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Good Tools Are Invisible: Why Toolmakers Should Prioritize Frictionless Utility Over Gamification
TL;DR: A good tool is and ought to be invisible—striving to make such tools is the goal of a toolmaker.One habit I see a lot, and have to push back on, is taking a tool's shortcomings and reselling them as a "puzzle game" which is "fun" to solve.I don't w
Good Tools Are Invisible: Why Toolmakers Should Prioritize Frictionless Utility Over Gamification
TL;DR: A good tool is and ought to be invisible—striving to make such tools is the goal of a toolmaker.One habit I see a lot, and have to push back on, is taking a tool's shortcomings and reselling them as a "puzzle game" which is "fun" to solve.I don't w
YC CEO says he ships 37K LoC/day AI code. A developer looked under the hood
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Oracle's Orasort Sorting Algorithm Enters Public Domain After Patent Expiration
Patent for Oracle’s Sorting Algorithm Expired; Now Available in the Public Domain.
deepsystemstuff.com11d agoWhy low-latency Java still requires discipline?
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From XML evangelist to skeptic: A developer's 15-year journey with metadata and markup
US Govt to individually approve who gets GPT 5.6
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Playing Pong Inside a Browser Tab's Favicon
A real game of Pong, running in the tab's favicon. Scroll to play.
Hiding Data in a Website's Favicon: A Developer's Obsession
Words from me as developer, student and human.
Hiding Data in a Website's Favicon: A Developer's Obsession
Words from me as developer, student and human.
GLM-5.2 (max) AI Model: Intelligence, Performance, and Pricing Analysis
KVarN: Huawei's Calibration-Free vLLM KV-Cache Quantization Backend for Agentic Workloads
GitHub Copilot app
Endive: A JVM Native WebAssembly Runtime from the Bytecode Alliance
Chrome 148 introduces declarative partial updates for out-of-order HTML streaming
Chrome 148 introduces declarative partial updates for out-of-order HTML streaming
Investigation Finds Starbucks' 'Recyclable' Plastic Cups End Up in Landfills, Not Recycling Facilities
317 npm Packages Compromised in Mini Shai-Hulud Supply Chain Attack
Error: Content Unavailable Due to Browser Extension Interference
Bjarne Stroustrup's C++ Style and Technique FAQ: Expert Programming Guidance
Modified February 26, 2022


