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Some of my favorite resources on software design and development

As of May 2021

Articles, Essays, and Monographs

• Local-first software by Martin Kleppmann, Adam Wiggins, Peter van Hardenberg, Mark McGranaghan
• The Log: What every software engineer should know about real-time data's unifying abstraction by Jay Kreps
• PHP: a fractal of bad design by Eevee
• Project Cambria: Translate your data with lenses by Geoffrey Litt & Peter van Hardenberg

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Mar 1 12:14:40 AM  Starting HTTP server listening on port 8080
Mar 1 12:15:59 AM  Mon Mar 01 05:15:59 GMT 2021 [worker-4] ERROR - POST /subscribe
Mar 1 12:15:59 AM  clojure.lang.ExceptionInfo: No reader function for tag object {:type java.lang.RuntimeException, :line 242, :column 5, :message "No reader function for tag object", :sci.impl/callstack #object[clojure.lang.Delay 0x5df8b983 {:status :pending, :val nil}], :file "/app/./server.bb", :locals {req {:remote-addr "68.195.40.53", :headers {"origin" "https://vaxavailability-help.onrender.com", "host" "vaxavailability-help.onrender.com", "user-agent" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/14.0.3 Safari/605.1.15", "content-type" "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", "content-length" "246", "x-request-start" "1614575759839572", "referer" "https://vaxavailability-help.onrender.com/?lang=es", "accept" "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8", "accept-language" "en-us", "x-forwarde

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curl https://am-i-eligible.covid19vaccine.health.ny.gov/api/list-providers | jq

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{:deps {org.clojure/clojure    {:type :mvn :version "1.9.0-alpha17"}
        org.clojure/test.check {:type :mvn :version "0.10.0-alpha2"}}
 :providers {:mvn {:repos {"central" {:url "https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/"}
                           "clojars" {:url "https://clojars.org/repo/"}}}}}

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https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-rise-and-fall-of-getting-things-done

This initially reads as though it might be a profile of Merlin Mann, who helped popularize David Allen’s productivity technique Getting Things Done. But it quickly goes deeper, way deeper, into our conception of productivity, its history in our culture, its implication in the current wave of burnout, and how it might evolve in the future.

This paragraph is the inflection point:

Before there was “personal productivity,” there was just productivity: a measure of how much a worker could produce in a fixed interval of time. At the turn of the twentieth century, Frederick Taylor and his acolytes had studied the physical movements of factory workers, looking for places to save time and reduce costs. It wasn’t immediately obvious how this industrial concept of productivi

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Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

• I am aviflax on github.
• I am flaximus (https://keybase.io/flaximus) on keybase.
• I have a public key ASBSIzxLu2iytAPJKnBUgLv87uynRxSFH8oACr1iHvzikwo

To claim this, I am signing this object:

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OS	Year of Initial Release
BSD	1977
MINIX	1987
NextStep	1989
Linux	1991
Solaris	1992

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This next abbreviation should be denoted as such, IIRC.

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Discussing categories vs tags in Discourse:

Categories are like walls. Build 4 and you have a nice house; build 24 and you have a maze. Tags are much lighter weight structures than categories and more flexible.

from Do Categories Scale?