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Joan Westenberg with the best info for you on why you shouldn’t write on Substack. I’ve been believing this for a long time now but always felt I didn’t have the right arguments. Joan delivers. Thank you, Joan

Started reading: Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson 📚 on February 21st already. It’s a bit slow to get into it. A relaxed read so far as I am not super hyped how it continues so I feel like I can take my time with it.

I have a set of questions I ask in some variation at the end of my 1:1s.

I really liked these suggestions by Cate. I don’t lead 1:1s right now, but can see the value in answering them. And maybe I’ll lead 1:1s again at some point?

Adam posted about Mikkel today. That let me to learn about his apps, specifically Leader Key.

This app will replace some automations that I’ve used Alfred for as well as make my app-starting shortcuts in BettTouchTool redundant and add more options. And it made me switch Alfred for Raycast.

Had to move my birthday celebrations two weeks into the future because there’s still flu going round in my family and I don’t want anyone else to catch it. Damn! Was really looking forward to tomorrow. But hey, it’s only postponed.

Finished reading: What A Way To Go by Bella Mackie 📚

Oddly gripping. I am torn about this book. Couldn’t abandon it but also am not super hyped I read it. 😅

Heute morgen wieder die Kinder zur Schule gebracht. Dabei gesehen, dass auch Tramfahrer nur Menschen sind, manchmal zu schnell fahren und dann nicht mehr rechtzeitig bremsen können. Glücklicherweise nur Blechschaden bei dem Auto, wo die Tram hinten drauf fuhr. Dass so etwas vor der Schule meiner Kinder passiert macht mich etwas nervös.

Finished reading: Fool’s Fate by Robin Hobb 📚

Cried for the last 400 pages. What a book. What an ending. Intensive feelings as these is what books can give. More so than movies. I know these characters. They are my friends.

I recently started using a Bookwyrm instance (bookrastinating.com) to manage my book reading. They support ActivityPub and offer some more functionality regarding reading goals and book reviews. Is there anything planned on integrating with Bookwyrm @manton?

I started reading this a few days ago as a loan from the lib: What A Way To Go by Bella Mackie 📚

Very fun and just my kind of humor:

I rolled my eyes, closed the window and went back to bed. As I fell asleep, I remembered to practise gratitude. I was immensely grateful that despite the gruesome way my husband died, he’d done it with his clothes on, and not, like Jane Borrall’s husband, naked but for a latex trench coat.

The ugly American.

dgardner.substack.com/p/the-ugl…

Found through @Buddenbohm@fnordon.de

(if only so many good ppl wouldn’t share on Substack 😭)

Finished reading The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson 📚 yesterday evening. Stayed up until after 11pm to finish the book. My regular bed time would have been at around 9.30pm 🫣

I liked the trilogy very much. The ending has a believable, moving conclusion. I was captivated by the series. 🫶

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It crept up on me subtly.

First, I stopped reading documentation. Why bother when AI could explain things instantly?

Then, my debugging skills took the hit. Stack traces now feel unapproachable without AI. I don’t even read error messages anymore, I just copy and paste them.

I’ve become a human clipboard, a mere intermediary between my code and an LLM.

I sincerely hope you don’t share the author’s experience.

paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-pat…

The likes of Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg, however, surely have that kind of money, yet they’re prostrating themselves before Trump. They aren’t stupid; they have to know what kind of person Trump is and understand — whether or not they admit it to themselves — the humiliating nature of their behavior. So why do they do it?