Steve Klabnik
Announcing security_release_practice
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
How I Take and Publish Notes
I publish notes at notes.jim-nielsen.com.
I’ve written about why I made that site as well as some of...
a year ago
I publish notes at notes.jim-nielsen.com.
I’ve written about why I made that site as well as some of my favorite aspects of its design.
But I’ve yet to write about how I take and publish notes to it.
The other day Bill Beckelman emailed me and told me he made a similar site of...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Introducing HouseWatch: An open-source toolkit for ClickHouse
We are big fans of ClickHouse. We rely on it heavily to store and retrieve the massive amount of...
a year ago
We are big fans of ClickHouse. We rely on it heavily to store and retrieve the massive amount of data we process every day. In doing this at scale for…
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.0.11
Like what you see and self-hosting? Update your instance. First our updates and new features. Also...
over a year ago
Like what you see and self-hosting? Update your instance. First our updates and new features. Also as you will see below we have added Celery…
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.
Liz Denys
Crafting a recipe: creamy Vidalia onion soup
I often find myself cooking, or sometimes even baking, without recipes or even measuring cups and...
over a year ago
I often find myself cooking, or sometimes even baking, without recipes or even measuring cups and spoons. The latter, especially with baking, is some linear combination of adventurousness - things haven't gone badly yet as I have always managed to produce the results I've wanted...
Irrational...
Layers of context.
Recently I was chatting with a Staff-plus engineer who was struggling to influence his peers. Each...
12 months ago
Recently I was chatting with a Staff-plus engineer who was struggling to influence his peers. Each time he suggested an approach, his team agreed with him, but his peers in the organization disagreed and pushed back. He wanted advice on why his peers kept undermining his...
Dan Quach Blog
Accurate Predictions
In November 2020, I read the book Apollo’s Arrow after hearing Dr Christakis on NPR’s Fresh Air....
a year ago
In November 2020, I read the book Apollo’s Arrow after hearing Dr Christakis on NPR’s Fresh Air. Somewhere midway through this book, this paragraph stood out to me: “Either way, until 2022, Americans will live in an acutely changed world—they will be wearing masks, for example,...
Making software...
First Letter Pseudo Element
First Letter Pseudo Element
2019-05-03
In today's TypeTip we will be taking a look at the often...
over a year ago
First Letter Pseudo Element
2019-05-03
In today's TypeTip we will be taking a look at the often overlooked :first-letter CSS pseudo element. Though you might only use this for specific article-format web pages, it's still a nice-to-have in your web dev toolset.
The HTML
Like most...
Making software...
Improving Receipt UX
Improving Receipt UX
2019-05-15
There was a pretty interesting article posted a couple days ago...
over a year ago
Improving Receipt UX
2019-05-15
There was a pretty interesting article posted a couple days ago about rethinking the standard receipt design that I found quite compelling. Although, as good as the concept is, I think it can be improved (simplified) even further.
What was the...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Sriracha Fight!! 🥊
At the birthplace of the famous rooster sauce. by
Paul Narvaez
(CC-By-2.0)
There’s plenty...
a year ago
At the birthplace of the famous rooster sauce. by
Paul Narvaez
(CC-By-2.0)
There’s plenty of sriracha—unless you’re looking for the brand anyone
wants.
Huy Fong Foods, Inc’s Sriracha vanished from stores, and they have
no idea when it’ll be back.
So, driven by the...
A Beautiful Site
How to File a Bug Report
They say there's no such thing as bug-free code. When problems arise, creating a minimal...
a year ago
They say there's no such thing as bug-free code. When problems arise, creating a minimal reproduction will give you the best chance of a speedy resolution.
When a potential bug is discovered, many developers' first reaction is to file an issue. That's great, but please exercise...
HTMHell
#10 <section> is no replacement for <div>
Bad code
<section id="page-top">
<section data-section-id="page-top" style="display:...
over a year ago
Bad code
<section id="page-top">
<section data-section-id="page-top" style="display: none;"></section>
</section>
<main>
<section id="main-content">
<header id="main-header">
<h1>...</h1>
<section class="container-fluid">
<section class="row">
...
Joel Gascoigne
Buffer’s evolution and expansion
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog.
Almost exactly two years ago, I wrote this blog...
over a year ago
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog.
Almost exactly two years ago, I wrote this blog post about the next step in Buffer’s social media journey. I described Buffer’s multi-product vision of the future, which included Reply and Analyze. This idea was such a
Engineer’s Codex
The most valuable trait of great software engineers
A mindset shift that changed the way I approach software development. The #1 trait of valuable...
a year ago
A mindset shift that changed the way I approach software development. The #1 trait of valuable software engineers.
Tinloof - Blog
Localization with Sanity
In this article, we describe how we make it possible to translate content from Sanity and publish...
over a year ago
In this article, we describe how we make it possible to translate content from Sanity and publish content that is specific to languages/regions.
Words and Buttons...
Yet another alternative to floating point numbers
This shows how computeable intervals written in rational bounds may not only account for the input...
over a year ago
This shows how computeable intervals written in rational bounds may not only account for the input error but keep computational error under control as well.
PostHog's RSS Feed
HogMail #22: Why do companies over-hire?"
Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product...
a year ago
Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product guides, and curated articles on building great products…
Liz Denys
A color palette preview tool for Purl Soho's Library Blanket
When I saw the Library Blanket Joelle Hoverson designed for Purl Soho, I immediately fell in love....
over a year ago
When I saw the Library Blanket Joelle Hoverson designed for Purl Soho, I immediately fell in love. The marled combinations of oranges, pinks, blues, and purples were calling to me, so I ordered a kit right away. Other knitters commented that while they loved the pattern, the...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Switching to Android after 13 years of iOS
I have used iPhone/iOS for the longest time. Last month I switched to OnePlus 6T/Android. Here are...
over a year ago
I have used iPhone/iOS for the longest time. Last month I switched to OnePlus 6T/Android. Here are my impressions.
TokyoDev
TokyoDev has a new logo!
Over the last four years, I’ve been helping TokyoDev with UX, design, and frontend development. One...
11 months ago
Over the last four years, I’ve been helping TokyoDev with UX, design, and frontend development. One project I’ve been working on is improving our branding. Today, I’m delighted to introduce the results of it: TokyoDev’s new logo.
![Our new...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
An Inbox Full O’ Receipts
Dave parodying those pesky “Dear business owner” emails one tends to get:
I clearly have no ethics,...
11 months ago
Dave parodying those pesky “Dear business owner” emails one tends to get:
I clearly have no ethics, but you should enter a business relationship with me, a guy who found your email on the internet.
That’s the subtext of those emails.
You are now signed up for a no-opt-out email...
swyx's site RSS Feed
September 11th from Singapore
just some memories 20 years after 9/11.
over a year ago
just some memories 20 years after 9/11.
TokyoDev
RubyKaigi 2024 reflections
For the first time in five years I attended RubyKaigi. From 2007 to 2018, I attended every...
7 months ago
For the first time in five years I attended RubyKaigi. From 2007 to 2018, I attended every RubyKaigi, volunteering as staff from 2011 onwards. This time though, I participated as a sponsor via TokyoDev.
Sponsoring the conference was an experiment, but I figured there wasn’t a way...
Charles Chen
Programmatically Invoke Cloud Run Jobs with Runtime Overrides
Love Google Cloud Run but need to be able to programmatically invoke long running jobs?
a year ago
Love Google Cloud Run but need to be able to programmatically invoke long running jobs?
ntietz.com blog
The origin and virtues of semicolons in programming languages
While working on the grammar for my programming language, Lilac, I was exploring different choices...
9 months ago
While working on the grammar for my programming language, Lilac, I was exploring different choices for statement terminators.
. is very appealing, or !.
Ultimately, I might make the "boring" choice of using either ; or significant whitespace.
But that had me asking: why is it...
blag
How bloom filters made SQLite 10x faster
This is the fascinating story of how researchers used Bloom filters cleverly to make SQLite 10x...
2 weeks ago
This is the fascinating story of how researchers used Bloom filters cleverly to make SQLite 10x faster for analytical queries. These are my five-minute notes on the paper SQLite: Past, Present, and Future
swyx's site RSS Feed
Using DEV.to as a CMS
Blog on DEV.to, publish on your own domain, using the DEV.to API!
over a year ago
Blog on DEV.to, publish on your own domain, using the DEV.to API!
TokyoDev
個人のブログから利益を生むビジネスへ:TokyoDevのストーリー
This article is also available [in...
a year ago
This article is also available [in...
PostHog's RSS Feed
HogMail #14
Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product...
over a year ago
Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product guides, and curated articles on building great products…
A Beautiful Site
Success Requires Luck
I've concluded that successful "makers" have one thing in common: luck.
It's not that strategy and...
over a year ago
I've concluded that successful "makers" have one thing in common: luck.
It's not that strategy and vision don't play a role in success, but nobody — literally nobody — can guarantee that a product or service will be successful. Think about some of the major corporations that...
Ferd.ca
Negotiable Abstractions
2023/12/21
Negotiable Abstractions
When I used to write more software and do more architecture...
a year ago
2023/12/21
Negotiable Abstractions
When I used to write more software and do more architecture professionally (I still do, but less intensively so with the SRE title), one of the most important questions I'd seek answers to was "how do I cut this up?" Or more accurately, "how do...
The History of the...
Filling gaps with a polyfill
In the early 2000s, Web 2.0 prompted new web standards, HTML5 and CSS3. Developers used 'shims' and...
10 months ago
In the early 2000s, Web 2.0 prompted new web standards, HTML5 and CSS3. Developers used 'shims' and 'polyfills' for browser compatibility, fostering innovation.
The post Filling gaps with a polyfill appeared first on The History of the Web.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
You Are What You Read, Even If You Don’t Always Remember It
Here’s Dave Rupert (from my notes):
the goal of a book isn’t to get to the last page, it’s to expand...
9 months ago
Here’s Dave Rupert (from my notes):
the goal of a book isn’t to get to the last page, it’s to expand your thinking.
I have to constantly remind myself of this. Especially in an environment that prioritizes optimizing and maximizing personal productivity, where it seems if you...
Steve Klabnik
Rust is surprisingly expressive
over a year ago
alexwlchan
The maths cross-stitch that hangs behind me
I was chatting to a new colleague last week, and she asked about the picture that hangs behind me...
over a year ago
I was chatting to a new colleague last week, and she asked about the picture that hangs behind me when I’m on video calls – which made me realise I’ve never posted about it here.
It’s a rather nice piece that I’m quite pleased with, and it’s worth sharing.
Most of my...
Making software...
