The coordination work that holds projects together disappears the moment it works. On the unfairness of recognition and finding leaders who see it anyway.

Projects just drift toward chaos unless a person is actively holding them together.

The problem is that recognition follows narrative. When a project succeeds, credit flows to the people whose contributions are easy to describe. The person who presented to the board. The person whose name is on the launch email. The person who shipped the final feature. These contributions are real, I’m not diminishing them. But they’re not more real than the work that made them possible. They’re just easier to point at. Easier to put in a slide. And I think that’s where the unfairness starts, slowly, without people really noticing.

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Hacker News:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46665411

Simplifying container and AI development on RHEL 10 with Podman Desktop

So for years I've used Docker Compose as my stepping stone to k8s. If the project is small, or mostly for my own consumption OR if the business requirements don't really support the complexity of k8s, I use Compose. It's simple to manage with bash scripts for deployments, not hard to setup on fresh servers with cloud-init and the process of removing a server from a load balancer, pulling the new container, then adding it back in has been bulletproof for teams with limited headcount or services where uptime is less critical than cost control and ease of long-term maintenance. You avoid almost all of the complexity of really "running" a server while being able to scale up to about 20 VMs while still having a reasonable deployment time.

Think Python is an introduction to Python for people who have never programmed before – or for people who have tried and had a hard time. You can order print and ebook versions of the third edition from Bookshop.org and Amazon.

"Going with the flow." —Wingo, Cars: Fast as Lightning Wingo is a recurring character in the Cars franchise that is a member of the Delinquent Road Hazards. He is often seen as an antagonist throughout most installments of the series, but has helped out Lightning McQueen and his friends on...

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A recap of my year and a brief look at trajectories for 2026.

What you NEED to know before touching a video file - video_noob_guide.md

Hacker News:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46404321

Thanks to @greedyintern, @RadicusScout, @dmoney, and others for the great cupholder and LED mod instructions.
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https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/barrington-poker-table-thread.30910/post-2405037

Just finished mine and it turned out great thanks to those detailed instructions.

For the COB LED lights, I did make a minor change which I haven’t seen posted. In case anyone’s interested:

Password Safe allows you to safely and easily create a secured and encrypted user name/password list. With Password Safe all you have to do is create and remember a single Master Password of your choice in order to unlock and access your entire user name/password list.

Rather than assuming young workers are antisocial or unfriendly, consider why they might find it difficult to interact with others and help them figure out what would make it easier. If they seem overly sensitive, explore why this might be, rather than judging them.

Create space for conversation

Gen Z has been raised in a world of asynchronous communication—texts, DMs, emails, as well as Zoom meetings where they can turn off their video and audio, and participation is often optional. Forget about telling these employees you have an open-door policy; they won’t walk through it. Instead, leaders may need to create intentional, low-pressure spaces for conversation.

Encourage socialization

Your role as a leader isn’t just to manage their work—it’s to introduce them to workplace culture. Do you provide opportunities for socialization? Maybe it’s Cornhole Fridays, a bowling league or a team lunch. Better yet, ask them what they want. Identify your most outgoing employees and form a culture committee. Make socialization part of onboarding, not an afterthought.

Create a formal development plan

Learn how to fold and cut dozens of paper snowflakes. Use our printable templates, then decorate the Christmas tree, wreaths, garlands, and windows.

Why do we give away all this sauce for FREE on Youtube? We want beginner and intermediate players to learn from these videos and start winning NOW, so when they are ready to climb to high stakes they come to Hungry Horse to take the next step.

Did you know that you can make homemade sorbet with just one ingredient? All you need are some melons! This melon sorbet is easy to make, sweet and refreshing.

• Let melons thaw for 10 minutes. Puree the melon in a food processor. Add sweetener if desired (maple syrup).

New technologies to electrocute rats and render them infertile have had mixed results. City says food scraps remain a problem.

He said even the Smart Boxes that electrocute rats, which can cost $300 each per month, are more useful at showing where nests are concentrated than as actual population control, making education and prevention more important.

The one skill that separates senior engineers from everyone else isn’t technical. It’s the ability to take ambiguous problems and make them concrete.

Senior engineers look at the big, messy, abstract thing and start digging:

• They ask questions nobody else thought to ask.
• They separate what matters from noise.
• They identify what should be done now vs. what to punt.

Some sentences just sound awkward. In order to ensure clarity, writers need to consider more than just grammar: weight is equally important. In the following extract from Making Sense, acclaimed linguist David Crystal shows how sentence length (and weight) affects writing quality.

In speech, if a subject goes on for too long, listener frustration starts to build up, as it’s difficult to retain all the information without knowing what’s going to be done with it:

My supporters in the party, who have been behind me from the very outset of this campaign, and who know very well that the country is also behind me …

We urgently need a verb! It’s a problem that can present itself in writing too, as when we read a slowly scrolling news headline on our television screen that begins like this:

I work to bring AI into production. I write about AI system design.

Summary of how to work with regular expressions in Python. Compares Python with Perl and points out some gotchas.