HN blogs - 2/5/24
The Sisyphean Struggle and the New Era of Data Infrastructure https://jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2024/3/26/the-sisyphean-struggle-and-the-new-era-of-data-infrastructure (HN source)
Lessons Learned from Four Months of Working Solo https://www.jplhomer.org/posts/lessons-learned-from-four-months-of-working-solo/ (HN source)
Hobby's algorithm for aesthetic Bézier splines https://www.jakelow.com/blog/hobby-curves (HN source)
Money for Nothing, Commits for Free https://dadrian.io/blog/posts/corporate-support-xz/ (HN source)
Will We Still Need Programmers? https://spiegelmock.com/2024/04/07/will-we-still-need-programmers/ (HN source)
Making a 3D Modeler, in C, in a Week https://danielchasehooper.com/posts/shapeup/ (HN source)
Ansible Is a Lisp https://astrid.tech/2024/05/01/0/ansible-is-a-lisp/ (HN source)
Faster Connectivity == Faster Websites https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2024/faster-bandwidth-and-websites/ (HN source)
I Left NixOS for Ubuntu https://fd93.me/nixos-to-ubuntu (HN source)
Anduril 2 Flashlight UI https://ivanthinking.net/thoughts/anduril2-manual/ (HN source)
Dashes and Their Uses https://idiomdrottning.org/dashes (HN source)
Traditional Publishing Is Great
Coding interviews are stupid (ish) https://darrenkopp.com/posts/2024/05/01/coding-interviews-are-stupid (HN source)
Visiting the most expensive nuclear station
Extending Neovim for Blogging: Customizing Neovim https://www.jonashietala.se/blog/2024/05/02/customizing_neovim/ (HN source)
Losing My Handns https://jxnl.co/writing/2024/04/29/losing-my-hands/ (HN source)
Environmentally, you've got to hand it to Sauron https://dantheclamman.blog/2024/04/24/environmentally-youve-got-to-hand-it-to-sauron/ (HN source)
Monitoring energy usage with smart plugs, Prometheus and Grafana https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2024/05/02/smartplugs/ (HN source)
Understanding UMAP https://pair-code.github.io/understanding-umap/ (HN source)