I get so excited when I read some release notes for an app or library and a new feature is OPT-IN rather than OPT-OUT. It should always be this way. If your features are so important or relevant, let them speak for themselves. Don’t foist your crap on people.

“In 1959, Eugene Ionesco wrote the absurdist play Rhinoceros in which one by one, an entire town of people suddenly transform into rhinos.”

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Excellent interview. Why This Computer Scientist Says All Cryptocurrency Should “Die in a Fire” ❧ Current Affairs

Steve Albini’s letter to Nirvana regarding producing their album, In Utero: I would like to be paid like a plumber

Turns out there’s a big difference between a playlist titled “songs that make me happy” and another titled “songs that make me happy to be alive.”

Fluid Framework is now available to all Azure customers (in public preview). This represents an incredible amount of work by the team. I’m proud to be part of it. <devblogs.microsoft.com/microsoft…>

Bear plus snowflake equals polar bear - ⌨️🤷🏻‍♂️📷

Write code. Not too much. Mostly functions. - Brandon’s Website

Internal Combustion Engine – Bartosz Ciechanowski

Once Halt sent me PM and offered to learn Rust. Like any ordinary people, we decided to start with writing a dynamic library for Windows that could be loaded into StarCraft’s address space and manage units.

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