My favorite theory about the afterlife is that there's no heaven or hell. When we die, we all go to the same place. The righteous find delight in it. The sinners find it torturous. SF comes pretty close.
Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.
Has anyone managed to find a useful RTS for managing coding agents?
Monaspace is a bigger deal than most people realise. It allows interleaving different monospace fonts in the same editor. This adds an entire dimension to textual interface (equivalent and independent to colour).
Cassidy@cassidoo.co · 8mo agoYou might have seen it in the past, but in case you haven't looked recently, GitHub has a couple really nice font sets: Mona Sans & Hubot Sans: github.com/mona-sans Monaspace: monaspace.githubnext.com
Here's a list of albums I enjoy listening to while programming.
Life well lived is long-term pleasure punctuated by short-term suffering.
@danabra.mov what's your favourite writing on frontend PL design?
Just condensed my learnings on how to manage code review, when your teammates use LLMs as part of their workflow: www.recurse.ml/blog/arch
Why Do LLMs Design Mediocre Architecture?
How a shift in code-review focus enables building software with LLMs that lasts
recurse.ml
SF has the highest concentration of WIFI-less cafes I've ever seen. Does anyone know why?
Just finished writing my stab at the grand unified theory of ideology: arminbagrat.com/pascal/
Probability Theory for Cult Building
In 2019, dozens of top engineers left $300,000+ salaries at Google and Goldman Sachs to work on preventing humanity’s extinction from artificial intelligence...
arminbagrat.com
TIL: Python allows you to import multiple libraries on the same line: `import os, sys` Use your newfound knowledge with care!
Just shipped a new feature, that finds existing code broken by a change
Does anyone have a method for creating python standalone executables that they're happy with?
"I wish CISA would stop assigning out-of-context CVSS scores to our CVEs." * monkey paw curls * https://www.csoonline.com/article/3963190/cve-program-faces-swift-end-after-dhs-fails-to-renew-contract-leaving-security-flaw-tracking-in-limbo.html
No they do not, New York Times! This is like writing that Santa Claus has IBS.
claude code is the most beautiful terminal app I've seen in a while. Performance-wise it lags behind aider (for now?)
Paul Krugman's departure from the times provides a quality perspective on the change of the newspaper's changing editorial policy: contrarian.substack.com/p/departing-...
Departing the New York Times
I left to stay true to my byline
contrarian.substack.com
While visiting the US, during inauguration week I've been delighted by how minor of a role politics plays in IRL discourse.
Some travelers collect Starbucks mugs, I collect local political hottakes
