The more time you spend designing systems, the more paranoid you get about things going wrong

Таймкод 40:40: Кого из российских чиновников стоит слушать?

терапевтка принимала на дому, делала записи и вышла, например, в туалет, а клиентка залезла в эти записи и получила — правильно — скандал про«нарушение границ» и чуть ли не отказ работать дальше.

Правильный терапевт, разумеется, не только знал бы, что терапия — это место, где его границы будут нарушаться (и это будет оплачиваться), но и первым делом с интересом обсудил бы мотивы и фантазии клиента, зачем он это сделал и что хотел там найти. И только потом бы с любовью и принятием говорил про нарушение границ.

The concept of feature flags is simple – it’s essentially just an if. This makes it a very powerful concept!

Жетбрейнсы рассказывают о концепции фича-флагов

Бывает, придёшь в кафе, там всякие круассаны и пирожные лежат красиво. Поразглядывал, выбрал, обращаешься к девушке. А она такая: «Вам с собой?» Нет, здесь. «Садитесь, к вам подойдет официант».

How about we measure the amount of times programmers touch the lines. Instead of counting the number of lines we’ll count how many times they were actually modified—we can get this information from Git (or any other SCM). The more you touch that part of the aircraft—the more effort you spent on it, right?

I called it Hits-of-Code (HoC) and created a small tool to help us calculate this number in just one line.

What a nice idea! I installed this program and ran it on Betula and Mycorrhiza codebases. For Betula it's 26350 HoC, for Mycorrhiza it's 137208 HoC. Yeah, Betula is still comparatively young! Hey, what about Mycomarkup? 23443. Oh wow, just a little less than Betula. I expected a small number.

The easiest way to configure a performant, secure, and stable NGINX server.

For me, this imagined audience is more important than getting it right. Which is why I write my blog posts with the wiki spirit. All these sites are pretty similar, in essence. Blog, wiki, digital garden, Zettelkasten, there’s not enough difference to draw lines. It’s all a question of intent, of culture, of belonging. The blog spirit is to write pages over time, and they disappear into the archive. The digital garden spirit is to write unfinished articles and papers, to be refined or not. The Zettelkasten spirit is to follow the trail of thoughts you thought and add new branches, small notes with new thoughts leading to more thoughts on new notes. And the wiki spirit is to write and edit online, to hit the Save button and then it’s live. There is no editor, there is no draft. Wiki is like brutalism in content management. I can see the page sources and the end result is obvious and full of that old web power. It’s not an app. The software has no idea of process. The wiki spirit is to open that window, write the text and hit save. And then I read it again, and edit it. And tomorrow, I read it again, and edit it. And next week, perhaps, I read it again, and edit it.

I no longer live in the Wiki Now. The pages are intended for future readers but they are not timeless. I add timestamps all over the place. The blog spirit is strong. The pages do disappear into the great compost of thoughts. The archive gobbles them up. I do go back but I don’t rewrite the pages completely. I’m more likely to simply add a timestamp and some thoughts like I did on this page.

the best solution would be to show the application's previous state and point out that the application is still loading

Almost all mattresses should not be flipped — instead they should be rotated 180° so the foot of the mattress is now at the head.

Игорь рассказывает, как делает заметки.

Вложенные теги не нужны

Do not try to create a hierarchy (taxonomy) for your notes. It is not scalable and only works for narrow domain. Prefer tags.

Не понимал, зачем раскрашивать буквы в книжках, но Игорь пишет, что это полезно, когда есть комментарии

It is not useful to highlight without commenting. Writing summary is mandatory, highlighting is optional 1.

A non-comprehensive and opinionated guide to best monitor for programming

Выступление про текст, кодировки, шрифты, эмодзи, лигатуры, диакритику итп.

Хорошее

Коллекция интерактивных штуковин. Очень красивое

Пришло время рассказать о том, как устроена геополитика. Как и почему страны конкурируют между собой, строят и разрушают союзы, захватывают соседей или сами исчезают с карты. Для удобства и наглядности объяснять будем на простейших примерах — на кружочках.

I am a dad, and as a dad I watch a lot of kids TV. Some shows I think are actually pretty great (Hey Duggee, Bluey), and some shows are fine, not my thing, but inoffensive (Fireman Sam, Chuggington, Octonauts). There is, however, one show that I just really hate. Paw Patrol. It’s bad.