Pao Ramen
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The Red Beads Experiment - Make Work Better - Medium
Dec 15 · medium.com ⎯ “A bad system will beat a good person every time.”
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Computing Models of Escape Rooms
Dec 15 · analoggamestudies.org ⎯ When my friends and I first played an escape room in 2013, we were impressed by its novelty and had the time of our lives. However, after having played many more escape rooms, I also saw design patterns1 emerge. Escape rooms are information systems in the form of rooms, operating under similar rules to produce a unique genre of puzzle-solving experiences. As Sawyer Kemp points out, escape rooms seduce players with an “escape from social constraints.”2 Escape rooms also integrate various fun aspects from other entertainment media. Scott Nicholson suggests that escape rooms can be viewed as a medium of convergence with several precursors, including live-action role-playing (larp), point-and-click adventures, puzzle and treasure hunts, interactive theater and haunted houses, adventure game shows, and themed entertainment.3
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@smoores/epub
Dec 14 · www.npmjs.com ⎯ Latest version: 0.1.2, last published: 12 hours ago. Start using @smoores/epub in your project by running `npm i @smoores/epub`. There are no other projects in the npm registry using @smoores/epub.
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GitHub - microsoft/markitdown: Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.
Dec 14 · github.com ⎯ Comments
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Muddling your words
Dec 13 · craftofui.substack.com ⎯ Scrambled text effects with and without JavaScript
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A ChatGPT clone, in 3000 bytes of C, backed by GPT-2
Dec 13 · nicholas.carlini.com ⎯ Comments
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Steel | Open-source Headless Browser API
Dec 12 · steel.dev ⎯ Steel is an open-source browser API purpose-built for AI agents.
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Nobody Gets Fired for Picking JSON, but Maybe They Should? · mcyoung
Dec 11 · mcyoung.xyz ⎯ JSON is extremely popular but deeply flawed. This article discusses the details of JSON’s design, how it’s used (and misused), and how seemingly helpful “human readability” features cause headaches instead. Crucially, you rarely find JSON-based tools (except dedicated tools like jq) that can safely handle arbitrary JSON documents without a schema—common corner cases can lead to data corruption!
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Index for Designing Data Intensive Applications (DDIA) book
Dec 11 · muratbuffalo.blogspot.com ⎯ The DDIA book is a great textbook, because it is not written as a textbook, but more of a guidebook. Textbooks are generally bland and bori…
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Running Durable Workflows in Postgres using DBOS
Dec 11 · supabase.com ⎯ Article URL: https://supabase.com/blog/durable-workflows-in-postgres-dbos Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42379974 Points: 31 # Comments: 8
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Steel | Open-source Headless Browser API
Dec 11 · steel.dev ⎯ Steel is an open-source browser API purpose-built for AI agents.
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LLMs are a tool for thought
Dec 10 · wattenberger.com ⎯ We often think of the same information at different levels or abstraction. Here’s a simple example:
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Tying Engineering Metrics to Business Metrics - Iccha Sethi - Medium
Dec 10 · icchasethi.medium.com ⎯ Most engineering organizations I’ve worked in or led have tracked some form of engineering metrics. These range from simple metrics like…
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Introducing the DX Core 4
Dec 10 · newsletter.getdx.com ⎯ A new unified framework for measuring developer productivity that encompasses DORA, SPACE, and DevEx.
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Concurrency diagrams
Dec 09 · philbooth.me ⎯ When engineers discuss program design and system architecture, a common source of misunderstanding is concurrency. Often that’s because we make internal assumptions about it, which we presume to be self-evident. But we don’t all make the same assumptions, so you can end up in a situation where multiple conflicting beliefs are held about the concurrency of a system and nobody realises. Left unchecked, these misunderstandings can lurk until much later in the development process, when they’re more expensive to fix. You can prevent these misunderstandings from happening by making concurrency explicit up-front, in a diagram.
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Betty's Books — Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
Dec 09 · www.drawright.com ⎯ Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain® was published in 1979 and since then has remained the preeminent book on its subject, used as a standard text in many art schools around the world and on the shelves of artists everywhere. Four million copies have been sold, and it has been translated into many foreign languages. Betty Edwards is the author of:
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You Must Read At Least One Book To Ride — Ludicity
Dec 09 · ludic.mataroa.blog ⎯ Two things are true.
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Being in the details
Dec 09 · www.theengineeringmanager.com ⎯ Managers can delegate too much and lose control of their orgs and their output. Being in the details can be fun, empowering and impactful.
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Grifters, believers, grinders, and coasters
Dec 08 · www.seangoedecke.com ⎯ Four archetypes in software engineering
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Factr: Focus on what matters
Dec 08 · factr.com ⎯ Ad-free, privacy-first, Factr helps you gather, organize, share, and present all kinds of content—exactly the way you want to.