HN blogs - 5/1/24
Here Be Dragons https://tbm.bearblog.dev/here-be-dragons/ (HN source)
Is Objective-C BOOL a boolean type? It depends https://www.jviotti.com/2024/01/05/is-objective-c-bool-a-boolean-type-it-depends.html (HN source)
Analyzing Advent of Code https://kevinkle.in/posts/2024-01-05-aoc/ (HN source)
Welcome to 2024, Looking Ahead https://smist08.wordpress.com/2024/01/05/welcome-to-2024-looking-ahead/ (HN source)
Bedside Computer https://buzzert.net/posts/2023-11-17-alarm-clock/ (HN source)
Questionable Advice: My Boss Says We Don't Need Any Engineering Managers https://charity.wtf/2024/01/05/questionable-advice-my-boss-says-we-dont-need-any-engineering-managers-is-he-right/ (HN source)
Substack's Nazi Newsletters https://notes.ghed.in/posts/2024/substack-nazi-newsletters/ (HN source)
In Search of a New Tab https://jon.bo/posts/new-tab/ (HN source)
Incremental Codebase Contribution https://h1alexbel.github.io/2024/01/05/incremental-contribution.html (HN source)
"Genuinely Asking; Not Suggesting": Toward Better Code Review https://carlwiedemann.github.io/post/2024-01-05-gans-toward-better-code-review.html (HN source)
How LLMs are and are not like the brain https://buttondown.email/apperceptive/archive/how-llms-are-and-are-not-like-the-brain/ (HN source)
Ideas matter: How I stopped being a Culture Incel
Proper Tail Calls: The unimplemented web standard from ES6 https://eriklangille.com/blog/proper_tail_calls.html (HN source)
PostgreSQL: Full text search with the "websearch" syntax https://adamj.eu/tech/2024/01/03/postgresql-full-text-search-websearch/ (HN source)
Artificial Knowledge Creation https://blog.alexmaccaw.com/artificial-knowledge-creation/ (HN source)
Phishing Your Team Isn't the Answer https://nickselby.com/docs/tricking/ (HN source)
The Artemis Security Scanner https://cert.pl/en/posts/2024/01/artemis-security-scanner/ (HN source)
Greg, the Developer https://garrit.xyz/posts/2024-01-05-greg-the-developer (HN source)
Rizz, Money and Technical Brilliance https://advait.live/rmtb/ (HN source)
My next, next, next job https://www.petemillspaugh.com/my-next-next-next-job (HN source)
Solutions over Best Practices https://nick.scialli.me/blog/solutions-over-best-practices/ (HN source)
What's the smallest file size for a 1 pixel image? https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/01/whats-the-smallest-file-size-for-a-1-pixel-image/ (HN source)
The Life of a Data Byte https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/the-life-of-a-data-byte/ (HN source)
Year 2023 as a Lego Content Creator https://brickexperimentchannel.wordpress.com/2024/01/05/year-2023/ (HN source)
We Got Rid of Sentry https://rossmcmillan.co.uk/blog/why-we-got-rid-of-sentry (HN source)
Bye, RStudio/Posit https://yihui.org/en/2024/01/bye-rstudio/ (HN source)
My whole app's source code available for $20 https://laradir.com/blog/hit-2000-users (HN source)
Fast Ruby Tokenizers with StringScanner https://tenderlovemaking.com/2023/09/02/fast-tokenizers-with-stringscanner.html (HN source)
The "Secrets" of Elite Programmers https://chat-to.dev/post?id=31 (HN source)