Pao Ramen
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Standard Schema
Jan 29 · standardschema.dev ⎯ A common interface for TypeScript validation libraries
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RSS Search
Jan 29 ⎯ Very interesting feed aggregator. You can search any term and it returns results from all the feeds they have indexed. The searches themselves are also RSS feeds, so you can subscribe to “topics”. Perhaps I should integrate this to fika to help people discover new feeds? Once I do tag and topic extraction, we could automate this to add a bit of entropy and kickstart the recommendation flywheel.
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Feeds are Not Fit for Gardening — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho
Jan 29 · v5.chriskrycho.com ⎯ —at least, in their current instantiations with RSS, Atom, JSON Feed, etc.
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A Modern RSS reader
Jan 29 · docs.joodaloop.com ⎯ Difficult problem. really.
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inbox - an "archives first" approach to mailing lists
Jan 29 · public-inbox.org ⎯ Comments
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3C Analysis (Customer): How to Make Your Brand Something Customers Want
Jan 29 · fronterabrands.com ⎯ Why Slack was about to fail as a “group chat app”, how positioning increases perceived value, and how to make your brand something customers want:
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Coding without planning
Jan 29 ⎯ Another example of plan to start vs plan to finish. Like writing, or playing music, there are different characteristics to a planned strategy to an improvised one. As one gets more experienced, intuition based approaches tens to have better outcomes than rational ones.
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Deepseek and the Jevons Paradox
Jan 28 ⎯ Nvidia is down 17%. Deepseek has released their latest R1 model which they claimed to be trained very cheaply. Half the internet is calling it a bubble burst, the other half are rushing to buy the dip. Who is correct? Well, that's not so easy. What would Charlie do? At this point, it's not about the fundamentals anymore. It's just to speculate about AI and the role of Nvidia. One thing is clear, though: efficiency gains in tech tend to increase consumption. Let's see if AI also follows the Jevons Paradox.
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IP query
Jan 28 ⎯ Interesting service to query anything about a given IP. I’ve had to implement this at every single company, mostly for marketing reasons. This service seems to be free, so it’s a good bookmark to have around.
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Building on top of ATProto
Jan 28 ⎯ An exploration about building a side-project app on top of ATProto. I’m saving this since at some point, I want to integrate fika with Bluesky. I enjoy a lot the “captain-log” kind of articles. It’s always interesting to see how people build and learn. As usual, it’s also comforting to see people sharing the same struggles: As always, the hardest part of this project, as with any project, was understanding the data model and the business logic, and parsing out those objects correctly. The second-hardest was aligning elements in CSS.
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Telescope | All-in-One SEO Toolkit
Jan 28 · withtelescope.com ⎯ Accelerate your growth with our comprehensive SEO toolkit. Research keywords, track performance, optimize your website, create content, and more.
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Like Scratch, but textual!
Jan 28 ⎯ Very interesting project to teach programming to kids. The main difference with Scratch is that Hedy uses Python (yuck!) on a textual environment. To be able to reach kids around the world, they’ve open sourced a python-like language that is multi-lingual. There is of course the eternal debate to whether kids should learn to program or not, exacerbated by the advances in generative AI. But I still think it’s a valuable skill, the same as calculators didn’t deprecate mathematics. I would even go as far as to claim that it probably should displace some of the maths, since it’s clear by now, that the Newtonian way of describing the world through formulas is perhaps not the best one. Perhaps Wolfram’s point of view, that nature is perhaps better described through programs, is one worth exploring. I will definitely give it a try!
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Never Forgive Them
Jan 27 · www.wheresyoured.at ⎯ In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting worse, despite what tech’s “brightest” minds might promise. More
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Platform teams: the eternal debate
Jan 27 ⎯ As a CTO, one of the unsolved challenges is whether to have a platform team or not. This article explores the downside of building platform teams. I think the article is a little bit biased and presents only one way of implementing platform teams. I still believe that platform teams are a net-positive, but only when they use golden paths to achieve their goals.
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Web Monetization
Jan 27 ⎯ A web3 way of accepting payments on the internet. Looks pretty cool, and could be a good way to counter the SaaS models of medium and substack. As usual, though, the challenge would be for adoption to go mainstream.
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Doc Publication
Jan 27 ⎯ There is a revival of publications. Individuals join and curate and write content. And you, instead of letting an algorithm determine what you read, subscribe to those publications. In this case, the people of UX collective decide to own their own publication and monetize it with Web Monetization, a web3 way to accept micropayments. I hope fika allows people to create such beautiful publications.
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A list of long-form articles worth reading
Jan 27 ⎯ When I was a kid, I wanted to be a writer. This was fueled by an intense reading habit: I would spend hours on the library looking for more Roal Dahl books, and later on, Tolkien and Ursula K. Le Guin. Nowadays I don't read as many books, and mostly non-fiction. I guess I’m more time deprived, and have a more utilitarian habit. Long form articles strike the right balance for me. They are longer and richer than a dopamine-inducing social media post, but I can still read them while in the toilet.
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GitHub - glanceapp/glance: A self-hosted dashboard that puts all your feeds in one place
Jan 26 · github.com ⎯ A self-hosted dashboard that puts all your feeds in one place - glanceapp/glance
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Jan 26 · www.shapeshift.ink ⎯
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The source of truth shouldn't be figma, but the code
Jan 25 ⎯ Nth attempt to solve the designer/developer problem. An open source tool for designers to work with react components. Figma has been trying to convince designers that they are the source of truth, therefore, a handover process is required. And it's the developer job to translate designs into code. But the reality is that developers are convinced of the opposite. Figma is the just theory, but truth is whatever you ship to customers. And that’s code. This is another case of Segal’s Law: A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure