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On bad advice (2021)(scattered-thoughts.net)
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Removing stains at home(bsky.app)
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by yen223 2y ago
If I were in the market to learn another language, I'd go for C++
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by yen223 2y ago
The doubt comes from not knowing. Not knowing if a different life choice 20 years ago would have made them happier now, because they never tried. If they gave it a go and it didn't work out, then they know, and they would have plenty o
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by yen223 2y ago
It is much better that the young person tries it and decides it's not for them, than for the young person to never try and to have that doubt gnawing at them for the rest of their life.
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by yen223 2y ago
Starter packs are such a cool and obvious idea for onboarding new users. Probably won't be long before the other sites introduce something similar.
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by yen223 2y ago
Bluesky lets you configure your feeds, or add new ones: https://bsky.app/feeds Default Bluesky has the "Discover" feed and the "Following" feed. The "Discover" feed is the equivalent of the alg
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by yen223 2y ago
If you're worried about your content on Bluesky or whatever getting hijacked, you should consider POSSE: https://indieweb.org/POSSE (One of the strengths of Bluesky over X is that Bluesky currently doesn't punish
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by yen223 2y ago
I'm relatively new on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/weiyen.net I've been posting Postgres stuff for some reason The Postgres starter pack is worth following too: https://bsky.app/starter-p
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by yen223 2y ago
JavaScript will be killed off by webassembly for about 5 years now
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by yen223 2y ago
I sometimes think about one of the Star Trek episodes where the ship was getting attacked by a "SQL injection", and I think that's pretty realistic
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by yen223 2y ago
Perhaps it's enough to POSSE (Publish on Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere)? Post your content on your own site, but link back to them on all your favourite social media sites. That seems like a reasonable alternative to outright self-host
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by yen223 2y ago
I use LLMs to write "secondary" code. Things like deployment scripts, autoformatters, Github Actions, Dockerfiles or Kubernetes config. Stuff that isn't strictly part of the main web project, but is still valuable to have. I
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by yen223 2y ago
No. I should probably give it a go (I have a mastodon account from 2017(!), but there was so little activity back then I think I just forgot it was there.)
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by yen223 2y ago
Half built stuff still counts =) I don't think anything is ever truly finished anyway
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Ask HN: What have you built this year that you are proud of?
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by yen223 2y ago
The Github frontend appears to be React now. That said, most (not all) of it still works with Javascript disabled
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by yen223 2y ago
An overdesigned, overengineered personal website
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PostgreSQL extension ABI issue in the latest patch release(bsky.app)
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by yen223 2y ago
For a side project I created a new account on X and on Bluesky, both before the election. Bluesky asks what my interests are. I said software engineering, science and tech. Bluesky showed a lot of posts of cool space photos. X asks me to fo
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by yen223 2y ago
I have been experimenting with putting up short TILs on my blog, as an alternative to writing notes, and so far I think it has been a positive experience. Putting it out there in public means I spend a bit more time editing and curating, wh
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by yen223 2y ago
Thanks for sharing this! It looks so much cleaner in my eyes. Plus it uses constant-sized indents, which means less futzing about with spaces and all that. Also means you can comment out the first select item, something you can't do wi
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by yen223 2y ago
Probably not, but it's still not 0
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by yen223 2y ago
I'm surprised no one here has factored in the very real risk of getting laid off.
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by yen223 2y ago
It's not quite apples-to-oranges, because he started a hardware company, which historically has much smaller margins than software. The difference isn't just working for FAANG vs running a business, the difference is also working
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by yen223 2y ago
Maybe. Open source iOS apps are very rare, let alone popular ones.
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by yen223 2y ago
I will not be surprised if YouTube figures out a way to make content creators pay a portion of their sponsored content.
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by yen223 2y ago
More crucial to their success was that Grab accepts cash payments. This alone was the reason why Grab succeeded and Uber failed in SEA.
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by yen223 2y ago
If you could go back in time, knowing what you know now, would you still have quit your Google job to pursue this business venture?
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by yen223 2y ago
Grab is basically Uber + Ubereats in south-east Asia (Quite literally - Uber sold off their SEA operations to Grab in exchange for a stake in Grab, when Uber exited the SEA market)

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