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Marginalia Search

Marginalia Search is a small independent do-it-yourself search engine for surprising but content-rich websites that never ask you to accept cookies...

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4 billion if statements

Blabbin’

4 billion if statements

I recently stumbled upon this screenshot while researching social media on the train. Of course, it was followed by a cascade of spiteful comments,...

Trains with built in obsolescence:

Dieselgate, but for trains – some heavyweight hardware hacking – BadCyber

A taste of what's to come

Express.co.uk

Financial contagion warning as HSBC is told to brace for £6.3bn hit

Bob Lyddon fears losses in Hong Kong and China could "blow a hole in the bank

“The big money is not in the buying and the selling but in the waiting” - Charlie Munger. This talk is a good one, basically a condensed version of Cialdini's book Influence:

Reflection is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural

When I watch a talk like this, I am startled by all the complexity and syntax added to languages to hide some implementation details or allow you to write one function instead of several or whatever else. Everything has its use case, but generally I feel it's insane. Devs are forever learning the new hotness for a marginal benefit. Nobody ever masters their tools.

Great podcast on the importance of software performance:

SE Radio 577: Casey Muratori on Clean Code, Horrible Performance? – Software Engineering Radio

New skyscraper to be built in Saudi, Epicon

Another approach to solving the problems of multiple representations of data and the associated transformations required in currently popular web apps: "local-first software". Seems like is useful for different use cases that you may reach for HTMX.