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Vadim Kravcenko
🌈 Hedonic Treadmill I’m sure you’re like me. It happens time and time again that we pour our hearts into achieving...
over a year ago
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🌈 Hedonic Treadmill

from Vadim Kravcenko [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
I’m sure you’re like me. It happens time and time again that we pour our hearts into achieving something we […] The post 🌈 Hedonic Treadmill appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Setting Your Social Handle as Your Domain Name on Bluesky I recently got an invite to Bluesy (thx JJ). I wanted to try it purely for the satisfaction of...
over a year ago
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Setting Your Social Handle as Your Domain Name on Bluesky

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
I recently got an invite to Bluesy (thx JJ). I wanted to try it purely for the satisfaction of setting my domain name as my handle, as I’m fan of the idea of apex domain’s becoming the currency of online handles. As I once tweeted: domains are the OG handles. Granted, I own...
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macwright.com
Recently The weather is starting to get better. Listening Gift from the Trees by Mammal Hands I am still...
over a year ago
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Recently

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

over a year ago
The weather is starting to get better. Listening Gift from the Trees by Mammal Hands I am still really loving the constellation of bands around Mammal Hands. They just released a new album, “Gift from the Trees”, and it’s really excellent. RETURN by tAKX Their guitarist,...
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Liz Denys
How much flour is fifty pounds of flour? My friends (and lots of other people, too) know that I bake a lot. In my opinion, one of the biggest...
over a year ago
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How much flour is fifty pounds of flour?

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

over a year ago
My friends (and lots of other people, too) know that I bake a lot. In my opinion, one of the biggest challenges of baking is acquiring the all of the necessary ingredients, and the heaviest burden is the sugar and flour (pun only partially intended). Especially when you live the...
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TokyoDev
A Win-Win: Multinational Development Teams at Givery There is a shortage of skilled tech workers in Japan, and a growing number of Japanese companies...
9 months ago
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A Win-Win: Multinational Development Teams at Givery

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

9 months ago
There is a shortage of skilled tech workers in Japan, and a growing number of Japanese companies have responded by building new, multinational development teams. An in-house multinational team, which typically uses English as a first language, can allow a Japanese company to take...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Notes from “An approach to computing and sustainability inspired from permaculture” by Devine... I am interested in computers as a way to do more than consume. That’s how Devine starts their talk...
a year ago
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Notes from “An approach to computing and sustainability inspired from permaculture” by Devine LuLinvega

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
I am interested in computers as a way to do more than consume. That’s how Devine starts their talk from Strangeloop. I’ve linked to them before, as they have an interesting perspective on computing in the 21st century (given, in part, their environment of living on a boat). I...
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bt RSS Feed
Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links 2019-06-14 When designing medium to large sized menu...
over a year ago
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Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Using Hamburger Menus? Try Sausage Links 2019-06-14 When designing medium to large sized menu navigations on the mobile web the default go-to, for some time now, has been hamburger menus. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but there is a simpler alternative for certain use...
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Alex Meub
Fun with IE7 and the Zoom Property This bug threw me for a loop. A CSS optimizer thought it was doing me a favor by “fixing” any...
over a year ago
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Fun with IE7 and the Zoom Property

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

over a year ago
This bug threw me for a loop. A CSS optimizer thought it was doing me a favor by “fixing” any invalid numbers. It replaces .my_class{ zoom:1; } with .my_class{ zoom:1px; } Those two characters (“px”) on the zoom property will blow up IE7 as it tries to zoom to a value in...
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tonsky.me
Podcast: Datomic: самая рок-н-рольная БД @ Тысяча фичей Чем Datomic отличается от других баз данных и почему иногда остутствие оптимизатора лучше, чем его...
a week ago
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Podcast: Datomic: самая рок-н-рольная БД @ Тысяча фичей

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

a week ago
Чем Datomic отличается от других баз данных и почему иногда остутствие оптимизатора лучше, чем его присутствие
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Ink & Switch
Inkbase: Programmable Ink What would be possible if hand-drawn sketches were programmable like spreadsheets?
over a year ago
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Inkbase: Programmable Ink

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

over a year ago
What would be possible if hand-drawn sketches were programmable like spreadsheets?
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Eric Bailey
Global Accessibility Anger Day For each and every Global Accessibility Awareness Day (#GAAD) post a company puts out today,...
over a year ago
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Global Accessibility Anger Day

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

over a year ago
For each and every Global Accessibility Awareness Day (#GAAD) post a company puts out today, ask: Does the announcement page support basic accessibility considerations (underlined links, captioned videos, valid markup, etc.)? Does the announcement include alternative descriptions...
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bt RSS Feed
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
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Yes, I Still Use jQuery

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

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,...
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David Crawshaw
2014-05-14 ti.arc.nasa.gov/news/ladee-sband-evolved-antenna/
over a year ago
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2014-05-14

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

over a year ago
ti.arc.nasa.gov/news/ladee-sband-evolved-antenna/
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Marc Astbury
Osaka Team Retreat Recap We just wrapped up our offsite in Osaka, the first time we’ve held a retreat in a location where...
2 months ago
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Osaka Team Retreat Recap

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

2 months ago
We just wrapped up our offsite in Osaka, the first time we’ve held a retreat in a location where nobody on the team is a local. With our team now at ~10 people, gone are the days of just a handful of us meeting up and figuring out what to do on the fly. Ensuring […] The post...
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Vadim Kravcenko
How can you tell if you’re a good developer? Question: Hey Vadim, So, I've been coding for money for about 5 years now. I've jumped around a lot...
a year ago
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How can you tell if you’re a good developer?

