“my project was canceled six months ago, I'm evading security, sneaking into Apple …doing clandestine volunteer work….” youtube.com/watch?v=Dl643J…

Its amazing that amongst successful tech companies there are so few standard things they all do. Probably because in the end having a simple solution to a big problem will dwarf the impact of little strategic decisions.

Another fun place where euler’s number pops up quantamagazine.org/how-base-3-com…

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I have a tradition of getting jack in the box curly fries whenever I get a new job. It started when I got my first job offer out of school from a call from Arvind while I was at a gas station and the closest thing was a j-in-b across the st.

What am I supposed to ask instagram AI, “why dont I have more friends?”

Thanks for the shoutout, and love your similar post about timestamps! changelog.com/posts/you-migh…

I liked this-in-the trenches perspective on the difficulties of event sourcing, from a comment on my YAGRI post news.ycombinator.com/item?id=437769…

TIL the last expression in the head of a for loop in JS is called the “afterthought”. Which I guess makes sense since you can put whatever you want in there, not just update an index like usual. for (init; cond; afterthought){} According to MDN

I wrote a new article about “founding documents” in tech. Those first papers or demos that the creator puts out into the world, with examples and why to read them — they will teach you more than modern articles will! scottantipa.com/read-technolog…