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Snowsports and the Normalisation of Deviance Les Dents du Midi, March 2025 There’s a mountain range visible from the office here that i’ve looked...
4th May 2025
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Snowsports and the Normalisation of Deviance

from Lee A Johnson [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th May 2025
Les Dents du Midi, March 2025 There’s a mountain range visible from the office here that i’ve looked at almost everyday for the last 12 years, when weather conditions allow of course. Les Dents du Midi. Often i’ve thought “I wonder if anyone has ever skied or snowboarded down one...
How to filter out old email from inbox Every few years I take a pass at reducing the chaos in my personal inboxes. There are simply too...
3rd May 2025
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How to filter out old email from inbox

from Irrational Exuberance [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd May 2025
Every few years I take a pass at reducing the chaos in my personal inboxes. There are simply too many emails to deal with, and that generally leads to me increasingly failing to follow up on important email. Up to this point, my strategy has largely been filtering out emails that...
Web Witch's Grimoire: April 2025 I really haven't done a review of my months since November. I've been deep in hibernation mode,...
3rd May 2025
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Web Witch's Grimoire: April 2025

from The Web Witch's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd May 2025
I really haven't done a review of my months since November. I've been deep in hibernation mode, conserving energy for what will be a busy few months. I started to write a log about what happened in March, the first March that did not drag on this year, at least for me, but now...
On Pronouns, Policies and Mandates Hi friends! We’re on week three of my 12-week practice in writing one bite-sized topic per week —...
2nd May 2025
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On Pronouns, Policies and Mandates

from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd May 2025
Hi friends! We’re on week three of my 12-week practice in writing one bite-sized topic per week — scoping it down, writing straight through, trying real hard to avoid over-writing or editing down to a pulp. Week 1 — “On Writing, Social Media, and Finding the Line of...
Arduino’s Automatic Reset As mentioned in my previous article, I am planning to publish a long-form article on UART. I am...
1st May 2025
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Arduino’s Automatic Reset

from Quentin Santos [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st May 2025
As mentioned in my previous article, I am planning to publish a long-form article on UART. I am doing a series of shorter articles to lay the groundwork. This is one of these “short” articles; this one about how Arduino uses UART. Of course, I still went way too deep in this...
Oxide’s Compensation Model: How is it Going? How it started Four years ago, we were struggling to hire. Our team was small (~23 employees),...
1st May 2025
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Oxide’s Compensation Model: How is it Going?

from Oxide Computer Company Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st May 2025
How it started Four years ago, we were struggling to hire. Our team was small (~23 employees), and we knew that we needed many more people to execute on our audacious vision. While we had had success hiring in our personal networks, those networks now felt tapped; we needed...
Why sharing a redis cluster across services is asking for trouble If there’s one pattern I’ve seen across multiple companies, from scrappy startups to big corps, that...
1st May 2025
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Why sharing a redis cluster across services is asking for trouble

from Eliran Turgeman [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st May 2025
If there’s one pattern I’ve seen across multiple companies, from scrappy startups to big corps, that causes endless headaches, it’s this: a single cache cluster shared across services. I recently shortly wrote about my lessons from building and maintaining distributed systems at...
testing data structures per element Recently, Alex Kladov wrote on the TigerBeetle blog about swarm testing data structures. It’s a neat...
1st May 2025
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testing data structures per element

from Tony Finch's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st May 2025
Recently, Alex Kladov wrote on the TigerBeetle blog about swarm testing data structures. It’s a neat post about randomized testing with Zig. I wrote a comment with an idea that was new to Alex @matklad, so I’m reposing a longer version here. differential testing problems grow /...
Recently I watched a large part of All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace this month. This also counts...
1st May 2025
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Recently

from macwright.com [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st May 2025
I watched a large part of All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace this month. This also counts as a “listening” item, because the theme song, “Baby Love Child” by Pizzicato Five, is also spectacular. Guitar Moves is a good series of interviews by Matt Sweeney, who I...
When You Get to Be Smart Writing a Macro Day-to-day programming isn’t always exciting. Most of the code we write is pretty straightforward:...
1st May 2025
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When You Get to Be Smart Writing a Macro

from tonsky.me [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st May 2025
Day-to-day programming isn’t always exciting. Most of the code we write is pretty straightforward: open a file, apply a function, commit a transaction, send JSON. Finding a problem that can be solved not the hard way, but smart way, is quite rare. I’m really happy I found this...
Localization Localization
1st May 2025
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Localization

from Buttondown's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st May 2025
Localization
What I'm up to - May 2025 Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st May 2025
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What I'm up to - May 2025

from Philip I. Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st May 2025
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in last month - "I created a chatbot with my dog" was a presentation I gave at a meetup. (Here's t...
What I'm up to - May 2025 Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st May 2025
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What I'm up to - May 2025

from Philip Ilic Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st May 2025
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in last month - "I created a chatbot with my dog" was a presentation I gave at a meetup. (Here's t...
Twenty Years of Guild Wars So many folks have reached out to me to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the launch of Guild Wars...
30th Apr 2025
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Twenty Years of Guild Wars

from Code Of Honor [alt+shift+b] in programming

30th Apr 2025
So many folks have reached out to me to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the launch of Guild Wars on April 28, 2005, that it encouraged me to write this little bitty. I was heartened to see an article about Guild Wars in GameRant, which talked about the server infrastructure...
Name that Ware, April 2025 The Ware for this month is shown below: It’s a tiny portion of a much larger ware, but for various...
30th Apr 2025
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Name that Ware, April 2025

from bunnie's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

30th Apr 2025
The Ware for this month is shown below: It’s a tiny portion of a much larger ware, but for various reasons I think this is sufficient for someone to guess at least the type of ware this came from, if not the exact make/model. There’s a particularly interesting bit about this...
Doom GPU Flame Graphs AI Flame Graphs are now open source and include Intel Battlemage GPU support, which means it can...
30th Apr 2025
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Doom GPU Flame Graphs

from Brendan Gregg's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

30th Apr 2025
AI Flame Graphs are now open source and include Intel Battlemage GPU support, which means it can also generate full-stack GPU flame graphs for providing new insights into gaming performance, especially when coupled with FlameScope (an older open source project of mine). Here's an...
The Boot.dev Beat. April 2025 The Lord of the Mire has been the hardest boss yet (by far), weighing it with 150,000,000 HP. The...
27th Apr 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. April 2025

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Apr 2025
The Lord of the Mire has been the hardest boss yet (by far), weighing it with 150,000,000 HP. The community rallied during the event, dealing a whopping 132,282,452 damage in total, but not quite enough to bring him down.
The Boot.dev Beat. April 2025 The Lord of the Mire has been the hardest boss yet (by far), weighing it with 150,000,000 HP. The...
27th Apr 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. April 2025

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Apr 2025
The Lord of the Mire has been the hardest boss yet (by far), weighing it with 150,000,000 HP. The community rallied during the event, dealing a whopping 132,282,452 damage in total, but not quite enough to bring him down.
Osaka Team Retreat Recap We just wrapped up our offsite in Osaka, the first time we’ve held a retreat in a location where...
26th Apr 2025
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Osaka Team Retreat Recap

from Marc Astbury [alt+shift+b] in programming

26th Apr 2025
We just wrapped up our offsite in Osaka, the first time we’ve held a retreat in a location where nobody on the team is a local. With our team now at ~10 people, gone are the days of just a handful of us meeting up and figuring out what to do on the fly. Ensuring […] The post...
partitioning ambiguous edges in guile Today, some more words on memory management, on the practicalities of a system with...
25th Apr 2025
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partitioning ambiguous edges in guile

from wingolog [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Apr 2025
Today, some more words on memory management, on the practicalities of a system with conservatively-traced references. The context is that I have finally started banging into , initially in a configuration that continues to use the conservative Boehm-Demers-Weiser (BDW)...
Bike Brooklyn! zine I've been biking in Brooklyn for a few years now! It's hard for me to believe it, but I'm now one of...
23rd Apr 2025
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Bike Brooklyn! zine

