The new "Help me speak X" feature on the Google Assistant app is so good. I've had so many times this would've been useful. It's also FAST. I forgot how quick they are at transmitting the speech and sending back translations. #GoogleAssistant

Using the iPad as a developer: deverts.co/blog/the-ipad/

The Kindle is the worst designed product that I can’t live without, and I have often thought that it was made in a vaccuum by people who, and I do not mean this as a judgment I mean it as description, do not read books.

With inspiration from Brandon 🚀 Flightcontrol and Patrick McKenzie. I wanted to share my design decisions for building cheap and simple SaaS MVPs. Highlights: - NO JS frameworks - Solo Dev - Simplified devops - Get MVP built in 1-2 weeks (if not less) - Cost < $20/month Thread below 👇

"You don’t want to hear that the reason your monolith is a spaghetti monster is because you let it become that way, one commit at the time, due to weak habits, pressurized deadlines, or simply sheer lack of competence." m.signalvnoise.com/integrated-sys…

This is a side effect of getting a dog. A couple of walks without headphones each day gives some nice (and mandatory) time to think through things.

Bill Gates is setting up factories to manufacture 7 leading vaccine candidates before we know which is best & safest; we can test the vaccines in parallel, and then throw away all but the factory for the best vaccine. May save many months. Just extraordinary.

Wimbledon reportedly paid $2 million a year for pandemic insurance for the last 17 years (Total: $34 Million) For this year's cancellation as a result of the Coronavirus, Wimbledon will reportedly receive $141 million from the policy.

This is mind blowing. With GPT-3, I built a layout generator where you just describe any layout you want, and it generates the JSX code for you. W H A T

So Spenser Skates' AMA (on the occasion of Amplitude's IPO) is just an all-timer HN fairytale: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=286966… - disrupting competitor Mixpanel - Mixpanel founder Suhail congratulating them - Patrick McKenzie "Charge more" taken to heart - Bill Gurley style IPO rant

Incredible

Have you read the #golang idioms by Rob Pike? I refer to them often and reference them when reviewing Pull Requests. Here they are in a handy thread with a one line summary of what they mean.

A few years back, I spent many hours frowning trying to figure out how to neatly move shards around in Citus Data Very cool, now, l to see a bunch of enterprise only features open sourced github.com/citusdata/citu…

people are now searching on tiktok instead of google

I'm screaming.

Sailing with the Xata 🦋 team at our off-site in Crete

Xata is live on Product Hunt 😸 😻 We're excited to officially launch today!🚀 Share your #XataVibes, love and support over there. We'd greatly appreciate it! 🙏 producthunt.com/posts/xata

Here’s something we’ve been biting into over the last few weeks 👀

Introducing the new Xata developer workflow, featuring integrations with GitHub, Vercel & Netlify 🎉 → git-like branching in the CLI → A database branch for each PR → Status comments and checks in GitHub → DB migrations applied on merge xata.io/blog/workflow-…

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