from Vadim Kravcenko [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Question: Hey Vadim, So, I've been coding for money for about 5 years now. I've jumped around a lot — Java, Javascript, Python, NodeJS — you name it. The job market's been great, making it super easy for me to switch between gigs. I've done both full-time and contract work across...
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tonsky.me
Podcast: Мир стал строго лучше @ Думаем дальше С Ильей Бирманом обсуждаем, как меньше критиковать, и — разумеется — критикуем Эпл изо всех сил.
3 months ago
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Podcast: Мир стал строго лучше @ Думаем дальше

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

3 months ago
С Ильей Бирманом обсуждаем, как меньше критиковать, и — разумеется — критикуем Эпл изо всех сил.
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Ink & Switch
Ink Note Fall 2023: Gizmo Design Showing the evolution of our “gizmos” for tangibly manipulating constraints in Inkling
a year ago
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Ink Note Fall 2023: Gizmo Design

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

a year ago
Showing the evolution of our “gizmos” for tangibly manipulating constraints in Inkling
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macwright.com
You can finally use :has() in most places by The hot new thing in CSS is :has() and Firefox finally supports it, starting today - so the...
a year ago
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You can finally use :has() in most places by

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

a year ago
The hot new thing in CSS is :has() and Firefox finally supports it, starting today - so the compatibility table is pretty decent (89% at this writing). I already used has() in a previous post - that Strava CSS hack, but I’m finding it useful in so many places. For example, in Val...
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Cognitive...
Vicuna A new LLaMA-derived model has appeared, called Vicuna. Now I've been playing with a lot of models...
over a year ago
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Vicuna

from Cognitive Computations [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
A new LLaMA-derived model has appeared, called Vicuna. Now I've been playing with a lot of models like this, such as Alpaca and GPT4All. And I also fine-tuned my own. But Vicuna is a lot better. Here is a conversation I had with it. User: Write a limerick about language...
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David Heinemeier...
Is greed really seasonal? As the tech layoffs continue, there’s naturally a search for someone to blame. People are losing...
a year ago
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Is greed really seasonal?

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

a year ago
As the tech layoffs continue, there’s naturally a search for someone to blame. People are losing their jobs after all, so that must mean someone is acting malevolent, dammit. This is when the age old accusation of greed is trotted out. Companies are only laying off people now...
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Programming in the...
Writing Video Games in a Functional Style When I started this blog in 2007, a running theme was "Can interactive experiences like video games...
over a year ago
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Writing Video Games in a Functional Style

from Programming in the 21st Century [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
When I started this blog in 2007, a running theme was "Can interactive experiences like video games be written in a functional style?" These are programs heavily based around mutable state. They evolve, often drastically, during development, so there isn't a perfect up-front...
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TokyoDev
A Proposal for the Translation of RubyKaigi [RubyKaigi](http://rubykaigi.org/) and more recently [Sapporo Ruby...
over a year ago
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A Proposal for the Translation of RubyKaigi

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
[RubyKaigi](http://rubykaigi.org/) and more recently [Sapporo Ruby Kaigi](http://sapporo.rubykaigi.org/2012/en/) have been providing realtime translation services. The way this has worked is that volunteers listen to the speakers presentation, and simultaneously translate it to...
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ntietz.com blog -...
Summarizing our recommendations for software documentation Last year, my coworker Suzanne and I got a case study accepted into an ethnography conference! She's...
5 months ago
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Summarizing our recommendations for software documentation

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

5 months ago
Last year, my coworker Suzanne and I got a case study accepted into an ethnography conference! She's an anthropologist by training, and I'm a software engineer. How'd we wind up there? The short version is I asked her what I thought was an interesting question, and she thought it...
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elementary Blog
OS 8 Now Available in Early Access I’m super excited to let you know that OS 8 builds are available in Early Access and they are now...
a year ago
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OS 8 Now Available in Early Access

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

a year ago
I’m super excited to let you know that OS 8 builds are available in Early Access and they are now installable! While we highly recommend you don’t run these experimental builds in production, they’re perfect for trying in a virtual machine or a spare computer. Early Access is a...
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Alex Meub
Install JSDOM On Windows JSDOM is an awesome node package for simulating a browser environment. It’s a NodeJS implementation...
over a year ago
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Install JSDOM On Windows

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

over a year ago
JSDOM is an awesome node package for simulating a browser environment. It’s a NodeJS implementation of the DOM that makes it super easy to work with pages retrieved from the Internet. Unfortunately, JSDOM relies on a node package called Contextify that is difficult to get working...
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Making software...
Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll 2019-11-01 After creating the ET-Jekyll theme almost two years ago, I...
over a year ago
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Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll 2019-11-01 After creating the ET-Jekyll theme almost two years ago, I finally got around to revamping the structure and improving a lot of minor performance issues. Items that have been surely needing of updates for the last couple of...
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HTMHell
Security Headers using <meta> by Saptak S Various HTTP headers are sent between the user and the server of a website in the...
a year ago
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Security Headers using <meta>

