When asked if my cup is half-full or half-empty my only response is that I am thankful I have a cup.
//Sam Lefkowitz

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Quick programming note - we'll be taking next week off to unplug a bit. Thankful for you and the other almost 60k great subscribers, please continue to spread the word! What are you thankful for this year? –kale

#Favorites

Testing in production? It's scary until it's not. Take control of software releases. Ship fast. Rest easy. And LaunchDarkly.
//launchdarkly sponsored

“Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says
//niemanlab comments→

Apple announces Self Service Repair
//apple comments→

How to grow sodium chloride crystals at home
//crystalverse comments→

Long Range E-Bike
//jacquesmattheij comments→

.plan
//plan comments→

Scan of the Month: Lego Minifigures
//scanofthemonth comments→

10 years of whatever this has been
//apenwarr comments→

Reverse-engineering the Yamaha DX7 synthesizer's sound chip from die photos
//righto comments→

Taking notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim
//castel comments→

OKRs vs. KPIs: understanding measurements for your SaaS business
//userpilot comments→

Joy.js – make happy little programs
//ncase comments→

Sed challenge: join cal -y months into a single column
//jol comments→

#Ask HN

What are some great engineering blogs?

Starting a career as a programmer in my mid-40s

What was it like to use BBS?

What's your ideal city in a 100% remote world?

#Show HN

I made a Chrome extension that can automate any website //browserflow comments→

Tldraw – a tiny little drawing app //tldraw comments→

Pdfsandwich //tobias-elze comments→

Appflowy – open-source Notion Alternative //appflowy comments→

Caffeine – Minimum viable back end for prototyping //github comments→

#Code

Why Lisp? //atlas comments→

Python: Please stop screwing over Linux distros //drewdevault comments→

Orca – esoteric programming language, designed to create procedural sequencers //100r comments→

Etsy’s Journey to TypeScript //codeascraft comments→

#Design

Letting users tick a ‘none’ checkbox //blog comments→

Shirley Cards //99percentinvisible comments→

Features that more cameras should have //photographylife comments→

0xA000 Font Family – A tile mastered font-family //gimp comments→

#Learn

Bar-tailed Godwits regularly travel more than 7,000 miles non-stop //audubon comments→

An intact slave's room found in Pompeii's ruins //pompeiisites comments→

Colorado 'solar garden' is a farm under solar panels //npr comments→

What elements does a plant need to grow? //github comments→

What really happened at the Millennium Tower? //practical comments→

#Books

An open access book on scientific visualization using Python and Matplotlib //github comments→

Bayesian Optimization Book //bayesoptbook comments→

The Burnout Society //substack comments→

Ask HN: Looking for a book on algorithms and data structures //ycombinator

What are some of the best well-written books on computer science? //ycombinator comments→

The Debonair Restaurateur Who Inspired the First Chinese-American Cookbook //atlasobscura comments→

#Watching

SerenityOS demo at Handmade Seattle 2021 //handmade-seattle comments→

I programmed some creatures. They Evolved. //youtube comments→

#Working

Individuals Matter //danluu comments→

Stop requiring specific technology experience for senior-plus engineers //mikemcquaid comments→

Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills //ncsu comments→

How I got wealthy without working too hard //substack comments→

Getting in the Room, and Stay There //staffeng comments→

#Startup News

Netlify raises $105M and acquires OneGraph //netlify comments→

Rivian valued at over $100B after biggest IPO of 2021 //reuters comments→

#Fun

The bullet effects in Terminator 2 weren’t CGI //hackaday comments→

Outage Bingo //outage comments→

Ichi.city //ichi comments→

I built a jigsaw puzzle website //puzzlepanda comments→

Marvin – A grumpy Slackbot who doesn't like your ideas //github comments→

Lifeee – Conway’s Game of Life with an infinite zoomable grid //netlify comments→

The Video Game Soda Machine Project //vgsmproject comments→

The McMansion Hell Yearbook: 1981 //mcmansionhell comments→

#Cutting Room Floor

3D printed mirror array //github comments→

Lesser-known Postgres features //hakibenita comments→

I hate password rules //schneier comments→

Spy camera detection using smartphone time-of-flight sensors //acm comments→

Useful sed scripts and patterns //github comments→

Arcane Algorithm Archive //algorithm-archive comments→

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