Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. //Winston Churchill

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#Favorites

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I resigned from Twitter
//twitter comments→

Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony
//batsov comments→

100 years of whatever this will be
//apenwarr comments→

Advent of Code 2021
//adventofcode comments→

Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers
//sprocketfox comments→

The Stroad
//strongtowns comments→

Django, HTMX and Alpine.js: Modern websites, JavaScript optional
//saaspegasus comments→

Instagram Is Facebook Now
//substack comments→

A toaster from 1949 is still smarter than any sold today
//theverge comments→

Writing is networking for introverts
//medium comments→

The unbearable fussiness of the smart home
//staceyoniot comments→

Processing and P5 got newbies into coding
//medium comments→

#Ask HN

Has Google search become quantitatively worse?

I feel so shallow and dumb when I see what other smart people are doing

What mental models do you use everyday?

#Show HN

Pony – a messenger for mindful correspondence //ponymessenger comments→

Randomly create beautiful website layouts //shuffle comments→

4K Desktop Wallpaper Generator //tanck comments→

Cleanvoice – Automated Podcast Editing //cleanvoice comments→

RSS-proxy: create an RSS/ATOM or JSON feed of almost any website //github comments→

WildCard, a retro Hypercard/HyperTalk simulator //hypervariety comments→

#Code

Fleet, a Lightweight IDE from JetBrains //jetbrains comments→

Remix – A framework focused on web fundamentals and modern UX //remix comments→

Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands //github comments→

Functorio //bartoszmilewski comments→

Code with Engineering Playbook //github comments→

Improve your Python regex skills with 75 interactive exercises //github comments→

#Data

Things I learned from building a production database //bitbucket comments→

SQLite Release 3.37.0 //sqlite comments→

PostgREST 9.0 //postgrest comments→

Hamilton: A Microframework for Dataframe Generation //stitchfix comments→

Deep Dive into Roam's Data Structure //zsolt comments→

SQLToy – a tiny relational database for learning SQL via code //github comments→

#Design

Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used? //ycombinator

How Metro Agencies Design the Letter 'M' //bloomberg comments→

#Learn

People mistake the internet’s knowledge for their own //pnas comments→

Darebee – A database of workouts //darebee comments→

Umarell //wikipedia comments→

How to Read a Jellyfish's Mind //caltech comments→

#Books

Books that changed my career as a software engineer //github comments→

The Joy of Cryptography //joyofcryptography comments→

Free public domain audiobooks //librivox comments→

Books I loved reading this year //gatesnotes comments→

#Watching

Vertiwalk Vertical Walking //vertiwalk comments→

Supersonic Trebuchet //hackaday comments→

Saintcon: Lock Picking Lawyer Keynote //youtube comments→

Introducing the Icelandverse //youtube comments→

Trackers: The Sound of 16-Bit //youtube comments→

Susan Kare Explains Macintosh UI Ergonomics //archive comments→

The Essence operating system at Handmade Seattle 2021 //handmade-seattle comments→

#Working

Boards are dangerous to founder/CEOs //reactionwheel comments→

Stripe hiring issues make some lose job offers //protocol comments→

Ask HN: Who is hiring? //ycombinator

Ask HN: Those who quit their jobs without anything planned. How did it go? //ycombinator

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? //ycombinator

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? //ycombinator

#Startup News

Samsung plans $17B chip plant in Taylor, Texas //datacenterdynamics comments→

Zillow lost money because they weren't willing to lose money //stevenbuccini comments→

Vercel raises $150M Series D //vercel comments→

#Fun

Fisher Price Chatter Telephone with Bluetooth //fisher-price comments→

Schemaverse, a space based strategy game to learn PostgreSQL //schemaverse comments→

The Deep Sea //neal comments→

Life Simulation Written in Rust //github comments→

Emoji to Scale //javier comments→

#Cutting Room Floor

Underrated Reasons to Be Thankful //dynomight comments→

4x Smaller, 50x Faster //asciinema comments→

Tiny //tinycapital comments→

The fish shell is amazing //rmpr comments→

Unmasking the most viral page on Facebook //garbageday comments→

The slowest SR-71 Blackbird fly-by //theaviationgeekclub comments→

I Test in Prod //increment comments→

Bash patterns I use weekly //will-keleher comments→

The reMarkable as a notebook and eBook reader //cfenollosa comments→

Glitch effect on text in pure CSS //dustri comments→

Ask HN: Why is machine learning easier to learn than basic social skills? //ycombinator comments→

Facebook reverses Kyle Rittenhouse policy //bbc comments→

Post Infocom: Boffo Games //filfre comments→

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