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
by Saptak S Various HTTP headers are sent between the user and the server of a website in the request-response cycle. Some of these HTTP response headers sent by the server to the browser help enhance the security and privacy of the website's users. These sets of headers are...
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The Pragmatic...
What Big Tech layoffs suggest for the industry Microsoft, Amazon and Salesforce have announced large layoffs in January. What will these events...
over a year ago
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What Big Tech layoffs suggest for the industry

from The Pragmatic Engineer [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Microsoft, Amazon and Salesforce have announced large layoffs in January. What will these events mean for the rest of the industry?
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Yale E360
Even bad estimates are valuable if you use them right Estimating software projects is hard, if not impossible. This seems likely to be fundamental to the...
over a year ago
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Even bad estimates are valuable if you use them right

from Yale E360 [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Estimating software projects is hard, if not impossible. This seems likely to be fundamental to the work, because we're inventing new things and invention doesn't happen on a fixed schedule. And yet, many teams still estimate how long their tasks will take to finish. Why should...
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Evan Jones -...
The C Standard Library Function isspace() Depends on Locale This is a post for myself, because I wasted a lot of time understanding this bug, and I want to be...
over a year ago
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The C Standard Library Function isspace() Depends on Locale

from Evan Jones - Software Engineer | Computer Scientist [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
This is a post for myself, because I wasted a lot of time understanding this bug, and I want to be able to remember it in the future. I expect close to zero others to be interested. The C standard library function isspace() returns a non-zero value (true) for the six "standard"...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Largest Money-Printing UI Element Ever Made I watched a talk from Evan Czaplicki, creator of the Elm programming language, called “The Economics...
a year ago
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The Largest Money-Printing UI Element Ever Made

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
I watched a talk from Evan Czaplicki, creator of the Elm programming language, called “The Economics of Programming Languages”. It’s a fascinating look at how a small OSS project like Elm has to compete in a world where many of the expectations around developer experience for a...
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Yale E360
Accessibility is a requirement, not a feature Stop me if you've heard this one before: "We're putting accessibility (features) on the roadmap." Or...
a year ago
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Accessibility is a requirement, not a feature

from Yale E360 [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Stop me if you've heard this one before: "We're putting accessibility (features) on the roadmap." Or this one: "We don't need to make it accessible since we don't have any blind users 1 ." It belies an attitude that's all too common in the software industry: That accessibility...
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Josh Collinsworth
Why Designers Shouldn't "Fix" Other Designers' Logos No matter how simple the end product, design is hard work. To come up with something that looks...
over a year ago
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Why Designers Shouldn't "Fix" Other Designers' Logos

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

over a year ago
No matter how simple the end product, design is hard work. To come up with something that looks good, something people like, is at best tangential to the main point. The question is: does it succeed at meeting the project goals? And you don’t know how to answer that question.
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Vadim Kravcenko
⚙️ So what does SLA really mean? If you see a company offering “99.9% something“ — it is probably offering an SLA. In simple terms,...
over a year ago
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⚙️ So what does SLA really mean?

from Vadim Kravcenko [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
If you see a company offering “99.9% something“ — it is probably offering an SLA. In simple terms, SLA stands […] The post ⚙️ So what does SLA really mean? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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macwright.com
patch-package can bail you out of some bad situations by Let’s say you’re running some web application and suddenly you hit a bug in one of your...
a year ago
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patch-package can bail you out of some bad situations by

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

a year ago
Let’s say you’re running some web application and suddenly you hit a bug in one of your dependencies. It’s all deployed, lots of people are seeing the downtime, but you can’t just push an update because the bug is in something you’ve installed from npm. Remember patch-package....
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macwright.com
Hiding Peloton and Zwift workouts on Strava by () I love Strava, and a lot of my friends do too. And some of them do most of their workouts with...
a year ago
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Hiding Peloton and Zwift workouts on Strava by ()

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

a year ago
I love Strava, and a lot of my friends do too. And some of them do most of their workouts with Peloton, Swift, and other “integrations.” It’s great for them, but the activities just look like ads for Peloton and don’t have any of the things that I like about Strava’s...
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Maggie Appleton
A History of Cyborgs Notes on the history of cyborgs and why the idea still holds historical weight in Western narratives
over a year ago
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A History of Cyborgs

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

over a year ago
Notes on the history of cyborgs and why the idea still holds historical weight in Western narratives
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Ink & Switch
Project Cambria: Translate your data with lenses Changing schemas in distributed software is hard. Could adopting bidirectional lenses help?
over a year ago
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Project Cambria: Translate your data with lenses

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

over a year ago
Changing schemas in distributed software is hard. Could adopting bidirectional lenses help?
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A Smart Bear
Ignoring the Wisdom of Crowds Discover how to leverage the wisdom of the crowds, but also when to avoid it, as it can easily lead...
10 months ago
66

Ignoring the Wisdom of Crowds

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

10 months ago
Discover how to leverage the wisdom of the crowds, but also when to avoid it, as it can easily lead you astray.
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PostHog's RSS Feed
Send love to open-source projects on Valentine's Day Valentine's Day is coming up and we'd like to share our love for the open-source community that...
over a year ago
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Send love to open-source projects on Valentine's Day

from PostHog's RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Valentine's Day is coming up and we'd like to share our love for the open-source community that helps power PostHog! Here's how: For every GitHub star…
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A Smart Bear
Selecting the right product metrics A novel system for selecting and presenting product KPIs, satisfying not only the product team, but...
a year ago
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Selecting the right product metrics

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

a year ago
A novel system for selecting and presenting product KPIs, satisfying not only the product team, but also stakeholders, executives, and customers.
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Liz Denys
Some things aren't still intended to last forever, like KitchenAid stand mixers Meet Bernice: Bernice is a Hobart-motored thirty-two and a half year old KitchenAid stand mixer. My...
over a year ago
76

Some things aren't still intended to last forever, like KitchenAid stand mixers

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

over a year ago
Meet Bernice: Bernice is a Hobart-motored thirty-two and a half year old KitchenAid stand mixer. My grandma named her. She's a slightly green lemon chiffon color reminiscent of the end of the 70's with which, despite all odds, I've become quite enamored. She's even older than...
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Nelson's Weblog
Starlink in Nov 2022 My Starlink Internet service has gotten pretty bad; every evening I'm well under 50Mbps and some...
over a year ago
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Starlink in Nov 2022

