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Why you should forgive
Imagine a world of eight billion people—divided, as ours is, into groups. Make just one assumption: that at some point, whether by malice or by accident, at least one person will feel unfairly wronged. If you are that pe
My (probably wrong) theory of consciousness
I believe randomness does not exist; it just seems like it - and consciousness is merely the expression of this phenomena. Start with one assumption: everything in the universe obeys the laws of physics. If that's true,
Simple Typechecks for SOPS in Typescript
I've always hated .env files. The repo typically ships with a .env.example which you copy and then manually fill in each value, usually missing some, and most likely run into some runtime exception because you forgot one
I finally feel like a good trader
Hitting 7-figure PnL's in 2025
Assume There are Bugs
Avoid cycles that kill your velocity
Build Everything Like You'll Have to Delete It
Your code will be wrong. Not might be—will be. The question isn't whether you'll make bad decisions. It's whether those decisions will be survivable.
Monoid — wtf is it?
A plain-english take on monoids and why functional programmers care.
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Reproducible dev environments
macOS config manager using nix-darwin
software development studio
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