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by mtlynch 2y ago
Thanks for reading, Zeke! > But I think it depends on your financial stability at the time, because even though I was running the same business when all 3 were born, I only very recently felt stable enough to not have to work. I still re
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My Seventh Year as a Bootstrapped Founder(mtlynch.io)
6 points by mtlynch 2y ago|3 comments
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by mtlynch 2y ago
Author here. I'm happy to answer any questions or take feedback about this post.
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by mtlynch 2y ago
Assuming you're in the US, System76[0] and Framework[1] both make laptops that support Linux as a first-class OS. I tried both and ended up preferring Framework. I especially like that they're repairable. I bought the DIY version
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The Cline AI Assistant Is Mesmerizing(mtlynch.io)
5 points by mtlynch 2y ago|1 comments
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by mtlynch 2y ago
Clickbait title. This isn't a story about something that personally happened to the author but a general argument against big launches. They don't offer any concrete examples like the title would imply. The article itself is prett
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by mtlynch 2y ago
> Some law enforcement agencies use "stingrays," devices which can impersonate a cell tower to track visitors to an area. While the capabilities of the most modern ones isn't fully known, you should definitely protect your
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by mtlynch 2y ago
I think 0 A.D. is a super cool project, but I found it pretty hard to learn. It made me appreciate how delicate a task it is to teach the player the mechanics of a game like AoE and how good a job AoE did at that. I felt like 0 A.D. isn&#x2
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by mtlynch 2y ago
I saw Yasser present this at Handmade Seattle in 2023.[0] He explained that when he started working on Tilde, he didn't have any special knowledge or interest in compilers. But he was reading discussions in the Handmade forums, and on
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Invalid Niger Nameservers in the com zone(0xda.de)
6 points by mtlynch 2y ago|0 comments
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by mtlynch 2y ago
Neat post, but it doesn't seem to work in Firefox. The benchmarking just runs forever. I see a JS error about it blocking Cloudflare's beacon.min.js. Is it using that to benchmark? I can confirm it works in Chrome.
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by mtlynch 2y ago
For those not in the know, why is cryptic pregnancy tiktok bad? I'd never heard of it, and from what I understand, it's a hashtag people use to share stories of how they found out they were pregnant late in the pregnancy because t
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by mtlynch 2y ago
Former Googler. I also miss Critique/Gerrit. I've tried a bunch of alternatives, and I like CodeApprove: https://codeapprove.com/ It's great if you have a team that does code reviews. It works less well for r
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by mtlynch 2y ago
I've always found it really funny that Bjarne Stroustrup keeps this list of applications written in C++. It reminds me of this Onion article, "Obama's Aunt Sends Him Article Mentioning United States."[0] [0] https:&#x2F
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Bjarne Stroustrup's List of Applications Written in C++(stroustrup.com)
4 points by mtlynch 2y ago|1 comments
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by mtlynch 2y ago
What I describe in the post isn't a particular tool, just a coding convention to follow in writing tests using Go's built-in testing tools. It's hard to say how to test your app without more information, but here's a goo
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by mtlynch 2y ago
Author here. Happy to hear any feedback or take any questions about this post.
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if got, want: A Simple Way to Write Better Go Tests(mtlynch.io)
3 points by mtlynch 2y ago|3 comments
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by mtlynch 2y ago
Author here. Happy to hear any feedback or take any questions about this post.
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if got, want: A Simple Way to Write Better Go Tests(mtlynch.io)
4 points by mtlynch 2y ago|1 comments
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by mtlynch 2y ago
Yeah, I think I need a different wording for "write for beginners." It's not "write for beginners to programming" but "write for beginners to your particular subject." Like in your case, you're writin
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by mtlynch 2y ago
Thanks for reading! > Many tutorials reference many languages. (I frequently write tutorials for students that include bash, sql, and python.) Providing the prompts `$`, `sqlite>` and `>>>` makes it obvious which language a p
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by mtlynch 2y ago
Thanks for reading and for the feedback. Yeah, I see what you're saying. I had this article[0] in mind, which is a well-written article and ranks #1 for "organize front end code django" on Google. None of the other results ar
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by mtlynch 2y ago
Author here. I've been thinking for a long time about anti-patterns I see when following software tutorials, so I put together this list of things I think differentiate good tutorials from poor ones. I'm happy to hear any feedback
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Rules for writing software tutorials(refactoringenglish.com)
376 points by mtlynch 2y ago|74 comments
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by mtlynch 2y ago
Oof, just loading this page caused my browser to download 170 MB of content. I hope she has a good CDN.
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by mtlynch 2y ago
I didn't see that, but that's also a non-standard and unclear way to cite a source, which is why I and many others didn't see it. Also, you didn't address my main criticism, which is that you made a claim that's str
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by mtlynch 2y ago
Your post: > There are over one trillion (1000000000000 or a million million) SQLite databases in active use. The original source[0] (which you don't link to): > Since SQLite is used extensively in every smartphone, and there ar
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by mtlynch 2y ago
OP has updated their post, but originally the HN intro included prefixes like "*Title*" and "*Content*." Further exploration of this repo makes me think this is even sketchier. The wiki tells the user that they can trust
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by mtlynch 2y ago
It's not a red flag that the program does error handling. It's a red flag that the docs advertise standard filesystem error conditions as a flagship feature of this app.

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