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

over a year ago
My Starlink Internet service has gotten pretty bad; every evening I'm well under 50Mbps and some hours I only get 2Mbps. (Compare 100Mbps+ last year.) I've given up trying to stream 1080p video at night; that's a pretty dismal result for a new Internet service in 2022. Starlink...
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David Crawshaw
2015-12-26 news.berkeley.edu/2015/12/23/electronic-photonic-microprocessor-chip/
over a year ago
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2015-12-26

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over a year ago
news.berkeley.edu/2015/12/23/electronic-photonic-microprocessor-chip/
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the singularity is...
Resentment If you give some monkeys a slice of cucumber each, they are all pretty happy. Then you give one...
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Resentment

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If you give some monkeys a slice of cucumber each, they are all pretty happy. Then you give one monkey a grape, and nobody is happy with their cucumber any more. They might even throw the slices back at the experimenter. He got a god damned grape this is bullshit I don’t want a...
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Liz Denys
French onion soup redux If I call the soup I've been making nearly weekly for the past few months French onion soup, I'm...
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French onion soup redux

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If I call the soup I've been making nearly weekly for the past few months French onion soup, I'm probably lying a little bit. What most people call French onion soup is mostly a thing of the past for me. But this soup is very similar. I grew out of the big croutons and the...
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Maggie Appleton
Algorithmic Transparency Algorithms that make their reasoning visible
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Algorithmic Transparency

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Algorithms that make their reasoning visible
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A Beautiful Site
I'm taking "startup" back The word "startup" has taken on a very unfortunate meaning over the years. I used to think of my own...
over a year ago
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I'm taking "startup" back

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The word "startup" has taken on a very unfortunate meaning over the years. I used to think of my own business as a startup, but as its definition evolved, I quickly realized I didn't fit that description at all. The word "startup", by definition, means the act or instance of...
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TokyoDev
Adoption of Ruby by Japanese Businesses The first Ruby related event I attended in Japan was [Ruby Kaigi...
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Adoption of Ruby by Japanese Businesses

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over a year ago
The first Ruby related event I attended in Japan was [Ruby Kaigi 2007](http://jp.rubyist.net/RubyKaigi2007/). At the conference, from talking to other developers, I was surprised to learn that despite them being passionate about Ruby, they weren't using Ruby at their day job....
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Confessions of a...
A Software Engineer's Guide to Reading Research Papers My personal framework for reading research papers
5 months ago
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A Software Engineer's Guide to Reading Research Papers

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5 months ago
My personal framework for reading research papers
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A Smart Bear
You're a little company, now act like one You're afraid that looking like being a small company means you'll lose sales. It's actually the...
9 months ago
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You're a little company, now act like one

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You're afraid that looking like being a small company means you'll lose sales. It's actually the opposite -- you're alienating your best customers.
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TokyoDev
From Paperclip to Active Storage: An incremental, zero-downtime approach I recently switched [Doorkeeper](https://www.doorkeeper.jp) from using...
over a year ago
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From Paperclip to Active Storage: An incremental, zero-downtime approach

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I recently switched [Doorkeeper](https://www.doorkeeper.jp) from using [Paperclip](https://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip) to [Active Storage](https://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_storage_overview.html) for storing and processing uploaded files. The approach we took was a bit...
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Notes on Adversarial Interoperability Summarizing thoughts from Seth Godin and Cory Doctorow on Interoperability
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Notes on Adversarial Interoperability

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Summarizing thoughts from Seth Godin and Cory Doctorow on Interoperability
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Elad Blog
Fireside chat with Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft Video and transcript of our fireside chat at Stripe from Monday
a year ago
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Fireside chat with Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft

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Video and transcript of our fireside chat at Stripe from Monday
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Bottom-Up Idea Exploration My own content creation philosophy, explored through my own personal story with React
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Bottom-Up Idea Exploration

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My own content creation philosophy, explored through my own personal story with React
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David Heinemeier...
Joining the Shopify board of directors I've known Tobi for over twenty years now. Right from the earliest days of Ruby on Rails, when he...
7 months ago
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Joining the Shopify board of directors

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7 months ago
I've known Tobi for over twenty years now. Right from the earliest days of Ruby on Rails, when he was building Snowdevil, which eventually became Shopify, to sell snowboards online. Here's his first commit to Rails from 2004, which improved the ergonomics of controller testing....
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Alice GG
How much can you really get out of a 4$ VPS? When starting a new project, evaluating the budget needed for cloud hosting can be a tricky...
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How much can you really get out of a 4$ VPS?

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over a year ago
When starting a new project, evaluating the budget needed for cloud hosting can be a tricky question. On one side, you will hear horror stories of people waking up to an unexpected 100k$ bill from their provider. But on the other hand, you will see providers advertising costs...
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HTMHell
Boost website speed with prefetching and the Speculation Rules API by Schepp Everybody loves fast websites, and everyone despises slow ones even more. Site speed...
6 months ago
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Boost website speed with prefetching and the Speculation Rules API

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6 months ago
by Schepp Everybody loves fast websites, and everyone despises slow ones even more. Site speed significantly contributes to the overall user experience (UX), determining whether it feels positive or negative. To ensure the fastest possible page load times, it’s crucial to design...
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The Changelog
How Gapped is Your Air? Sometimes we want better-than-firewall security for things. For instance: An industrial control...
a year ago
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How Gapped is Your Air?

