Technology is a big destroyer of emotion and truth. Auto-tuning doesn’t do anything for creativity. Yeah, it makes it easier and you can get home sooner, but it doesn’t make you a more creative person. That’s the disease we have to fight in any creative field: ease of use. //Jack White

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#Favorites

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//datadog sponsored

Factorio 1.0
//factorio comments→

How to stop procrastinating by using the Fogg Behavior Model
//deprocrastination comments→

Dependency
//xkcd comments→

I'm Open Sourcing the Have I Been Pwned Code Base
//troyhunt comments→

Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition
//npr comments→

Apple, Epic, and the App Store
//stratechery comments→

PDF: Still unfit for human consumption, 20 years later
//nngroup comments→

Implementing 'focus and reply' for Fastmail with JMAP
//jvns comments→

File handling in Unix: tips, traps and outright badness
//rachelbythebay comments→

How Taiwan’s Digital Minister solved a mask supply problem
//wired comments→

#Ask HN

How do you switch off from work, particularly when working from home?

Self-taught webdev with lots of free time. What should I learn?

Newly Remote Workers – Where Are You Moving?

#Show HN

Umami: Self-hosted open-source alternative to Google Analytics //umami comments→

Isoflow – Infrastructure Diagrams //isoflow comments→

Dropbase 2.0 – Turn offline files into live databases //dropbase comments→

Visual Game Editor for Pixi.js //ctjs comments→

#Code

Kosmonaut: web browser from scratch in Rust //github comments→

MicroPython //micropython comments→

Rome: A Linter for JavaScript and TypeScript //romefrontend comments→

#Design

GradientMagic //gradientmagic comments→

APL386 Unicode – An APL Font //github comments→

The Market for Discontinued Photographic Film //github comments→

#Learn

Entropy Explained, with Sheep //aatishb comments→

Not everyone needs 8 hours of sleep: new research //time comments→

A $10B Experimental City Nearly Got Built in Rural Minnesota //smithsonianmag comments→

#Books

Haskell Mini-Patterns Handbook //github comments→

A Database of Historical Cookbooks //atlasobscura comments→

Art of chording //artofchording comments→

Essential Coding Theory [pdf] //buffalo comments→

Producing Open Source Software Book //producingoss comments→

Science Fiction Books I’ve Read //fortelabs comments→

#Watching

The brilliance of All Gas No Brakes //substack comments→

Computerphile: From Algol 60 to Pascal //youtube comments→

Can you fit a whole game into a QR code? //youtube comments→

DARPA AlphaDogfight Finals: AI agents compete to face a human F-16 pilot //youtube comments→

Brad Frost: Death to Bullsh!t (2013) //vimeo comments→

#Working

Most “mandatory requirements” in corporations are imaginary //nibblestew comments→

To the future occupants of my office at the MIT Media Lab //ethanzuckerman comments→

Factorio and Software Engineering //nindalf comments→

Developer won’t get hit by a bus, they’ll get hired by Netflix //neomindlabs comments→

We are a spectrum of jobs, not just one //rachelbythebay comments→

#Startup News

Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices //oculus comments→

Mozilla signs fresh Google search deal //theregister comments→

Scribd acquires SlideShare from LinkedIn //techcrunch comments→

#Fun

Photo Realistic QR-Codes //QRpicture comments→

Pure Skill Minesweeper //andrewt comments→

Street View of 1940s New York //1940s comments→

I made a mechanical keyboard with 3D-printed switches //incoherency comments→

Foiling Electric Boat //candelaspeedboat comments→

#Cutting Room Floor

Can't you just right click? //lapcatsoftware comments→

Raise Less Money //aaronkharris comments→

Handwritten.js – Convert typed text to realistic handwriting //github comments→

Practical Data Ethics //fast comments→

It's been a pretty insane 12 hours across the Bay Area //noaa comments→

My One Day at Recurse Center //cadlag comments→

Voxel Plotting with Gnuplot 5.4 //lwn comments→

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