The entire city of San Francisco as a video game
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That time YAML silently broke your config because of Norway
A colleague pinged me last week with a config issue that had him chasing his tail for an afternoon. Turns out he was setting country: NO in a YAML file, expecting it to mean Norway.
- YAML misinterprets unquoted "NO" as boolean false
- Application runs without error, uses "false" instead of "NO"
- Quote strings to prevent silent boolean coercion
A look at startups like General Intuition working on large action models, aka world models, which are trained on videogames and simulations, to pilot robots (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)
Engineers and investors pile into world models, aka ‘large action models,’ to do for robotics what ChatGPT did for writing and coding
How to Fish is Steam's latest cursed co-op sensation, now updated with private lobbies, eight player support, and anti-griefer measures
Steam's latest head-scratching hangout game (don't call it friendslop, you will rekindle Discourse) is How to Fish, a macabre novelty in which hideous worm people boat out to small cursed islands…
FastAPI and Node.js Property Incidents: 7-Field Error Schema for Request Correlation
Short answer: send normalized failures from every FastAPI and Node.js service to one capture endpoint, carry the same trace ID through the request path, and attach a cost owner at ingestion; this is…
What Makes a Good Design System in Frontend Engineering
A good design system is a product that has a roadmap, ownership, documentation, versioning, and feedback loops. What is a design system?
- A design system includes roadmap, ownership, documentation, versioning, and feedback loops.
- Design principles like Clarity and Simplicity guide crucial design decisions.
- Design tokens create a single source of truth for theming and branding.