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Alex Semin

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Making software even softer, @gradle.com ✍️ https://alllex.me/

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Admittedly, I don't open it often

27.10.2025 17:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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I am yet to see another company that makes you anxious literally on the sign-in page

It'd be strange if you can't immediately guess, but it says in the small font as well

27.10.2025 15:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Internet-of-AWS-Things

23.10.2025 08:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is basically a whole new scale of pretty 404 pages

09.07.2025 11:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This perfectly summarizes my expectation of AI status quo -- tons of make up from designers for features you can't rely on, only *hope* that they work and do the right thing

09.07.2025 11:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Also, some blogs just feel homely, regardless of content. I wonder how people arrive at that, and if that is a conscious decision or just the author's vibe.

18.05.2025 21:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This is creative! Will prolly keep the top posts top, but rotate the bottom posts

18.05.2025 21:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

At this point, Slack must have "reduced motion" option to suppress all animated tripping vibrant custom emojis everybody uses for engagement

18.05.2025 14:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
How I Designed a Free Music Font for 5 Million Musicians (MuseScore 3.6)
How I Designed a Free Music Font for 5 Million Musicians (MuseScore 3.6) YouTube video by Tantacrul

Modern music notation is based on fonts!
Though the design is quite different from regular fonts used for languages

I learned a lot from a video by @tantacrul.bsky.social, who designed Leland

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGo4...

04.05.2025 19:27 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A boy tells his dog, "Fido, stay." Then adds, "In this exact point in space." Time passes, and the dog is shown floating in space as Earth moves.

A boy tells his dog, "Fido, stay." Then adds, "In this exact point in space." Time passes, and the dog is shown floating in space as Earth moves.

16.02.2025 14:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You'd think we are past geocentrism, until you remember any modern fiction with multiple dimensions

16.02.2025 09:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Nintendo Switch 2 – First-look trailer
Nintendo Switch 2 – First-look trailer YouTube video by Nintendo of America

The most beautiful and probably the most expense *changelog entry* ever

www.youtube.com/watch?v=itpc...

16.01.2025 14:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Can you share how you exported the data and what did you use to put it in an html one-pager?

13.01.2025 08:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

refactoring will continue until morale improves

08.01.2025 20:14 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

The second one!

07.01.2025 13:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Since everything is flattened until fixpoint, does it mean there is no way to override an intermediate node, like a list?

It seems there will be no way to recover the structure, unless you supply your whole custom interpreter

07.01.2025 13:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is why I think the longer term future of software isn’t necessarily “app builder”, it’s more an entire OS where you start solving a problem and interactive interfaces are used as appropriate.

03.01.2025 17:26 👍 16 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Hyrum's Law

Apparently, there is a dedicated website: www.hyrumslaw.com

And, of course, there exists an xkcd
xkcd.com/1172/

02.01.2025 11:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bugward compatibility

is a friendlier name for the Hyrum's Law

02.01.2025 11:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Hello World! (A love letter to computers)

It’s time we properly introduced ourselves…

garden.co/news/hello-w...

30.12.2024 12:20 👍 27 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 4

Aah, that's such a shame

I tried the web version. The minimalistic style is clean and has a great balance. Great job!

29.12.2024 11:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Why is the game not available on newer Android phones, like Pixel 5?
It seems minimalistic and not requiring anything special. Does Google force devs to recompile their apps against newer SDKs or something similar?

29.12.2024 11:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Seconds Since the Epoch

Off-by-29 errors

aphyr.com/posts/378-se...

26.12.2024 16:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks, TIL!

26.12.2024 13:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Great article to pause and ponder on timeless topics of mature software engineering

Complexity, dependencies (on code and people), testing testing testing

26.12.2024 13:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It's not! The phrase has a nice ring to it. But if it's a reference to something, I don't get it 😅

26.12.2024 12:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This has a strong cultural reference vibe to it, though I am clueless

26.12.2024 10:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Hackathons are not it, in my experience. The ever-present friction requires to endure and overcome. Jazz is never perfect, but it flows

24.12.2024 18:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What's the equivalent of jazz improv in software world?

24.12.2024 18:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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