Articles by FigurativeVoid
165

The most banned books in U.S. schools (pen.org)

4

Going beyond Ruby: Writing a simple C extension (aha.io)

2

Ups and FedEx Ground MD-11 Cargo Planes After Louisville Crash (nytimes.com)

6

We de-risked our editor upgrade (aha.io)

2

Solving Impossible Problems (aha.io)

1

Allow me to introduce the two-sentence journal (alexanderbjoy.com)

22

Confessions of the Working Poor (macleans.ca)

3

Library of Babel (libraryofbabel.info)

10

Is AI the end of coding as we know it, or just another tool? (aha.io)

16

Daily Notes Considered Harmful (literallythevoid.com)

1

I Outline Everything (literallythevoid.com)

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NoSurf – Stop wasting life on the net (nosurf.net)

2

The Bear Manifesto – Herman's Blog (herman.bearblog.dev)

3

Anthropic Principle (wikipedia.org)

3

Partitioning a large table in PostgreSQL with Rails (aha.io)

1

Home – Gov.uk Design System (service.gov.uk)

98

Full Text Search of US Court records (judyrecords.com)

74

There Is a Significant Need for Retirement Savings in the US (apolloacademy.com)

3

Rails views, web components, React. Why make a choice? (aha.io)

2

To better understand the world, follow the paths of mathematics (aeon.co)

15

FEMA's website started deleting 'climate change' (theverge.com)

1

Rilke and the art of listening as a way to shape the cosmos (aeon.co)

121

Rails for everything (literallythevoid.com)

2

A foundation model for generalizable disease detection from retinal images (nature.com)

1

Nigel Richards won Spanish Scrabble championship without speaking language (washingtonpost.com)

4

Ask HN: How to Buy a House

2

Daily Reading with Bash (literallythevoid.com)

1

ChatGPT's Poetry Is Incompetent and Banal: A Discussion of Porter and Machery [pdf] (nyu.edu)

4

We love bugs (and you should, too) (aha.io)

1

Transparency, autonomy, responsiveness, and education: How the Aha team works (aha.io)

99

Gettiers in software engineering (2019) (jsomers.net)

1

Tell HN: GitHub Down (?)

2

Is capitalism making you lonely? (2024) (inexactscience.substack.com)

1

How to Make a Nation of Meat Eaters Crave the Humble Bean (2024) (nytimes.com)

6

Defense Innovation Board – 10 Commandments of Software [pdf] (2018) (defense.gov)

1

Late teen Carlo Acutis approved to become first millennial saint (2024) (npr.org)

2

Nobody Can Make You Feel Genetically Inferior Without Your Consent (astralcodexten.com)

1

The decades long quagmire of encapsulated HTML – Russell Beattie's Notes (russellbeattie.com)

2

A Never Ending Haiku – Nicht Bei Trost – Franz Dodel (franzdodel.ch)

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Third Time: a better way to work (2022) (lesswrong.com)

6

But Why a Penguin? (jstor.org)

6

Alice Munro, Nobel Prize-winning short story author, dies at 92 (npr.org)

7

Fast Tokenizers with StringScanner (2023) (tenderlovemaking.com)

1

Bryantcodes.art (bryantcodes.art)

1

But Why a Penguin? (jstor.org)

8

Using calculated attributes to help users surface delivery risks (aha.io)

2

Flexbox.help (flexbox.help)

2

Modern CSS Patterns in Campfire (37signals.com)

1

Third Time: a better way to work (2022) (lesswrong.com)

3

Trump's social media company gets its chance to go public (axios.com)

1

The Mystery of Internet Survey IQs (astralcodexten.com)

2

Claude 3 Opus Also Fails Steve Landsburg's Economics Exam (marginalrevolution.com)

3

The Vital Necessity of Old Books (millersbookreview.com)

0

Oblique Strategies (oblique-strategies.com)

2

The Hugo Awards Scandal Is a Mess (vulture.com)

8

From many to one: Moving our JavaScript code into a monorepo (aha.io)

1

In the Shadow of Silicon Valley (2024) (lrb.co.uk)

1

BEM – a methodology that creates reusable components in front‑end development (getbem.com)

1

When Junior Heads to College, Helicopter Parents Turn to Empty-Nest Coaches (wsj.com)

1

The Sleepy Copyright Office in the Middle of a High-Stakes Clash over A.I (nytimes.com)

2

Letter to Hey (trentguillory.com)

1

Impressions from a Longer Stay in Tokyo (2023) (casnocha.com)

7

Ordinary Men: Elon Musk and the court biographer (thepointmag.com)

10

How Aha whiteboards smoothly handle editing thousands of objects (aha.io)

9

Debugging Ruby the Hard Way (aha.io)

1

Keeping a Practice Log (literallythevoid.com)

1

Many books Americans own – and how they organize them (yougov.com)

2

Bentoism: A wider view of self-interest (bentoism.org)

1

Confessions of a Viral AI Writer (wired.com)

1

Montreal Cognitive Assessment (wikipedia.org)

0

Warming Up for Work (literallythevoid.com)

1

Fast Tokenizers with StringScanner (tenderlovemaking.com)

1

2023 CWE Top Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses (mitre.org)

12

Solving a critical bug in the default Rails caching library (aha.io)

2

Letter from an English Department on the Brink (nybooks.com)

1

Ma (Negative Space) (wikipedia.org)

3

Classical Guitar Tablature (classtab.org)

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Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe, writer of poetic fiction, dies (go.com)

3

Lilly Cuts Insulin Prices by 70% and Caps Patient Insulin Costs at $35 per Month (lilly.com)

2

Brutalist Web Design (brutalist-web.design)

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How to Crash an Airplane – Nickolas Means – The Lead Developer UK 2016 (youtube.com)

1

FDA Approves First Drug That Can Delay Onset of Type 1 Diabetes (fda.gov)

2

Using capybara to test responsive code (aha.io)