What did you ship this week? 🚢

Found a heritage plaque I actually like.

23456789 is the largest prime number with consecutive increasing digits

I work 60 hours per week. It only takes me a combined 55 hours each week to search across Slack and Discord and Drive and email and Dropbox and Notion to find the thing I'm looking for, and then I have a whole 5 hours left over for other work. Progress.

Median voter just got vaccinated.

I should make a private diary of things I believe over time so that I can see if they subconciously change. The problem is the most interestingly profound changes will be things that I thought were so obvious I didn't bother to write them down.

My understanding is not a single person has been fired up and down the system for the most spectacular display of incompetence by a Western democracy in decades

Mayor of Vilnius, Lithuania in 2011: "What should a city do about drivers who think they are above the law [by parking in a bike lane]? It seems that a tank is the best solution."

“Stubborn Attachments” by tylercowen is one of the greatest books I’ve read in a long, long time it's key to the future of humanity I'll give free copies to two random people who retweet!

I long for the distant days of 2015, when corporations had negative greed.

Still reading Studwell's How Asia Works this fine morn: "in rich countries, we are raised to believe that all wealth is the product of competition. The shocking truth, however, is every economically successful society has been guilty, in its formative stages, of protectionism."

Brad Fitzpatrick 🌻 I'm working on making computers tell you all of the relevant information it can tell from the otherwise identical USB-C cables, and giving a helpful notification when you've used the wrong kind. Chromebooks will get this feature soon.

Stop throwing exceptions Stacks are not meant to be unwound Years of C++ yet no real life codebase found with exceptions enabled Wanna check for errors anyways for a laugh? We had a variable for that: it's called errno They have played us for absolute fools

I despise the slow obfuscation of the filesystem on modern operating systems, just steadily making it less and less clear that there are directories and you organise your files in them

By "tech" company standards, we expected (and therefore engendered) "staff engineer" skills from new grads. At tech companies, getting credit for these skills is often gatekept, which seems counterproductive. apenwarr.ca/log/20201227

20 minute delay on a 47 minute train. So glad the Victorians built all the infrastructure the UK will ever need.

seeking best laptop recs for someone who refuses to shut 1000s of tabs. in 2023 i refuse to be limited by hardware

2FA is actually really bad and has made the internet significantly less safe. The only reason it was adopted was as an excuse to destroy anonymity and make you trackable across the web with a single identity. Any security guru touting it has been a useful idiot.