steerpike

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by steerpike 26d ago
Oh my god. A Jeremy Morrell sighting in the wild. Every time I share your blog (and I share it a lot ) I tell people: "This guy started a blog in 2024. Wrote three posts and all three of them would still make my top ten list of '
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by steerpike 2mo ago
That seems a very strange claim that it's a reference to one minor use of a vastly larger tragic cultural phenomenon [1] without any other contextual indications that's the case? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by steerpike 2mo ago
Australian flag. The black, red and yellow flag he replaced the Union Jack with is the Australian first nations flag
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by steerpike 4mo ago
Yeah. 100% agree here. The Pandora algorithm was an absolute breath of fresh air relative to every other recommendation system. Just constantly surfacing new and interesting music that I had never heard of but was exactly what I liked. I sp
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Celebrating Interesting Flickr Technologies(medium.com)
58 points by steerpike 6mo ago|11 comments
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by steerpike 6mo ago
In a recent thread talking about Flickr URLs I mentioned a couple of interesting technical features that Flickr had also done that I thought were worth celebrating. When gwern mentions that you should write in more detail about those things
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by steerpike 7mo ago
Flickr deserves a lot of praise for a number of technical advances that I wish had seen wider adoption. Their API was one of the first and honestly still one of the most enjoyable to actually use as a developer. It's still full of incr
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by steerpike 9mo ago
If you join HN and immediately start posting links to your own site you'll almost certainly be flagged by users.
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by steerpike 2y ago
It's just a question of ease. Where we lived in Bristol (Hotwells) we were exactly 28 minutes walk from Queen Square in the center of the city where I worked and 29 minutes in the other direction to Ashton court estate which is a deer
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by steerpike 2y ago
So I'll caveat this by saying we were a couple of Australians living in the UK and one of the big differences we noticed between Australia and the UK is just how damn clearly delineated the seasons are in the UK. In Australia they all
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by steerpike 2y ago
When my wife and I lived in Bristol we developed a metric designed to measure how enjoyable a city was to live in that we called "time to sheep". Basically it's a measure of how long you have to travel from the center of the
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by steerpike 2y ago
Jeremy Morrell apparently started a blog in 2024, wrote 3 posts for it, and each one of them would make my "top 5 blog posts of 2024" list. https://jeremymorrell.dev/blog/
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by steerpike 2y ago
100% agree with this. I would say that the other highly likely mistake new managers make is trying to code their way out of problems. It makes sense, right? Previously when you're an IC and a project ran into issues you could just &quo
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by steerpike 2y ago
Honestly, in an industry that talks about how important collaboration is and then places the most authoritarian minded individuals as our lauded CEOs (Musk, Bezos, Gates, Jobs, etc, etc) I just find Charity such a fucking breath of fresh ai
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by steerpike 2y ago
Site Reliability Engineering.
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by steerpike 3y ago
I believe the most common definition for this context of "production" is "mass produced commercial vehicle"
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by steerpike 4y ago
One of the fun things you can do is using the set of places API methods. flickr.places.findByLatLon returns a placesId based on a supplied lat/long of somewhere you might be interested in. You can then use that placeId to get photos ar
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by steerpike 4y ago
Flickr's API is still the best. Does everything you want it to. Has a few fun surprises that you didn't expect that make it even more fun to make things with. Simple to use. Well documented. Test playground at your fingertips to e
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by steerpike 4y ago
It's probably not that complicated nor really that related to an agency. The simple fact is probably more that for a certain type of nerd with a literary bent Kate Beaton and Hark a vagrant hold a similar place in our heart as Randall
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by steerpike 4y ago
Coming to grips with the hidden influence of my own physicality has been a long term struggle for me. I realised over a long time that the fact that I was over six foot, male, white, bearded, broad and articulate meant that people inherentl
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by steerpike 4y ago
Flickrs API still hasn't been beaten and it was one of the original APIs ever released. Frankly I thinks it embarrassing for us as an industry that it's still one of the simplest and best APIs I've ever used.
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by steerpike 5y ago
Wikipedia Current events page is great https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events for an overview of major global events. For a lot of other topics around general knowledge it can be very interesting to browse
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by steerpike 5y ago
I feel like this post just reached into my head and pulled out all my current thoughts about web development and the dominant architecture paradigm. I love it when someone articulates my thoughts better than I do.
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by steerpike 5y ago
Rock climbing and bouldering - often feels like the physical equivalent of trying to gracefully solve puzzles in much the same way I think about programming.
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by steerpike 5y ago
Pretty awesome experiment by jevans. This blog post details what she's trying to achieve and links to the two current games she's made so far about debugging problems.
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Julia Evans makes games about debugging(jvns.ca)
3 points by steerpike 5y ago|2 comments
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by steerpike 5y ago
This is the case for some accessibility issues, but at the edge cases the differences between screen readers is significantly more apparent than with browsers and it's also significantly easier to hit edge cases with screenreaders. Thi
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by steerpike 5y ago
Most accessibility shops and devs tend to use the free NVDA screenreader[0] for accessibility testing because of the costs associated with JAWS. There are differences between the two (and the other well used screenreader VoiceOver) but NVDA
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by steerpike 6y ago
I can guarantee it's something companies need. I've worked for multiple consulting companies that do exactly that. It's also basically Thoughtworks model of developer engagement.
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by steerpike 6y ago
Why pick a niche? Why not be the specialist team that embeds in a company to help launch products the company doesn't have the resources to currently deliver? Offer yourselves on a time and materials basis rather than a project scope b

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