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Linked - Quoting Bryan Finster

If you’ve spent any time measuring value streams, you know that coding isn’t usually the problem. Having a clean flow of good information about the problems we are trying to solve is usually the problem. Not having a safe and fast way to deliver changes and get feedback o...

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Linked - What I've learned about writing AI apps so far

Is what you’re doing taking a large amount of text and asking the LLM to convert it into a smaller amount of text? Then it’s probably going to be great at it. If you’re asking it to convert into a roughly equal amount of text it will be so-so. If you’re asking it to create more text than you gave it, forget about it.

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Linked - Why breaking down work is important

This is a write-up of a talk I did for our tech team at work. As developers, our bread and butter is to get our software from its current state to some future state. Working sustainably in small batches and performing regular releases is considered industry best practi...

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Linked - Will YouTube kill the podcast industry?

tl;dr – The podcast industry has long relied on the open nature of RSS to sustain a wide variety of small businesses. But that could all disappear if YouTube becomes the de facto place to publish podcasts. Podcast Movement Evolutions, a conference focused on ‘the busin...

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Release - Mltply Version 1.0.0

Full Changelog: https://github.com/mat-0/Mltply/commits/1.0.0

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Mixtape - Monthly Mixtape - May 2025

What I’ve been listening to this month. Sweetness - Jimmy Eat World A Design for Life (Remastered Version) - Manic Street Preachers Movin’ On Up - Primal Scream Intergalactic - Beastie Boys Time for Peace - The Little Shadows Planet of the Apes - Pinehurst Ki...

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Linked - Attitude is a choice

One thing you can’t take away from me is how I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose one’s attitudes in any circumstances.

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Blog - 5-Day Low Histamine Vegan Meal Plan

Managing histamine intolerance on a vegan diet requires careful planning. This 5-day meal plan avoids high-histamine plant foods while ensuring nutritional adequacy through fresh, minimally processed ingredients. Daily Meal Plan Day Meal Menu ...

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Linked - Giving software away for free

Almost everything I produce is HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Python using GitHub Actions for the free compute. If you want to create completely free software for other people to use, the absolute best delivery mechanism right now is static HTML and JavaScript served from a ...

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Linked - More people bad at math and money

Almost 9 million people in the UK remain significantly underpensioned compared to the broader population. The latest data reveals that underpensioned groups have annual private pension incomes ranging from £3,650 to £6,750. This is 43% to 80% compared to the population av...

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Linked - Not all people are bad at money

There are 400 Junior ISA (JISA) accounts held in the UK with a value of at least £100,000, according to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request submitted by Standard Life, part of Phoenix Group, as part of its analysis into the long-term impact of saving and investing...

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Linked - Redis is Open Source again

Redis 8 is now GA, loaded with new features and more than 30 performance improvements This release adds 8 more data structures, including vector set (beta), JSON, time series, and five probabilistic structures, including Bloom filter, cuckoo filter, count-min sketch, top-k,...

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Linked - People are not good at maths

HMRC’s newly published ‘Understanding the Use of the Lifetime ISA’ report lays bare the confusion at the heart of one of the government’s flagship savings products. Most striking is the revelation that even financially literate savers, including those actively contributin...

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Blog - RSS Feed Generation

I’ve been building out some RSS feeds recently as I really value the nature of RSS delivery in a reader of my choice, rather than being forced to go to websites full of adverts and cookie notices, or forced into apps that also are full of apps, despite being paid for - looki...

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Linked - Default styles for h1 elements are changing

Browsers are starting to roll out changes in default UA styles for nested section headings. Developers should check that their sites don’t rely on UA styles for certain cases to avoid unexpected results and failing Lighthouse checks. In this post, we’ll have a look at wha...

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Text • Quoting Seth Godin

Linked - How to Win an Argument With a Toddler

You can’t. That’s because toddlers don’t understand what an argument is and aren’t interesting in having one. Toddlers (which includes defensive bureaucrats, bullies, flat earthers, folks committed to a specific agenda and radio talk show hosts) may indicate that th...

