Gibson Fahnestock

@gibfahn

My thoughts are my own.

London, England
Joined May 2016

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    This piece, by and via , is great, and has finally explained to me the advantage of HS2

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    1 Oct 2019

    Multi-line comments have arrived! You can now highlight multiple lines in a pull request diff and add a comment, all at once.

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    24 Sep 2019

    Deep dive into why Boeing deliberately designed a plane that would seize control from the pilot and crash, and then did everything in its power to prevent pilots from knowing about it, all to (maybe) save a few million dollars.

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    ✨ My three-part article, "Reading files the hard way" is now available! ☑️ Part 1 is available to everyone RIGHT NOW. 🔒 Part 2 will unlock on September 6. 🔒 Part 3 on September 13. $10+ patrons have access to all three parts now! 🥰 ➡️

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    31 Aug 2019

    If England was what England seems / An’ not the England of our dreams, / But only putty, brass, an’ paint, / ’Ow quick we’d chuck ’er! But she ain’t...?

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    The 1984 Bhopal incident is the worst industrial accident in human history, exponentially more deadly than Chernobyl. Over 500,000 were injured. Immediate death toll estimates range between 2,000 and 8,000. An estimated 8,000 more died later from related injuries.

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    I am excited to have written: P1705R0 “Enumerating Core Undefined Behavior”

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    Did you see the latest awesome feature 🔥? It's helping you see why a CSS property has no effect. We're adding more of those in , if you want to help, it's quite simple to work on, and you might learn some CSS along the way 🙂

    Screenshot of Firefox DevTools inspector. A span element is selected, with a CSS rule applying a width to it. A tooltip is displayed stating that the width is inactive because the element has a display of inline
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    29 May 2019

    The controversy around the .amazon domain made me look up what brand TLDs are in the pipeline oh my

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    A Black man did this. A Black man in Mississippi did this. A Black man in Mississippi did this from the federal bench. You know how Mr. Rogers said look for the helpers when the world gets scary? Well, I’m here to tell you to look for the resisters.

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    How it was before Stack Overflow

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    7 May 2019

    Want to know why Game of Thrones *feels* so different now? I think I can explain. Without spoilers. /1

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    MONADS AND RUST A THREAD - or - why async/await instead of do notation

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    9 May 2019

    We were talking about chore distribution in our household, and my partner shared this article with me. It goes into the structure of household work imbalance, and really hits the mark.

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    8 May 2019

    I wrote a 2D renderer for GPU last week, and am very excited about it:

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    30 Apr 2019

    When we rush development, skip tests and refactoring, we get “Escalating Risk.” Please give up the “technical debt” description; it gives businesspeople a very wrong impression of the tradeoffs. From

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    reminder that Promise.all() turns an Array<Promise<T>> into a Promise<Array<T>>

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    21 Apr 2019

    Wrote a tiny lib that makes dealing with Rust panic backtraces a little less painful.

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    19 Apr 2019

    Developers deserve better than generic screen-sharing for pair programming. Developer friends: we built for you. Check it out.

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    14 Apr 2019
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