A breath of fresh air to read somebody breaking with the TDD dogma. Test are useful but please remember: “Write tests, not too many, mostly integration.” and try to exercise some judgement.
https://registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/a-few-words-on-testing
Programmers like to moan that naming things is hard. This may be the case but naming types, functions and variables is a core part of the job.
So instead of complaining about it, maybe just get better?
A truly bizarre story and excellent reporting about Marc Benioff buying up large amounts of land on Hawaii.
https://www.npr.org/2024/02/28/1232564250/billionaire-benioff-buys-hawaii-land-salesforce
Most people should not bother with specialized productivity software but just see how far they can get with what’s already on their phones: Reminders, Notes and the likes. Apple has made these unassuming tools absurdly powerful without losing too much on usability.
https://fredbenenson.medium.com/advanced-topics-in-reminders-and-to-do-lists-c5edec286670
A third truth is that we have a generation in crisis and in desperate need of the best of what science and evidence-based solutions can offer. Unfortunately, our time is being spent telling stories that are unsupported by research and that do little to support young people who need, and deserve, more.
The experts agree that kids need to be cared for better. The experts also agree that people like Haidt are grifters who do not contribute anything into that direction.
Herbert believed that progress was an illusion because he was an ideologically motivated reactionary who hated the New Deal, the welfare state, the Civil Rights Movement, and any political leader who promised to help the oppressed.
Finally a piece about Dune 2 that doesn’t pull any punches.
https://slate.com/culture/2024/03/dune-2-movies-frank-herbert-books-meaning-differences.html
Threads works functionally but as a product it’s very bad. As this article mentions being on Threads is a slow-motion exercise in going insane. Threads actively disables many things that make microblogging work and for the rest of the experience there’s very little thought that went into it other than “let’s make a text-based Instagram and see what happens”.
Threads makes Mastodon feel engaging (and that’s saying something).
https://maxread.substack.com/p/threads-is-the-gas-leak-social-network
I would be the last to ever watch anything by Lex Fridman, but TikTok has been feeding me clips from his interview with Bassem Youssef and I can’t help but be impressed. Fridman does a decent job interviewing but of course the conversation is carried by Youssef, who is nothing short of a treasure.