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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

Steve Blank No Science, No Startups: The Innovation Engine We’re Switching Off

Tons of words have been written about the Trump Administrations war on Science in Universities. But few people have asked what, exactly, is science? How does it work? Who are the scientists? What do they do? And more importantly, why should anyone (outside of universities) care? (Unfortunately, you won't see answers to these questions in…

2025-10-13T06:00:56-0700 Steve Blank 6,000 words

Rated 2025-10-15T08:18:09-0700 - sethherr

How remigration became a buzzword for global far right

Electoral success of parties in Germany and Austria backing mass deportation linked to the term’s growing use by mainstream politicians, say experts

2024-10-03T06:36:24-0700 The Guardian Ashifa Kassam 2,000 words

Rated 2025-10-16T22:54:18-0700 - sethherr

Meet the Nutmaxxers Obsessed With Shooting Bigger Loads

Both porn and a growing interest in self-optimization are leading men on a quest for enhanced ejaculations.

2025-10-14T07:00:00-0700 GQ Charlie Sosnick 2,000 words

Rated 2025-10-16T23:05:17-0700 - sethherr

You did no fact checking, and I must scream

I'm neither a journalist nor a professional fact checker but, the thing is, it's has never been easier to check basic facts. Yeah, sure, there's a world of misinformation out there, but it doesn't take much effort to determine if something is likely to be true. There are brilliant tools like reverse Image Search which give you a good indicator of when an image first appeared on the web, and…

2025-10-05T04:34:23-0700 Terence Eden’s Blog Terence Eden 1,000 words

Rated 2025-10-17T07:39:34-0700 - sethherr

Ruby Blocks

How to start really getting Ruby, especially blocks. #ruby

2025-10-14T05:47:51-0700 Stonecharioteer on Tech 1,000 words

Rated 2025-10-18T08:41:32-0700 - sethherr

How this runner did a marathon and Tour de France stage every day for a month

Spanish ultrarunner Kilian Jornet has been challenging himself to ascend and connect all of USA’s Fourteeners — mountains at least 14,000 feet high — in the lower 48 states. #Sports

2025-10-08T15:23:59-0700 AccuWeather Amy Woodyatt, CNN 1,000 words

Rated 2025-10-18T20:49:54-0700 - sethherr

Novo Nordisk's Canadian Mistake

Novo Nordisk's Canadian Mistake

Science Advances 1,000 words

Rated 2025-10-19T19:37:54-0700 - sethherr

The Programmer Identity Crisis ❈ Simon Højberg ❈ Principal Frontend Engineer

On AI, Creativity, and Craft

hojberg.xyz 3,000 words

Rated 2025-10-22T07:40:27-0700 - sethherr

Rivian’s first e-bike is unlike anything you’ve ever seen

Rivian’s Also announces TM-B Class 3 e-bike starting at $4,000, TM-Q pedal-assisted four-wheeler, and the Alpha Wave connected helmet. #Transportation

2025-10-22T10:30:00-0700 The Verge Thomas Ricker 1,000 words

Rated 2025-10-22T14:15:49-0700 - sethherr

Scripts I wrote that I use all the time

I've written a number of little scripts over the years, many of which I use every day. Here's a little collection.

2025-10-21T17:00:00-0700 evanhahn.com 2,000 words

Rated 2025-10-22T22:06:15-0700 - sethherr

Walnut Creek: Electric Vehicle Fire Sparks Shelter-In-Place Wednesday Evening

Crews extinguished a car fire in a parking garage in Walnut Creek on Wednesday evening and vapors from the fire prompted the county to issue a shelter-in-place for people near the garage.

2025-10-22T11:54:02-0700 SFGATE 200 words

Rated 2025-10-23T19:31:15-0700 - sethherr

Counter-Strike's player economy is in a multi-billion dollar freefall

Valve's most recent update to Counter-Strike pushed its cosmetics economy in freefall, with billions evaporating overnight.

2025-10-23T11:23:54-0700 Polygon Austin Manchester, Johnny Yu 500 words

Rated 2025-10-24T07:17:49-0700 - sethherr

Harnessing America’s Heat Pump Moment

The tech works. The policy’s in place. So why are heat pumps still a hard sell? What's stopping America from going all-in on heat pumps? #Climate Change #Home #Technology

2025-10-10T11:52:00-0700 Heat Pumped Joseph DeNatale 2,000 words

Rated 2025-10-25T16:43:59-0700 - sethherr

10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him. Bad idea.

It’s still legal to pick locks, even when you swing your legs.

2025-10-27T04:00:28-0700 Ars Technica Nate Anderson 3,000 words

Rated 2025-10-27T19:46:05-0700 - sethherr