TokyoDev
The Downside of Thanking Security Contributors
My startup is an popular event management platform within the Japan tech community. We've...
3rd Dec 2013
My startup is an popular event management platform within the Japan tech community. We've occasionally gotten reports about security issues, and although we're a two-person company, we still take security seriously, so we decided to create security and responsible disclosure...
Philip Ilic Thomas
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
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...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Tumultuous Evolution of the Design Profession
Via Jeremy Keith’s link blog I found this article: Elizabeth Goodspeed on why graphic designers...
5th May 2025
Via Jeremy Keith’s link blog I found this article: Elizabeth Goodspeed on why graphic designers can’t stop joking about hating their jobs. It’s about the disillusionment of designers since the ~2010s. Having ridden that wave myself, there’s a lot of very relatable stuff in there...
Nelson's Weblog
The Transcantábrico Train
We recently took the Transcantábrico, a week
long luxury train trip across Northern Spain. It was...
22nd Oct 2023
We recently took the Transcantábrico, a week
long luxury train trip across Northern Spain. It was great! Like a
cruise but on a train. We did something similar in India in
2015 and it’s an interesting way to travel. Some photos here.
The Transcantábrico goes across a part of...
Charles Petzold
Reading About the Dreyfus Affair
One of my 2024 projects is to read Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time at the rate of about 10...
27th May 2024
One of my 2024 projects is to read Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time at the rate of about 10 pages a day, and so far it’s been successful: I’m currently heading towards the end of the 3rd volume, The Guermantes Way. During a long dinner party in this novel, seemingly...
A Beautiful Site
Prevent white noise from appearing in images after fading
The first time I ever saw this alleged bug was in Internet Explorer 7 yesterday. Images were...
10th Jan 2009
The first time I ever saw this alleged bug was in Internet Explorer 7 yesterday. Images were rotating on a page in the form of a slideshow, fading in and out for a nice, smooth transition. One problem, though: in Internet Explorer 7 (and 6, as it turned out), one of the images...
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - January 2024
Happy New Year! Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social...
1st Jan 2024
Happy New Year! Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in December - Published updates to Booklet, including a design refresh, dynamic op...
Philip Ilic Thomas
Moonlight's pitch deck
In 2017, I co-founded Moonlight as a professional community for software developers with Emma...
15th Oct 2020
In 2017, I co-founded Moonlight as a professional community for software developers with Emma Lawler. We were both leaving San Francisco, and wanted to make it easier for all developers to find specia...
alexwlchan
Digital decluttering
I spent a lot of my formative Internet years in online fandom.
I read novel-length stories about...
13th Sep 2024
I spent a lot of my formative Internet years in online fandom.
I read novel-length stories about Doctor Who characters; I swooned over fan art of the Lizzie Bennet Diaries; I pored over in-depth analyses of each episode of Carmilla.
Most of that is gone now.
Links rot quickly,...
David Crawshaw
2014-06-13
articles.manugarg.com/aboutelfauxiliaryvectors.html
13th Jun 2014
articles.manugarg.com/aboutelfauxiliaryvectors.html
Alex Meub
Building a 3D Printer Enclosure
Earlier this year, I purchased a 3D printer and it’s been a blast! I had no idea how easy it would...
1st Jun 2021
Earlier this year, I purchased a 3D printer and it’s been a blast! I had no idea how easy it would be to create high-quality prints with such little effort. I’ve printed raspberry pi cases, kids’ toys, ceiling hooks, custom parts, electronics enclosures, curtain rod holders,...
Buttondown's blog
NaNoWriMo and the creative power of looming fear
A cross between a marathon and a literary block party.
1st Nov 2025
A cross between a marathon and a literary block party.
Eric Bailey
Reader Mode: The Button to Beat
7th Jan 2019
Sometimes It Works...
How your choice of tech can help you grow
How your choice of tech can help you grow
Making architectural choices for scaling your...
29th Oct 2018
How your choice of tech can help you grow
Making architectural choices for scaling your business
Making architectural choices for securing your business
We’re hiring!
¶How your choice of tech can help you grow
I’ve been working at Elvie for almost 2 years. My remit has been to...
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - December 2023
This is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Dec 2023
This is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in November - Started writing some essays about online work, dependability, tools, and craft on t...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Swyx's Simple Guide to Singapore
A personal guide to Singapore for foreign friends visiting.
7th Sep 2023
A personal guide to Singapore for foreign friends visiting.
Tony Finch's blog
Joining ellipses with matching tangents
In my previous entry I wrote about constructing a four-point egg,
using curcular arcs that join...
5th Feb 2024
In my previous entry I wrote about constructing a four-point egg,
using curcular arcs that join where their tangents are at 45°.
I wondered if I could do something similar with ellipses.
As before, I made an interactive ellipse workbench to
experiment with the problem. I got...
David Gerrells
content slop
AI slop is everywhere. But what even is slop and is AI really to blame?
5th Feb 2025
AI slop is everywhere. But what even is slop and is AI really to blame?
swyx's site RSS Feed
Everything You Hate About Clubhouse Is Why It Will Win
Understanding new social media is a *sociological* exercise, not a logical one.
1st Feb 2021
Understanding new social media is a *sociological* exercise, not a logical one.
Josh Comeau's blog
Animated Pride Flags
Happy Pride month! In this tutorial, I'll share a handful of my favourite animation tricks. You'll...
6th Jun 2023
Happy Pride month! In this tutorial, I'll share a handful of my favourite animation tricks. You'll learn how to build an animated wavy pride flag using CSS keyframes and linear gradients. We'll also see how to make it dynamic using React. 🏳️🌈
Confused bit
Birth of a new blog
What is the best programming language? Why is Vim better than Emacs? Tabs or spaces? Static or...
3rd Jan 2023
What is the best programming language? Why is Vim better than Emacs? Tabs or spaces? Static or dynamic typing? The answer to all these questions and more on “Confused bit”.
This blog is a place to host and share my thoughts on software, crafting, and my experience with various...
Liz Denys
Puffed millet and qui'nola
I've never been to Sqirl, but ever since I ordered their puffed millet 'nola on a whim, I've been...
11th Mar 2020
I've never been to Sqirl, but ever since I ordered their puffed millet 'nola on a whim, I've been obsessed. All I want for breakfast these days is a bowl of this granola with some plain yogurt. UPDATE: I no longer order from Sqirl after hearing about their jam mold and the deeper...
Ruud van Asseldonk
AI is making me paranoid about contributions
18th Feb 2026
Jordan Eldredge's...
