Gatsby's long road to incremental builds

Level up your SSH game with this nice rundown of tricks. How to: add a second factor to your SSH login, use agent forwarding safely, exit from stuck sessions, share a remote terminal session with a friend, and more.

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Mickey Muldoon shares 20 rules to being a 1x developer 😂

I am a 1x developer. I do enough to get by respectably.

Serge Zaitsev:

So, I ended up doing 80% of my work in terminals with tmux. But, the prefix thing? Pardonnez-moi, but usability matters. Pressing a chorded prefix hotkey only to press another chorded hotkey to perform a single action is clear nonsense.

With this in mind, I decided to customize my tmux to use only simple chorded hotkeys without a prefix for most common actions, and to make them easy to remember.

He shares his resulting tmux.conf and the reasoning behind the system he devised.

This is a very detailed article on:

directly comparing Ember and React, using the latest idioms and best practices from both frameworks.

It goes really deep into the differences and the developer experiences of both frameworks and is a really good read for someone who is curious about what modern Ember looks like, especially if they have some previous React knowledge.

Lj Miranda:

I made a website that generates cute 8-bit avatars using Conway’s Game of Life. Simply type in your name, and it will create a unique sprite just for you! Try out the changelog, jerod santo, or adam stacoviak!

Conway’s Game of Life is something that we consider as a Cellular Automaton. It was a mathematical model created by the mathematician John Conway, who, unfortunately, passed away a few weeks ago due to the coronavirus. I highly encourage you to know more about Conway, he’s such an interesting and unique individual!

Built with Vue and Python. Source code here.

Caddy has been around for a while, so this is a major release for the project. Hard to believe this is true today (emphasis added)

Still the only web server to use TLS automatically and by default.

Caddy 2’s new architecture was inspired by 5 years of experience with Caddy 1 and took 14 months to design. There’s a lot here, so we probably need to get the team on The Changelog or Go Time to discuss in depth.

The name derives from the Standup meetings since its initial purpose was to cover my need for keeping my Standup notes in a convenient way.

Quickly enter notes with a flexible text interface. Note creation looks like:

stup add @|--at|-@ <when> -n|--note "<note text>" -c|--category "<category-name>"

Then you can pull them back out by date, date-range, and/or category with:

$ stup show @ <when> -c|--category "<category-name>"

Notes are all saved as plaintext (markdown) so throw the entire directory in your synced-cloud-folder solution of choice and you have instant notes sync across all your devices.

Is this more proof of Cunningham’s law, which says, “The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question; it’s to post the wrong answer.”

Update: as some keen HN commenters have pointed out, it looks like the rust program is not actually equivalent to the go program. The go program parses the string once, while the rust program parses it repeatedly inside every loop. It’s quite late in Sydney as I write this so I’m not up for a fix right now, but this post is probably Fake News.

Read Christian’s post then have fun in the comments and discussions on HN and Reddit analyzing his hypothesis, which includes a repo of code to backup his ideas.

I hate to let the cat out of the bag, but it’s not a huge surprise to me that the underlying economics of the business would be the strongest predictor of interest for VCs. Still though, you should at least skim this…

We analyzed the results of our first 500 reviews and calculated the correlations between high marks in categories like team, problem area and business economics with the number of requested intros from our reviewing VCs. Overall, high scores on the review were a strong predictor of VC interest, but the results of the scores of the individual categories might surprise you.

What is this sorcery?

For those out there that lead or contribute to a corporate engineering blog, Dan Luu interviewed folks at Cloudflare, Heap, and Segment, as well as folks at three different companies with “lame corporate engineering blogs” to get a sense of what makes them interesting or lame.

I’ve been comparing notes with people who run corporate engineering blogs and one thing that I think is curious is that it’s pretty common for my personal blog to get more traffic than the entire corp eng blog for a company with a nine to ten figure valuation and it’s not uncommon for my blog to get an order of magnitude more traffic.

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In order to have a boring blog, the corporation has to actively stop engineers from putting interesting content out there. Unfortunately, it appears that the natural state of large corporations tends towards risk aversion and blocking people from writing, just in case it causes a legal or PR or other problem.

Learn how a CNN model transforms different images into class predictions with all of the intermediate steps along the way. It’s interactive, so you can select individual neurons and inspect the details.