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Cake day: June 1st, 2023

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  • More space isn’t necessarily a better thing, there are very real diminishing returns after a certain point. Plus, living space is both an asset and a liability - you have to pay to keep the space warm or cool depending on your local climate, and you also have to clean the space.





  • They can’t sell any ads on views that come from redlib, because redlib gets the JSON for any requested page and generates its own UI based on that.

    Any traffic to redlib is net negative for Reddit, which is partially why they put in so much effort in blocking it. (The effort is mostly to prevent scrapers wanting to train AI so that they can sell this data instead, but Redlib malfunctions all the same due to that)


  • This is actually legally mandated in Sweden for all workplaces with more than 50 employees - there must be a room present with some kind of affordance for lying rest. It must also be possible to darken the room completely. Its stated purpose is to facilitate temporary rest for workers.


  • It’s a bit different with mass market mobile applications because of the supply chain constraints - most notably the Apple reviewing process. Your next app release may for whatever reason they feel like unexpectedly take an additional week, so do ensure that your QA is in order before releasing.

    Another significant factor is the lack of control you have over the software once released - any bugs you ship may potentially be out there for a long, long time.

    Web applications don’t have these constraints and can as such be deployed an infinite amount of times per day. The same goes for backend services, deploy to your hearts content.

    This basically means that most larger mobile applications have adopted approximately weekly release cadences, and that we’ve had to get very good at using feature flagging to control our software in the wild, and avoid large impact of shipped bugs.