macwright.com
Playing with ActivityPub
ActivityPub, WebFinger,
and Mastodon
are getting some attention because of chaos at Twitter.
It’s...
over a year ago
ActivityPub, WebFinger,
and Mastodon
are getting some attention because of chaos at Twitter.
It’s anyone’s guess how this all shakes out. As an
active user of Twitter, it’ll be sad if it goes away.
But in the meantime, let’s have some fun with ActivityPub.
ActivityPub
Under the...
The Pragmatic...
The Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter in 2023
The articles you enjoyed most this year, my personal favorites, and a recap of an unusually...
a year ago
The articles you enjoyed most this year, my personal favorites, and a recap of an unusually turbulent year in tech.
Dan Slimmon
Fight knowledge decay with a rich Incident Summary
It only takes a few off-the-rails incidents in your software career to realize the importance of...
6 months ago
It only takes a few off-the-rails incidents in your software career to realize the importance of writing things down. That’s why so many companies’ incident response protocols define a scribe role. The scribe’s job, generally, is to take notes on everything that happens. In other...
Ink & Switch
07 · AI bots in version control
Co-creating with AI can use version control to make bot-suggested changes easier to see and manage.
9 months ago
Co-creating with AI can use version control to make bot-suggested changes easier to see and manage.
PostHog's RSS Feed
The essential tools used by product engineers
Like every role, product engineers have a set of essential tools for their work. Their need to...
over a year ago
Like every role, product engineers have a set of essential tools for their work. Their need to gather insights, ideate, and deploy solutions…
Julia Evans
In a git repository, where do your files live?
Hello! I was talking to a friend about how git works today, and we got onto the
topic – where does...
a year ago
Hello! I was talking to a friend about how git works today, and we got onto the
topic – where does git store your files? We know that it’s in your .git
directory, but where exactly in there are all the versions of your old files?
For example, this blog is in a git repository, and...
Remains of the Day
What I learned from a Taipei alley
I was in Taipei the past few weeks working on a documentary with friends. Because of a busy...
over a year ago
I was in Taipei the past few weeks working on a documentary with friends. Because of a busy schedule, it wasn't like my usual travels abroad for fun, it felt more like a work trip. Still, even if I'd been there purely for vacation, I would've wanted to try a different mode of...
Julia Evans
Confusing git terminology
Hello! I’m slowly working on explaining git. One of my biggest problems is that
after almost 15...
a year ago
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...
Steve Klabnik
I'm writing "Rails 4 in Action"!
over a year ago
Tinloof - Blog
Text with media background: practical solutions
Text over images or videos is common on websites, and when not done right, it can make the text hard...
a year ago
Text over images or videos is common on websites, and when not done right, it can make the text hard to read and cause accessibility and usability issues. Designers might not catch these problems early on because they use ideal settings to test designs.
The real problems show up...
markround.com
Disqus - An Apology
Earlier today, I got an email alerting me to an angrier than usual comment on this website. It was a...
6 months ago
Earlier today, I got an email alerting me to an angrier than usual comment on this website. It was a proper keyboard warrior rant accusing me of all sorts of misdeads revolving around “forcing ads down people’s throats”. I replied saying that there had never been any ads on this...
Joel Gascoigne
Enjoying the moment
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When I look back...
over a year ago
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When I look back on the times I’ve done the most productive work on my startup
[http://bufferapp.com], it has always been when I’ve had a great balance of
work
and rest...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Cleaner ways to build dynamic JS arrays
Building dynamic arrays in JS is often messy. It goes like this: you have a default array, and you...
over a year ago
Building dynamic arrays in JS is often messy. It goes like this: you have a default array, and you need some items to appear based on a condition. So you add an if (condition) array.push(item). Then you need to shuffle things around and bring in an unshift or two, and maybe even...
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Moving to San Francisco
YC (a startup accelerator we are taking part in) ask you to move to the Bay Area for the whole...
over a year ago
YC (a startup accelerator we are taking part in) ask you to move to the Bay Area for the whole program. This gives you “a socially acceptable excuse…
Tony Finch's blog
obfuscated C revisited
The International Obfuscated C Code Contest has a newly
revamped web site, and the Judges have...
3 days ago
The International Obfuscated C Code Contest has a newly
revamped web site, and the Judges have announced the 28th contest, to
coincide with its 40th anniversary. (Or 41st?)
The Judges have also updated the archive of past winners so
that as many of them as possible work on modern...
David Heinemeier...
Europe is half the cost for our company meet-ups
Since the pandemic ended, we've had the pleasure of organizing three different company meet-ups for...
a year ago
Since the pandemic ended, we've had the pleasure of organizing three different company meet-ups for 37signals. We got going again in Miami, then hopped to Amsterdam, and most recently we went to New Orleans. Next we're going to Barcelona in the fall. Would you have guessed that...
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Networking Essentials: Content Distribution
How CDNs, BitTorrent and Distributed Hash tables work
over a year ago
How CDNs, BitTorrent and Distributed Hash tables work
Dan Quach Blog
Software Estimations Using Reference Class Forecasting
18 years ago I’m sitting in my cubicle doing Java programming, and my tech lead comes up to me to...
a year ago
18 years ago I’m sitting in my cubicle doing Java programming, and my tech lead comes up to me to chat about my next project. We discuss the details, and then she asks me the dreaded questions programmers fear which is “how long will it take?”. I stumble with some guestimate...
bunnie's blog
Formlabs Form 4 Teardown
Formlabs has recently launched the fourth edition of their flagship SLA printer line, the Form 4. Of...
7 months ago
Formlabs has recently launched the fourth edition of their flagship SLA printer line, the Form 4. Of course, I jumped on the chance to do a teardown of the printer; I’m grateful that I was able to do the same for the Form 1, Form 2, and Form 3 generations. In addition to learning...
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...
over a year ago
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...
Programming in the...
Progress Bars are Surprisingly Difficult
We've all seen progress bars that move slowly for twenty minutes, then rapidly fill up in the last...
over a year ago
We've all seen progress bars that move slowly for twenty minutes, then rapidly fill up in the last 30 seconds. Or the reverse, where a once speedy bar takes 50% of the time covering the last few pixels. And bars that occasionally jump backward in time are not the rarity you'd...
Stephen Wolfram...
The Story Continues: Announcing Version 14 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica
Version 14.0 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica is available immediately both on the desktop and in...
11 months ago
Version 14.0 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica is available immediately both on the desktop and in the cloud. See also more detailed information on Version 13.1, Version 13.2 and Version 13.3. Building Something Greater and Greater… for 35 Years and Counting Today we celebrate...
Making software...
Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll
Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll
2019-11-01
After creating the ET-Jekyll theme almost two years ago, I...
over a year ago
Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll
2019-11-01
After creating the ET-Jekyll theme almost two years ago, I finally got around to revamping the structure and improving a lot of minor performance issues. Items that have been surely needing of updates for the last couple of...
Epic Web Dev
Tips and Techniques for 'Pixel Perfect' Figma to Tailwind CSS Conversions (article)
Master converting Figma designs to Tailwind CSS with near "pixel perfection". Learn HTML structure,...
5 months ago
Master converting Figma designs to Tailwind CSS with near "pixel perfection". Learn HTML structure, design tokens, layouts, responsive design, and animations.
blag
Internet is wholesome: MVCC edition
This is a short story about how I hit a wall while implementing a database research paper, found a...
a year ago
This is a short story about how I hit a wall while implementing a database research paper, found a publication error and how people on the internet helped me.
HTMHell
Control the Viewport Resize Behavior on mobile with `interactive-widget`
by Bramus
figcaption {
font-size: 0.8em;
text-align: center;
}
Viewports units on...
a month ago
by Bramus
figcaption {
font-size: 0.8em;
text-align: center;
}
Viewports units on mobile have been a problem for a long time. Using 100vh is most likely not exactly what you initially expected it to be. To fix this, the CSS Working Group came up with more units over...
David Gerrells
how to save $13.27 on your sAAs bill
Vercel has a decent entry level analytics product which I cannot afford so I am going to build my...
5 months ago
Vercel has a decent entry level analytics product which I cannot afford so I am going to build my own.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Technical Community Builder is the Hottest New Job in Tech
What if the real product was the friends we made along the way?
over a year ago
What if the real product was the friends we made along the way?
Ruud van Asseldonk
An API for my Christmas tree
over a year ago
Paolo Amoroso's...
Insphex, a hex dump tool in Medley Common Lisp
<![CDATA[I'm developing the new program Insphex (inspect hex), a hex dump tool that is created with...
7 months ago
<![CDATA[I'm developing the new program Insphex (inspect hex), a hex dump tool that is created with and runs on the Medley Interlisp environment.
Similarly to the Linux command hexdump, it shows the contents of files as hexadecimal values and the corresponding ASCII characters....
Alice GG
How much can you really get out of a 4$ VPS?
When starting a new project, evaluating the budget needed for cloud hosting can be a tricky...
a year ago
When starting a new project, evaluating the budget needed for cloud hosting can be a tricky question.
On one side, you will hear horror stories of people waking up to an unexpected 100k$ bill from their provider.
But on the other hand, you will see providers advertising costs...
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The Roaring 2020's
Five themes I am optimistic about for the next decade - and more open questions I have no idea...
over a year ago
Five themes I am optimistic about for the next decade - and more open questions I have no idea about.
Ferd.ca
The Law of Stretched [Cognitive] Systems
2022/12/15
The Law of Stretched [Cognitive] Systems
One of the things I knew right when I started at...
over a year ago
2022/12/15
The Law of Stretched [Cognitive] Systems
One of the things I knew right when I started at my current job is that a lot of my work would be for "nothing." I'm saying this because I work (as Staff SRE) for an observability vendor, and engineers tend to operate under the...
Making software...
Adaptable Flexbox Grid
Adaptable Flexbox Grid
2018-11-22
You can use flexbox for many tricky layout "hacks" and...
over a year ago
Adaptable Flexbox Grid
2018-11-22
You can use flexbox for many tricky layout "hacks" and implementing a grid layout is no different.
Check out the CodePen below to see how you can implement a flexbox grid system that adapts automatically based on how many items you insert per row...
Irrational...
Executive translation.
One of my most unexpectedly controversial posts
is Extract the Kernel, which argues
that executives...
3 months ago
One of my most unexpectedly controversial posts
is Extract the Kernel, which argues
that executives are generally directionally correct but specifically wrong,
and it’s your job to understand the overarching direction without getting
distracted by the narrow errors in their...
Alice GG
Stuff I've been working on
It’s been around 2 years that I’ve had to stop with my long-term addiction to stable jobs.
Quite a...
2 months ago
It’s been around 2 years that I’ve had to stop with my long-term addiction to stable jobs.
Quite a few people who read this blog are wondering what the hell exactly I’ve been doing since then so I’m going to update all of you on the various projects I’ve been working on.
Meme...
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Blogpost Annealing
Letting my writing improve under the heat of feedback
over a year ago
Letting my writing improve under the heat of feedback
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Simpifying AngularJS controllers with ES5 get / set
I've been developing an AngularJS application for the past year — and voila! here I am, alive and...
over a year ago
I've been developing an AngularJS application for the past year — and voila! here I am, alive and well. I'm not some crazy old fuck who thinks AngularJS is a promising new technology. Nor have I been waiting to publish this post for 3 years. It's just how things turned up for me....
Liz Denys
Denim coffee pitcher, 2024
Blue jeans / well worn leather / rows of cornflowers along a dirt path
8 months ago
Blue jeans / well worn leather / rows of cornflowers along a dirt path
TokyoDev
Tokyo Rubyist Meetup
Last night's [Tokyo Rubyist Meetup] had...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Digital Trees
Trees have many functions:
they provide shade,
they purify air,
they store carbon,
they grow...
