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Andrew Chenby Andrew Chen23 Jan 2024
Grand Theft Auto 6 and the future of AI If you happened to miss it, a few weeks back, here is the game trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6. It’s worth watching, and is amazing on multiple levels.
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top 51%Pencils Down, Ideas Up: Navigating Design Critiques with Grace and Grit • Slack Design
Slack Designby lcarmen217 Jan 2024
Charting the crit terrain Critique—or, to use its more casual truncation, “crit”— is one of the most powerful team-powered tools that can contribute to a designer’s growth.
Empire AI - AVC
AVCby Fred Wilson9 Jan 2024
Empire AI Last summer I sat down with Tom Secunda, who co-founded Bloomberg LP with Mike Bloomberg, to talk about areas of shared philanthropic interest.
More Advent of Code optimization
Flurries of latent creativity - Stripe CTO blog7 Jan 2024
Warning, if you plan to complete Advent of Code 2023, this post contains spoilers so don’t read it until you’re done.
Andrew Chen Archives
Andrew Chenby Andrew Chen4 Jan 2024
Dear readers, I was recently interviewed by the great Brian Balfour (CEO/cofounder of Reforge) and Fareed Mosavat (ex-Reforge/Slack/Zynga) which turned into a lively discussion — I think we could...
The Two Reacts — overreacted
overreacted4 Jan 2024
The Two Reacts January 4, 2024 Suppose I want to display something on your screen. Whether I want to display a web page like this blog post, an interactive web app, or even a native app that you...
Scalable Continuous Integration for iOS
Alberto De Bortoliby Alberto De Bortoli3 Jan 2024
Originally published on the Just Eat Takeaway Engineering Blog. How Just Eat Takeaway.com leverage AWS, Packer, Terraform and GitHub Actions to manage a CI stack of macOS runners.
Andrew Chen Archives
Andrew Chenby Andrew Chen3 Jan 2024
Hi readers, Doing a short round up on various links, books, a quick life update, and other stuff going on. First, I did not write much in 2023 (I was busy!!)
Advent of code 2023 in under a second in python (ish!)
Flurries of latent creativity - Stripe CTO blog2 Jan 2024
Warning, if you plan to complete Advent of Code 2023, this post contains spoilers so don’t read it until you’re done. This was my second year completing Advent of Code live during December.
New Social Caption Generator Uses AI to Help Sellers Post More Easily
eBay Tech Blogby eBay News Team18 Dec 2023
For eBay sellers, social media can be an invaluable tool for publicizing, promoting, and popularizing their listings — but figuring out the best phrasing can feel challenging.
Salmon in the Loop
The Gradientby Kevin McCraney16 Dec 2023
One of the most fascinating problems that a computer scientist may be lucky enough to encounter is a complex sociotechnical problem in a field going through the process of digital transformation.
A Chain Reaction — overreacted
overreacted11 Dec 2023
A Chain Reaction December 11, 2023 I wrote a bit of JSX in my editor: Right now, this information only exists on my device.
How do I use a search engine? - Waldeinsamkeit
Waldeinsamkeitby Unknown10 Dec 2023
I was reading about Kagi, a search engine you pay a monthly subscription to use for. Our world is so fucked up, that explicitly paying with money for a service is the only hope to avoid having your...
Like repositories, jOOQ's DAOs are only useful for very simple stuff
Java, SQL and jOOQ.by lukaseder6 Dec 2023
jOOQ’s DAO API is one of jOOQ’s most controversial features. When it was first implemented, it was implemented merely: - Because it was so easy to implement - Because it seemed so useful for simple...
Tailwind has a scalability problem. How can we solve that?
ByteofDevby Jacob Jackson29 Nov 2023
Tailwind has a scalability problem. How can we solve that? TailwindCSS helped transform the way I wrote CSS.
How to Play Grand Poo World 3
David Walsh Blogby David Walsh28 Nov 2023
How to Play Grand Poo World 3 The underground world of creating and streaming Super Mario World-based ROM hacks continues to gain popularity.
Masters of Scale: Customer love is all you need, with Sam Altman
Masters of Scale20 Nov 2023
About Sam - CEO of OpenAI, leading AI innovation and research as of 2024. - Former president of Y Combinator, incubating Airbnb, Reddit, Dropbox, and 40+ $100M+ startups.
Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive
Signal Blog16 Nov 2023
Signal is the world’s most widely used truly private messaging app, and our cryptographic technologies provide extra layers of privacy beyond the Signal app itself.
Poorman visitor counter - Waldeinsamkeit
Waldeinsamkeitby Unknown5 Nov 2023
This website is hosted on Sourcehut Pages, a minimalistic static web hosting offered by Sourcehut.
A more focused, productive Slack • Slack Design
Slack Designby lcarmen231 Oct 2023
Does this look familiar? With more types of work happening on Slack, teams becoming larger, and new features like Canvas expanding what Slack can do, our UI was becoming congested.