Notes for the week of July 19, 2021 This week in The Dragon of DC I made a tweak to the end of episode 3 (“Arcmagius”), changing the speaking style of the mysterious dragon. This came as a result of being unhappy with how she sounded in episode 5. Speaking of episode 5: It went live on July 23rd! …

Status update I have a 25,000 word first draft, but honestly (and ironically) haven’t felt motivated to edit and publish it. If you’re interested in reading the draft, get in touch (you can DM me on Twitter). I’m writing a book! Are you? I’ve written or co-written five books already, and …

The Dragon of DC (affiliate link, thanks for clicking!) is a Kindle Vella serial, with the story written in episodes. The first five episodes are the “series premiere”. Here’s what the series is about: With magic unleashed in the world, “politics as usual” is truly over in DC. Senator …

Notes for the week of July 12, 2021 Chrome extension for Excalidraw Luke Murray is making a chrome extension that lets you draw on any page using Excalidraw. It will persist your changes locally. GitHub Copilot links In AI news, GitHub Copilot made a big, and controversial, splash in recent days. Here is a collection …

Backlinks 2021-07-12 In AI news, GitHub Copilot made a big, and controversial, splash in recent days. Here is a collection of interesting initial links about it:

Backlinks 2021-07-12 Politics: CNN’s John Avlon has a concise recap of the evidence that there was no significant voter fraud in the 2020 election, a lie that Trump persists with today. 2021-07-12 David Frum has a Politics twitter thread about how the government has required medical claims to be truthful …

Notes for the week of July 5, 2021 1dollarscan Andy Matuschak was lamenting the lack of good typesetting in ebooks, wanting the high-quality formatting you can get from PDFs. Michael Woods linked over to 1DollarScan which can scan your books for you ($1 per 100 pages). Eng Management for the Rest of Us and Widakk …

Backlinks 2021-07-05 Chris Coyier wrote a first-look piece about Astro, an intriguing new JavaScript build tool that can create static sites from components with dynamic bits as needed.

Notes for the week of June 28, 2021 Exceptions to YAGNI “You Aren’t Gonna Need It” (YAGNI) is generally a worthwhile rule of thumb: Don’t build for possible future requirements, because you’ll often never actually need those and will complicate your code in the meantime. Luke Plant made a …

column: high-perf in-memory Go data store column, maintained by Roman Atachiants, is a “High-performance, columnar, in-memory store with bitmap indexing in Go”. Deciding how to store data in memory can be tricky, depending on requirements. Sometimes you don’t need a full Database, but want something …