6 months ago
Trees have many functions:
they provide shade,
they purify air,
they store carbon,
they grow fruit,
and they’re aesthetically pleasing.
What’s intriguing to me about trees is their return on investment (ROI).
It takes years, even decades, to grow a tree to the point where you...
alexwlchan
Getting faster Jekyll builds with caching in plugins
This website is a static site built with Jekyll, and recently I overhauled the process for...
8 months ago
This website is a static site built with Jekyll, and recently I overhauled the process for generating the site.
This should be invisible if you’re just a reader, but it makes a big difference to me – like any software project, I’d accumulated cruft and complexity, and it was time...
swyx's site RSS Feed
IE11 Mainstream End Of Life in Oct 2020
Making the case for Mainstream EOL of IE 11.
over a year ago
Making the case for Mainstream EOL of IE 11.
Kagi Blog
Kagi search introduces Team plan
Today we are excited to announce the launch of the Kagi search Team plan.
over a year ago
Today we are excited to announce the launch of the Kagi search Team plan.
macwright.com
Hacker News
Here’s some new JavaScript on this website. It’s
the only JavaScript on most pages, which are...
over a year ago
Here’s some new JavaScript on this website. It’s
the only JavaScript on most pages, which are otherwise
pretty minimal.
try {
if (document.referrer) {
const ref = new URL(document.referrer);
if (ref.host === 'news.ycombinator.com') {
window.location.href =...
Steve Klabnik
A 30 minute introduction to Rust
over a year ago
markround.com
Gig
Just looking through some old videos and found this footage of me going off on one at our gig in...
over a year ago
Just looking through some old videos and found this footage of me going off on one at our gig in February earlier this year, before the pandemic had really hit in the UK.
Feels like a lifetime ago now. I miss it.
Making software...
Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean
Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean
2021-02-02
Since my previous post walked through the...
over a year ago
Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean
2021-02-02
Since my previous post walked through the process of setting up Fathom PRO on Netlify, I figured it made sense to create a similar tutorial for the "Lite" variation, self-hosted on DigitalOcean.
Please note that while I...
Patrick Kayongo
Can I Speak To Someone?
On the evening of Sunday 6 August 2023, my wife and I were on a flight back to Johannesburg from...
a year ago
On the evening of Sunday 6 August 2023, my wife and I were on a flight back to Johannesburg from Heathrow Airport, London. After boarding, the flight remained on the runway for over an hour without taking off. Eventually, the pilot told us that due to the coup in Niger, the...
Coding Horror
Electric Geek Transportation Systems
I've never thought of myself as a "car person". The last new car I bought (and in fact, now that I...
over a year ago
I've never thought of myself as a "car person". The last new car I bought (and in fact, now that I think about it, the first new car I ever bought) was the quirky 1998 Ford Contour SVT. Since then we bought a VW station wagon
PostHog's RSS Feed
Introducing Phil Leggetter, our new head of Developer Relations
We’re proud to announce a new hire; Phil Leggetter will head up Developer Relations at PostHog....
over a year ago
We’re proud to announce a new hire; Phil Leggetter will head up Developer Relations at PostHog. Developer relations sits at the intersection of…
ntietz.com blog
Optimize sprint points to get nowhere fast
As developers, we can be metric obsessed. We tend to like objective measures of things. 99th...
a year ago
As developers, we can be metric obsessed. We tend to like objective measures of things. 99th percentile request times, CPU percentage, disk utilization. Nothing escapes our attempts to quantify it, not even our productivity: enter story points1.
We measure our productivity in...
Joel Gascoigne
Ways to bootstrap a startup: "working in waves"
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over a year ago
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I’ve spent the last year and a half after graduating from the University of
Warwick juggling working on startups and working as a contract web developer.
I’d like to share some of my reflections...
Irrational...
Notes on Technology Strategy Patterns
Technology Strategy Patterns by Eben Hewitt is a methods-based approach to engineering strategy,...
a year ago
Technology Strategy Patterns by Eben Hewitt is a methods-based approach to engineering strategy, with a particular focus on the methods wielded by McKinsey consultants, software engineering mainstays like Thoughtworks, and philosophy. A valuable read for anyone looking to build...
The Pragmatic...
Open source business model struggles at WordPress
Automattic, creator of Wordpress, is being sued by one of the largest WordPress hosting providers....
2 months ago
Automattic, creator of Wordpress, is being sued by one of the largest WordPress hosting providers. The conflict fits into a trend of billion-dollar companies struggling to effectively monetize open source, and are changing tactics to limit their competition and increase their...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Creating an employee-friendly startup share option scheme
If you’ve ever worked for a startup, or read about a Unicorn tech company turning employees into...
over a year ago
If you’ve ever worked for a startup, or read about a Unicorn tech company turning employees into multi-millionaires overnight, chances are you've…
macwright.com
CSS Roundup
I’ve been writing some CSS. My satisfaction with CSS ebbs and flows: sometimes I’m happy with its...
10 months ago
I’ve been writing some CSS. My satisfaction with CSS ebbs and flows: sometimes I’m happy with its new features like :has, but on the other hand, CSS is one of the areas where you really often get bitten by browser incompatibilities. I remember the old days of JavaScript in which...
A Beautiful Site
I switched from tabs to spaces and haven't looked back
Last week I started using spaces to indent code instead of tabs. It's something I swore I would...
over a year ago
Last week I started using spaces to indent code instead of tabs. It's something I swore I would never do, but I'm glad I finally did.
Why I always preferred tabs #
Tabs are sensible. They were made to indent things, and code needs to be indented, so it was a good relationship....
Elad Blog
Discussion w Arthur Mensch, CEO of Mistral AI
Mistral launched multiple LLM models in less then 1 year from founding. We discuss
9 months ago
Mistral launched multiple LLM models in less then 1 year from founding. We discuss
Patrick Kayongo
Super Apps vs WhatsApp
Over the last little while, there has been this rise in Super Apps, these apps that attempt to be...
over a year ago
Over the last little while, there has been this rise in Super Apps, these apps that attempt to be multi-functional “mobile malls”. In South Africa, Vodacom has released VodaPay where one can “enter” multiple stores to shop their products. Nedbank has Avo where one can also shop...
Alex Meub
My Mac OSX Setup
Application Installs
Homebrew is a ridiculously good package management system for OSX. It’s a huge...
over a year ago
Application Installs
Homebrew is a ridiculously good package management system for OSX. It’s a huge step above MacPorts and Fink when it comes to installing and managing open source software.
Spectacle is a free window resizing utility that gives you keyboard shortcuts to resize...
Ink & Switch
Crosscut: Drawing Dynamic Models
Uniting the directness of pen & paper with the dynamism of software.
over a year ago
Uniting the directness of pen & paper with the dynamism of software.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Domain Sins of My Youth
I recently received a reminder to renew a domain I use for a rather frivolous side project.
At the...
a year ago
I recently received a reminder to renew a domain I use for a rather frivolous side project.
At the checkout screen, I realized it would cost me $105 to renew this domain for 5 years.
Why 5 years?
Right now my disposition is: if I plan on keeping a domain for as long as possible I...
TokyoDev
Converting a Japanese Sole Proprietorship to a Company
As I talk about in my article on [creating a company in...
11 months ago
As I talk about in my article on [creating a company in Japan](https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/creating-company-japan), I initially ran TokyoDev as a sole proprietorship, but in late 2022 converted it to a company. This involved three steps:
1. Incorporate TokyoDev Inc, a...
Posts on Nikita...
Family Photos vs 256 Kb RAM
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters.
A while ago I was thinking about making something nice for my...
a year ago
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters.
A while ago I was thinking about making something nice for my wife as a present for the Valentine’s Day. My eye caught a rather cool-looking 7-color eInk display with Raspberry Pico W on board - Pimoroni Inky Frame. From the first glance it...
Seán Barry
Using snippets in sublime text to speed up your development
How to leverage tools like snippets to speed up the development process and increase your...
over a year ago
How to leverage tools like snippets to speed up the development process and increase your efficiency.
ntietz.com blog
RC Week 6: Halfway done, wrote a parser!
I'm halfway done with my RC batch now.
Time feels like it has sped up.
The feeling that my time at...
over a year ago
I'm halfway done with my RC batch now.
Time feels like it has sped up.
The feeling that my time at RC is infinite is gone.
This was compounded by seeing folks from the Fall 1 batch conclude their batches yesterday.
We'll get a new boost from the Winter 1 batch joining on Monday,...
Vadim Kravcenko
Rules of Thumb for Software Development Estimations
First, I planned on calling this article “Mastering the Art of Estimations: A Definitive Guide for...
a year ago
First, I planned on calling this article “Mastering the Art of Estimations: A Definitive Guide for Developers”, but then who […]
The post Rules of Thumb for Software Development Estimations appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Joel on Software
Making the web better. With blocks!
You’ve probably seen web editors based on the idea of blocks. I’m typing this in WordPress, which...
over a year ago
You’ve probably seen web editors based on the idea of blocks. I’m typing this in WordPress, which has a little + button that brings up a long… Read more "Making the web better. With blocks!"
Making software...
Goodbye CSS Preprocessors
Goodbye CSS Preprocessors
2017-09-07
I have been using preprocessors across all my side projects...
over a year ago
Goodbye CSS Preprocessors
2017-09-07
I have been using preprocessors across all my side projects since they first popped onto the scene. Sass, Stylus, LESS — you name the CSS preprocessor and I've most likely used it because CSS preprocessors are awesome.
But that all changes...
TokyoDev
A Proposal for the Translation of RubyKaigi
[RubyKaigi](http://rubykaigi.org/) and more recently [Sapporo Ruby...
over a year ago
[RubyKaigi](http://rubykaigi.org/) and more recently [Sapporo Ruby Kaigi](http://sapporo.rubykaigi.org/2012/en/) have been providing realtime translation services. The way this has worked is that volunteers listen to the speakers presentation, and simultaneously translate it to...
David Heinemeier...
Back to America
After spending much of the past three years in Denmark, our family is returning to America full time...
a year ago
After spending much of the past three years in Denmark, our family is returning to America full time this summer. The original reasons for temporarily emigrating – the prolonged school lockdowns and other pandemic madness – have long since evaporated, and we've had a solid chance...
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Singapore H1B1 Tips
> Aug 2019 edit: I don't know the exact date I wrote this but it was [originally on...
over a year ago
> Aug 2019 edit: I don't know the exact date I wrote this but it was [originally on /r/sg](https://www.reddit.com/r/singapore/comments/7nflav/h1b1_visa_ama/) about 1yr ago. Please also read this blogpost from /u/omakaselife!...
Making software...
Stop Using Hamburger Menus
Stop Using Hamburger Menus
2023-05-04
I recently tooted about my hatred of website hamburger menus...
a year ago
Stop Using Hamburger Menus
2023-05-04
I recently tooted about my hatred of website hamburger menus which was met with a surprising amount of support from other users. It seems like most people don't actually like hamburger menus. So why do we, as developers, keep using them in...
Posts on Nikita...
Switching From C++ to Rust
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters.
I have been writing C++ professionally for the last 4 years...
a year ago
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters.
I have been writing C++ professionally for the last 4 years and 3 months ago I started a new job in Rust. I would like to share my experience and thoughts on the transition between 2 languages.
Disclaimer: This article is not a C++ vs Rust...
alexwlchan
Fare-Wellcome Collection
I still remember the first time I visited Wellcome Collection – just over seven years ago.
