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What is "good taste" in software engineering?

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seangoedecke.com 2,000 words

Rated 2025-09-29T07:49:40-0700 - sethherr

Thoughts on Mechanical Keyboards and the ZSA Moonlander

Mechanical keyboards, the nerd equivalent of obsessing over ferrule weights in golf clubs, are wildly popular, and for a good reason. I've owned and used a ZSA Moonlander for some years now, and here are my thoughts on it and why I think you should literally buy any mechanical keyboard you can get your hands on with programmable firmware. Your fingers will thank you.

Mastering Emacs Mickey Petersen 3,000 words

Rated 2025-09-29T16:36:05-0700 - sethherr

Vertical Solar Panels Are Out Standing

If you’re mounting solar panels, everybody knows the drill, right? Point them south, angled according to latitude. It’s easy. In a video which demonstrates that [Everyday Dave] is truly…

2025-09-25T19:00:58-0700 Hackaday 5,000 words

Rated 2025-09-29T18:14:34-0700 - sethherr

How to Choose a Node.js Framework

The popularity of Node means we have lots of framework options. Dig in and learn how to choose between the most common Node.js frameworks.

judoscale.com 2,000 words

Rated 2025-09-30T17:00:29-0700 - sethherr

China Is Run by Engineers. America Is Run by Lawyers.

China Is Run by Engineers. America Is Run by Lawyers. - Freakonomics

2025-09-19T06:14:09-0700 Freakonomics 200 words

Rated 2025-10-02T08:57:04-0700 - sethherr

Increasing your practice surface area

The difference between being good and being great isn’t talent or formal training, but the invisible practice that happens when you're just living life.

2025-10-01T09:21:19-0700 Indie Hackers Channing Allen 1,000 words

Rated 2025-10-02T18:55:58-0700 - sethherr

How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized

Israel’s war in Gaza led to more than half a million Palestinians being stuck in a cycle of ‘starvation, destitution and death,’ a UN-backed initiative said. Five charts explain how.

2025-10-01T23:11:26-0700 CNN Sana Noor Haq, Rachel Wilson, Soph Warnes, Lou Robinson, Henrik Pettersson ... ($) 2,000 words

Rated 2025-10-02T19:05:03-0700 - sethherr

Bike thefts at stations 'decriminalised'

The British Transport Police will not investigate many categories of bicycle theft, the BBC learns.

2025-10-01T22:02:25-0700 BBC News Tom Edwards 1,000 words

Rated 2025-10-03T10:51:45-0700 - sethherr

How I influence tech company politics as a staff software engineer

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seangoedecke.com 1,000 words

Rated 2025-10-04T14:08:35-0700 - sethherr

Kamala Harris’s election memoir shows just how deluded the Democrats still are | Nesrine Malik

This unapologetic trawl through a doomed campaign reveals a celebrity-obsessed party high on its own supply. It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so tragic, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

2025-09-28T22:00:31-0700 The Guardian Nesrine Malik 2,000 words

Rated 2025-10-05T17:30:17-0700 - sethherr

How Bari Weiss of The Free Press Won the Top Job at CBS News

At The Free Press, she battled “wokeness” and buddied up with billionaires. Now she’s the editor in chief of CBS News. #US Politics

2025-10-06T06:37:26-0700 The New York Times Jessica Testa ($) 1,000 words

Rated 2025-10-06T12:36:57-0700 - sethherr

On Being Blocked From Contributing to lodash

My Github account was blocked from contributing security improvements to the project. This was my first open source work in a while, and unfortunately, it a...

crtns 1,000 words

Rated 2025-10-06T20:35:58-0700 - sethherr

California enacts law giving consumers ability to universally opt out of data sharing

The California Consumer Privacy Act, signed in 2018, gave Californians the right to send opt-out signals, but major browsers have not had to make opt-outs simple to use.

The Record 500 words

Rated 2025-10-08T21:27:09-0700 - sethherr

What really happened at Basecamp

Basecamp announced it would ban “societal and political discussions” at work. But the hardest conversations at work were about the company itself. Platformer’s Casey Newton spoke with half a dozen employees about the controversy. #Labor

2021-04-27T17:00:00-0700 The Verge Casey Newton ($) 2,000 words

Rated 2025-10-09T21:06:49-0700 - sethherr

A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size

Anthropic research on data-poisoning attacks in large language models

anthropic.com 2,000 words

Rated 2025-10-09T21:39:42-0700 - sethherr

Why I'm not rushing to take sides in the RubyGems fiasco

We are in the midst of a Ruby drama for the ages. I'm sure a bunch of people figured we were all too old for this shit, but apparently we are not. This debate…

justin․searls․co https://justin.searls.co/about 3,000 words

Rated 2025-10-09T22:03:16-0700 - sethherr

HTML’s Best Kept Secret: The output Tag

Make your dynamic content accessible by default with the HTML tag that time forgot.

2025-09-30T17:00:00-0700 Den Odell 1,000 words

Rated 2025-10-11T09:30:13-0700 - sethherr