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Recap: Software Should Work 2026(bencornia.com)
1 points by bencornia 2mo ago|0 comments
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CRUD Is Broken(sawyer-p.me)
4 points by bencornia 4mo ago|0 comments
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Map of every park in Salt Lake City(saltlake.citycast.fm)
1 points by bencornia 4mo ago|0 comments
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Overcoming Informational Risk(bencornia.com)
2 points by bencornia 5mo ago|0 comments
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Career: A word invented chiefly to provide guidance counselors with careers(karlesky.net)
1 points by bencornia 9mo ago|0 comments
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by bencornia 9mo ago
I got the same feeling. The writing is too punchy.
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by bencornia 9mo ago
> With this bug, we are in the last case: the Response type is a non-POD struct (due to the std::string data field), so the default constructor is called. Response does not implement a default constructor. This means that the compiler ge
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by bencornia 9mo ago
I also read Meditations this year. Definitely not what I was expecting. It's not cohesive at all. My biggest takeaways were the inevitability of death and generally letting go of our sense of control.
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by bencornia 9mo ago
> Grab’s engineering team went from 18 minutes for go get to 12 seconds after deploying a module proxy. That’s not a typo. Eighteen minutes down to twelve seconds. > The problem was that go get needed to fetch each dependency’s source
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by bencornia 9mo ago
> The way Faulkner treats his characters, I treat domain name projects. I buy them with an intention to develop. And I let them take the lead. They’re the inspiration for the business itself. They guide me towards what they need to becom
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by bencornia 9mo ago
> What we’re doing here is instantaneous point-in-time recovery (PITR), expressed simply in SQL and SQLite pragmas. > Ever wanted to do a quick query against a prod dataset, but didn’t want to shell into a prod server and fumble with
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by bencornia 9mo ago
It would be such a dream if I could get an ebook, pdf, and physical copy. I love O'Reilly books and have been lucky to have access the last few years because of school.
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by bencornia 10mo ago
I recently read his networking guide as part of a class and it was invaluable. It gets you up to speed without overwhelming you with detail. It's a lightweight read.
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by bencornia 10mo ago
I am currently enrolled in a operating systems course where Beej's guide to network programming was invaluable. Highly recommend!
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by bencornia 10mo ago
- Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout - Leviathan Wakes by James Corey - UNIX: A History and a Memoir by Brian Kernighan - Efficient Linux at the Command Line by Daniel Barrett
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by bencornia 11mo ago
I just started reading Your Erroneous Zones by Wayne Dyer, and the author has this to say about intelligence and happiness: > Taking charge of yourself involves putting to rest some very prevalent myths. At the top of the list is the not
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by bencornia 1y ago
> Assuming malice turns you into a cynic. In contrast, assuming stupidity keeps you curious. Curiosity is a superpower that you can leverage. It keeps you out of fight/flight and helps you reason when the stakes feel high. It demons
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by bencornia 1y ago
I have been using pdf2htmlex with some success. https://github.com/pdf2htmlEX/pdf2htmlEX
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by bencornia 1y ago
Yesterday! For a question about sockets. I have started asking AI to provide sources for its answers so that I can make sure its not hallucinating. A lot of the time it points me to stackoverflow. AI has been incredibly useful but I also fi
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by bencornia 1y ago
Stored procedures make sense if you are trying to make your backend less chatty with the database. The downsides are that they aren't version controlled. PLSQL and its variants can be inscrutable and difficult to debug. I guess you jus
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by bencornia 1y ago
After using a split keyboard for 3 years, I can't imagine using a regular one. My hand and wrist pain disappeared witthin a week of switching.
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by bencornia 1y ago
Views are great. Stored procedures are cursed.
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by bencornia 1y ago
kinesis advantage 360
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Maximizing Leverage in Software Systems(bencornia.com)
1 points by bencornia 1y ago|0 comments
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Maximizing Leverage in Software Systems(bencornia.com)
2 points by bencornia 1y ago|0 comments
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Don't Walk with Rocks in Your Shoes(bencornia.com)
3 points by bencornia 1y ago|2 comments
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by bencornia 1y ago
Whew! This pretty much sums up how I have been feeling about my career the last 6 months. Today, at work, we had a tongue-in-cheek "vibe coding" day where we practiced building primarily with AI tools. A part of me feels like this
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by bencornia 2y ago
> The power of the vi-family is that this generalizes consistently. Absolutely! It takes learning relatively few command/motion combos before you are really cooking. The commands are fairly composable as well. I rarely find myself w
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The Efficiency of Vim(bencornia.com)
55 points by bencornia 2y ago|81 comments
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by bencornia 2y ago
> The only joy I have left in this profession is coding stuff for myself and my close friends. I am glad that you still find some joy in it. I think the argument of my post and maybe I didn't make it clear is that craftsmanship (wha

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