Articles by damethos
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The secret inside one million boxes (eieio.games)

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4 billion if statements (2023) (andreasjhkarlsson.github.io)

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When Good Enough Software Is Best (Edward Yourdon – 1995) [pdf] (bournemouth.ac.uk)

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Software is now eating itself (devpg.substack.com)

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KuzuDB says so long and thanks for all the commits, marooning community (theregister.com)

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Starlink is burning up one or two satellites a day in Earth's atmosphere (theregister.com)

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OpenAI says models are programmed to make stuff up (theregister.com)

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The State of React and the Community in 2025 (isquaredsoftware.com)

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Mark Zuckerberg Sues Mark Zuckerberg (techcrunch.com)

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Parsing 1B Rows in Bun/TypeScript Under 10 Seconds (taekim.dev)

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System tests have failed (2024) (world.hey.com)

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Internet Artifacts (neal.fun)

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Mental Models for Startup Founders (invertedpassion.com)

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Paper: Theory of Mind (2005) (cell.com)

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Elwood Edwards, Voice of AOL's 'You've Got Mail ' Alert, Dies at 74 (nytimes.com)

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Apple will pay researchers up to $1M to hack its private AI cloud (techcrunch.com)

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Fly brain breakthrough 'huge leap' to unlock human mind (bbc.com)

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Elasticsearch will be open source again as CTO declares changed landscape (devclass.com)

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Hewlett Packard to pursue Mike Lynch's estate for up to $4B (theguardian.com)

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Telegram CEO Indicted in Paris Court (yourerie.com)

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Brain Scientists Discover the Glue That Makes Memories Stick (scientificamerican.com)

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I'm Launching 12 Startups in 12 Months (2014) (levels.io)

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The Curse of Knowledge (nesslabs.com)

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Design Ain't a Democracy (robinrendle.com)

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Building and scaling Notion's data lake (notion.so)

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DHH – Programmers should stop celebrating incompetence (2021) (world.hey.com)

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Nvidia value surges past $3T and overtakes Apple (bbc.com)

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Data Fetching Patterns in Single-Page Applications (martinfowler.com)

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Did we fail to develop the next generation of designers? (uxdesign.cc)

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SQL co-creator embraces NoSQL (theregister.com)

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Amazon walked out on self-checkout technology (engadget.com)

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Working Hours. Are we working more than ever? (ourworldindata.org)

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Your code may be elegant, but mine f***ing works (omniti.com)

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The most important goal in designing software is understandability (ntietz.com)

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Nvidia posts revenue up 265% on booming AI business (cnbc.com)

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Reddit will offer shares in its IPO to 75,000 of its most active users (marketwatch.com)

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UI is a function of your organization (jim-nielsen.com)

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Measuring Developer Productivity: Real-World Examples (pragmaticengineer.com)

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Cloudflare defends firing of staffer for reasons HR could not explain (theregister.com)

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Ski resorts battle for a future as snow declines in climate crisis (theguardian.com)

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E3 Is Officially over Forever (theverge.com)

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Examples of Great URL Design (jim-nielsen.com)

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Gartner Hype Cycle (wikipedia.org)

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One line of code caused a $60M loss (engineercodex.substack.com)

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Don't disable buttons (gomakethings.com)

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Look Back Less (world.hey.com)

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Tao of React (alexkondov.com)

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How to burnout a software engineer, in 3 easy steps (engineercodex.substack.com)

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Microplastics detected in clouds hanging atop two Japanese mountains (theguardian.com)

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Python developers won't let go of Python 2 (infoworld.com)

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Free software pioneer Richard Stallman is battling cancer (theregister.com)

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DHH removes TypeScript from Turbo framework (devclass.com)

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Canadian Prisons Restrict Technology to the 1990s (cbc.ca)

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Y Combinator removes Indian startup from batch over ‘irregularities’ (techcrunch.com)

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Is PHP Worth Learning in 2023? (anastasionico.uk)

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Scientists Recreate Pink Floyd Song by Reading Brain Signals of Listeners (nytimes.com)

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Why Tailwind CSS Won (matt-rickard.com)

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Supermassive black holes may solve mystery of our universe's gravitational 'hum' (space.com)

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Moving Faster (scattered-thoughts.net)

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Researchers watched 100 hours of hackers hacking honeypot computers (techcrunch.com)

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Amazon has more than half of all Arm server CPUs in the world (theregister.com)

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Why Are People Still Using C? (thecodist.com)

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What I wish I knew before moving 50k lines of code to React Server Components (mux.com)

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Arc: A radical fresh take on the web browser (theregister.com)

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Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript (1995) (archive.org)

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Acting your wage will atrophy your abilities – DHH (world.hey.com)

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Elizabeth Holmes is going to prison – with a $500M bill (theregister.com)

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Amazon: Reduce costs by 90% by moving from microservices to monolith (devclass.com)

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How to Pass My Interview (alexanderlolis.com)

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Hubble Sees Possible Runaway Black Hole Creating a Trail of Stars (nasa.gov)

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Directly Responsible Individual (DRI) (about.gitlab.com)

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Building a collaborative asynchronous work environment (stackoverflow.blog)

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Fight or Flight? Breathe Instead (alexanderlolis.com)

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System design and the cost of architectural complexity (2013) (dspace.mit.edu)

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Quantifying Technical Debt (chelseatroy.com)

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Microsoft axes 10k, already breaking bad news to staff (theregister.com)