I was interviewed for a podcast
My work interviewed me as part of their "employee spotlight" series.
29th Oct 2016
My work interviewed me as part of their "employee spotlight" series.
Jordan Eldredge's...
"The Surprise Slide" Ukulele Micro Song
A micro song for Chelsea, written and recorded while she was in San Diego.
22nd May 2011
A micro song for Chelsea, written and recorded while she was in San Diego.
General Robots
Physical Intelligence Sweeps Humanoid Olympics
More coming soon
5th Jan 2026
Eric Migicovsky's...
Introducing Joe Martin - Our first Product Marketer
Before joining PostHog, Joe Martin had never owned a Mac. The former tech and games journalist...
6th Aug 2021
Before joining PostHog, Joe Martin had never owned a Mac. The former tech and games journalist previously did everything on PC, but joining PostHog…
Blog System/5
Kyua graduates
The story behind the FreeBSD and NetBSD testing frameworks
2nd Aug 2024
The story behind the FreeBSD and NetBSD testing frameworks
Confessions of a...
One Law to Rule All Code Optimizations
A systems-level reasoning model for understanding why optimizations succeed or fail.
8th Jun 2025
A systems-level reasoning model for understanding why optimizations succeed or fail.
Ruud van Asseldonk
A reasonable configuration language
4th Feb 2024
TokyoDev
COVID-19 and IT Jobs in Japan
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a lot of uncertainty among prospective job seekers, especially...
15th May 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a lot of uncertainty among prospective job seekers, especially those looking to relocate to Japan from overseas. To help people understand the current situation with regards to IT jobs in Japan, I contacted [every company using...
Making software...
Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME
Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME
2023-11-02
The dwm window manager is my standard "go-to" for most of...
2nd Nov 2023
Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME
2023-11-02
The dwm window manager is my standard "go-to" for most of my personal laptop environments. For desktops with larger, higher resolution monitors I tend to lean towards using GNOME. The GNOME DE is fairly solid for my own purposes. This...
A Smart Bear
Hiring Employee #1
If you want another pair of hands to screw things up, how do you acquire resumes, pair them down,...
12th Dec 2011
If you want another pair of hands to screw things up, how do you acquire resumes, pair them down, and identify someone who is going to work well in your company?
General Robots
Congrats to Sunday Robotics for winning the Bronze Medal for Rolling Matched Socks
The Bronze event in the Finger Tips Competition
16th Dec 2025
The Bronze event in the Finger Tips Competition
Eliran Turgeman
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
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...
Kevin Chen
!!Con 2018 Notes
!!Con is a conference held every spring in New York
City. It’s two days of lightning talks that can...
12th May 2018
!!Con is a conference held every spring in New York
City. It’s two days of lightning talks that can be about anything related to
computers!
This conference is a great showcase of the diverse backgrounds of the NYC tech
scene. I’m really going to miss it when I move back to the...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Bitsnap, a screenshot capture tool for Medley Interlisp
< (a proud...
Boot.dev Blog
HMAC and MACs - The Inner Workings of JWTs
HMACs and MACs are authentication codes and are often the backbone of JWT authentication systems. A...
5th Aug 2020
HMACs and MACs are authentication codes and are often the backbone of JWT authentication systems. A Message Authentication Code (MAC) is a string of bits that depends on a secret key and is sent with a message to prove the message wasn’t tampered with. HMACs are a more strict...
David Crawshaw
2014-03-08
www.azarask.in/blog/post/the-wrong-problem
8th Mar 2014
www.azarask.in/blog/post/the-wrong-problem
Steve Klabnik
The profile link relation and you
6th May 2013
Irrational...
Culture vs systems.
Recently, I had a chat with a friend who was frustrated by their company culture. They’d been...
3rd Feb 2023
Recently, I had a chat with a friend who was frustrated by their company culture. They’d been pushing the company to operate with more urgency, but didn’t feel like it was landing. “How do we,” they wondered, “get the team to recognize that urgency is essential to our success?”...
Sebastian Witowski
Writing Faster Python - Introduction
2022 Update: I started writing these articles in 2020 using Python 3.8 on a 2017 MacBook Pro with...
18th Aug 2020
2022 Update: I started writing these articles in 2020 using Python 3.8 on a 2017 MacBook Pro with Intel CPU. In 2022, I switched to a new MacBook Pro with M1 CPU and decided to also switch to the latest Python 3.11 version as it offers some nice speed-up improvements.
So all the...
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - July 2025
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Jul 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 wrote a post about open-sourcing Postcard. The post got picked up by Hacker News...
dthompson
Guile-bstructs 0.2.0 released
I'm happy to announce that guile-bstructs 0.2.0 has been released!
About...
12th Mar 2026
I'm happy to announce that guile-bstructs 0.2.0 has been released!
About guile-bstructs
Guile-bstructs is a library that provides structured read/write access
to binary data for Guile. A
bstruct (short for “binary structure”) is a data type that
encapsulates a bytevector and a...
Sedimental
Thanks, 201X!
Thought I'd take a Sunday afternoon to reflect on, oh I don't know, a decade.
Been a long ten...
2nd Dec 2019
Thought I'd take a Sunday afternoon to reflect on, oh I don't know, a decade.
Been a long ten years, but it's flown past. This particular decade
happens to coincide with my first years of full-time professional
software engineering.
The Quantity
I can't possibly summarize it...
Boot.dev Blog
Singletons in ES6 - The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
Singletons are fairly controversial as far as I can tell, especially in JavaScript programming....
4th Nov 2019
Singletons are fairly controversial as far as I can tell, especially in JavaScript programming. Let’s take a look at what they are, when to (maybe) use them, and when not to.
Boot.dev Blog
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
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 Changelog
Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years (and working with a...
1981 was a different time for computing. It was expensive (both hardware and software), and it was...
3rd Aug 2026
1981 was a different time for computing. It was expensive (both hardware and software), and it was far from a given that machines from one vendor would be able to talk to those from another. In fact, Columbia University had just such a problem, so in 1981, Frank da Cruz and Bill...
Epic Web Dev
Implicit Assertions (article)
Have a better understanding about the explicit and implicit assertions now, and perhaps even have a...
12th Mar 2024
Have a better understanding about the explicit and implicit assertions now, and perhaps even have a test or two in mind to improve.
Boot.dev Blog
Golang vs Java: 6 Key Comparisons
Golang (or Go) and Java offer an interesting comparison because despite their wide differences,...
