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.

Beautiful, Modern & Opinionated Linux by DHH

Михаил Бурдин рассказывает о проблемах нового психоцентризма, с которым столкнулся современный человек.

Instead of trying to shorten the time that our builds take, we order and chain them by complexity, thus gradually reducing the risk.

an Internet of Things (IoT Cloud) Project for collecting, processing, storing and displaying (on a map and in applications) sensor readings and webcams of its participants with public or private access on various platforms.

Everyone knows micromanagement is evil, but very few understand what exactly it is and what's a better alternative.

It is very important to conduct regular code reviews within every software team, but it is not so easy to do them right; here are a few typical pitfalls.

Раскадровка сняла видео про мусор и переработку!

Libre audio books. Recommended by Flancian.

Hundreds of utilities available for recovery, maintenance, testing and more

Живой диск линупса для починки поломанных систем. Не содержит графического интерфейса, голая консоль и куча утилит.

an email-based bookmarking service

The core idea is to canonicalize things. Both x < y and y > x mean the same, and, if you usethem with roughly equal frequency, you need to spend extra mental capacity to fold the two versionsinto the single “x tiny, y HUGE” concept in your head.

Настройщик раскладки под макось

Коллекция интерактивных штуковин. Очень красивое

Симулятор печатной машинки. Советую потыкаться и осознать, как было больно раньше стирать буквы, но как просто ставить диакритические знаки любым символам.