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If you're a coder it might be the case that you are sitting a lot. @boroadam has an alternative for you! "Writing code at the speed of thought! Or voice! Or dance?" is not only insightful but quite a funny story about text editing approaches youtu.be/3c4zovqwfM0
"Living in a plague is just an intensified way of living. It merely unveils the radical uncertainty of life that is already here, and puts it into far sharper focus."
nymag.com/intelligencer/2020…
A brain-controlled (via muscles) interface to a modular synth 😲
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Just when I thought he can't be more amazing, Douglas Adams turns out to be a lucid visionary with prescient ideas about the future of computers and the internet.
A computer is not a typewriter nor a TV, it's "a modelling device".
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a broad and optimistic (!) discussion about the technology and where are we headed as a civilisation
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"When we don’t feel confident in our code, it is tempting to attach our sense of self-worth and professional pride to something that can be measured. A set of strict lint rules, a naming schema, a file structure, a lack of duplication." by @dan_abramov
overreacted.io/goodbye-clean…
latest babel release with two important features - nullish coalescing (value ?? 'default') and optional chaining (`some?.thing`) proposals
babeljs.io/blog/2020/01/11/7…
the amazing story of @dan_abramov - of a true passion for software
overreacted.io/my-decade-in-…
a thorough overview of a simple app built with Elixir & Phoenix on the back-end, React & Apollo on the front-end, and GraphQL as the communication layer
schneider.dev/blog/elixir-ph…
scrollable model of the solar system, which shows how immense interplanetary distances are
by @misterjworth
joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace…
a quick refresher on #javascript Promises in the form of a quiz
danlevy.net/javascript-promi…
How React implements PHP's mental model (but on the client) By @leeb
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Great summary of what React is, which makes it much more distinguishable from magic! 👏By @pomber
pomb.us/build-your-own-react…
Ray Dalio on the state of capitalism: "I am worried what the next economic downturn will be like, especially as central banks have limited ability to reverse it and we have so much political polarity and populism."
economicprinciples.org/Why-a…
Interesting discussion about what the ageing population means for our world, and how to live with uncertain future. Seems that being cool with it and living in the present is the most optimal solution.
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"Signals compete with each other, the winning signals are boosted at the expense of the losing signals, and those winning signals can then go on to influence the animal’s movements. […] Our human attention is merely an elaborated version of it"
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"Bill Gates was not the first and only Bill Gates, he was […] the last Bill Gates; many people made huge fortunes off OSes, both before and after […] Gates, however, proved the market, and refined the Gates strategy to perfection, using up the trick"
gwern.net/Timing#try-try-aga…