I was...
a year ago
I still remember the first time I visited Wellcome Collection – just over seven years ago.
I was living and working in the Cambridge at the time, and I’d come into London for the day to hang out with a friend who lived near King’s Cross.
We wandered up the Euston Road, popped...
Joel Gascoigne
Achieving overnight success: Tom Preston-Werner
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over a year ago
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This is the second article in my achieving overnight success
[https://joel.is/tagged/achieving-overnight-success] series where I aim to dispel
the myth of overnight success. To do this, I look...
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
The ChatGPT vs Bear Blog spam war
Ever since Bear Blog's infancy, spam has been an issue. Free services tend to attract those seeking...
a year ago
Ever since Bear Blog's infancy, spam has been an issue. Free services tend to attract those seeking to exploit them for backlinks and the alleged SEO benefits (although this is debatable given updates to the Google algorithm). I've previously discussed this in a post, detailing...
Making software...
Keynote Slides with Pure CSS
Keynote Slides with Pure CSS
2020-06-22
There are a great deal of options available on the web and...
over a year ago
Keynote Slides with Pure CSS
2020-06-22
There are a great deal of options available on the web and built into most operating systems when you need to create presentation / keynote slides. You could use native software like LibremOffice Impress, Powerpoint, Apple's Keynote, etc....
bt RSS Feed
Skip to Content Button
Skip to Content Button
2019-03-25
One of the golden rules for testing your website’s accessibility...
over a year ago
Skip to Content Button
2019-03-25
One of the golden rules for testing your website’s accessibility is the “keyboard-only” audit. This is where you test navigating through your entire site without the use of a mouse, but instead rely solely on tabbing through your...
Epic Web Dev
Fixing a form validation bug in the Epic Stack (tip)
Learn how a web developer fixed a form validation bug in the Epic Stack. Follow their step-by-step...
a year ago
Learn how a web developer fixed a form validation bug in the Epic Stack. Follow their step-by-step guide and find out how they addressed the issue.
Making software...
CSS: Indenting Text
CSS: Indenting Text
2019-04-05
A lot of developers tend to do the bare minimum when it comes to...
over a year ago
CSS: Indenting Text
2019-04-05
A lot of developers tend to do the bare minimum when it comes to implementing proper website typography. This isn't an insult - I'm happy that typography is given any thought at all during development, I just believe more can always be done to...
Josh Collinsworth
Classic rock, Mario Kart, and why we can't agree on Tailwind
It's popular to say we can’t agree on Tailwind, but I posit we actually already do. I think what we...
a year ago
It's popular to say we can’t agree on Tailwind, but I posit we actually already do. I think what we actually disagree on isn’t the details of this (or any) specific software; it's in what we value, and how we each define assets and liabilities.
Joel Gascoigne
What are your top 3 challenges?
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
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* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
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There are a few...
over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
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There are a few key things which looking back I remember I was very bad at. One
of them was asking people for advice.
I think a key turning point with this was when we raised funding for...
On Test Automation
On life as an independent contractor right now
Before I start: I’m writing this both to clear my head and to vent / rant a little, but also in...
2 months ago
Before I start: I’m writing this both to clear my head and to vent / rant a little, but also in response to people both from the Netherlands and from abroad who have shown interest in working as an independent contractor over here.
As Google Analytics tell me only a small portion...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Why 'Product Engineer' is the most fun role I've had in tech
In my career so far (admittedly not that long, though no one mistakes me for a college kid any...
a year ago
In my career so far (admittedly not that long, though no one mistakes me for a college kid any longer, womp womp) I've done a little bit of a lot…
alexwlchan
Finding a tricky bug in Elasticsearch 8.4.2
A few weeks ago, I helped to find a bug in Elasticsearch 8.4.2.
We’d started seeing issues in our...
over a year ago
A few weeks ago, I helped to find a bug in Elasticsearch 8.4.2.
We’d started seeing issues in our Elastic cluster at work, and I was able to isolate the issue in a small, reproducible test case.
I shared my code with Elastic engineers, and that helped them identify and fix the...
Irrational...
Testing strategy: avoid the waterfall strategy trap with iterative refinement.
If I could only popularize one idea about technical strategy, it would be that
prematurely applying...
3 months ago
If I could only popularize one idea about technical strategy, it would be that
prematurely applying pressure to a strategy’s rollout prevents evaluating whether the strategy is effective.
Pressure changes behavior in profound ways, and many of those changes are intended to make...
Tinloof - Blog
How to make and test your own React drag and drop list with 0 dependencies
I know, drag and drop is a solved problem. There are several great utilities you can use to easily...
over a year ago
I know, drag and drop is a solved problem. There are several great utilities you can use to easily have a drag and drop list in your application (dragula, react-beautiful-dnd, and react-dnd). These libraries offer APIs that make it easy to meet your needs without worrying about...
Miguel Carranza
The privilege of free education
There are 50 public universities in Spain. The majority of Spanish students end up attending the...
over a year ago
There are 50 public universities in Spain. The majority of Spanish students end up attending the closest school to their family home. A particular degree not being taught nearby, or not getting in (mostly due to the limited number of seats) are the main exceptions for traveling...
Kagi Blog
Summarize anything with the Universal Summarizer
Universal Summarizer ( https://kagi.com/summarizer ) is an AI-powered tool for instantly summarizing...
a year ago
Universal Summarizer ( https://kagi.com/summarizer ) is an AI-powered tool for instantly summarizing just about any content of any type and any length, by simply providing a URL address (and soon ( #roadmap ) by uploading a file).
A Smart Bear
Discount gambit
Discounting is the typical sales technique, but refusing to discount can lead to a much better...
a year ago
Discounting is the typical sales technique, but refusing to discount can lead to a much better business, even in the Enterprise.
ntietz.com blog
What I tell people new to on-call
The first time I went on call as a software engineer, it was exciting—and ultimately...
3 months ago
The first time I went on call as a software engineer, it was exciting—and ultimately traumatic.
Since then, I've had on-call experiences at multiple other jobs and have grown to really appreciate it as part of the role.
As I've progressed through my career, I've gotten to help...
Jake Zimmerman
What if typing on phones was fast?
a month ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Hacker News Clones
Every once in a while, I’ll have a post gain traction over on ye ole’ orange site (Hacker News).
I...
2 months ago
Every once in a while, I’ll have a post gain traction over on ye ole’ orange site (Hacker News).
I find out about it because my analytics digest will get a yuge uptick in page views.
What’s interesting is all the referral sources that show up in my analytics. The Hacker News is...
Acko.net
Who Doesn't Go Nazi?
The essay "Who goes Nazi" (1941) by Dorothy Thompson is a commonly cited classic. Through a...
over a year ago
The essay "Who goes Nazi" (1941) by Dorothy Thompson is a commonly cited classic. Through a fictional dinner party, we are introduced to various characters and personalities. Thompson analyzes whether they would or wouldn't make particularly good nazis.
Supposedly it comes down...
PostHog's RSS Feed
What we've learned about talking to users
This post is from our Substack newsletter, Product for Engineers . It's all about helping engineers...
a year ago
This post is from our Substack newsletter, Product for Engineers . It's all about helping engineers and founders build better products by learning…
PostHog's RSS Feed
In-depth: ClickHouse vs Druid
Contrary to what the names might suggest, ClickHouse isn’t an TikTok influencer house and Druid...
a year ago
Contrary to what the names might suggest, ClickHouse isn’t an TikTok influencer house and Druid isn’t (just) a D&D character class – they're both…
swyx's site RSS Feed
Firebase Analytics in 30 Seconds
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over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to allow popups in dynamically created webviews in Electron.js
My smol menubar project utilizes Electron's special webview tag to dynamically generate a list of...
a year ago
My smol menubar project utilizes Electron's special webview tag to dynamically generate a list of sub browser windows for chat. For the last couple months I've had an issue with the SSO popups in this, namely that they just don't work at all, presumably because Electron blocks...
Liz Denys
A better grumpy fuzzball cake: just one of the many reasons I love buttercream more than fondant
Last September, I baked a grumpy fuzzball cake for SIPB. That grumpy fuzzball cake was frosted...
over a year ago
Last September, I baked a grumpy fuzzball cake for SIPB. That grumpy fuzzball cake was frosted primarily with rolled fondant, a dough-like frosting that is made with gelatin, food-grade glycerine, and the usual frosting suspects. But I don't love the taste or texture of fondant....
swyx's site RSS Feed
Medical Machine Learning in 30 Seconds
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over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
A Well Known URL For Your Personal Avatar
Well-known URLs are pretty neat. I’ve even dared propose one before here on my blog.
And now I’m...
a year ago
Well-known URLs are pretty neat. I’ve even dared propose one before here on my blog.
And now I’m here to propose another:
.well-known/avatar
The idea is: anybody that owns a domain can put their avatar in a well-known location.
I’ve already implemented this for my own site[1]....
swyx's site RSS Feed
Notes on 'Metaphysics and JavaScript'
_[Slides...
over a year ago
_[Slides here](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_aeM_UkwS9qaSzHDz87zC9bmtvbuLbPof7RnN96SJKE/edit?usp=sharing)_
A Smart Bear
Pivot Points
Not "enabling constraints", not "weaknesses", not even "strengths". The concept of a "Pivot Point"...
3 months ago
Not "enabling constraints", not "weaknesses", not even "strengths". The concept of a "Pivot Point" grapples with the same reality, but more constructive and useful.
orlp.net - Blog...
Extracting and Depositing Bits
Suppose you have a 64-bit word and wish to extract a couple bits from it.
For example you just...
11 months ago
Suppose you have a 64-bit word and wish to extract a couple bits from it.
For example you just performed a SWAR
algorithm and wish to extract the least significant bit of each byte in the u64.
This is simple enough, you simply perform a binary AND with a mask of
the bits you wish...
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
Cities need more trees
A case for planting more trees in urban areas.
6 months ago
A case for planting more trees in urban areas.
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...
a year ago
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...
On Test Automation
RestAssured .NET in 2024 - a review
As a (sort of) follow-up post to my yearly review for 2024, in this post, I would like to go over...
2 weeks ago
As a (sort of) follow-up post to my yearly review for 2024, in this post, I would like to go over the changes, bug fixes and new features that have been introduced in RestAssured .NET in 2024. This year, I released 7 new versions of the library, and while none of the versions...
Tony Finch's blog
The unix69 keyboard layout: nerdy and nice
A proper Unix keyboard layout must have escape next to 1 and control
next to A.
Compared to the...
a year ago
A proper Unix keyboard layout must have escape next to 1 and control
next to A.
Compared to the usual ANSI layout, backquote is displaced from its
common position next to 1. But a proper Unix keyboard should cover
the entire ASCII repertoire, 94 printing characters on 47 keys,...
Josh Collinsworth
Understanding the Difference Between Image and Vector File Types
If you’re like me, you’ve probably spent some time wondering (and Googling) about the differences...
over a year ago
If you’re like me, you’ve probably spent some time wondering (and Googling) about the differences between various popular format types commonly used for graphic design applications. So I decided I’d create a resource that’s hopefully a handy reference on the matter of discerning...
Neil Panchal
Teaching how to code is broken
Typically:
Chapter 1: Types
Chapter 2: Variables
Chapter 3: Operators/Math
Chapter 4: Control...
over a year ago
Typically:
Chapter 1: Types
Chapter 2: Variables
Chapter 3: Operators/Math
Chapter 4: Control structures
Chapter 5: Arrays
Chapter 6: Functions
Chapter 7: Structs
Chapter 8: Classes and Objects
Chapter 9: Methods
Chapter 10: Inheritance and Polymorphism
Chapter 11: Some advanced...
