Whatever makes YOU personally happy!
06.03.2026 12:45
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Whatever makes YOU personally happy!
www.counting-stuff.com/rediscoverin... as of 2 hours ago, tho it's a dated post
Is it out yet? 👀
New post building on this idea, if you are feeling blue as a developer, build your own stuff. It won't fix everything but it can fix some things. vickiboykis.com/2026/03/04/a...
new back of the envelope scribble: querying 3 billion vectors
vickiboykis.com/2026/02/21/q...
I need to get back into it, been busy doomscrolling 😅 but some of the local llm ones have been fairly good. What makes them generally good is a pretty focused topic and concrete discussions around infra, goals etc and builders rather than just product consumers (although you need a mix of both!)
Some discords are good for this
if you love software and are feeling down about the state of software, find places where people are talking about building stuff, and most importantly, actually building stuff and talking about the specifics of the code
The point of building is not just to throw the finished product over the line; if you’re doing it right, the process shapes the creator, too.
Stoked to share that the Steering Council has accepted PEP 814. frozendict is coming to Python 3.15!
discuss.python.org/t/pep-814-ad...
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this fall I worked with the core Git folks on writing an official data model for Git and it just got merged! I learned a few new things from writing it. github.com/git/git/blob...
I h a concurrency t e
"It has, with generative code, become harder and harder to strive towards the lions because the models produce code that is, quite literally, mid" - beautiful post by @vickiboykis.com
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This from @vickiboykis.com and also for scholarship.
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Absolutely wonderful from @vickiboykis.com - newsletter.vickiboykis.com/archive/i-wa...
daily reminder that BERT still exists and is v good
Book cover for “The Joy of Cooking”
When you’re on your fourth merged PR for the week
I still remember!!
About whether something is good? Mentions across media, likely (aka page rank) - we have the data we just don’t have the incentives to offer something that is no longer available or hard to get to
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All depends on your target users and feedback from them
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“What’s a good search result or recommendation?” The evergreen question
agents, but only for closing the tabs they know I’m not going to look at ever again
Wow wonderful, thank you! ❤️
my version of “phone” versus “big computer” tasks are vscode codebases and JetBrains codebases
Get a small firm oval travel pillow to take with you, helps a lot. Also stretching every day 😭
I love the framing of your app as your neighborhood. There’s a sense of shared responsibility that fosters joyful experiences.