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Re:How to Animate Multiplayer Cursors on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @09:09AM (#31987779)
Loved the deep dive into the difference between timing functions and spring/spline animations (ctrl-f comparison to jump to the animation).
@pbiggar's cofounder here!

+1 to everything Paul said, especially cofounder therapy.

The other thing that really helped me was understanding what I wanted from a cofounder (philosophically, skills-wise, ideology) before I was making a this person-or-not decision. Feels less personal.

I got that knowledge by doing many hackathon/intense sprints with other people to figure out when people tended to not work for me: https://blog.ellenchisa.com/startup-lockdown-day-0-576d2d7d4.... I also had a good sense of traits that others found annoying (esp when they quit other jobs) that I felt fine with.

Other useful things: - Explicitly naming "red flags" and things we were worried about. - Calling Paul's previous cofounder (who graciously agreed to talk to me).

As a random thing I still find interest, I said no when someone tried to warm intro me to Paul, but agreed to meet when he sent me a cold email. Felt more sincere somehow.

Re:The Basic Sourdough on Sunday May 06, 2018 @09:17AM (#17006314)
The title of this caught my eye - I feel like more and more engineers are baking bread as a hobby (the way photography used to be). So much so that there's a fiction novel about an engineer who gets started in sourdough: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XC41K6G/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...

I love the format of breaking apart the starter recipe and then the baking steps. Thanks for sharing!