David Heinemeier...
Apple’s new extortion regime to keep big app makers
Apple’s recent threat of financial audits for developers who dare link to their own website was a...
11 months ago
Apple’s recent threat of financial audits for developers who dare link to their own website was a big, revealing moment to a lot of people. Folks who perhaps didn’t think Apple would be “that kind of company”. That they wouldn't so blatantly threaten developers into compliance...
TokyoDev
The 2022 International Developers in Japan survey results are live!
In October 2022, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan. [The results are...
over a year ago
In October 2022, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan. [The results are now live](/insights/2022-developer-survey), please check them out!
This year's survey had 42 questions, up from 24 questions for [2021's...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Using Google Analytics was deemed 'illegal' in some EU countries. We built a microsite in 48 hours...
On January 14, 2022, the world learned that Austria had declared Google Analytics to be illegal (in...
over a year ago
On January 14, 2022, the world learned that Austria had declared Google Analytics to be illegal (in its default form), since it transmits IP addresses…
Confessions of a...
Everything You Wanted to Know About Profilers in Python
Learn what profilers are, when to use them and quick demo of few profilers for Python
7 months ago
Learn what profilers are, when to use them and quick demo of few profilers for Python
Darek Kay
Video subtitles, captions, audio descriptions and transcripts
As I was preparing the requirements for an accessible web video player, there was some confusion...
a year ago
As I was preparing the requirements for an accessible web video player, there was some confusion around subtitles, closed captions, audio descriptions and transcripts. In this post, I use interactive examples to show the difference. I also provide related success criteria from...
wingolog
whippet progress update: feature-complete!
Greetings, gentle readers. Today, an update on recent progress in the
embeddable...
3 months ago
Greetings, gentle readers. Today, an update on recent progress in the
embeddable garbage
collection library.Whippet
When I started working on Whippet, two and a half years ago already, I
was aiming to make a new garbage collector for
. In the beginning I was just
focussing on...
ntietz.com blog
What would a web app canary look like?
Recently, I listened to an interview with Haroon Meer, the founder of a company focused on...
a year ago
Recently, I listened to an interview with Haroon Meer, the founder of a company focused on honeypots.
Honeypots (also known as canaries or tripwires) are used to detect network intrusions and people nosing around at things they're not supposed to.
They are an essential component...
David Heinemeier...
It’s easier to forgive a human than a robot
One of the reasons I think AI is going to have a hard time taking over all our driving duties, our...
11 months ago
One of the reasons I think AI is going to have a hard time taking over all our driving duties, our medical care, or even just our customer support interactions, is that being as good as a human isn’t good enough for a robot. They need to be computer good. That is, virtually...
Charles Chen
Your Interview Process Is Too Damn Long (and How To Fix It)
Long interview processes have become a bane in the tech industry. Can we fix it?
a year ago
Long interview processes have become a bane in the tech industry. Can we fix it?
swyx's site RSS Feed
Networking Essentials: DNS
Domain names, you buy them, you sell them, but how do they work?
over a year ago
Domain names, you buy them, you sell them, but how do they work?
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...
over a year ago
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...
David Heinemeier...
Where next for DEI?
It was a rough 2023 for DEI. After the ideology completely conquered both the corporate and cultural...
11 months ago
It was a rough 2023 for DEI. After the ideology completely conquered both the corporate and cultural world from 2020-2022, the reversal last year was astounding. The Supreme Court ruled the use of race in college admissions illegal, Ibram X. Kendi’s Antiracst Research center fell...
swyx's site RSS Feed
(incomplete) Getting your O1 Visa as Fast as Possible (2024)
I have just received my O1A Visa and like for the H1B1, I figured I should write down my experience,...
a year ago
I have just received my O1A Visa and like for the H1B1, I figured I should write down my experience, thoughts, and tips for those who may wish to make the same journey. Note that I am not a professional at this, I'm just a guy who recently went through it so dont rely on me for...
Stephen Wolfram...
Computing the Eclipse: Astronomy in the Wolfram Language
Basic Eclipse Computation It’s taken millennia to get to the point where it’s possible to accurately...
9 months ago
Basic Eclipse Computation It’s taken millennia to get to the point where it’s possible to accurately compute eclipses. But now—as a tiny part of making “everything in the world” computable—computation about eclipses is just a built-in feature of the Wolfram Language. The core...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Advanced markdown processing in Go
Using gomarkdown/markdown library
This article describes an advanced markdown processing...
a year ago
Using gomarkdown/markdown library
This article describes an advanced markdown processing in Go using gomarkdown/markdown library.
All the code examples are available at https://github.com/gomarkdown/markdown/tree/master/examples
Basics first
Here’s a good...
Making software...
Simple Does Not Mean Ugly
Simple Does Not Mean Ugly
2019-03-26
I see new blog posts popping up now and again advocating for...
over a year ago
Simple Does Not Mean Ugly
2019-03-26
I see new blog posts popping up now and again advocating for designers to keep their products as simple as possible - and I couldn't agree more.
A lot of designers tend to think they need to reinvent the wheel when it comes to UI concepts that...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Christmas Day
It’s Christmas circa 2004.
My teenage brothers, sisters, and I have all finished opening presents...
5 days ago
It’s Christmas circa 2004.
My teenage brothers, sisters, and I have all finished opening presents and we’re more than content to have absolutely nothing to do — it’s Christmas day after all!
But not Dad. He’s in the bathroom laying tile.
Again, this is Christmas day and Dad is on...
Josh Comeau's blog
The “const” Deception
The “const” keyword in JavaScript is used to create constants, variables that can't change....
a year ago
The “const” keyword in JavaScript is used to create constants, variables that can't change. Curiously, though, we do seem to be able to edit objects and arrays that are created using “const”. In this tutorial, we're going to dig into the incredibly-important distinction between...
Steve Klabnik
Nobody understands REST or HTTP
over a year ago
Tony Finch's blog
Slower DNS name decompression
In a previous entry, I wrote about making DNS name decompression
faster by moving work left on this...
over a year ago
In a previous entry, I wrote about making DNS name decompression
faster by moving work left on this diagram so that we do
less of it:
names < pointers < labels < bytes
Last week I had a bright idea about that leftmost step, moving
per-pointer work to per-name, using some...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Making your first startup ops hire – what founders should look for
Most founders I talk to approach their first ops hire in a totally sensible but wrong way. Their...
a year ago
Most founders I talk to approach their first ops hire in a totally sensible but wrong way. Their typical approach is to look at the long list of admin…
bt RSS Feed
Convert Files to HTML with macOS Automator Quick Actions
Convert Files to HTML with macOS Automator Quick Actions
2022-01-28
Since a few people have reached...
over a year ago
Convert Files to HTML with macOS Automator Quick Actions
2022-01-28
Since a few people have reached out and thanked me for my previous post Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator, I thought I would continue to share more of my own custom Automator Quick Actions....
Charles Chen
Using useMemo and useCallback to Save the Past from React Langoliers
If you're confused about useMemo and useCallback and you have 10 minutes and nostalgia for 90’s...
a year ago
If you're confused about useMemo and useCallback and you have 10 minutes and nostalgia for 90’s sci-fi? You came to the right place!
bt RSS Feed
Migrating from GitHub to sourcehut
Migrating from GitHub to sourcehut
2022-11-14
It has taken a little bit longer than I anticipated,...
over a year ago
Migrating from GitHub to sourcehut
2022-11-14
It has taken a little bit longer than I anticipated, but I have finally started to port over all my personal open-source projects to sourcehut.org. I’ll get into the why and how momentarily, but first let’s take a look at all the...
Ink & Switch
Ink & Switch Unconference [2024 / Los Angeles]
Our third Ink & Switch Unconference, at the beautifully retro Preserve in Los Angeles
2 months ago
Our third Ink & Switch Unconference, at the beautifully retro Preserve in Los Angeles
ntietz.com blog -...
Parsing MIDI messages in Rust
I'm working on a terrible idea of a project, and this project uses MIDI.
That means I need a MIDI...
3 weeks ago
I'm working on a terrible idea of a project, and this project uses MIDI.
That means I need a MIDI implementation!
I chose to use an existing library, midir, to connect to devices and receive messages.
But the reason I was interested in this not-yet-announced project is because I...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Is Making Websites Hard, Or Do We Make It Hard? Or Is It Some of Both?
Johan Halse has a post called “Care” where he talks about having to provide web tech support to his...
10 months ago
Johan Halse has a post called “Care” where he talks about having to provide web tech support to his parents:
My father called me in exasperation last night after trying and failing to book a plane ticket. I find myself having to go over to their house and do things like switch...
A Beautiful Site
Is your product the reason your startup is failing?
The idea of launching a product, running your own business, and being your own boss is very...
over a year ago
The idea of launching a product, running your own business, and being your own boss is very appealing. Perhaps that's why so many people risk doing it. The problem is, many of them don't succeed.
There are hundreds of reasons a startup can fail, but let's focus on one for a...
Marco.org
WatchKit is a sweet solution that will only ever give us baby apps
In the original 2007 iPhone introduction, Steve Jobs famously derided other smartphones at the time...
over a year ago
In the original 2007 iPhone introduction, Steve Jobs famously derided other smartphones at the time for running “baby” software and the “baby” internet. He was right.
Developers weren’t given access to make native apps until the iPhone’s second year. Before the native development...
Marco.org
Clip sharing with Overcast
Sharing podcasts has never been easy, but I’ve always tried to lead the way with Overcast, with...
over a year ago
Sharing podcasts has never been easy, but I’ve always tried to lead the way with Overcast, with publicly shareable episode links and optional recommendations from your Twitter friends since version 1.0 in 2014.
Podcast sharing has been limited to audio and links, but today’s...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Amazing Athletes of the 21st Century
Read more about RSS Club.
Content warning: wherein I talk about sports. If that’s not your...
5 months ago
Read more about RSS Club.
Content warning: wherein I talk about sports. If that’s not your thing, feel free to skip this one.
I’m not a rabid sports fan. I don’t have a team, though I do have teams I hate (or rather, like to hate on). But I do enjoy following sports.
I’ve...
Tinloof - Blog
A basic introduction to functional programming principles in ReasonML
Functional programming is a programming paradigm based on several principles such as immutability...
over a year ago
Functional programming is a programming paradigm based on several principles such as immutability and purity.
ReasonML extends the functional language OCaml and compiles to JavaScript.
This article aims to introduce you to some very basic functional principles present in...
Joel Gascoigne's...
Fourteen years
Fourteen years
It's a little hard to believe. Fourteen years ago today, I launched Buffer from my...
a month ago
Fourteen years
It's a little hard to believe. Fourteen years ago today, I launched Buffer from my apartment in Birmingham, in the UK. The launch came seven weeks after I started working on the project on the side as a contract web developer. For a few weeks, I called it bfffr...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Perfect Restaurant
This is a *rant* of uninformed thoughts and theories about running a restaurant.
over a year ago
This is a *rant* of uninformed thoughts and theories about running a restaurant.
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Git the stupid password store
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GIT - the stupid content tracker
“git” can mean anything, depending on...
5 months ago
.title {text-wrap:balance;}
GIT - the stupid content tracker
“git” can mean anything, depending on your mood.
– Linus Torvalds, Initial
revision of “git”, the information manager from hell
Like most git features, gitcredentials(7)
are obscure, byzantine, and incredibly...
