natbennett

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by natbennett 14d ago
Just delete stuff you’re not going to do.
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by natbennett 14d ago
> The vast vast majority of shops are not going to adopt Extreme Programming True! > and cut their velocity in half That’s not how pair programming works.
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by natbennett 14d ago
“It doesn’t scale” and “it’s unreasonably difficult for many people” aren’t the same thing. It scales fine to 400+ engineers. You do have to be willing to hire specifically for pairing tolerance.
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by natbennett 18d ago
“Only an extreme blood-and-soil nationalist would prefer indigenous anarchy or tyranny to imperial democracy, prosperity, and rule of law.” This sentence is extremely funny in the context of actual ethnographic research on “indigenous anarc
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by natbennett 1mo ago
After a bunch of experiences like this I will now basically only use test runners that automatically run the tests in randomized order. Gotta catch that stuff early.
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by natbennett 1mo ago
I do make the assumption that the reader is trying to look competent to their boss/clients yes. If that's not the reader's goal then I have very little to offer.
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by natbennett 1mo ago
Author here. Do you generally find that people who are not software developers understand what you mean when you say "technical debt?"
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by natbennett 2mo ago
In the case of a newly committed file you can add just the file with git add . -N And then review the text itself as part of the git add -p workflow
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by natbennett 2mo ago
The issue here isn’t that this guy shared something about his personal life it’s the particular personal details. It’s possible to share information about your personal life without talking about your drug use or your therapy or your drug u
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by natbennett 2mo ago
If you haven’t interacted much with people raised by conservative Christians in the United States, they often have strong feelings about how they were raised.
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by natbennett 2mo ago
Firefox is an interesting choice as a company that wasn’t affected by identity politics given how Brendan Eich left the company
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by natbennett 2mo ago
They are not a “pure middle man.” You should talk to someone who works at Patreon. Or a larger creator on their platform.
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by natbennett 2mo ago
They provide a lot of services and support to their bigger creators. Last I heard they also do their own payment processing, which is a substantial technical problem.
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by natbennett 2mo ago
Patreon just does this every few years. At least Jack Conte didn’t post a video of himself crying about it this time.
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by natbennett 2mo ago
I do this a lot but I use “TK:” with the colon to make it unambiguously grep-able (stands out better visually too)
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by natbennett 2mo ago
Headlines and articles are typically written by different people with different goals.
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Create Your Language(conlang.app)
3 points by natbennett 2mo ago|0 comments
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by natbennett 2mo ago
I’ve got a test that checks to see if “Logger” has been imported anywhere in my Elixir project, and if it finds one it prints out an explanation of why this project shouldn’t use Logger and what it should do instead. (Which is— emit OpenTel
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by natbennett 2mo ago
The phenomenon this describes is the most important effect of LLM coding tools, and this is my favorite description of it.
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by natbennett 2mo ago
This was posted in March 2026.
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by natbennett 2mo ago
Oh yeah that’s how you’re supposed to do it. But it’s entirely possible to set up a system that uses RFID key fobs that uh, doesn’t. In the case where it was most useful to make copies they did eventually replace the system with one where t
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by natbennett 2mo ago
Nope! Only occasionally. But it’s handy on those occasions.
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by natbennett 2mo ago
Flipper Zero is one of the handiest little pieces of tech I’ve ever owned. Being able to copy RFID keys is occasionally fantastically useful.
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by natbennett 2mo ago
This article is at least the sixth restatement of a single Reuters article that has been posted here.
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by natbennett 2mo ago
Because no one wants to “turn startups into content.” The point of posting on social media isn’t to post. You need to explain an outcome that someone would actually care about.
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Egg consumption inversely correlated with Alzheimer's(pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
69 points by natbennett 2mo ago|52 comments
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Craig Mod built his own Good Reads(craigmod.com)
24 points by natbennett 3mo ago|29 comments
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by natbennett 3mo ago
Specifically for his private social media that’s a benefit for his paid subscribers. 5 or 6 days of a few hours a day, with Claude.
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by natbennett 4mo ago
The category is “Platform as a Service” Alternative to Fly or Heroku Here is my source code Run it on the cloud for me I do not care how In this case it looks like they also bundle together a bunch of the other services you would need to ge
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by natbennett 4mo ago
Article and comments are underrating the impact of reputational risk on payment processors and on Kickstarter itself, for hosting/facilitating sexual content. Some amount of adult comment is CSAM, or otherwise broadly disfavored. Some

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