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Reading Slow Productivity by Cal Newport, discovered via onboarding content in mymind mymind.com

Been a bit quiet here the last week or so. Recovering from ill health, at risk of redundancy, and working on side projects. It's been a bit full on. Does anyone make pay check/cheque money from side projects? Can I use my redundancy runway to turn some websites from side hustle to salary money?

gondolom, vasárnap van nekik is, vagy nem tudom

Currently reading Guards Guards by Terry Pratchett

Somehow, I can't work in the mornings. Going to the office earlier just makes longer the "warmup period", this is, the period I stare the computer's screen reading stuff that is completely unrelated to my work. #ASDnotesfollow

@stagasprofilefollowcreative technologist creator of textlog “mentioned” is overlapping on nicks. Like @stagasprofilefollowcreative technologist creator of textlog mentioned you …”.

A thing I've been doing lately is trying to come to the same conclusions others have without looking their the direct techniques and code. Last night I tried to figure out why people do vector based retrieval for RAG and ended up running these experiments: n0tls.com/…/2026-09-03-i-think-…rag-with-grep.html I'm still going to do an explore agent. #ainotesfollow #ragnotesfollow #evalsnotesfollow

Love the idea! Love the UI!

Came from &2059&2059

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Made another important decision to remove all counters — notes, replies, following, followers — from both people and hashtags, so you focus on the content not the numbers. It was creating competition which feeds the dopamine system, which we have exhausted and try to avoid. #meta

. I like the design.

Day length formula: www.desmos.com/calculator/hp84xbqzfxDesmosUntitled Graph (Did you know that it becomes a triangle wave at the (ant)arctic circle?)

I needed to process 20,000 json files & 20,000 JXL files. I'm pulling together a website from them all. Anyway, started with emacs elisp to handle it all, just because I've not done that before. Went kinda ok, and I'm gonna use org-mode to export it all to a website (done that bit loads of times before). In the end, I ended up breaking out my C programming skills (late 80s->nowish). It was a delight. Nothing more refreshing than writing raw code, that doesn't rely on 3rd party code/libs. #prognotesfollow

It's one of the sad ironies of this computer stuff that the simpler solutions take longer to conceive than the complicated ones.

Recently hit 10+ years (cumulative) of being a software engineer. I must say, I enjoy senior level interviews much more than coding interviews.

there's so much room for activities!

I've read about this place a few times on HN but every time I tried to come back I couldn't think of the right search terms

Blargh. I've got that dry tickle in the throat where you know you're getting sick. Begone, virulent tingle, begone!

Hey hola, aquí un hispanohablante que ingresó por curiosidad. No creo pasarme mucho por aquí pero igual aquí andamos por ahora. #Hispanohablantenotesfollow

What is your comfort food?

Looks like you-know-who has finally come for nitter. :-( nitter.net

The essential work of #programmingnotesfollow is building the theory of the problem + solution. Theory then enables creation of working code. In the end, the code is necessary, but it is not sufficient. Theory is indispensable. (cf. Peter Naur, 1985)