Ink & Switch
End-user Programming
A vision for empowered computing that reaches back forty years. Our research lab examines why it has...
over a year ago
A vision for empowered computing that reaches back forty years. Our research lab examines why it has been so hard to achieve.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Interview on Will Larson's Infrastructure Engineering
a reprint of my interview on Will Larson's InfraEng project.
over a year ago
a reprint of my interview on Will Larson's InfraEng project.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Unofficial VS Code Snippets for AWS Amplify
making my own vs code snippets helpers for working with AWS Amplify
over a year ago
making my own vs code snippets helpers for working with AWS Amplify
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.24.0
Welcome to The PostHog Array 1.24.0! Quite a lot has changed since we last talked... Community MVP...
over a year ago
Welcome to The PostHog Array 1.24.0! Quite a lot has changed since we last talked... Community MVP 🏆 This release cycle's Community MVP goes to…
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Growing my team 4x has been a pain. Can we do better?
My name is Vladimir, and I'm an engineering manager of a team building a banking app. Following the...
8 months ago
My name is Vladimir, and I'm an engineering manager of a team building a banking app. Following the success of our core banking product, we've decided to expand to other financial services. In the last four months my team has grown 4x, going from a 4-person team to 4 teams...
PostHog's RSS Feed
What is SSO and why you should enable it for PostHog
Existing at an intersection of convenience and security, single sign-on (SSO) authentication is used...
over a year ago
Existing at an intersection of convenience and security, single sign-on (SSO) authentication is used and appreciated by both IT teams and everyday…
Epic Web Dev
The Web’s Next Transition
Web is made up of technologies that got started over 25 years ago. Now, we are transitioning to a...
over a year ago
Web is made up of technologies that got started over 25 years ago. Now, we are transitioning to a new and improved architecture for building web applications.
ntietz.com blog
Approximating pi using... a cake?
Happy Pi Day, fellow nerds!
This is a holiday I've celebrated every year since at least 2010, and...
a year ago
Happy Pi Day, fellow nerds!
This is a holiday I've celebrated every year since at least 2010, and I'm not stopping anytime soon.
The celebrations have evolved.
It used to be just "bake a pie" and "haha pi, pie".
Over time, I twisted it a bit (pizza is a pie of sorts! a cake with...
Darek Kay
Create uniform album art images with ImageMagick
Call me old-fashioned, but despite using streaming services, I like to own the music I listen to....
over a year ago
Call me old-fashioned, but despite using streaming services, I like to own the music I listen to. This also means I'm handling album cover images that come in different sizes and ratios. Recently I wrote a script to unify the image size:
The base image size should be 500×500...
David Gerrells
How fast is rust? Simulating 200,000,000 particles
The challenge, simulate 100,000,000 particles in rust using only the cpu. Let’s go.
a month ago
The challenge, simulate 100,000,000 particles in rust using only the cpu. Let’s go.
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...
a week ago
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...
macwright.com
Don't use marked
With all love to the maintainers, who are good people and are to some extent bound by their...
11 months ago
With all love to the maintainers, who are good people and are to some extent bound by their obligation to maintain compatibility, I just have to put it out there: if you have a new JavaScript/TypeScript project and you need to parse or render Markdown, why are you using...
On Life and Lisp
AAA gaming on Asahi Linux
Gaming on Linux on M1 is here! We’re thrilled to release our Asahi
game playing toolkit, which...
2 months ago
Gaming on Linux on M1 is here! We’re thrilled to release our Asahi
game playing toolkit, which integrates our Vulkan 1.3 drivers with x86
emulation and Windows compatibility. Plus a bonus: conformant OpenCL
3.0.
Asahi Linux now ships the only conformant OpenGL®,
OpenCL™,
and...
Paolo Amoroso's...
My Common Lisp setup on Linux
<![CDATA[Now that I'm back to Lisp I'm actively exploring Interlisp as a Common Lisp environment...
a year ago
<![CDATA[Now that I'm back to Lisp I'm actively exploring Interlisp as a Common Lisp environment too.
But to code in Common Lisp also on my Crostini Linux system, the Linux container of chromeOS I use on a Chromebox, I'm setting up a suitable development environment. In addition...
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What if Stripe is the next Google?
Working out a thought exercise by Paul Graham.
over a year ago
Working out a thought exercise by Paul Graham.
Words and Buttons...
[Republishing] Redundant stories about redundancy
Component redundancy is used heavily in safety-critical and mission-critical systems for reliability...
over a year ago
Component redundancy is used heavily in safety-critical and mission-critical systems for reliability improvement. But outside this niche, it's surprisingly little known in the world of software. Which is a shame since it's a simple but economical idea. It costs nothing to keep in...
charity.wtf
How to Throw A Company Offsite In A “Post-COVID” World
Earlier this month we had our first Honeycomb all-hands offsite in three years … our first one since...
a year ago
Earlier this month we had our first Honeycomb all-hands offsite in three years … our first one since February of 2020, before the plague. It was wonderful and glorious and silly and energizing and so, so SO much fun. It was a potent reminder of the reality that no virtual...
Steve Klabnik
Single text, many masters
over a year ago
A Smart Bear
Legacy
Humans have always tried to live forever. Maybe you can, but not in the way you imagine.
3 months ago
Humans have always tried to live forever. Maybe you can, but not in the way you imagine.
TokyoDev
Rakuten and Globalization
Hiroshi Mikitani started [Rakuten's Technology Conference] in English,
but quickly switched to...
over a year ago
Hiroshi Mikitani started [Rakuten's Technology Conference] in English,
but quickly switched to Japanese. He claimed there was a strong demand
from the Japanese participants for him to present in Japanese. This
shows how much work ahead of him he has if Rakuten is going to meet...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Make useRef lazy — 4 ways
I love useRef, but it lacks the lazy initializer functionality found in other hooks (useState /...
over a year ago
I love useRef, but it lacks the lazy initializer functionality found in other hooks (useState / useReducer / useMemo). useRef({ x: 0, y: 0 }) creates an object { x: 0, y: 0 } on every render, but only uses it when mounting — it subsequent renders it's thrown away. With useState,...
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The Radiating Circles of DX Architecture
> This post was originally published on my new dedicated DX site: https://dx.tips/circles
over a year ago
> This post was originally published on my new dedicated DX site: https://dx.tips/circles
bt RSS Feed
How to "FLOSS" as a Web Designer
How to “FLOSS” as a Web Designer
2020-02-07
I have a profound respect for the open source community....
over a year ago
How to “FLOSS” as a Web Designer
2020-02-07
I have a profound respect for the open source community. I most likely wouldn’t have the skills or knowledge I do today with it. Unfortunately, when I was just starting out in “web dev” some 10 years ago, proprietary software was the...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
There’s Something You Need to Know About Web Design and Development
You’re doing great at it.
(❤️ from Bluey: Baby Race)
Email, Twitter,
Mastodon
a year ago
You’re doing great at it.
(❤️ from Bluey: Baby Race)
Email, Twitter,
Mastodon
Writing - Andreas...
The siren call of wrong-way dependencies
Dependencies that point in the wrong direction are one of the easiest and
most costly design...
3 months ago
Dependencies that point in the wrong direction are one of the easiest and
most costly design mistakes one can make.
Liz Denys
Liz rides the subway on September 19, 2016: Monday morning in New York and an emergency alert
Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway. On the 2 train to work,...
over a year ago
Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway. On the 2 train to work, after watching two men of color have their bags searched at Grand Army Plaza:
I woke up today to my phone beeping in a pattern that wasn't my alarm:
WANTED: Ahmad Khan Rahami,...
HTMHell
#17 inaccessible cards
Context: A list of linked cards, each with heading, image, and teaser text.
Bad code
<section>
...
over a year ago
Context: A list of linked cards, each with heading, image, and teaser text.
Bad code
<section>
<section>
<h2>Overview</h2>
<figure class="card" data-url="image1.html" style="background: url(image1.jpg)">
<figcaption>
<h4>My heading</h4>
...
Joel Gascoigne
Giving your startup a point of view
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
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Something I’ve...
over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
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Something I’ve mentioned before at the start of a post
[https://joel.is/post/4132813715/acting-with-incomplete-information-in-a-startup]
is that I often look back on quotes, blogs and books I’ve...
Alex MacCaw
The Manager's Handbook
I've been writing a book on management for the last two years. Today it's getting released! The...
over a year ago
I've been writing a book on management for the last two years. Today it's getting released! The paperback and Kindle versions are now available on Amazon (along with the free web version).
If you've read and enjoyed it, please Tweet about how it'
macwright.com
The S&P 500 is largely a historical artifact
I see the S&P 500 referenced pretty frequently as an vanilla index for people investing. This isn’t...
9 months ago
I see the S&P 500 referenced pretty frequently as an vanilla index for people investing. This isn’t totally wrong, which is why this post is short. But, if you have the goal of just “investing in the market,” there’s a better option for doing that: a total market index. For...
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Supervised Learning: Bayesian Learning
Lets update our priors! Oh wait we have none.
over a year ago
Lets update our priors! Oh wait we have none.
Words and Buttons...
Error codes are not numbers. But they are. Can we exploit that?
People do it with different feelings. Sometimes with pride for a clever solution, sometimes with...
over a year ago
People do it with different feelings. Sometimes with pride for a clever solution, sometimes with guilt for an obscure hack. Which is odd since there is nothing particularly hacky about it. The ISO/IEC 14882 is ok with it. The IEEE 754 is ok with it. So why is it a hack and not a...
elementary Blog
New features and settings, improved performance, and fewer bugs
This month we have a mix of new design and feature updates, another big batch of fixed bugs, and...
a year ago
This month we have a mix of new design and feature updates, another big batch of fixed bugs, and even some performance improvements.
Mail
The headliner this month is Mail which does a better job handling newly added online accounts and includes fixes for a couple of potential...
Florian Bellmann |...
How to switch from Tmux to WezTerm
Tutorial on how to switch your terminal multiplexer from Tmux to WezTerm
a year ago
Tutorial on how to switch your terminal multiplexer from Tmux to WezTerm
Greg Brockman
Stellar board
I’ve been advising Stellar since Stripe helped it launch about a year ago. Today I’m joining their...
over a year ago
I’ve been advising Stellar since Stripe helped it launch about a year ago. Today I’m joining their board.
Digital currencies are still nascent, and my hopes for them remain unchanged. Particularly, we need digital currency protocols like Stellar that work with the existing...
Ink & Switch
Making a new medium and other recaps
It's always nice to celebrate publications and presenting our research in public, but much of our...
a year ago
It's always nice to celebrate publications and presenting our research in public, but much of our work are ongoing journeys. So, in this end of the year dispatch we wanted to share some recaps and talk a bit about one of our longest standing research tracks: programmable ink.
Elad Blog
Substack: Most Interesting Consumer Startups of 2021 (Part 2)
This post is the first in a small series on the new wave of hyperinteresting consumer tech products...
over a year ago
This post is the first in a small series on the new wave of hyperinteresting consumer tech products that are most likely to have had society-level impact in 5 years. My first two posts are on Clubhouse and Substack [1]. Both are social network and media platforms of different...
Nelson's Weblog
APIs for content sites must be free
Social media businesses should not charge* for APIs. If a company
like Reddit or Twitter derives...
a year ago
Social media businesses should not charge* for APIs. If a company
like Reddit or Twitter derives most of its value from content that users
write for free then it must provide APIs for anyone to download and
manipulate that content. While an interactive API that enables...
