21 June 2024

44 links · Friday

Does ChatGPT make us dumber? - Bohdan Kit

Over the past year, I’ve started delegating more of my personal and work tasks to ChatGPT. If I find myself unable to delegate something due to poor reception or another silly reason, a small wave of irritation stirs inside me. Convenience is the path of least…

Sidle

One of my favorite idea-having times is when I’m in bed, with my eyes closed, not quite asleep but not quite awake, in the hypnagogic state where the mind starts to make connections and realizations that it wouldn’t normally make during the day. Oftentimes the…

The last good vibes social media platform

I have a theory that every social media platform is destined to descend into chaos. It shouldn’t come as a surprise when we gather millions of people in one ...

Multi-Tenancy: Mixed Modes with Marten

This is continuing a series about multi-tenancy with Marten, Wolverine, and ASP.Net Core: What is it and why do you care? Marten’s “Conjoined” Model Database per Tenant with Marten Mixed …

Announcing TypeScript 5.5 - TypeScript

Today we’re excited to announce the release of TypeScript 5.5! If you’re not familiar with TypeScript, it’s a language that builds on top of JavaScript by making it possible to declare and describe types. Writing types in our code allows us to explain intent a…

Let’s Bring Science Into API Documentation | The Writerside Blog

In today's fast-paced development environment, effective API documentation is not just a nice-to-have, but a necessity. This blog post explores how understanding pattern recognition and learning styles can revolutionize the way we create API documentation. By …

NCronJob - June Edition

The last update of NCronJob was some time ago - and as always, there are some new features in the meantime. So here we are, let's go through to highlight them!

How I synchronize and backup my Obsidian Notes

Discover effective methods to synchronize and backup your Obsidian notes. This comprehensive guide covers using Syncthing, Google Drive, GitHub, Backblaze, and local backups to ensure your notes are secure and accessible from any device.

Ad Blocking for Speed: How CtrlBlock Improves Page Load Time

tl;dr I’ve tested 6,911 pages and using CtrlBlock improves the average page load time by more than 50% from 5.0s to 2.1s. Introduction A faster web makes for a more enjoyable experience. A website is made up of a main HTML document and a number of additional a…

Now is a good time to start a service business

Now is a good time to start a service business. Maybe you should try it! A service business is one where your company sells its work output directly instead of selling a product. Dentists, plumbers, design agencies, pool cleaner, consultants: these are all ser…

Occasional paper: Fungal banking

So in the last couple of decades we’ve discovered that many plants rely on networks of soil fungi to bring them critical trace nutrients. This is a symbiotic relationship: the fungal network …

Four types of money

Layman's framework to analyse organisations through the type of money they earn

I hate what the internet has become

I do realize that there are many good things about the internet, our lives depend on it, sometime quite literally. But, there are also many things that can be fixed. This post is mostly a rant about things I hate about the internet and what I'm doing to fix it…

A complete guide to Bluesky 🦋

I've decided to write down some of the tips & tricks that I often give to friends when I send them an invite code, or the advice and answers that I sometimes give to people that I find in some feed asking about things. This of course got much longer than I pla…

Designing for Emergence

"If we are ever to advance beyond simple computational artefacts, we need a science of emergence"

I kind of like rebasing

People tend to get pretty passionate about Git workflows on different online forums. Some like to rebase, while others prefer to keep the disorganized records. Some dislike the extra merge commit, while others love to preserve all the historical artifacts. The…