4th Aug 2021
Golang (or Go) and Java offer an interesting comparison because despite their wide differences, there are also key similarities in how and where they’re used by programmers.
David Crawshaw
BBR
queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3022184
7th Jan 2017
queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3022184
somenice
Familiar Lines of Nostalgic Proportions
A mixed tape was once a personal show of expression. An arrangement of songs purposefully set to...
1st Feb 2024
A mixed tape was once a personal show of expression. An arrangement of songs purposefully set to invoke an emotion. Happy, sad, psych-up workouts, breakups, love making… all depends. Spending time to record a deliberate mix of songs in order for someone else was devotion. When...
Alice GG
Setting up Mikochi with Docker and Traefik
Last year, I spent a little bit of time re-learning full-stack development and built Mikochi.
The...
4th Jan 2024
Last year, I spent a little bit of time re-learning full-stack development and built Mikochi.
The project has since grown to version 1.3.1 and reached 100 stars on GitHub.
This article aims to be a step-by-step guide on how to install it and configure it to use HTTPS with Docker...
James Vaughan's blog
My YouTube Watch Later Mystery Graveyard
8th Jan 2025
Ognjen Regoje •...
A review of the blog in 2024
I didn’t write much this year.
The projects that I worked on (at work) used up most of my creative...
31st Dec 2024
I didn’t write much this year.
The projects that I worked on (at work) used up most of my creative mental capacity leaving little for writing.
The backlog is brimming, however.
Targets for 2024
❌ Publish at least 40 posts
11
❌ Reach at least 200k readers
Don’t have an...
Basta’s Notes
What have I been up to lately?
Just a little update, because I've been quiet
9th Apr 2023
Just a little update, because I've been quiet
Elad Blog
**Signup Now** Fireside- Dylan Field: Design, AI, School & Careers
Sign up now for new fireside chat
7th Feb 2023
Sign up now for new fireside chat
David Gerrells
programming, i hate it
There is a stereotypical programmer. We all know the one. The Marky Marks, stripy bois, Steve and...
1st Aug 2024
There is a stereotypical programmer. We all know the one. The Marky Marks, stripy bois, Steve and Steves. The wiz kids.
Joel Gascoigne
Why we have a core value of transparency at our startup, and why the reasons don't matter
Since the beginning of Buffer, we've always shared all of our learnings and
failures. Over time this...
21st Sep 2014
Since the beginning of Buffer, we've always shared all of our learnings and
failures. Over time this developed into a more defined goal and principle as
part of the values of the company
[http://www.slideshare.net/Bufferapp/buffer-culture-04].
Since we defined our value of...
Making software...
First Letter Pseudo Element
First Letter Pseudo Element
2019-05-03
In today's TypeTip we will be taking a look at the often...
3rd May 2019
First Letter Pseudo Element
2019-05-03
In today's TypeTip we will be taking a look at the often overlooked :first-letter CSS pseudo element. Though you might only use this for specific article-format web pages, it's still a nice-to-have in your web dev toolset.
The HTML
Like most...
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - March 2023
✨ What I've been up to Part of my work at The Contraption Company includes helping startups...
1st Mar 2023
✨ What I've been up to Part of my work at The Contraption Company includes helping startups develop new products. For the last six months, I've unintentionally been working almost exclusively wit...
Copper • A blog...
How good is Claude, really?
At the beginning of 2026, I didn’t even know what vibe coding meant.
So much has happened in the...
4th Mar 2026
At the beginning of 2026, I didn’t even know what vibe coding meant.
So much has happened in the time I was busy carving wooden spoons, that I felt it simpler to just ignore the hype.
One morning, in this seemingly never ending winter, a friend told me excitedly how his employer...
The Codist
I Am Happy Not To Be A Web Developer Anymore
I wrote my first single-page web app in Javascript in 2005, right after learning about...
15th Sep 2023
I wrote my first single-page web app in Javascript in 2005, right after learning about XMLHttpRequest and before any serious frameworks existed. I left professional web development behind around 2009 (I started in 1997 with WebObjects) and spent the final decade of my career...
Matt Keeter
Abstraction and instances in graph programming
17th Dec 2016
bt RSS Feed
Dynamic Viewports with CSS
Dynamic Viewports with CSS
2023-02-08
I think it’s safe to assume most web designers and developers...
8th Feb 2023
Dynamic Viewports with CSS
2023-02-08
I think it’s safe to assume most web designers and developers are familiar with the standard vh and vw parameters in CSS. These parameters are used for setting an element’s height and/or width, relative to the viewport (v) height (h) or width...
Explained from First...
Number theory explained from first principles
17th Sep 2022
Making software...
Animated Radio Tab Toggles
Animated Radio Tab Toggles
2021-01-05
In this demo tutorial, we are making the assumption that we...
5th Jan 2021
Animated Radio Tab Toggles
2021-01-05
In this demo tutorial, we are making the assumption that we need to create a radio slide toggle for our made-up payment options. For this we want to display 3 simple payment choices to the user:
One-time payment
Recurring payment
Free tier...
A Smart Bear
Letters to Joel Spolsky
I regret to inform you…
16th Jun 2009
markround.com
DevOps for the Sinclair Spectrum - Part 1
Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs
Intro
When I was around 8-9 years old, I...
21st Dec 2021
Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs
Intro
When I was around 8-9 years old, I received a Sinclair ZX Spectrum home computer for my birthday. One of my earliest memories I remember is sitting with my Dad, reading the manual to work out the magic commands to load...
Josh Collinsworth
Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React
If you don't often look beyond established comfortable defaults, you might be surprised to learn...
4th Aug 2023
If you don't often look beyond established comfortable defaults, you might be surprised to learn just how far the world of frontend has moved away from React, and how big that gap continues to grow.
The Pragmatic...
I'm shutting down my job tech jobs board after two-and-a-half years
I started The Pragmatic Engineer Job Board in October 2021. 2.5 years later, I am shutting it down...
9th Apr 2024
I started The Pragmatic Engineer Job Board in October 2021. 2.5 years later, I am shutting it down permanently, despite a reasonable success in traction. The shutdown was triggered by my vendor – Pallet – discontinuing their job board and talent collective approach. However, I ...
Liz Denys
New Loose Leaf Security episode: Security stories! Plus, a 2FA zine!
The previous Loose Leaf Security series on safely surfing the web was pretty dense, so Geoffrey and...
5th Sep 2018
The previous Loose Leaf Security series on safely surfing the web was pretty dense, so Geoffrey and I filled the latest episode of Loose Leaf Security with a bunch of our own personal security mishaps:
Security stories: lost phones, a compromised computer, and an unexpected...