RSS Hacks With XSLT
RSS Hacks With XSLT
2022-05-23
In my spare time I've been further tinkering (hopefully for the...
over a year ago
RSS Hacks With XSLT
2022-05-23
In my spare time I've been further tinkering (hopefully for the better) with my humble Shinobi Website[^0] script. The most recent update in patch-1 came with a solid amount of QoL improvements. If you're interested, I wrote about it on the official...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
How to destroy your app performance using React contexts
useContext hook has made React Context API so pleasant to work with that many people are even...
over a year ago
useContext hook has made React Context API so pleasant to work with that many people are even suggesting that we drop external state management solutions and rely on the built-in alternative instead. This is dangerous thinking that can easily push your app's performance down the...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Notes and Reflections from Rich Harris’ Talk
Rich has a new talk and, as usual, it’s full of practicality. I’ve got my text editor open and ready...
a year ago
Rich has a new talk and, as usual, it’s full of practicality. I’ve got my text editor open and ready to take notes as we go.
Whatever Framework You’re Using, It’s Fine
Note: that’s coming from the author of a framework!
Rich points out that most of the degraded, slow, hostile...
Acko.net
On Witchcraft
Lies, damned lies, and social media
Rhetoric about the dangers of the internet is at a feverish...
over a year ago
Lies, damned lies, and social media
Rhetoric about the dangers of the internet is at a feverish high. The new buzzword these days is "disinformation." Funnily enough, nobody actually produces it themselves: it's only other people who do so.
Arguably the internet already came up...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Clone Open Source Apps
> Author's note: This is part 3 of a series of essays I originally drafted about [Opinions for your...
over a year ago
> Author's note: This is part 3 of a series of essays I originally drafted about [Opinions for your Tech Career](https://gist.github.com/sw-yx/9720bd4a30606ca3ffb8d407113c0fe5). Part 1 is [Learn in Public](https://www.swyx.io/learn-in-public/).
Blog System/5
Kyua graduates
The story behind the FreeBSD and NetBSD testing frameworks
5 months ago
The story behind the FreeBSD and NetBSD testing frameworks
ntietz.com blog
How Cryptology Can Fix Identity Theft
Identity theft is a huge problem, costing Americans more than $4.5 billion in 2012. Identity theft...
over a year ago
Identity theft is a huge problem, costing Americans more than $4.5 billion in 2012. Identity theft victims frequently lose time and money and undergo significant mental hardships while dealing with the fallout. It can happen a few different ways, but one large attack vector is...
A Beautiful Site
$.postJSON() for jQuery
$.getJSON() is pretty handy for sending an AJAX request and getting back JSON data as a response....
over a year ago
$.getJSON() is pretty handy for sending an AJAX request and getting back JSON data as a response. Alas, the jQuery documentation lacks a sister function that should be named $.postJSON(). Why not just use $.getJSON() and be done with it? Well, perhaps you want to send a large...
ntietz.com blog
Scheduling visits from the muse
Eight years ago, I decided to start a blog.
For most of the life of my blog, it was relatively...
a year ago
Eight years ago, I decided to start a blog.
For most of the life of my blog, it was relatively inactive.
And then, I just started pumping out a lot more blog posts in 2022 while attending the Recurse Center.
What changed?
I stopped relying on visits from the muse, and started...
The Pragmatic...
Speakers for Amsterdam / Netherlands Tech Events
I (Gergely) sometimes get reachouts to do talks at events in Amsterdam (where I am based,) the...
4 months ago
I (Gergely) sometimes get reachouts to do talks at events in Amsterdam (where I am based,) the Netherlands, or somewhere in Europe. Unfortunately, rarely do talks – I do one conference per year.
However, I asked around in the community about tech professionals who do paid talks...
TokyoDev
Keeping your job board legal in Japan
I've previously written about [how recruiting is a licensed industry in...
over a year ago
I've previously written about [how recruiting is a licensed industry in Japan](/articles/recruiting-in-japan), and because of this, [you need to be careful](/articles/legally-operating-a-job-board-in-japan) about how you operate your job board to ensure it isn't classified as...
Computer Things
Texttools dot py
I make a lot of personal software tools. One of these is "texttools.py", which is easiest to explain...
4 months ago
I make a lot of personal software tools. One of these is "texttools.py", which is easiest to explain with an image:
Paste text in the top box, choose a transform, output appears in the bottom box. I can already do most of these transformations in vim, or with one of the many...
Liz Denys
Liz rides the subway on May 9, 2016
Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment...
over a year ago
Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment to get me to write more. On today's commutes to and from work:
A Fine Frenzy's "Rangers" is a much more poetic song than Taylor Swift's awkwardly similar "I Know Places." A hunted...
samwho.dev
Hashing
form {
padding-top: 0.5em;
padding-left: 0.5em;
padding-right: 0.5em;
display:...
a year ago
form {
padding-top: 0.5em;
padding-left: 0.5em;
padding-right: 0.5em;
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
gap: 0.3em;
}
form input[type=text] {
flex: 4 1 auto;
min-width: 0;
border-radius: 0.3em;
border: 1px solid #aaaaaa;
...
Charles Chen
Lessons Learned from Working at Startups
Self-note on some lessons learned from working at a variety of startups over my career
a month ago
Self-note on some lessons learned from working at a variety of startups over my career
swyx's site RSS Feed
Bad Ways to Get Data
In working on my [Sapper export library](https://www.npmjs.com/package/ssg), I ran into a very...
over a year ago
In working on my [Sapper export library](https://www.npmjs.com/package/ssg), I ran into a very peculiar problem: my pages were being generated a lot more slowly than expected:
swyx's site RSS Feed
Bringing AWS to App Developers
Where Amplify fits in AWS' trajectory, and why I am joining
over a year ago
Where Amplify fits in AWS' trajectory, and why I am joining
On Test Automation
Contract testing - what (not) to test for - part 1
Recently, I started working with a new client who have been working on their contract testing...
a month ago
Recently, I started working with a new client who have been working on their contract testing implementation for a while and figured out they could use some outside help. I’ve paid them a visit recently, and to make the most out of our time together (there was some travel...
Posts on Nikita...
Writing JIT Compiler on the Plane
Feel free to join the discussion on HackerNews.
Compilers always seemed a little bit like magic to...
over a year ago
Feel free to join the discussion on HackerNews.
Compilers always seemed a little bit like magic to me. You write the code in some language and then it spits out bitcode that a small crystall inside your computer understands.
Some databases ship with a specialized compiler inside...
Liz Denys
xoxo
You and I meeting
Places to experiment, learn,
failure.
But you and I -
Places and spaces...
over a year ago
You and I meeting
Places to experiment, learn,
failure.
But you and I -
Places and spaces into
moments and memories and
bonds to hold onto
beyond those polygons,
yellow, orange, and red.
HTMHell
You Don't Need ARIA For That
In web development, writing semantic HTML is important for accessibility, and also provides some...
over a year ago
In web development, writing semantic HTML is important for accessibility, and also provides some nice side effects such as supporting browser "reader" modes, SEO, graceful degradation, and exporting.
Implementing semantic HTML will also greatly reduce the need for ARIA...
PostHog's RSS Feed
5 essential PostHog apps for new users
PostHog apps are a powerful, but hard to explain part of the platform. They’re powerful because they...
over a year ago
PostHog apps are a powerful, but hard to explain part of the platform. They’re powerful because they can do almost anything — and they’re hard to…
PostHog's RSS Feed
What we learned about hiring from our first five employees
Our CEO and co-founder, James Hawkins, recently joined Y Combinator to talk about the first five...
over a year ago
Our CEO and co-founder, James Hawkins, recently joined Y Combinator to talk about the first five hires PostHog ever made, how we made them, and why…
Vadim Kravcenko
Fake it till you make it
If you’ve been doing anything related to the startup world the last few years, then you’ve heard the...
over a year ago
If you’ve been doing anything related to the startup world the last few years, then you’ve heard the term “fake […]
The post Fake it till you make it appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Renegade Otter
Death by a thousand microservices
The Church of Complexity
There is a pretty well-known sketch in which an engineer is explaining to...
a year ago
The Church of Complexity
There is a pretty well-known sketch in which an engineer is explaining to the project manager how an overly complicated maze of
microservices works in order to get a user’s birthday - and fails to do so anyway. The scene accurately describes the...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Farewell, Netlify
On leaving Netlify
over a year ago
blag
Recurse Center Day 18
Disk Storage II
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Supervised Learning: Neural Networks
That one time we tried to emulate our brains with computer chips
over a year ago
That one time we tried to emulate our brains with computer chips
A Smart Bear
The Iterative-Hypothesis customer development method
A simple but effective system for generating insights about how your potential customers think, what...
over a year ago
A simple but effective system for generating insights about how your potential customers think, what they need, and what they’ll buy. This method has been used both to reject startup ideas and to validate WP Engine before it had any customers (it is now a Unicorn).
PostHog's RSS Feed
A simple guide to personal data and PII
Engineers and product managers need to be vigilant when collecting user data. Punitive GDPR fines...
over a year ago
Engineers and product managers need to be vigilant when collecting user data. Punitive GDPR fines can run to €20 million or 4% of a company's global…
A Smart Bear
In command
Being "in control" is impossible, perhaps not even desirable. Being "in command" is ideal: honest,...
a year ago
Being "in control" is impossible, perhaps not even desirable. Being "in command" is ideal: honest, introspective, agile, aware, and proactive.
The Changelog
Using Yggdrasil As an Automatic Mesh Fabric to Connect All Your Docker Containers, VMs, and Servers
Update 2023-04: The version of this page on my public website has some important updates, including...
a year ago
Update 2023-04: The version of this page on my public website has some important updates, including how to use broadcast detection in Docker, Yggdrasil zero-config for ephemeral containers, and more. See it for the most current information. Sometimes you might want to run Docker...
macwright.com
Roll
I developed an old roll of film and the photos are pretty decent!
My Olympus XA-2 is
my default...
a year ago
I developed an old roll of film and the photos are pretty decent!
My Olympus XA-2 is
my default walking-around camera. I love it, but its age is showing
and I’m envious of the crisp photos that people get out of later-era
SLR film cameras. Thinking about getting a lightweight...
bt RSS Feed
Over-Nesting
Over-Nesting
2019-01-06
I think since our design industry moves so quickly and exciting new...
over a year ago
Over-Nesting
2019-01-06
I think since our design industry moves so quickly and exciting new technologies get released almost daily, that we often forget some of the basics when writing CSS. I bring this up because I’ve recently worked on a few projects that show a slight...
Epic Web Dev
Unleash the Designer in You (with Tailwind CSS) (article)
Explore how Tailwind CSS fosters collaboration between developers and designers, enhancing UI design...
5 months ago
Explore how Tailwind CSS fosters collaboration between developers and designers, enhancing UI design skills with utility classes and shared principles.
blag
About
Some Stuff About Me
over a year ago
Coding Horror
Updating The Single Most Influential Book of the BASIC Era
In a way, these two books are responsible for my entire professional career.
With early computers,...
over a year ago
In a way, these two books are responsible for my entire professional career.
With early computers, you didn't boot up to a fancy schmancy desktop, or a screen full of apps you could easily poke and prod with your finger. No, those computers booted up to the command
swyx's site RSS Feed
My 2021 New Mac Setup
I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
over a year ago
I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Bulletproof Method to Solving Problems
Step 1: Write down the problem in a message you plan to send to a co-worker.
