 
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Scott Wessman (@scottew) on X
tech is great but worth noting that Costco is doing $240b in annual sales and uses this for inventory management
Aligns with me on how complexity gets into codebases: https://twitter.com/transmutrix/status/1750563200708309466
Just discovered Looks like the kind of search I'd want
Marginalia Search
Marginalia Search
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Trains with built in obsolescence:
Dieselgate, but for trains – some heavyweight hardware hacking – BadCyber
“The big money is not in the buying and the selling but in the waiting” - Charlie Munger. This talk is a good one, basically a condensed version of Cialdini's book Influence:
Reflection is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural
When I watch a talk like this, I am startled by all the complexity and syntax added to languages to hide some implementation details or allow you to write one function instead of several or whatever else. Everything has its use case, but generally I feel it's insane. Devs are forever learning the new hotness for a marginal benefit. Nobody ever masters their tools.
Great podcast on the importance of software performance:
SE Radio 577: Casey Muratori on Clean Code, Horrible Performance? – Software Engineering Radio
New skyscraper to be built in Saudi, Epicon
Another approach to solving the problems of multiple representations of data and the associated transformations required in currently popular web apps: "local-first software". Seems like is useful for different use cases that you may reach for HTMX.