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The New York Times@nytimes.com · 11mo ago

Self checkout coming to a warehouse near you

Amazon, the second largest employer in the U.S., aims to replace more than half a million jobs with robots, internal documents show.

Great seeing people get into vibe coding on the browser. Many are missing how to test. Three easy tips: - Print variables to console - Break up your code into small functions and run them on their own - Run a debugger

Anybody else wait hours for a pipeline to fail, spend NO time looking at the problem and immediately restart the job

Time to buy the dip

Benjamin Yu @moorguard.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Went into reading Dotcom Secrets, expecting a tech filled experience... Not at all, turns out it's all about sales funnels

Using screen readers with the kindle app is a game changer. Makes any book into an audio book!

I’ve been happy using Cline.bot, the planning/act paradigm helps set the context and gives more transparency on the actions the agent is taking on your codebase

Cline - AI Coding, Open Source and Uncompromised

Cline is the open-source AI coding agent that gives you direct access to frontier models with complete transparency. Plan Mode, MCP integration, and zero vendor lock-in. Join 2.7M+ developers.

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Using AI to generate system prompts is a pretty smart move by OpenAI

Got an old computer gathering dust? Put it to work as a private photo backup server! I recommend self-hosting Immich - it’s easy to set up with Docker and offers a user-friendly way to securely back up and manage your photos linen-cathedral-656.notion.site/How-to-turn-...

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Interestingly, I found Ubuntu easier to setup than Windows on a custom PC!

The modding support for Stardew Valley is superb smapi.io

SMAPI - SMAPI.io

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Lots here to think about here about making the most from your job youtu.be/1G2ltEiSYBw?...

How to Make More Money as an Employee

YouTube video by Ali Abdaal

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Life saving command to grab a dll version: (Get-Command "C:\path\to\your.dll").FileVersionInfo The value I needed was the product version, but it's such a pain finding the right number for your application. Don't know why we need 3 different numbers for the file, product, nuget you name it

NXDOMAIN is a big point of confusion for software developers - Valid response for DNS - Invalid response for applications (Where's my record?) - Applies to EVERY type of record for the name (NOERROR is the response if just the record is missing)

Steps to making a code change: 1. Design Document 2. Interface code changes 3. Test driven development 4. Test in test environment 5. Check into Prod youtu.be/lQl_eTqxmpQ

How to make a code change

YouTube video by Ben Yu

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Surprisingly great video editor, made over 100 videos with blender youtu.be/XwdP4UjSpFw?...

Blender Video Editor Made Simple

YouTube video by Olav3D Tutorials

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Crazy that English is essentially a programming language today. With Vibecoding, an LLM acts as a compiler, transforming your prompts to code.

Can't write testable code without dependency injection. Mocking class dependencies lets you try out every problem towards 100% code coverage #software

Taxing digital advertising is an interesting approach to improving people's online experience bogged down from advertising. Tax brackets on advertising can help transform the business model of super scalers without impacting small businesses mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-t...

The case for taxing digital advertising | MIT Sloan

Social media platforms make money off sensational content. Taxing digital ads is one way to encourage different business models, according to two MIT economists.

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Cutting the Department of Education takes aim at 15% of education specific funding, mainly benefiting children with disabilities, low income or learning English. Why take away their chance for the American dream? We should be looking at enhancing their skill sets in information technology

Software developers are rewarded for delivering impact. This may come from writing documentation, simplifying a workflow or sharing development approaches with your company. Codifying a brand new solution is often expensive and reserved for the greatest of problems.

Super interesting perspective about entrepreneurship and the approach of taking big innovative leaps along with parallel entrepreneurship podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

Building the Platform for Scientific Breakthrough, with Noubar Afeyan of Moderna and Flagship Pioneering

Podcast Episode · No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups · 02/27/2025 · 41m

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US Education is a chimera of 50 systems for 50 states: different standards and outcomes. The federal government provides some guidelines funds specific inequalities like providing school lunches and supporting education for students with disabilities. Is this really what we want to give up?

Does it make sense to make Pennies if it costs more than two Pennie’s to make one? Probably not As a developer, your impact goes beyond the engineering. Your influence spans across the customer experience and the company’s bottom line, which help inform engineering decisions.

As a software developer in a large enterprise, most of your time is focused on design discussion over coding. It's like being an analyst! Software developers need to take collaboration to heart to ensure you're on the right path in driving progress for your team 🚀