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How Honeybadger migrated from Sidekiq to KarafkaHoneybadger recently migrated our background job processing from Sidekiq to Karafka. Dig in to see what we learned. Jan 8th Honeybadger Roel Bondoc 2,000 words Rated Jan 11th - sethherr
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Why is every Bay Area event imposing Chatham House Rules?An archaic English gag rule is enforcing silence everywhere in the Bay Area, from health conferences to AI salons to dinner parties. #Startups Jan 11th The San Francisco Standard Zara Stone ($) 1,000 words Rated Jan 12th - sethherr
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Sonos CEO Patrick Spence steps down after app update debacleSpeaker maker Sonos said on Monday Patrick Spence will step down as its CEO after a disastrous app update last year sparked customer criticism and delayed the development and release of other products. Jan 13th Reuters ($) 500 words Rated Jan 14th - sethherr
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What Is It (in Ruby 3.4)?An explanation of the it block parameter introduced in Ruby 3.4 Jan 10th Kevin Murphy 1,000 words Rated Jan 16th - sethherr
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What's involved in getting a "modern" terminal setup?What's involved in getting a "modern" terminal setup? Julia Evans 2,000 words Rated Jan 16th - sethherr
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I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS—and You Should Too - Joey's Hoard of StuffJoey Einerhand's Portfolio and tech blog. joeyehand.com 200 words Rated Jan 16th - sethherr
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Reverse Engineering a VanMoof e-shifter – Part 2 – Decoding the SignalsNow we've tapped in to the wiring of a VanMoof e-shifter, let's work out the baud rate and format of the data being transmitted and which format of messages are being exchanged between it and the bike. mikecoats.com 1,000 words Rated Jan 19th - sethherr
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NYC Congestion Pricing: Early DaysPeople have to pay $9 to enter Manhattan below 60th Street. Jan 14th thezvi.substack.com Zvi Mowshowitz 5,000 words Rated Jan 19th - sethherr
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Why is Git Autocorrect too fast for Formula One drivers?Why does Git's autocorrect wait 0.1s before executing a mistyped command? Let's dig in. Jan 13th GitButler Scott Chacon 1,000 words Rated Jan 20th - sethherr
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I am (not) a Failure: Lessons Learned From Six (and a half) Failed Startup AttemptsA while back I wrote : I've had many, many failures in my life. (Hm, maybe I should write a blog post about that.) This is that post. I'm ... blog.rongarret.info 5,000 words Rated Jan 21st - sethherr
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Gem::SafeMarshal escapenastystereo.com 1,000 words Rated Jan 22nd - sethherr
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Creation | anyon_eCreating a highly-integrated open-source laptop from scratch. Power in your hands. byran.ee 2,000 words Rated Jan 23rd - sethherr
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How shutdown Bay Area tech companies ditch their fancy gear fastSilicon Valley Disposition, an auction site specializing in Bay Area tech companies, helps shutdown and surviving firms offload rare, pricey, high-tech gear. #Arizona #Google #Montana #San Francisco Jan 21st SFGATE Stephen Council 1,000 words Rated Jan 23rd - sethherr
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rubycdp/ferrum: Headless Chrome Ruby APIHeadless Chrome Ruby API. Contribute to rubycdp/ferrum development by creating an account on GitHub. GitHub 4,000 words Rated Jan 24th - sethherr
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The Mythical IO-Bound Rails AppWhen the topic of Rails performance comes up, it is commonplace to hear that the database is the bottleneck, so Rails applications are IO-bound anyway, hence Ruby performance doesn’t matter that much, and all you need is a healthy dose of concurrency to make your service scale. But how true is this in general? Jan 23rd byroot’s blog 2,000 words Rated Jan 26th - sethherr
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The Alpha Myth: How Captive Wolves Led Us AstrayA wolf paces in captivity, teaching us all the wrong lessons about power Jan 27th The Impossible Path Anthony David Adams 1,000 words Rated Jan 28th - sethherr
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“Founder Mode” and the Art of MythmakingI’ve never been good at “hot takes”. Anyone who knows anything about marketing can tell you that the best time to share your opinion about something is when everyone is all worked up about it. Hot topics drive clicks and eyeballs and attention en masse. Unfortunately, my internal combustion engine doesn’t run that way. If… 2024-12-17 charity.wtf 9,000 words Rated Jan 29th - sethherr
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The Antitrust Revolution, by Barry C. LynnLiberal democracy’s last stand against Big Tech #Amazon #Apple #Donald Trump #Facebook #Google #Microsoft #Supreme Court 2024-08-20 Harper's Magazine 200 words Rated Jan 31st - sethherr
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Patrick Mahomes and the secrets of the Dad Bod: What we get wrong about athleticismPatrick Mahomes and Nikola Jokić aren't just superstars. They challenge us to better understand the hidden secrets of athleticism. #NBA #NFL Jan 30th The New York Times Rustin Dodd ($) 2,000 words Rated Feb 1st - sethherr
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Senator Ron Wyden (@wyden.senate.gov)NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it. [contains quote post or other embedded content] Feb 1st Bluesky Social 2,000 words Rated Feb 2nd - sethherr
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Archivists Work to Identify and Save the Thousands of Datasets Disappearing From Data.govMore than 2,000 datasets have disappeared from data.gov since Trump was inaugurated. But analyzing exactly what happened and where it went is going to take some time. Jan 30th 404 Media Jason Koebler 2,000 words Rated Feb 2nd - sethherr
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Everyone knows your locationRecently I read about a massive geolocation data leak from Gravy Analytics, which exposed more than 2000 apps, both in AppStore and Google Play, that secretly collect geolocation data without user consent. Oftentimes, even without developers` knowledge. I looked into the list (link here) and found at least 3 apps I have installed on my iPhone. Take a look for yourself! This made me come up with an idea to track myself down externally, e.g. to buy my geolocation data leaked by some... Jan 31st tim.sh tim 3,000 words Rated Feb 3rd - sethherr
