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What if something was designed one day, one change at a time? What if every day, it got just a tiny bit better? With time, revealed more of itself. A new project, where this website …

Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds Return-to-office mandates at some of the most powerful tech companies — Apple, Microsoft and SpaceX — were followed by a spike in departures …

By and large, the English language doesn't use diacritical marks. Even our loanwords are stripped of them; we drink in a cafe rather than the more pretentious café. This has a consequence for HTML and, …

Nothing is settled. Nothing is quite what you perceive. Everything is both tranquil and moving, calm and inquisitive. Is it ‘eregata’? Well, given that that is a created word drawing on the artist’s native Amharic …

Carl Zimmer’s NY Times story “Why Do People Make Music?” (archived) begins: Music baffled Charles Darwin. Mankind’s ability to produce and enjoy melodies, he wrote in 1874, “must be ranked amongst the most mysterious with …

On Sunday, April 14, 2024, the literary community lost one of its guiding lights when Janet Reid passed away. A New York literary agent for more than twenty years, Janet was possibly even better known …

Listen/notify in Postgres is an incredible feature that makes itself useful in all kinds of situations. I’ve been using it a long time, started taking it for granted long ago, and was somewhat shocked recently …

One of my first TIL entries was about how you can imitate Node’s node_modules semantics in Python on UNIX-like operating systems. A lot has happened since then (to the better!) and it’s time for an …

I’d never heard of Juan Gabriel Vásquez, but the New York Times has called him the successor to Gabriel García Márquez, the new “grandmaster” of Colombian writers. A friend recommended Reputations to me, and I’m …

How to read dense and complex regulatory consultation documents which, either accidentally or deliberately, break the internet.

I'll have much more to say soon about my month in Africa, including a Zoom seminar with Mark Comon of Creative Photo Academy. So stay tuned. But in case you hadn't noticed, I took a …

I recently encountered an open source project that hadn't received updates for a while. The issue tracker had ~200 open issues, ~70 open pull requests, and CI was partially failing. It's not uncommon for projects …

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"Chip" is ready to discuss third quarter results!Honesty is the best policy? Yep. Let's go with that. We all dislike being dislodged by technology. We worked hard to acquire and hone our skills so when …