Julia Evans
How HEAD works in git
Hello! The other day I ran a Mastodon poll asking people how confident they
were that they...
8th Mar 2024
Hello! The other day I ran a Mastodon poll asking people how confident they
were that they understood how HEAD works in Git. The results (out of 1700
votes) were a little surprising to me:
10% “100%”
36% “pretty confident”
39% “somewhat confident?”
15% “literally no idea”
I was...
Oxide Computer...
RFD 1 Requests for Discussion
One of the first things we did in setting up the company was create a repo named “rfd.” This repo...
24th Jul 2020
One of the first things we did in setting up the company was create a repo named “rfd.” This repo houses our requests for discussion. Bryan teased this to the internet…
…and folks asked for our process, so we are going to share it!
The best way to describe RFDs is with “RFD 1...
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - October 2022
✨ Highlights of last month - I spent a week in the Catskills and saw a wild bear for the first time...
1st Oct 2022
✨ Highlights of last month - I spent a week in the Catskills and saw a wild bear for the first time 🐻 - Shipped an archive page, social sharing improvements, and a showcase of customer websites for P...
Boot.dev Blog
Python Functions: How to Define and Call Them
Functions allow you to reuse and organize code. Instead of copying and pasting the same logic...
1st Mar 2026
Functions allow you to reuse and organize code. Instead of copying and pasting the same logic everywhere, you define it once and call it whenever you need it. They’re the most important tool for writing DRY code.
Daniel Marino
How I Handletter
When I first got into hand-lettering, I had a hard time finding people who shared their full...
19th Sep 2025
When I first got into hand-lettering, I had a hard time finding people who shared their full process—especially the digitizing phase. So here’s a look at how I typically work. Everyone’s process is different, and a lot depends on your style and how you plan to present the piece....
swyx's site RSS Feed
Learn In Public
The fastest way to build your expertise, network, and second brain.
19th Jun 2018
The fastest way to build your expertise, network, and second brain.
Buttondown's blog
Typescript-friendly label fallbacks
Here's a quick workaround that keeps Typescript happy.
2nd Mar 2023
Here's a quick workaround that keeps Typescript happy.
Nelson's Weblog
AI enhanced search
LLMs are good search helpers. Here’s three search tools I use every day.
All of these use an AI to...
20th Sep 2024
LLMs are good search helpers. Here’s three search tools I use every day.
All of these use an AI to synthesize answers but also provide an essential
feature: specific web search results for you to verify and further research.
I use these for conversational inquiries in addition...
Vadim Kravcenko
Database Migrations
I consider database migrations one of the most annoying problems to deal with during a software...
1st Oct 2023
I consider database migrations one of the most annoying problems to deal with during a software engineer’s life. Not only […]
The post Database Migrations appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Charles Chen
Foundations of Agent Friendly Codebases
A look at 10 foundational pillars that enable agents to operate more competently and more...
6 days ago
A look at 10 foundational pillars that enable agents to operate more competently and more efficiently in any codebase.
blag
Recurse Center Day 1: init
This is a draft post that I have prematurely published. Currently, I am attending RC and I want to...
1st Nov 2021
This is a draft post that I have prematurely published. Currently, I am attending RC and I want to write as much as possible, log my daily learnings and activities. But, I also don't want to spend time on grammar and prose, so I am publishing all the posts which usually I'd have...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Searching for The Early Founder Cadence
I've been quite inspired by David Sacks' The Cadence ever since I read it. It prescribes an...
11th Jun 2023
I've been quite inspired by David Sacks' The Cadence ever since I read it. It prescribes an operational process and ideal team structure for a 50-500 person startup - running sales, finance, product, and marketing in sync in quarterly cycles with effective communication between...
alexwlchan
When square pixels aren’t square
When I embed videos in web pages, I specify an aspect ratio.
For example, if my video is 1920 × 1080...
5th Dec 2025
When I embed videos in web pages, I specify an aspect ratio.
For example, if my video is 1920 × 1080 pixels, I’d write:
<video style="aspect-ratio: 1920 / 1080">
If I also set a width or a height, the browser now knows exactly how much space this video will take up on the page –...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Good advice on JSX conditionals
Conditional rendering is a cornerstone of any templating language. React / JSX bravely chose not to...
17th Jan 2022
Conditional rendering is a cornerstone of any templating language. React / JSX bravely chose not to have a dedicated conditional syntax, like ng-if="condition", relying on JS boolean operators instead:
condition && <JSX /> renders <JSX /> iff condition is truthy,
condition ?...
Boot.dev Blog
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
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.
Elad Blog
Things I Don't Know About AI
The more I learn about AI markets, the less I think I know. I list questions and some thoughts.
21st Feb 2024
The more I learn about AI markets, the less I think I know. I list questions and some thoughts.
Remains of the Day
Catch up
It has been some time since I posted here. Outside of lots of meetings around the country and some...
20th Mar 2018
It has been some time since I posted here. Outside of lots of meetings around the country and some trips with family and friends, a few creative projects have stolen the lion's share of my free time.
While I won't publish some Medium screed on how spending less time on social...
A Beautiful Site
JSNES: a Nintendo emulator built in JavaScript
I remember, not too long ago, arguing with people who said that JavaScript would never be as good as...
10th Nov 2009
I remember, not too long ago, arguing with people who said that JavaScript would never be as good as Flash. Granted, at the time many people were afraid of JavaScript and, thus, it wasn't used as widely as it is today. With the introduction of popular libraries such as jQuery,...
Josh Collinsworth
Adding page transitions in SvelteKit
Transitions, easing, and routing are all baked into SvelteKit. This makes utilizing page transition...
1st Mar 2023
Transitions, easing, and routing are all baked into SvelteKit. This makes utilizing page transition effects in SvelteKit sites and apps as easy as adding just a few lines of code.
The History of the...
Can Directories Rise Again?
With search getting worse by the day, maybe it's time we rebounded in the other direction. The long...
21st May 2025
With search getting worse by the day, maybe it's time we rebounded in the other direction. The long forgotten directory.
The post Can Directories Rise Again? appeared first on The History of the Web.
SOS
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
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...
elementary Blog
A Little Bit Now, A Lotta Bit Later
In mid-March we released a big bug fix update—elementary OS 8.0.1—and since then we’ve been hard at...
6th May 2025
In mid-March we released a big bug fix update—elementary OS 8.0.1—and since then we’ve been hard at work on even more bug fixes and some new exciting features that I’m excited to share with you today! Read ahead to find out what we’ve released recently and what you can help us...
