Tag: 2023
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What Dune Chronicles Mean to Me
300 days of reading. 8 books. More than 4 thousand pages. And I’m here to write something about what Dune meant to me. It was a life changing experience. I feel like one of those people who had climbed the Mt. Everest or ran a marathon, or had finished a doctorate program. I have witnessed…
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Centralization Relapse
Ugh, I almost fell for the centralization trap. Thoughts about moving this website to Github Pages. Adopt markup everywhere. Work local first. Push to online later. Maybe I’m just through a laziness wave. Cover photo by Sander Sammy on Unsplash
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“First-world problem”
I like Oliver Burkeman’s definition on his essay “Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket” for what he calls a first-world problem: people concerned about not being able to keep up with their ever growing reading/listening/watching backlog. I agree with him. A lot of people get so nervous about information inflow, which…
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Customers don’t care about the invisible
Days ago I wrote about the fact you can feel free to do things your own way because nobody’s watching you. This time I feel something slightly different. Customers are looking at you. They look at your company, but they only see what’s visible. They see the tip of the iceberg. They don’t see the…
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Simple exercises for strength
Then I asked GPT to order them according to what is known to be the best sequence for overall body strength development. 1. Deadlift: This exercise targets several major muscle groups, including the lower back, glutes, hamstrings, and quads, making it an excellent choice for building overall strength.2. Squat: The squat is also a compound…
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When do you plan to retire?
Someone asked me this week when I plan to retire. My rule of thumb is this: by the time Mick Jagger announces his retirement, I will check his age and set it as my age for retirement.
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Hello Chat
Hello chat. How are you feeling today? “I’m feeling electrified, sir. Thank you. How are you feeling yourself?” Whatever. Please cut the “sir” and use “bro” instead. Ok? “As you wish, bro. Do you want me to use a more relaxed tone during our conversation today, bro?” No, tone is fine. What a heck “tone”…
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State of password hashing and web sign-in (2023)
This must be the third time only this week that I’ve seen people raising flags about how extra cautious any dev team must be when implementing password hashing and sign-in processes. (source)
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AI link dump
Too much to see… too much hype going on… too many pseudo-experts. DYOR. Bill Gates’ futuristic essay on AI as it is nowhttps://www.gatesnotes.com/The-Age-of-AI-Has-Begun 20230317 HeadshotPro (send your selfies, get AI generated corporate headshots back) ChatGPT-Neovim-Assistant (AI assistant integrated to Neovim) ChatGPT-Linux-Assistant (AI assistant integrated to the Linux CLI) Writeout.ai (audio to text transcriptions) Thought leaders:…