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New comment by arlobish in "Your Website Is Not for You"

arlobish — Fri, 01 May 2026 11:53:40 +0000

I get why a design studio would think this way, but in many cases it is for me.

Your Company Is a Skill Now

arlobish — Fri, 01 May 2026 09:55:23 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/arlobish/status/2046270374174925196

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47972909

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New comment by arlobish in "Auto Polo"

arlobish — Fri, 01 May 2026 09:30:40 +0000

"The official inventor of auto polo...devised the sport as a publicity stunt in 1911 to sell Model T cars."

Amazing to see how little has changed in 100 years when it comes to competing for attention

New comment by arlobish in "A 1960s art school experiment that redefined creativity"

arlobish — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:44:55 +0000

Am I right in saying the conclusion of the experiment was: people who spend more time thinking about a problem before acting tend to find it more engaging and were therefore more successful?

I wonder if the quality of the art suffered within the context of the experiment because of the time constraint, even if in the long run those people tended to create better art.

New comment by arlobish in "Durable queues, streams, pub/sub, and a cron scheduler – inside your SQLite file"

arlobish — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:12:06 +0000

At the end it says: "pg-boss and Oban are the Postgres-side gold standards" -- but Oban supports SQLite now too https://github.com/oban-bg/oban

New comment by arlobish in "How an oil refinery works"

arlobish — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:16:49 +0000

Cool to see how when people talk about “transitioning off oil” it's more than replacing gasoline in cars. It's replacing this entire global machine.

New comment by arlobish in "Remembering the Computer Literacy Project (1992) [video]"

arlobish — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 09:45:36 +0000

Everyone should watch this to understand how far we've come in so little time.

I try to put myself in the mindset of someone at that time seeing a computer that takes up an entire wall, with the announcer in the background saying "Something like this could do your taxes one day".

Would I believe it? Then I think of the claims people are making today about AI, and try to take them more seriously.