Josh Collinsworth
Creating dynamic bar charts with CSS grid
How to use CSS grid to make a responsive, adaptable bar chart with no math or external library...
over a year ago
How to use CSS grid to make a responsive, adaptable bar chart with no math or external library required!
ntietz.com blog
Consider Part-Time Work
It has long been predicted that with more automation and more technology, we could all work less and...
over a year ago
It has long been predicted that with more automation and more technology, we could all work less and have more leisure time, but we continue to fall short of that promise. In many ways, we're working harder and longer, with more stress, than previous generations did. I think that...
Liz Denys
The baked apple pancake
I don't have a lot of complete memories from my childhood. Somehow, my photographic memory didn't...
over a year ago
I don't have a lot of complete memories from my childhood. Somehow, my photographic memory didn't kick in until the middle of seventh grade, when all of a sudden I started to remember everything. Sadly, everything from before that time is either a blurry film played a fifteen...
ntietz.com blog
[Review] "The Circle" by Dave Eggers
Surveillance has gotten a lot of media attention lately (and a bit of attention on this very blog),...
over a year ago
Surveillance has gotten a lot of media attention lately (and a bit of attention on this very blog), and for good reason. So, it should be no surprise that it's also turning up in our dystopian novels!
"The Circle" is a dystopian novel by Dave Eggers. While fiction, it is set in a...
dthompson
Catbird: An experimental game engine for Scheme programmers
I've been participating in the Lisp Game Jam for several years now,
and the next one is starting...
over a year ago
I've been participating in the Lisp Game Jam for several years now,
and the next one is starting on
10/28, and with each attempt
I've been accumulating code that forms something resembling a game
engine. I'm now attempting to solidify some of the concepts I've been
exploring in...
On Test Automation
Security testing your APIs - Unrestricted Resource Consumption
In this blog post series, I am going to explore the vulnerabilities in the OWASP API Security Top...
2 months ago
In this blog post series, I am going to explore the vulnerabilities in the OWASP API Security Top 10. For each entry, I’ll show you how to perform experiments on APIs to test for the vulnerability, and I’ll discuss my observations.
I’ll use different APIs as test subjects in...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Is Google Analytics HIPAA compliant?
HIPAA, which stands for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, regulates how...
over a year ago
HIPAA, which stands for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, regulates how individuals and organizations are required to secure…
Making software...
Very Basic Form Styling
Very Basic Form Styling
2019-11-13
Web forms can be great - I'm borderline obsessed with them. I...
over a year ago
Very Basic Form Styling
2019-11-13
Web forms can be great - I'm borderline obsessed with them. I love tinkering with pre-existing logins / sign up pages and I've also open sourced a minimal CSS form-styling plugin: Normform. While simple CSS plugins like these can be helpful, I...
Posts on Nikita...
Orange-Website-Proofing My Blog
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters.
Over the course of one year this website is deployed, I did...
a year ago
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters.
Over the course of one year this website is deployed, I did not pay a penny for hosting it. Sure, I pay for renting the domain itself, but everything else is free and quite honestly I like it this way. So when I woke up to a 10$ bill from...
swyx's site RSS Feed
You're Allowed To Make Your Own Tools
Making personal side projects for fun and profit.
over a year ago
Making personal side projects for fun and profit.
Greg Brockman
The OpenAI Mission
This post is co-written by Greg Brockman (left) and Ilya Sutskever (right).
We’ve been working on...
over a year ago
This post is co-written by Greg Brockman (left) and Ilya Sutskever (right).
We’ve been working on OpenAI for the past three years. Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) — which we define as automated systems that outperform humans at most...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Try React Suspense In 5 Minutes
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over a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Lessons from a failed Kickstarter
Last week, I launched Particle on Kickstarter. Today, I pulled the plug and canceled the campaign....
over a year ago
Last week, I launched Particle on Kickstarter. Today, I pulled the plug and canceled the campaign. We had 50 backers and were 5% funded. So why would I do this with 25 days left to go?
The fact is, this campaign failed before it started, and it was all my fault. I became so...
37signals Dev
Turbo 8 released
We’re excited to announce the release of Turbo v8, a major update to the Turbo front-end framework....
11 months ago
We’re excited to announce the release of Turbo v8, a major update to the Turbo front-end framework. This release introduces a suite of innovative features designed to enhance web development and user experiences across the board.
Here are the key highlights of Turbo v8:
Morphing...
Computer Things
Unusual basis types in programming languages
TLA+ Workshop
TLA+ workshop on Feb 12! Learn how to find complex bugs in software systems before you...
11 months ago
TLA+ Workshop
TLA+ workshop on Feb 12! Learn how to find complex bugs in software systems before you start building them. I've been saying the code NEWSLETTERDISCOUNT gives $50 off, but that's wrong because I actually set it up for $100 off. Enjoy!
Unusual basis types in...
Liz Denys
A quick hop across the southern border
Taken while admiring the beach at Tulum.
over a year ago
Taken while admiring the beach at Tulum.
Epic Web Dev
Improve UX and Security with Time-based One Time Passwords (TOTPs) (tip)
Watch Kent show you the improved user experience, security, and the implementation of Time-based One...
a year ago
Watch Kent show you the improved user experience, security, and the implementation of Time-based One Time Passwords in the Epic Stack.
David Heinemeier...
There's no rebound in sight for unprofitable SaaS
Anyone reviewing their S&P 500 retirement fund these days will do so with a broader smile than last...
a year ago
Anyone reviewing their S&P 500 retirement fund these days will do so with a broader smile than last year. The market as a whole is up, and if you're in the whole market, you're benefitting. But all of that upside, basically, belongs to just a handful of mega tech companies.
This...
TokyoDev
How to screen developers
When screening developers at a startup, you have competing goals. On the one hand, you have limited...
over a year ago
When screening developers at a startup, you have competing goals. On the one hand, you have limited resources to dedicate to the hiring process, so you want a process that minimizes the work for you and your team. On the other hand, you have a challenging time attracting talented...
Stephen Wolfram...
Yet More New Ideas and New Functions: Launching Version 14.1 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica
For the 36th Time… the Latest from Our R&D Pipeline There’s Now a Unified Wolfram App Vector...
5 months ago
For the 36th Time… the Latest from Our R&D Pipeline There’s Now a Unified Wolfram App Vector Databases and Semantic Search RAGs and Dynamic Prompting for LLMs Connect to Your Favorite LLM Symbolic Arrays and Their Calculus Binomials and Pitchforks: Navigating Mathematical...
Irrational...
Lessons not worth learning.
A few weeks ago I had a call with a startup founder who was frustrated with their team. The team...
over a year ago
A few weeks ago I had a call with a startup founder who was frustrated with their team. The team kept getting distracted by interesting work, and was avoiding the most important work to move the business forward. Was it possible to build a team that simply does the important work...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Reinforcement Learning: Game Theory
RL with multiple actors
over a year ago
Confessions of a...
Reflections on 2024 and Exciting Plans for 2025
Looking back at what we accomplished in 2024, and plans for 2025
2 weeks ago
Looking back at what we accomplished in 2024, and plans for 2025
A Beautiful Site
Buttons and Cursors
There's a post from 2016 entitled Buttons shouldn't have a hand cursor that's been making its way...
over a year ago
There's a post from 2016 entitled Buttons shouldn't have a hand cursor that's been making its way around social media this week. While the author is correct in his statement that operating system buttons don't have hand cursors, the pattern has become ubiquitous and somewhat...
A Smart Bear
Fermi ROI: Fixing the ROI rubric
“Maximum value in minimum time.” Sounds good in theory, but traditional rubrics surreptitiously fail...
over a year ago
“Maximum value in minimum time.” Sounds good in theory, but traditional rubrics surreptitiously fail to produce the best answers, and fail to create explanations that help others understand why they’re the best answers. This system works.
ntietz.com blog
Books I Read in 2018
Every year, GoodReads has a Reading Challenge, where you set how many books you want to read and...
over a year ago
Every year, GoodReads has a Reading Challenge, where you set how many books you want to read and record them as you go. This year, I got serious about it, and it was a wonderful motivational device. I set a goal of two books per month, and I just eked it out over the finish line,...
macwright.com
Recently
Busy month! In January, I wrote
about the first four Val Town runtimes, and built a lot of
features...
10 months ago
Busy month! In January, I wrote
about the first four Val Town runtimes, and built a lot of
features in Val Town.
I also hacked around enough to make
Placemark Play available
again, the “free-as-in-beer” Placemark UI. It still
has some warts, but it’s there. Want to improve...
Founder's blog
How to Hide Tethering from Your Mobile Operator
TLDR:
Use a secure VPN to prevent DPI
On your laptop, change packet TTL to 65 (iOS...
a year ago
TLDR:
Use a secure VPN to prevent DPI
On your laptop, change packet TTL to 65 (iOS default 64 plus one).
•••
On my recent mountain biking trip to France I accidentally booked an Airbnb without WiFi. Bummer. But hey, 5 minutes of googling and I found a...
Vadim Kravcenko
🌈 Hedonic Treadmill
I’m sure you’re like me. It happens time and time again that we pour our hearts into achieving...
over a year ago
I’m sure you’re like me. It happens time and time again that we pour our hearts into achieving something we […]
The post 🌈 Hedonic Treadmill appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Josh Comeau's blog
Understanding useMemo and useCallback
What's the deal with these two hooks?! Lots of devs find them confusing, for a whole host of...
over a year ago
What's the deal with these two hooks?! Lots of devs find them confusing, for a whole host of reasons. In this tutorial, we'll dig deep and understand what they do, why they're useful, and how to get the most out of them.
Vadim Kravcenko
Becoming a Real Business: Accounting, Taxes, and Automation
Founders often get so overwhelmed finding funding sources and attracting the first few customers...
over a year ago
Founders often get so overwhelmed finding funding sources and attracting the first few customers that they neglect actually running their […]
The post Becoming a Real Business: Accounting, Taxes, and Automation appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
ntietz.com blog
Units in Go and Rust show philosophical differences
Units are a key part of doing any calculation.
A number on its own is just a scalar and doesn't...
a year ago
Units are a key part of doing any calculation.
A number on its own is just a scalar and doesn't represent anything in particular.
If I tell you to go drive 5, you'd naturally ask "5 what?"
Software often has to deal with quantities that represent real-world things.
How we...
Computer Things
Why I prefer rST to markdown
I just published a new version of Logic for Programmers! v0.2 has epub support, content on...
5 months ago
I just published a new version of Logic for Programmers! v0.2 has epub support, content on constraint solving and formal specification, and more! Get it here.
This is my second book written with Sphinx, after the new Learn TLA+. Sphinx uses a peculiar markup called reStructured...
Making software...
Stay Hungry
Stay Hungry
2018-02-12
It can feel daunting in this developer / designer landscape to keep yourself...
over a year ago
Stay Hungry
2018-02-12
It can feel daunting in this developer / designer landscape to keep yourself up-to-date with the latest and greatest technologies available. Which new framework should I invest the most time into? Will it even be maintained a couple years down the road? Is...
Stephen Wolfram...
Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories
Programmer of the Universe “OK, so let me tell you…” And so it would begin. A long and colorful...
a year ago
Programmer of the Universe “OK, so let me tell you…” And so it would begin. A long and colorful story. An elaborate description of a wild idea. In the forty years I knew Ed Fredkin I heard countless wild ideas and colorful stories from him. He always radiated a certain...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Implementing Netlify’s Image CDNz
tl;dr I implemented Netlify’s new image transformation service on my icon gallery sites and saw a...
8 months ago
tl;dr I implemented Netlify’s new image transformation service on my icon gallery sites and saw a pretty drastic decrease in overall bandwidth. Here are the numbers:
Page
Requests
Old
New
Difference
Home
60
1.3MB
293kB
▼ 78% (1.01MB)
Colors
84
1.4MB
371kB
▼ 74%...
