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I've been using Anki for around two years to learn Arabic vocabulary. It's an excellent tool that has helped me remember and continuously recall thousands of words. Some strategies I've…

I've noticed that sticking exclusively to words I already know results in boredom, leading me to skip several days. This typically ends with me needing to catch up in a lengthy session (40 minute…

This is awesome! Also, a heads-up to OP: the personal website linked from your GitHub account appears to be down.

Using the 'goto' keyword brings back lots of memories after all these years.

> FWIW: Cron and Amie both sit on top of Google Calendar. They're just better frontends. So it's not really an "either-or" type decision. That was the part I was missing for eve…

how does it compare to google calendar? From the video, it seems to have almost identical UI. is that indeed the case?

"Scala isn't dead" reminded me of this one "No no he's not dead, he's, he's restin'!": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZw35VUBdzo …

Though not immediately relevant, it's pertinent to bring up "The Mom Test" ( https://www.momtestbook.com/ ) book. This book offers insights into conducting customer inter…

Ah, this takes me back. Turbo Pascal and Turbo Prolog - those were the days. Borland had the greatest products, and the accompanying books were always well written, used beautiful fonts, and, not less…

how long did it take you to leave that team?

What's important is to get an product out there. Nobody cares what stack you use. just us geeks. don't get discouraged. you did well :)

In a somewhat amusing turn of events, it appears Meta has taken a page out of Microsoft's book on how to create a labyrinthine login experience. I ventured into ai.meta.com, ready to log in with …

Hehe. I actually did. My last project was all in Rust. I'm very ambivalent about it.

Off-topic: Given that state cyber entities maintain networks isolated from the internet, how do they adapt to the rise of tools like Co-Pilot and ChatGPT in the software engineering landscape? This ki…

if that's terrifying to you, don't watch: "The deepest breath" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzH6BI6P4Uo …

I am using rule of two. I refactor at the second appearance. I started doing this when programming Ruby on Rails a few years back, where DRY (Don't repeat yourself) was a big thing there.

... and ther's a big difference in taxation.

If the arrangement involved both a tech purchase and a contractual obligation for employees to stay with AWS for a set period, simply saying "Fig was acquired" wouldn't be accurate. Giv…

During a certain phase of my career, I was part of a company that extensively used the Scrum framework. My takeaway then was that Scrum fosters a modular team management style, which diminishes the de…