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Essays by Maggie Appleton

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Why some people mow a lawn better than others

We analyzed 132,003 attempts to mow a virtual lawn efficiently.

Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code — ...

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Use Task Runners for Common Coding Tasks - Ham Vocke

You can make your software developer life suck a bit less by using task runners to run common coding tasks consistently across multiple repositories

Devtools must be open source - exe.dev blog

The age of personalized software is here.

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Here's exactly how to build your company brain \(in 5 mins\)

Reading a Performance Profile: Field Guide

An interactive field guide to the Chrome DevTools Performance panel: waterfall, flame chart, LCP, CLS, INP, and the Insights panel.

The Building Block Economy

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95 reasons for having your own website

A running list of reasons to have your own website in 2026.

Never Enough

Comparison is the thief of joy.

The Future Worth Building Is Human

AI built for autonomy crowds people out, making us passive observers of what’s coming. We’re building toward a different future.

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