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Simplicity, restraint and constraints are good for starting most things. But especially to delivering on ambitious things. Like infinite* file storage.
Yet what's happening to the web is far more sinister than simple greed, but the destruction of the user-generated internet, where executives think they've found a way to replace human beings making cool things with generative monstrosities trained on datasets controlled and monetized by trillion-dollar firms.
Original Hope Three and a half decades ago, when I invented the web, its trajectory was impossible to imagine. There was no roadmap to predict the course of its evolution, it was a captivating odyssey filled with unforeseen opportunities and challenges. Underlying its whole infrastructure was the intention to allow for collaboration, foster compassion and
Tim Berners-Lee adds to the web situation today.
Note about the 3Cs: creativity, collaboration and compassion
Netscape 6.0 is finally going into its first public beta. There never was a version 5.0. The last major release, version 4.0, was released almost three years ago. Three years is an awfully long time in the Internet world. During this time, Netscape sat by, helplessly, as their market share plummeted. It's a bit smarmy…
TLDR don’t rewrite things from scratch
The bittersweet consequence of YouTube’s incredible growth is that so many stories will be lost underneath all of the layers of new paint. This is why I wanted to tell the story of how, ten years ago, a small team of web developers conspired to... | Chris Zacharias | Founder of imgix. YCombinator alum. Ex-YouTuber. Studied New Media at RIT.
Were they right? Were they wrong? History sides with them.
Something that I find missing in almost every software company is this thing that I’m not sure I’ve seen explicitly called out anywhere, but I’m going to call...
It’s a massive rant but in the end I tend to agree with a lot of parts. I also love URLs
similarly, durable execution, built by Thomas Pelletier and friends
How is temporal.io related to cadenceworkflow.io? What should be used if starting a new project depending on the cadence workflow service?
Get the neighbors of a given geohash
Most modern coolers will provide sufficient pressure to spread a pea sized amount of thermal paste to cover the whole cooler.
There are also thermal pads, both reusable and single use, that perfom well and don't require any guesswork.
If you want to paste, noctua has the best paste in terms of thermal resistance, but mx4 or mx5 both perform well, as does cryorig and a bunch of others.
Maybe next time I have to explain to my designer why the email is so much work to craft maybe I’ll send them this article instead.
A few weeks ago, Uber posted an article detailing how they built their “highest query per second service using Go”. The article is fairly short and is required reading to understand the motivation…
From All Things Distributed blog by Werner Vogel
In the early 80's, way before the world wide web …
Podcast recommended by Christian at Mural
Hack | A typeface designed for source code
Elixir Jobs section
A deep dive into the world of vector networks, and the engineering challenges involved in their implementation.
The home for Austin's best BBQ from the legendary Central Texas BBQ family.
J'ai rencontré un développeur qui savait tout. En passant mon temps avec lui, j'ai fini par comprendre comment il fonctionnait.
Chaque page était TOUJOURS structurée de la même façon.
1 – Modèle MentalUne phrase pour comprendre l’idée ou le concept. Une explication rapide du fonctionnement de quelque chose. Souvent une forte simplification. Presque à chaque fois une métaphore. Car le cerveau est étonnamment efficace à retenir des concepts sous forme de métaphores.
2 – AperçuTrois à quatre phrases qui donnent un aperçu de l’idée ou du concept. Ça doit être simple à comprendre et facile à retenir. Plusieurs phrases permettent d’être plus précis et de limiter les simplifications.
3 – En profondeurPlusieurs paragraphes d’explication sur le sujet qui approfondissent l’idée ou le concept. C’est aussi long que nécessaire. Presque aucune simplification n’est admise ici.
4 – SchémaUne image, un schéma, un graphique du concept ou de l’idée. Car une image vaut 100 000 mots. Comme la plupart des gens, JF comprend mieux les choses avec un schéma. C’est très efficace.
5 – QuizzUne succession de 8 à 10 questions autour de l’idée ou du concept pour tester les connaissances autour de celui-ci. Très important, il utilisait la balise details pour cacher la réponse de chaque question. Le but étant de forcer la personne à aller chercher la réponse dans son cerveau. On va y revenir.