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Apr 2025
I've been biking in Brooklyn for a few years now! It's hard for me to believe it, but I'm now one of the people other bicyclists ask questions to now. I decided to make a zine that answers the most common of those questions: Bike Brooklyn! is a zine that touches on everything I...
Announcing Hotwire Native 1.2 We’ve just launched Hotwire Native v1.2 and it’s the biggest update since the initial launch last...
23rd Apr 2025
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Announcing Hotwire Native 1.2

from 37signals Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Apr 2025
We’ve just launched Hotwire Native v1.2 and it’s the biggest update since the initial launch last year. The update has several key improvements, bug fixes, and more API consistency between platforms. And we’ve created all new iOS and Android demo apps to show it off! A web-first...
Explore Wallpapers for Mac Many years ago (2010 or so) I released an app called Flickr Addict for Palm WebOS phones, which...
22nd Apr 2025
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Explore Wallpapers for Mac

from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Apr 2025
Many years ago (2010 or so) I released an app called Flickr Addict for Palm WebOS phones, which automatically downloaded beautiful images from the Flickr photography website and changed the phone background image on a regular basis. I wanted to see if I could rebuild that app in...
“Can They Change My Contract?”: Protecting Your Workplace Rights in Japan Right now, the General Union is handling cases at Japanese tech companies where well-established...
21st Apr 2025
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21st Apr 2025
Right now, the General Union is handling cases at Japanese tech companies where well-established workplace practices have come under threat. These include businesses pushing for return-to-office mandates after years of remote work, eliminating flexible scheduling, and cutting...
On Writing, Social Media, and Finding the Line of Embarrassment Brace yourself, because I’m about to utter a sequence of words I never thought I would hear myself...
19th Apr 2025
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On Writing, Social Media, and Finding the Line of Embarrassment

from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Apr 2025
Brace yourself, because I’m about to utter a sequence of words I never thought I would hear myself say: I really miss posting on Twitter. I really, really miss it. It’s funny, because Twitter was never not a trash fire. There was never a time when it felt like we were living...
Limited Editions and Ticket Demand Or alternatively "Curiosities in Vinyl, Part 4". If you’re not interested in buying music in a...
19th Apr 2025
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Limited Editions and Ticket Demand

from Lee A Johnson [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Apr 2025
Or alternatively "Curiosities in Vinyl, Part 4". If you’re not interested in buying music in a physical form you may well have missed that last Saturday (12th April 2025) was “Record Store Day” (RSD)1. A biannual event where independent record stores are supplied with releases...
Kagi Assistant is now available to all users! At Kagi, our mission is simple: to humanise the web.
17th Apr 2025
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Kagi Assistant is now available to all users!

from Kagi Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Apr 2025
At Kagi, our mission is simple: to humanise the web.
Rediscovering the origins of my Lisp journey <![CDATA[My journey to Lisp began in the early 1990s. Over three decades later, a few days ago I...
15th Apr 2025
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Rediscovering the origins of my Lisp journey

from Paolo Amoroso's Journal [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Apr 2025
<![CDATA[My journey to Lisp began in the early 1990s. Over three decades later, a few days ago I rediscovered the first Lisp environment I ever used back then which contributed to my love for the language. Here it is, PC Scheme running under DOSBox-X on my Linux PC: Screenshot...
Thoughts on releasing our first indie game Two weeks ago we released Dice’n Goblins, our first game on Steam. This project allowed me to...
15th Apr 2025
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Thoughts on releasing our first indie game

from Alice GG [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Apr 2025
Two weeks ago we released Dice’n Goblins, our first game on Steam. This project allowed me to discover and learn a lot of new things about game development and the industry. I will use this blog post to write down what I consider to be the most important lessons from the months...
The Post-Developer Era When OpenAI released GPT-4 back in March 2023, they kickstarted the AI revolution. The consensus...
14th Apr 2025
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The Post-Developer Era

from Josh Comeau's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Apr 2025
When OpenAI released GPT-4 back in March 2023, they kickstarted the AI revolution. The consensus online was that front-end development jobs would be totally eliminated within a year or two.Well, it’s been more than two years since then, and I thought it was worth revisiting some...
Yes, I will have coffee with you On meeting up in meatspace
14th Apr 2025
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Yes, I will have coffee with you

from Herman's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Apr 2025
On meeting up in meatspace
Bobcoin, blockchains, and cryptocurrency How do cryptocurrencies actually work, though? Join Alice and Bob as they embark on designing a...
12th Apr 2025
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Bobcoin, blockchains, and cryptocurrency

from Blog - Bitfield Consulting [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Apr 2025
How do cryptocurrencies actually work, though? Join Alice and Bob as they embark on designing a new digital ledger for secure “Bobcoin” transactions.
How to use “real” UART I recently went into a deep dive on “UART” and will publish a much longer article on the topic. This...
10th Apr 2025
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How to use “real” UART

from Quentin Santos [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Apr 2025
I recently went into a deep dive on “UART” and will publish a much longer article on the topic. This is just a recap of the basics to help put things in context. Many tutorials focus on using UART over USB, which adds many layers of abstraction, hiding what it actually is. Here,...
Critical Trade Theory You know about Critical Race Theory, right? It says that if there’s an imbalance in, say, income...
10th Apr 2025
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Critical Trade Theory

from the singularity is nearer [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Apr 2025
You know about Critical Race Theory, right? It says that if there’s an imbalance in, say, income between races, it must be due to discrimination. This is what wokism seems to be, and it’s moronic and false. The right wing has invented something equally stupid. Introducing...
Announcing the NNCPNET Email Network From 1995 to 2019, I ran my own mail server. It began with a UUCP link, an expensive long-distance...
10th Apr 2025
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Announcing the NNCPNET Email Network

from The Changelog [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Apr 2025
From 1995 to 2019, I ran my own mail server. It began with a UUCP link, an expensive long-distance call for me then. Later, I ran a mail server in my apartment, then ran it as a VPS at various places. But running an email server got difficult. You can’t just run it on a …...
chasing the dragon Life is a journey meant to be experienced. Today, experience what view transitions have to offer...
10th Apr 2025
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chasing the dragon

from David Gerrells [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Apr 2025
Life is a journey meant to be experienced. Today, experience what view transitions have to offer with an honest side by side comparison to the more, exotic options.
7 best free open source LLM observability tools right now To build LLM-powered apps, developers need to know how users are using their app. LLM observability...
10th Apr 2025
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7 best free open source LLM observability tools right now

from Eric Migicovsky's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Apr 2025
To build LLM-powered apps, developers need to know how users are using their app. LLM observability tools help them do this by capturing LLM provider…
a problem with ssr Life is a journey meant to be experienced. Today, experience what view transitions have to offer...
10th Apr 2025
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a problem with ssr

from David Gerrells [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Apr 2025
Life is a journey meant to be experienced. Today, experience what view transitions have to offer with an honest side by side comparison to the more, exotic options.
Pre-Partner Early yesterday morning, on the second day of Blink On, I received the news that I had officially...
9th Apr 2025
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Pre-Partner

from The Web Witch's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Apr 2025
Early yesterday morning, on the second day of Blink On, I received the news that I had officially moved from Staff level to Pre-Partner at Igalia. This largely means that I now participate in decision-making with the rest of those Igalians who are pre-partners and partners. I...
A Data Engineering Perspective of LLMs Data engineering is a field I would categorize as a subspecialty of software engineering. It shares...
8th Apr 2025
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A Data Engineering Perspective of LLMs

from Dan Quach Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Apr 2025
Data engineering is a field I would categorize as a subspecialty of software engineering. It shares the same concerns as software engineering—scalability, maintainability, and other “-ilities”—but its primary focus is on data. It’s a unique discipline because data is inherently...
Market Ending Moves Startup CEOs should ask themselves what crazy ideas can turn into a move that just ends a market's...
8th Apr 2025
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Market Ending Moves

from Elad Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Apr 2025
Startup CEOs should ask themselves what crazy ideas can turn into a move that just ends a market's competitive dynamic
1995 Was the Most Important Year for the Web The world changed a lot in 1995. And for the web, it was a transformational year. The post 1995 Was...
8th Apr 2025
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1995 Was the Most Important Year for the Web

from The History of the Web [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Apr 2025
The world changed a lot in 1995. And for the web, it was a transformational year. The post 1995 Was the Most Important Year for the Web appeared first on The History of the Web.
Article pitch for your consideration A thing you should know is that you get put on a lot of lists if you spend a decent chunk of time...
8th Apr 2025
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Article pitch for your consideration

from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Apr 2025
A thing you should know is that you get put on a lot of lists if you spend a decent chunk of time publishing blog posts on your website. Your website and contact information will be shared around on these lists, for the purpose of soliciting you for guest posts. If you’re not...
Universal Basic Dead End While the world frets about the future of AI, the universal basic income advocates have an answer...
7th Apr 2025
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Universal Basic Dead End

from David Heinemeier Hansson [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Apr 2025
While the world frets about the future of AI, the universal basic income advocates have an answer ready for the big question of "what are we all going to do when the jobs are gone": Just pay everyone enough to loaf around as they see fit! Problem solved, right? Wrong. The...
7th Apr 2025
Typing using my keyboard (the other kind) I got a new-to-me keyboard recently. It was my brother's in school, but he doesn't use it anymore,...
7th Apr 2025
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Typing using my keyboard (the other kind)

from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Apr 2025
I got a new-to-me keyboard recently. It was my brother's in school, but he doesn't use it anymore, so I set it up in my office. It's got 61 keys and you can hook up a pedal to it, too! But when you hook it up to the computer, you can't type with it. I mean, that's expected—it...
Always running I’m trying something a bit different today – fiction. I had an idea for a short story the other...
6th Apr 2025
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Always running

