@baitman

I write for humans who use computers. Sometimes I climb things. Opinions are my own

 Zurich, Switzerland
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Joined March 2009
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alexis 🏸@alexiscollado11 Aug 2023
best UX
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Today is primidi 11 Prairial in the year of the Republic CCXXXI, celebrating the strawberry.
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Sam Altman
@sama8 Dec 2022
people seem very excited that chatgpt can expand a few bullet points into a lot of well-written text. it can also collapse a lot of well-written text into a a few bullet points. the latter is much more valuable, right?
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debugging strategy: write a message asking for help
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The guy who just won the Fields Medal – like a Nobel Prize for mathematics – has a work ethic we should all emulate. Three house of focused work per day based on following his desires at that moment. quantamagazine.org/june-huh-…
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I wish I had this kind of UI mod for some of the software at work...
A washing machine with post-its covering all the buttons that are not supposed to be used, each post-it says NO on it

ALT A washing machine with post-its covering all the buttons that are not supposed to be used, each post-it says NO on it

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kathy@kathytzhou29 Mar 2022
when the product has too many tooltips – at Manhattan, NY
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james@virtualjaaames5 Feb 2022
the term "gaslighting" is now used across the entire political spectrum as a weaponised means of expressing the following concept: "saying stuff I don't think is true"
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Last chance to fill out the 2021 salary survey before it closes on *December 20th*! Thank you to all who participated so far, we're excited to review the responses and share the results with the community in February 2022. salary-survey.writethedocs.o… #writethedocs
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Ian Miell@ianmiell22 Aug 2021
TIL: zsh has an on/off option called 'nonomatch' which does not switch off the (implicit, but non-existent) 'nomatch' option, which means that the 'match' option is not not switched off. So you can switch on or off the off-off-match option. Alles klar?
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Don't you know how to start your paper? ...Here I tell you how...
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to be fair this *is* a proper conundrum
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Our newsletter just went out for March! Thanks again to all the lovely folks in our Slack community who are sharing so much knowledge each day, and give us plenty of wisdom to share. 💓 writethedocs.org/blog/newsle… #writethedocs #techcomm

Write the Docs Newsletter – March 2021

Hey everyone! It’s your friendly neighbourhood WTD newsletter team, with our March edition. Spring is here and the year is racing on, and can you believe it’s getting close to conference time? We’v...

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Tim Urban
@waitbutwhy5 Mar 2021
We think a lot about those black lines, forgetting that it’s all still in our hands.
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Thread of all adults in Madrid collectively trying to live out every single idea they’ve ever had about snow in the same 6 hours.
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Super interesting article (dev.to/lazerwalker/using-gam…) and the talk it references (youtube.com/watch?v=voz6S7ry…) about designing social spaces to help build friendships. via @ddbeck
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The talk is about games, but honestly it applies to any space where you can shape how a community interacts - professional or social, online or offline.
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