Really appreciate your work! We use your git tutorial as an (excellent) reference for a university course on Software Development I teach.

No thanks, I wouldn't want my text messages used to train an AI. Or my metadata used to improve surveillance.

Imagine if there was a push to create a professional organization to handle qualification, certifications etc. Like there is for doctors, dentist, accountants and other fields

Do you like not working on weekends?

What about tax cuts for the rich, quantitative easing? Who are they brutal to? Everyone? Where in that chain linked web does it hurt the most when you distribute money to the wealthiest 10%?

Tax cuts for those with lots of money, without cuts to government spending, and therefore giving rise to increased deficits, which sooner or later will wind up as inflation... that's distribution.

Terms of service, written by a corporation, do not overrule the law, of a country.

Especially not when the plaintiff isn't even a user of the service.

One analogy is to liken tiktok (and shortform content) as exploring the shallows. Walking around, close to the shoreline, you explore pieces of flotsam that the sea washes your way. You might spend a lifetime on this shore, walking up and down, but most would argue that you've actually never gone anywhere.

On the other hand, reading a book is like getting on a boat. You've made certain preparations for acquiring the vessel and set course through unknown territory. A journey away from the shore and away from what's immediately at hand, which can also turn out to be a journey towards self-discovery.

The notion of a type is not fixed, Rust has a more generous conception of what is a type and what its static type system checks.

Blog post is almost exactly 1 year old...

It was a Nazi Salute, two of them.