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Apr 2025
I’m trying something a bit different today – fiction. I had an idea for a short story the other evening, and I fleshed it out into a proper piece. I want to get better at writing fiction, and the only way to do that is with practice. I hope you like what I’ve written! When the...
Sometimes never compete on price The difference between "low prices" as a race to the bottom or as a success story (like Amazon,...
6th Apr 2025
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Sometimes never compete on price

from A Smart Bear [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Apr 2025
The difference between "low prices" as a race to the bottom or as a success story (like Amazon, Costco, IKEA, Vanguard) is in leveraging intentional weaknesses.
Seeing the Matrix: A First-Principles Approach to Computer Architecture Building a mental model of computer architecture from first principles
5th Apr 2025
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Seeing the Matrix: A First-Principles Approach to Computer Architecture

from Confessions of a Code Addict [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Apr 2025
Building a mental model of computer architecture from first principles
Escaping the local maxima when i was a student, everything was simpler. grind leetcode. build projects. get an offer. i knew...
5th Apr 2025
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Escaping the local maxima

from Eliran Turgeman [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Apr 2025
when i was a student, everything was simpler. grind leetcode. build projects. get an offer. i knew the salaries. i knew what “winning” looked like. it was a somewhat straight line from broke student to backend engineer at a top company. and i did it, i 10x my life in the span of...
Preserving Winamp skins for posterity at the Internet Archive The story of how the Internet Archive came to preserve over 100k Winamp skins and include Webamp as...
5th Apr 2025
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Preserving Winamp skins for posterity at the Internet Archive

from Jordan Eldredge's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Apr 2025
The story of how the Internet Archive came to preserve over 100k Winamp skins and include Webamp as one of their embedded media players
The blissful zen of a good side project One of life's greatest simple pleasures is creating something just for yourself.
4th Apr 2025
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The blissful zen of a good side project

from Josh Collinsworth [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Apr 2025
One of life's greatest simple pleasures is creating something just for yourself.
Homepage headline test Testing different headline variants on the index page
4th Apr 2025
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Homepage headline test

from Buttondown's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Apr 2025
Testing different headline variants on the index page
Personal tools I used to make little applications just for myself. Sixteen years ago (oof) I wrote a habit tracking...
3rd Apr 2025
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Personal tools

from macwright.com [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Apr 2025
I used to make little applications just for myself. Sixteen years ago (oof) I wrote a habit tracking application, and a keylogger that let me keep track of when I was using a computer, and generate some pretty charts. I’ve taken a long break from those kinds of things. I love my...
All conference talks should start with a small technical glitch that the speaker can easily solve At a conference a while back, I noticed a couple of speakers get such a confidence boost after...
2nd Apr 2025
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2nd Apr 2025
At a conference a while back, I noticed a couple of speakers get such a confidence boost after solving a small technical glitch. We should probably make that a part of every talk. Have the mic not connect automatically, or an almost-complete puzzle on the stage that the speaker...
[April Cools] Gaming Games for Non-Gamers My April Cools is out! Gaming Games for Non-Gamers is a 3,000 word essay on video games worth...
1st Apr 2025
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[April Cools] Gaming Games for Non-Gamers

from Computer Things [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Apr 2025
My April Cools is out! Gaming Games for Non-Gamers is a 3,000 word essay on video games worth playing if you've never enjoyed a video game before. Patreon notes here. (April Cools is a project where we write genuine content on non-normal topics. You can see all the other April...
Systems model of API deprecation In How should Stripe deprecate APIs?, the diagnosis depends on the claim that deprecating APIs is a...
1st Apr 2025
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Systems model of API deprecation

from Irrational Exuberance [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Apr 2025
In How should Stripe deprecate APIs?, the diagnosis depends on the claim that deprecating APIs is a significant cause of customer churn. While there is internal data that can be used to correlate deprecation with churn, it’s also valuable to build a model to help us decide if we...
Apps lighter than a React button Nue is HTML, CSS, and JavaScript taken to their absolute peak.
1st Apr 2025
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Apps lighter than a React button

from Nue developer blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Apr 2025
Nue is HTML, CSS, and JavaScript taken to their absolute peak.
What I'm up to - April 2025 Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Apr 2025
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What I'm up to - April 2025

from Philip I. Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Apr 2025
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in last month - I published How to host web apps on a Mac Mini, a follow-up to my piece A mini dat...
What I'm up to - April 2025 Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Apr 2025
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What I'm up to - April 2025

from Philip Ilic Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Apr 2025
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in last month - I published How to host web apps on a Mac Mini, a follow-up to my piece A mini dat...
What Is Software Quality? Everyone wants the software they work on to produce quality products, but what does that mean? In...
31st Mar 2025
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What Is Software Quality?

from The Codist [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Mar 2025
Everyone wants the software they work on to produce quality products, but what does that mean? In addition, how do you know when you have it? This is the longest single blog post I have ever written. I spent four decades writing software used by people (most of the server
Name that Ware, March 2025 The Ware for March 2025 is shown below. I was just taking this thing apart to see what went wrong,...
31st Mar 2025
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Name that Ware, March 2025

from bunnie's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Mar 2025
The Ware for March 2025 is shown below. I was just taking this thing apart to see what went wrong, and thought it had some merit as a name that ware. But perhaps more interestingly, I was also experimenting with my cross-polarized imaging setup. This is a technique a friend of...
Building and improving Page Objects, one step at a time A few weeks ago, I ran a pair programming / mentoring session with someone who reached out to me...
31st Mar 2025
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Building and improving Page Objects, one step at a time

from On Test Automation [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Mar 2025
A few weeks ago, I ran a pair programming / mentoring session with someone who reached out to me because they felt they could use some support. When I first saw the code they wrote, I was pretty impressed. Sure, there were some things I would have done differently, but most of...
Why You Should (Still) Use Signal As Much As Possible As I write this in March 2025, there is a lot of confusion about Signal messenger due to the recent...
28th Mar 2025
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Why You Should (Still) Use Signal As Much As Possible

from The Changelog [alt+shift+b] in programming

28th Mar 2025
As I write this in March 2025, there is a lot of confusion about Signal messenger due to the recent news of people using Signal in government, and subsequent leaks. The short version is: there was no problem with Signal here. People were using it because they understood it to be...
Angkor Wat resources I took an amazing trip to SE Asia last month, including Angkor Wat. I had a hard time finding good...
27th Mar 2025
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Angkor Wat resources

from Nelson's Weblog [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Mar 2025
I took an amazing trip to SE Asia last month, including Angkor Wat. I had a hard time finding good reading or other resources to learn from before I went, in part because Amazon is awash in AI garbage. Here’s some books and podcasts I found useful about the Khmer empire in...
Correct vs Good Part 2: Can we have it both ways?
26th Mar 2025
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Correct vs Good

from General Robots [alt+shift+b] in programming

26th Mar 2025
Part 2: Can we have it both ways?
Why I hate JavaScript numbers and what everyone has (not) done with them JavaScript went against the grain in only using floating point numbers initially, and now we pay the...
26th Mar 2025
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JavaScript went against the grain in only using floating point numbers initially, and now we pay the price
We Won’t Save the Planet by Shrinking At first, it sounds obvious: if we want to save the planet, we should do less. Fewer people, less...
25th Mar 2025
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We Won’t Save the Planet by Shrinking

