Jeff Atwood

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co-founder stackoverflow.com, discourse.org, rgmii.org, blogger. I have no idea what I'm doing, but I know I'm doing it really, really well. Let's be kind to each other.
Bloghttps://blog.codinghorror.com
Discoursehttps://discourse.org
Stackhttps://stackexchange.com
CommonMarkhttps://commonmark.org
RGMIIhttps://rgmii.org

Does your clock really need a full Box2D physics model. No. But is does make it a lot more fun.

This is my BadClock™.

It runs late when you don’t wind it. Hands fall off when you’re too rough and it forgets how DST works. So it may adjust your clock in the wrong direction. Or not. Who knows.

Wikipedia: 25 years of humanity at its best. Betsyphd and I did an interview for this ~4 min video as donors and lifetime megafans, and look what pull quote they used at about 0:45 🤣🍄 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x6LNhJyD6k
Wikipedia 25 years of humanity at its best

YouTube

"I use the money I made to help people who are trying to make life better for all of us humans. It seems to me that the 250 or so people who signed the pledge are trying to do some version of the same thing. How is that not a good thing?" 🙌 well said @craignewmark

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/opinion/giving-pledge-philanthropy.html

Opinion | Billionaires, Stop Whining About the Giving Pledge and Try Giving Yourselves

It makes no sense to me that billionaires would criticize others for trying to help their fellow humans.

The New York Times
lmao. everytime i see this i can't stop laughing 😂 just sharing here for lulz because laughter is the best meds
You only get the love you are willing to fight for.
I was NOT prepared

Redundancy and resilience

If it's important, don't ask the team to try harder. Instead, create the conditions for ordinary effort to produce redundant outputs that reduce crises. If quality is a problem, look at the system, not the people.

https://seths.blog/2026/03/redundancy-and-resilience/

Redundancy and resilience

If it’s important, don’t ask the team to try harder. Instead, create the conditions for ordinary effort to produce redundant outputs that reduce crises. If quality is a problem, look at…

Seth's Blog

holy crap, I found an app I always wanted and didn't know existed: Mealie https://mealie.io

You give it a URL, it scrapes the page, pulls ingredients, photos, and steps and you now have a local archive of every recipe you love. Here's my favorite NYT sheet pan chicken saved to my Synology install