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  • So you want to game the system and get promoted?

    A guide to stacking the odds in your favour to get to the next level.

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  • So you want to work remotely?

    Tips and product suggestions for setting up an effective remote workstation.

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  • Building an Accessible Menubar Component Using React

    Create an accessible Menubar based on the WAI-ARIA design pattern for a menubar widget.

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  • So you want to write a Groom’s speech?

    Advice for the groom to help him create a memorable and meaningful wedding speech.

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  • So you want to build a PC?

    An overview of the main hardware components you will need to build a desktop PC.

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  • Multiple Entry Points in Create React App Without Ejecting

    Create multiple entry points without ejecting from the safety net of Create React App.

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  • So you want to WFH?

    Tips maintaining focus and effective communication whilst working from home.

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      Let's see what all the @atproto/api fuss is about
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      Stretching off before the #EtapeCaledonia tomorrow morning. 
      
      85 miles. Sub-5 target. Let’s go!
      A pint of Guinness on a pub table sat alongside a river
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      I've been hard at work this weekend getting both @opensocial.community and @collectivesocial.app in a better spot, and I'm excited to see where they're at! Just in time for the book club to kick off a new book 😎
      
      What are you reading or want to read soon?
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      culturally this bit is blowing my mind a bit (and may be what @radokirov.bsky.social alluded to in his last blog post). i would think that the achievement is the result itself, and the credit “belongs” to the prompter for making it known to the world, whatever the tools and means
      Here's a thought experiment: suppose that a mathematician solved a major problem by having a long exchange with an LLM in which the mathematician played a useful guiding role but the LLM did all the technical work and had the main ideas. Would we regard that as a major achievement of the mathematician? I don't think we would
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      Didn’t quite make the sub-5 target, but picked up plenty of PBs along the way! 🥇
      Etape Caledonia 2026
Distance: 136.72km
Time: 5h 24m
Elevation: 1431m

      Andrew James

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      Stretching off before the #EtapeCaledonia tomorrow morning. 
      
      85 miles. Sub-5 target. Let’s go!
      A pint of Guinness on a pub table sat alongside a river
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      Louder for the person in the front

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      this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive.
      
      when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.
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      good morning DOM (eagerness: "eager" edition)
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