from Alex MacCaw [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Mar 2025
At first, it sounds obvious: if we want to save the planet, we should do less. Fewer people, less consumption, smaller footprints. I believed this too—so much so that I once thought having kids was irresponsible. But the more I looked into it, the less sense it made.
Optimizing iWittr.com to reduce Google Cloud &#038; Vercel costs Last month I decided to do a quick fun project as an excuse to try out AI coding tools, called...
25th Mar 2025
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Last month I decided to do a quick fun project as an excuse to try out AI coding tools, called iWittr.com. It’s a fan site for the Kermode & Mayo podcast, which I’ve been listening to for over 10 years. I might do another post about that experience, but this one is about reducing...
Another observability 3.0 appears on the horizon Groan. Well, it’s not like I wasn’t warned. When I first started teasing out the differences between...
24th Mar 2025
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Another observability 3.0 appears on the horizon

from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th Mar 2025
Groan. Well, it’s not like I wasn’t warned. When I first started teasing out the differences between the pillars model and the single unified storage model and applying “2.0” to the latter, Christine was like “so what is going to stop the next vendor from slapping 3.0, 4.0, 5.0...
Occlusion with Bells On Modern SSAO in a modern run-time Use.GPU 0.14 is out, so here's an update on my...
23rd Mar 2025
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Occlusion with Bells On

from Acko.net [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Mar 2025
Modern SSAO in a modern run-time Use.GPU 0.14 is out, so here's an update on my declarative/reactive rendering efforts. The highlights in this release are: dramatic inspector viewing upgrades a modern ambient-occlusion (SSAO/GTAO) implementation newly revised render pass...
Self-avoiding Walk I’m a bit late to this, but back in summer 2024 I participated in the OST Composing Jam. The goal of...
23rd Mar 2025
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Self-avoiding Walk

from Daniel Marino [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Mar 2025
I’m a bit late to this, but back in summer 2024 I participated in the OST Composing Jam. The goal of this jam is to compose an original soundtrack (minimum of 3 minutes) of any style for an imaginary game. While I’ve composed a lot of video game music, I’ve never created an...
elementary OS 8.0.1 Available Now It’s been a little over 100 days since elementary OS 8 was released, and we’re proud to announce...
18th Mar 2025
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elementary OS 8.0.1 Available Now

from elementary Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Mar 2025
It’s been a little over 100 days since elementary OS 8 was released, and we’re proud to announce another round of updates, including a fresh new download. We’ve been hard at work this winter addressing issues that you reported and we’ve added a couple new creature comforts along...
A Year at Igalia March 11th marked my one year anniversary at Igalia. It simultaneously feels like the blink of an...
17th Mar 2025
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A Year at Igalia

from The Web Witch's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Mar 2025
March 11th marked my one year anniversary at Igalia. It simultaneously feels like the blink of an eye and also decade. I suspect that's just the way life goes. It has been a busy year of rebuilding my self-confidence in my career. Despite it being 2 years since relocating to...
did u ever read so hard u accidentally wrote? Owning a production Postgres database is never boring. The other day, I’m looking for trouble (as I...
14th Mar 2025
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did u ever read so hard u accidentally wrote?

from Dan Slimmon [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Mar 2025
Owning a production Postgres database is never boring. The other day, I’m looking for trouble (as I am wont to do), and I notice this weird curve in the production database metrics: So we’ve got these spikes in WALWrite: the number of processes waiting to write to the write-ahead...
Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len() Discover why 'if not mylist' is twice as fast as 'len(mylist) == 0' by examining CPython's VM...
12th Mar 2025
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Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len()

from Confessions of a Code Addict [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Mar 2025
Discover why 'if not mylist' is twice as fast as 'len(mylist) == 0' by examining CPython's VM instructions and object memory access patterns.
Catching grace Meditation is easy when you know what to do: absolutely nothing! It's hard at first, like trying...
12th Mar 2025
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Catching grace

from Blog - Bitfield Consulting [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Mar 2025
Meditation is easy when you know what to do: absolutely nothing! It's hard at first, like trying to look at the back of your own head, but there's a knack to it.
Notes on Improving Churn Ask any B2C SaaS founder what metric they’d like to improve and most will say reducing churn....
12th Mar 2025
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Notes on Improving Churn

from Marc Astbury [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Mar 2025
Ask any B2C SaaS founder what metric they’d like to improve and most will say reducing churn. However, proactively reducing churn is a difficult task. I’ll outline the approach we’ve taken at Jenni AI to go from ~17% to 9% churn over the past year. We are still a work in progress...
The Power of Principles in Web Development Decision-Making (article) Discover how The Epic Programming Principles can transform your web development decision-making,...
11th Mar 2025
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The Power of Principles in Web Development Decision-Making (article)

from Epic Web Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Mar 2025
Discover how The Epic Programming Principles can transform your web development decision-making, boost your career, and help you build better software.
Rohit Chess fun little board game
10th Mar 2025
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Rohit Chess

from Grant Slatton [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Mar 2025
fun little board game
Top Coworking Spaces in Karuizawa Since November 2023, I’ve been living in Karuizawa, a small resort town that’s 70 minutes away from...
10th Mar 2025
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Top Coworking Spaces in Karuizawa

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Mar 2025
Since November 2023, I’ve been living in Karuizawa, a small resort town that’s 70 minutes away from Tokyo by Shinkansen. The elevation is approximately 1000 meters above sea level, making the summers relatively mild. Unlike other colder places in Japan, it doesn’t get much snow,...
Metric-Driven Development and The Claude Effect Sometimes, feels have to be trusted over figures
9th Mar 2025
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Metric-Driven Development and The Claude Effect

from Engineer’s Codex [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Mar 2025
Sometimes, feels have to be trusted over figures
rabbit hole learning Look everything up Pretty much the best way to learn that I have found is to refrain from...
9th Mar 2025
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rabbit hole learning

from seated.ro [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Mar 2025
Look everything up Pretty much the best way to learn that I have found is to refrain from suprressing your innate curosity and let it go wild. Most of the time, you will encounter a term or concept that you do not know, instead of glancing at it briefly, go all in. Google it,...
A C program who’s source code is a Magic Eye A 2001 International Obfuscated C Code Contest winner who’s code forms a magic eye and which can...
8th Mar 2025
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A C program who’s source code is a Magic Eye

from Jordan Eldredge's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Mar 2025
A 2001 International Obfuscated C Code Contest winner who’s code forms a magic eye and which can produce a magic eye for any input
AI: Where in the Loop Should Humans Go? This is a re-publishing of a blog post I originally wrote for work, but wanted on my own blog as...
7th Mar 2025
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AI: Where in the Loop Should Humans Go?

from Ferd.ca [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Mar 2025
This is a re-publishing of a blog post I originally wrote for work, but wanted on my own blog as well. AI is everywhere, and its impressive claims are leading to rapid adoption. At this stage, I’d qualify it as charismatic technology—something that under-delivers on what it...
Creating static map images with OpenStreetMap, Web Mercator, and Pillow I’ve been working on a project where I need to plot points on a map. I don’t need an interactive or...
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I’ve been working on a project where I need to plot points on a map. I don’t need an interactive or dynamic visualisation – just a static map with coloured dots for each coordinate. I’ve created maps on the web using Leaflet.js, which load map data from OpenStreetMap (OSM) and...
Endless - A dive into a C64 game Endless - A dive into a C64 game
7th Mar 2025
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Endless - A dive into a C64 game

from A Day In The Life Of... [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Mar 2025
Endless - A dive into a C64 game
Standards for ANSI escape codes Hello! Today I want to talk about ANSI escape codes. For a long time I was vaguely aware of ANSI...
7th Mar 2025
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Standards for ANSI escape codes

from Julia Evans [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Mar 2025
Hello! Today I want to talk about ANSI escape codes. For a long time I was vaguely aware of ANSI escape codes (“that’s how you make text red in the terminal and stuff”) but I had no real understanding of where they were supposed to be defined or whether or not there were...
Ink Note January 2025: Super simple stroke simplification A technique for reducing the number of points needed to represent an ink stroke.
7th Mar 2025
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Ink Note January 2025: Super simple stroke simplification

from Ink & Switch [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Mar 2025
A technique for reducing the number of points needed to represent an ink stroke.
The Boot.dev Beat. March 2025 Our new JavaScript course is live! ThePrimeagen’s course on building your own HTTP server from...
7th Mar 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. March 2025

