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I learnt this week - 22nd April 2025
The links today including bucketing work time, competing on price, n+1 people, football tactics, engineering laws, building Git, (not) delighting customers, librarians, object storage, future of work, a new colour and tech hiring.
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I learnt this week - 14th April 2025
The links today including the best programmers, improving retrospectives, a live tube map, unusual trading cards, prioritisation, complex decisions, MCP issues and conversational interfaces.
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TCL and not fixing bugs
A blast from the past with the language TCL and a nice explanation why some bugs just don’t get fixed.
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Legal shoplifting and high agency
A place in Japan where you can shoplift, as long as you are silent, and what does it mean to have high agency?
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AI projects and naming
Can we know tackle projects that were too big using AI and should we ignore getting the best name for something?
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DIY weather prediction and strategy selection
A way to run weather forecasts with orders of magnitude less computing power and picking a strategy based on what your opponent/competitor doesn’t want you to do.
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The evolution of finding data
In a recent article Seth Godin identifies that the sorting of information into directories had a big impact. He gives the examples of the phone directory, TV guide and even department stores.
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Writer's block and Alpha School
An illustration of how to defeat writer’s block and a new school that is getting amazing results.
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GPS alternative and Mandelbrot set
A new approach to working out your location without using GPS and an online Mandelbrot set explorer.
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A 2013 Apple advert and normal engineers
A brilliant advert from Apple in 2013 and the need for “normal” engineers on teams.
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