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by davepeck 5y ago
This tracks exactly with my experience. I'm in my 40s and my pitch is definitely no longer perfect -- it's close, though? It's not uncommon for me to be semitone off these days. Is this a studied aspect of perfect pitch? I&#x
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by davepeck 6y ago
(For those living in the python + typing world, I'd definitely recommend trying Microsoft's pyright as an alternative to mypy. In my experience, it is substantially faster and produces higher quality error messages. It does not su
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by davepeck 6y ago
Indeed! To be clear: webmentions themselves aren't centralized (and neither are the other various IndieWeb protocols), but webmention.io does provide a very convenient (central) service for receiving them.
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by davepeck 6y ago
Today's playlist was: - Now He Sings, Now He Sobs - Captain Marvel (w/ Stan Getz) - Chick Corea Plays (a live album released last September) Corea has so many great albums, both as leader and as sideman, that it's entirely un
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by davepeck 6y ago
RSS was and still is lovely plumbing. Given the expanse of its podcast offerings, I wonder if NPR is (quietly) the world's largest purveyor of RSS feeds?
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by davepeck 7y ago
I wrote an thing a couple years back. https://davepeck.org/2018/08/16/revisiting-rss/ -- for me, anyway, RSS is still a key part of my daily work and leisure.
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by davepeck 7y ago
No significant issues with Catalina here.
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The Software Stacks Our Early-Stage Companies Are Using in 2020(psl.com)
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by davepeck 7y ago
I've noticed a divide between the workflows of emacs and vim users and I think it ties directly back to startup times. I'm an emacs user and, like you, I start it up once and keep it running indefinitely. Vim users tend to enter a
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by davepeck 7y ago
I have a lot of friends who are in your camp. Me? I love the Seattle Central library and have found some happy nooks where I can comfortably read for hours. By far my most favorite part of the library is level 8: endless sheet music and a c
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by davepeck 8y ago
Just make sure you stay clear of the exclusion zone and you'll be fine.
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by davepeck 8y ago
Agreed. Levine has a unique ability to peer deep inside the underlying mechanisms of modern finance and explain them clearly. Levine's writing reminds me somewhat of John Brooks, although Brooks was perhaps more interested in personas
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by davepeck 8y ago
> Amazon can't claim it is both centralized and immutable. Amazon can claim it is both centralized and immutable, provided you trust Amazon. > Also WTF is the point of a blockchain if you need to entrust your ledger data to a thi
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by davepeck 8y ago
Oops. Good catch. I meant “overstate”. That’s what too little sleep and too much caffeine will lead to, perhaps.
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by davepeck 8y ago
There are eight little free libraries within five blocks of our house in Seattle. My 3yo loves them. A fun activity is to walk around the neighborhood, check each library in turn, and discover new books. It's hard to understate how i
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by davepeck 8y ago
Thank you. Your article is one of the most thorough and thoughtful things I've read about this (often frustrating) corner of web development.
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by davepeck 8y ago
Does anyone have a good theory about why (1) there are so many static site generators and (2) market share is so widely distributed? Is this a case where (1) it's easy to build static generators and (2) everyone's needs are a lit
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by davepeck 8y ago
Got it, thanks. I'm fully in agreement with you on this, given that you take "decentralized" to imply "uniform (or nearly uniform) distribution of power/influence". As an aside, this exemplifies why I tend to a
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by davepeck 8y ago
Alas, I don't quite understand the point you're trying to make (and I'd like to!) Perhaps this will clarify things: I think "decentralized by design" is linguistically ambiguous, because "decentralized" ha
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by davepeck 8y ago
> One, or a small number, and because this is the history of these types of things. It's worth teasing this apart. There is a befuddling belief on the part of some decentralization advocates -- and of some decentralization detractor
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by davepeck 8y ago
> Look, you want me to get excited about Mastodon? Show me something exciting I can do with it that I can't do with twitter, instagram, or Snapchat. This, again and again. (And again; it seems I can’t stop writing the same thing on
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Revisiting RSS(davepeck.org)
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by davepeck 8y ago
It’s a good question and one I didn’t address because I wasn’t able to find super reliable numbers. That’s a good link, though. Thanks!
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by davepeck 8y ago
Mastodon reports ~110k weekly active users and 121M "toots" across its 2+-year lifetime. That's impressive for a federated social network but, for comparison, 121M new tweets are generated on Twitter about every six hours. So
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Oracle Separation of BQP and PH(eccc.weizmann.ac.il)
1 points by davepeck 8y ago|0 comments
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by davepeck 8y ago
I was curious about Mastodon's scale so I grabbed some basic stats last week: https://davepeck.org/2018/05/03/mastodon-stats/
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by davepeck 8y ago
I wrote about how my experience with layoffs at Silicon Graphics in 1999 turned out, in retrospect, to be extremely lucky bad luck: https://davepeck.org/2009/02/11/the-luckiest-bad-luck/
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by davepeck 9y ago
For BYO, you might consider Algo VPN https://github.com/trailofbits/algo -- it gets IPSec right -- or, if you're feeling more bleeding-edge, WireGuard.
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by davepeck 9y ago
It doesn’t feel equivalent to me; I tend to think that there’s a meaningful distinction between a bug known before shipping and a bug discovered after. That said, it’s fair to ask why Apple hasn’t placed priority on the scrolling bug, pos
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by davepeck 9y ago
Let’s say you’re an engineer about to roll out a feature to (literally) a billion users. Through testing, you know your feature is busted for the ~14.5% of your users who use Safari. But it’s not your fault! Apple should fix it. Quick qui

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