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Jacob Voytko

@bitlog.com

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Staff backend engineer at Hinge. Ex-Etsy, ex-Google. www.clientserver.dev -- my newsletter on software engineering and the tech industry

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Jacob Voytko @bitlog.com · 04/09/2025

I see a lot of people complaining that ChatGPT ruined em dashes for them, but I have taken a different approach.

Office Space meme template with Amir and Michael Bolton. Top text says "WHY SHOULD I STOP USING EM DASHES?". Bottom text says "GPT'S THE ONE WHO SUCKS"

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Jacob Voytko @bitlog.com · 29/03/2025

I just hit a milestone with my newsletter this week: 100 free subscribers to my newsletter. It's Client/Server, at www.clientserver.dev

100 subscribers

You did it. Client/Server by Jacob Voytko has reached its first hundred subscribers.

www.clientserver.dev

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Jacob Voytko @bitlog.com · 19/01/2025

When you visit an Instagram post on mobile web, the following modal dialog pops up. Both the CTA and the alternative action buttons are “Open Instagram”. The only way to dismiss it is to tap outside of the dialog.

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Jacob Voytko @bitlog.com · 12/12/2024

Bless the Discord product manager tasked with increasing engagement who decided to add reaction notifications. It worked. I engaged with the settings menu like never before and turned this garbage off.

Settings menu in discord

Reaction notifications:
- all messages
- only direct messages
- never

“Receive notifications when your messages are reacted to”

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Jacob Voytko @bitlog.com · 18/11/2024

From an old Google search. "A monad is..."

A 2016-era Google search with the user input "a monad is a", and the results are..

- A monoid in the category of endofunctors
- A monad is a
- A monad is like a burrito
- A monad is not a burrito
- A monad is just a monoid in the category
- Why a monad is like a writing desk

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Jacob Voytko @bitlog.com · 15/11/2024

I've been coding in Golang since it first launched, and I still pause every time.

The "button decision" meme, between strings.Sort(slice) and sort.Strings(slice)

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Jacob Voytko @bitlog.com · 28/10/2024

PSA: You can now vote early in New York. If you're in NYC, be sure to research the ballot initiatives outside of official city resources. 2-6 are attempts by Eric Adams and his allies to make it harder to investigate police and other misconduct.

I am standing in front of Borough Hall. I have an "I VOTED EARLY 2024" sticker. I am smiling. It is sunny.

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