PostHog's RSS Feed
The really important job interview questions engineers should ask (but don't)
Since we started PostHog, our team has interviewed 725 people. What's one thing I've taken from...
over a year ago
Since we started PostHog, our team has interviewed 725 people. What's one thing I've taken from this? It's normal for candidates not to ask harder…
charity.wtf
How Hard Should Your Employer Work To Retain You?
Recently we learned that Google spent $2.7 billion to re-hire a single AI researcher who had left to...
2 months ago
Recently we learned that Google spent $2.7 billion to re-hire a single AI researcher who had left to start his own company. As Charlie Brown would say: “Good grief.” 🙄 This is an (incredibly!) extreme example. But back in the halcyon days of the zero interest rate phenomenon...
Kagi Blog
What's next for Kagi?
Two years ago, on June 1st, 2022, Kagi introduced ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-orion-public-beta ) a...
7 months ago
Two years ago, on June 1st, 2022, Kagi introduced ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-orion-public-beta ) a search engine that challenged the ad-supported version of the web.
A Beautiful Site
Let's Encrypt renews but browsers still seeing old/expired SSL certificate
This morning was frustrating. I recently upgraded my VPS from the deprecated letsencrypt client to...
over a year ago
This morning was frustrating. I recently upgraded my VPS from the deprecated letsencrypt client to the newer cerbot client and generated new certificates for all my personal domains. I thought everything was fine — until I kept seeing intermittent SSL errors.
I figured I did...
Quentin Santos
On-Die ECC
This article will be pretty short. When I built my new desktop computer, I considered ECC memory....
a month ago
This article will be pretty short. When I built my new desktop computer, I considered ECC memory. So, I looked around for DDR5 ECC memory. Surprisingly, DDR5 memory sticks that mentioned ECC was not significantly more expensive than other DDR5 memory sticks. Sometimes, they were...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
There’s TypeScript and Then There’s TypeScript
Are you a TypeScript user?
Your initial reaction may be a resounding “Yes!”
Or perhaps be a booming...
a year ago
Are you a TypeScript user?
Your initial reaction may be a resounding “Yes!”
Or perhaps be a booming “No!”
The answer seems simple, but (as with most things) it might be more nuanced than you think.
Here’s Anders Hejlsberg, TypeScript Co-Creator & Lead Architech, from the...
Julia Evans
Making crochet cacti
I noticed some tech bloggers I follow have been making April Cools Day posts about topics they don’t...
9 months ago
I noticed some tech bloggers I follow have been making April Cools Day posts about topics they don’t normally write
about (like decaf or microscopes). The goal isn’t to
trick anyone, just to write about something different for a day.
I thought those posts were fun so here is a...
A Beautiful Site
Passing data from PHP to JavaScript
Have you ever needed to send a PHP variable, array, or object to JavaScript? It can get complicated...
over a year ago
Have you ever needed to send a PHP variable, array, or object to JavaScript? It can get complicated trying to escape the output properly. Here's a way that always works—no escaping necessary.
Let's say we have the following variable in PHP:
$name = 'Bob Marley';
And we want to...
elementary Blog
Let's Talk OS 8
One month ago today we released elementary OS 7.1 which provides new personalization options that...
a year ago
One month ago today we released elementary OS 7.1 which provides new personalization options that make it more inclusive and accessible, protects your privacy and ensures apps always operate with your explicit consent, and addresses your feedback with over 200 bug fixes, design...
Oxide Computer...
Moore's Scofflaws
Years ago, Jeff Bezos famously quipped that "your margin is my opportunity."
This was of course...
10 months ago
Years ago, Jeff Bezos famously quipped that "your margin is my opportunity."
This was of course aimed not at Amazon’s customers, but rather its
competitors, and it was deadly serious: customers of AWS in those bygone years
will fondly remember that every re:Invent brought with it...
bt RSS Feed
My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design
My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design
2021-05-19
Hey would you look at that - my personal...
over a year ago
My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design
2021-05-19
Hey would you look at that - my personal blog has been redesigned again! Although I am still using good ol’ Jekyll for the backend, I have now added a more fleshed-out CSS design which also includes a set of open source...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Sanding UI
One of the ways I like to do development is to build something, click around a ton, make tweaks,...
4 months ago
One of the ways I like to do development is to build something, click around a ton, make tweaks, click around more, more tweaks, more clicks, etc., until I finally consider it done.
The clicking around a ton is the important part. If it’s a page transition, that means going back...
HTMHell
Swallowing camels
by Ida Franceen
I don't like how the screen reader pronounces these numbers and I've been...
a year ago
by Ida Franceen
I don't like how the screen reader pronounces these numbers and I've been experimenting with different kinds of markup to get it to read better, like injecting spans to force it to make proper pauses…
Reflecting on my tendency to obsess over small, but maybe not...
bt RSS Feed
Create a Mac App Icon with Pure HTML and CSS
Create a Mac App Icon with Pure HTML and CSS
2021-04-13
I have always been a huge fan of Bogdan’s...
over a year ago
Create a Mac App Icon with Pure HTML and CSS
2021-04-13
I have always been a huge fan of Bogdan’s work on Dribbble and was recently inspired to see if I could replicate one of his awesome icon designs with only HTML & CSS. What was the outcome? I think it’s a half-way decent copy...
Irrational...
Navigators
In Staff Engineer’s chapter on Managing Technical Quality, one of the very last suggestions is...
a year ago
In Staff Engineer’s chapter on Managing Technical Quality, one of the very last suggestions is creating a centralized process to curate technical changes:
Curate technology change using architecture reviews, investment strategies, and a structured process for adopting new tools....
blag
How I Am Maintaining Multiple Emails For Git On A Same Machine
In this simple tutorial I will show how to maintain multiple git emails on a same machine. And how...
over a year ago
In this simple tutorial I will show how to maintain multiple git emails on a same machine. And how to configure git emails per directory or per project.
Kevin Chen
Tearing down the Rewind app
Rewind is a Mac app that records your computer’s screen and audio, allowing the user to scroll...
over a year ago
Rewind is a Mac app that records your computer’s screen and audio, allowing the user to scroll through a timeline of past screen recordings. Rewind also recognizes text, including text in videos and Zoom calls, allowing the user to perform full-text search on anything that has...
Tinloof - Blog
Translating Shopify stores with Sanity
At Tinloof, we have an internal library that does a lot of heavy lifting when it comes to building...
a year ago
At Tinloof, we have an internal library that does a lot of heavy lifting when it comes to building fast Remix websites that have their content managed from Sanity.
A while ago, we took a step back to research and implement a localization setup with Sanity that handles all...
Steve Klabnik
Shoes 4 work is starting: get involved!
over a year ago
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...
over a year ago
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...
Words and Buttons...
Interactive mnemonics for dot and cross vector products
Dot and cross vector products are absolutely essential for everything three-dimensional. Whatever 3D...
over a year ago
Dot and cross vector products are absolutely essential for everything three-dimensional. Whatever 3D thing you do: graphics, printing, physical simulation, — as soon as you want anything beyond what your framework provides, you have to do some vector magic, and these are your...
ntietz.com blog
Achieving awful compression with digits of pi
Compression is a really hard problem, and it attracts a lot of interesting ideas.
There are some...
9 months ago
Compression is a really hard problem, and it attracts a lot of interesting ideas.
There are some numbers whose digits contain all sequences of digits1.
People have long hypothesized that pi is one such number; a proof remains elusive.
If we have a number which contains all...
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In-depth: PostHog vs Heap
Want to know how PostHog and Heap are different? If you remember nothing else, remember these two...
a year ago
Want to know how PostHog and Heap are different? If you remember nothing else, remember these two points: Heap is a product analytics tool designed…
Confessions of a...
Live Session: Live Coding a Bytecode Interpreter for Python
We are due for our next live session.
2 months ago
We are due for our next live session.
Alex Meub
Automating Capacitive Buttons with a Modified Switchbot
I’ve had a heater in my home office this winter and I’ve wished it could turn on/off automatically...
a year ago
I’ve had a heater in my home office this winter and I’ve wished it could turn on/off automatically based on whether or not I was in the room. A smart outlet wouldn’t work for this because the heater has a manual switch. My next thought was to use my Switchbot smart button pusher,...
Joel Gascoigne
The joys and benefits of working as a distributed team
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Buffer is a...
over a year ago
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Buffer is a fully distributed team. It’s a decision
[https://joel.is/post/54284926855/questions-i-ask-myself-about-working-as-distributed]
I had to make at the end of 2012, and it’s interesting...
Blog System/5
EndBASIC 0.11 is here
Support for user-defined functions, an LCD, and a disassembler
5 months ago
Support for user-defined functions, an LCD, and a disassembler
ntietz.com blog
That time I wrote malware and got caught
Most of us make some bad decisions in high school.
While other people were drinking, going to...
a year ago
Most of us make some bad decisions in high school.
While other people were drinking, going to parties, and who knows what else, I was doing some experimentation of my own.
I was writing my first (and only) piece of malware.
From as early as I can remember, I've had a fascination...
Irrational...
Create technical leverage: workflow improvements & product capabilities
More than a decade ago, I typed up a few paragraphs of notes, titled it “Building Technical...
a year ago
More than a decade ago, I typed up a few paragraphs of notes, titled it “Building Technical Leverage,” and proceeded to forget about it. Those notes were from a meeting with Kevin Scott, then SVP Engineering at LinkedIn, while we wandered the Valley trying to convince potential...
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Notes on The Psychology of Money
A review and reflection of Morgan Housel's bestselling collection of essays on personal/behavioral...
over a year ago
A review and reflection of Morgan Housel's bestselling collection of essays on personal/behavioral finance
A Beautiful Site
SSH failing on macOS Sierra
For me, upgrading to MacOS Sierra broke a lot of things that use SSH, including Transmit, Sequel...
over a year ago
For me, upgrading to MacOS Sierra broke a lot of things that use SSH, including Transmit, Sequel Pro, and a handful of other apps. In fact, it seems to break any app that uses an SSH key with a passphrase. 🤔
The solution I found was to tell SSH to use the MacOS keychain. Simply...
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My Cheapskate Commenting System
My Cheapskate Commenting System
2022-02-03
My blog now has comments! Well, kind of…
I went down a...
over a year ago
My Cheapskate Commenting System
2022-02-03
My blog now has comments! Well, kind of…
I went down a two day long rabbit-hole trying to find the best solution for implementing comments on my static website (generated via Jekyll FYI). There are a ton of options out there and many...
The Pragmatic...
The Pragmatic Engineer in 2024
The last 12 months, The Pragmatic Engineer covered a variety of deepdives, revealing previously...
a month ago
The last 12 months, The Pragmatic Engineer covered a variety of deepdives, revealing previously unshared details like what Stripe's engineering culture is like, The architecture evolution of Bluesky, How the ChatGPT scaled to meet demand, How Anthropic builds products, How and...
Greg Brockman
How I became a machine learning practitioner
For the first three years of OpenAI, I dreamed of becoming a machine learning expert but made little...
over a year ago
For the first three years of OpenAI, I dreamed of becoming a machine learning expert but made little progress towards that goal. Over the past nine months, I’ve finally made the transition to being a machine learning practitioner. It was hard but not impossible, and I think most...
Joel Gascoigne
Your startup is a rocket ship
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over a year ago
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When you’re building a startup, the startup itself has a reputation and
credibility around it. The startup has tremendous power. As the startup rocket
ship takes off, the best thing you can do is...
ntietz.com blog
Start to finish on self-publishing a technical book
I've been writing this blog since 2015, and my writing picked up pace in 2022.