Sebastian Witowski
dict() vs. {}
There are two different ways to create a dictionary. You can call the dict() function or use the...
1st Dec 2022
There are two different ways to create a dictionary. You can call the dict() function or use the literal syntax: {}. And in many cases, these are equivalent choices, so you might give it little thought and assume they both take the same amount of time.
But they don't!
Starting...
Eric Migicovsky's...
How we turned ClickHouse into our event mansion
Recently, PostHog was invited to speak at OSA Con 2021 , an open source analytics conference...
6th Nov 2021
Recently, PostHog was invited to speak at OSA Con 2021 , an open source analytics conference organised by Altinity. It was a fantastic opportunity to…
alexwlchan
A simple gallery plugin for Obsidian →
I’ve been using Obsidian for my note-taking recently, and I really like it.
It’s already absorbed...
4th Nov 2022
I’ve been using Obsidian for my note-taking recently, and I really like it.
It’s already absorbed all of my text notes, and I’m gradually using it for images too.
To help me find my images, I’ve written a small Obsidian plugin.
When I click the little picture icon in the sidebar,...
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The UX of Proving Our Humanity To Machines
What happens when we can't convince machines that we are human?
3rd Dec 2020
What happens when we can't convince machines that we are human?
macwright.com
Recently
Listening
My friend Dave Infante has been busy – he launched his own
beer-centric podcast, Taplines,...
1st Jun 2023
Listening
My friend Dave Infante has been busy – he launched his own
beer-centric podcast, Taplines, and guest-starred on the enormous
Chapo Trap House podcast.
Reading
It’s been a slow few weeks for books, but since I skipped
Recently in May, I can still talk about Achieving...
dthompson
Guile-SDL2 0.7.0 released
I'm happy to announce that Guile-SDL2 0.7.0 has been released!
Guile-SDL2 provides Guile Scheme...
7th Oct 2021
I'm happy to announce that Guile-SDL2 0.7.0 has been released!
Guile-SDL2 provides Guile Scheme bindings for the SDL2 C shared
library. The bindings are written in pure Scheme using Guile's foreign
function interface.
New bindings in this...
Jordan Eldredge's...
Mary Had a Little Lamb - Parallel Fifths
My dad and I recorded a version of Mary Had a Little Lamb where I sang and played the same song a...
13th Dec 2009
My dad and I recorded a version of Mary Had a Little Lamb where I sang and played the same song a fifth above.
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - September 2023
I'm Philip, and this is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social...
1st Sep 2023
I'm Philip, and this is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. ✨ What I was up to in August - Launched FRCTNL, a community of fractional tech workers. - Co...
elementary Blog
elementary OS 7.1 Available Now
Today, we’re proud to announce that OS 7.1 is available to download now and shipping on several...
3rd Oct 2023
Today, we’re proud to announce that OS 7.1 is available to download now and shipping on several high-quality computers. This release represents the sum of our work over the last several months as a single major update to the OS 7 series and includes all of the monthly OS updates...
Marco.org
Ten years after we lost Steve Jobs
Losing Steve affected me more than it probably should have, given that I never met him or had any...
5th Oct 2021
Losing Steve affected me more than it probably should have, given that I never met him or had any correspondence with him.
But losing him was devastating — not just to my world, but the world.
He was a sort of virtual father figure: I was always hoping that maybe Steve would...
The Changelog
Photographic comparison: Is the Kobo Libra Colour display worse than the Kobo Libra 2?
I’ve been using E Ink-based ereaders for quite a number of years now. I’ve had my Kobo Libra 2 for a...
7th May 2024
I’ve been using E Ink-based ereaders for quite a number of years now. I’ve had my Kobo Libra 2 for a few years, and was looking forward to the Kobo Libra Colour — the first color E Ink display in a mainstream ereader line. I found the display to be a mixed bag; contrast seemed …...
Blog System/5
Porting the EndBASIC console to an LCD
In this post, I’ll guide you through the process of porting the EndBASIC hybrid console to the...
26th Apr 2024
In this post, I’ll guide you through the process of porting the EndBASIC hybrid console to the ST7735s 1.44" LCD, which sports a resolution of 128x128 pixels, a D-pad, and 3 other buttons. I will cover the prerequisite work to make the port possible, dig into the GPIO and SPI...
Ink & Switch
Reflecting on 2024, Droste's Lair, Version control for game dev
A year-end note from our director; a recap of a recent unconf; Droste's Lair; a sneak preview of...
23rd Dec 2024
A year-end note from our director; a recap of a recent unconf; Droste's Lair; a sneak preview of version control for game dev.
Tom MacWright
Recently
A section of trail in Switzerland
May was a big month! The highlight was a cycling trip around Lake...
4th Jun 2026
A section of trail in Switzerland
May was a big month! The highlight was a cycling trip around Lake Konstanz, passing through Konstanz, Bregenz Austria, Stein am Rhein in Switzerland, and Meersburg.
A farm in Bodenseeufer, Germany
We passed a lot of operating agriculture,...
Engineer’s Codex
How Google takes the pain out of code reviews, with 97% dev satisfaction
A study of Google's code review tooling (Critique), AI-powered improvements, and recent statistics
4th Dec 2023
A study of Google's code review tooling (Critique), AI-powered improvements, and recent statistics
Dan Quach Blog
State of Data Engineering 2024 Q1
The current state of data engineering offers a plethora of options in the market, which can be...
25th Jan 2024
The current state of data engineering offers a plethora of options in the market, which can be challenging when selecting the right tool We are approaching a period where the traditional boundaries between between databases, datalakes, and data warehouses are overlapping. As...
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5 Q&A's on Writing and Selling My First Book
I answered some questions from someone planning to write their first book
10th Aug 2020
I answered some questions from someone planning to write their first book
Eric Bailey
Presentation panic
I used to get panic attacks when I had to give a client presentation.
This was before I was really...
1st Feb 2021
I used to get panic attacks when I had to give a client presentation.
This was before I was really aware of my anxiety and depression—I didn’t know what they were or what caused them. Because of this, I spent way too much time fixating on the symptoms, and not the cause.
Both my...
Making software...
Goodbye WordPress, Hello Jekyll (Again)
Goodbye WordPress, Hello Jekyll (Again)
2020-08-13
For the past four months this blog has been...
