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Joy & Curiosity #6
Interesting & joyful things from the previous week
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August 2024

Leave something for tomorrow
Did I get it from Holman, or Hemingway?
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No, really: YAGNI
Friday evening I had dinner with Felix. Among other things, we talked about good code. Good code, we both agreed, is simple. It's code boiled down to…
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Second's an Eternity
Text rendering is mind-blowing
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It's in the stories
It’s been a few weeks since I listened to this German podcast episode about the downfall of a company called Schlecker and I keep thinking about an…
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Things you can do with codebases
It's easy to forget that we're surrounded by millions and millions of lines of code that we can access and build and run and modify and tweak — whenever…
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July 2024

Database Indexes & Phone Books
One of the best analogies I’ve ever been taught
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Did you know about Instruments?
For the longest time, I thought Instruments on macOS wasn’t for me.
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Matrix Theory of Mind
A few months ago I listened to this episode of the Search Engine podcast in which PJ Vogt, the host, talks to Ezra Klein about the internet and media…
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With Nothing to Do
It was eight years ago that I lived through some of the worst weeks of my life as a professional software engineer.
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June 2024

Note From the Bouncy Castle
In one of my more philosophical moments two years ago, I said to a friend: you don’t need much more for a good time than a grill with bratwurst on it…
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Be findable
“But isn’t that self-promotion?”, said with a disgusted face.
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