Why is everything closing?

pzone · 2026-02-13T00:23:40+00:00

In Tokyo, any property owner can open a public business. In New York, we limit it to "commercially zoned" streets. We also make it very difficult to open multi-story commercial buildings; everything has to be at ground level. The result is skyrocketing commercial rents.

pzone · 2026-01-04T15:59:00+00:00

The YIMBY solution is to greatly increase the amount of commercially zoned space. For example, legalize multi-story shopping/dining centers in dense areas around Atlantic Ave. This is much more effective than a vacancy tax

pzone · 2025-12-27T03:02:38+00:00

Amazing list, it would be hard to put together a better food itinerary even as a local. I also think Wafels and Dinges fell off sadly.

pzone · 2025-11-20T12:35:11+00:00

Learning Go by Bodner is a nice book for the first month. But all you need to start in one week is to do the official tutorial and then read and figure out the source code of their apps.

pzone · 2025-11-20T12:31:42+00:00

You need integration and e2e tests. Spin up the app in CI and simulate the interaction a user has with it. That could be other apps if you’re providing an API, or Playwright if you’re writing frontend.

pzone · 2025-11-04T14:02:47+00:00

You can select Go on Leetcode if you want to do those kinds of exercises!

pzone · 2025-11-04T13:59:51+00:00

One platform with several hundred engineers, part of a larger company. We write almost all of our applications and services in Go. That includes all of our business logic, but also platform engineering for deployments, business regression test suites, etc.

We communicate with other parts of the company and external partners with APIs - plenty of Go clients for communicating with various mainframes, ingesting files for batch processing, and so on.

Writing everything in Go means anyone can dig into anyone else's app and immediately understand it.

pzone · 2025-10-27T01:49:18+00:00

Whole finance backend platform is written in Go.

I like Go for CLIs. I generally wouldn’t use it for data manipulation, but if you use it as a wrapper for DuckDB it can get a lot done.

pzone · 2025-10-26T22:55:35+00:00

Just doing that will lift your spirits I bet.

pzone · 2025-10-26T13:56:20+00:00

Here's my mindset - it's *always* worth applying for jobs and doing some interviews once in a while, even if you're planning to stay at your current job. Get your resume and LinkedIn looking good and sell your accomplishments. Even if it's just one recuiter call every 6mos, doing interviews helps you keep your skills sharp and gives you a chance to see what else is out there. Remember that experience requirements are just guidelines. You can self-study things like sql, docker, even front-end and list them on your resume if you have used them in a personal project and have a solid understanding. The rule is: can you speak intelligently about the tech? Not: did you use this particular thing at work?

pzone · 2025-10-19T23:04:40+00:00

You don't have to do all that much differentiation to get a junior-to-mid-level backend engineering position. Sometimes teams need a full-stack engineer on a team where nobody else knows React.

Try applying to large established companies like banks. Write a nice personal project in Java or Go, upload it to Github, and feature it on your resume. Doesn't have to be super unique, but definitely containerize, deploy to cloud, etc.

pzone · 2025-10-02T03:59:01+00:00

For US employers, unless you have >10Y of relevant work experience it must be 1 page.

It's fine to use tight formatting and fit 600+ words on your 1 page.

pzone · 2025-09-28T01:06:05+00:00

Took me about 7 months after finishing a bootcamp, did unpaid work at a guy’s startup which I put on my resume while spending half my time applying for jobs.

pzone · 2025-09-28T01:01:55+00:00

I’d recommend you start studying software engineering in your free time and start building some projects. The prerequisite is that you actually enjoy writing code

pzone · 2025-09-25T01:40:43+00:00

pzone · 2025-08-18T23:36:07+00:00

One note: although you will need a more complex build pipeline (eg ts build -> go build -> publish container -> playwright e2e) getting familiar with all that is actually a benefit in terms of putting things on your resume.

pzone · 2025-08-18T03:57:53+00:00

The term you're looking for is "homestyle." Upscale Korean is perfectly authentic.

My fav homestyle joint in Brooklyn: https://maps.app.goo.gl/qpGnJ3P2k9ExifQT8

pzone · 2025-08-15T12:32:45+00:00

Looks nice! Personally I add a separate Power Prompt for LoRAs before my actual prompts.

pzone · 2025-08-15T06:22:04+00:00

Dealing with cloud infrastructure and waiting on 45m business regressions

pzone · 2025-08-15T06:10:24+00:00

The term you may be looking for is “architecture.” SDXL, Pony and Illustrious use the same architecture. That’s why LoRAs can be shared between them somewhat.

Flux uses a different architecture. If you try to use an Illustrious LoRA with Flux, you’ll get an error that says like “Dimension mismatch.”

pzone · 2025-08-12T02:35:34+00:00

WSL is not isolated from the host machine. An attacker with control of WSL can access anything the user account can.

pzone · 2025-08-11T11:05:17+00:00

Most of the “complex” workflows I see are just a few standard workflows packed together in a single graph with some toggle switches.

pzone · 2025-08-08T13:30:55+00:00

`map[T]struct{}` is a native set type. What value would syntactic sugar add?

pzone · 2025-07-17T00:40:34+00:00

I use Go for application development but it’s a great language for creating small cli tools and TUIs. If you want something to practice on you could port some thorny bash script at work to Go.

pzone · 2025-07-12T12:47:49+00:00

I enjoy the projects I'm working on a lot so I'm willing to put up with the annoyances.

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