13th Aug 2020
Goodbye WordPress, Hello Jekyll (Again)
2020-08-13
For the past four months this blog has been running on WordPress - but that ended today. I've officially switched back over to Jekyll. I'm not going to spend too much time delving into why I made the transition back, but I'll...
Boot.dev Blog
(Very) Basic Intro to Hash Functions (SHA-256, MD5, etc)
Hash functions are used to securely store passwords, find duplicate records, quickly store and...
1st Jan 2020
Hash functions are used to securely store passwords, find duplicate records, quickly store and retrieve data, among other useful computational tasks. As a practical example, all user passwords on boot.dev are hashed using Bcrypt to ensure that if an attacker were ever to gain...
charity.wtf
“Why are my tests so slow?” A list of likely suspects, anti-patterns, and unresolved personal...
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been tweeting a LOT about lead time to deploy: the interval...
31st Dec 2020
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been tweeting a LOT about lead time to deploy: the interval encompassing the time from when the code gets written and when it’s been deployed to production. Also described as “how long it takes you to run CI/CD.” How important is this? Fucking...
tonsky.me
Claude is an Electron App because we’ve lost native
In “Why is Claude an Electron App?” Drew Breunig wonders:
Claude spent $20k on an agent swarm...
3rd Mar 2026
In “Why is Claude an Electron App?” Drew Breunig wonders:
Claude spent $20k on an agent swarm implementing (kinda) a C-compiler in Rust, but desktop Claude is an Electron app.
If code is free, why aren’t all apps native?
And then argues that the answer is that LLMs are not good...
General Robots
Announcing posetree.py: Wrangling Timestamps and Transforms for Robots
A python library for doing pose math for fun and profit. (Although I open sourced it for free so, no...
10th Jul 2023
A python library for doing pose math for fun and profit. (Although I open sourced it for free so, no profit for me I guess). Check it out!
Nue developer blog
A standards first web framework
Nue is HTML, CSS, and JavaScript taken to their absolute peak.
16th Jan 2025
Nue is HTML, CSS, and JavaScript taken to their absolute peak.
A Smart Bear
The Lindy Effect on startup potential
On average, you're halfway to your final destination. How, then, do we not only double from here,...
9th Jun 2024
On average, you're halfway to your final destination. How, then, do we not only double from here, but 10x?
Founder's blog
Will AI destroy B2B SaaS?
TL;DR
The "build vs. buy" equation has flipped.
Businesses used to buy...
7th Dec 2024
TL;DR
The "build vs. buy" equation has flipped.
Businesses used to buy SaaS because it was cheaper than building their own. AI has changed that—building your own is now more affordable than ever.
The discovery problem.
...
Daniel Immke
So why write a blog?
I’ve never been good at maintaining a “professional” profile on the web. It’s bitten me in the ass...
1st Sep 2017
I’ve never been good at maintaining a “professional” profile on the web. It’s bitten me in the ass when I’ve really needed to show off work…
SOS
Kidz Fun Art – Tablet app for kids
I’ve built a fun new app for young kids, called Kidz Fun Art. Get it at https://kidzfun.art.
I’m a...
14th Sep 2022
I’ve built a fun new app for young kids, called Kidz Fun Art. Get it at https://kidzfun.art.
I’m a software engineer, but far more importantly I’m the happy dad of two amazing girls, currently 4 and 6 years old. They love to draw, colour in pictures and tell stories, and when I...
The Web Witch's Blog
Crash and Burnout
In the last year I have changed jobs, moved twice (one of those internationally) and traveled about...
10th Apr 2023
In the last year I have changed jobs, moved twice (one of those internationally) and traveled about 120,000 miles. I've been working on finishing my book, caught covid, and was diagnosed with bipolar depression and Hashimoto's disease.
Additionally, with so much travel, I've had...
Steve Klabnik
A new introduction to Rust
27th Feb 2015
37signals Dev
Monitoring 10 Petabytes of data in Pure Storage
As the final part of our move out of the cloud, we are working on moving 10 petabytes of data out of...
2nd Jan 2025
As the final part of our move out of the cloud, we are working on moving 10 petabytes of data out of AWS Simple Storage Service (S3). After exploring different alternatives, we decided to go with Pure Storage FlashBlade solution.
We store different kinds of information on S3,...
Alex Meub
A Quick Look at Portland Parking Ticket Data
I work in downtown Portland and see a lot of people getting parking tickets every day (parking is...
5th Feb 2019
I work in downtown Portland and see a lot of people getting parking tickets every day (parking is one of the reasons I ride my bike to work). I was curious to learn more about it.
Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, Portland parking ticket data is available to anyone who...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Persisted Svelte store using IndexedDB
I’m working on notepad2 for web and I need a history of opened files that persists across browser...
9th Mar 2023
I’m working on notepad2 for web and I need a history of opened files that persists across browser session.
Since I’m using Svelte, having it available as a store makes sense.
This article describes how to implement a Svelte store whose values are persisted in IndexedDB.
What is...
Miguel Carranza
100 Lessons From Building a 100-Person Org
RevenueCat now has more than 150 team members. Around 100 of them are in my org.
This is still a...
3rd Jun 2026
RevenueCat now has more than 150 team members. Around 100 of them are in my org.
This is still a little crazy to me. My own org is now bigger than any company I had worked at before starting RevenueCat. As a technical founder, I always preferred computers over people. Computers...
Boot.dev Blog
The AI Land Grab Looks Familiar
In May of 2013, Yahoo announced plans to buy Tumblr for 1.1 billion dollars. Yahoo’s CEO, Marissa...
11th May 2026
In May of 2013, Yahoo announced plans to buy Tumblr for 1.1 billion dollars. Yahoo’s CEO, Marissa Mayer, stood in front of the press and said, “We promise not to screw it up”.
Tom MacWright
Recently
The snow has been tough for my running schedule in February but it's starting to clear and...
1st Mar 2026
The snow has been tough for my running schedule in February but it's starting to clear and temperatures have started to lift. Yesterday got in a solid 45 miles of cycling, including up to this point near the George Washington Bridge, and back on the Tappan Zee.
Listening
I didn't...
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - April 2023
✨ What I've been up to Wow, it's Q2 already! I spent a couple of weeks in Paris last month,...
1st Apr 2023
✨ What I've been up to Wow, it's Q2 already! I spent a couple of weeks in Paris last month, where I worked remotely and found some amazing coffee. For Postcard - I rebuilt the post-writing ...
Kevin Chen
How autonomous vehicle simulation works
When autonomous vehicle developers justify the safety of their driverless vehicle deployments, they...