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a year ago
Sometimes we want better-than-firewall security for things. For instance: An industrial control system for a municipal water-treatment plant should never have data come in or out Or, a variant of the industrial control system: it should only permit telemetry and monitoring data...
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Steve Klabnik
Too many words about Rust's function syntax
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Too many words about Rust's function syntax

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Epic Web Dev
.toBeVisible() or .toBeInTheDocument()? (article) A deep dive into Testing Library's .toBeVisible() and .toBeInTheDocument() matchers, exploring their...
3 months ago
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.toBeVisible() or .toBeInTheDocument()? (article)

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3 months ago
A deep dive into Testing Library's .toBeVisible() and .toBeInTheDocument() matchers, exploring their differences, use cases, and best practices
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Acko.net
The Bouquet Residence Keeping up appearances in tech The word "rant" is used far too often,...
11 months ago
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The Bouquet Residence

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11 months ago
Keeping up appearances in tech The word "rant" is used far too often, and in various ways. It's meant to imply aimless, angry venting. But often it means: Naming problems without proposing solutions, this makes me feel confused. Naming problems and...
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Making software...
The Wonders of Text Ellipsis The Wonders of Text Ellipsis 2016-11-15 A common issue when working with constrained UI elements is...
over a year ago
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The Wonders of Text Ellipsis

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over a year ago
The Wonders of Text Ellipsis 2016-11-15 A common issue when working with constrained UI elements is text overflowing outside of it's parent or breaking into addition lines (thus breaking the layout). This is most commonly seen with the direct and placeholder values for input...
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Sometimes It Works...
How your choice of tech can help you grow How your choice of tech can help you grow Making architectural choices for scaling your...
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How your choice of tech can help you grow

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over a year ago
How your choice of tech can help you grow Making architectural choices for scaling your business Making architectural choices for securing your business We’re hiring! ¶How your choice of tech can help you grow I’ve been working at Elvie for almost 2 years. My remit has been to...
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Ink & Switch
Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud A new generation of collaborative software that allows users to retain ownership of their data.
over a year ago
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Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud

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over a year ago
A new generation of collaborative software that allows users to retain ownership of their data.
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HTMHell
Test-driven HTML and accessibility by David Luhr When I started writing unit tests and following a test-driven development (TDD)...
a year ago
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Test-driven HTML and accessibility

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a year ago
by David Luhr When I started writing unit tests and following a test-driven development (TDD) workflow, I was stoked with the immediate feedback and confidence I gained in every line of JavaScript I wrote. TDD improved my software design with simpler, more predictable code. It...
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Josh Comeau's blog
A Friendly Introduction to Container Queries It’s been a couple of years since container queries started landing in browsers… so why isn’t anyone...
8 months ago
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A Friendly Introduction to Container Queries

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8 months ago
It’s been a couple of years since container queries started landing in browsers… so why isn’t anyone using them? It turns out that container queries are kinda tricky; they’re not as straightforward as media queries. In this tutorial, we’ll break it all down and make sense of...
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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
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Success Requires Luck

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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...
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somenice
Coastal Mountain Forest Triptych Often found growing together in the Coastal Mountain forest of British Columbia, these three species...
a year ago
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Coastal Mountain Forest Triptych

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a year ago
Often found growing together in the Coastal Mountain forest of British Columbia, these three species were inspiration to capture the texture and light of my local forest.The idea to frame each with their own type of wood came both as a natural idea but also because of materials...
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Grant Slatton
Quasirandom sequences Cool method to generate non-clumping random points
a year ago
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Quasirandom sequences

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a year ago
Cool method to generate non-clumping random points
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A Smart Bear
Distributed Logical Time Properly ordering events in time is notoriously difficult in distributed systems. This algorithm is...
over a year ago
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Distributed Logical Time

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over a year ago
Properly ordering events in time is notoriously difficult in distributed systems. This algorithm is a simple, decentralized, scalable, constant-memory mechanism for independent replicas to record events in time, such that “happened-before” is preserved in almost all cases.
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ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
Active rest On what to do after work
5 months ago
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Active rest

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5 months ago
On what to do after work
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Making software...
I Want to Suckless and You Can Too I Want to Suckless and You Can Too 2022-12-23 The Desire to Suckless While I have been happy with my...
over a year ago
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I Want to Suckless and You Can Too

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over a year ago
I Want to Suckless and You Can Too 2022-12-23 The Desire to Suckless While I have been happy with my previous desktop setup using Wayland on Alpine Linux, I just couldn't shake the urge to fully embrace the suckless ecosystem. Although, this meant ditching Wayland and returning...
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Vladimir Klepov as a...
Can we useRef, but without the .current? Let's try! Ah, ref.current. Everybody knows that I love useRef — I've built custom useMemo with it, and I've...
over a year ago
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Can we useRef, but without the .current? Let's try!

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over a year ago
Ah, ref.current. Everybody knows that I love useRef — I've built custom useMemo with it, and I've used it instead of useState to optimize re-renders. But typing ref.current over and over is just annoying. Come on, Vladimir, startX.current is just the same as this.startX in a...
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TokyoDev
The Challenges Faced by Multinational Teams and Japanese Companies It’s a fact that Japan needs more international developers. That doesn’t mean integrating those...
4 months ago
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The Challenges Faced by Multinational Teams and Japanese Companies

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4 months ago
It’s a fact that Japan needs more international developers. That doesn’t mean integrating those developers into Japanese companies, as well as Japanese society, is a simple process. But what are the most common challenges encountered by these companies with multinational...
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Kagi Blog
Kagi raises $670K Kagi ( https://kagi.com ) has successfully raised $670K in a SAFE note investment round, marking our...
over a year ago
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Kagi raises $670K

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over a year ago
Kagi ( https://kagi.com ) has successfully raised $670K in a SAFE note investment round, marking our first external fundraise to date.
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22 ways PostHog makes it easier to build great products PostHog is a growing platform. We used to call ourselves a product analytics platform, but product...
over a year ago
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22 ways PostHog makes it easier to build great products

