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The website is good but not good too.

Not easy to trust the choosed skill is work: - No input example - No output example

It's hard to play and trust the "skill".


I set my "personal instructions"/customization for any LLM tool to highly adversarial mode. Explicitly confront and question every word i type.

Thomas Edison. He was gangsta ! Stole, cheated and lied everytime he could. If we are limited to recent personalities, then John Mcaffe, same reasons.

focus on your paycheck, it's the one single thing you take home with you, not the "whatever you are building this week". Then save some for the winter days to come, and spend the rest on your vices and pleasures. It's my sure cure for work-related depression

yes. Take the money and watch them crash&burn from a safe distance.

You might even be able to rebuilt it with the extra cash and the ashes of their doom afterwards.....


Programming Perl, by Larry Wall.

just the preaching of "the three great virtues of a programmer" makes it the most influential book in my entire ( 25+ years and counting ) carrer.


This is such a strong rec, thank you.


since i have a full jetbrains subscription ( for many years ) i use the DataGrip db client, and it serves me very well... before that ( looong before ) i used AquaDataStudio, and it was very nice too although not cheap at all.


- homebrew

- 1clipboard

- kitty terminal

- raycast

- yabai tiling WM ( i still prefer it over magnet or rectangle )

- icemenubar ( i prefer it over bartender )

- busycalendar ( expensive, but so good )

- trillium notes

- iina video player

- bitwarden

- speedcrunch

- firefox

- jetbrains IDEs


i have been very impressed with trillium notes https://github.com/zadam/trilium


my current go-to stack for webdev is svelte on the frontend with a golang api on postgres database. Deploy behind an openresty ( nginx's fork ) server. Usually quite performant, easy on cloud resources and even fun to work with... ( also "modern" enough so i would not have to explain to others what a perl-cgi script is )


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