Articles by tapanjk
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Vim 9.2 (vim.org)

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Jevons Paradox for Knowledge Work (twitter.com/levie)

1

The Early History of Distributed Open-Source Development (twitter.com/esrtweet)

1

War and Peace is a honking doorstopper (twitter.com/patrickc)

10

How blocks are chained in a blockchain (johndcook.com)

1

A German cycling from China to Pakistan, now crossing Afghanistan (youtube.com)

1

Lip-Bu Tan: Steps in the Right Direction (intel.com)

1

Cryptography, Hydrodynamics, and Celestial Mechanics (johndcook.com)

2

Strategy 2028 Update (fedoraproject.org)

2

AI can spew code, but kids should still suffer like we did (theregister.com)

23

Scientific Papers: Innovation or Imitation? (johndcook.com)

1

Canonical Announces First Ubuntu Desktop Image for Qualcomm Dragonwing Platform (canonical.com)

3

Fedora Council statement on Proven Packager situation (lwn.net)

3

What would a Microsoft engineer do to Ubuntu? (theregister.com)

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Why does Debian change software? (liw.fi)

2

Why Most Published Research Findings Are False (nih.gov)

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Subjectivity in Productivity (world.hey.com)

2

Emerging Patterns in Building GenAI Products (martinfowler.com)

1

Code Review Heuristic: Work You Throw Away (2023) (bethcodes.com)

2

Emerging Patterns in Building GenAI Products (martinfowler.com)

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Gnu.org Is Down

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Linus asks maintainers to use active voice, preferably just imperative (iu.edu)

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World Wide Web Foundation is shutting down (theregister.com)

1

The Biannual Go Developer Survey Is Now Open (go.dev)

1

Vim Community's Ongoing Support for Education in Uganda (groups.google.com)

12

ESR is building an autotools killer (twitter.com/esrtweet)

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Crafting the First Mile of Product (medium.com/positiveslope)

2

Our Tools Shape Our Thinking Habits (Dijkstra) (2001) (utexas.edu)

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Testimony before the House Antitrust Subcommittee (2020) (signalvnoise.com)

2

The Betty White Award for 2023: Tommy Smothers (computationalcomplexity.org)

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Password managers: boon or bane? [video] (youtube.com)

0

Standing Up to Technology (calnewport.com)

2

Quit Social Media. Your Career May Depend on It. (2016) (nytimes.com)

1

Solving Hard Problems (theprogrammersparadox.blogspot.com)

2

Performance Testing with K6: The New Top Dog for Load Testing and CI Pipelines (8thlight.com)

2

Tickets, Issues, Tasks (liw.fi)

2

Computing Machinery and Intelligence (wikipedia.org)

3

The What, Why, and How of Mastering App Size (atspotify.com)

2

Team Charters Are a Trap (lethain.com)

3

Updated my GTD introduction guide (liw.fi)

1

Thoughts on Writing and Publishing Primer (lethain.com)

1

Superlinear Returns (paulgraham.com)

1

Alert: Poorly Thought Out Alerts (rogueamoeba.com)

1

Optionality: A Strategy for Continuous Professional Development (effectivesoftwaredesign.com)

1

Toward an Ontology for Third Generation Systems Thinking (arxiv.org)

2

Attention (1890) (yorku.ca)

1

Silence Is a 'Sound' You Hear (nytimes.com)

1

The gold jewellery made from old phones (bbc.com)

131

Seriously Consider Skipping the Drinks (2022) (health.harvard.edu)

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Administrivia: New Web Hosting Arrangements (rachelbythebay.com)

2

The False Promise of Imitating Proprietary LLMs (twitter.com/_akhaliq)

2

What Is OAuth? (clever.com)

1

Help! Teaching Web Development in 2023 (uni.edu)

2

Prompt Engineering is not a Profession (effectivesoftwaredesign.com)

2

Pre-employment cognitive screening is common and legal (greyenlightenment.com)

4

The Engineering Executive's Primer (lethain.com)

2

BBEdit Turns 30 (shapeof.com)

1

TeX Live 2023 Upgrade to occur May 22nd, 2023 (arxiv.org)

2

Yet (world.hey.com)

1

A falling out of love letter to the university (....we need to talk) (profgrant.com)

2

Programming without a stack trace: When abstractions become illusions (architectelevator.com)

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AI risk as rebranded climate change (greyenlightenment.com)

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How generative AI is changing the way developers work (github.blog)

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Working Well (tbray.org)

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Instruction Tuning with GPT-4 (arxiv.org)

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You will own your own AI (twitter.com/brianroemmele)

2

Spotify's Wrapped Campaign Back End Architecture and Load Testing with Moshpit (atspotify.com)

3

Japan Wants Wage Winners. Is It Ready for Losers? (bloomberg.com)

2

Excellence is a Habit, Happiness is a Journey (effectivesoftwaredesign.com)

1

Emerging Market (wikipedia.org)

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TikTok Congress Hearing (nytimes.com)

2

AuthN vs. AuthZ: What Is Auth? (clever.com)

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Curl 8.0.1 (haxx.se)

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Geographic Coordinate Systems 101: A Primer for Software Generalists (8thlight.com)

2

A Spectator to Phase Change (uni.edu)

2

All the Ops (matt-rickard.com)

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Full of Stars (third-bit.com)

2

Are Platform teams the next DevOps? (2022) (youtube.com)

1

Running your engineering onboarding program (lethain.com)

2

Recognition and Rewards at Work (larahogan.me)

1

An Introduction to Packages, Imports and Modules in Go (alexedwards.net)

2

Just accidentally spent $300 on a single BigQuery query AMA (twitter.com/fredkschott)

2

Fossified Pilot Episode (fossified.com)

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Uncurled: A book by Daniel Stenberg, creator of curl (curl.dev)

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How to build a consistent workflow for development and operations teams (github.blog)

1

ChatGPT Limitations: The Long-Tail Case (effectivesoftwaredesign.com)

1

I made everything loosely coupled. Will my cloud bill go up? (architectelevator.com)

7

Don't Be Fooled by Serverless (world.hey.com)

1

Nix Is Fighting the Last War (matt-rickard.com)

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Better to micromanage than be disengaged (lethain.com)

2

Go 1.20 compiler adds profile-guided optimization (go.dev)

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5 Powerful Changes That Can Help Streamline Developer Costs (forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil)

3

Go Developer Survey – January 2023 (go.dev)

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Go Developer Survey – January 2023 (qualtrics.com)

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Balkrishna Doshi, Modernist Indian Architect, Is Dead at 95 (nytimes.com)

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The secret to happiness is human connection, not economic growth (thetimes.co.uk)

1

What Is GSPR (General Safety and Performance Requirements)

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The gentle art of code review (bitfieldconsulting.com)

8

Tell HN: Exercism needs donations to survive 2023

2

Fully Managed Infrastructure (matt-rickard.com)