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I have been obsessed with rsync lately

Identifying what specificially the hard things are, then adjusting the task to add/remove difficulty

Very clever approach to estimating impact of self-driving cars. Interesting that budget limited a lot of the scope. Since this should be pretty important, but also that saving money is going to be a benefit of this!

Small sample size + novelty surely impacted the effect of a driver. Also that they can get out of the car and do stuff, whereas doing groceries or drycleaning you’d still need human intervention

Also remember to take damn breaks

Novel concept to visualise audio samples

Yet another vim alternative to try

tldr: Do things.

Confidence comes from past performance
Recent past performance is more important than the stuff you did 5–10 years ago
You can’t ride the wave of old confidence for too long

Copied verbatim because I love this:

1. Observe the world, pay attention to things.
2. Jot down snippets of observations/ideas in a single Google Docs document (available on almost any platform). Don’t try to organize it. Keep it really simple. The key is to keep it low effort and frictionless.
3. Look over the Google Docs document from time to time. When you have enough ideas coalescing in a cluster/theme, feel them out. When the cluster feels like it’s ready i.e. you feel an emotional connection to it, start writing. Important tip: don’t feel you have to finish writing in one sitting – you can stop, let your writing sit, and keep re-clustering until you have something that is worth putting out there.

Combo of talk + write-up below is excellent

How to do what vim plugins do with just vim

I like the sidebar underlines and main page heaxagon anims on this

This is glorious

TLDR use cmd < file, not cat file | cmd

Wanted to remove a bunch of old/unused binary files that were bloating a repo.

Explanation and practical uses of defaults in macos

Useful to have a script/clickable thing for this as I toggle it on/off frequently

Phenomenonly written and researched, with amazing demos and ideas throughout. Multi-themed components being visible in dev is a wonderful idea

Not everyone’s going to be my people, or each other’s people. No one in any group large enough is going to like everyone, or even be neutral to everyone— there’s gonna be some “get away from me” and strong dislike floating around, there are going to be divides. Pleasing every single person means being close to no one.

Some additional useful bits in comments (also a lot of ‘just use x’). Actual list has some gems in it: repgrep, podman, mdcat etc

This looks very useful. Full-text search and some other convenient integrations

Massive list of tools and SaaSes, some free, some with free quotas listed.

Digging through the history of biases and problems with training data and categories used for ML tasks

Interesting post/thread.

Insert more ads. Signal to noise goes down. Value to user shrinks. Value of user to advertisers decreases. Insert more ads. A vicious cycle that de-prioritizes the user experience.

Good strategy to minimize hindsight bias and try to improve quality of decisions. Interesting point from some interview: good decisions that have bad outcomes (due to chance) are better than bad decisions with good outcomes, as the latter reinforces bad decisions.

The best way to practice is to spend time thinking

.env files were the thing that made me stop pasting credentials directly in my WIP files.

Still trying to figure out the UI and layout of Bitwig, finding these kind of focused tutorials worth it for navigation alone

Refreshingly professional. My usual favourite commits are either Developers Swearing or awful puns.

The ludicrous complexity of everyday activities is never as obvious as when you ary to add it to a game.

Accessibility won’t work as an afterthought, it needs to be part of the process.
Making sites accessible makes them better for all users. Real-life example of this is curb-ramps.

Great pushback on the one-way design -> developer handover that often happens.

I’ve had some great pairing sessions with designers over video calls this year. I am curious to try using recordings to bridge time gaps.

Cloud-to-butt but for all bullshit buzzwords

HN thread has some other interesting ideas/templates for daily docs