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Dan Luu I think this part in particular is really underrated. Once you can go really fast, things become possible that were impossible to contemplate before. Tailscale wouldn’t exist if we had done things the regular way. It’s supposed to be unthinkable.

How good can you be at Codenames without knowing any words? danluu.com/codenames/

A former Apple engineer discusses Google product culture: > My director wore an Apple Watch and had an iPhone ... my VP too. Nobody was expected to eat the dog food and so few did. This was crazy to me coming from Apple ....

Really nice startup postmortem that gets into specific reasons the founder thinks the product failed: feelmuddy.notion.site Most startup/product postmortems I read feel like some variant of "we were just too awesome and the world wasn't ready us", but this feels real.

Eric Baldwin Basically stuff like this: x.com/jmmv/status/16… danluu.com/input-lag/

The dominance of U.S. tech: patreon.com/posts/111706949

Concussions and modern medicine patreon.com/posts/113518236

There's been a lot of talk about how we'll see a serious WordPress fork soon. To make it concrete, is there a > 50% chance we'll see a WordPress or WP plugin infra fork with significant market share within 1 year of today (>= 3 of the top 15 hosted WP providers are using it)?

Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO danluu.com/ballmer/

A funny side effect of the crackdown on "AI" scraping is that I keep getting banned from sites for browsing too quickly. I barely use reddit anymore and I still managed to get IP banned for scraping (the error page suggested contacting them to license data instead of scraping).

Some comments on moving to Canada: patreon.com/posts/115578334

A version of Missile Command for the Commodore 64 where the bottom of your screen is the game state in memory and missiles cause memory corruption: csdb.dk/release/?id=13…. In the video below, a missile broke my controls and caused my cursor to get stuck moving down and left.

Exercises in benchmarking and experimental design, part 3: patreon.com/posts/118646029

The review-industrial complex patreon.com/posts/125570961

Exercises in benchmarking and experimental design, part 4: patreon.com/posts/127627543