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PinkLetter - Two years of wisdom in one pdf

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My Ramblings This Week

I’m currently sweating under the sun in Portugal so I won’t ramble much this week.

#109
July 31, 2022
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PinkLetter - All over the place on the internet

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My Ramblings This Week

What have you been up to lately?

#108
July 24, 2022
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PinkLetter - Learning Css, Php, and JavaScript in one week at university

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My Ramblings This Week

How do you keep your knowledge fresh?

#107
July 17, 2022
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PinkLetter - Thank strangers on the internet

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My Ramblings This Week

When’s the last time you sent a thank you to a stranger on the internet?

#106
July 10, 2022
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PinkLetter - I tried Upwork. It sucked.

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My Ramblings This Week

I tried to freelance on Upwork. It sucked.

#105
July 3, 2022
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PinkLetter - TypeScript.tips

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My Ramblings This Week

When you write TypeScript code, do you start from JavaScript or from static types?

#104
June 26, 2022
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PinkLetter - Why retrofitting static types to JavaScript is hard

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My Ramblings This Week

This week, I sent Alexis King the following message:

#103
June 19, 2022
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PinkLetter - Make Bugs Impossible

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My Ramblings This Week

Do you think in (static) types?

#102
June 12, 2022
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PinkLetter - Blue Pill vs Red Pill?

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My Ramblings This Week

You take the blue pill—the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill—you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember: all I’m offering is the truth. Nothing more.

#101
June 5, 2022
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PinkLetter - Learn the rules. Break the rules.

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My Ramblings This Week

If you are a newcomer, find an excellent mentor and mimic them until you internalize stuff.

#100
May 29, 2022
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PinkLetter - My girlfriend can't stop talking about her new hairdresser

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My Ramblings This Week

I’m obsessed with specialization lately. And you should too.

#99
May 22, 2022
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PinkLetter - What do you do (for real)?

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My Ramblings This Week

What do you do?

#98
May 15, 2022
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PinkLetter - What are your controversial takes?

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My Ramblings This Week

What are your controversial takes?

#97
May 8, 2022
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PinkLetter - Code What You Think

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My Ramblings This Week

How do you make people grok type-thinking or type-driven-development?

#96
May 1, 2022
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PinkLetter - Help me help the community grok type thinking

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My Ramblings This Week

Want to learn type-level TypeScript tricks while helping me research content?

#95
April 24, 2022
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PinkLetter - I'm late so you pay

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My Ramblings This Week

I worked with an agency that charged clients for time and materials. I hated it. Every. Single. Hour.

#94
April 17, 2022
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PinkLetter - Back to drinking beers

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My Ramblings This Week

I only drink whisky to keep healthy with diabetes. No worries, doc!

~me (to medical doctors)

#93
April 10, 2022
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PinkLetter - Want to get better at TypeScript? Learn Elm.

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My Ramblings This Week

Not me: How do I learn functional programming?

Me: Learn Elm.

#92
April 3, 2022
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PinkLetter - Have a cake and eat it too in TS?

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My Ramblings This Week

Ruby on Rails is such a good framework. There, I said it.

#91
March 27, 2022
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PinkLetter - The language I hate the least

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My Ramblings This Week

What’s the programming language you hate the least?

#90
March 20, 2022
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PinkLetter - Tiny TS type-level tricks to kick asses

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My Ramblings This Week

I’d love to hear your feedback about something I crafted: Thinking in TYPEScript—Tiny type-level tricks to kick asses (and runtime errors).

#89
March 13, 2022
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PinkLetter - Make friends at work

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Most of us can look the other way and ignore the news. This is privilege. Let’s not forget that.

#88
March 6, 2022
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PinkLetter - The detachment of abstractions

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My Ramblings This Week

From Wikipedia (emphasis is mine)

#87
February 27, 2022
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PinkLetter - TYPEScript

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My Ramblings This Week

TypeScript. Oh, TypeScript.

#86
February 20, 2022
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PinkLetter - Doing good enough is more difficult than doing great

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My Ramblings This Week

Let’s be honest, doing good enough is more difficult than doing great for people like us. There’s only one catch: doing great is more expensive.

#85
February 13, 2022
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PinkLetter - Manage complexity with shitty code

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My Ramblings This Week

How many times have you coded the same stuff?

#84
February 6, 2022
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PinkLetter - TypeScript may be good enough

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My Ramblings This Week

I’m tired of Ruby.

#83
January 30, 2022
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PinkLetter - Help them help you (and give them a prison tattoo)

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My Ramblings This Week

looks like no one cares about this repo and this project should just die and be deleted…

~ somebody in a GitHub issue

#82
January 23, 2022
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PinkLetter - Short feedback loops > planning

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My Ramblings This Week

Let’s be honest, you know little when starting a new project. And it has to be, otherwise it wouldn’t be new by definition.

#81
January 16, 2022
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PinkLetter - Internal projects need a maintainer too

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My Ramblings This Week

It’s 18:30 and I’ve been working since 10:00 on something that I estimated would take two hours.

#80
January 9, 2022
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PinkLetter - Thank you

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My Ramblings This Week

In this last PinkLetter of the year, I just wanted to thank you.

#79
December 26, 2021
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PinkLetter - Invalidate your brain cache

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My Ramblings This Week

What’s your favorite ice cream flavor?

#78
December 19, 2021
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PinkLetter - You got my support

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My Ramblings This Week

For an insulin-dependent diabetic like me, there are two things that really hurt: people who think they know better but don’t and the loneliness of struggling with something that is impossible to control (but can be managed).

#77
December 12, 2021
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PinkLetter - A chance to give back

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My Ramblings This Week

Would you be willing to give me a hand?

#76
December 5, 2021
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PinkLetter - Teach with your commit messages

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My Ramblings This Week

What question do you answer in your commit messages?

#75
November 28, 2021
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PinkLetter - How the hell do you keep habits fun?

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My Ramblings This Week

How do you keep yourself motivated to keep up with your habits?

#74
November 21, 2021
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PinkLetter - Get ready to cringe

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My Ramblings This Week

What do you think about the following fix I deployed this week?

#73
November 14, 2021
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PinkLetter - The most important skill to manage legacy code

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#72
November 7, 2021
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PinkLetter - Upgrade those dependencies (today)

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#71
October 31, 2021
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PinkLetter - Appreciate people during retros

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#70
October 24, 2021
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PinkLetter - Reach out and help others

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#69
October 17, 2021
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PinkLetter - Talk to your users to build meaning

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#68
October 10, 2021
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PinkLetter - Let's give a hand to the community

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#67
October 3, 2021
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PinkLetter - Tricks of the Week

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#66
September 26, 2021
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PinkLetter - Screwed a production deploy

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#65
September 19, 2021
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PinkLetter - Scratch the bleeding edge itch (on the side)

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#64
September 12, 2021
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PinkLetter - Limit work to 4 hours a day

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#63
September 5, 2021
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PinkLetter - Are you a builder?

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#62
August 29, 2021
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PinkLetter - Your code is bad if you wrote a comment

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#61
August 22, 2021
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PinkLetter - Double Down on Values

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#60
August 15, 2021
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