Olshansky

I keep track of nuclear related news.

An easier (more fun) version of this with some context is here: https://x.com/olshansky/status/1892069988707729614

Wanted to also give this product a shout out ($1/month): https://onedollarstats.com

drizzle.team is alway delivering.

Added this to the performance tuning section: https://github.com/Olshansk/postgres_for_everything?tab=read...

This is going to make a great addition to my e-ink collection: - Remarkable Tablet - SOL Reader - Kindle

Wanted to share a repo I created last week to help add support for new RSS feeds: https://github.com/olshansk/rss-feeds/

Add support for Paul Graham's outdated RSS Feed. OpenAI research. Etc...

Leave a request or a star!

Also wrote a full blog post about it here: https://olshansky.substack.com/p/no-rss-feed-no-problem-usin...

I used Claude Projects, Claude Sync and GitHub Copilot Workspace to assemble this project in about 3 hours.

This is who I'm learning everything from right now: John Rush.

    1. X account: https://x.com/johnrushx

    2. Directory guide: https://johnrushx.substack.com/p/directory-playbook-build-grow-and

I've been following him since 3K followers and his free X account is an absolute treasure trove of knowledge.

I would start by going back and studying all of his threads.

Added an MIT license. Go wild!

Is there anyone else that enforces a simple "just squash & merge everything from PRs into main" across the entire team?

I'm comfortable git fooing w/e is necessary, but ever since we adopted this, git related conversations went to almost zero. It's great.

Selfless shill of a blog post I wrote & shared last week:

   Move Fast & Document Things [1]

My goal wasn't to be philosophical but share actual tips on how our small team [2] enforces (not automated, not AI, but deep, hard reviews) a culture for writing code for ourselves and each other.

All my personal friends who are engineering leaders at other orgs said "We do the same thing but you actually wrote it down".

Would appreciate ↑ if it brought anyone value!

[1] https://olshansky.substack.com/p/move-fast-and-document-thin... [2] https://github.com/pokt-network/poktroll/graphs/contributors

Haha, appreciate the extra checks.

Sometimes you get so much value out of a free service you feel the need to tell the world :)

Shameless promo

I wrote a blog post about this: https://olshansky.substack.com/p/from-pc-personal-computer-t...

I keep it public here: https://github.com/Olshansk/olshansky-bot

I recently discovered this podcast and feel the need to share with as many people as I can.

Haha, exactly

I’m hesitant to leave a comment because “good code” almost feels like answering “good food”, but I do have some opinions:

- Ratio of code:documentation INSIDE the source code

- Directory structure depth is “just right”; not too deep nor too shallow

- Number of dependencies is “just right”; don’t build things yourself, but also don’t import the whole world

- TTLD (Time To Local Dev); how simple is the getting started guide in terms of copy-pasta commands + automation + the right amount of context + easy-to-use tooling

- Code culture; follow industry best practices and make it clear where & why you deviate

My personal favorite one: `make todo_list`

We use keywords (TODO, OPTIMIZE, HACK, etc…) through the codebase and make them easily searchable with make helpers.

Ref: https://github.com/pokt-network/pocket/blob/main/Makefile#L5...

olshansky.info

pokt.network: web3 decentralized RPC layer (thinking alchemy, infura, quick node, etc...) but decentralized. We have > 40,000 nodes on the network right now

Message me on twitter @olshansky (DMs are open) if you want to join a < 10 person team to build out the next version of the protocol!

The same day this made the front page of hacker news, one of the founders is also playing his first live concert with his band tonight: https://twitter.com/goodkidband/status/1435267485683568642.

The best part of the story for me is the work-life-balance he's able o achieve.

I wish for this in a tweet last week and just got it.

``` After realizing how much anxiety having a phone nearby that is on all day long has caused, I have a feature request for a future version of iOS: Dumb & Dumber.

Dumb: Voice and text mode. Dumber: Voice only mode. ```

https://twitter.com/olshansky/status/1426266177261686793

I can't get over the name because I definitely had a memorable experience going to Zanzibar in Toronto (https://www.yelp.ca/biz/zanzibar-toronto) shortly after turning 19.

I feel like this problem can be solved by pocket's (getpocket.com) premium service where they store and index articles you've read and archived.

I legitimately thought this was going to be an "exotic skin" for the atom text editor.

It doesn't break down everywhere. This is one of the reasons why BTC is leading the way even though there are a lot of other blockchains which are arguably "better". Being the first kid on the block has a lot of benefits since the mining power is sufficiently large and distributed that it's near impossible to have a 50% attack now, unless the miners stop mining or cooperate.

If you think about it, there are many improvements that could be made to basic networking protocols (TCP, IP, HTTP), but since the standards were set "in stone" so long ago, it is difficult to change now.

The only addition I want to make that I haven't seen in the comments yet is http://nuzzel.com/.

I agree, that was poor wording on my end... Thank you for the clarification.

I should have said that it's very limited and much more difficult to use than Ethereum's smart contracts.

I also wanted to avoid going into a deeper discussion that would involved the potential adoption of segwit, which would enable lightning networks and a bunch of other sidechains.

Dependency injection.

- No one ever

Congrats Yuri!