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• Internals of the async/await pattern from first principles
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Mar 2024

  Thanks for the feedback! My code snippets in the article don't use any real/existing language. C# for example, is quite explicit with the transformation of generated to state machines, but also does not provide such methods, as far as I know. I've just added a comment explaining this choice: https://github.com/Dobiasd/articles/commit/f44b897f2a4d20aa9...

• Flagged activities that are legit!
  1 project | /r/Strava | 8 Feb 2023
• How Strava could drastically improve the timing accuracy for segment efforts
  3 projects | /r/Strava | 4 Feb 2023

  I did not decide to write 33, this time comes from Strava. I just improved this part of the article to make it more obvious, which times need to be compared. So the time of user A changed from 33 s (Strava leaderboard) to 37.8 s (accurate measurement), which is a difference of 4.8 s.

• Keyboard Lets People Type So Fast It’s Banned from Typing Competitions
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Jan 2022

  > 1. It allows for minimal disruption to thinking process, close to 90% of the time even when coding is not actively typing, but when typing is subconscious and fast it removes the potential of where it interrupts the thinking process.

  I agree, and even wrote an article about that a few years ago. :-)

  https://github.com/Dobiasd/articles/blob/master/how_touch_ty...

• Fixing under-engineered code vs. fixing over-engineered code
  1 project | /r/TechNews_GITD | 26 Aug 2021
  1 project | /r/programming | 26 Aug 2021
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Aug 2021
• Vim is actually worth it
  1 project | /r/programming | 14 Jun 2021

  It's not just about reducing the 1% to maybe 0.5%. It can have other advantages too. :)

• How I got rid of the crosstalk in my headset
  1 project | /r/Headsets | 28 Apr 2021
  1 project | /r/diyaudio | 28 Apr 2021
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