That year I wrote...
9 months ago
I've been writing this blog since 2015, and my writing picked up pace in 2022.
That year I wrote 37,000 words, more than the 33,000 I'd written up to that point.
It has accelerated since then.
At some point, I realized that I've put in a lot of time and effort writing here, and...
alexwlchan
Starting Docker just before I need it
Although I use Docker a lot, I don’t leave it running all the time – it can be quite a resource hog,...
a year ago
Although I use Docker a lot, I don’t leave it running all the time – it can be quite a resource hog, and even if it’s doing nothing it can make my laptop feel sluggish.
I’ll often stop if it my computer feels slow, which is great right until the next time I need to use it:
$...
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A picture is worth a thousand tags
This shows how a picture can be turned into an HTML table. With this, you can not only have nicer...
over a year ago
This shows how a picture can be turned into an HTML table. With this, you can not only have nicer tables or uglier pictures, but you can have something that is both at the same time.
TokyoDev
Transferring from the Philippines to be a QA Engineer in Japan
Intra-company transfers are a less-common way to move to Japan for work, but [Mary Grygjeanne Grace...
a year ago
Intra-company transfers are a less-common way to move to Japan for work, but [Mary Grygjeanne Grace Icay](https://www.tokyodev.com/authors/mary-grygjeanne-grace-icay) (Gray in the [TokyoDev Discord community](https://discord.gg/seUNe38YgV)) managed to do it. She originally worked...
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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...
a year ago
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...
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
Semantic AJAX-HTML
I recently started fiddling around with HTMX, and I'm pretty impressed. As anyone who's followed the...
9 months ago
I recently started fiddling around with HTMX, and I'm pretty impressed. As anyone who's followed the development of Bear knows, I'm pretty sick of the state of modern web development due to the complexity involved in managing the disparity between the front-end and the...
Daniel Marino
Free Radon album released
A little over a year ago, I composed a handful of songs. If I had to fit them into a genre, I’d go...
a year ago
A little over a year ago, I composed a handful of songs. If I had to fit them into a genre, I’d go with Lofi or Chillvibes. Or maybe Not-Rock-n-Roll. I don’t know—I’m so bad at classifying music.
I wasn’t sure what to do with the songs. I was experiencing some intense emotions...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Tech’s Epithet: “Enabled By Default”
I joked on Mastodon:
If anyone endeavors to write a book about what went wrong with tech, I have a...
2 months ago
I joked on Mastodon:
If anyone endeavors to write a book about what went wrong with tech, I have a great suggestion for the title:
“Enabled by Default”
It seems there really are two hard problems in tech:
Naming things
Setting good defaults
Keeping to scope
Anyhow, a little while...
Making software...
Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch
Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch
2022-07-06
If you're an RSS subscriber, I've probably blown...
over a year ago
Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch
2022-07-06
If you're an RSS subscriber, I've probably blown up your feed reader (again). This seems to be an on-going theme with this blog. I can't help it.
This website now uses my new Pandoc-based static blog generator: pblog. I won't go...
The Changelog
The Grumpy Cricket (And Other Enormous Creatures)
This Christmas, one of my gifts to my kids was a text adventure (interactive fiction) game for them....
a year ago
This Christmas, one of my gifts to my kids was a text adventure (interactive fiction) game for them. Now that they’ve enjoyed it, I’m releasing it under the GPL v3. As interactive fiction, it’s like an e-book, but the reader is also the player, guiding the exploration of the...
A Beautiful Site
My Stance on AI-generated Code
I recently added this to Shoelace's contribution guidelines, which sums up my position on...
over a year ago
I recently added this to Shoelace's contribution guidelines, which sums up my position on AI-generated code.
As an open source maintainer, I respectfully ask that you refrain from using AI-generated code when contributing to this project. This includes code generated by tools...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Not Sucking at TypeScript: 3 Tips
I have spent three years developing in TypeScript, but sometimes it is owerwhelming. I'm sitting...
over a year ago
I have spent three years developing in TypeScript, but sometimes it is owerwhelming. I'm sitting there with all those little "fuck-fuck-fucks" in my head, thinking of how I'd great it would be to burn the annotations, change the extensions to .js and get out of this nighmare...
Ink & Switch
Summit 010 Berlin
Ink & Switch invited a few folks out for a day of conversations in Berlin. Here are some notes and...
over a year ago
Ink & Switch invited a few folks out for a day of conversations in Berlin. Here are some notes and pictures from that event.
David Heinemeier...
Celebrating a million copies of REWORK
It’s been 14 years since REWORK was first published. It was our first big-publisher book, and it hit...
11 months ago
It’s been 14 years since REWORK was first published. It was our first big-publisher book, and it hit the New York Times bestseller list right out the gate. In the first two years, it sold over 200,000 copies. And then... it just kept selling. Now it has passed one million copies...
alexwlchan
Setting up Fish to make virtualenv easier
Since I started my new job, I’ve been doing a lot more work in Python.
As I was starting with a...
a year ago
Since I started my new job, I’ve been doing a lot more work in Python.
As I was starting with a completely clean slate, I wanted to try setting up Python the “right” way – or if not “right”, at least better way than my previous pile of hacks and kludges.
(I don’t remember much of...
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On The Importance of 15-5 Updates
We had a delightful discussion on the importance of writing weekly updates in this week's [Coding...
over a year ago
We had a delightful discussion on the importance of writing weekly updates in this week's [Coding Career Community meetup](https://learninpublic.org/#community). I rarely get so excited about an idea I immediately know I need to start doing it, so I'm choosing to write it up to...
Dan Slimmon
Platform teams don’t need to act like companies
Lately you see a lot of software company R&D teams organized around internal products. The Search...
a year ago
Lately you see a lot of software company R&D teams organized around internal products. The Search Team provides a Search service and its “customers” are the teams whose code consumes that service. The Developer Productivity Team’s product is a suite of tools for managing local...
Joel Gascoigne
The paradox of how bugs and downtime can be a good thing
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over a year ago
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Often if I give a talk or I speak with someone about getting their idea off the
ground, the topic of how solid the product should be comes up. In particular,
people very frequently wait far too...
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Set Explicit Help Timeouts
A simple way to normalize asking for help.
over a year ago
A simple way to normalize asking for help.
Posts on Nikita...
RustLab 2024
I had the chance to speak at RustLab 2024! I will be honest, this was the point I realised that 4...
2 weeks ago
I had the chance to speak at RustLab 2024! I will be honest, this was the point I realised that 4 conferences in one year was a bad idea. I was exhausted and overwhelmed, but I still had a blast meeting new people and answering the questions after the talk. It had the following...
Making software...
Working with `git` Patches in Apple Mail
Working with git Patches in Apple Mail
2023-05-11
Before we begin: You could likely automate this...
a year ago
Working with git Patches in Apple Mail
2023-05-11
Before we begin: You could likely automate this process in a more streamlined way, but for most use cases this workflow should be fine.
I recently covered how to work with git email patches in Evolution on Linux, so I thought it...
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The Linux Desktop is Hard to Love
The Linux Desktop is Hard to Love
2022-07-14
I want to love the “Linux Desktop”. I really do. But...
over a year ago
The Linux Desktop is Hard to Love
2022-07-14
I want to love the “Linux Desktop”. I really do. But I’ve come to the realization that what I love is the idea of the Linux Desktop. The community. The security and core focus on open source. The customizable environments. Tweaking as...
samwho.dev
API Design: In The Wild
We've explored some guiding principles in previous posts, but we're yet to use our new-found skills....
over a year ago
We've explored some guiding principles in previous posts, but we're yet to use our new-found skills. Let's take a break and look at some examples from real-world code you can find in use today, and how we might improve them.
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Go's math/big package
Most languages have a library...
Irrational...
The Engineering Executive's Primer.
See on O’Reilly’s website for The Engineering Executive’s Primer.
In 2019, I worked with Stripe...
a year ago
See on O’Reilly’s website for The Engineering Executive’s Primer.
In 2019, I worked with Stripe Press to publish my first book, An Elegant Puzzle,
which captured many of the lessons I’d learned as an engineering manager in fast growing Silicon Valley companies.
In 2021, I decided...
TokyoDev
僕がDoorkeeperを売却した理由について
This article is also available [in...
over a year ago
This article is also available [in...
A Beautiful Site
Link to a specific page in a PDF file
Both Chrome and Firefox render PDF files in the browser, making them easier for users to view. Today...
over a year ago
Both Chrome and Firefox render PDF files in the browser, making them easier for users to view. Today I wanted to send someone a link to a certain page in a PDF user's manual. Here's how I did it.
In HTML, you can link to a specific part of the page this using anchors. For...
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The Product-Market Fit Game
In a startup, the only objective that matters before you have product-market fit, is finding ...
a year ago
In a startup, the only objective that matters before you have product-market fit, is finding product-market fit. Knowing when you've found it…
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Speeding up PostHog builds with Depot
PostHog recently swapped out Docker for Depot in their container image builds within GitHub Actions....
over a year ago
PostHog recently swapped out Docker for Depot in their container image builds within GitHub Actions. The results are outstanding, taking the average…
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Array 1.35.0: Introducing SAML, world map view and new plugins
PostHog 1.35.0 introduces activity logs and a brand new way of visualizing where your users are...
over a year ago
PostHog 1.35.0 introduces activity logs and a brand new way of visualizing where your users are coming from with the World Map. Additionally we now support organization-level SAML login on both Cloud and Self-Hosted instances. Plus check out your Project Homepage for a few...
macwright.com
Recently
Listening
My friend Dave Infante has been busy – he launched his own
beer-centric podcast, Taplines,...
a year ago
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...
The Codist
How Many Hours Can You Code?
How many hours a day can you write code, and at what point does the quality of your work go down?...
2 weeks ago
How many hours a day can you write code, and at what point does the quality of your work go down? Even more important is how many weeks and months of that max effort you can still be effective.
In my life, there have only been three periods where I
Irrational...
Refining strategy with Wardley Mapping.
The first time I heard about Wardley Mapping was
from Charity Majors discussing it on Twitter.
Of...
yesterday
The first time I heard about Wardley Mapping was
from Charity Majors discussing it on Twitter.
Of the three core strategy refinement techniques,
this is the technique that I’ve personally used the least.
Despite that, I decided to include it in this book because it
highlights how...
Tinloof - Blog
PWA: What it is and why you should try it
The percentage of global web traffic on mobile phones has surged over the past decade. As of...
a year ago
The percentage of global web traffic on mobile phones has surged over the past decade. As of November 2022, 60.28 percent of all web traffic came through mobile phones. Providing a good mobile user experience is therefore crucial to attract and retain users.
Mobile applications...
A small freedom area...
Investigating why Steam started picking a random font
Out of the blue my Steam started picking a random font I had in my user fonts
dir: Virgil, the...
over a year ago
Out of the blue my Steam started picking a random font I had in my user fonts
dir: Virgil, the Excalidraw font.
That triggered me all sorts of emotions, ranging from laugh to total
incredulity. I initially thought the root cause was a random derping from Valve
but the Internet...
Dan Slimmon
5 production surprises worth investigating
As an SRE, I’m a vocal believer in following one’s nose: seeking out surprising phenomena and...
a year ago
As an SRE, I’m a vocal believer in following one’s nose: seeking out surprising phenomena and getting to the bottom of them. By adopting this habit, we can find and fix many classes of problems before they turn into incidents. Over time, this makes things run much smoother. But...
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