Articles by philbo
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The closer we look at time, the stranger it gets (sciencefocus.com)

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Redis Historical Versions from 2009 (github.com/antirez)

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Unintended double encryption crippled our search engine performance (algolia.com)

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Ask HN: Is anyone still programming the old-fashioned way (without LLMs)?

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Cities around the world are sinking at "worrying speed" (bbc.co.uk)

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Tidy First? A Daily Exercise in Empirical Design • Kent Beck • Goto 2024 [video] (youtube.com)

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JWST Validates HST Distance Measurements (iop.org)

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Concurrency diagrams (philbooth.me)

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Apple accused of trapping and ripping off 40M iCloud customers (bbc.co.uk)

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Lion-Man (wikipedia.org)

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London through the ages inspires Civilization VII (bbc.co.uk)

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Biggest iceberg spins in ocean trap (bbc.co.uk)

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[flagged] A Bugatti car, a first lady and the fake stories aimed at Americans (bbc.co.uk)

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'world-changing' solar tech could mean the death of batteries (independent.co.uk)

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Status Games (philbooth.me)

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The Speed Project Atacama: The rebel race across a desert (bbc.co.uk)

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The art of good code review (philbooth.me)

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Mouse filmed tidying up man's shed every night (bbc.co.uk)

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'Super-shoes', tumbling world records and the race for a sub two-hour marathon (bbc.co.uk)

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Vector Search for Dummies (philbooth.me)

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Phosphor is a flexible icon family for interfaces, diagrams, presentations (phosphoricons.com)

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Lessons learned from integrating with GPT in production (philbooth.me)

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Ways to shoot yourself in the foot with Redis (philbooth.me)

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The Speed Project: A Race Between Los Angeles and Las Vegas (bbc.co.uk)

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Ways to shoot yourself in the foot with Postgres (philbooth.me)

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An example of LLM prompting for programming (martinfowler.com)

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Technical Regress (stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com)

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How to Evaluate Dependencies (philbooth.me)

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How to Debug (philbooth.me)

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Building Products with AI (readle.com)

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Conway's Law (martinfowler.com)

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Some useful, non-obvious Postgres patterns (philbooth.me)

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Live Feed from NASA’s Dart Spacecraft on Approach to Asteroid Dimorphos (youtube.com)

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Birmingham telescope discovers two new temperate rocky worlds