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Name Marco von Ballmoos
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The (only) developer at earthli.com.

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Links and Notes for April 5th, 2024

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Below are links to articles, highlighted passages[1], and occasional annotations[2] for the week ending on the date in the title, enriching the raw data from Instapaper Likes and Twitter. They are intentionally succinct, else they’d be articles and probably end up in the gigantic backlog of unpublished drafts. YMMV.

[1] Emphases are added, unless otherwise noted.
[2] Annotations are only lightly edited and are largely contemporaneous.

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Gore Vidal’s Storm Warning in 1961

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“Ayn Rand’s ‘philosophy’ is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we enter a curious new phase in our society. Moral values are in flux. The muddy depths are being stirred by new monsters and witches from the deep. Trolls walk the American night. Caesars are stirring in the Forum. There are storm warnings ahead.[1]
Gore Vidal in 1961


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Bonus Gore Vidal on Ayn Rand (from the attached image):

“[Ayn Rand] has a great attraction for simple... [More]”

1 week Ago

Links and Notes for March 29th, 2024

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Below are links to articles, highlighted passages[1], and occasional annotations[2] for the week ending on the date in the title, enriching the raw data from Instapaper Likes and Twitter. They are intentionally succinct, else they’d be articles and probably end up in the gigantic backlog of unpublished drafts. YMMV.

[1] Emphases are added, unless otherwise noted.
[2] Annotations are only lightly edited and are largely contemporaneous.

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2 weeks Ago

Links and Notes for March 22nd, 2024

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Below are links to articles, highlighted passages[1], and occasional annotations[2] for the week ending on the date in the title, enriching the raw data from Instapaper Likes and Twitter. They are intentionally succinct, else they’d be articles and probably end up in the gigantic backlog of unpublished drafts. YMMV.

[1] Emphases are added, unless otherwise noted.
[2] Annotations are only lightly edited and are largely contemporaneous.

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Links and Notes for March 15th, 2024

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Below are links to articles, highlighted passages[1], and occasional annotations[2] for the week ending on the date in the title, enriching the raw data from Instapaper Likes and Twitter. They are intentionally succinct, else they’d be articles and probably end up in the gigantic backlog of unpublished drafts. YMMV.

[1] Emphases are added, unless otherwise noted.
[2] Annotations are only lightly edited and are largely contemporaneous.

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1 month Ago

Fighting with Fowler on Continuous Integration

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 The article Continuous Integration by Martin Fowler makes many interesting points. It is a compendium of know-how about CI by one of the industry heavyweights, who’s been using it for a long time.

While I found a lot of what he had to say interesting, I did wonder how applicable CI is for the kinds of teams that I know and work with. He makes several statements toward that end that pretty severely limit the applicability of what he calls “true CI” for many, if not most, teams.

I think he should have started... [More]