14. July 2023

Build the bomb

It’s well-documented phenomenon that many Americans will balk at a public spending measure that costs over a trillion dollars but are totally OK with that if it is for the military. Adam Tooze discusses this in a recent episode of his podcast. If it’s for the military, then it it’s essential and maybe even exciting, like the F-35 or the Manhattan Project.

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09. July 2023

Bold marketing

I signed up to the Stacking the Bricks newsletter. They tell you how to build a business in a way you too can do.

They have one central idea: Visit forums of professionals known to pay for things, see what they want, and make that. I think this idea is valid.

They also bold every third paragraph and write in short sentences.

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02. June 2023

CORS junk

At the last three jobs I’ve been at, I’ve hit some form of this issue:

  • I am writing a web app.
  • I am running locally on localhost while developing it.
  • It needs to make an http request to a server on another origin (a “cross-origin” request, if you will).
  • That server, at least at that moment, does not provide headers in its http responses that say “it is OK to make requests to me from localhost.”
  • Requests from the browser to that server fail because of this CORS issue.

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