This is ridiculous and impressive:
https://jenniferdaniel.substack.com/p/introducing-emoji-kitchen-
https://emoji.supply/kitchen/
https://jenniferdaniel.substack.com/p/introducing-emoji-kitchen-
https://emoji.supply/kitchen/
Substack
Introducing: Emoji Kitchen 😗👌💕
How can we reconcile the rapid ever changing way we communicate online with the formal methodical process of a standards body that digitizes written languages?
So many great advice and resources in this post.
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/how-to-become-a-full-time-creator/
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/how-to-become-a-full-time-creator/
The Pragmatic Engineer
Becoming a Full-Time Creator as a Software Engineer: Controversial Advice
I'm a full-time creator. With remote work becoming more common in tech, I get more messages from people asking: how can they do what I do?
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1985690/The_Looker/
Great parody. Must-play for The Witness fans. And it's free :)
Great parody. Must-play for The Witness fans. And it's free :)
Steampowered
The Looker on Steam
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Lucas Pope 详解把 Papers Please 移植到移动端的诸多挑战 👏
https://dukope.com/devlogs/papers-please/mobile/
https://dukope.com/devlogs/papers-please/mobile/
Dukope
Cramming 'Papers, Please' Onto Phones
I created Papers, Please in 2013 specifically for desktop computers with mouse control. Now, here, in 2022, desktop computers no longer exist and all computing is done via handheld mobile telephone. Time to update this dinosaur.
These thousands of words and…
These thousands of words and…
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Forwarded from C’s Random Collection
https://nft.storage/blog/post/2022-04-29-gateways-and-gatekeepers/ nice read about running IPFS public gateway #ipfs
blog.nft.storage
Gateways and gatekeepers: How Google’s mistakes can still affect web3
Operating an IPFS HTTP gateway in a web2 world
Good insights, especially valuable for teaching.
> For most people reading this article, most of this will seem dead obvious but they may not have seen it in this specific articulation. So why do I bring it up? Because forgetting (or not knowing of) this structure of the reality of what you are actually doing is the pitfall many novices, and even veterans, fall into when programming. Getting caught up in what is the best way to implement a program, or any problem for that matter, distracts the programmer from the problem.
https://www.gingerbill.org/article/2021/02/01/the-essence-of-programming/
> For most people reading this article, most of this will seem dead obvious but they may not have seen it in this specific articulation. So why do I bring it up? Because forgetting (or not knowing of) this structure of the reality of what you are actually doing is the pitfall many novices, and even veterans, fall into when programming. Getting caught up in what is the best way to implement a program, or any problem for that matter, distracts the programmer from the problem.
https://www.gingerbill.org/article/2021/02/01/the-essence-of-programming/
www.gingerbill.org
The Essence of Programming
One thing I have noticed a lot when a programmer is struggling to solve a problem, especially a novice, is that he is stuck worrying about the “best way” to implement the solution rather than actually understanding the problem he has. I believe a lot of this…
THE HISTORY OF USER INTERFACES
https://history.user-interface.io/
https://history.user-interface.io/
https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2022/08/03/the-anomaly-of-cheap-complexity/
> The anomaly of cheap complexity. For most of human history, a more complex device was more expensive to build than a simpler device. This is not the case in modern computing. It is often more cost-effective to take a very complicated device, and make it simulate simplicity, than to make a simpler device. This is because of economies of scale: complex general-purpose CPUs are cheap. On the other hand, custom-designed, simpler, application-specific devices, which could in principle be much more secure, are very expensive.
> The anomaly of cheap complexity. For most of human history, a more complex device was more expensive to build than a simpler device. This is not the case in modern computing. It is often more cost-effective to take a very complicated device, and make it simulate simplicity, than to make a simpler device. This is because of economies of scale: complex general-purpose CPUs are cheap. On the other hand, custom-designed, simpler, application-specific devices, which could in principle be much more secure, are very expensive.
