28 November 2025

27 links · Friday

Decimal is sometimes wrong

Credkit is dropping its usage of the Python Decimal class. I thought it was the solution to all my problems, but it was not.

On Seriousness

We need to be serious in our culture to achieve the future of our dreams.

Talk "From Bias to Bots"

Karim built a bot testing housing applications in Munich. Western names got 4x more responses. Nationwide tests confirmed systemic bias. A decade later, he warns modern AI has made algorithmic discrimination far more sophisticated and opaque.

The Psychology of Bad Code - SheHacksPurple

In this blog series I will explore several known bad developer behaviors that lead to insecure software, as well as how we can combat them by applying behavioral economic interventions. This series is an expansion upon my thoughts from my conference talk ‘Thre…

Be useful in emergencies

Before the years of compounding technical experience, before accumulating an intricate understanding of corporate bureaucracy, before I started my own company — I was an intern. An intern who thought he knew more than any other intern on the planet. I miss the…

Bringing Sexy Back

Internet surveillance has killed eroticism. We need privacy to reclaim it.

A Remarkable Assertion from A16Z

A friend made me aware of a reading list from A16Z containg recommendations for books, weighted towards science fiction since that’s mostly what people there read.

I Added an Insane New Feature in C#

Get 40% off Dometrain with code BLACKFRIDAY25: https://dometrain.com/?ref=nick-chapsas&promo=youtube&coupon_code=BLACKFRIDAY25 Hello, everybody. I'm Nick, and in this video, I want to show you how I added a brand new feature in C# using extension members. Ch…