7th Jun 2024
When autonomous vehicle developers justify the safety of their driverless vehicle deployments, they lean heavily on their testing in simulation. Common talking points take the form of “we made our car drive X billion miles in simulation.” From these vague statements, it’s...
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Supervised Learning: Support Vector Machines
Transforming dimensions, nearest neighbors, and boosting, all in service of "drawing the best line".
1st Feb 2019
Transforming dimensions, nearest neighbors, and boosting, all in service of "drawing the best line".
seated.ro
rabbit hole learning
Look everything up
Pretty much the best way to learn that I have found is to refrain from...
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,...
Alyssa Rosenzweig
Vulkan 1.4 sur Asahi Linux
English version follows.
Aujourd’hui, Khronos Group a
sorti la spécification 1.4 de l’API graphique...
2nd Dec 2024
English version follows.
Aujourd’hui, Khronos Group a
sorti la spécification 1.4 de l’API graphique standard Vulkan. Le projet
Asahi Linux est fier d’annoncer le
premier pilote Vulkan 1.4 pour le matériel d’Apple. En effet, notre
pilote graphique Honeykrisp est reconnu
par...
Basta’s Notes
AI Homelab Part 2: what I learned building my own chatbot
When I first started playing around with LLMs, I used Ollama on my M1 Mac Studio.
8th Jul 2026
When I first started playing around with LLMs, I used Ollama on my M1 Mac Studio.
Alex Meub
IE 6,7,8 Warning with removeChild
On a removeChild function call, Internet Explorer complains: “Do you want to view only the webpage...
14th Nov 2012
On a removeChild function call, Internet Explorer complains: “Do you want to view only the webpage content that was delivered securely?”. This is a particularly obscure bug with IE that has caused me lots of grief. First of all, it is indeed a bug with IE. This behavior can be...
bt RSS Feed
Plain Text Emails, Please
Plain Text Emails, Please
2019-09-09
When it comes to website / product design and development most...
9th Sep 2019
Plain Text Emails, Please
2019-09-09
When it comes to website / product design and development most devs should try to keep things simple. By only using as much code as absolutely necessary, projects avoid growing out of scope or becoming bloated. So, why isn’t this same approach...
Tony Finch's blog
An update on leap seconds
It has been a couple of years since my previous blog post about leap
seconds, though I have been...
4th Dec 2022
It has been a couple of years since my previous blog post about leap
seconds, though I have been tweeting on the topic fairly
frequently: see my page on date, time, and leap seconds for an
index of threads. But Twitter now seems a lot less likely to stick
around, so I’ll aim to...
Eric Migicovsky's...
How we designed the PostHog mascot
Creating mascots goes beyond just putting iPencil to iPad. It’s a long, confusing, and sometimes...
7th Oct 2021
Creating mascots goes beyond just putting iPencil to iPad. It’s a long, confusing, and sometimes frustrating process which requires a lot of patience…
Elad Blog
Fireside SF: Clem Delangue CEO of Hugging Face
Sign up now - in person space is limited
18th Mar 2023
Sign up now - in person space is limited
somenice
Post-Twitter
Every so often I’m motivated to move my online content in-house. With todays purchase of Twitter my...
25th Apr 2022
Every so often I’m motivated to move my online content in-house. With todays purchase of Twitter my intent to “own” my content has been renewed. I’m going to clean up my old Feedly RSS subscriptions and try posting here a bit more frequently.You can subscribe if you like –...
Charles Chen
TypeScript is not a Programming Language
If you're struggling with TypeScript, reshaping your perspective might help.
12th Sep 2023
If you're struggling with TypeScript, reshaping your perspective might help.
Epic Web Dev
Epic Workshop: Major Updates for 2026 (article)
Epic Workshop update adds tutorial-first onboarding, interleaved practice, offline videos, improved...
22nd Jan 2026
Epic Workshop update adds tutorial-first onboarding, interleaved practice, offline videos, improved playgrounds, a revamped epicshop CLI, and MCP upgrades.
Elad Blog
Index Companies
Sometimes there are markets that are clearly going to grow massively over time. For example,...
18th Dec 2020
Sometimes there are markets that are clearly going to grow massively over time. For example, ecommerce, genomics, crypto are all markets which were clearly going to compound over time. It might have been tough to call the winners of each market early, but it was clear the markets...
Words and Buttons...
Arctangent scale. It's like the logarithmic scale but infinite
With arctangent used as a scale, we can show any function on a screen. And not just a fragment of it...
9th May 2020
With arctangent used as a scale, we can show any function on a screen. And not just a fragment of it but the whole function.
SOS
Translate your UI Strings with AI
TLDR: Easily keep your NodeJS projects translated in many languages with my JSON AI Translation NPM...
10th Oct 2024
TLDR: Easily keep your NodeJS projects translated in many languages with my JSON AI Translation NPM package.
A few months ago I translated KidzFun.art to multiple other languages, using ChatGPT’s AI for the translations. This worked fine when dealing with a blank slate, but I...
Marc Astbury
A quick summary
one of the benefits of LLMs is the ability to summarize things one of the dangers of LLMs is the...
11th Oct 2024
one of the benefits of LLMs is the ability to summarize things one of the dangers of LLMs is the ability to summarize things read any AI product’s value prop and it will say a variation of “it frees you up to do higher order/ value tasks” nobody knows what these higher order...
Stephen Wolfram...
Generative AI Space and the Mental Imagery of Alien Minds
AIs and Alien Minds How do alien minds perceive the world? It’s an old and oft-debated question in...
17th Jul 2023
AIs and Alien Minds How do alien minds perceive the world? It’s an old and oft-debated question in philosophy. And it now turns out to also be a question that rises to prominence in connection with the concept of the ruliad that’s emerged from our Wolfram Physics Project. I’ve...
Steve Klabnik
Update GitHub Pages with Travis CI
16th Dec 2014
Blog - Bitfield...
Bobcoin, blockchains, and cryptocurrency
How do cryptocurrencies actually work, though? Join Alice and Bob as they
embark on designing a...
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.
Liz Denys
Creamsicles of a different texture: clementine panna cotta
Creamsicles were one of my favorite desserts as a child. Whenever my family went to the pool, I...
5th Feb 2011
Creamsicles were one of my favorite desserts as a child. Whenever my family went to the pool, I would absolutely dread the 15 minutes every hour that I couldn't stay in the pool known as adult swim - until I headed over to the pool's snack shop and grabbed a...
blag
SQLite prefixes its temp files with `etilqs_`
Here’s some wild lore inside SQLite’s source code explaining why temp files start with etilqs_
18th Apr 2026
Here’s some wild lore inside SQLite’s source code explaining why temp files start with etilqs_
Josh Collinsworth
Profit is Not a Value
Any executive or business owner will say their company values integrity, and virtually every company...
