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Merlin's Wisdom Project

Or: “Everybody likes being given a glass of water.”

By Merlin Mann.

It's only advice for you because it had to be advice for me.

Edit Feb 4 5:16 PM: Skip to the bottom if you just want the article

It has been brought to my attention that rehosting someone else's content without asking them — even if you link to the original content — is not exactly polite. I did not ask the author before I rehosted his article, and while I feel I should have known better than to that, it just didn't occurr to me. It's not exactly plagarism, but it's still wrong on some level. I have reached out to him now about hosting it here publically, and if he says it's alright, I'll put it back.

You can find the original article here, on his site, and on his Medium page.

By Steve Yegge

Last week I accidentally posted an internal rant about service platforms to my public Google+ account (i.e. this one). It somehow went viral, which is nothing short of stupefying given that it was a massive Wall of Text. The whole thing still feels surreal.

Amazingly, nothing bad happened to me at Google. Everyone just laughed at me a lot, all the way up to the top, for having committed what must be the great-granddaddy of all Reply-All screwups in tech history.

But they also listened, which is super cool. I probably shouldn’t talk much about it, but they’re already figuring out how to deal with some of the issues I raised. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, though. When I claimed in my internal post that “Google does everything right”, I meant it. When they’re faced with any problem at all, whether it’s technical or organizational or cultural, they set out to solve it in a first-class way.

Anyway, whenever something goes viral, skeptics start wondering if it was faked or staged. My accident

	//
	// DarwinNotificationCenter.swift
	//
	// Created by Nonstrict on 2023-12-07.
	//

	import Foundation
	import Combine

	private let center = CFNotificationCenterGetDarwinNotifyCenter()

	/// MIT License
	///
	/// Copyright (c) 2021 Lukas Kubanek, Structured Path GmbH
	///
	/// Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
	/// of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
	/// in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
	/// to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
	/// copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
	/// furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

	#!/Users/samuelkordik/.pyenv/shims/python
	# ReadingListCatcher
	# - A script for exporting Safari Reading List items to Markdown and Pinboard
	# Originally by Brett Terpstra 2015, <https://brettterpstra.com/2015/01/06/reading-list-catcher/>
	# Modifications by Zach Fine made in 2020 to use the original reading list item in the
	# posts to pinboard.
	# Updated 2021-06-21 by Samuel Kordik to fix errors due to deprecated API in plistlib,
	# changes to Pinboard api and Pinboard python lib; added enhanced logging output
	# and error handling to work as a cron job or shell script.
	# Uses code from <https://gist.github.com/robmathers/5995026>

	ruby '2.7.1'

	gem 'rails', github: 'rails/rails'
	gem 'tzinfo-data', '>= 1.2016.7' # Don't rely on OSX/Linux timezone data

	# Action Text
	gem 'actiontext', github: 'basecamp/actiontext', ref: 'okra'
	gem 'okra', github: 'basecamp/okra'

	# Drivers

	// Avoids the keyboard in a UIKit app by leveraging additionalSafeAreaInsets.
	// You can put this in the root view controller so the whole app will avoid the keyboard.
	// Only tested on iOS 13.3.
	// Made for https://douglashill.co/reading-app/
	@objc func updateSafeAreaForKeyboardFromNotification(_ notification: Notification) {
	guard let endFrameInScreenCoords = notification.userInfo?[UIResponder.keyboardFrameEndUserInfoKey] as? CGRect else {
	return
	}

	// Please consider whether the force unwrap here is safe for your own use case.

	//
	// UIView+RSKeyboardLayoutGuide.swift
	// RSTouchUIKit
	//
	// Created by Daniel Jalkut on 12/23/18.
	//

	import UIKit

	// Extends UIView to expose a keyboardLayoutGuide property that can be used to tie a view controller's content