charlesdg.eth

💻 Computer Engineer
🦄 Co-Founder & CTO of @Sortlist
🎓 Lecturer @ EPHEC
🏃🏻 @UTMBMontBlanc finisher

[Cory House @housecor]

Problem: You want to enhance GitHub CoPilot’s configuration by providing it extra guidance for working with your project.

Solution: Create .github/copilot-instructions.md. Put your extra instructions here.

CoPilot will read this file’s instructions.

[charlesdg.eth @charlesdg]

Let’s move away from ⁦@Garmin⁩ ⁦@GarminFrance⁩ ! https://t.co/15vyG7sFjk

[Collin @collin_jilbert]

Happy Friday! Can't wait to see the comments on this little nugget...

[Athena @athenago]

This is "Level 5 delegation": Eliminating bottlenecks at the top and training your team to act independently.

Since they're closest to the action, they have the strongest ability to innovate.

But most founders stay stuck at Level 1 or Level 2 only.

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

Introducing Willow, our new state-of-the-art quantum computing chip with a breakthrough that can reduce errors exponentially as we scale up using more qubits, cracking a 30-year challenge in the field. In benchmark tests, Willow solved a standard computation in <5 mins that would take a leading supercomputer over 10^25 years, far beyond the age of the universe(!).

[charlesdg.eth @charlesdg]

@XBock @iamspecialized Which color is this one ?

[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

Kill Overkill

Business is often seen as the art of acquisition. Acquiring talent, customers, revenue, profits, mindshare, marketshare. Building and growing requires consumption, addition, parlaying some of this into a lot of that.

But the smartest businesses — the ones that tend to stick around for the long haul — know that existence is also about avoidance.

Avoiding careening variable costs, avoiding getting involved with things that aren't core to your business, avoiding spending time on things that don't matter, avoiding bad investments, avoiding people who don't help you prosper, and even avoiding customers who aren't the right fit.

However, there's something even more fundamental to avoid. It would be easy to call it "complexity" but that's not quite it. Complexity can be necessary, and intricacy can be quite beautiful — just stare into a Moorish mosaic and you'll know it.

So complexity isn't the issue.

Overkill is the issue.

Avoiding overkill is the real cheat code. That's how you jump levels. It's how you make a lot more progress with a lot less effort.

Overkill is the dust that settles on the stuff that took a lot of energy to build or buy, but turned out not to be necessary. The over-engineered, over-designed, over-hired, over-litigated, the over-spent, over-promised, over-deliberated.

Overkill is the policy that was written but never enacted. The technology that was purchased that was never used. The seven steps that could be handled in two. The nine people in a meeting made for three. The business equivalent of the 12 bedroom house for a family of four. The cooks when you don't even have a kitchen.

Overkill is using five different products to run a single project. Overkill is an seven-stage interview process that exhausts everyone involved. Overkill is acting like a company 100x your size. Overkill is buying what they bought but that you don't need. Overkill is paying thousands for something worth hundreds. Overkill is hoping that losing more will turn into a win.

In our 24 years, there's nothing we've tried to avoid more at 37signals than overkill. In the things we do, in the way we work, in the things we buy, in the things we use. And, especially, in the products we make for our ourselves and our customers. Basecamp and HEY are built to do what they need to do, in the most straightforward, elegant, and enjoyable way, and nothing more. So you can avoid overkill too.

Every day is an opportunity to find just right. To toss that policy that's in the way. To slim down the stack. To sharpen things up. To eliminate the work that doesn't need to be done. To polish the scratched glass so you can see through again.

Amass what you need, but ignore even more. Kill overkill.

[Cory House @housecor]

Things I rarely use:
🚫 Currying
🚫 Middleware
🚫 Inheritance
🚫 Polymorphism
🚫 IoC containers
🚫 The actor model
🚫 Aspect-oriented programming
🚫 Complex design patterns

My typical approach:
✅ Write small functions
✅ Try to keep most functions pure
✅ Compose them together

Programming doesn’t have to be complicated.

[Tim Cook @tim_cook]

Welcome to the era of spatial computing with Apple Vision Pro. You’ve never seen anything like this before!

[DHH @dhh]

Shipping Principles:

1. We only ship good work
2. We ship when we’re confident
3. We ship when the work is finished
4. We own the issues after we ship
5. We don’t ship if it isn’t right
6. We ship our collective best effort
7. We ship to our appetite

https://t.co/fPMrTQqb35

[Santiago @svpino]

11 ways ChatGPT saves me hours of work every day, and why you'll never outcompete those who use AI effectively.

A list for those who write code:

1 of 16

[charlesdg.eth @charlesdg]

@edpnet Quand allez-vous réactiver la domiciliation de votre coté ? J'ai des rappels de paiements, des menaces de bloquer mon abonnement et des intérêts de retards.

Inadmissible ! Je pense sérieusement à résilier mon abonnement !

[Alex @alex_avoigt]

Elon reportedly send this mail to Tesla employees:

1) Avoid large meetings
Large meetings waste valuable time &amp; energy
- They discourage debate
- People are more guarded than open
- There’s not enough time for everyone to contribute
Don’t schedule large meetings unless ...

[charlesdg.eth @charlesdg]

@dataiku Hey, where can I found all the predictions via your model ? (Only the first round in this article). Thanks 🙏🏻

[charlesdg.eth @charlesdg]

Support copyright taxation reform that does NOT destroy Belgian tech jobs - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/OenwPtjyQU via @Change

#growth #startup #tech #Belgium

[croissant @CroissantEth]

There is some very fascinating stuff going on with Twitter and the recent Elon Musk deal.

Although these circumstances are still a bit speculative, it’s definitely worth digging into.

Here’s what I’ve found… 👀

[Thiago Ghisi @thiagoghisi]

Want to have a super strong Career in Tech?

Build enough career capital to become over the years this rare kind of Software Engineer @GergelyOrosz described perfectly on his newsletter this week.

Not a Jack of All Trades Master of None. A Jack of Many Trades, Master of Some.🧵

[charlesdg.eth @charlesdg]

My first NFT ! a gold Baby Ape Mutant Club
@THE_BAMC_NFT
#BAMC

[Dan Held @danheld]

If your financial advisor hasn't recommended Bitcoin yet, fire them.

[charlesdg.eth @charlesdg]

C'est dingue comment le support d'@ovh_support_fr est inexistant. ça donne vraiment pas envie de rester chez eux. D'autres dans le même cas ? #fail #support