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Peopleware

• Stopping at 90% (austinhenley.com)

  Austin Z. Henley about the drawbacks of stopping your project at 90 % and calling it done.

• Retrospective Prompts (two-wrongs.com)

  Chris has a list of prompts for development retrospectives.

Software

• Relay-style GraphQL (alan.norbauer.com)

  Alan Norbauer about the benefits of Relay-style GraphQL.

• I’m betting on HTML (catskull.net)

  This blog post highlights native HTML elements and explains why they might be a better choice than your 4MB JavaScript date picker.

• Run Llama 2 on your own Mac using LLM and Homebrew (simonwillison.net)

  Simon Willison explains how you can run Llama 2 on your Mac.

• Invisible Details of Interaction Design (rauno.me)

  rauno writes an essay about interaction design and the factors for greatness.

• Just normal web things. (heather-buchel.com)

  Heather Buchel lists browser-native features that people rely on but are often overridden using JavaScript.

Cutting Room Floor

• What to Do with Climate Emotions (newyorker.com)

  Jia Tolentino about climate anxiety and different ways to deal with it.

• U.S. recovered non-human 'biologics' from UFO crash sites, former intel official says (npr.org)

  Vanessa Romo, Bill Chappell summarize the UAP hearing about extraterrestrial objects and non-human biological matter.

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