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Can you provide more context? "What's your deal" is normally a rude thing to say, but I use the phrase pretty liberally :)
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Your son might really enjoy programming language theory and construction. There's a lot of active research into programming languages, and even full-time jobs creating new programming languages! …
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For me, sometimes “doing nothing” is literally doing nothing: neither napping nor thinking. Other times, “nothing” means surfing Reddit and making music. It’s all about intent. Abandon plans! Stop …
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I was about to link to the sive.rs post, but OP already beat me to it :) It's a really good framework for those who haven't seen it before. [1] https://sive.rs/multiply Idea…
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Apple's official SwiftUI tutorial is great IMO: https://developer.apple.com/tutorials/swiftui …
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Don't waste willpower on this. I've lost years of my life to YouTube. I recommend finding somebody that you trust and having them set a parental-control password on your devices. I use apple…
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Ha! My friends like my "crazy" ideas, but they kindly remind me of my history of starting ambitious projects and giving up as soon as things becomes boring/tedious. Ideas are easy; honi…
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Yeah, it reminds me of the following quote: "The desire to be a politician should bar you for life from ever becoming one." I would have a hard time trusting anybody whose primary identity…
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I've worked hard to create deep candid friendships with many people. My friends tell me when I'm dreaming too big and when I mess up. They help me choose between shifting priorities and fork…
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I have a friend who has chronic debilitating pain from a spine injury. He's a wonderful and kind person, and I can only imagine what his biggest problems are right now. Pain and exorbitant medica…
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My biggest problem is that I've probably got ~15,000 days of life remaining. There are only a few ways I might get lucky: - somebody uploads my mind into a computer - somebody cures aging - someb…
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I'm currently writing a novella. I also have plans for a non-fiction work. I'm also publishing free content at https://taylor.town > I don't think it's worth it to …
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> Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr. (1921[1] – June 7, 1982) was an American impostor. > Demara's impersonations included a naval surgeon, a civil engineer, a sheriff's deputy, an assistant p…
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Good directories: - https://indieweb.org - Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27302195 My favorites: - gwern: https:/&#x…
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> is elm still active? Elm is alive and well! Elm 0.19 isn't under "active" development because it's feature-complete for now and stable as h*ck. The core team is working on &…
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I'm not sure if I have ADHD, but I definitely work better on ambient Slack huddles with coworkers :)
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Tab exporters (to plain-text)! I use Tabitha for Safari, but there are plenty of different options for each browser. I find that it's super easy to clean up my tabs by dumping them to my plain-te…
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> Would love to read about this architecture. Is there a blog post you can link to? I don't think they have any blog posts about it, but the CEO/architect doggedly pursued simplicity. T…
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I used to work at Pex, where microservices were done beautifully. Pex's microservice architecture scaled tremendously. Their product crawls and processes all the audio and video produced on the e…
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I really can't say enough good things about Cloudflare's ecosystem! Specifically with workers, you can send unlimited emails for free, which is great for plugging into your existing workflow…
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I host DreamDaddy on Cloudflare Pages (like S3), and use a Cloudflare Worker (like a lambda) to email myself contact submissions. Cloudflare is free and "just works" -- I have not liked my h…
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I haven't personally used LingQ, but it seems to be the best way to pick up new languages. It provides a feed of news in other languages with a neat vocab tracker! I haven't learned a langua…
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For deployment, I like Cloudflare Pages/Workers for small projects and https://fly.io for large projects. For frontend, I think you'll really enjoy Elm if you like R and Python. …
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I have two book-selection processes: 1. When I want to learn a specific skill or solve a specific problem, I read books for information. For example, I recently picked up a bunch of books on minimalis…
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I hope this quote from the Carmack essay shows that his argument isn't necessarily restricted to game development: ---------- style C:
void MajorFunction( void ) {
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Sorry for all the links, but I've been struggling with these EXACT same things my entire life, and recently spent a lot of time writing about it. > * I tend to leave things to the last minute.…
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> It should be structured, tested, malleable, navigable and understandable. Great comment! I personally find that most codebases are overstructured and undertested :) In my experience, module bound…