@dnnydnl

Connector of dots. Narrow Road stumbler. Soli Deo Gloria. (personal account)

donny.in
Joined July 2010
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"There is little new under the sun ... much of what we must do is to continue repackaging eternal truths for a new context" A wonderful nugget of wisdom from @dhh's reading list.
DHH
@dhh6 Jun 2019
What I've been reading, as answered to automatic monthly question in our Basecamp.
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Daniel Lemire
@lemire6 Mar 2023
Actual email exchange I just had.
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Gregor@ghohpe6 Mar 2023
Reference architecture
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This microservice could have been a SQL query
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Chatbot search is a terrible idea, especially in an era in which the web is likely to fill up with vast mountains of AI #bullshit, the frozen gabble of #StochasticParrots: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/34421… 10/
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I made a lenticular printing style website レンチキュラー風ウェブサイトできた #threejs #webgl #webdesign
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Tim Ottinger@tottinge14 Feb 2023
Market fit matters so much, that companies make a lot of money and get a lot of users *despite* their process and practices, NOT BECAUSE OF THEM. I freely admit and accept that.
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SGI's 3D File System Navigator (1993)
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Still remember being blown away by the 2Advanced website revisions...
Web Design Museum
@WebDesignMuseum6 Feb 2023
Futuristic web design trends 20 years ago – depthCORE – Ketuh Records – Offbias Flight Emotions – RealitySlip and more... webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/… #WebDesignHistory
depthCORE website in 2003

ALT depthCORE website in 2003

Ketuh Records website in 2003

ALT Ketuh Records website in 2003

Offbias Flight Emotions website in 2003

ALT Offbias Flight Emotions website in 2003

RealitySlip website in 2003

ALT RealitySlip website in 2003

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Why did artists stop making art?
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Evan You
@evanyou3 Feb 2023
Vitest pro tip: if you have many test files and they share a lot of common modules, tests actually run faster with --no-threads because it avoids repeated module initialization costs. This made Vue 3 unit tests run 6x faster on CI 🤯
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I'll never forget asking a guy who maintained 40yo mainframes for an insurance co why he didn't just migrate the apps. His reply: the firm's actuarial code relies on specific bugs in the mainframe OS's floating-point handling. Run on any other system, it would produce chaos.
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We have two latent superpowers: paying attention and giving a shit. If you fully leverage them, you're ahead of 99% of people
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sam
@SamuelBeek17 Jan 2023
This UI is 17(!) years old, and still looks super modern
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#Himachal’s Baljeet Kaur became the first (and only) Indian to climb five 8,000-metre peaks in a single season. #Inspiration #Passion #ChaseYourDreams #FirstWoman #HimachalPradesh
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Terrific Patreon update about the state of Mastodon. Interesting that 31K/month is enough to cover costs and leave some over for growth. (Reminiscent of arXiv.) Open protocols create even more opportunity. If you're on Mastodon, support your instance and Mastodon central!
Very fortunately, our support on Patreon grew as well, from previously about $7K USD per month to (as of writing) $31K USD per month, which not only covers the increased operating costs, but also opens up new opportunities for our non-profit organization to grow, which I am extremely grateful for. Mastodon has been a very small operation for a very long time, it started and continued up to now as a solo venture with a moderately growing number of contractors; both the new challenges and the increased support mean that it's time to take it a step further.

ALT Very fortunately, our support on Patreon grew as well, from previously about $7K USD per month to (as of writing) $31K USD per month, which not only covers the increased operating costs, but also opens up new opportunities for our non-profit organization to grow, which I am extremely grateful for. Mastodon has been a very small operation for a very long time, it started and continued up to now as a solo venture with a moderately growing number of contractors; both the new challenges and the increased support mean that it's time to take it a step further.

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Riley Goodside
@goodside6 Jan 2023
The prompt injection attack I keep in my Twitter bio is pulling in a great harvest tonight.
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Many tech execs or startup founders don’t understand what engineers liked about working at institutions like Bell Labs, PARC, or Google. I don’t expect them to understand.
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Jehad Affoneh
@jaffoneh28 Dec 2022
This is also a reminder that your business only gets more complex *unless* you actively simplify. Most businesses focus on reducing complexity as they grow. What you really need to focus on is *scaling simplicity*. That’s where you start getting exponential gains.
Aaron Levie
@levie28 Dec 2022
As a general rule, you want to keep your business model as simple as possible. Complexity not only ultimately confuses customers which slows growth down, but it eventually confuses your own strategy over time.
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gfodor.id
@gfodor27 Dec 2022
Today I'm releasing an open source project called Webspaces. Webspaces builds 3D worlds *into* the web, using just HTML. Add a <script> tag and an HTML page becomes a 3D world where you can build objects, share content, or hang out. 1/ webspaces.space

Webspaces

Webspaces lets you create multiplayer, collaborative 3D worlds built in plain HTML.

webspaces.space
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I’m a W, how about you?
A comic that jokes about the idea of a “T-Shaped Engineer” by suggesting several other letter shapes including the “W-shaped engineer”, with the W representing a helpless shrug

ALT A comic that jokes about the idea of a “T-Shaped Engineer” by suggesting several other letter shapes including the “W-shaped engineer”, with the W representing a helpless shrug

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