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Ever dreamt of designing your own open-source laptop? For a while now I´ve been fascinated by this idea. As you can probably imagine, this is a monumental task that will require a lot of time and resources. Working alone on a project of this size makes matters even more difficult.

Suppose you’re writing a script to spin up servers for your web application…

It turns out misery is a shitty proxy metric.

I've studied the effects of electromagnetic fields on patients with carotid stent implants during my PhD. I've never talked with any patient nor seen any such medical devices even to this day, fifteen years later.

Don't ship when you have a minimum viable product. Don't ship a prototype to get feedback. Ship a blank page to your production servers on day one.

Escape the maze of nested code. Embrace simplicity with the early return approach.

On Bloat Rob Pike Brighter Tech Commonwealth Bank September 30, 2024

A reference manual for people who design and build software.

Defining a new type of infrastructure that's native to web3.

Module Federation is a concept that allows developers to share code and resources across multiple JavaScript applications

I’m a firm believer in text labels. Interfaces are over-stuffed with icons. The more icons we have to scan over, the more brain power we put

Proposal for an extended Semantic Versioning called Epoch SemVer to provide more granular versioning information to users.

Eight Sleep smart bed found to contain an exposed AWS key and a likely backdoor that allowed engineers to remotely access users' beds

Lessons learned from managing a remote, distributed team.

Slightly unusual genre --- with this article, I want to try to enact a change in the world. I believe that there is a missing IDE feature which is:

Don't use booleans for domain modeling or at least think twice before doing it.

What are the day-to-day benefits of functional programming?

Jess’s tips for how to run an event (you might not like it)