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Invisible Library

When you finish this book, gift it to someone who will appreciate it. Consider adding your own annotations, illustrations, or appendices. To add one of your books to the library, copy this text into the front and gift it away too.

KK

In Portuguese, the letter K is pronounced /ka/ , like the "ca" in car . It's also how we laugh in Brazil? So instead of typing "hahaha" we usually just type "kkkkkk" in chats. The result is that every time someone sends me a "kk" in a chat it takes me a second to realize they're not laughing at me! 😂 ⁂ In Portuguese, we use the word "quase" a lot. It's pronounced /'kwa.zi/ or KWAH-zee, and means…

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Using Google Sheets as a database

From this work blog post .

You've heard of CSV files, but have you heard of CCSV files?

Comma Separated Values (CSV) is a simple plain text format for storing tabular data. To create a CSV file, just write every row of your data as a line in your file, and separate columns using a comma: name,age,favorite food Beto,48,hummus Martim,11,hamburger It's trivial to parse. For example, here's an example in Python: for row in open(filename): for column in row.strip().split(","):…

Tradwives: Where Feminism Goes to Off Itself

There's nothing empowering about flattening your identity to being beneath your husband and children. You aren't treated as an equal, or a partner. You are treated as a dishwasher you can stick your dick in.

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entr: rerun your build when files change

The summary is in the headline: entr is a command line tool that lets you run an arbitrary command every time you change any of a set of specified files.

It's hard not to sacrifice principles for convenience when the modern world is so inconvenient

I don't want to buy stuff from Amazon, because Amazon has invented a new kind of labor travesty: the chickenized reverse centaur. That's a worker who has to foot the bill to outfit a work environment where they nevertheless have no autonomy (chickenization) and whose body is conscripted to act as a peripheral for a digital system. Checking in on the state of Amazon's chickenized reverse-centaurs…

Bigos and Mother's Days

I worked at Meta (née Facebook) back in 2014-2017. I really got along with one of my co-workers, Olek, so we started having lunch together once a week. When he left the company in 2016 we continued doing our lunches, virtually: we'd grab our food and hop into meeting rooms in our respective companies, and eat it over Facebook Messenger. When I left Facebook for Lyft in 2017 we switched to Google…