Most of the time you’ll...
8 months ago
Step 1: Write down the problem in a message you plan to send to a co-worker.
Most of the time you’ll solve the problem before you’re done with Step 1. However, if you complete Step 1 and still have the problem, continue to Step 2.
Step 2: Hit the “Send” button.
Shortly after...
HTMHell
Modern HTML as a foundation for progressive enhancement
Reading HTMHell, you might be aware that progressive enhancement is a thing. To sum things up, it's...
over a year ago
Reading HTMHell, you might be aware that progressive enhancement is a thing. To sum things up, it's a way to make sure anyone gets a viable version of your page whatever is their context — slow bandwitdh, oldish browser, etc. — but also making the said page more resilient (e.g....
markround.com
DevOps for the Sinclair Spectrum - Part 2
In Part 1, I explored the hardware and development environment. In this article, I’ll cover the...
over a year ago
In Part 1, I explored the hardware and development environment. In this article, I’ll cover the server-side components as well as coding and launching the first iteration of the site along with some of the limitations I encountered when programming on such an old system.
Server...
Josh Comeau's blog
Animating the Unanimatable
An in-depth look at the surprisingly complicated problem of animating the transition when two items...
over a year ago
An in-depth look at the surprisingly complicated problem of animating the transition when two items in a list swap positions.
Dan Quach Blog
State of Data Engineering Q3 2024
Prompt Engineering – Meta Analysis Whitepaper One of my favorite AI podcasts, Latent Space, recently...
2 months ago
Prompt Engineering – Meta Analysis Whitepaper One of my favorite AI podcasts, Latent Space, recently featured Sander Schulhoff, one of the authors of a comprehensive research paper on prompt engineering. This meta-study reviews over 1,600 published papers, with co-authors from...
alexwlchan
Ten years of blogging
I bought the alexwlchan.net domain on November 8th, 2012, and the first web page would have appeared...
over a year ago
I bought the alexwlchan.net domain on November 8th, 2012, and the first web page would have appeared shortly after that (but the exact date is lost to history).
This means I’ve been writing at alexwlchan.net for about a decade.
The site looks very different now to how it...
Joel Gascoigne
My experience with burnout as a startup founder
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog.
In mid-2017, I hit burnout in a really big way...
over a year ago
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog.
In mid-2017, I hit burnout in a really big way and wound up taking a 6-week break to recharge.
I want to fully share my story here and include some things I wish I’d done differently in the hope
PostHog's RSS Feed
What launching Experimentation taught us about running effective A/B tests
We just launched our Experimentation suite, and there's a ton we learned about running successful...
over a year ago
We just launched our Experimentation suite, and there's a ton we learned about running successful experiments. It was a no brainer product decision…
A Smart Bear
Product/Market Fit: Experience & Data
Companies that achieve Product/Market Fit -- both self-funded and VC-funded -- exhibit the same...
a year ago
Companies that achieve Product/Market Fit -- both self-funded and VC-funded -- exhibit the same prototypical metrics curves and subjective experiences.
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...
alexwlchan
The Collected Works of Ian Flemingo
On Monday evening, about two hundred Mincefluencers descended on the Fortune Theatre for “Operation...
11 months ago
On Monday evening, about two hundred Mincefluencers descended on the Fortune Theatre for “Operation Human Thermos”, a fan gathering to celebrate Operation Mincemeat, a musical that gives us all the warm and fuzzies.
A lot of people dressed in cosplay to mark the occasion, and I...
Ferd.ca
Carrots, sticks, and making things worse
This blog post originally appeared on the LFI blog but I decided to post it on my own as well.
Every...
3 months ago
This blog post originally appeared on the LFI blog but I decided to post it on my own as well.
Every organization has to contend with limits: scarcity of resources, people, attention, or funding, friction from scaling, inertia from previous code bases, or a quickly shifting...
ntietz.com blog
The bittersweet end of a year of independence
Just over a year ago, I left the startup I was working for and started my own business. My intention...
over a year ago
Just over a year ago, I left the startup I was working for and started my own business. My intention was to do freelance work ("consulting", to all my clients) until I was able to launch my first product, and then shift into being a product company. My ambitions and confidence...
Jibran’s Perspective
Deploying Ruby on Rails to AWS with Kamal
As part of a contracting project, I’ve been building an analytics dashboard for a feedback...
6 months ago
As part of a contracting project, I’ve been building an analytics dashboard for a feedback collection SaaS. The app is built in Ruby on Rails and given all the nice things I’ve heard about Kamal; I decided to use it for deploying the app.
The experience has been phenomenal;...
Charles Chen
TypeScript is not a Programming Language
If you're struggling with TypeScript, reshaping your perspective might help.
a year ago
If you're struggling with TypeScript, reshaping your perspective might help.
General Robots
So You Want To Do Robots, Part 3: How to Escape Pilot Purgatory
I hope you don’t fail, but building a robotics company is very hard. So it's useful to study the...
a year ago
I hope you don’t fail, but building a robotics company is very hard. So it's useful to study the patterns of what doesn’t work. We’re going to dig into the most common death pattern for robotics startups: starving in pilot purgatory. If you’ve been at a robot startup, this story...
Making software...
Looping Through Jekyll Collections
Looping Through Jekyll Collections
2022-08-12
I recently needed to add a couple new items to my...
over a year ago
Looping Through Jekyll Collections
2022-08-12
I recently needed to add a couple new items to my wife's personal recipe website (cookingwith.casa) which I hadn't touched in quite a while. The Jekyll build still worked fine, but I realized I was statically adding each collection by...
bunnie's blog
Turning Everyday Gadgets into Bombs is a Bad Idea
I think turning everyday gadgets into bombs is a bad idea. However, recent news coverage has been...
3 months ago
I think turning everyday gadgets into bombs is a bad idea. However, recent news coverage has been framing the weaponization of pagers and radios in the Middle East as something we do not need to concern ourselves with because “we” are safe. I respectfully disagree. Our militaries...
Epic Web Dev
Motion Safe and Motion Reduce Modifiers (tip)
11 months ago
Irrational...
Performance & Compensation (for Eng Execs).
Uber’s original performance process was called “T3B3” and was remarkably simple: write the...
a year ago
Uber’s original performance process was called “T3B3” and was remarkably simple: write the individuals top 3 strengths, and top 3 weaknesses, and share the feedback with them directly in person. There was a prolonged fight against even documenting the feedback, which was viewed...
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
On writing regularly
It has been a while (perhaps too long) since I’ve written publicly. My notepad is, however, filled...
a year ago
It has been a while (perhaps too long) since I’ve written publicly. My notepad is, however, filled with half jotted down ideas, semi-written essays, and the scratchings and sketches of a madman re-learning algebra and Spanish.
I once knew a man who lived by the somewhat...
Florian Bellmann |...
You are never taught how to build quality software
Learning how to build quality software is not part of computer science education. How do we learn...
a year ago
Learning how to build quality software is not part of computer science education. How do we learn it?
Darek Kay
Grab browser links and titles in one click
When I copy a browser tab URL, I often want to also keep the title. Sometimes I want to use the link...
a week ago
When I copy a browser tab URL, I often want to also keep the title. Sometimes I want to use the link as rich text (e.g., when pasting the link into OneNote or Jira). Sometimes I prefer a Markdown link. There are browser extensions to achieve this task, but I don't want to...
David Heinemeier...
Magic machines
There's an interesting psychological phenomenon where programmers tend to ascribe more trust to...
8 months ago
There's an interesting psychological phenomenon where programmers tend to ascribe more trust to computers run by anyone but themselves. Perhaps it's a corollary to imposter syndrome, which leads programmers to believe that if a computer is operated by AWS or SaaS or literally...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
A Few Details About My Notes Website
A little while back I created notes.jim-nielsen.com and wrote about why I made it. I want to write a...
a year ago
A little while back I created notes.jim-nielsen.com and wrote about why I made it. I want to write a little more about some of my favorite parts of the site.
First: It’s Really a Page, Not a Site
I’m not sure I should call it a “website”, as I think of a website as a collection...
Joel Gascoigne
We’re trying a 4-day workweek for the month of May
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog.
For the month of May, Buffer will operate under...
over a year ago
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog.
For the month of May, Buffer will operate under a 4-day workweek (at full pay) across the whole 89-person team.
We’re in a period of time where there’s a layer of added anxiety and stress in all
bt RSS Feed
Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll
Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll
2019-06-20
When thinking about writing, designing and ultimately...
over a year ago
Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll
2019-06-20
When thinking about writing, designing and ultimately publishing an ebook, most people don’t think of using a static site generator. Having products like Amazon Publishing, LaTeX or even Microsoft Word available, why should you use...
Joel Gascoigne
Steady yourself, those world-changing thoughts are not productive
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
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* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
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Whilst building...
over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
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* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
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Whilst building my latest startup, which I’m glad to say is picking up nicely,
there have been times when things have started to go a little crazy. It might be
being featured in a big blog, lots...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Hard Problem of Rendering Tweets
I've been unhappy with my [tweet rendering strategy](https://github.com/sw-yx/swyxkit/issues/61) for...
over a year ago
I've been unhappy with my [tweet rendering strategy](https://github.com/sw-yx/swyxkit/issues/61) for a while - Twitter encourages you to use their heavy JS script to render tweets, which undoubtedly heaps all sorts of tracking on the reader, docks your lighthouse performance...
Vadim Kravcenko
How to hire first rockstar employee
You want someone who can hit the ground running, who’s passionate about your mission, and who can...
over a year ago
You want someone who can hit the ground running, who’s passionate about your mission, and who can survive being locked […]
The post How to hire first rockstar employee appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
ntietz.com blog
A systems design perspective on why chess.com's servers have been melting
January 2023 was a rough month if you wanted to play chess on the most popular chess website,...
a year ago
January 2023 was a rough month if you wanted to play chess on the most popular chess website, chess.com1.
Their service has been experiencing an unprecedented amount downtime because of a huge influx of users2.
There have been days where it's all but unusable.
It's frustrating as...
Dan Quach Blog
Braces
Growing up I had the same dentist from childhood to adulthood. My dentist’s office was run by...
6 months ago
Growing up I had the same dentist from childhood to adulthood. My dentist’s office was run by Dentist Chung (in Vietnamese I called him Bác Sĩ Chung – which means Dr Chung translated directly) and his sister running the office. The office was in Garden Grove, in between the...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Choice Architecture
Reflection on how both gyms and startups do choice architecture and how we can be more conscious of...
over a year ago
Reflection on how both gyms and startups do choice architecture and how we can be more conscious of this
Vadim Kravcenko
I have a very poor work-life balance. How can I escape the grind?
Question:
Hey Vadim,
Here's the situation: from the moment my alarm clock interrupts my sleep, until...
9 months ago
Question:
Hey Vadim,
Here's the situation: from the moment my alarm clock interrupts my sleep, until I finally come home late at night, my life is essentially a never-ending cycle of sitting in front of the PC and stressing with a workload that feels like it's set to max. I feel...
