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Nalu?? God I miss that place. Run by an American couple but they moved away and I’ve not found anything truly comparable since.

Leaving aside the non-trivial question of candidate nervousness in live coding, I do find the "ask questions about take-home" process very illuminating.

If it came from a friend or chatGPT, you'll learn that quickly because you can ask them stuff like "show me how you're implementing FOO. OK, if the requirements change, and now we need to BAR, what do you need to change across the app?" If they wrote the code and understood the task, they should understand what needs to change, how to do it, etc, and you can do that part with them live. Maybe someday LLMs will be fast enough that you can't catch someone constantly waiting for the AI to help them, at least as of May 2025 we're not there yet.

What would non-“meaningless virtue signaling” look like to you? This seems quite decent as far as these things go.

Just downloaded it. As someone who used to read more poetry and has fallen off, I like the idea! Maybe this will prod me back into the habit.

One bug report: I can’t select text in the poem. Wanted to look up a word and can’t figure out any way. Was that disabled intentionally?

I just downloaded it and tested it out. It really is a very cool, polished product.

The video cuts when you remove "uh" and "um" are too jarring for anything professional, but OTOH for some internal work stuff I could see a use for this. And as someone who has used 0 video editing software, I was able to start making changes within like a minute, which I think is quite impressive.

That said, not sure I have enough use case to pay for it, personally.

NB: it's kind of impossible to prove you're not a sock puppet, because of _course_ a sock puppet account would say they're not a sock puppet account.

Love this book too! Not crazy complex but his pancake recipe crushes any other I’ve tried :)

I understand your PoV, but I like to stronnnnnngly encourage 1:1s every week, with each team member. I think it's really easy to let that slip if it's not in the calendar, and I've learned so many important, small things from people in those meetings.

Especially since some people don't really feel comfortable coming to their manager out of band. That makes the structure of "I have a block scheduled you with every week, in perpetuity" super valuable.

Agree with the loose agenda. I try to follow-up on things that came up in previous weeklies, and to make sure we don't forget about commitments, but so much of the value comes from a simple "How are you doing?"

Yeah I probably should have clarified a bit :)

In North and South America, and in other European cities (though certainly not all!), my experience has been that Uber is 99% of the time

1. better UX, and 2. cheaper

than taxis, _generally_. In Berlin, taxi service is generally professional/clean/fine, but it's quite expensive, and when I travel to other places I get quickly spoiled by the Uber experience/cost. I understand why they ban it here, but from an end-user perspective, really wish they didn't.

In comparison with any other major city where Uber operates, taxis are quite expensive here.