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by fabianholzer 2y ago
Considering that this dates from 2003 and the author, Mark Irons, died over 12 years ago ( http://www.zuckershack.org/mark/ ) I would consider this very well preserved. There are estimates that 38% of the sites that were
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by fabianholzer 2y ago
I assume the "Perplexity" refers to the LLM that generated the list? As far as I can tell, none of the listed books are hallucinated though. But I completey agree with your take on Martins Clean Code book.
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by fabianholzer 2y ago
> Plain HTML only with a single page and hyperlinks into a specific article. Very basic styling and no JS, don't even necessarily want to have a css file, just inline in the header. Very likely just setting font family to sans and b
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by fabianholzer 2y ago
https://explaining.software/ https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/
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Software Design Is Knowledge Building(olano.dev)
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by fabianholzer 2y ago
It's being used in the German political discourse since at least the first term of the Schröder government in the late 1990es, which is about where I started following the news and politics more closely. It has been used cynically as j
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by fabianholzer 2y ago
Where "etc." includes lots of engineers who are polishing up the frontend to the model which translates text to tokens and vice versa, so that well-known demonstrations of the lack of reasoning in the model cannot be surfaced as e
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by fabianholzer 2y ago
Well, that is still no reason to introduce a breaking change in the existing interface. You introduce a new one, using a different signature and mark the old one as deprecated, and keep it around until as long as reasonably possible.
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by fabianholzer 2y ago
Similar question, four month ago (299 comments): Ask HN: What would you spend your time working on if you didn't need money? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40500429
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by fabianholzer 2y ago
> I know a lot of people on this site insist that humans will never be replaced, but let's just say that this could happen. Are you doing anything right now with the assumption that may be a possibility? > I don't. But even
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by fabianholzer 2y ago
I would wrap a collection always into an object, makes evolving the api in a backward compatible way easier. I am still maintaining a few endpoint where I choose differently, and have cursed younger me more than once for it.
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by fabianholzer 2y ago
ooh.directory is fantastic, I particularly liked the stance that only add a few sites a week are added, which allows to "digest" these sites. Sadly, no new sites have been added since nearly three month. I assume this is just an i
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by fabianholzer 2y ago
The sequel "Through the Looking-Glass" contains one of the most fitting parables on software engineering ever written: The Red Queen's race...
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by fabianholzer 2y ago
Web designers used to be the combination of what you'd today call UX designers and frontend developers. The technical knowledge and understanding in the UX-only tribe that seems to have become the majority is abysimal. They are nearer
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by fabianholzer 2y ago
They certainly are retrofitted, but the existing semantic tags are largely abandoned for div soups that are beaten into shape and submission by lavish amounts of JS and a few sprinkles of CSS (and the latter often as CSS-in-JS). For microfo
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by fabianholzer 2y ago
Well, it is hard to change a company from the oral/meeting-driven style to an async writing-based culture and a fear even the best resource won't really help with that. But since you've asked also on an indiviual level, I fou
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by fabianholzer 2y ago
Relational data modelling and SQL.
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by fabianholzer 2y ago
> quarterly personal OKRs Good grief, what happens when you don't meet them? Do you put yourself on a PIP?
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by fabianholzer 2y ago
Your landing page just crashed the browser on my mobile phone. Fits my negative perception of those who would voluntarily associate themselves with a tool like Figma.
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by fabianholzer 2y ago
Senecas "De brevitate vitae"
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by fabianholzer 2y ago
The problem with the legislature about funding is that regular maintainance of the railroad network would has to be paid by Deutsche Bahn itself, whereas creation of new infrastructure or complete rebuilding of completely degraded railway i
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by fabianholzer 2y ago
Adding new keywords risks breaking code where the keyword is used as variable name, which would be not so far fetched for something like nullable.
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by fabianholzer 2y ago
From Dan Ingalls "Design Principles Behind Smalltalk" ( https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/smalltalk.... ): "An operating system is a collection of things that don't fit into
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by fabianholzer 2y ago
So, you I assume you extracted my mail out of the profile text (which admittedly was not obscured enough for the LLMs of today), to put it into a mailto: link - Well, many thanks on behalf of the low-effort spammers for making harvesting ea
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by fabianholzer 2y ago
Kyle Simpson "You don't know JS" - I read the first edition cover to cover, and can unreservedly recommend it. https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS
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by fabianholzer 2y ago
If you consider static site generators as a special case of side-server rendering, then that is basically the principle that underlies my personal ssg [0]. Highlevel idea: It reads in all HTML files, parses them with JSDOM, builds a metamod
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by fabianholzer 2y ago
Sounds like the Template Literal Types from Typescript on steroids.
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by fabianholzer 2y ago
It is an interesting format, but a bit hard to discover. If it would not have been for your comment, it would not have occurred to me, that there is a second level which enriches the overall topic. Is it essential to the format to open all
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by fabianholzer 2y ago
It is a compilation of many great ideas. Thanks for putting it together. For my needs table stakes are lower, but as inspiration as well as aspiration certainly.
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by fabianholzer 2y ago
If you start from scratch, factor it in when deciding on a cms, platform or site generator. I think RSS/atom owes a lot to WordPress, which has it enabled by default since ages. When you want to add it retro-actively, the specification

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