Most people’s financial decisions are driven by what the people around them decide — which, in this culture, typically ranges from thoughtless to completely backwards — and conscious thought about the getting the best deal on happiness doesn’t enter the picture. Would you rather have five all-expenses-paid years off to spend with your family, learn a language or build a business — or drive a big car instead of a small car? It’s shockingly normal for people to choose the latter, because they have no idea that they’re making that choice at all.

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I am way happier already. In the three months since I’ve been smarter about my spending, I’ve saved three months’ worth of living expenses, which has an immediate stress-reducing effect. I could get laid off or fired and have plenty of time to figure out what to do, so there’s much less day-to-day stress about my job performance, which has actually led to an effortless improvement in job performance. I have a sense of control over my life that I’ve never felt before. These intangible dividends are immediate, and they don’t cost a cent because the money is still mine.

The Color Theory Behind Industrial Seafoam Green

Pretty pictures! Reminds of Merveilles' seafoam green and of Soviet half-wall-tall colouring. Due to the latter, this colour also bears additional doomer connotations.

I wonder if this colour could work well in computer UIs? Does it work the same on glowing screens?

Something like make, but magefiles are written in Go instead. Pretty funny.

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

Максим тоже рассказывает про псиопы

Fast, powerful, yet easy to use template engine for Go. Optimized for speed, zero memory allocations in hot paths. Up to 20x faster than html/template

Беру любой JSON и вижу, как его можно упростить, убрав лишнюю вложенность. Вдвойне обидно, что на эту вложенность кто-то тратил время, а она не нужна!

Libre audio books. Recommended by Flancian.

Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of U.S. copyright restrictions, and free of cost.

Fun fact: There is no limit clause in the SQL standard.

Everyone uses limit.
And yet, according to the standard, we should be using fetch

Rendering text, how hard could it be? As it turns out, incredibly hard! To my knowledge, literally no system renders text “perfectly”. It’s all best-effort, although some efforts are more important than others.

Full text of Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, with notes to help the reader

The Go standard library is full of bad design choices from the perspective of safety of use.

PRQL is a modern language for transforming data

Интересная замена SQL. Запросы для аналитики данных станет писать намного проще. Не думаю, что для чего-то другого этот проект подойдёт. Условный CRUD проще написать, используя именно SQL запросы, здесь PRQL излишен.

Главред помогает очистить текст от словесного мусора, проверяет на соответствие информационному стилю.

О том, почему ё важна