He describes himself among other things as "Entrepreneur who has failed more times than I can count".

count++

It seems like self-reflection on why this is the case is not one of his talents!

"Claude, please add 1 to my Entrepreneur failure `count` value, please."

Instructions unclear. Deleted your LinkedIn account.

But at least you have a 5000 LoC project on Github that deletes LinkedIn profiles!

“It deleted my LinkedIn account — my connection to fellow thought leaders — without warning. No confirmation. No ‘are you sure?’ No second chances. Gone.”

At one place, the saying was that databases can handle everything except a class of sophomores learning how to use databases.

There's browser extensions to bring back more user control on youtube, facebook, trello* and many others; looks like someone should make one for github soon.

*the markdown enabler needs updating last I checked

There's already something like this for GitHub: https://github.com/refined-github/refined-github

Thanks for sharing - loads of great ideas there for the GitHub team.

I feel sorry for the headspace devs if it's really 100% Apple's fault.

A "mithril" like syntax. Like you could do (wrapped over multiple lines of course)

m.div([m.h1("title"), m.p(["click", m.a({href:"..."}, "me")])])

you can do (taken from the page)

g.VStack(g.Text(...), g.HStack(...).Spacing(g.SpaceMD))

some people will like this style, others not.

The repo doesn't say it, but the Author noted on the Gophers Slack #showandtell that the style was inspired by SwiftUI. That VStack example shows it quite well.

Lots of things, but he then chucked all the profits at a stupid idea that he even renamed the company for.

My hex editor should let me turn syntax highlighting on and off; follow my personal color theme (and not produce light gray on white in the terminal); and let me highlight specific things I'm searching for like OD OA or FF FE.

Knuth certainly writes better than Dijkstra, even if he lost the "goto" argument in the end.

Developing on cygwin, however, was a right pain. If a C library you wanted to use didn't have a pre-built cygwin version (understandable!) then you end up doing 'configure, make' on everything in the dependency tree, and from memory about two thirds of the time you had to edit something because it's not quite POSIX enough sometimes.

Ha ha doing Unix like it was 1989. At the time I thought configure was the greatest of human achievements since I was distributing software amongst Sun machines of varying vintage and a Pyramid. I want to say good times but I prefer now ha ha

autotools felt old even in 90's

Autotools was designed to produce a configure script with zero dependencies other than the compiler toolchain itself. I always thought it would be a good way to bootstrap a system configuration database (like the kind X11 already had, the name I forget) but it turned out to be too convenient to just drop autotools into every project instead.

So now even today, compiling any GNU package means probing every last feature from scratch and spitting out obscenely rococo scripts and Makefiles tens of thousands of lines long. We can do better, and have, but damn are there a lot of active codebases out there that still haven't caught up.

Reminds me of a fun weekend I spent ~5 years ago building the newest version of every GNU program I could get to build on NEXTSTEP 3.3 (running on 68k NeXT hardware) without major changes.

I'm sure there's something behind deaths and disappearences of key rocket, defense, and nuclear scientists in Iran. Has been going on for a while.

For the US, my money is on "more evidence is needed". I could imagine the more "diverse" among the scientists deciding it's time for a career/employer change over the past year or so, though.