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Mar 2025
Our new JavaScript course is live! ThePrimeagen’s course on building your own HTTP server from scratch is just around the corner, and the TypeScript track couldn’t be closer.
The Boot.dev Beat. March 2025 Our new JavaScript course is live! ThePrimeagen’s course on building your own HTTP server from...
7th Mar 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. March 2025

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Mar 2025
Our new JavaScript course is live! ThePrimeagen’s course on building your own HTTP server from scratch is just around the corner, and the TypeScript track couldn’t be closer.
Who gets to do strategy? If you talk to enough aspiring leaders, you’ll become familiar with the prevalent idea that they...
6th Mar 2025
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Who gets to do strategy?

from Irrational Exuberance [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Mar 2025
If you talk to enough aspiring leaders, you’ll become familiar with the prevalent idea that they need to be promoted before they can work on strategy. It’s a truism, but I’ve also found this idea perfectly wrong: you can work on strategy from anywhere in an organization, it just...
Bitsnap, a screenshot capture tool for Medley Interlisp <![CDATA[I wrote Bitsnap, a tool in Interlisp for capturing screenshots on the Medley environment....
6th Mar 2025
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Bitsnap, a screenshot capture tool for Medley Interlisp

from Paolo Amoroso's Journal [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Mar 2025
<![CDATA[I wrote Bitsnap, a tool in Interlisp for capturing screenshots on the Medley environment. It can capture and optionally save to a file the full screen, a window with or without title bar and borders, or an arbitrary area. This project helped me learn the internals of...
Let's Talk About The American Dream A few months ago I wrote about what it means to stay gold — to hold on to the best parts of...
6th Mar 2025
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Let's Talk About The American Dream

from Coding Horror [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Mar 2025
A few months ago I wrote about what it means to stay gold — to hold on to the best parts of ourselves, our communities, and the American Dream itself. But staying gold isn’t passive. It takes work. It takes action. It takes hard conversations that ask
Harm reduction principles for digital accessibility practitioners I debuted these principles in my axe-con 2025 talk, It is designed to break your heart: Cultivating...
6th Mar 2025
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Harm reduction principles for digital accessibility practitioners

from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Mar 2025
I debuted these principles in my axe-con 2025 talk, It is designed to break your heart: Cultivating a harm reduction mindset as an accessibility practitioner. They are adapted from The National Harm Reduction Coalition’s original eight principles. My adapted principles reflect...
constantly divisionless random numbers Last year I wrote about inlining just the fast path of Lemire’s algorithm for nearly-divisionless...
5th Mar 2025
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constantly divisionless random numbers

from Tony Finch's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Mar 2025
Last year I wrote about inlining just the fast path of Lemire’s algorithm for nearly-divisionless unbiased bounded random numbers. The idea was to reduce code bloat by eliminating lots of copies of the random number generator in the rarely-executed slow paths. However a simple...
Boox Go 10.3, two months in [The] Linux kernel uses GPLv2, and if you distribute GPLv2 code, you have to provide a copy of the...
5th Mar 2025
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Boox Go 10.3, two months in

from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Mar 2025
[The] Linux kernel uses GPLv2, and if you distribute GPLv2 code, you have to provide a copy of the source (and modifications) once someone asks for it. And now I’m asking nicely for you to do so 🙂 – Joga, bbs.onyx-international.com Boox in split screen, typewriter mode In...
5th Mar 2025
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Expanding Access: The History of Ecommerce Part 1 The earliest work with selling things online was all about reaching a shopping public ready to log...
4th Mar 2025
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Expanding Access: The History of Ecommerce Part 1

from The History of the Web [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Mar 2025
The earliest work with selling things online was all about reaching a shopping public ready to log on and start. But along the way, they found a whole new audience for shopping, which changed the way we think about commerce on the web.. The post Expanding Access: The History of...
whippet lab notebook: on untagged mallocs Salutations, populations. Today’s note is more of a work-in-progress than usual; I have been...
4th Mar 2025
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whippet lab notebook: on untagged mallocs

from wingolog [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Mar 2025
Salutations, populations. Today’s note is more of a work-in-progress than usual; I have been finally starting to look at getting into , and there are some open questions.WhippetGuile I started by taking a look at how Guile uses the ‘s API, to make sure I had all my bases...
How to write exceptional documentation Writing high-quality developer documentation is a challenging task. This is my personal approach to...
4th Mar 2025
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How to write exceptional documentation

from Chris Nicholas [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Mar 2025
Writing high-quality developer documentation is a challenging task. This is my personal approach to crafting holistic, comprehensive documentation.
IndexedDB is Weird Why? Well: The IndexedDB API is callback-based. With JavaScript being single-threaded, a blocking...
3rd Mar 2025
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IndexedDB is Weird

from Quentin Santos [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Mar 2025
Why? Well: The IndexedDB API is callback-based. With JavaScript being single-threaded, a blocking API would mean fully blocking the page, render and basic user interaction included, while the request is being processed. Although this is apparently good-enough for JSON.parse(),...
Human service is luxury Maybe one day AI will answer every customer question flawlessly, but we're nowhere near that reality...
3rd Mar 2025
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Human service is luxury

from David Heinemeier Hansson [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Mar 2025
Maybe one day AI will answer every customer question flawlessly, but we're nowhere near that reality right now. I can't tell you how often I've been stuck in some god-forsaken AI loop or phone tree WHEN ALL I WANT IS A HUMAN. So I end up either just yelling "operator",...
Some things that make Rust lifetimes hard to learn After I wrote YARR (Yet Another Rust Resource, with requisite pirate mentions), one of my friends...
3rd Mar 2025
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Some things that make Rust lifetimes hard to learn

from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Mar 2025
After I wrote YARR (Yet Another Rust Resource, with requisite pirate mentions), one of my friends tried it out. He gave me some really useful insights as he went through it, letting me see what was hard about learning Rust from a newcomer's perspective. Unsurprisingly, lifetimes...
The Demoralization is just Beginning This is a map of primary trading partners, US vs China, and how it has evolved over the last 20...
2nd Mar 2025
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The Demoralization is just Beginning

from the singularity is nearer [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Mar 2025
This is a map of primary trading partners, US vs China, and how it has evolved over the last 20 years. Think about it, and realize this probably reflects your experience. I know there was a similar panic about Japan in the 80s, but Japan by population has always been 3x smaller...
"I scratched my own itch" isn't good enough This isn't the humble-brag you think it is; The most common origin story is also common to startups...
2nd Mar 2025
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"I scratched my own itch" isn't good enough

from A Smart Bear [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Mar 2025
This isn't the humble-brag you think it is; The most common origin story is also common to startups that fail. But it's a start.
Hardware autoconf: ACPI & Device Tree An overview of how a Unix-like BSD kernel performs hardware discovery on x86 and ARM to bind device...
1st Mar 2025
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Hardware autoconf: ACPI & Device Tree

from Blog System/5 [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Mar 2025
An overview of how a Unix-like BSD kernel performs hardware discovery on x86 and ARM to bind device drivers to hardware devices
Recently I have a non-recently post ready to write, any day now… Reading This was a strong month for reading:...
1st Mar 2025
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Recently

from macwright.com [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Mar 2025
I have a non-recently post ready to write, any day now… Reading This was a strong month for reading: I finished The Hidden Wealth of Nations, Useful Not True, and Cyberlibertarianism. I had a book club that read Cyberlibertarianism so we discussed it last week. I have a lot of...
Add metadata to your RSS feeds Add metadata to your RSS feeds
1st Mar 2025
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Add metadata to your RSS feeds

from Buttondown's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Mar 2025
Add metadata to your RSS feeds
What I'm up to - March 2025 Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Mar 2025
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What I'm up to - March 2025

from Philip I. Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Mar 2025
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in February - I published "Why Ruby on Rails still matters", and it went a little viral and was re...
What I'm up to - March 2025 Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Mar 2025
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What I'm up to - March 2025

from Philip Ilic Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Mar 2025
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in February - I published "Why Ruby on Rails still matters", and it went a little viral and was re...
Name that Ware, February 2025 Here’s the Ware for February 2025: Thanks again to spida for contributing yet another guest ware!...
28th Feb 2025
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Name that Ware, February 2025

from bunnie's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

28th Feb 2025
Here’s the Ware for February 2025: Thanks again to spida for contributing yet another guest ware! Hopefully this one is a smidge easier to guess compared to last month’s.
Writing terrible code The secret of being a great coder is to write terrible code. Wait, wait. Hear me out: I’m going...
27th Feb 2025
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Writing terrible code

from Blog - Bitfield Consulting [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Feb 2025
The secret of being a great coder is to write terrible code. Wait, wait. Hear me out: I’m going somewhere with this.
A Million Little Secrets I spent the past few weeks packing as many easter eggs as I could into my latest project, and in...
24th Feb 2025
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A Million Little Secrets

from Josh Comeau's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th Feb 2025
I spent the past few weeks packing as many easter eggs as I could into my latest project, and in this blog post, I want to dig into some of the more interesting details! If you’re interested in animations/interactions, you’ll want to check this one out; I share a bunch of my...
My friend, JT I’ve had a cat for almost a third of my life.
22nd Feb 2025
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My friend, JT

from Basta’s Notes [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Feb 2025
I’ve had a cat for almost a third of my life.
My friend, JT I’ve had a cat for almost a third of my life.
22nd Feb 2025
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My friend, JT

from Basta’s Notes [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Feb 2025
I’ve had a cat for almost a third of my life.
Humanity's Last Exam Humanity's Last Exam by Center for AI Safety (CAIS) and Scale AI
20th Feb 2025
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Humanity's Last Exam