Seán Barry
What is TypeScript and why should I use it?
A beginner's guide to TypeScript. What is TypeScript? What problems does it solve? Why should I use...
over a year ago
A beginner's guide to TypeScript. What is TypeScript? What problems does it solve? Why should I use it?
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Personal Websites Are As Vulnerable As Us
I look at some people’s personal websites and think, “Stupendous! If I ever reach that zenith of...
4 months ago
I look at some people’s personal websites and think, “Stupendous! If I ever reach that zenith of personal web design, I will call it quits.”
Then I read a post by them later and they say something like, “Gah! I just really don’t like where I’m at with my personal website.”
And in...
A Beautiful Site
Hashing Passwords with Node.js and bcrypt
The bcrypt library on NPM makes it really easy to hash and compare passwords in Node. If you're...
over a year ago
The bcrypt library on NPM makes it really easy to hash and compare passwords in Node. If you're coming from a PHP background, these are roughly equivalent to password_hash() and password_verify().
Bcrypt is the de facto way to hash and store passwords. For a brief explanation of...
ntietz.com blog
Email addresses are not primary user identities
A lot of applications treat your email address as something immutable that is linked to you and...
a year ago
A lot of applications treat your email address as something immutable that is linked to you and which will never change. It can't be linked to someone else, and it can't change.
This is, of course, not true. Email addresses do change. I changed my work email address recently...
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...
Daniel Marino
Using the p5play JavaScript Game Engine
I was messing around with p5play last week to experiment with a game idea, and was pleasantly...
12 months ago
I was messing around with p5play last week to experiment with a game idea, and was pleasantly surprised by how easy it is to use. It was designed to be intuitive for beginners, such as students. In under a half hour I had created some common basic mechanics! Check it out:
See the...
The Changelog
Live Migrating from Raspberry Pi OS bullseye to Debian bookworm
I’ve been getting annoyed with Raspberry Pi OS (Raspbian) for years now. It’s a fork of Debian, but...
a year ago
I’ve been getting annoyed with Raspberry Pi OS (Raspbian) for years now. It’s a fork of Debian, but manages to omit some of the most useful things. So I’ve decided to migrate all of my Pis to run pure Debian. These are my reasons: Raspberry Pi OS has, for years now, specified...
A Beautiful Site
Democratizing publishing
One of the objectives Matt Mullenweg has for WordPress is to democratize publishing, which is...
over a year ago
One of the objectives Matt Mullenweg has for WordPress is to democratize publishing, which is excellent. But the very same article states another objective is to "capture the 75 percent of the internet that WordPress doesn't already manage."
In my opinion, these goals conflict...
the singularity is...
Dangerous Misinformation
When I Google myself, I get this infobox:
As you can see below, George Hotz’s height is 5’10”, not...
5 months ago
When I Google myself, I get this infobox:
As you can see below, George Hotz’s height is 5’10”, not 5’4”
Google, please take this misinformation seriously before you end up in a very large libel suit. This is not on a site you are linking to, this is first party misinformation...
PostHog's RSS Feed
How to work out what your users really need
Understanding the needs of your users better than anyone else is critical for the success of any...
over a year ago
Understanding the needs of your users better than anyone else is critical for the success of any product. For years, taxis solved the primary user…
swyx's site RSS Feed
Sharding Yourself
An advanced tip for high-volume writers.
over a year ago
An advanced tip for high-volume writers.
David Gerrells
a perfect blog editor
What is the perfect blog editor? Nextjs with mdx is one way of doing it...kinda.
over a year ago
What is the perfect blog editor? Nextjs with mdx is one way of doing it...kinda.
PostHog's RSS Feed
How we found our Ideal Customer Profile
Creating an Ideal Customer Profile is one of the most important things we've ever done at PostHog....
over a year ago
Creating an Ideal Customer Profile is one of the most important things we've ever done at PostHog. You can see it in our revenue growth: I wish we…
Alex Meub
My Favorite Web Apps and Tools
I’ve found myself more often using web apps instead of dedicated desktop applications at work. It...
over a year ago
I’ve found myself more often using web apps instead of dedicated desktop applications at work. It seems that in general, desktop apps have been getting slower and more resource intensive lately. The trend of teams using Electron or the Chromium Embedded Framework in order to ship...
Paolo Amoroso's...
NoteCards visited a website for the first time
<![CDATA[Success!
My WebCard prototype made NoteCards visit a site on the World-Wide Web for the...
3 months ago
<![CDATA[Success!
My WebCard prototype made NoteCards visit a site on the World-Wide Web for the first time. Think of it as a wormhole that connects the old world of hypertext with the new world of the modern web. WebCard, a NoteCards extension for visiting websites, is my...
bt RSS Feed
My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee
My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee
2023-01-09
I had to replace my dual Keurig coffee maker twice...
over a year ago
My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee
2023-01-09
I had to replace my dual Keurig coffee maker twice over a period of five months. This occurred a year ago and these are my findings.
Built to Fail?
I followed the manufactor’s suggested cleaning schedule and took care of the...
Coding Horror
There is no longer any such thing as Computer Security
Remember "cybersecurity"?
Mysterious hooded computer guys doing mysterious hooded computer guy .....
over a year ago
Remember "cybersecurity"?
Mysterious hooded computer guys doing mysterious hooded computer guy .. things! Who knows what kind of naughty digital mischief they might be up to?
Unfortunately, we now live in a world where this kind of digital mischief is literally rewriting the...
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…
ntietz.com blog
A systematic approach to debugging
I've got a reputation at work as being a skilled debugger.
It's a frequent occurrence that the weird...
a year ago
I've got a reputation at work as being a skilled debugger.
It's a frequent occurrence that the weird stuff lands on my desk1 after it goes through another skilled engineer or two.
To say my job is substantially "debug the weird shit" would not be an understatement and I'm here...
ntietz.com blog
Affirmations for bloggers
Every software engineer can have a great blog, if they want to.
Many of us start blogs, but most of...
7 months ago
Every software engineer can have a great blog, if they want to.
Many of us start blogs, but most of those blogs lie abandoned or sporadically updated.
It's okay if you start blogging and figure out it's not really for you.
But there are also some common issues that block people...
Tony Finch's blog
GCRA: leaky buckets without the buckets
Yesterday I read an article describing the GCRA rate limiting
algorithm. I thought it was really...
4 months ago
Yesterday I read an article describing the GCRA rate limiting
algorithm. I thought it was really interesting, but I wasn’t
entirely satisfied with Brandur’s explanation, and the Wikipedia
articles on leaky buckets and GCRA are terrible, so here’s
my version.
what is GCRA?
GCRA is...
Kagi Blog
We moved mountains (of cotton) to deliver on our promise
Dear Kagi Community, Remember those t-shirts we promised ( https://blog.kagi.com/celebrating-20k ) ?...
4 months ago
Dear Kagi Community, Remember those t-shirts we promised ( https://blog.kagi.com/celebrating-20k ) ? Well, hold onto your search bars, because they’re finally ready to ship! TL;DR: Kagi Store ( https://store.kagi.com ).
Kevin Chen
How to create a digital Suica card in Apple Pay (2024 Update)
Suica is a smart card used to pay at train stations and convenience
stores in Japan. In 2016, Apple...
over a year ago
Suica is a smart card used to pay at train stations and convenience
stores in Japan. In 2016, Apple added support for Suica to Apple Pay on iPhone 7
devices sold in Japan. In 2017, Apple added support to all iPhone 8/X and later, regardless of where they’re sold.1
Virtual Suica...
bt RSS Feed
Introducing Notez
Introducing Notez
2021-01-13
I have always been a fan of simple note taking applications, since I...
over a year ago
Introducing Notez
2021-01-13
I have always been a fan of simple note taking applications, since I tend to take a lot of random notes throughout the work day. Sometimes I reach for simple pen and paper, but other times it’s nice to stay focused jotting down notes on the same...
Oxide Computer...
Reflections on Founder Mode
Paul Graham’s Founder
Mode is an important piece, and you should read it if for no other reason
that...
4 months ago
Paul Graham’s Founder
Mode is an important piece, and you should read it if for no other reason
that "founder mode" will surely enter the lexicon (and as Graham grimly
predicts: "as soon as the concept of founder mode becomes established, people
will start misusing it"). When...
Darek Kay
Running Storybook from a separate folder
After migrating a project to Vite, I've moved my Storybook setup into a separate module — a folder...
over a year ago
After migrating a project to Vite, I've moved my Storybook setup into a separate module — a folder next to the actual app:
📁 project
├─ 📁 app
| ├─ 📁 src
| └─ 📄 package.json
└─ 📁 storybook
├─ 📁 .storybook
| ├─ 📄 main.js
| └─ 📄 preview.js
└─ 📄...
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.
›
Go's math/big package
Most languages have a library...
37signals Dev
The gift of constraints
One of the hardest things about shipping products is balancing this contradiction: you want to do...
4 months ago
One of the hardest things about shipping products is balancing this contradiction: you want to do the best possible work everywhere, but optimizing every piece takes time, and time is finite.
I’ve done a poor job here countless times in my career. And I have seen many others...
Civic Hax
Using FOIA Data and Unix to halve major source of parking tickets
Intro
This'll be my first blog post on the internet, ever. Hopefully it's interesting and accurate....
over a year ago
Intro
This'll be my first blog post on the internet, ever. Hopefully it's interesting and accurate. Please point out any mistakes if you see any!
In 2016, I did some work in trying to find some hotspot areas for parking tickets to see if a bit of data munging could reduce those...
Oxide Computer...
Compensation as a Reflection of Values
Compensation: the word alone is enough to trigger a fight-or-flight reaction in
many. But we in...
over a year ago
Compensation: the word alone is enough to trigger a fight-or-flight reaction in
many. But we in technology have the good fortune of being in a well-compensated
domain, so why does this issue induce such anxiety when our basic needs are
clearly covered? If it needs to be said,...
Blog System/5
Revisiting the NetBSD build system
I recently picked up an embedded project in which I needed to build a highly customized full system...
a week ago
I recently picked up an embedded project in which I needed to build a highly customized full system image with minimal boot times and NetBSD was the best choice for it. Let's look at why its build system helps.
Epic Web Dev
Data Modeling Deep Dive (workshop)
The Data Modeling Deep Dive Workshop will teach you best practices for designing database schemas,...
a year ago
The Data Modeling Deep Dive Workshop will teach you best practices for designing database schemas, managing relationships, data mutations, and optimizations.
Liz Denys
Peppermint brownie cookies, because chocolate was made to be rich
I've never understood the common obsession with chocolatey baked goods that aren't insanely rich....
over a year ago
I've never understood the common obsession with chocolatey baked goods that aren't insanely rich. Don't get me wrong - I like chocolate - but that's just it, I like chocolate, not a pinch of cocoa flavor. Chocolate chip cookies always tasted better to me with the chips on the...
Elad Blog
A return to company core mission & values
If you want to refocus on your core mission, and end political discourse at work, now is a window of...
