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The issue with not updating often enough is that if there is a zero day and you're far enough behind you will be forced to go through the pain of working out how to upgrade to the latest patched version where there may be a painful upgrade path in between

For `updated_at` and `deleted_at` making them nullable and null until touched is incredibly useful.

Answering queries like how many of these were never updated? Or how many of these were never cancelled?

This sort of thing is also an issue for phone numbers, some other company could have used your new number for robocalls and gotten it spam blocked on Truecaller and similar services.

Makefiles also have good support for tab completion of the make targets in most shells.

Good use of Fermi reasoning

*The Lunarcy of Artemis

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> the goal of a book isn’t to get to the last page, it’s to expand your thinking.

I would apply this to fiction books too. Some people consider reading fiction books a waste of time.

But fiction books too can expand your mind by exploring ideas that may not be possible in non-fiction books or exploring the same ideas but in a way that non-fiction books cannot achieve easily or at all.

On the typing point, touch typing is also really important to hone early as it can prevent neck strain vs not being able to touch type and constantly look down and up

It is really hard making something complex seem simple.

A lot of what we take for granted has had plenty thought put into their design.

The book the Design of Everyday Things goes into this in more detail.

It may already be the case but it's not clear. If Bruno supported importing Postman collections it would be an easy decision moving across

SumatraPDF does not acquire a file lock on the pdf. This is really useful if you're debugging a process that outputs a pdf and you want to see how the pdf refreshes. With other readers the tool that tries to replace the pdf will fail as the pdf viewer has a lock on the file.

It also supports a subset of extensions on the Android app vs most other browser apps that support no mobile extensions

Big props to Jeff.

As he says repeatedly in his posts if you don't like his art style or games you're free to find other games.

He's been supporting himself successfully this way for over 25 years despite the criticism. Clearly there is a community of people who favor his style of games depsite "the old school art style"