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I use Elixir's native EEX templating for some personal projects. My Elixir script takes markdown files with YAML front matter and produces static HTML pages, which are served via Cloudflare Pages…
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That's really unfortunate. You deserve to be heard, and your wife deserves honesty. I'd recommend doing a few sessions of couples' therapy so that you can both feel safe talking to each…
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It's not quite comparable, but you can get free audiobooks through your local library via the Libby app (US) and listen to books at 2x (300-400 WPM). It's slower than speed-reading, but my e…
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I kept on hitting this situation with my wife, so we came up with a "magic" question: "Do you want reassurance, potential solutions, or my honest feelings?" It works really well …
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I started feeling this exact same way a year or two ago, and made two important rules for myself. 1. All consumption must result in creation. First, I started making creative routines around all my …
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I really enjoyed Sapiens , and learned a lot from it. It offers quite a few micro-frameworks for understanding the history of the human world. I particularly liked the explanation of the birth of rel…
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What didn't you like about it?
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Throw something on my calendar and we can chat about life for a bit :) [1] https://calendly.com/taylor-town/30min It's impossible to tell from your short description, but yo…
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Thanks! I just finished the demo, and I think it went well. We'll see how they respond...
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I think most people will continue to hang out on a major platform (whatever that may be), but I think many will make boutique social networks that have 10-1000 people.
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• So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport This book sets to dispel the "follow your passion" movement. This book caused me to take the idea of "career capital" a lot more se…
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• organizing outland 2023: a tiny tech conference in southern california • i rewrote a giant piece of software from scratch and will demo it for the owners of the product tomorrow (wish me luck) • cre…
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I'm surprised how many software engineers have never heard of Douglas Engelbart and The Mother of All Demos: The 90-minute presentation demonstrated for the first time many of the fundamental el…
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Do you have a website or email where people can find you?
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I'm seeing a lot of people mention gardening, and I'd like to add that it only takes a few feet/meters of indoor space to grow enough vegetables for an entire family. And all of the sup…
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Amethyst is a lovely tiling window manager for MacOS. I don't know how people survive without TWMs. [1] https://ianyh.com/amethyst …
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> I recently learned that consciousness is negatively correlated with intelligence which may explain why so many seemingly intelligent people cannot make decisions or build things on their own. Sou…
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I pay $5/month for 5G on my Apple Watch and leave my phone at home. The watch is good enough for phone calls, especially with a pair of AirPods. If that sounds too scary for you, consider leaving…
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ChatGPT is not bad for music recommendations. I find that most ChatGPT output is better when you ask for "uncommon" results, like "What are the best uncommon ska albums?"
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Roc is a new programming language written in Rust (and some Zig). https://github.com/roc-lang/roc/tree/main/crates …
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> For the average band, a $250,000 advance [in 1993 dollars] is distributed like this: > Record company: $710,000 > Producer: $90,000 > Manager: $51,000 > Studio: $52,500 > Previous …
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> How do you overcome it? What an interesting way to frame it. Debt is not something to "overcome". Debt is generally a tool to trade time for value. If you're accruing career debt…