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Dario Amodei — Machines of Loving GraceHow AI Could Transform the World for the Better darioamodei.com Dario Amodei 15,000 words Rated Feb 3rd - sethherr
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Ruby "Thread Contention" is simply GVL Queuingisland94.org 1,000 words Rated Feb 3rd - sethherr
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The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government TakeoverEngineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure. #Donald Trump #Elon Musk #Government #Politics Feb 2nd WIRED Vittoria Elliott 1,000 words Rated Feb 4th - sethherr
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From Cold DM to Owning a Soccer ClubRated Feb 7th - sethherr
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How to avoid problems with Turbo morphingA beautiful UI Morphed into existence Suddenly broken Feb 4th Radan Skorić’s personal site 1,000 words Rated Feb 7th - sethherr
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1DaySooner's Trump II Health Policy Proposals... Feb 7th astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander 15,000 words Rated Feb 8th - sethherr
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VSCode’s SSH Agent Is BananasDocumentation and guides from the team at Fly.io. Fly 500 words Rated Feb 8th - sethherr
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I Tasted Honda's Spicy Rodent-Repelling TapeAnd I will do it again unless someone stops me. 2021-07-30 Haterade Liz Cook 1,000 words Rated Feb 12th - sethherr
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Introducing: Barbecue Running GelIt's time to smoke the competition. 2024-02-29 Haterade Liz Cook 1,000 words Rated Feb 12th - sethherr
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Tiny JITs for a Faster FFICan we have a faster FFI for CRuby? Yes. Feb 12th Rails at Scale Aaron Patterson 2,000 words Rated Feb 12th - sethherr
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Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000What could've been the largest data breach in the world - an attack chain on Google services to leak the email address of any YouTube channel brutecat.com 1,000 words Rated Feb 12th - sethherr
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Ruby Outperforms C: Breaking the Catch-22YJIT’s ability to improve performance by adapting to run-time behavior can increase the speed of our code in a way that dropping down to C can’t. As such, I think we should reconsider the common wisdom that “rewriting our Ruby in C” is the ideal path to performance optimization and take a serious look at “rewriting our C in Ruby” instead. 2023-08-29 Rails at Scale Aaron Patterson 3,000 words Rated Feb 13th - sethherr
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Jia Tolentino on Joan Didion’s “everywoman.com”Didion’s appraisal of Martha Stewart, in which most glosses of the subject could also apply to the author, is an ur-text on contemporary feminine ambition. Feb 10th The New Yorker Jia Tolentino 500 words Rated Feb 13th - sethherr
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Asdf Has Been Re-Written in Golang - Stratus3DOver the last year I’ve rewritten asdf in Go. I’m excited to announce that the rewrite was released last Wednesday as asdf version 0.16. … stratus3d.com Trevor Brown 1,000 words Rated Feb 13th - sethherr
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Do you need permission from the government to do independent research?IRB you kidding me? Feb 13th Dynomight Internet Newsletter dynomight 6,000 words Rated Feb 14th - sethherr
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We Were Wrong About GPUsDo my tears surprise you? Strong CEOs also cry. Fly 2,000 words Rated Feb 15th - sethherr
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calculator-appcalculator-app - Chad Nauseam Home Chad Nauseam Home 2,000 words Rated Feb 17th - sethherr
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Energy Cheat SheetBuilding an intuition about energy 2024-12-20 Construction Physics Brian Potter 4,000 words Rated Feb 17th - sethherr
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Maximizing resume SNRThis is a brief note about resumes and hiring. At Terraform Industries, I've been doing a lot of recruiting recently and it's helped me crystallize a few ideas I've had in this area. This blog will change over time. Terraform Industries is hiring! Join us as we decarbonize our industrial economy by getting carbon from… 2022-03-22 Casey Handmer's blog 3,000 words Rated Feb 17th - sethherr
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When Imperfect Systems are Good, Actually: Bluesky’s Lossy TimelinesBy examining the limits of reasonable user behavior and embracing imperfection for users who go beyond it, we can continue to provide service that meets the expectations of users without sacrificing scalability of the system. Feb 19th Jaz’s Blog Jaz 2,000 words Rated Feb 20th - sethherr
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The first RCT for GLP-1 drugs and alcoholism isn't what we hopedor what people seem to think Feb 20th Dynomight Internet Newsletter dynomight 2,000 words Rated Feb 23rd - sethherr
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The True Costs of Being on YouTubewhat I spent, what I earned, and why I'm walking away Feb 13th Food Processing carla lalli music 4,000 words Rated Feb 23rd - sethherr
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Why does target=”_blank” have an underscore in front?Ever wondered why you need the underscore in target="_blank" to open a link in a new tab? 2024-10-25 Kyrylo Silin 200 words Rated Feb 24th - sethherr
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Notes from Carrierwave to Active Storageisland94.org 1,000 words Rated Feb 25th - sethherr
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Texas’s Barbecue SchismRated Feb 25th - sethherr
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I Went To SQL Injection Court — Quarrelsomesockpuppet.org Quarrelsome 3,000 words Rated Feb 26th - sethherr
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Meet the journalists training AI models for Meta and OpenAIThe gig work platform Outlier is one of several companies courting journalists to train large language models (LLMs). Nieman Lab 2,000 words Rated Feb 27th - sethherr
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The secret to perfectly calculate Rails database connection pool sizeisland94.org 1,000 words Rated Feb 27th - sethherr
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