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Feb 2025
Humanity's Last Exam by Center for AI Safety (CAIS) and Scale AI
Humanity's Last Exam Humanity's Last Exam by Center for AI Safety (CAIS) and Scale AI
20th Feb 2025
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Humanity's Last Exam

from Maggie Appleton [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Feb 2025
Humanity's Last Exam by Center for AI Safety (CAIS) and Scale AI
Nobody Profits Intellectual property is a really dumb idea. “But piracy is theft. Clean and simple. It’s smash and...
18th Feb 2025
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Nobody Profits

from the singularity is nearer [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Feb 2025
Intellectual property is a really dumb idea. “But piracy is theft. Clean and simple. It’s smash and grab. It ain’t no different than smashing a window at Tiffany’s and grabbing merchandise.” - Joe Biden, 46th president of the USA Except it isn’t and Joe Biden is a senile moron....
17th Feb 2025
ioctls from Rust Diving into what the ioctl system call is and how to invoke it from Rust
13th Feb 2025
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ioctls from Rust

from Blog System/5 [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Feb 2025
Diving into what the ioctl system call is and how to invoke it from Rust
random numbers from pcg32 at 200 Gbit/s One of the neat things about the PCG random number generator by Melissa O’Neill is its use of...
13th Feb 2025
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random numbers from pcg32 at 200 Gbit/s

from Tony Finch's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Feb 2025
One of the neat things about the PCG random number generator by Melissa O’Neill is its use of instruction-level parallelism: the PCG state update can run in parallel with its output permutation. However, PCG only has a limited amount of ILP, about 3 instructions. Its overall...
Introducing Privacy Pass authentication for Kagi Search Today we are announcing a new privacy feature coming to Kagi Search.
13th Feb 2025
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Introducing Privacy Pass authentication for Kagi Search

from Kagi Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Feb 2025
Today we are announcing a new privacy feature coming to Kagi Search.
Are Efficiency and Horizontal Scalability at odds? Sorry for missing the newsletter last week! I started writing on Monday as normal, and by Wednesday...
12th Feb 2025
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Are Efficiency and Horizontal Scalability at odds?

from Computer Things [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Feb 2025
Sorry for missing the newsletter last week! I started writing on Monday as normal, and by Wednesday the piece (about the hierarchy of controls ) was 2000 words and not close to done. So now it'll be a blog post sometime later this month. I also just released a new version of...
Why Do Japanese Companies Hire International Developers? TokyoDev has already reported that Japan really needs international developers. But the more...
12th Feb 2025
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Why Do Japanese Companies Hire International Developers?

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Feb 2025
TokyoDev has already reported that Japan really needs international developers. But the more Japanese companies we’ve interviewed, the more we’ve realized that a talent shortage is not the only reason for Japanese companies to hire from overseas. There are a host of other...
Correct vs Good What's the difference?
11th Feb 2025
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Correct vs Good

from General Robots [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Feb 2025
What's the difference?
Is ops a bullshit job? I recently had the pleasure of reading anthropologist David Graeber’s 2018 book, Bullshit Jobs: A...
11th Feb 2025
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Is ops a bullshit job?

from Dan Slimmon [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Feb 2025
I recently had the pleasure of reading anthropologist David Graeber’s 2018 book, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory. Graeber defines a bullshit job as, a form of paid employment that is so completely pointless, unnecessary, or pernicious that even the employee cannot justify its existence...
What happens to what we’ve already created? When we think about AI, we can't only think of what it has generated. We need to think about what it...
11th Feb 2025
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What happens to what we’ve already created?

from The History of the Web [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Feb 2025
When we think about AI, we can't only think of what it has generated. We need to think about what it does to what the world has already created. The post What happens to what we’ve already created? appeared first on The History of the Web.
Corporate “DEI” is an imperfect vehicle for deeply meaningful ideals I have not thought or said much about DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) over the years. Not...
10th Feb 2025
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Corporate “DEI” is an imperfect vehicle for deeply meaningful ideals

from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Feb 2025
I have not thought or said much about DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) over the years. Not because I don’t care about the espoused ideals — I suppose I do, rather a lot — but because corporate DEI efforts have always struck me as ineffective and bland; bolted on at best, if...
baffled by generational garbage collection Usually in this space I like to share interesting things that I find out; you might call it a...
9th Feb 2025
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baffled by generational garbage collection

from wingolog [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Feb 2025
Usually in this space I like to share interesting things that I find out; you might call it a research-epistle-publish loop. Today, though, I come not with answers, but with questions, or rather one question, but with fractal surface area: what is the value proposition...
Password Math A friend from my PC Magazine days recently posted on Facebook a little mathematics anomaly that he...
8th Feb 2025
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Password Math

from Charles Petzold [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Feb 2025
A friend from my PC Magazine days recently posted on Facebook a little mathematics anomaly that he encountered while trying to figure out the number of possible passwords under certain conditions. He began with the stipulation that a four-character password had to be constructed...
The Exodus Curve The concept of Product-Market Fit (PMF) collapse has gained renewed attention with the rise of large...
8th Feb 2025
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The Exodus Curve

from Marc Astbury [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Feb 2025
The concept of Product-Market Fit (PMF) collapse has gained renewed attention with the rise of large language models (LLMs), as highlighted in a recent Reforge article. The article argues we’re witnessing unprecedented market disruption, in this post, I propose we’re experiencing...
Servers can last a long time We bought sixty-one servers for the launch of Basecamp 3 back in 2015. Dell R430s and R630s, packing...
7th Feb 2025
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Servers can last a long time

from David Heinemeier Hansson [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Feb 2025
We bought sixty-one servers for the launch of Basecamp 3 back in 2015. Dell R430s and R630s, packing thousands of cores and terabytes of RAM. Enough to fill all the app, job, cache, and database duties we needed. The entire outlay for this fleet was about half a million dollars,...
The hard truth about using AI in coding In a recent experience while building a website, I tried to use ChatGPT to help me out with...
7th Feb 2025
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The hard truth about using AI in coding

from The Web Witch's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Feb 2025
In a recent experience while building a website, I tried to use ChatGPT to help me out with JavaScript. Something I've never needed to fully learn because my work has always been divided by JavaScript devs and HTML/CSS devs. A long time ago I used to be able to write bits in...
AGI, agents, and timelines AGI is coming—whether we’re ready or not. I’ve been convinced of this trajectory since GPT-3’s...
6th Feb 2025
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AGI, agents, and timelines

from Alex MacCaw [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Feb 2025
AGI is coming—whether we’re ready or not. I’ve been convinced of this trajectory since GPT-3’s release, but recent developments have significantly accelerated my timelines. The first major shift was OpenAI’s breakthrough in test-time compute and its newly demonstrated scaling...
State of Data Engineering 2025 Q1 AI Updates There is a lot of chatter about 2025 being the year of agentic frameworks.  To me, this...
6th Feb 2025
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State of Data Engineering 2025 Q1

from Dan Quach Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Feb 2025
AI Updates There is a lot of chatter about 2025 being the year of agentic frameworks.  To me, this means a system in which a subset can allow AI models to take independent actions based on their environment, typically interacting with external APIs or interfaces.  The terminology...
On working and contributing to conferences abroad This blog post is another one in the ‘writing things down to structure my thinking on where I want...
6th Feb 2025
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On working and contributing to conferences abroad

