Remember when Redux was responsible for making the previously underused switch statement popular in the frontend ecosystem?
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Claude wishes me "Good morning", "Good evening" and so on during the day.
Yet Claude never says "Why are you awake at this time?" when you open it in the middle of the night.
Is it possible to build a text-based general purpose language that is at a higher-level than Python, Ruby, JavaScript and so on without actually resorting to natural language / vibe coding?
I've heard that using Lisp you can create abstractions so that you program close to your domain, but is that the best we can do? I'm one of those people who don't enjoy those pesky parentheses.
I'm reading the book "The Personal MBA" by Josh Kaufman.
Apart from The Iron Law of the Market,
The quote:
The cardinal marketing sin is being boring.
by Dan Kennedy is one of my biggest takeaways from the book so far.
Anyone else watched Lonely Planet / Globe Trekker during the 90s? I just recalled the show's classic theme song and had to share it here!
I was not aware of Muse growing up. Somehow they were not that popular in India during the 2000s. But I've been listening to them a lot during the past few months.
If you're considering freelancing / consulting as a career, you should listen to the Being Freelance podcast hosted by Steve Folland.
Sometimes I wonder if even the best learning app / edtech product has a significant chance of improving learning outcomes.
The higher order bit is in how the student lives their life outside of the app.
It's so important to have hobbies like reading books, taking on challenging intellectual tasks outside of the curriculum, solving puzzles, reading the news critically, having good conversations and debates with people. These are all inputs that make most of the difference.
Substack has replaced a lot of Twitter usage for me. I just came across this post by Amie McNee on not wanting a corporate job and it resonated so much with me.
The article touched on the exact thing I was afraid of as soon as I graduated from college and suffered through a "BS" job for a few months before having the courage to quit and pursue my long-term goal of building interacting learning experiences using tech.
Happy 20th Birthday to the Django web framework! Check out this podcast by Talk Python featuring two of Django's creators and a few prominent members of the community to learn more.