11 months ago
If you want to refocus on your core mission, and end political discourse at work, now is a window of time to do it
Alice GG
Learning Dutch online in 2023
Back in 2020, I left France to live in the Netherlands.
Since then, I have spent some time learning...
a year ago
Back in 2020, I left France to live in the Netherlands.
Since then, I have spent some time learning the language and reached an intermediate (B1-B2) level.
While learning Dutch is not a hard requirement to live and work in the country, it does make day-to-day life a bit more...
The Pragmatic...
Cruel Changes at Twitter
The speedrun for a complete culture overhaul at Twitter continues, and may conclude just two weeks...
over a year ago
The speedrun for a complete culture overhaul at Twitter continues, and may conclude just two weeks after Elon Musk bought the company. Managers will have 20+ reports and are expected to code at least 20% of the time.
swyx's site RSS Feed
A Better Way to Get Data
> Note: this was an unfinished draft, i published it anyway but it is incomplete
over a year ago
> Note: this was an unfinished draft, i published it anyway but it is incomplete
The Pragmatic...
Asked to do something illegal at work? Here’s what these software engineers did
At FTX, Frank, and Pollen, software engineers were asked to do something potentially illegal, or to...
a year ago
At FTX, Frank, and Pollen, software engineers were asked to do something potentially illegal, or to go along with what looked like fraud. They obliged in two out of three cases, landed in hot water, and now face jail time. A reminder why it’s never a good idea to go along with...
bt RSS Feed
Schools Should Be Using Open Source Software
Schools Should Be Using Open Source Software
2022-05-30
I firmly believe that proprietary software...
over a year ago
Schools Should Be Using Open Source Software
2022-05-30
I firmly believe that proprietary software has no business in any school environment. Educational institutions lean heavily on Windows systems in the name of “security” or “easier platform management”. This approach forces...
alexwlchan
Getting the path to the note I have open in Obsidian
I have a bunch of Python scripts I use to clean up text files, and I call them by passing the path...
a year ago
I have a bunch of Python scripts I use to clean up text files, and I call them by passing the path to the text file as an argument, for example:
$ python clean_up_text.py /path/to/text/file.md
This is mostly fine, but finding that path is a bit annoying when I want to run them...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware December 2023
The Ware from December 2023 is a 20-watt laser diode used for engraving. It’s used in products like...
11 months ago
The Ware from December 2023 is a 20-watt laser diode used for engraving. It’s used in products like the ATOMSTACK Laser Engraver (link without affiliate code), and the module itself is produced by Shenzhen Xinghan Laser Technology Co, Ltd.. I don’t have an exact part number for...
Writing - Andreas...
The LLM productivity puzzle
Code generation is arguably one of the most interesting applications of
LLMs, and one of the first...
a year ago
Code generation is arguably one of the most interesting applications of
LLMs, and one of the first with real commercial use (Copilot/Codex,
Codegen, etc.). If you spend time on the internet these days you’ll see
people claim productivity gains ranging from 0 to 100x,...
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...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Realtime Offline-First Chat App in 100 Seconds
A quick demo of how easy it is to add realtime, offline persistence to an app with Amplify DataStore
over a year ago
A quick demo of how easy it is to add realtime, offline persistence to an app with Amplify DataStore
The Codist
If You Don't Give A Crap, This Is the Shit That You Get
Being retired after four decades as a programmer, there is nothing more irritating than seeing...
11 months ago
Being retired after four decades as a programmer, there is nothing more irritating than seeing broken or poor functionality in web and mobile apps. I always cared about what we were putting out, even if it was sometimes unimportant to my employer. When I see things that are easy...
ntietz.com blog
Working with Rust in (neo)vim
I've been using vim for nearly as long as I've been writing code.
My first introduction to it was...
over a year ago
I've been using vim for nearly as long as I've been writing code.
My first introduction to it was being thrown in the deep end in 2009 by my Intro to CS lab assistant, who told us to write our programs using vi1 on the department servers.
Why he told us that, I have no idea.
But...
Liz Denys
New Loose Leaf Security series: Safely surfing the web
Three more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about safely browsing the web:
The...
over a year ago
Three more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about safely browsing the web:
The history of the Web and an introduction to browser security
The web can be a scary place - but once you get to know it a little better, it doesn't feel as scary. Liz and Geoffrey go...
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
Seldo.com
There's no such thing as the fundamentals of web development
a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Following Links
I loved this post from Chris Enns (via Robb Knight) where he outlines the rabbit hole of links he...
10 months ago
I loved this post from Chris Enns (via Robb Knight) where he outlines the rabbit hole of links he ventured down in writing that post.
It felt fun and familiar, as that’s how my own browsing goes, e.g.
“I saw X and I clicked it. Then I saw Y, so I clicked that. But then I went...
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
Upcoming changes to the discovery feed
Bear's discovery feed improvements and a call for feedback
5 months ago
Bear's discovery feed improvements and a call for feedback
Irrational...
Ex-technology companies.
One of the most interesting questions I got after joining Calm in 2020 was whether Calm was a...
9 months ago
One of the most interesting questions I got after joining Calm in 2020 was whether Calm was a technology company. Most interestingly, this question wasn’t coming from friends or random strangers on the internet, it was coming from the engineers working there! In an attempt to...
Code Of Honor
HandmadeCon 2015 interview transcript
In 2015 I participated in HandmadeCon, a convention created and run by programming guru Casey...
3 months ago
In 2015 I participated in HandmadeCon, a convention created and run by programming guru Casey Muratori about game development. The event included five speakers: Tommy Refenes, Mike Acton, Jonathan Blow, Ron Gilbert, and myself. The event was hosted at the Seattle Public Library,...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Networking Essentials: Congestion Control
Bottlenecks inevitably arise in networks. How do we deal with them in TCP? How about in practical...
over a year ago
Bottlenecks inevitably arise in networks. How do we deal with them in TCP? How about in practical streaming applications like Youtube and Skype?
Charles Chen
End-to-End Type Safety with .NET7, TypeScript, and OpenAPI -- with Hot Rebuild
Supercharge your dev workflow with end-to-end type safety and hot rebuild!
a year ago
Supercharge your dev workflow with end-to-end type safety and hot rebuild!
Vadim Kravcenko
🙀 Startup founder fears by funding round
Startup founders have a lot of fears. Some are afraid they won’t find a technical co-founder or...
over a year ago
Startup founders have a lot of fears. Some are afraid they won’t find a technical co-founder or attract angel investment. […]
The post 🙀 Startup founder fears by funding round appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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The Platinum Rule
You've heard of the Golden Rule? "Treat others as you want to be treated." Introducing the Platinum...
over a year ago
You've heard of the Golden Rule? "Treat others as you want to be treated." Introducing the Platinum and Silver Rules.
ntietz.com blog
RC Week 9: Parallels of Proofs and Programs
I have three weeks left at Recurse Center.
This last week was significantly less productive for me...
over a year ago
I have three weeks left at Recurse Center.
This last week was significantly less productive for me than usual, because I've been pretty fatigued and just recovered from a cold.
But I still got some work done that I'm proud of.
More than that, I'm excited for the coming three...
David Heinemeier...
Pick promise over proof
After hiring people for twenty years, I've come to accept that it's impossible to know up front what...
a year ago
After hiring people for twenty years, I've come to accept that it's impossible to know up front what someone is truly capable of. Sure, we try our best to make good, educated guesses during the hiring process, and this is why asking finalists to do sample work projects is so...
David Gerrells
love is work and so is css
I love css. And well, to love something, it is not always rainbows :rainbow: and sunshine :sunny:
over a year ago
I love css. And well, to love something, it is not always rainbows :rainbow: and sunshine :sunny:
elementary Blog
Big new features and a mountain of bug fixes
elementary OS 7 has been out for just over a month now and I’m excited to announce the first round...
a year ago
elementary OS 7 has been out for just over a month now and I’m excited to announce the first round of updates to our latest operating system includes both great feature updates and a long list of fixes for reported issues. As you may know, we prioritize our work based on your...
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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
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
On being a great gift-giver
I received a great gift that I love
2 months ago
I received a great gift that I love
A small freedom area...
Improving color quantization heuristics
In 2015, I wrote an article about how the palette color quantization was
improved in FFmpeg in order...
over a year ago
In 2015, I wrote an article about how the palette color quantization was
improved in FFmpeg in order to make nice animated GIF files. For some
reason, to this day this is one of my most popular article.
As time passed, my experience with colors grew and I ended up being...
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Introducing HogQL: Direct SQL access for PostHog
Today, we're releasing a major new feature as a public beta: the ability to directly query your...
a year ago
Today, we're releasing a major new feature as a public beta: the ability to directly query your PostHog data using SQL . We call this HogQL because…
Steve Klabnik
Fire Mario not fire flowers
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
How to turn user interviews into actionable snapshots
Regularly talking to users is an important habit for any product team, but it's wasted without an...
a year ago
Regularly talking to users is an important habit for any product team, but it's wasted without an efficient way to share what you learn. At PostHog…
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...
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Two Words
The best way to sell to, brand, persuade, or inspire people is to condense your idea down to Two...
over a year ago
The best way to sell to, brand, persuade, or inspire people is to condense your idea down to Two Words.
Epic Web Dev
Mocking Techniques in Vitest (workshop)
3 months ago
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Line Lengths
Reflecting on what I have learned about CSS Units and Line Lengths
over a year ago
Reflecting on what I have learned about CSS Units and Line Lengths
David Heinemeier...
The last RailsConf
Few numbers exemplified the early growth of Rails like attendance at RailsConf. I think we started...
8 months ago
Few numbers exemplified the early growth of Rails like attendance at RailsConf. I think we started with something like 400-600 attendees at the inaugural conference in Chicago in 2006, then just kept doubling year over year, as Rails went to the moon. If memory serves me right,...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware October 2023
The Ware for October 2023 is a Seiko DS-250 keyboard synthesizer. Nobody guessed the exact make and...
a year ago
The Ware for October 2023 is a Seiko DS-250 keyboard synthesizer. Nobody guessed the exact make and model of the keyboard, but it was really entertaining to see the comment thread puzzle through the design. The dual 8049’s caught my attention too, as well as the lack of obvious...
A Beautiful Site
Thoughts on being a good manager
Some thoughts I had after conversations with a friend who has a terrible manager. This isn't nearly...
over a year ago
Some thoughts I had after conversations with a friend who has a terrible manager. This isn't nearly a comprehensive list, but it highlights many of the problems they were experiencing. Maybe my friend's manager will stumble upon it some day.
When someone has a grievance, take an...
Making software...
Basic Gulp Build for Sass
Basic Gulp Build for Sass
2019-01-15
Some designers might shy away from build tools when first...
over a year ago
Basic Gulp Build for Sass
2019-01-15
Some designers might shy away from build tools when first starting out and I can understand the reasoning - task runners like gulp and grunt can seem daunting at first. So, I've decided to showcase my go-to setup for gulp and explain what the...