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over a year ago
PostHog is a growing platform. We used to call ourselves a product analytics platform, but product analytics is just one feature among many these…
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David Heinemeier...
We have left the cloud Since it took us years to get into the cloud in the first place, I originally imagined it would take...
over a year ago
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We have left the cloud

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over a year ago
Since it took us years to get into the cloud in the first place, I originally imagined it would take us years to get out as well. But all that work to containerize our applications and prepare them for the cloud actually turned out to make it relatively easy to exit. And now,...
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Liz Denys
Why I left Instagram Content warning: discussion of fatphobia in advertising Practically overnight, my ads on Instagram...
over a year ago
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Why I left Instagram

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over a year ago
Content warning: discussion of fatphobia in advertising Practically overnight, my ads on Instagram went from annoying but benign reminders of capitalism to an utterly dehumanizing nightmare. Suddenly, every third or fourth photo of my friends' latest adventures with their kids,...
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Jake Zimmerman
Typing instance variables in mixins
2 months ago
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Typing instance variables in mixins

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2 months ago
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How to transcribe podcast audio (WhisperX with speaker diarization) I do a lot of podcast transcription work and had need for it again today. The HuggingFace spaces...
over a year ago
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How to transcribe podcast audio (WhisperX with speaker diarization)

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over a year ago
I do a lot of podcast transcription work and had need for it again today. The HuggingFace spaces (like this one https://huggingface.co/spaces/vumichien/whisper-speaker-diarization) always error out so aren't very useful.
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Supervised Learning: Computational Learning Theory What's the big O of machine learning? Lets put some formal theory around HOW we learn!
over a year ago
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Supervised Learning: Computational Learning Theory

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over a year ago
What's the big O of machine learning? Lets put some formal theory around HOW we learn!
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Myths (and truths) I've learned from 10 years of startup hiring I've spent over a decade hiring for startups, especially early-stage ones. I've managed and hired...
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Myths (and truths) I've learned from 10 years of startup hiring

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over a year ago
I've spent over a decade hiring for startups, especially early-stage ones. I've managed and hired for teams across engineering, ops, people, marketing…
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wingolog
whippet progress update: funding, features, future Greets greets! Today, an update on recent progress in , including sponsorship, a new collector, and...
11 months ago
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whippet progress update: funding, features, future

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11 months ago
Greets greets! Today, an update on recent progress in , including sponsorship, a new collector, and a new feature.Whippet But first, a reminder of what the haps: Whippet is a garbage collector library. The target audience is language run-time authors, particularly “small”...
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Implementing Notion-like table of contents in JavaScript Notion-like table of contents in JavaScript Long web pages benefit from having a table...
10 months ago
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Implementing Notion-like table of contents in JavaScript

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10 months ago
Notion-like table of contents in JavaScript Long web pages benefit from having a table of contents. Especially technical, reference documentation. As a reader you want a way to quickly navigate to a specific part of the documentation. This article describes how I...
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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
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Realtime Offline-First Chat App in 100 Seconds

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over a year ago
A quick demo of how easy it is to add realtime, offline persistence to an app with Amplify DataStore
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Irrational...
Wardley mapping the LLM ecosystem. In How should you adopt LLMs?, we explore how a theoretical ride sharing company, Theoretical Ride...
6 months ago
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Wardley mapping the LLM ecosystem.

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6 months ago
In How should you adopt LLMs?, we explore how a theoretical ride sharing company, Theoretical Ride Sharing, should adopt Large Language Models (LLMs). Part of that strategy’s diagnosis depends on understanding the expected evolution of the LLM ecosystem, which we’ve build a...
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A Smart Bear
The Elephant in the room: The myth of exponential hypergrowth Fast-growing startups are frequently described as “exponential,” especially when the product is...
over a year ago
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The Elephant in the room: The myth of exponential hypergrowth

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over a year ago
Fast-growing startups are frequently described as “exponential,” especially when the product is “viral.” This turns out to be incorrect, even for Facebook and Slack. If your model is incorrect, you don’t understand growth, which means you can’t control it, nor predict it. Here is...
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Making software...
CSS Character Unit CSS Character Unit 2019-04-23 When it comes to proper readability with large portions of text, the...
over a year ago
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CSS Character Unit

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over a year ago
CSS Character Unit 2019-04-23 When it comes to proper readability with large portions of text, the golden standard is to have no more than 75 characters per line. This is easy to achieve in the world of print but on the responsive, ever-changing web - statically defined...
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A Beautiful Site
What is my browser? This tool will tell you Last week I wrote about how to get faster and better help from support. One of my suggestions was to...
over a year ago
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What is my browser? This tool will tell you

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over a year ago
Last week I wrote about how to get faster and better help from support. One of my suggestions was to tell them what browser, OS, etc. you're using. Here's a free tool that will make that so much easier. As soon as you visit About My Browser, it will show you what browser and...
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Irrational...
What is the competitive advantage of authors in the age of LLMs? Over the past 19 months, I’ve written Crafting Engineering Strategy, a book on creating engineering...
4 weeks ago
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What is the competitive advantage of authors in the age of LLMs?

