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  1. Building Slack
    Stories of building Slack — the company, the product, the business, and the culture — told by two employees who were around for the entire journey. By Ali Rayl, Johnny Rodgers. 🇺🇸 More info

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    The death of Glitch, the birth of Slack
    [This post is about the day that Glitch failed, and how that failure created the opportunity to make Slack. We're sharing it here (out of chronological order) to mark 12 years since the famous pivot.]“We …
    By Johnny Rodgers, 2,780 words
  2. WATCHING BLAKE'S 7
    A Blake's 7 blog. By Tim Dickinson. 🇬🇧 More info

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    Illuminating Blake’s 7 – The lamps of a sci-fi classic.
    For those who have dipped into the blog posts within this website, you will have noticed that I am full of admiration for the visual aesthetic of Blake’s 7 – both in terms of the …
    By Tim Dickinson, 1,440 words
  3. The PROG Mind
    Delve Deeper. By Jason Spencer. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Ylisia – Underneath
    Ylisia debuts with bright melodies and memorable songs.
    By The Prog Mind, 11 words
  4. Maggie Appleton
    Maggie's digital garden filled with visual essays on programming, design, and anthropology. 🇬🇧 More info

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    Aesthetic Command Lines with Hyper, Spaceship, and Oh My Zsh
    My fairly banal, basic, but beautiful command line setup
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  5. idiot king
    A personal weblog based in Baltimore, Maryland, featuring things like family, photography, design, old trucks, and other random topics. By Bill Dugan. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Core Temperature
    As I get older I’m affected more and more by cold weather. The prospect of taking the dog out for a well-deserved walk fills me with dread. Our 100-year-old house is one large draft covered …
    By idiotking, 710 words
  6. TechLeader.pro
    Software engineering leadership. By John Collins. More info

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    Conducting annual reviews (TLP 2024w47)
    It's that time of year again, when I need to conduct many annual performance reviews over the coming weeks.
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  7. Fabien Sanglard's Website
    This is my personal website, you can find here most of the code and ideas I came up with during my extra-professional time. 🇺🇸 More info

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  8. IndieCentralMusic - News
    The latest news from what’s happening in the indie music world from tour announcements, festival line up reveals and much more! 🇬🇧 More info

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    Dead Pony share Batman inspired video for single ‘Everything Burns’
    Glasgow’s finest punk rockers Dead Pony have released music video for new single ‘Everything Burns’. Following on from the four-piece’s critically acclaimed debut album ‘Ignore This’, they are wasting no time with new music. Captioned …
    By Alex Taylor-Pearson, 181 words
  9. [S][J][P]
    Surplus Jouissance Projects. By Neil Gorman. 🇺🇸 More info

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    AI & Kids
    This paragraph from Peter Coy's essay in the (paywalled) New York Times opinion section is just great. Computer scientists are continually surprised by the creativity displayed by new generations of A.I. Consider that lying is …
    By Neil Gorman, 317 words
  10. The Second Button
    A men's style blog here to help you see what menswear enthusiasts love about clothing. By Daniel Hakimi. 🇺🇸 More info

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    101 Gifts You Should Buy For Me This Holiday Season
    In past seasons, I've written holiday gift guides focused on what you might buy other people. These are always tricky; you should usually not buy other people clothes, since you probably don't know what fits …
    By Daniel Hakimi, 5,303 words
  11. The Figure In Question
    Action Figure Reviews By Ethan Wilson. 🇺🇸 More info

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    #3758: Commander Gree
    COMMANDER GREE STAR WARS: REVENGE OF THE SITH (HASBRO) “On the planet of Kashyyyk, Commander Gree serves Jedi Master Yoda and helps the Wookiees fight the invading Separatists. When the secret Order 66 is issued, …
    By Ethan Wilson, 566 words
  12. Lambda Latitudinarians
    Nathan Contino's personal website and blog, Lambda Latitudinarians. By Nate Contino. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Not a Bicyclist's Guide to Bicycles
    All bicyclists ride bikes. But not all bike riders are bicyclists. I'm a bicycle enthusiast: someone who spends enough time riding and repairing bikes to know a thing or two about them. But I'm not …
    By Nathan Contino (ncontino[at]lambdalatitudinarians[dot]org), 2,990 words
  13. A Just Recompense
    I'm Writing and I Can't Shut Up. By Karen Carlson. 🇺🇸 More info

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    BASS 2024: Susan Shepherd, “Baboons” from Kenyon Review XLV.2
    A few years ago, a tent city filled with people using drugs sprang up in Boston where I live, and my reporter friend was covering it. She described to me the nightmarish scenes inside the …
    By Karen Carlson, 1,284 words
  14. Chips and Cheese – The Devil is in the Details
    Technology news, reviews, insights and leaks with a real technical twist, and the occasional rant or two... By George Cozma et al. More info

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    Skymont in Desktop Form: Atom Unleashed
    Skymont is Intel's newest E-Core architecture. E-Cores trace their lineage to low power and low performance Atom cores of long ago. But E-Cores have become an integral part of Intel's high performance desktop strategy, letting …
    By Chester Lam, 2,660 words
  15. Haki Benita
    The writings of Haki Benita. 🇮🇱 More info

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    How to Get or Create in PostgreSQL
    "Get or create" is a very common operation for syncing data in the database, but implementing it correctly may be trickier than you may expect. If you ever had to implement it in a real …
    By Haki Benita, 7,607 words