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
A case for socks with toes
Yes, I wear toe socks. Yes, they're amazing.
I've exclusively been wearing toe socks for the past...
a year ago
Yes, I wear toe socks. Yes, they're amazing.
I've exclusively been wearing toe socks for the past 8-ish years. Every now and again (say I enter a house which has a no-shoe rule), someone will spot them and find the concept strange, commenting on how weird they look, and if the...
alexwlchan
The new Flickr Commons Explorer →
One of the things I’ve been working on at the Flickr Foundation is a new “Commons Explorer”, a way...
9 months ago
One of the things I’ve been working on at the Flickr Foundation is a new “Commons Explorer”, a way to browse the photos in the Flickr Commons.
Flickr Commons is a collection of historical photography from cultural institutions from all around the world, all with no known...
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?
Acko.net
The Case for Use.GPU
Reinventing rendering one shader at a time
The other day I ran into a perfect example of...
over a year ago
Reinventing rendering one shader at a time
The other day I ran into a perfect example of exactly why GPU programming is so foreign and weird. In this post I will explain why, because it's a microcosm of the issues that lead me to build Use.GPU, a WebGPU rendering...
Marco.org
The future of the App Store
After the dust settles from the developer class-action settlement, the South Korean law, the JFTC...
over a year ago
After the dust settles from the developer class-action settlement, the South Korean law, the JFTC announcement, and the Apple v. Epic decision, I think the most likely long-term outcome isn’t very different from the status quo — and that’s a good thing.
Allowing external...
James Vaughan's blog
Systemd Timers as a Cron Alternative
over a year ago
Cognitive...
Uploading CSV to DynamoDB with Node JS
So I wanted to upload CSV to DynamoDB.
Easy right?
Not so fast.
It turns out, you have to obey...
over a year ago
So I wanted to upload CSV to DynamoDB.
Easy right?
Not so fast.
It turns out, you have to obey your provisioned write capacity.
Unlike S3, "Simple Storage Service" where you simply upload a file, DynamoDB isn't "Simple". There's no "upload CSV" button. You have to write a...
Josh Comeau's blog
My experience as a remote worker
I've spent half of my career working remotely. This post chronicles those experiences, giving a...
over a year ago
I've spent half of my career working remotely. This post chronicles those experiences, giving a real-world window into what it's like to work fully-remote as a software engineer.
Darek Kay
Website themes with uBlock Origin
Browser extensions like Stylish, Stylus or Tampermonkey make it possible to create custom website...
11 months ago
Browser extensions like Stylish, Stylus or Tampermonkey make it possible to create custom website themes/skins. At the same time, I try to lower the number of add-ons that I use, mostly due to security and performance reasons. Interestingly, the uBlock Origin ad blocker can...
HTMHell
ARIA Live Regions
by Andrea de Souza
ARIA stands for Accessible Rich Internet Applications. It is a set of roles and...
a year ago
by Andrea de Souza
ARIA stands for Accessible Rich Internet Applications. It is a set of roles and attributes that makes web page elements accessible to users who require assistive technology, like screen readers, when native HTML alone is not enough. One of these sets of roles...
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...
bt RSS Feed
Improving Laptop Battery Performance on OpenBSD
Improving Laptop Battery Performance on OpenBSD
2023-06-13
It is no secret that OpenBSD has poor...
a year ago
Improving Laptop Battery Performance on OpenBSD
2023-06-13
It is no secret that OpenBSD has poor battery performance on laptops. Although not as impressive as something like Alpine Linux or FreeBSD, you can tweak OpenBSD just enough to squeeze more life out of your machine’s...
A small freedom area...
Figuring out round, floor and ceil with integer division
Lately I've been transforming a float based algorithm to integers in order to
make it bit-exact....
over a year ago
Lately I've been transforming a float based algorithm to integers in order to
make it bit-exact. Preserving the precision as best as possible was way more
challenging than I initially though, which forced me to go deep down the rabbit
hole. During the process I realized I had...
Charles Chen
Interviews in the Age of AI: Ditch Leetcode - Try Code Reviews Instead
In the emerging age of AI generated code, is leetcode really the best way to evaluate technical...
a year ago
In the emerging age of AI generated code, is leetcode really the best way to evaluate technical candidates (was it ever)?
Kagi Blog
Kagi search and Orion browser enter public beta
*Web tracking and ads are becoming a personal and societal problem.
over a year ago
*Web tracking and ads are becoming a personal and societal problem.
PostHog's RSS Feed
How we justified quitting our jobs and financing PostHog early on
Let me tell you a story of the financial pressures that face new founders and how that pressure...
over a year ago
Let me tell you a story of the financial pressures that face new founders and how that pressure motivated Tim and me to make an epic pivot leap…
tonsky.me
Where Should Visual Programming Go?
There’s a wonderful article by Sebastian Bensusan: “We need visual programming. No, not like that.”...
5 months ago
There’s a wonderful article by Sebastian Bensusan: “We need visual programming. No, not like that.” (the dot is part of the title ¯\_(ツ)_/¯).
In it, Sebastian argues that we shouldn’t try to replace all code with visual programming but instead only add graphics where it makes...
Chris Nicholas
Integrate Twitter newsletters with API Routes
Last week newsletters started popping up on Twitter profiles, using their recently purchased...
over a year ago
Last week newsletters started popping up on Twitter profiles, using their recently purchased service, Revue.
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>
...
Basta’s Notes
Don't ask me to embarrass myself.
Or: Please Lucy, stop asking me to kick the football.
5 months ago
Or: Please Lucy, stop asking me to kick the football.
Vladimir Klepov as a...
useLayoutEffect is a bad place for deriving state
Today we'll talk about updating state inside useLayoutEffect in reaction to prop changes. Will it...
over a year ago
Today we'll talk about updating state inside useLayoutEffect in reaction to prop changes. Will it work? Is it safe? Are there better ways to implement such state changes? TLDR: it works, but leaves you with an extra DOM update that may break stuff.
As we all know, useLayoutEffect...
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...
alexwlchan
Documenting my DNS records
I had to change some of my DNS records recently, a phrase which strikes fear into the heart of...
7 months ago
I had to change some of my DNS records recently, a phrase which strikes fear into the heart of sysadmins everywhere.
It all went fine, but I definitely felt like I was playing with fire.
My current domain registrar is Hover, and the only way I can manage my domains is through a...
TokyoDev
A four-stage approach for hiring women on your engineering team
“We’d love to have woman engineers on our team, but we don’t get any applying to us” is a common...
9 months ago
“We’d love to have woman engineers on our team, but we don’t get any applying to us” is a common sentiment I’ve heard from startup founders, both in Japan as well as my home country, the United States.
If you’re in a similar position, and looking to increase the gender...
Miguel Carranza
My role as a founder CTO: Year Seven
2024 has come and gone, and it’s time for my annual post. What a year for startups—like squeezing...
4 days ago
2024 has come and gone, and it’s time for my annual post. What a year for startups—like squeezing five regular years into one. Do you remember the Apple Vision Pro, the DMA regulation, founder mode, or the o1 launch? All of that happened in just the last twelve months.
It’s also...
Charles Chen
Use TypeScript Record Types for Better Code
TypeScript Record types have super powers that can help any team write better code.
over a year ago
TypeScript Record types have super powers that can help any team write better code.
Nelson's Weblog
Linkblog archives
I've added an
archive calendar to my linkblog, so you can see old posts going all the
way back to...
over a year ago
I've added an
archive calendar to my linkblog, so you can see old posts going all the
way back to 2003. The UI is a little minimal but usable and it will work for
any search indexers, which is what I most care about. Note old posts will
have a grey background because I wasn't...
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Unsupervised Learning: Randomized Optimization
Hill Climbing, Simulated Annealing, Genetic Algorithms, oh my!
over a year ago
Hill Climbing, Simulated Annealing, Genetic Algorithms, oh my!
Joel Gascoigne
Like anything else, we need to practice startups
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It is easy to...
over a year ago
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It is easy to look at successful founders and see them as genuises, as people
who were without a doubt going to be triumphant. When we look at people in that
way, it is completely understandable...
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Add Netlify Identity Authentication to any React App in 5 minutes with React Context, Hooks and...
Adding authentication is a pain point for many React beginners. We’ve made it ridiculously easy to...
over a year ago
Adding authentication is a pain point for many React beginners. We’ve made it ridiculously easy to add Netlify Identity onto any React app, including create-react-app, Gatsby, Next.js, or any other setup you may have, by wrapping it all into one simple React Hook! However, this...
Computer Things
Some notes on for loops
New Blogpost
Don't let Alloy facts make your specs a fiction, about formal methods practices (and a...
9 months ago
New Blogpost
Don't let Alloy facts make your specs a fiction, about formal methods practices (and a lot of Alloy). Patreon link here.
Some notes on for loops
I sometimes like to sharpen the axe by looking at a basic programming concept and seeing what I can pull out. In this...
Josh Collinsworth
Things I enjoyed in 2023
Things I watched, read, played, got into, enjoyed, or did and would do again, in 2023.
a year ago
Things I watched, read, played, got into, enjoyed, or did and would do again, in 2023.
swyx's site RSS Feed
What You Can Do with Netlify Build Plugins
Netlify Build Plugins are here! Here's a smattering of thoughts on what you can do with them.
over a year ago
Netlify Build Plugins are here! Here's a smattering of thoughts on what you can do with them.
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STAR Apps - A New Generation of Front-End Tooling for Development Workflows
_Published on CSS Tricks as [STAR Apps: A New Generation of Front-End Tooling for Development...
over a year ago
_Published on CSS Tricks as [STAR Apps: A New Generation of Front-End Tooling for Development Workflows](https://css-tricks.com/star-apps-a-new-generation-of-front-end-tooling-for-development-workflows/)_
Alex MacCaw
The AI is coming
May you live in interesting times, goes the ancient Chinese proverb. Recent developments in...
over a year ago
May you live in interesting times, goes the ancient Chinese proverb. Recent developments in artificial-intelligence, especially image-generation, are putting that curse to the test.
In the last year we’ve seen some incredible breakthroughs in image-generation with the release of...
Alex Meub
The Magic of Solving Problems with 3D Printing
3D Printing has allowed me to be creative in ways I never thought possible. It has allowed me to...
3 weeks ago
3D Printing has allowed me to be creative in ways I never thought possible. It has allowed me to create products that provide real value, products that didn’t exist before I designed them. On top of that, it’s satisfied my desire to ship products, even if the end-user is just...
Kagi Blog
Kagi now accepts Paypal, EUR and Bitcoin (Lightning) payments
One of the most frequently requested features on Kagi has been the expansion of our payment methods...
a year ago
One of the most frequently requested features on Kagi has been the expansion of our payment methods so that more people can more easilly enjoy the benefits of Kagi Search.
Making software...
Yes, I Still Use jQuery
Yes, I Still Use jQuery
2019-04-15
I have seen a handful of condescending comments from front-end...
over a year ago
Yes, I Still Use jQuery
2019-04-15
I have seen a handful of condescending comments from front-end developers since the newest build of jQuery (3.4.0) released a couple of days ago. While I understand not all developers share the same work-style or are using the same tech-stack,...
