charles_f

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• This website is for humans

  by charles_f on 8/13/2025, 3:19 PM with 355 comments

• Some pretty cool Git tools to save your sanity and your kids

  by charles_f on 7/30/2025, 5:16 PM with 4 comments

• Agile Done Wrong Is Not Waterfall

  by charles_f on 4/10/2025, 8:42 PM with 0 comments

• Show HN: Mermaiditor – a free mermaid diagram editor

  by charles_f on 3/7/2025, 9:47 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: How do you work with people who are "not quite smart"?

  by charles_f on 12/20/2024, 7:24 PM with 77 comments

• Microsoft 365 outage disrupts Outlook and Teams, affecting thousands

  by charles_f on 11/25/2024, 7:10 PM with 3 comments

• by charles_f on 9/1/2024, 3:26 PM with comments

• by charles_f on 9/1/2024, 3:19 PM with comments

• My Blog Infra Is Gonna Make You Cry Tears of Blood

  by charles_f on 8/2/2024, 4:59 PM with 4 comments

• Use a work journal

  by charles_f on 7/13/2024, 12:05 AM with 293 comments

• Elon Musk calls for "criminal prosecution" of X ad boycott perpetrators

  by charles_f on 7/12/2024, 12:46 AM with 16 comments

• Git Worktree

  by charles_f on 6/20/2024, 2:37 PM with 0 comments

• by charles_f on 6/6/2024, 2:42 PM with comments

• "A Sense of Urgency" (2017)

  by charles_f on 6/4/2024, 7:22 PM with 0 comments

• Enshittification is a feature, not a bug

  by charles_f on 5/25/2024, 9:43 PM with 0 comments

• This thing: The Story of the Eggplant TP Dispenser

  by charles_f on 1/8/2024, 4:13 PM with 0 comments

• Opposed to Bill S-210, a Canadian bill that may introduce internet censorship

  by charles_f on 12/17/2023, 1:44 AM with 7 comments

• Apple Cancelled Jon Stewart Because Tech Executives Were Afraid of the Truth

  by charles_f on 10/24/2023, 3:38 PM with 15 comments

• by charles_f on 10/17/2023, 6:21 PM with comments

• by charles_f on 9/30/2023, 8:23 PM with comments

• by charles_f on 9/3/2023, 2:53 PM with comments

• Praising children for effort rather than ability (2021)

  by charles_f on 8/13/2023, 5:18 PM with 114 comments

• Metro Vancouver’s only hyperlocal weather network

  by charles_f on 7/20/2023, 3:16 PM with 0 comments

• Personal relations as a manager

  by charles_f on 7/14/2023, 12:08 AM with 80 comments

• by charles_f on 6/27/2023, 5:46 AM with comments

• Ask HN: What are the best CS papers you read recently?

  by charles_f on 5/24/2023, 3:10 PM with 0 comments

• by charles_f on 3/29/2023, 1:28 AM with comments

• Whats the use of 14 0000 open Jira tickets? A quick story

  by charles_f on 2/19/2023, 5:50 PM with 0 comments

• Reading Notes – Four Thousand Weeks

  by charles_f on 1/27/2023, 8:17 PM with 0 comments

• Show HN: A bookmarklet to remove submissions and comments about ChatGPT from HN

  by charles_f on 12/7/2022, 4:39 AM with 5 comments

• by charles_f on 12/7/2022, 4:18 AM with comments

• Ask HN: Why did GPG / PGP fail?

  by charles_f on 11/5/2022, 12:24 AM with 7 comments

• Ask HN: How do you find a new job?

  by charles_f on 10/25/2022, 9:31 PM with 2 comments

• Generalize the Feedback You Receive

  by charles_f on 10/9/2022, 7:39 PM with 0 comments

• US will push other nations to abandon destructive anti-satellite tests

  by charles_f on 9/11/2022, 8:43 PM with 0 comments

• Agile? Not agile?

  by charles_f on 9/7/2022, 5:26 AM with 0 comments

• Deploying on Fridays (2017)

  by charles_f on 9/3/2022, 5:27 PM with 0 comments

• Capacity Plan

  by charles_f on 8/24/2022, 6:38 AM with 27 comments

• Principia is now free and open source

  by charles_f on 8/8/2022, 6:13 PM with 1 comments

• Stop Interviewing with Leet Code

  by charles_f on 6/9/2022, 5:04 AM with 655 comments

• Don't Defer Quality

  by charles_f on 5/26/2022, 9:18 PM with 0 comments

• The hardest thing about making decisions is saying no

  by charles_f on 5/4/2022, 5:14 PM with 18 comments

• What Words Should You Start with at Wordle?

