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An edge city is a dense, auto-oriented job center arising from nearby suburban areas, usually without top-down planning. The office parks of Silicon Valley are one such example: the area had a surplus of land and gradually became the core of the American tech industry. In American urbanism, Tysons in Virginia is a common archetype: the area was a minor crossroads until the Capital Beltway made it unusually accessible by car, providing extensive auto-oriented density with little historic core.
Edge Cities With and Without Historic Cores
Alon Levy
I say the critical resource is not *developer time*, it’s *developer energy*. The “10x developer” may or may not be a myth, but it is no myth that I personally am 10x more productive on days when I am energized than on days when I am exhausted, distracted, and frustrated.
Take Your Pragmatism for a Unicycle Ride
Richard Marmorstein
Everyone is talking about Retrieval Augmented Generation, but most companies don't actually *have* any internal documentation worth retrieving. Fix. Your. Shit.
I Will Fucking Piledrive You if You Mention AI Again
mataroa.blog
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