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: the Sultan’s Riddle in SQL
Here is a riddle I read a long time ago in Nauka i Zhizn, a popular Russian science magazine. The...
over a year ago
Here is a riddle I read a long time ago in Nauka i Zhizn, a popular Russian science magazine. The Sultan's Riddle Once upon a time there was a Sultan who was looking for a vizier to help him rule his country. It became known to him that among the multitudes of his loyal subjects...
Seldo.com
What I've learned about data recently
over a year ago
Epic Web Dev
What's Coming in React 19 Beta (tip)
8 months ago
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware February 2023
The Ware for February 2023 is just a tiny portion of a Pioneer DDJ-400. Still enough for wrm to...
a year ago
The Ware for February 2023 is just a tiny portion of a Pioneer DDJ-400. Still enough for wrm to guess it exactly! Congrats, email me for your prize. It is the case that Pioneer gear has a very distinctive design style to it. I wonder if their PCB design software isn’t some...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Winning from the back - late mover advantage
We are open source is literally our top value ... and what better way to be transparent than to...
over a year ago
We are open source is literally our top value ... and what better way to be transparent than to share a diary? Late mover advantage Product…
David Heinemeier...
Wonderful Rails World Vibes
I totally understand how programming conferences end up being held in a drab Sheraton hotel...
3 months ago
I totally understand how programming conferences end up being held in a drab Sheraton hotel somewhere to save money. It's expensive to outfit a cool venue with the gear and operations needed to pull off a great experience for speakers, sponsors, and attendees. And while the cost...
Dan Slimmon
Ask questions first, shoot later
The fact that fixing and diagnosing often converge to the same actions doesn't change the fact that...
7 months ago
The fact that fixing and diagnosing often converge to the same actions doesn't change the fact that these two concurrent activities have different goals. The goal of fixing is to bring the system into line with your mental model of how it's supposed to function. The goal of...
A Beautiful Site
Code can change
As a web developer, your code is often visible to anyone who wants to review it. If you're like me,...
over a year ago
As a web developer, your code is often visible to anyone who wants to review it. If you're like me, you might get stressed out about the thought of people looking at your work and critiquing or criticizing your app's design.
Take a deep breath, recenter, and remember that code...
A Beautiful Site
Rebuilding your Spotlight index in macOS
I use Spotlight more than I like to admit, usually for launching apps. Recently, some of my apps and...
over a year ago
I use Spotlight more than I like to admit, usually for launching apps. Recently, some of my apps and files stopped appearing — even ones I access frequently.
After sifting through numerous posts online, I finally discovered one that seems to work. Running this command in the...
ntietz.com blog
Parallel assignment: a Python idiom cleverly optimized
over a year ago
David Heinemeier...
X celebrates 60% savings from cloud exit
Musk has taken a cleaver to the costs and complexity at X. It hasn't always been pretty, but it sure...
a year ago
Musk has taken a cleaver to the costs and complexity at X. It hasn't always been pretty, but it sure has been effective, and in the process, he's proven his detractors wrong time and again. Not only has the site stayed up, despite hysteric proclamations that it would crater soon...
A Beautiful Site
Finding the active element in a shadow root
You can get the focused element with document.activeElement but, if it's inside a shadow root, this...
over a year ago
You can get the focused element with document.activeElement but, if it's inside a shadow root, this will be the host element. This happens because of retargeting, but sometimes you might need access to the internal element that actually has focus.
Here's a recursive function that...
Alex MacCaw
The Illusion of Free Will
One of the most difficult concepts to grasp is the idea that free will, the cornerstone of our human...
a year ago
One of the most difficult concepts to grasp is the idea that free will, the cornerstone of our human experience, might be nothing more than an illusion.
Steve Klabnik
Community Versions for Rust
over a year ago
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, October 2024
The Ware for October 2024 is shown below. This one should be a smidge easier to guess than last...
2 months ago
The Ware for October 2024 is shown below. This one should be a smidge easier to guess than last month’s ware. The main reason I liked this ware is actually the board shown below with the prominent star-routing. It’s such traditional hand-routing work, I love craftsmanship like...
A Beautiful Site
Getting it right
To my awesome users:
I've been taking some time to reimagine what Postleaf should have been. Yes,...
over a year ago
To my awesome users:
I've been taking some time to reimagine what Postleaf should have been. Yes, the betas were pretty awesome, but they weren't what I wanted them to be in terms of design, code, and function. I can do better, and you deserve nothing less than my very best.
The...
Stephen Wolfram...
We’ve Got a Science Opportunity Overload: It’s Time to Launch the Wolfram Institute!
Suddenly There’s Just So Much New Science to Do Something remarkable has happened these past two...
over a year ago
Suddenly There’s Just So Much New Science to Do Something remarkable has happened these past two years. For 45 years I’ve devoted myself to building a taller and taller tower of science and technology—which along the way has delivered many outputs of which I’m quite proud. But...
Miguel Carranza
The first five employees
The main figures of the startup ecosystem are founders and investors. The incentives are not always...
over a year ago
The main figures of the startup ecosystem are founders and investors. The incentives are not always aligned, and sometimes there is a notable lack of gratitude. But, for the most part, it’s a symbiotic relationship. Founders benefit from capital, and VCs need access to the best...
A Beautiful Site
Determine file extensions using JavaScript
A quick JavaScript function to determine a file's extension.
function fileExt(path) {
return...
over a year ago
A quick JavaScript function to determine a file's extension.
function fileExt(path) {
return path.substr(path.lastIndexOf('.') + 1);
}
alexwlchan
The best way to tell a website your age
There’s a growing number of countries creating laws that require age verification laws to access...
a year ago
There’s a growing number of countries creating laws that require age verification laws to access certain content online.
Now children can be protected from adult content like well-organised spreadsheets, YouTube videos about kitchen appliances, and websites that sell you...
Josh Comeau's blog
Accessible Animations in React
I really love animation, but not everybody does. In fact, it can make some people literally sick! In...
over a year ago
I really love animation, but not everybody does. In fact, it can make some people literally sick! In this tutorial, we'll see how to ensure that we respect user preferences, and create animations that can be disabled.
PostHog's RSS Feed
Did you know AI is answering our community questions?
AI. You may have heard of it. Sure, ChatGPT is pretty cool, but when it comes to AI chatbots that...
3 months ago
AI. You may have heard of it. Sure, ChatGPT is pretty cool, but when it comes to AI chatbots that try to replace a human in a product support context…
A Smart Bear
"Authentic" is dead. And so is "is dead."
It's lazy writing. It's boring and undifferentiated. Say something meaningful, specific, evocative,...
5 months ago
It's lazy writing. It's boring and undifferentiated. Say something meaningful, specific, evocative, so your website wins, and you can be proud of it.
Joel Gascoigne
The highs and lows of startup life
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over a year ago
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I was recently back in the UK for two weeks and had the chance to speak at an
event in London about the incredible journey with my startup in the last two
years.
When I speak, I try my best
Julia Evans
New playground: memory spy
Hello! Today we’re releasing a new playground called “memory spy”. It lets you run C programs
and...
a year ago
Hello! Today we’re releasing a new playground called “memory spy”. It lets you run C programs
and see how their variables are represented in memory. It’s designed to be
accessible to folks who don’t know C – it comes with bunch of extremely simple
example C programs that you can...
Letters of Note
It is only a matter of time
On September 12th of 2011, the New York Times published an article by Dr. Abigail Zuger in which she...
over a year ago
On September 12th of 2011, the New York Times published an article by Dr. Abigail Zuger in which she criticised certain supposedly unrealistic aspects of Contagion, Steven Soderbergh’s recently released and widely lauded thriller in which a deadly pandemic sweeps the globe. In...
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OSI Layers for Coding Careers
Let's think about the value chain of humans that code and how we interact.
over a year ago
Let's think about the value chain of humans that code and how we interact.
HTMHell
Meaningful labels using ARIA – or not.
If I had a dollar for every time I've had to tell someone to remove an aria-label from an...
over a year ago
If I had a dollar for every time I've had to tell someone to remove an aria-label from an interactive control that has actual visible text, I could have bought Twitter! As a former developer and current accessibility consultant, it is my sincere hope that by reading this article,...
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Why we've launched PostHog user surveys
Today, we’ve announced user surveys are out of beta and in general release, complete with new...
a year ago
Today, we’ve announced user surveys are out of beta and in general release, complete with new pricing . Short version? Pricing is usage-based, with…
Josh Collinsworth
How to Connect Local with CodeKit
Enjoy all the convenience of easy local WordPress development with Local, plus build tools with...
over a year ago
Enjoy all the convenience of easy local WordPress development with Local, plus build tools with CodeKit, without any of the tricky command line setup.
General Robots
Humanoid Robots: Dollars and GPTs
Whats With All The Humanoid Robots? Part 2
7 months ago
Whats With All The Humanoid Robots? Part 2
Posts on Nikita...
P99 Conf 2024
This year, I was invited to speak at P99 Conf. The format of a virtual conference was new to me, but...
3 weeks ago
This year, I was invited to speak at P99 Conf. The format of a virtual conference was new to me, but hats off to the organisers as it went very smooth for me. I presented a talk with the following abstract:
Low-Latency Mesh Services Using Actors
We’re transforming elfo, our Rust...
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Using User-Select
Using User-Select
2019-06-04
Highlighting text in order to copy, cut or paste content is a staple...
over a year ago
Using User-Select
2019-06-04
Highlighting text in order to copy, cut or paste content is a staple action across the web. Now, what if I told you the ability to control what a user can select is configurable with a single CSS property?
Introducing the CSS property
Simply put, the...
Irrational...
Developing leadership styles
For a long time, I found the micromanager CEO archetype very frustrating to work with. They would...
a year ago
For a long time, I found the micromanager CEO archetype very frustrating to work with. They would often pop out of nowhere, jab holes in the work I had done without understanding the tradeoffs, and then disappear when I wanted to explain my decisions. In those moments, I wished...
Acko.net
Sub-pixel Distance Transform
High quality font rendering for WebGPU
This page includes diagrams in WebGPU, which has limited...
a year ago
High quality font rendering for WebGPU
This page includes diagrams in WebGPU, which has limited browser support. For the full experience, use Chrome on Windows or Mac, or a developer build on other platforms.
In this post I will describe Use.GPU's text rendering, which uses...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, December 2022
The Ware for December 2022 is shown below. Turning this into a suitable Name that Ware-style entry...
over a year ago
The Ware for December 2022 is shown below. Turning this into a suitable Name that Ware-style entry was a bit tough, but I think maybe I hit a balance between leaving enough clues, and giving it away. We’ll see shortly! I have a lot more to say about this ware: I will give proper...
Joel Gascoigne
Avoid the 50/50 co-founder model - here's why
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over a year ago
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I recently received an email asking some advice about co-founders, specifically
about whether a 50/50 ownership split makes sense for a startup.