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4 weeks ago
Over the past 19 months, I’ve written Crafting Engineering Strategy, a book on creating engineering strategy. I’ve also been working increasingly with large language models at work. Unsurprisingly, the intersection of those two ideas is a topic that I’ve been thinking about a...
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Epic Web Dev
Deploy Web Applications All Over the World (tutorial)
over a year ago
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Deploy Web Applications All Over the World (tutorial)

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over a year ago
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Making software...
Using Multiple CSS Background Images Using Multiple CSS Background Images 2018-09-28 It isn't something developers have a need to do very...
over a year ago
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Using Multiple CSS Background Images

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over a year ago
Using Multiple CSS Background Images 2018-09-28 It isn't something developers have a need to do very often, but you can set multiple background images on a single element. Example: .element { background: url('image_path') center repeat, linear-gradient(transparent 0%, #000...
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Julia Evans
Importing a frontend Javascript library without a build system I like writing Javascript without a build system and for the millionth time yesterday I ran into a...
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Importing a frontend Javascript library without a build system

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7 months ago
I like writing Javascript without a build system and for the millionth time yesterday I ran into a problem where I needed to figure out how to import a Javascript library in my code without using a build system, and it took FOREVER to figure out how to import it because...
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wingolog
fedi is for losers Does the have a vibe? I think that yes, there’s a flave, and with reason: we have things in...
9 months ago
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fedi is for losers

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9 months ago
Does the have a vibe? I think that yes, there’s a flave, and with reason: we have things in common. We all left Twitter, or refused to join in the first place. Many of us are technologists or tech-adjacent, but generally not startuppy. There is a pervasive do-it-yourself...
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Ink & Switch
Ink Note Q1 2025: Selection Gestures Can we create a selection system that can do both whole-stroke and sub-stroke selection, while still...
4 months ago
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Ink Note Q1 2025: Selection Gestures

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4 months ago
Can we create a selection system that can do both whole-stroke and sub-stroke selection, while still being simple and intuitive?
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Steve Klabnik
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
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A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace

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bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, June 2024 The Ware for June 2024 is shown below. This one will probably be a super-easy guess for some folks,...
a year ago
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Name that Ware, June 2024

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a year ago
The Ware for June 2024 is shown below. This one will probably be a super-easy guess for some folks, but the details of the design of this type of ware are interesting from an engineering standpoint. Some of the tricks used here are kind of mind blowing; on paper, I wouldn’t think...
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Steve Klabnik
Porting steveklabnik.com to Workers Sites and Zola
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Porting steveklabnik.com to Workers Sites and Zola

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Josh Comeau's blog
The Perils of Hydration A surprisingly-common misconception can lead to big rendering issues that are difficult to debug....
over a year ago
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The Perils of Hydration

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over a year ago
A surprisingly-common misconception can lead to big rendering issues that are difficult to debug. This deep-dive tutorial examines how React and Gatsby can be used to pre-render content, and how we can work around the constraints to build dynamic, personalized web apps.
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Writing - Andreas...
Using fewer parts Fewer parts make for better software and better products.
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Using fewer parts

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a year ago
Fewer parts make for better software and better products.
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Steve Klabnik
Deleuze for developers: deterritorialization
over a year ago
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Deleuze for developers: deterritorialization

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over a year ago
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bt RSS Feed
RE: Creating a Simple HTML/CSS Notice Box RE: Creating a Simple HTML/CSS Notice Box 2022-09-22 I recently read Kev Quirk’s post, How to Create...
over a year ago
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RE: Creating a Simple HTML/CSS Notice Box

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over a year ago
RE: Creating a Simple HTML/CSS Notice Box 2022-09-22 I recently read Kev Quirk’s post, How to Create a Simple HTML/CSS Notice Box and loved the simplicity of it. I’m a sucker for using pseudo elements in creative ways but still managing to make them useful. Of course, this got me...
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Alex Meub
Better Wheels for the Traeger Tailgater I received a Traeger Tailgater as a gift last year and I love it. It’s compact, easy to store, and...
over a year ago
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Better Wheels for the Traeger Tailgater

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over a year ago
I received a Traeger Tailgater as a gift last year and I love it. It’s compact, easy to store, and works amazingly well. It has more than enough grill space for me and is pretty minimalist on features, which I like. Last Thanksgiving, many people wished they didn’t get the...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
My 2023 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
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My 2023 New Mac Setup

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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.
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Ognjen Regoje •...
Not wanting to work remotely is now a competitive advantage As much as working remotely is a competitive hiring advantage again, not wanting to work remotely is...
a year ago
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Not wanting to work remotely is now a competitive advantage

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a year ago
As much as working remotely is a competitive hiring advantage again, not wanting to work remotely is now an advantage for getting hired. A lot of companies are mandating returns to the office. Many more are scrapping fully remote positions, with some even rescinding fully-remote...
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Blog of Simple...
Dobbs v. Jackson ruling is a privacy mess
a year ago
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Dobbs v. Jackson ruling is a privacy mess

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a year ago
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David Heinemeier...
Tesla wins When we first got our Tesla Model X four years ago, I wasn't the biggest fan. Build quality was...
a year ago
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Tesla wins

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a year ago
When we first got our Tesla Model X four years ago, I wasn't the biggest fan. Build quality was spotty, brakes didn't match the performance, and handling was at best so-so. But it could carry seven, including luggage, was electric, and the dual-motor acceleration was a hoot. So...
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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
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You are never taught how to build quality software

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a year ago
Learning how to build quality software is not part of computer science education. How do we learn it?
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HTMHell
A link on a logo in the header, what should the alt-text be? by Rian Rietveld It's a common pattern to use a logo in the header as a link to the homepage. Fun...
7 months ago
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A link on a logo in the header, what should the alt-text be?

