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Written by jessitron on 2025-01-13 at 15:00

Build for after the revolution. Build the social structure that will serve us then. Build it now, where we are, and make the systems we hate less relevant.

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Written by jessitron on 2024-12-27 at 23:52

The trick to enjoying history is

knowing more about history.

Each book is more interesting for everything I already know that it intertwines with.

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Written by jessitron on 2024-12-27 at 20:35

so I wrapped it in bumpy code, to at least give my future self a better hint.

https://github.com/jessitron/hny-tricks/blob/1e90435b00ebc7911423471f17259c7c5d4f9ff6/src/htm-but-right.ts

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Written by jessitron on 2024-12-27 at 20:33

This post brought to you by the htm library for JS. It converts your jsx-looking string to HTML, without using JSX.

The code strikes me as elegant.

When I pass an extra closing tag, the exception says "h.push is not defined"

When I miss a closing tag, it returns the wrong type.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/htm

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Written by jessitron on 2024-12-27 at 20:29

When your code helps people over bumps, your code looks bumpy.

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Written by jessitron on 2024-12-03 at 16:39

the value of an abstraction is not revealed by the happy path.

Abstraction exists to help me with complexity. The complexity is in the failure cases.

Tell me what happens in various failure cases, and I'll tell you whether this abstraction is helpful or 💩

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Written by jessitron on 2024-11-25 at 23:41

there's a naturalness to hierarchy, it lets information flow if you do it right

https://jessitron.com/2024/11/24/communication-structures-in-a-growing-organization/

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Written by jessitron on 2024-11-24 at 14:59

Stalin surrounded himself with people who agreed with everything.

I value friends who tell me, that was ok jess, I've seen you do better.

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Written by jessitron on 2024-11-24 at 14:58

Stalin put a lot of thought and observation into his twisted strategies for most of his life

This worked well enough that as he aged he thought he was omniscient and went with his whims.

(I'm reading a history of the Cold War)

I put a ton of thought and enough work into my conference talks for many years, and they were great.

Danger: This can make me think all my talks are great, and I don't put much effort into them sometimes.

(These ones are not great, they're ~pretty good.)

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Written by jessitron on 2024-11-16 at 23:28

new blog post: who is the 'business' in a software company?

https://jessitron.com/2024/11/16/who-turns-software-into-money-gtm/

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Written by jessitron on 2024-11-14 at 12:10

oops. no rly, here: https://www.youtube.com/live/RFihXgiC5Vs

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Written by jessitron on 2024-11-14 at 12:07

in five hours (2:10pm Eastern), I'm presenting about OpenTelemetry at JavaOnConf

• you can watch live on YouTube here:

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Written by jessitron on 2024-11-01 at 13:24

One cannot explicitly change what is implicit.

...[beware] the lure of urgent transformation as a controlled process.

• Nora Bateson, Combining

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