This is certainly a topic which has had heated...
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I used to think you don't need product people. I was wrong.
When PostHog was fresh out of YC last year, there were two things we focused on: (i) build and (ii)...
over a year ago
When PostHog was fresh out of YC last year, there were two things we focused on: (i) build and (ii) talk to customers. Hiring a product person felt…
Blog - Bitfield...
Shameless green: TDD in Go
Building software is easy when we’re guided by tests, because we can start
with quick-and-dirty...
6 months ago
Building software is easy when we’re guided by tests, because we can start
with quick-and-dirty solutions, without worrying about whether the code is
elegant and readable—yet. Let’s see how to use the TDD technique called
“Shameless Green”.
A Beautiful Site
box-sizing: border-box explained
It's been over two years since Paul Irish famously posted the box-sizing trick that would bring us...
over a year ago
It's been over two years since Paul Irish famously posted the box-sizing trick that would bring us back to the days of early Internet Explorer.
The good ol' days #
You might remember how Internet Explorer 6 (quirks mode) and below did that whole box model thing wrong. If not,...
ntietz.com blog
Kill the crunch time heroics
Crunch time has an allure: it feels like if you just push hard enough, you can get more done. You...
over a year ago
Crunch time has an allure: it feels like if you just push hard enough, you can get more done. You can push hard and get that next release done on time, get those new features out, earn more revenue for your company. Engineers are under immense pressure to deliver more and do it...
A Beautiful Site
How to get the dominant colors of an image with Color Thief
You know how Dribbble shows a color palette for each shot users upload? They always look perfect...
over a year ago
You know how Dribbble shows a color palette for each shot users upload? They always look perfect right? Here's a tool that can give you the same quality results using pure JavaScript.
I played with Color Thief a few months ago but surprisingly never posted about it. For me,...
Julia Evans
How HEAD works in git
Hello! The other day I ran a Mastodon poll asking people how confident they
were that they...
10 months ago
Hello! The other day I ran a Mastodon poll asking people how confident they
were that they understood how HEAD works in Git. The results (out of 1700
votes) were a little surprising to me:
10% “100%”
36% “pretty confident”
39% “somewhat confident?”
15% “literally no idea”
I was...
Evan Jones -...
Nanosecond timestamp collisions are common
I was wondering: how often do nanosecond timestamps collide on modern systems? The answer is: very...
a year ago
I was wondering: how often do nanosecond timestamps collide on modern systems? The answer is: very often, like 5% of all samples, when reading the clock on all 4 physical cores at the same time. As a result, I think it is unsafe to assume that a raw nanosecond timestamp is a...
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To Understand Concurrent React, Look Outside React
## Table of Contents
over a year ago
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How To Name Things
> There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1...
over a year ago
> There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors. - [Leon Bambrick](https://twitter.com/secretgeek/status/7269997868?lang=en)
Florian Bellmann |...
Time to market for personal projects
How I created my blog in just 2 days.
a year ago
How I created my blog in just 2 days.
Seán Barry
Presentation: Pushing Compute to the Browser
Exporting vast quantities of data from platforms is common, but queues, scaling & latency pose...
over a year ago
Exporting vast quantities of data from platforms is common, but queues, scaling & latency pose technical and real-world problems. Using a number of modern solutions like HTTP 2, web workers and careful state management with redux we can offload the work to the browser and deliver...
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If You Sell Anything Online, This Book Will Make You Money
My glowing review of Rob Hope's Landing Page Hot Tips Book
over a year ago
My glowing review of Rob Hope's Landing Page Hot Tips Book
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...
Acko.net
The Hiker's Dilemma
How to take care of your tribe
The other day I read:
"If you're hiking and you stop to let other...
over a year ago
How to take care of your tribe
The other day I read:
"If you're hiking and you stop to let other people catch up, don't start walking immediately when they arrive. Because that means you got a rest and they didn't. I think about this a lot."
I want to dissect this sentiment...
Making software...
Plain Text Emails, Please
Plain Text Emails, Please
2019-09-09
When it comes to website / product design and development most...
over a year ago
Plain Text Emails, Please
2019-09-09
When it comes to website / product design and development most devs should try to keep things simple. By only using as much code as absolutely necessary, projects avoid growing out of scope or becoming bloated. So, why isn't this same approach...
Irrational...
2024 in review.
A lot happened for me this year.
I continued learning the details of fund accounting at Carta,
which...
3 weeks ago
A lot happened for me this year.
I continued learning the details of fund accounting at Carta,
which is likely the most complex product domain I’ve worked in.
My third book was published, and I did a small speaking tour to support it.
We started the unironically daunting San...
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Width or Flex-Basis?
Width or Flex-Basis?
2018-11-28
Creating rows and columns of elements that adapt dynamically can be...
over a year ago
Width or Flex-Basis?
2018-11-28
Creating rows and columns of elements that adapt dynamically can be a little tricky depending on the desired outcome. Let’s breakdown how to solve this issue using both inline-block paired with width and flex-basis.
Width
Setting the width of the...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Faster Connectivity !== Faster Websites
This post from Dan Luu discussing how web bloat impacts users with slow devices caused me to reflect...
8 months ago
This post from Dan Luu discussing how web bloat impacts users with slow devices caused me to reflect on the supposition that faster connectivity means faster websites.
I grew up in an era when slow internet was the primary limiting factor to a great experience on the web. I was...
Making software...
Setting Up 1.1.1.1 for Families on a Pi-Hole
Setting Up 1.1.1.1 for Families on a Pi-Hole
2021-10-28
After seeing Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 for...
over a year ago
Setting Up 1.1.1.1 for Families on a Pi-Hole
2021-10-28
After seeing Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 for Families mentioned on the front page of HackerNews, I thought it might be helpful to show those currently using a pi-hole device how to include 1.1.1.1 alongside it.
Keeping Things...
Computer Things
Be Suspicious of Success
From Leslie Lamport's Specifying Systems:
You should be suspicious if [the model checker] does not...
2 months ago
From Leslie Lamport's Specifying Systems:
You should be suspicious if [the model checker] does not find a violation of a liveness property... you should also be suspicious if [it] finds no errors when checking safety properties.
This is specifically in the context of...
Quentin Santos
Beware Rust Buffering
This article is about a small pitfall I stumbled uopen Rust. Since it took me relatively too much...
3 months ago
This article is about a small pitfall I stumbled uopen Rust. Since it took me relatively too much time to figure it out, I made this article as a reminder. Also, there is a post scriptum, also about buffers, but not about Rust. While writing my article about Linux pipes, I needed...
TokyoDev
The 2023 TokyoDev Developer Survey results are live!
In October 2023, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan. The results are...
a year ago
In October 2023, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan. The results are now live, please [check them out!](https://2023.surveys.tokyodev.com/en-US)
This year’s survey had a total of 713 respondents, up 28% from last year’s survey. This is an amazing...
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"This Key is Useless Now. Discard?"
“This Key is Useless Now. Discard?”
2024-08-28
The title of this article probably triggers nostalgic...
4 months ago
“This Key is Useless Now. Discard?”
2024-08-28
The title of this article probably triggers nostalgic memories for old school Resident Evil veterans like myself. My personal favourite in the series (not that anyone asked) was the original, 1998 version of Resident Evil 2 (RE2). I...
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Outperforming everything with anything
It's about 100 lines of Python code that generate a linear solver in LLVM intermediate language...
over a year ago
It's about 100 lines of Python code that generate a linear solver in LLVM intermediate language outperforming C and C++ solutions. Originally published in mid 2018, now completetly rewritten.
Liz Denys
Une petite valse en jazz
Now that I have a weighted-key digital piano in my room, I've been playing a lot more. More like:...
over a year ago
Now that I have a weighted-key digital piano in my room, I've been playing a lot more. More like: I've gone from playing the piano only when I'm home in Chicago to playing it a couple hours a day. Over the past few days, I've been alternating between playing pieces from Philip...
Ruud van Asseldonk
A reasonable configuration language
11 months ago
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The End of Localhost
> This post was originally published on my new dedicated DX site:...
over a year ago
> This post was originally published on my new dedicated DX site: https://dx.tips/the-end-of-localhost
Steve Klabnik
Resque 1.25.0 has been released
over a year ago
Engineer’s Codex
4 lessons from software teams that ship fast
Software engineering provides a lot of leverage. A small team can generate a disproportionate amount...
a year ago
Software engineering provides a lot of leverage. A small team can generate a disproportionate amount of value or impact a huge number of users. For example, Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers, back in 2011. Examples of teams that ship fast
Tinloof - Blog
Website migration 101: transitioning to a headless CMS
In this article, we share insights gleaned from migrating websites created with WordPress, Hubspot...
a year ago
In this article, we share insights gleaned from migrating websites created with WordPress, Hubspot CMS, Webflow, and similar tools, to a headless CMS setup.
Making software...
Stuffing an SSD Inside the Raspberry Pi 400
Stuffing an SSD Inside the Raspberry Pi 400
2021-08-13
I have successfully jammed an mSATA SSD into...
over a year ago
Stuffing an SSD Inside the Raspberry Pi 400
2021-08-13
I have successfully jammed an mSATA SSD into the main shell of my Raspberry Pi 400. It wasn't as straightforward as I thought it would be - in fact, most real hardware tinkerers will probably vomit in their mouths once they...
macwright.com
Figma Plugins
At the beginning of 2023, I released a Figma plugin called Placemark, which lets you create
vector...
9 months ago
At the beginning of 2023, I released a Figma plugin called Placemark, which lets you create
vector maps in Figma, the graphic design tool.
Since then I’ve been maintaining that plugin for fun, and introduced
another one, Placemark Globe.
They’ve been somewhat successful! The...
Liz Denys
Liz rides the subway on May 31, 2016: 'innocent until proven guilty' gives cover to abusers
Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment...
over a year ago
Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment to get me to write more. The ride home after yet another day hearing someone famous has been abusing a woman in his life:
Content warning: abuse, rape
Johnny Depp has allegedly been...
A Smart Bear
Profitable on day one!
You're not profitable if you couldn't afford someone else to do your job. $1000/mo isn't profitable....
4 months ago
You're not profitable if you couldn't afford someone else to do your job. $1000/mo isn't profitable. Fix your definition of "profitable," and build a truly profitable business.
Elad Blog
Unicorn Market Cap & Industry Towns, 2020
In 2019 I wrote about how "industry towns" emerge in every market. These clusters of people, ideas,...
over a year ago
In 2019 I wrote about how "industry towns" emerge in every market. These clusters of people, ideas, capital, service providers, and companies tend to have strong network effects that support startup formation and success in a given industry. For example, Silicon Valley, London,...
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You Should Have A Virtual Mailbox
If you fit one of these criteria:
a year ago
If you fit one of these criteria:
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Supervised Learning: Instance-based Learning and K-Nearest Neighbors
Regression isn't the only way. What if we were far, far... lazier about it?
over a year ago
Regression isn't the only way. What if we were far, far... lazier about it?