Parents outraged at Snoo after smart bassinet company charges fee to rock crib
The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Some parents are complaining that a high-tech bassinet company is nickel and dime-ing them through a monthly subscription program. The new parents are upset because some of the basic […]
How You Communicate Signals Your Seniority
Three sentences in, I will likely have judged whether you are a good leader. 3 common pitfalls to avoid sounding more junior than you are. Coaching Corner I’m giving a FREE talk on executive presence with Reforge. 1,200 sign ups already and going strong! This talk follows my previous one on Self-Advocacy, and as a […]
Show HN: Transform Your PostgreSQL into a Powerful Job Queue
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Micro-libraries need to die already
August 18, 2024 It is the year 2024. It has been eight years since left-pad first made people realize that, hey, maybe it’s not a great idea to outsource trivial functionality to random people on the internet. But in the year 2024, I still see some people arguing that actually, micro-libraries are good, and we […]
Leaving Neovim for Zed
I think every developer has their own text editor journey and how they landed on the tool they use today. Perhaps I’m a geek but I love those stories. I have a great appreciation for developer tools and the work that goes into them. This post is for the other geeks out there that also […]
Energy economics and rocket science with Casey Handmer
Casey and I discuss solar energy economics, learning curves, the triumphs and foibles of the space industry, and more. I’m joined this week by my buddy Casey Handmer of Terraform Industries. The conversation starts with catching up non-specialists to the exciting revolution in solar energy which happened over the last 15 years (and continues to […]
Debugging operating systems with time-traveling virtual machines [pdf]
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Show HN: Wd-40, a static webserver with automatic hot-reloads
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Ask HN: What was your biggest startup fail?
I can’t give details over why I learned these lessons without dox’ing myself, even speaking in broadstrokes is hard and the actors are litigious. – Don’t make your product hard to buy. – Don’t take investments from a potential customer. Long story short, the key innovation was fiscal (looking to draw revenue from the real […]
Fear Not the Association of Types
Rough data hit my eyes recently and the takeaway was unsurprising: Rust associated types are misunderstood. In Chapter 17 of the Rust Book Experiment Will Crichton decided to inject questions on API design. The questions have been up long enough for us to see the preliminary data, and so far, the results are not great. […]