5th Aug 2015
Any executive or business owner will say their company values integrity, and virtually every company claims that they reward and value their employees exhibiting their brand values. But is that really accurate?
Elad Blog
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
Startup CEOs should ask themselves what crazy ideas can turn into a move that just ends a market's competitive dynamic
Tony Finch's blog
sudon't
My opinion is not mainstream, but I think if you really examine the
practices and security processes...
2nd May 2024
My opinion is not mainstream, but I think if you really examine the
practices and security processes that use and recommend sudo, the
reasons for using it are mostly bullshit.
When I started my career in the late 1990s, I was already aware of
really(8) and userv because one of my...
Liz Denys
The best-kept secret of the French press: cold brew coffee
Whether staying up late mandated my love of caffeine or vice versa, I've become hooked on coffee of...
11th Jan 2010
Whether staying up late mandated my love of caffeine or vice versa, I've become hooked on coffee of all forms. My hands-down favorite until a few months ago was the caffè macchiato - not to be confused with the highly commercialized latte macchiato you see in places like...
Stephen Wolfram...
Games between Programs: The Ruliology of Competition
The Basic Setup
Whether one’s dealing with biology, economics, politics or a host of other fields,...
4th Jun 2026
The Basic Setup
Whether one’s dealing with biology, economics, politics or a host of other fields, it’s common to encounter situations that can be modeled as involving two agents that repeatedly compete with each other. One imagines that at each step each agent can take one of a...
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5 Q&A's on Writing and Selling My First Book
I answered some questions from someone planning to write their first book
10th Aug 2020
I answered some questions from someone planning to write their first book
Jordan Eldredge's...
PHP: Avatar Hack
A php script that generates an image for use as an avatar.
9th Oct 2008
A php script that generates an image for use as an avatar.
Julia Evans
Confusing git terminology
Hello! I’m slowly working on explaining git. One of my biggest problems is that
after almost 15...
1st Nov 2023
Hello! I’m slowly working on explaining git. One of my biggest problems is that
after almost 15 years of using git, I’ve become very used to git’s
idiosyncracies and it’s easy for me to forget what’s confusing about it.
So I asked people on Mastodon:
what git jargon do you find...
bt RSS Feed
OpenBSD is a Cozy Operating System
OpenBSD is a Cozy Operating System
2024-04-11
OpenBSD 7.5 running dwm on my X220
With the recent...
11th Apr 2024
OpenBSD is a Cozy Operating System
2024-04-11
OpenBSD 7.5 running dwm on my X220
With the recent release of OpenBSD 7.5, I decided to run through my personal OpenBSD “installer” for laptop/desktop devices. The project is built off of the dwm tiling window manager and only...
Tom MacWright
Technology optimism hour
Back in 2022, I wrote Web technology optimism hour, highlighting the things I thought were cool...
14th Aug 2026
Back in 2022, I wrote Web technology optimism hour, highlighting the things I thought were cool about the state of technology. Time flies. Let's do it again.
It's still easy to be pessimistic, but it's nice to mine your feelings for the positive ones. The elephant in the room is...
Making software...
Using Parent Selectors in CSS
Using Parent Selectors in CSS
2018-12-19
I recently saw a Twitter thread posted by Tommy Hodgins on...
19th Dec 2018
Using Parent Selectors in CSS
2018-12-19
I recently saw a Twitter thread posted by Tommy Hodgins on implementing highly requested styling features in CSS with only a minimal amount of JavaScript. Many of his examples are great, but the parent selector instantly peaked my...
The Web Witch's Blog
Building better websites with the Chromium DevTools Issues Panel
What feels like a very long time ago, I was leading the design, UX and front-end development for the...
19th Jun 2023
What feels like a very long time ago, I was leading the design, UX and front-end development for the open source project webhint.io. Webhint is a linting tool that helps improve your website’s accessibility, performance, security, and interop between browsers.
Sometime within the...
A Beautiful Site
Revisiting FOUCE
It's been awhile since I wrote about FOUCE and I've since come up with an improved solution that I...
23rd Dec 2024
It's been awhile since I wrote about FOUCE and I've since come up with an improved solution that I think is worth a post.
This approach is similar to hiding the page content and then fading it in, but I've noticed it's far less distracting without the fade. It also adds a two...
Kevin Chen
Supporting macOS Mojave’s Dark Mode on the web
macOS Mojave adds a Dark Mode for native apps that makes you look approximately
78 percent cooler...
26th Oct 2018
macOS Mojave adds a Dark Mode for native apps that makes you look approximately
78 percent cooler when using the computer. In Safari Technology Preview
68, it’s now available on webpages too! Here’s how I added support to this
website.
Download video
Using the...
Computer Things
What could be added to TLA+
Last week Leslie Lamport posted The Future of TLA+, saying "the future of TLA+ is in the hands of...
4th Sep 2024
Last week Leslie Lamport posted The Future of TLA+, saying "the future of TLA+ is in the hands of the TLA+ foundation". Lamport released TLA+ in 1999 and shepherded its development for the past 25 years. Transferring ownership of TLA+ to the official foundation has been in the...
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - August 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Aug 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in late June + July - Been working hard on Find AI - rolling out lots of feature and updates, st...
Max Countryman
People-First Leadership
Investment in people is absolutely essential to building a business that's not just getting by but...
7th Apr 2023
Investment in people is absolutely essential to building a business that's not just getting by but actively thriving. People-first leadership offers an approach which consistently cultivates an environment where folks can show up and do their best work, propelling the business...
elementary Blog
OS 8 Now Available in Early Access
I’m super excited to let you know that OS 8 builds are available in Early Access and they are now...
6th Feb 2024
I’m super excited to let you know that OS 8 builds are available in Early Access and they are now installable! While we highly recommend you don’t run these experimental builds in production, they’re perfect for trying in a virtual machine or a spare computer. Early Access is a...
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How to Create a PWA Game using Preact in 5 steps (Tutorial)
In this article, we will create a Progressive Web Application! Don’t worry, we won’t make another...
30th Sep 2018
In this article, we will create a Progressive Web Application! Don’t worry, we won’t make another todo list. Instead, we will build a fun game that satisfies Google’s checklist for building a PWA.
Final result
You can play it here and check the final source code on Github.
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