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🔥 Weekend Reading

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Weekend Reading — Distributed CEO

Ben Royce "Why do I feel like I'm in an art museum for some odd reason?" Tech Stuff Managing Developer Experience Debt When I was leading a tech team at a previous startup, I would love Mondays because they were the start of another fun week

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Weekend Reading — Bunny Time

Nuno & Lua Friends I think there's some bunMovement going on! We just noticed a giant bun with a army of small buns standing at a local hypermarket 😮 perhaps this is it! WeBuns are going to take over! All the snac will belong to us! Tech Stuff BUSY

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Weekend Reading — 🐧 Tax the Penguins!

Sin of empathy Tech Stuff new.email Get some AI help to build the perfect email template, using react.email which is a super cool email template library, so you can resend your emails away! (If you’re still stuck in MJMLand, give it a try!) react-international-phone The nice thing

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Weekend Reading — Fuck aboot, find oot

Tech Stuff Denny Karri Saarinen: 10 Rules for Crafting Products That Stand Out Linear’s CEO shares his approach to quality and craft: 1. Commit to quality at the leadership level 2. When it comes to building teams, go small and aim high 3. Do away with handoff 4. Resist

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March 22nd, 2025 15 min read

Weekend Reading — Department of weird

Dan Neuman “Nice one, IKEA” Tech Stuff ⌘K Fast, composable, unstyled command menu for React. Not to be confused with Paletro, a command palette for every macOS app. Remind Me Faster I think this is the perfect app for people with ADHD and at $3.99 not at all expensive,

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March 15th, 2025 17 min read

Weekend Reading — Not like us

Baby koalas rescued in wake of storm Tech Stuff Here’s how I use LLMs to help me write code The best way to learn LLMs is to play with them. Throwing absurd ideas at them and vibe-coding until they almost sort-of work is a genuinely useful way to accelerate

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March 8th, 2025 17 min read

Weekend Reading — The Agentic AI revolution

Street Art Utopia “Darth Fisher sculpture by Frankey for Amsterdam Light Festival in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Photos by Janus van den Eijnden.” Tech Stuff Claude Code overview The Agentic AI revolution is taking shape and apparently Claude Code is this week's top contender. I just tested it on

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March 1st, 2025 12 min read

Weekend Reading — 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraini

Elise “periodic reminder that Barcelona has a supercomputer inside an old church and it's one of the most rad things you can see” Tech Stuff macOS Tips & Tricks It's going to take me forever to learn all of these shortcuts, or even just the few

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February 22nd, 2025 11 min read

Weekend Reading — I. Kant.

Terry Matz “Seems like a good time to share this free knitting pattern for the This Is Fine Sweater by Yu Jie 玉杰” Tech Stuff Ólafur Waage Databases are still using tables? Don't they know we've switched to <div> years ago? Rethinking Find-in-Page Accessibility:

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