Links from 2023 (277 links)

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Given the option, most rats will choose sugar instead of cocaine. Their lust for the carbohydrate is so intense that they will go as far as to self-administer…

For the open core model to work, the OSS product should be standalone and featureful. If users feel like it's just used to advertise a commercial product, it doesn't work. And the commercial product should offer value-added services and features that are not strictly required for the base OSS product.

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05 September 2023 i made this I'm finally sharing my project Postmarks, a single-user bookmarking website designed to be easily hosted on Glitch. Postmarks aims…

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As far as financial problems go, having a pension pot worth more than £1mn is something most people would count as a blessing. However, with a general election…

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OpenTofu lets you declaratively manage your cloud infrastructure.

We've deliberately chosen not to take on staff. We could have grown at many points along the way but haven't wanted to. Instead we've stayed small, focused and…

They aren’t making sites easier to use, but some people are profiting Image: Tomasz Woźniakowski Aug 31st 2023|NEW YORK Bill Dengler is trying to become an…

Energy makes time 04 Aug 2023 by Mandy Brown BECAUSE I WORK WITH a lot of high performers, the kind of people who are frequently responsive to both the unending…

👋 Hi, this is Gergely with the monthly, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every issue, I cover challenges at Big Tech and startups through the…

EA’s god’s eye image of moral reflection constrains how we can conceive of ethical thought and practice, leaving no room for views intolerant of the idea that…

Now, after seeing [Scrum] from an adjacent (but not subjugated under it) perspective, I think it is a life-sucking batch of meetings that are good for one thing: taking developers who can’t or don’t want to see the overall business/architecture picture and getting useful work out of them.

The intellectual movement that calls itself longtermism is an outgrowth of Effective Altruism (EA), a utilitarianism-inspired philanthropic programme founded…

The OpenTF Manifesto expresses concern over HashiCorp's switch of the Terraform license from open-source to the Business Source License (BSL) and calls for the tool's return to a truly open-source license.

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Have you been in any of these situations? Managers make decisions that’s out of their leagues and everyone else in the team ends up paying for it. Knowledgeable…

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This is based on an internal quip doc I wrote up about careful communication in the context of rebuilding trust. I got a couple requests to turn it into a blog…

I was five or six, growing up in London, when the first strange episode occurred. Waiting to fall asleep, I suddenly felt as if my bed was enormous and I was…

The revolutionary ideas that empowered the Web A simpler approach to building applications on the Web and beyond with htmx and Hyperview Enhancing web…

There’s a simple joy in the snap of leafy greens or the crunch of raw carrots fresh from the store. But keeping those perishables perky once you get them home…

One morning in August 2021, as she had nearly every morning for about a decade, Janice Smith opened her computer and went to Kiva.org, the website of the San…

The age of the record label as a buzzy, zeitgeist-shifting epicentre is practically over. Which is what makes PC Music, a label set up by producer A. G. Cook in 2013, such a unique entity. As it announces that after ten years of operating it will cease to release any new music, it leaves behind a legacy that is almost unparalleled in contemporary music.

The experience of travelling in Japan is simultaneously overwhelming and freeing. The world feels bigger out there, gilded by how mainstream video game culture…

Metamodernism is a term that has gained traction in recent years as a means of articulating developments in contemporary culture, which, it is argued (and our…

London and the UK need to drive innovation to solve the challenges of our time. (Jonathan Brady/PA) PA Archive 28 July 2023 A little over 150 years ago, the…

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From ambiguous recycling symbols to the lack of infrastructure to deal with soft plastics and the rise in vapes and used nappies entering recycling centres, the…

Distant profits are worth less and less these days Sep 15th 2022 This article is part of our Summer reads series. Visit the full collection for book lists,…

Today's links Autoenshittification: How the computer killed capitalism. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications,…

Like many breakthroughs in scientific discovery, the one that spurred an artificial intelligence revolution came from a moment of serendipity. In early 2017,…

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N. released its annual State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report last week.  Its conclusions are sobering. Global hunger is still far above pre-pandemic levels.

Choosing the less-efficient way of doing something, especially things we do for pleasure, can help us reassess our relationship with time and forgo the constant need for productivity.

PartyKit simplifies developing multiplayer applications

Scientific evidence for popular health supplements