The book by Ben Macintyre, "Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory", is very good.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7632329-operation-mincem...

Thanks, my mistake. Don't know how to delete, so will submit again instead.

TLDR - one email per weekday.

Thanks for sharing. TLDR looks really cool. It seems like they have a lot of different types of newsletters. For example, DevOps, IT, Product Management, AI, and more.

I love the craft of coding, and I still use ChatGPT every day to good effect. It writes the boilerplate code for me, and leaves the fun part to me. Don't underestimate the power of getting to a good, working solution faster.

I wrote a blog post about it yesterday:

https://henrikwarne.com/2024/08/25/programming-with-chatgpt/

Give Claude 3.5 a try at some point, I find it's better at programming tasks compared to GPT4o.

I ran a book club for 7 years when I worked at TriOptima. We were maybe 40 developers in total at the company, and around 10 would join when we picked a new book. Towards the end of one book, some people would always drop off, but there were still enough people to make it useful.

One of the key (unexpexted) benefits of it was how it facilitated discussions about SW development practices between the different teams at the company. The content was usually good for giving us new ideas to try etc, but the usefullness of the discussions surprised me.

I've written more about it here:

https://henrikwarne.com/2016/11/08/developer-book-club/

Thanks Henrik! Your blog post inspired me back then to start a book club at my company. It’s still running :-)

Great to hear!!

That was the part of the book I found most interesting (although the whole book is a good and interesting read)

I coded professionally for more than 10 years without thinking about ergonomics, and without any problems. But then I started to feel pain in my arms, and it took a lot of effort to get it under control. In the end, what helped me the most was using a break program (to remind me to let go of the keyboard, and to do stretches), in combination with an ergonomic keyboard and mouse.

I've written more details about it here:

https://henrikwarne.com/2012/02/18/how-i-beat-rsi/

Interesting card game - never heard about it before. But it reminds me of the card game Set [1], which has a similar objective of finding cards that "belong together" in some sense. It also has interesting (and similar) mathematical properties, although there is no analytical solutions (as far as I know) once you start playing by removing sets. I was really fascinated by this twelve years ago, an simulate game play to find the probabilities [2]. Great fun!

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_(card_game)

2. https://henrikwarne.com/2011/09/30/set-probabilities-revisit...

PBS Infinite series video on the topic

https://youtu.be/zurpOBPt4LI

I miss infinite series :-/

PBS should get someone else to restart the channel. It has high quality videos.

As far as I know, it was PBS that quit, not the hosts.

I came here to recommend Set -- it's a fantastic game to play with kids older than about 7. It requires serious thought rather than just spotting things (not that there's anything wrong with Spot It!) And generally kids have an advantage over older players.

My then 7-year-old used to crush me and my wife at Set. I suspect part of the reason is because I thought about it too hard. :P The all-different sets are the mind-benders for me, I don’t see them easily and have to spend time enumerating combinations. He would generally beat us at Spot-It! too.

I tend to favor the all-different-in-most-ways cards as well. When there's a streak of 1, 2, and 3 all-red, all-filled, all-ovals (and other similar "obvious" sets), my family crushes me.

You should link it given the word Set is very generic.

Set is linked in the main post I'm (we're both) responding to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_(card_game)

On the subject of beauty, I really like this quote from Joe Armstrong:

“Make it work, then make it beautiful, then if you really, really have to, make it fast. 90 percent of the time, if you make it beautiful, it will already be fast. So really, just make it beautiful!”

I worked for 14 years, coding almost every day, before I started feeling pain in my arms. Took quite a while to get better. Not saying it will happen to you (people are different), but in my case I think the problems built up over years of working with poor ergonomics. My best advice is to take it seriously if you do start feeling any pain.