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Today's bug bear: newline characters: ⛔ Don't use them to add whitespace between paragraphs (adjust your tool's paragraph spacing value if you need to do this). 🟢 Do use them to break up your almost-always-too-long paragraphs.

To be a good writer, you have to be annoyed by bad writing. You're unlikely to get your first drafts exactly right, and unless you're annoyed by what you got wrong, you won't fix it.

Is anyone working a system for federating custom emoji between systems? I need Notion and Slack to share the same set.

This is a very revealing quote from Billy Bragg. If you're independent-minded (paulgraham.com/mod.html), you often find yourself on the same side of an issue as people you dislike. So if he's shocked by that idea, it shows he's not.

Andrea Cohen

Beware when using the 💋 emoji reaction to reference the KISS principle. Can be misinterpretted.

Farage looks like he's sold monorails to Brockway, Ogdenville and North Haverbrook...

Baby steps in using LLMs to *edit* Vim files in place: til.codeinthehole.com/posts/how-to-u…

Where are the racists now???? Probably still celebrating!!!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #EURO2024

On TikTok there is AdjusterTok, where work from home insurance agents video their side of calls explaining how car insurance works to irritated people, and it’s quite sobering stuff. People don’t really know what insurance is, it’s just some magical thing to make stuff better.

Notion tip: trick your colleagues into thinking there's a collapsed section by using ▸ as the page emoji. cc Notion

She'll come back at a critical moment as Sue White.

Here's a Bash script that stitches together `llm` and `files-to-prompt` (from Simon Willison) to run an iterative TDD loop to make a set of tests pass. codeinthehole.com/tips/llm-tdd-l… This effectively automates the green part from the standard red-green-refactor loop.

Writes and Write-Nots: paulgraham.com/writes.html

This meme was a small moment of enlightenment for me a long long while back

Allow Greg Jackson to help you with that answer, Tim #bbcqt