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burticlies | 1 month ago | on: Ratchets in software development (2021)

I’ve never understood why linters don’t have this baked in. You want to deprecate a pattern, but marking it as an error and failing the build won’t work. So you mark it warning and fill everyone’s editors with yellow lines. And then we just get used to the noisy warnings.

Ratchet is such a good word for it.

burticlies | 2 years ago | on: Substack won't make you rich

I want search engines to operate similar to this. Instead of using googles monolithic index, you can subscribe to different trusted sources for lists of sites that are curated and maintained. Then your personal search engines queries them all at once.

I think if you could balance the incentives right it would put the onus on the curators to make sure that their indexes were full of high quality sites. And if one starts giving you rubbish, just remove their index from your search engine.

burticlies | 4 years ago | on: The UX on this small child is terrible

I think this speaks to how when learning a concept, just having it framed in the right way can really help.

I’d heard of the Ferber method before and we tried it a bit to no success. But just hearing the same idea framed as “the parent checking back in regular like a metronome”, rather than “the baby needs to learn to self settle” just clicked in my head.

Thanks for the tips, will keep trying this and see if it sorts out the late night wakes too.

burticlies | 4 years ago | on: The UX on this small child is terrible

Oh wow, this is the first internet baby tip that has actually worked. Our two year old would take 30 minutes of settling every night, with one of us in the room sitting in a chair. Tried this checking in every couple of minutes idea, and within a few days he only took 6 minutes and was relaxed the whole time. Thanks a bunch! Got any tips for when they wake up freaking out in the night?

burticlies | 4 years ago | on: Safest mushrooms to forage and eat

My wife has been reading a book on mushroom foraging. This section on different types of mushroom poisoning was particularly terrifying.

Trichothecenes, symptoms: Multi-organ failure, which can commence soon after exposure (such as through drinking an infusion), particularly bone marrow failure and lamellar desquamation (shredding and reddening) of palms, soles of feet and face. Death may occur.

burticlies | 6 years ago | on: Introduction to D3

They kept it really low level and didn’t make many opinions on how to join the dots. There are functions to manipulate data, functions to make scales, and functions to and functions to render svg (plus dom bindings). These decisions make individual charts quite verbose, but the trade off is you can visualise anything you want. Just look on npm how many charting libraries use d3 as a base.

burticlies | 9 years ago | on: Haskell Concepts in One Sentence

One simplistic but useful analogy I've found is that monads are a way to control program flow with functions. A monad is to functional programming what if/else is to imperative.

It may not cover all the nitty gritty about what is and isn't a monad. But it gets you a long way to understanding why you might use them.

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