Jim Wallace
Jim Wallace
@jim@extroverteddeveloper.com
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  • Lane In Stay

    That’s how I always read this anyway

  • Marc Andreessen’s name will be mostly forgotten within 2 generations

    Just like the Guilded Age robber barons. Only academics who study this time in history will know the name. Unlike Julius Cesar, Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Socrates, Abraham Lincoln The difference? Introspection

  • Do you need to read the code?

    There are several debates happening in the tech industry right now amongst software engineers. One of them goes along the lines of “If you don’t read the code the AI is producing, then how do you know what it does?!” Things I find strange about this argument: The serious answer to this is: Regardless of…

  • Amazon is the Winner as Oil Spikes

    Looks like Oil prices are going to remain higher for longer than everyone would like. If I was trading individual stocks I’d buy Amazon. I see their Rivian made delivery vehicles everywhere! EVs were already significantly more efficient than ICE cars, but now with the price of gas Amazon is going to be laughing all…

  • Mr. Rate it All!

    I’ve made another Chrome Extension that I always wish had existed. Mr. Rate It All! – it allows you to rate anything you can select on a webpage. The problem: Restaurants in NYC try and do a lot of things, but many are only good at a few. Their Chicken Parm is excellent, but their…

  • It is generally true that if you can fool developers into thinking they are “mastering” something hard (as opposed to learning tolerance for something badly designed), you can build a fiercely loyal priesthood. – Avdi Grimm

  • We owe George Lucas an apology

    Turns out the blockading of a trade route is a big deal and worthy of the Jedi’s attention

  • NGL, feeling pretty smug about driving an electric car right now

  • “Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.” Steven Winterburn

  • I just got my new MacBook Pro M5 Pro and I wonder if I made the wrong choice not buying the highest end laptop I could get. For the first time in my life it seems like computer components are getting more expensive over time, not less. It started with GPUs. Most GPUs were <…