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Text • Quoting Wes Kao

Linked - Seven phrases when sharing feedback that makes it easier

With that, here are 7 phrases I often use when sharing feedback that makes it easier for me to speak openly and quickly, and encourages my recipient to take action. “This is a great start” “I noticed” “At the same time” “Even more” “I believe you w...

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Blog - Lyrical juxtaposition

A couple of songs came up sequentially today that seemed appropriate for the times. There are some bad people on the rise They’re saving their own skins by Ruining people’s lives Interesting Drug, Morrissey But the leaders of the free world Are just little boys...

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Linked - Slopsquatting - Domain Name Registration Tactics

Slopsquatting – when an LLM hallucinates a non-existent package name, and a bad actor registers it maliciously. The AI brother of typosquatting.

Credit to @sethmlarson for the name

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Linked - AI crawler wars threaten the web

AI crawler wars threaten to make the web more closed for everyone AI crawler wars threaten to make the web more closed for everyone There’s an accelerating cat-and-mouse game between web publishers and AI crawlers, and we all stand to lose. We often take the internet ...

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Linked - And no, a robots txt file doesn’t help

If you think these crawlers respect robots.txt then you are several assumptions of good faith removed from reality. These bots crawl everything they can find, robots.txt be damned.

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Text • Quoting Jens Oliver Meiert

Linked - Micro-Scrum - Simplified Agile Framework Approach

Imagine you worked like this:

At the start of the week: Get together with the team to decide what to ship—bring live—at the end of the week. Ideally, everyone contributes, but this is intentionally not a requirement.

At the end of the week: Get together and look at what was shipped. Everyone high-fives or, together, lands on one lesson to learn.

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Text • Quoting Emmett Shear

Linked - Lessons learned by Emmett Shear

In honour of the 10th anniversary of launching Twitch, I thought I’d share some of the lessons I learned along the way. Most of these insights are things I heard someone else say. They’re the things that I find myself telling people when they ask me for adv...

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Text • Quoting Slava Akhmechet

Linked - 44 engineering management lessons

Welcome to engineering management. It’s fun, it’s exhausting, it’s rewarding — but most importantly it’s new! What worked for you before won’t work now. You’ll have to acquire a new set of skills, and shed some bad habits in the process. Here is a short guide to get you star...

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Blog - 50 ideas that changed my life - By David Perell

These are my guiding principles and the light of my intellectual life. All of them will help you think better, and I hope they inspire curiosity. Inversion: Avoiding stupidity is easier than trying to be brilliant. Instead of asking, “How can I help my company?” you...

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Text • Quoting Slava Akhmechet

Linked - 57 startup lessons

There are already very good lists of startup lessons written by really talented, experienced people (here and here). I’d like to add another one. I learned these lessons the hard way in the past four years. If you’re starting a company, I hope you have an easier path. Peopl...

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Linked - 8 Essential Interview Questions CEOs Swear By

1. Why Do You Really Want to Work Here Specifically? 1.1. What have you learned about our company beyond what you’ve read on the website? 1.2. What do you think you might be able to do that’s different from what we’re already doing? 1.3. Why is our company and this j...

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Linked - 8 Essential Qualities That Define Great Leadership

Company leaders are facing a crisis. Nearly one-third of employees don’t trust management. In addition to this, employers now have to cater to the needs of the millennial generation. On average, after graduating from college, a millennial will change jobs four times before t...

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Text • Quoting William B. Irvine

Linked - A Guide to the Good Life - The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

A plan for a living The rise of Stoicism Philosophy takes an interest in life The first stoics Roman Stoicism Stoic psychological techniques Negative visualisation. What’s the worst that can happen? The dichotomy of co...

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Linked - Amazon Leadership principles

We use our Leadership Principles every day, whether we’re discussing ideas for new projects or deciding on the best way to solve a problem. It’s just one of the things that makes Amazon peculiar. Customer Obsession Leaders start with the customer and work backwards. The...