  by charles_f on 5/4/2022, 5:13 PM with 1 comments

• Ask HN: How do you find a job that makes you happy?

  by charles_f on 4/1/2022, 11:46 PM with 35 comments

• It is always about priority

  by charles_f on 3/17/2022, 12:11 AM with 0 comments

• Interface Contract Deference Principle

  by charles_f on 1/20/2022, 4:21 AM with 0 comments

• Aaaaa- a Minimalist Keyboard (For Android)

  by charles_f on 1/16/2022, 5:36 AM with 0 comments

• by charles_f on 12/20/2021, 3:39 AM with comments

• Show HN: Evolve an AI to Play Snake with Neuro Evolution of Augmented Topologies

  by charles_f on 12/2/2021, 7:28 AM with 0 comments

• Of Chickens and Pigs

  by charles_f on 10/18/2021, 8:06 PM with 0 comments

• Best Practices – Why I Hate Them

  by charles_f on 10/11/2021, 4:11 PM with 116 comments

• Best Practices (Why I Hate Them)

  by charles_f on 10/2/2021, 12:12 AM with 2 comments

• Singapore battles record dengue outbreak with more mosquitoes (2020)

  by charles_f on 8/20/2021, 3:13 PM with 0 comments

• Variability, industrialization and hating your job

  by charles_f on 8/17/2021, 12:18 AM with 2 comments

• China’s Port Shutdown Raises Fears of Closures Worldwide

  by charles_f on 8/14/2021, 4:02 PM with 0 comments

• Handling the problem re: time spent improving code quality vs. creating features

  by charles_f on 6/19/2021, 6:05 AM with 1 comments

• What you think you are does not define who you are

  by charles_f on 5/19/2021, 6:16 AM with 0 comments

• Show HN: Rlay – self hosted HTTP tunneling alternative to ngrok

  by charles_f on 5/13/2021, 3:07 PM with 0 comments

• Mechanisms: Transform Wishful Thinking into Behavioral Change

  by charles_f on 3/16/2021, 8:28 PM with 0 comments

• Why gravity is not a force (YouTube)

  by charles_f on 10/13/2020, 4:27 AM with 3 comments

• Show HN: Plaf: Low Profile Markdown Website Generator

  by charles_f on 10/11/2020, 6:09 AM with 0 comments

• The accidental notary: Apple approves notorious malware to run on Macs

  by charles_f on 9/2/2020, 3:54 PM with 0 comments

• Show HN: Screenr – Automated Workflow for Your Email

  by charles_f on 7/9/2020, 4:42 PM with 22 comments

• by charles_f on 7/9/2020, 4:09 PM with comments

• Teacher Tells Off Neil Armstrong for Faking the Moon Landing

  by charles_f on 6/18/2020, 7:30 PM with 20 comments

• Atomic Change Flow: A Simple yet Effective Source Control Workflow (2016)

  by charles_f on 3/5/2020, 7:46 PM with 0 comments

• Ring-a-ding: IoT doorbell exposed customer Wi-Fi passwords to eavesdroppers

  by charles_f on 11/8/2019, 5:02 PM with 0 comments

• Comcast incorrectly charged 2k customers for exceeding data cap

  by charles_f on 10/10/2019, 3:19 AM with 1 comments

• Chernobyl's Control Room Is Now Open to Tourists

  by charles_f on 10/10/2019, 3:13 AM with 0 comments

• Amazon sells a $19000 DIY tiny-home kit that takes only 2 days to build

  by charles_f on 8/15/2019, 8:38 PM with 0 comments

• Research on EV SSL Security from Georgia Tech: EV Domains 99.99% Free of Crime

  by charles_f on 7/31/2019, 7:06 AM with 0 comments

• Remove passion from backlog prioritization – economic framework

  by charles_f on 7/26/2019, 2:42 AM with 0 comments

• Azure Data Factory v2 – Batch Pipeline Project Review

  by charles_f on 1/17/2019, 6:56 PM with 0 comments