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Daniel Vassallo
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If you want to create websites like it was 1997, I've open sourced the repo that generates the userbase.dev website. github.com/encrypted-dev/…
To continue with the 1997 spirit, the build system doesn't minify the HTML. It actually beautifies its 😁 github.com/encrypted-dev/…
And 1997 websites load really fast on 2019 tech. Each page is around 5 KB total (gzipped), including CSS and JavaScript. Gets you a PageSpeed score of 100 on both mobile and desktop: developers.google.com/speed/pagespee…
If you've never used @Netlify, you can try to deploy the Userbase homepage to the internet with this link: app.netlify.com/start/deploy?r…

All the build & deploy settings are in the repo, so all it takes is just 1-click, and the website will be live in under a minute. Quite impressive.
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Daniel Vassallo
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Lambda is a very poor substitute for EC2.

But it still has a place.

Instead of thinking of Lambda as a host for your applications, think of it as an extension for other AWS services.

Examples: 👇
S3 doesn't come with an API to resize an image after uploading it to a bucket, but Lambda allows you to extend S3's API and add that capability.
Application load balancers come with an API to respond with a fixed response for a given route. But ALBs can't respond with an image. Lambda allows you to extend ALB's API to add that capability.
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Daniel Vassallo
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If incentives always help, this wouldn’t happen:
freakonomics.com/2013/10/23/wha…
Adding a financial incentive hurts people’s motivation to be on time, rather than helps. The embarrassment incentive was still there when the fine was added, but it got corrupted by the financial incentive. It defies the logic that the more incentives you add, the better.
There's lots of disbelief in the comments about the idea that incentives can effect behavior in the *opposite* direction.

Here's the original study. If you're interested in this topic, look at the method and the data, and judge for yourself: rady.ucsd.edu/faculty/direct…
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Daniel Vassallo
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Hacking our psychology doesn’t last. Our subconscious is there to prevent us from fooling ourselves for too long.

If you want lasting consistency, find what you like doing for its own sake, and do that. Because only intrinsic motivation lasts.
If I find that I need to keep hacking my psychology to get the energy to do something, I take that as a signal that I should probably be doing something else.
Instead of hacking your psychology by burying your head in the sand when faced with signals of resistance, it's much more effective to try to *convince* yourself!

That's how you get lasting consistency. Not with coffee & loud music.
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Cory House
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My approach for learning new tech:

1. Create a repo to centralize my learning & resources

2. Read/watch a comprehensive resource to understand the topic's surface area

3. Take notes in my own words

4. Build projects to experiment

5. Tweak my notes

6. Teach
I put all this in one repo. This gives me a personal, one-stop-shop for all my knowledge on the topic. Handy.

For example, I dove into accessibility recently. I created a repo with everything I learned: github.com/coryhouse/a11y

I continue to add good stuff here as I learn more.
A GitHub repo also allows others to benefit and submit PRs if they see any opportunities for improvement.

I reference repos like this in workshops and conference talks so people have an obvious place to go for diving deeper.
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Lotte 'just an idiot' May 💖🍓🌈🐹🎮☕🍫🍩
@LotteMakesStuff
Heya friends! 🙋‍♀️💖 Have you noticed this new* button thats been on your Unity toolbar and wondered what the hell it is? 🛠 WELL ITS ACTUALLY SUPER COOL! ITS CUSTOM EDITOR TOOLS TIME LETS LEARN ✨ALL✨ABOUT THEM!!

(*well, new since 2019.1)
So this new Custom Editor Tools system lets us write our own tools that are treated as first class tools, just like the inbuilt tools (Move, Rotate or whatever). They can draw UI to the scene view aswell as use the Handle API to manipulate objects…or whatever you want them to do
So, we got two types of tool - Global and Context tools.
Global tools show up on that main toolbar button and can effect any kind of object. Context tools obvs only show up for objects with a component they target, these show up in the tool panel.
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Emmanuel Quartey
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The @FashionNova online store uses so many interesting growth tactics to boost conversion rates and increase basket size. It's pretty remarkable. If you run an ecommerce store or D2C brand there're some neat ideas there. Quick notes (thread 👇🏿) #productnotes
Most ecommerce stores hit you with a modal asking for an email address to get a discount. If you're like me you've probably trained yourself to close them as soon as they pop up. FashionNova puts a literal spin on it - the first thing you see is a Wheel of Fortune-style game Screenshot shows Wheel of Fortune-inspired game on the FashionNova website, where you get to spin the wheel to win a % off
I suspect the wheel is rigged to give everyone the biggest prize 😀 Note the copy: "Enter your email to claim your prize" both implies scarcity while also pushing the subliminal message that you've *earned* the right to give them your email! I bet their opt-in rates are high
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Andrew Gresyk
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A thread on #cpp #state_machine #software_design.

Random ideas around writing an FSM library, with examples from, and motivations behind hfsm.dev, a header-only library created using #cpp template #metaprogramming with #gamedev, #embedded and #robotics in mind.
*Reuse vs reimplement*

State machines can be deceptively complex, and, unless a trivial one is needed, a reusable framework is highly recommended.

Rolling out one's own for special needs is ok.

Otherwise - pick from a variety of existing solutions from #boost, on #github, etc.
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The first important decision is whether the structure of FSM could be built/changed at runtime.

The implementation of a dynamic FSM relies on heap-allocated memory, resizable containers and pointers, all of which come at a steep perf price.
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Colm MacCárthaigh
@colmmacc
It's my ten year anniversary at AWS, I got a new badge and everything! To celebrate, I'm going to tweet out the lightning talk I gave at last week's Amazon dev con. It's all about my favorite thing from my ten years: Shuffle Sharding!
Ever wonder how we manage multi-tenancy at AWS? or why we want you to use the personal health dashboard instead of the AWS status dashboard? are you pining for a bonus content section with probabilistic math? These slides on Shuffle Sharding are for you!!
O.k., so this is me, 15 years ago, building a data center. That's what I used to do for money. This one was about 30 racks, and I was the project lead. It took me about a year to build it, everything from initial design to labeling cables.
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