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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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      Today I finally made the shift from ChatGPT to Claude. GPT largely remains a sycophant, and Claude appears to be leagues ahead in terms of code generation. Let's see if there's any noticeable difference in the upcoming weeks.
      
      What is everyone else using these days (for personal use)?
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      Misere is a spectator sport.
      A picture of a misere hand in 500: 
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      I forgot one of the most important recommendations for tracking (and predicting) your child's sleeping pattern:
      
      App - Huckleberry

      Andrew James

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      In honour of my kid turning one at the weekend, here’s my list of recommendations that saw us through. Hopefully it’ll help any new parents out there!
      
      Sleepwear - MORI
      
      Book - Maybe (Chris Haughton)
      
      Food - Nuby bottles 
      
      Toys - Lovevery 
      
      Music - Brent Holmes
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      Cmoe join us next week!

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      Join Jon Lebensold and @nickyt.online next week for a hands-on conversation about agent evaluations and how to systematically improve agent performance. Jon will dig into what a practical runbook for hill-climbing looks like.
      
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      My PR to @tinygo.org to add full support for reflect.Type's AssignableTo and Implements methods just got merged!
      
      This now gets tinygo passing the tests for errors, go/token, net/url, and gets the json package working for a lot more cases (and probably similar cases elsewhere).
      compiler: implement method-set based AssignableTo and Implements by jakebailey · Pull Request #5304 · tinygo-org/tinygoFixes #4277 Fixes #3580 Fixes #4873 Closes #4375 Closes #4376 Updates #4894 Based on the design from #4375/#4376 by @aykevl; I've Co-authored-by it since it's obviously based on those chang...
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      If you run a local #atproto community and it isn't listed on atmosphere.community, you should let us know! 
      
      Also you can now share any standard.site content you write about atproto with your local community through opensocial.community and it will show up on this site! 😎
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