Failure to enforce basic standards of public behavior has made one of America’s great cities increasingly unlivable.

With a population of over 87,000, Lower Duck Pond is the largest, friendliest, and oddest city that’s not on the map.

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Tales of Developing Clojure

[Epistemic status: fiction] Thanks for letting me put my story on your blog. Mainstream media is crap and no one would have believed me anyway. This starts in September 2017. I was working for a sm…

The two biggest companies behind an internet subgenre — the “chumbox ad” — have joined forces to form a company that will generate $2 billion a year.

I often advocate people surrounding me to build their own side projects. I believe they can fulfill you in so many ways: for your career, your relationships, or your independence. Buffer, the company I currently work for, was itself a side project.
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The best designers employ specific habits, learned practices, and observed principles when they work. Here are a few of them.

n8n is a free and source-available workflow automation tool

GPs will be able to refer young people, after ‘gaming disorder’ defined as a health problem

The Los Angeles Times reviewed hundreds of pages of Pentagon documents and found California has more bases contaminated with the chemicals, known as PFAS, than any other state — at least 21 that exceed federal health guidelines.

Introduction In the last year or two I have worked on and off on making PyPy's JSON faster, particularly when parsing large JSON files. I...

The NBA controversy in China highlights a culture clash that both tech companies and the U.S. government need to take to heart. Plus, why Tiktok being Chinese is increasingly a problem.

In recent weeks, Beijing has forced the removal of a CEO and stopped broadcasts of NBA basketball over a clash of views about the Hong Kong protests.

Can you apply SRE thinking to things that don’t involve computers?

Leif Singer, an engineer at Automattic, tells us about interviewing for a remote job at Automattic.

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