3 min read

2023-08-06

Sorting Therapy

‎Sorting Therapy
‎Sort the colors. Sort when you relax. Sort when you need to relax. Sort when you listen to music. Sort when you listen to podcasts. No timer, levels, sound effects, score, achievements, or distractions. Just sort the colors.

Surprisingly addictive little game.

Grinds’ Cancellation Policy

So, here’s the story of how I cancelled my Grind subscription and will very much be coming back one day due to how great their UX is

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Annual vacation

5. Bring a ridiculous amount of food. Each family should bring enough food to feed eighteen families for four months—except the one family who brings enough to feed one family for one week. Unreasonably label the reasonable family “stingy.”
How to Ensure Your Annual Beach Vacation Destroys Your Relationship with Your Extended Family
1. Rent one big house together. Working “together” to choose a house, everyone should drag their feet and be overly polite until the bossiest one j…

Carry Goossens

Cruel and kind

The best way to spot an idiot? Look for the person who is cruel. When we see someone who doesn’t look like us, or sound like us, or act like us, or love like us, or live like us — the first thought that crosses almost everyone’s brain is rooted in either fear or judgment or both. That’s evolution. We survived as a species by being suspicious of things we aren’t familiar with.
Kindness as a Signifier of Intelligence
Link to: https://twitter.com/darrenrovell/status/1673659149417078788

## S3

Today, I am publishing a guest post from Andy Warfield, VP and distinguished engineer over at S3. I asked him to write this based on the Keynote address he gave at USENIX FAST ‘23 that covers three distinct perspectives on scale that come along with building and operating a storage system the size of S3.
Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3
Three distinct perspectives on scale that come along with building and operating a storage system the size of S3.