from On Test Automation [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Feb 2025
This blog post is another one in the ‘writing things down to structure my thinking on where I want my career to go’ series. I will get back to writing technical and automation blog posts soon, but I need to finish my contract testing course first. One of the things I like to do...
Leaving Delaware This post covers why companies are considering reincorporating from Delaware to Nevada & Texas
5th Feb 2025
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Leaving Delaware

from Elad Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Feb 2025
This post covers why companies are considering reincorporating from Delaware to Nevada & Texas
Some terminal frustrations A few weeks ago I ran a terminal survey (you can read the results here) and at the end I...
5th Feb 2025
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Some terminal frustrations

from Julia Evans [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Feb 2025
A few weeks ago I ran a terminal survey (you can read the results here) and at the end I asked: What’s the most frustrating thing about using the terminal for you? 1600 people answered, and I decided to spend a few days categorizing all the responses. Along the way I learned that...
content slop AI slop is everywhere. But what even is slop and is AI really to blame?
5th Feb 2025
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content slop

from David Gerrells [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Feb 2025
AI slop is everywhere. But what even is slop and is AI really to blame?
content slop AI slop is everywhere. But what even is slop and is AI really to blame?
5th Feb 2025
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content slop

from David Gerrells [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Feb 2025
AI slop is everywhere. But what even is slop and is AI really to blame?
Giving Junior Engineers Control Of A Six Trillion Dollar System Is Nuts For some purpose, the DOGE people are burrowing their way into all US Federal Systems. Their...
4th Feb 2025
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4th Feb 2025
For some purpose, the DOGE people are burrowing their way into all US Federal Systems. Their complete control over the Treasury Department is entirely insane. Unless you intend to destroy everything, making arbitrary changes to complex computer systems will result in destruction,...
Rising sea levels, eroding beaches, melting ice caps When I was glazing this v60-style cone, I was thinking of rising sea levels, eroding beaches, and...
4th Feb 2025
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Rising sea levels, eroding beaches, melting ice caps

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Feb 2025
When I was glazing this v60-style cone, I was thinking of rising sea levels, eroding beaches, and melting ice caps. Trying to tackle large challenges like climate change is overwhelming in the best of times, and these are not the best of times. There are many things we can...
Our own agents with their own tools. Entering 2025, I decided to spend some time exploring the topic of agents. I started reading...
4th Feb 2025
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Our own agents with their own tools.

from Irrational Exuberance [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Feb 2025
Entering 2025, I decided to spend some time exploring the topic of agents. I started reading Anthropic’s Building effective agents, followed by Chip Huyen’s AI Engineering. I kicked off a major workstream at work on using agents, and I also decided to do a personal experiment of...
Stanislav Petrov A lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Air Defense Forces prevented the end of human civilization on...
4th Feb 2025
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Stanislav Petrov

from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Feb 2025
A lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Air Defense Forces prevented the end of human civilization on September 26th, 1983. His name was Stanislav Petrov. Protocol dictated that the Soviet Union would retaliate against any nuclear strikes sent by the United States. This was a policy...
01 · A spreadsheet for exploring scenarios In our *Ambsheets* project, we are exploring a small extension to the familiar spreadsheet: **what...
4th Feb 2025
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01 · A spreadsheet for exploring scenarios

from Ink & Switch [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Feb 2025
In our *Ambsheets* project, we are exploring a small extension to the familiar spreadsheet: **what if a single spreadsheet cell could hold multiple values at once**?
Recently I am not going to repeat the news. But man, things are really, really bad and getting worse in...
4th Feb 2025
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Recently

from macwright.com [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Feb 2025
I am not going to repeat the news. But man, things are really, really bad and getting worse in America. It’s all so unendingly stupid and evil. The tech industry is being horrible, too. Wishing strength to the people who are much more exposed to the chaos than I am. Reading A...
The Boot.dev Beat. February 2025 It’s official: TJ’s C course walkthrough was released before GTA6! This is a great month for...
4th Feb 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. February 2025

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Feb 2025
It’s official: TJ’s C course walkthrough was released before GTA6! This is a great month for Boot.dev, and for humanity as a whole.
The Boot.dev Beat. February 2025 It’s official: TJ’s C course walkthrough was released before GTA6! This is a great month for...
4th Feb 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. February 2025

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Feb 2025
It’s official: TJ’s C course walkthrough was released before GTA6! This is a great month for Boot.dev, and for humanity as a whole.
Summarizing our recommendations for software documentation Last year, my coworker Suzanne and I got a case study accepted into an ethnography conference! She's...
3rd Feb 2025
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Summarizing our recommendations for software documentation

from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Feb 2025
Last year, my coworker Suzanne and I got a case study accepted into an ethnography conference! She's an anthropologist by training, and I'm a software engineer. How'd we wind up there? The short version is I asked her what I thought was an interesting question, and she thought it...
Switching Blot sync from Google Drive to Git <![CDATA[In 2023 I migrated my personal website from Squarespace to Blot. Blot is a static site...
2nd Feb 2025
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Switching Blot sync from Google Drive to Git

from Paolo Amoroso's Journal [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Feb 2025
<![CDATA[In 2023 I migrated my personal website from Squarespace to Blot. Blot is a static site generator that publishes as a website a folder stored on Google Drive, Dropbox, or a Git repository. Back then I set up Blot to publish a Google Drive folder but I recently switched...
The Startup Drake Equation Why do smart, driven founders fail, despite having great ideas and execution? This model offers an...
2nd Feb 2025
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The Startup Drake Equation

from A Smart Bear [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Feb 2025
Why do smart, driven founders fail, despite having great ideas and execution? This model offers an answer, and a path to increase the chance of success.
Why Bad AI Is Here to Stay It seems that in 2025 a lot of people fall into one of two camps when it comes to AI: skeptic or...
2nd Feb 2025
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Why Bad AI Is Here to Stay

from orlp.net - Blog Archive [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Feb 2025
It seems that in 2025 a lot of people fall into one of two camps when it comes to AI: skeptic or fanatic. The skeptic thinks AI sucks, that it’s overhyped, it only ever parrots nonsense and it will all blow over soon. The fanatic thinks general human-level intelligence is just...
Adding auto-generated cover images to EPUBs downloaded from AO3 I was chatting with a friend recently, and she mentioned an annoyance when reading fanfiction on her...
1st Feb 2025
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Adding auto-generated cover images to EPUBs downloaded from AO3

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Feb 2025
I was chatting with a friend recently, and she mentioned an annoyance when reading fanfiction on her iPad. She downloads fic from AO3 as EPUB files, and reads it in the Kindle app – but the files don’t have a cover image, and so the preview thumbnails aren’t very readable: ...
1st Feb 2025
Security We value your data and are committed to keeping it safe and secure.
1st Feb 2025
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Security

from Buttondown's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Feb 2025
We value your data and are committed to keeping it safe and secure.
Non-alcoholic apéritifs I’ve been doing Dry January this year. One thing I missed was something for apéro hour, a beverage...
31st Jan 2025
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Non-alcoholic apéritifs

from Nelson's Weblog [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Jan 2025
I’ve been doing Dry January this year. One thing I missed was something for apéro hour, a beverage to mark the start of the evening. Something complex and maybe bitter, not like a drink you’d have with lunch. I found some good options. Ghia sodas are my favorite. Ghia is an NA...
Winner, Name that Ware December 2024 The ware for December 2024 is a 2mm pitch, 64×64 LED panel purchased from Evershine Opto Limited....
30th Jan 2025
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Winner, Name that Ware December 2024

from bunnie's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

30th Jan 2025
The ware for December 2024 is a 2mm pitch, 64×64 LED panel purchased from Evershine Opto Limited. Their sales part number is ES-P2-I, but the silkscreen says DCHY-P2-6464-1515-VP. The seller is just the name slapped on the box; like most commodity wares, there’s likely multiple...
Incident SEV scales are a waste of time Ask an engineering leader about their incident response protocol and they’ll tell you about their...
29th Jan 2025
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Incident SEV scales are a waste of time

from Dan Slimmon [alt+shift+b] in programming

29th Jan 2025
Ask an engineering leader about their incident response protocol and they’ll tell you about their severity scale. “The first thing we do is we assign a severity to the incident,” they’ll say, “so the right people will get notified.” And this is sensible. In order to figure out...
Container Queries Unleashed Container queries expand the universe of designs that can be implemented, giving us whole new...
27th Jan 2025
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Container Queries Unleashed

