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How I stood up a privacy-friendly analytics stack for my personal sites — Plausible CE on an exe.dev VM, with TLS handled by the proxy.

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Using Git Worktrees for Parallel Branch Development

Learn how Git worktrees let you work on multiple branches from one repository, speed up context switching, and simplify parallel development workflows.

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PR-Based Preview Environments on Render with Terraform

Render preview environments require Blueprints, but a GitHub issue suggested a Terraform + GitHub Actions workaround. I built a reusable module for it.

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Using stow to manage dotfiles on multiple machines

If you work across multiple systems, you've likely accumulated a collection of configuration files over time.

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Binary Search in Elixir

Let's implement a quick and dirty version of binary search, and we'll improve upon it after identifying the base case and the recursive case.

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Mac setup guide for web development

An opinionated setup guide for web development on a mac

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  1. 1
    Talking to Humans

    Giff Constable, Frank Rimalovski, Tom Fishburne

    Read Oct 23, 2026

    3.5 / 5

  2. 2
    The Product-Minded Engineer

    Drew Hoskins

    Read Oct 7, 2026

    2.5 / 5

  3. 3
    A Brief History of Intelligence

    Max Solomon Bennett

    Read Oct 6, 2026

    4.5 / 5

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  1. If, on the contrary, you feel you're in the losers camp, don't let the bullies force you into something you don't want to take part on. Remember what Timothy Snyder says about resisting tyrannies: "Don't obey in advance".

    makemeacto.cc/be-a-loser/

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  2. PNC Bank looked at its own card data and found that about 2% of US households pay for a generative AI subscription. Half of American adults have never used a chatbot at all.

    theslowai.substack.com/p/only-2-per...

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  3. Our results suggest that incorporating AI aggressively into the workplace, particularly with respect to software engineering, comes with trade-offs. The findings highlight that not all AI reliance is the same: the way we interact with AI while trying to be ...

    www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...

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