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For people outside the industry, it may not be common knowledge, but one of the most famous bits of technical writing of all time, was Joel Spolsky saying that you should *never* rewrite an entire code base — 25 years ago. www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/t...

I stumbled across this essay as I was falling asleep last night, and left myself multiple emphatic reminders to remember to circle back to it today.

"The joy we're about to lose...we'll become overseers rather than creators, managers rather than builders."

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I'm looking for video games that include and share the experience of menopause. Any suggestions? Shares welcome.

Holy smokes, I am absolutely in love with this.

it’s true (thread)

YouTube video by Winging It Revisiting Fluid Type

I watched the recording of the conversation that followed from that post.
There is so much to think about, so much to balance, between making a style work and honoring user preferences.
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I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky

You have to read this www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Refresh. — ethanmarcotte.com In 2023, I wrote a book. Several months later, my publisher closed its doors. And now? We’re back, and better than ever.

🦊

I am downright delighted to announce that my latest book, YOU DESERVE A TECH UNION, has a brand new look. I really love it, and I hope you do too.

Here’s a look at what’s changed and—maybe more importantly—what’s stayed the same:

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#YDATUbook #books #unions #1u

I’d love to see so much more ultra high density living. This is an amazing start but there’s so much untapped potential.

Imagine a place with child care, groceries, offices, shopping, and affordable housing, … All in the same building.

Every person on Bluesky should know:
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic

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Psychological safety is NOT about lack of disagreement.

Psychological safety REQUIRES:

* disagreement and debate
* setting standards for behavior and performance, and enforcing them
* telling people things they don't want to hear
* courage, from the bottom up
* humility, from the top down

So many of the tech industry's problems stem from the belief that it is solely logical/rational/detached and the wrong place for those who are creative or empathetic.

Illegal dumping grounds off the New Jersey turnpike across from Manhattan in the 1970s

Smog rolling on over Manhattan in the 1970s

This is what many cities in the U.S. looked like before the EPA.

Why the heck would anyone celebrate deregulating it?

There are two political movements in America right now An invitation to join the one that's smaller (but that won't be for long)

I am, as I often am, grateful for a Garrett Bucks newsletter entry. thewhitepages.net/p/there-are-...

The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks - Audiobooks on Google Play The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love audiobook written by bell hooks. Narrated by Janina Edwards. Get instant access to all your favorite books. No monthly commitment. Listen online or offli...

Ah, I forgot to post this yesterday!

Men only:
A lot of men are reflexively against feminism, because they hear "Things that you men do wrong to women!" or "Power and freedoms that men had, that you now need to share!"

They don't even see it in terms of "Freedoms that women have that men don't."

if you buy used books and want to avoid amazon where possible, check out bookfinder.com

you can search essentially every marketplace in one go

so you can, e.g., find the same used copy for sale, from the same seller, on biblio.com or ebay instead of amazon or abe (owned by amazon)

Gavin Newsom breaks with Democrats on trans athletes in sports The Democratic California governor made the stunning remarks in his debut podcast with conservative guest Charlie Kirk.

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Again, trans sports is not an issue of fairness. As I've said *many* times, most gender affirming care surgery for kids, is cis, straight, boys, getting breast tissue removed, that their bodies started growing after they *abused steroids*, trying to keep up with people like me

Ghost: The best open source blog & newsletter platform Beautiful, modern publishing with email newsletters and paid subscriptions built-in. Used by Platformer, 404Media, Lever News, Tangle, The Browser, and thousands more.

Love how easy ghost.org makes that, so going with something like Substack didn't have to be an option. (Other things getting set up on Ghost were not so easy 😅)

And I'm not big on ads, which cuts a lot of the draw for Beehiiv.

First $5 tip from something I wrote came in this morning. By itself it's not going to make or break my finances but you'd better believe it's made my entire day brighter.

So yeah, if you're ever wondering if clicking one of those "Buy me a coffee" buttons will really have much real impact, they do.

Trump’s tariffs are here. Lessen the pain at the grocery store with these tips. Trump enacted the 25% tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports he’d promised but previously put off. They will hit especially hard at the grocery store.

I was hoping to kick this blog off with an excited lookahead at the spring planting season, but a guide to cutting food costs seems more timely given tariffs.

Shares for reach appreciated so anyone who could benefit gets it.

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Maybe don't use custom properties in shorthand properties - Manuel Matuzovic I'm a frontend developer in Graz, specialized in HTML, accessibility, and CSS layout and architecture.

Maybe don't use custom properties in shorthand properties

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Trump’s tariffs are here. Lessen the pain at the grocery store with these tips. Trump enacted the 25% tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports he’d promised but previously put off. They will hit especially hard at the grocery store.

I was hoping to kick this blog off with an excited lookahead at the spring planting season, but a guide to cutting food costs seems more timely given tariffs.

Shares for reach appreciated so anyone who could benefit gets it.

gardens.chazonabaum.com/blog/trumps-...

The questions ChatGPT shouldn’t answer To that which a chatbot cannot speak, it should pass over in silence.

The Verge covers technology and how it makes us feel - which is to say, @lopatto.bsky.social banger alert www.theverge.com/openai/62420...

The secret is not being afraid of plants dying. It’s how you learn what’s bad, how things can be saved, and what plants can come back from. Once you have that knowledge you can keep almost any plant going.

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I'm a Full Stack software engineer with 5+ years of experience, looking for my next opportunity. My personal values include psychological safety, D&I, and direct communication.

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The selling point of a computer used to be: "math stuff is slow and hard, what if you could do it faster?"

But now LLMs offer us... faster language? But if we go faster, who will listen? I have a hard time keeping up with all written language in the volume we have now. Do we really need more text?

introducing tangled: a git collaboration platform built on #atproto

blog.tangled.sh/intro

Been working on this side project the last 3 months, had a lot of fun and learned a lot. If this sounds like your thing check it out and leave feedback! Also expect lots of bugs 😂
#atproto
#filmsky
#booksky
#videogames

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If we want more women to choose a deal that is objectively bad, we only have a few options:

* Less informed women (trick them!)
* Less free women (force them!)
* Make the deal better (choose this one)

As a society, we have a very easy choice: more billionaires? Or make the deal better for women.

I stand with Ukraine

Proud to live in a country (the Netherlands) that unconditionally supports Ukraine.

Europe needs to re-arm, to support Ukraine and defend itself and democracy.

Ukraine is the one defending Europe from Russian aggression. Ukraine should be part of the EU.

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