from Josh Comeau's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Jan 2025
Container queries expand the universe of designs that can be implemented, giving us whole new superpowers. Now that container queries are broadly available, I think it’s time we start exploring this potential! In this post, I’ll share the “killer pattern” I can’t stop using in my...
The Inverted Reactivity Model of React A quick take on the 'inverted' reactivity model of React compared to vanilla JS, Vue, and other...
27th Jan 2025
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The Inverted Reactivity Model of React

from Charles Chen [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Jan 2025
A quick take on the 'inverted' reactivity model of React compared to vanilla JS, Vue, and other frameworks.
What I Miss And Don't From Working As A Programmer I retired almost four years ago after nearly 40 years as a programmer. While I still write code...
25th Jan 2025
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What I Miss And Don't From Working As A Programmer

from The Codist [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Jan 2025
I retired almost four years ago after nearly 40 years as a programmer. While I still write code daily, I do so to support my generative art rather than get paid for it. Most of my career was spent building new applications, and no matter what my title was, I
What I’m Using in 2025 I’ve always been fascinated to see what other apps or workflows others are using in their day-to-day...
24th Jan 2025
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What I’m Using in 2025

from Daniel Marino [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th Jan 2025
I’ve always been fascinated to see what other apps or workflows others are using in their day-to-day lives. Every now and then I learn about a new app or some cool trick I didn’t previously know. I doubt anyone seriously cares about what I’m using, but figured I’d list them out...
Rare words in common phrases, and how to avoid getting them wrong A running list of uncommon, strange, and/or archaic words embedded in common idioms, to help you...
24th Jan 2025
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Rare words in common phrases, and how to avoid getting them wrong

from Josh Collinsworth [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th Jan 2025
A running list of uncommon, strange, and/or archaic words embedded in common idioms, to help you type them correctly next time you use them.
Death of the Visceral Pulled up at a stop light Imagine flying an x-wing down a corridor, having to turn the plane...
22nd Jan 2025
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Death of the Visceral

from the singularity is nearer [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Jan 2025
Pulled up at a stop light Imagine flying an x-wing down a corridor, having to turn the plane sideways to fit, a missile on your tail and closing, hitting the turbo, feeling the g force, coming up on the end of the corridor, pulling back hard on the stick the second the corridor...
02 · Group Key Agreement with BeeKEM How Beehive groups can agree on keys over time
21st Jan 2025
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02 · Group Key Agreement with BeeKEM

from Ink & Switch [alt+shift+b] in programming

21st Jan 2025
How Beehive groups can agree on keys over time
On AI doomerism So what's going on? This is a reflection on this post (of the same title) that I thoroughly enjoyed,...
20th Jan 2025
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On AI doomerism

from Sometimes It Works :: simonhamp.me [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Jan 2025
So what's going on? This is a reflection on this post (of the same title) that I thoroughly enjoyed, by Flavio Copes. "I am the genuine article, therefore I don't have to try. I just have to be. You, on the other hand, have to try any passing bandwagon, because what else have you...
My career and a thought experiment As is the case every year, 2025 is starting off relatively slowly. There’s not a lot of training...
19th Jan 2025
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My career and a thought experiment

from On Test Automation [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Jan 2025
As is the case every year, 2025 is starting off relatively slowly. There’s not a lot of training courses to run yet, and since a few of the projects I worked on wrapped up in December, I find myself with a little bit of extra time and headspace on my hands. I actually enjoy these...
Custom Gradients in Kidz Fun Art For a long time in Kidz Fun Art, the tablet app I built, you could draw with a rainbow brush, which...
17th Jan 2025
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Custom Gradients in Kidz Fun Art

from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Jan 2025
For a long time in Kidz Fun Art, the tablet app I built, you could draw with a rainbow brush, which is the favourite feature of many people. I noticed my eldest daughter trying to use it in such a way so to only use a subset of the colors and it was really awkward, so I added...
A standards first web framework Nue is HTML, CSS, and JavaScript taken to their absolute peak.
16th Jan 2025
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A standards first web framework

from Nue developer blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Jan 2025
Nue is HTML, CSS, and JavaScript taken to their absolute peak.
The best web analytics tools for developers, compared Welcome. Grab a chair. There's coffee in the back. No one's judging you for ignoring your analytics...
15th Jan 2025
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The best web analytics tools for developers, compared

from Eric Migicovsky's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Jan 2025
Welcome. Grab a chair. There's coffee in the back. No one's judging you for ignoring your analytics for six months. We've all been there. This is a…
The ghosts that lives in my garage Some thoughts about machine learning
13th Jan 2025
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The ghosts that lives in my garage

from Basta’s Notes [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Jan 2025
Some thoughts about machine learning
The ghosts that live in my garage Some thoughts about machine learning
13th Jan 2025
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The ghosts that live in my garage

from Basta’s Notes [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Jan 2025
Some thoughts about machine learning
How Unix Spell Ran in 64kB RAM How do you fit a dictionary in 64kb RAM? Unix engineers solved it with clever data structures and...
12th Jan 2025
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How Unix Spell Ran in 64kB RAM

from Confessions of a Code Addict [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Jan 2025
How do you fit a dictionary in 64kb RAM? Unix engineers solved it with clever data structures and compression tricks. Here's the fascinating story behind it.
Philip Glass Piano Works by Víkingur Ólafsson Sharing an album I’ve been obsessed with this year
12th Jan 2025
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Philip Glass Piano Works by Víkingur Ólafsson

from Jordan Eldredge's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Jan 2025
Sharing an album I’ve been obsessed with this year
What's involved in getting a "modern" terminal setup? Hello! Recently I ran a terminal survey and I asked people what frustrated them. One person...
11th Jan 2025
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What's involved in getting a "modern" terminal setup?

from Julia Evans [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Jan 2025
Hello! Recently I ran a terminal survey and I asked people what frustrated them. One person commented: There are so many pieces to having a modern terminal experience. I wish it all came out of the box. My immediate reaction was “oh, getting a modern terminal experience isn’t...
2025 Predictions I was just enjoying Simon Willison’s predictions and, heck, why not. 1: The web becomes adversarial...
11th Jan 2025
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2025 Predictions

from macwright.com [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Jan 2025
I was just enjoying Simon Willison’s predictions and, heck, why not. 1: The web becomes adversarial to AI The history of search engines is sort of an arms race between websites and search engines. Back in the early 2000s, juicing your ranking on search engines was pretty easy -...
Self-documenting Makefiles Make, as arcane as a build tool can be, may still be a good first fit for certain scenarios. Let's...
10th Jan 2025
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Self-documenting Makefiles

from Blog System/5 [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Jan 2025
Make, as arcane as a build tool can be, may still be a good first fit for certain scenarios. Let's see how to make a build more palatable in this day and age if you choose this tool.
Interpinkie, a Finger client in Interlisp <![CDATA[I wrote Interpinkie, a basic Finger client in Interlisp that runs on the Medley...
9th Jan 2025
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Interpinkie, a Finger client in Interlisp

from Paolo Amoroso's Journal [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Jan 2025
<![CDATA[I wrote Interpinkie, a basic Finger client in Interlisp that runs on the Medley environment. This is the main window of the program: Main window of the Interpinkie Interlisp Finger client. It was a fun challenge considering I couldn't use Medley's TCP/IP stack. I...
ephemerons vs generations in whippet Happy new year, hackfolk! Today, a note about . I thought I was done with them, but it seems they...
9th Jan 2025
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ephemerons vs generations in whippet

from wingolog [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Jan 2025
Happy new year, hackfolk! Today, a note about . I thought I was done with them, but it seems they are not done with me. The question at hand is, how do we efficiently and correctly implement ephemerons in a generational collector? ‘s answer turns out to be simple but...
Censorship Is Complicated: What Internet History Says about Meta/Facebook In light of this week’s announcement by Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Threads, etc), I have been...
8th Jan 2025
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Censorship Is Complicated: What Internet History Says about Meta/Facebook

from The Changelog [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Jan 2025
In light of this week’s announcement by Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Threads, etc), I have been pondering this question: Why am I, a person that has long been a staunch advocate of free speech and encryption, leery of sites that talk about being free speech-oriented? And, more to...
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