JetBrains is putting out some interesting educational content about (human) learning, this one is about "metacognitive awareness" (thinking about thinking) and describes 5 forms of learning interruption, and then 3 "new" types introduced by AI-assisted learning.

Heartbreaking. And a wake-up call. It is no longer about being difficult to find a way to sustain yourself through your work online. It is no longer sustainable to keep a website up now. Axel has done so much for the web and all of us. Buy one of his books if you can. We've learned so much from him.

ABC killed fivethirtyeight.com, pulling down thousands of stories and dashboards.

I can bring them back, but I can offer you https://fivethirtyeightindex.com, my new index of everything captured by archive.org.

It's interesting that so many articles about "how to prevent bugs" end up basically restating, "make illegal states unrepresentable".

Yet, so many languages still lack union types..

I want to argue that Lodash, which hasn’t been updated in 4 years, should nonetheless be considered safe from a security standpoint.

1. It has *zero* external dependencies
2. It has no side effects
3. It’s a dumb as possible

We should all strive for this level of perpetuity.

David Longstreth will be livestreaming a conversation on Substack with the great artist Phil Elverum (mount eerie) about songs, words, art, life and eye contact on monday april 7th. 3pm ET / 12p PT. tune in todirtyprojectors.substack.com or pwelverumandsun.substack.com

Technical debt isn't debt, it's more like inflation. It drives down the "buying power" of your dev time.

This quote from a story I worked on back in 2018, after the last round of hugely destructive wildfires, has been ringing in my ears.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190318002822/https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-california-buildings-in-fire-zones/

Gonna tell my kids this was Nosferatu.