Interesting paper comparing SQLite and DuckDB
https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1565392976884314112
Paper: https://vldb.org/pvldb/volumes/15/paper/SQLite%3A%20Past%2C%20Present%2C%20and%20Future
Summary: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Sep/1/sqlite-duckdb-paper/
https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1565392976884314112
Paper: https://vldb.org/pvldb/volumes/15/paper/SQLite%3A%20Past%2C%20Present%2C%20and%20Future
Summary: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Sep/1/sqlite-duckdb-paper/
Twitter
There's a really interesting new academic paper out comparing SQLite and @duckdb, and discussing improvements (potential and realized) to make SQLite work better for analytical queries
I wrote up some notes and highlights from reading the paper https://t.co/XUFnSPtbsI
I wrote up some notes and highlights from reading the paper https://t.co/XUFnSPtbsI
Forwarded from The Low Road | 鲍勃碎碎念
今天和 Feiran 从这句话聊到 You are as good as your last story 这句话。
想起之前在newsletter 里提过。找来一看，是解散派对初期写的东西。就顺道贴出来存个档。
目前解散派对已经默认录屏分享了，与此同时，更加小范围的 demo 分享流动到了业余公司的咕咕会上，我们把这个大家可以自选感觉到安全的曝光程度的过程叫做「漫长的过渡带」。
其他都没变。
—
第一期的 demo night 通告里我写下了 demo night 的初衷：
「用作品交流」一直是我最推崇的沟通方式。
一个认真的作品里，处处细节都是「诗」，都是创作者花费大量时间打磨，做了无数取舍后呈现的唯一结果。当一个人把他成熟或不成熟的作品呈现在你面前时，你就已经能感知到他的爱好和厌恶、天赋和笨拙、喜悦和痛苦。
对了，在我看来，demo 就是「你做得再烂大家都不会介意」的意思。任何阶段的 demo 都欢迎来业余公司和大家分享。
我自己做项目的时候，常常会左右互搏，慢慢地，自己就会把自己「吃掉」，然后陷入到一个死循环里。提供一个通过 demo 交流的环境的初衷就是不想让大家创作得那么苦闷。
当你感受到「自己就会把自己吃掉」时，不妨把自己放到一个反馈更迅速的系统里。
写下这段话是半年前，现在我仍然这样认为：
「用作品交流」
大学上新闻写作课，我的老师 Ying Chan 和我们说：「You are as good as your last story。」作为一名新闻教育者，她已经退休多年。我和她也少有联系，但每次在 Twitter 上看到她还在做很硬核的新闻写作时，我就还知道她还好。
作品是最好的自我介绍，当我们抛开学历、工作履历、过往的名声或不堪，唯一能代表你的是你的最新作品。
demo 就是「你做得再烂大家都不会介意」的意思
「解散派对/demo night 会有录屏回放吗？」这大概是近半年我收到最多的问题之一。
我比较在意的是，一旦把「录屏回放」作为一个「默认选项」，我可能会失去那些我很在乎的 demo 和创作者。
他们和我一样，有着一些创作者的「矫情病」。他们对不成熟的作品还不够自信，既害怕展示后不达他人预期，又渴望从他人身上获得一些微小的认同。一旦分享者知道自己的 demo 会被录屏并传播，这种稀有的，微妙的「矫情」可能就会消失。
相比之下，成熟的作品不缺媒介的推广和他人的肯定。我想把 demo night 的时间留给更多不成熟的作品。
「放轻松，just for fun。」我每次都会这样和分享者说，就是希望大家能在一个相对安全的半公开环境下做分享。
「解散派对」诞生于数字媒介，「录屏」在技术上异常方便，但目前看，这个方便的「默认选项」并不适合 demo night 。
当然，我也能理解那些错过活动的会员的遗憾。一方面，一些分享者会自行录制上传自己的 demo，这和录屏不做「默认选项」并不冲突；一方面，我也在思考用一些非录屏的方式把活动内容分享给更多人。
https://club.q24.io/party021/
想起之前在newsletter 里提过。找来一看，是解散派对初期写的东西。就顺道贴出来存个档。
目前解散派对已经默认录屏分享了，与此同时，更加小范围的 demo 分享流动到了业余公司的咕咕会上，我们把这个大家可以自选感觉到安全的曝光程度的过程叫做「漫长的过渡带」。
其他都没变。
—
第一期的 demo night 通告里我写下了 demo night 的初衷：
「用作品交流」一直是我最推崇的沟通方式。
一个认真的作品里，处处细节都是「诗」，都是创作者花费大量时间打磨，做了无数取舍后呈现的唯一结果。当一个人把他成熟或不成熟的作品呈现在你面前时，你就已经能感知到他的爱好和厌恶、天赋和笨拙、喜悦和痛苦。
对了，在我看来，demo 就是「你做得再烂大家都不会介意」的意思。任何阶段的 demo 都欢迎来业余公司和大家分享。
我自己做项目的时候，常常会左右互搏，慢慢地，自己就会把自己「吃掉」，然后陷入到一个死循环里。提供一个通过 demo 交流的环境的初衷就是不想让大家创作得那么苦闷。
当你感受到「自己就会把自己吃掉」时，不妨把自己放到一个反馈更迅速的系统里。
写下这段话是半年前，现在我仍然这样认为：
「用作品交流」
大学上新闻写作课，我的老师 Ying Chan 和我们说：「You are as good as your last story。」作为一名新闻教育者，她已经退休多年。我和她也少有联系，但每次在 Twitter 上看到她还在做很硬核的新闻写作时，我就还知道她还好。
作品是最好的自我介绍，当我们抛开学历、工作履历、过往的名声或不堪，唯一能代表你的是你的最新作品。
demo 就是「你做得再烂大家都不会介意」的意思
「解散派对/demo night 会有录屏回放吗？」这大概是近半年我收到最多的问题之一。
我比较在意的是，一旦把「录屏回放」作为一个「默认选项」，我可能会失去那些我很在乎的 demo 和创作者。
他们和我一样，有着一些创作者的「矫情病」。他们对不成熟的作品还不够自信，既害怕展示后不达他人预期，又渴望从他人身上获得一些微小的认同。一旦分享者知道自己的 demo 会被录屏并传播，这种稀有的，微妙的「矫情」可能就会消失。
相比之下，成熟的作品不缺媒介的推广和他人的肯定。我想把 demo night 的时间留给更多不成熟的作品。
「放轻松，just for fun。」我每次都会这样和分享者说，就是希望大家能在一个相对安全的半公开环境下做分享。
「解散派对」诞生于数字媒介，「录屏」在技术上异常方便，但目前看，这个方便的「默认选项」并不适合 demo night 。
当然，我也能理解那些错过活动的会员的遗憾。一方面，一些分享者会自行录制上传自己的 demo，这和录屏不做「默认选项」并不冲突；一方面，我也在思考用一些非录屏的方式把活动内容分享给更多人。
https://club.q24.io/party021/
Goodreads
A quote by Why The Lucky Stiff
when you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create.
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