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  • Democracy

    May 26, 2021 · 1 min read  ·
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    Backlinks 2021-05-26 Greg Sargent writes about Georgia Secretary of State Raffensberger’s support to dig into votes in a GA county. Georgia did multiple hand recounts of votes, and all of these efforts to question the already-clearly-decided 2020 election threaten Democracy.

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  • 2021-05-19

    May 19, 2021 · 1 min read  ·
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    grule rules engine in Go grule tries to implement ideas from JBoss Drools in a more Go-like way. I’ve never personally found a need for such a Rules Engine, but the continued existence of these things shows that someone is finding value from them.

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  • Rules Engine

    May 19, 2021 · 1 min read  ·
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    Backlinks 2021-05-19 grule tries to implement ideas from JBoss Drools in a more Go-like way. I’ve never personally found a need for such a Rules Engine, but the continued existence of these things shows that someone is finding value from them.

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  • 2021-05-18

    May 18, 2021 · 1 min read  ·
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    Novelty means severity Dylan Morris has an essay in Zeynep Tufecki’s Insight newsletter about COVID-19 and how Novelty Means Severity is the key to the pandemic, because SARS-CoV-2 is a novel virus (one our immune systems haven’t seen before): Unless we eradicate SARS-CoV-2—possible but not likely, …

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  • 2021-05-16

    May 16, 2021 · 2 min read  ·
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    Half a million lines of Go My latest blog post about Khan Academy’s move from Python 2 to Go reflects on our experience with Go after writing 500,000+ lines of it. I posted it on Thursday, but it showed up on Hacker News today. It also got comments in r/programming and r/golang. traVRsal traVRsal lets you …

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  • Fantasy

    May 16, 2021 · 1 min read  ·
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    Backlinks 2021-05-16 Looking for some light Fantasy reading? There are a bunch of recommendations in this Reddit thread about non-violent fantasy authors/books/series. 2020-05-23 I enjoy reading (and writing) Fantasy, and I have never gotten around to reading Discworld. I plan to start soon. This Discworld Reading …

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  • Khan Academy

    May 16, 2021 · 1 min read  ·
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    Backlinks 2021-05-16 My latest blog post about Khan Academy’s move from Python 2 to Go reflects on our experience with Go after writing 500,000+ lines of it. 2020-05-11 Today marks five years since I joined Khan Academy. Thanks to all of my coworkers for providing a great working environment, and to Sal for …

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  • Photography

    May 16, 2021 · 1 min read  ·
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    Backlinks 2021-05-16 I am not someone you’d come to for Photography tips, so I’ll link to helpful resources. Wired has an article with tips about taking a good self-portrait using just your smartphone camera.

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  • Why Khan Academy has so much code

    May 16, 2021 · 2 min read  ·
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    A question that comes up frequently when our engineering blog posts circulate: Why does Khan Academy have so much code? The latest iteration of this came up when I wrote up the engineering team’s reflections on having written 500,000 lines of Go. Here’s my response to this question: People start by looking …

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  • 2021-05-15

    May 15, 2021 · 1 min read  ·
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    Local-first development I find Local First data storage to be an interesting and complex topic. For many kinds of apps, this is the ideal way to build it. But building local first apps is hard, as noted by Andy Matuschak. That thread is full of interesting bits, including flushout, “a distributed data model based …

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