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7 months ago
by Rian Rietveld It's a common pattern to use a logo in the header as a link to the homepage. Fun fact: the alt text of the image inside a link, will be added to the link text. The problem with linking a logo is that it serves 2 purposes: a logo, that tells you which site you are...
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Tinloof - Blog
Text with media background: practical solutions Text over images or videos is common on websites, and when not done right, it can make the text hard...
a year ago
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Text with media background: practical solutions

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a year ago
Text over images or videos is common on websites, and when not done right, it can make the text hard to read and cause accessibility and usability issues. Designers might not catch these problems early on because they use ideal settings to test designs. The real problems show up...
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Paolo Amoroso's...
My first year since coming back to Linux <![CDATA[It has been a year since I set up my System76 Merkaat with Linux Mint. In July of 2024 I...
a week ago
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My first year since coming back to Linux

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a week ago
<![CDATA[It has been a year since I set up my System76 Merkaat with Linux Mint. In July of 2024 I migrated from ChromeOS and the Merkaat has been my daily driver on the desktop. A year later I have nothing major to report, which is the point. Despite the occasional unplanned...
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Florian Bellmann |...
Why I blog The reasons why I started blogging.
a year ago
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Why I blog

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a year ago
The reasons why I started blogging.
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Liz Denys
Butternut squash with cinnamon sage brown butter I don't blog that much about savory food: savory food for me is even more technique-based than...
over a year ago
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Butternut squash with cinnamon sage brown butter

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over a year ago
I don't blog that much about savory food: savory food for me is even more technique-based than recipe-based, so I find it limiting to discuss one dish because it's a particular combination of techniques on a very particular set of ingredients. But I really enjoyed this particular...
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The Pragmatic...
Going from Developer to CEO: Chronosphere From learning to code in Australia, to launching Chronosphere in Silicon Valley: cofounder and CEO...
a year ago
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Going from Developer to CEO: Chronosphere

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a year ago
From learning to code in Australia, to launching Chronosphere in Silicon Valley: cofounder and CEO Martin Mao shares his story.
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blag
Recurse Center Day 14: NoSQL Transactions I learned how using MongoDB was fatal for a startup
over a year ago
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Recurse Center Day 14: NoSQL Transactions

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over a year ago
I learned how using MongoDB was fatal for a startup
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blag
Zero Disk Architecture State is pain. The next generation of infrastructure tools will be built on diskless paradigm. In...
7 months ago
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Zero Disk Architecture

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7 months ago
State is pain. The next generation of infrastructure tools will be built on diskless paradigm. In this short post I will explain what is Diskless / Zero Disk Architecture
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Ink & Switch
Peritext: A CRDT for Rich-Text Collaboration Collaboration on rich text is hard to model with plain-text approaches. We review the challenges and...
over a year ago
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Peritext: A CRDT for Rich-Text Collaboration

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over a year ago
Collaboration on rich text is hard to model with plain-text approaches. We review the challenges and how to construct a CRDT for rich text.
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Irrational...
Writers who operate. Occasionally folks tell me that I should “write full time.” I’ve thought about this a lot, and have...
a year ago
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Writers who operate.

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a year ago
Occasionally folks tell me that I should “write full time.” I’ve thought about this a lot, and have rejected that option because I believe that writers who operate (e.g. write concurrently with holding a non-writing industry role) are best positioned to keep writing valuable work...
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Why Svelte? (The Short Version) The short version of Why Svelte
over a year ago
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Why Svelte? (The Short Version)

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over a year ago
The short version of Why Svelte
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bt RSS Feed
Happily Paying For macOS Apps Happily Paying For macOS Apps 2022-06-29 It’s no secret that I am a huge advocate for open source...
over a year ago
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Happily Paying For macOS Apps

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over a year ago
Happily Paying For macOS Apps 2022-06-29 It’s no secret that I am a huge advocate for open source software. A solid chunk of my day-to-day workload is done so via FOSS1 systems. I also manage a handful of fun side projects that are normally shipped under either MIT or GPL...
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alexwlchan
How I name my computers I got a new Mac mini this weekend, to replace my aging Intel iMac. I’ve already done most of the...
8 months ago
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How I name my computers

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8 months ago
I got a new Mac mini this weekend, to replace my aging Intel iMac. I’ve already done most of the setup, and this blog post is one of the first things I’ll make with it. I’m quite pleased with how quickly I can get up and running with a new machine. There’s one hard part of...
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Steve Klabnik
Hypermedia FizzBuzz
over a year ago
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Hypermedia FizzBuzz

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over a year ago
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A Beautiful Site
Introducing Surreal CMS 7 Last November was the 10 year mark for Surreal CMS, a content management service I created to manage...
over a year ago
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Introducing Surreal CMS 7

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over a year ago
Last November was the 10 year mark for Surreal CMS, a content management service I created to manage static (and mostly static) websites. Last week, I soft launched Surreal CMS 7. This new version is a complete rebuild from scratch using Node.js + Vue.js. I worked on this new...
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Joel Gascoigne
Fear of not shipping * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "I’ve had many...
over a year ago
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Fear of not shipping

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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "I’ve had many many many products, the vast majority of the things I’ve written, or created, the organisations I built fail, but the reason I’ve managed a modicum of success is because I just...
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Steve Klabnik
I'm deleting my Facebook tonight
over a year ago
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I'm deleting my Facebook tonight

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over a year ago
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A Beautiful Site
Adding and removing virtual hosts on Ubuntu 14.04 Here's a cheat sheet for working with virtual hosts on an Ubuntu server. The instructions assume...
over a year ago
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Adding and removing virtual hosts on Ubuntu 14.04

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over a year ago
Here's a cheat sheet for working with virtual hosts on an Ubuntu server. The instructions assume you're not logged in as the root user. Change example.com to your own domain/subdomain. Adding a virtual host # Create the directory for your new site and grant permissions. If your...
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Josh Collinsworth
WordPress Child Theme Explanation and Walkthrough When you’re just starting out with WordPress, it’s easy to think that you can just open up the...
over a year ago
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WordPress Child Theme Explanation and Walkthrough

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over a year ago
When you’re just starting out with WordPress, it’s easy to think that you can just open up the style.css file included with your theme and begin making alterations. And that will work—at least for a while—but it won’t be a good idea…
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250k downloads of Latent Space Pod I last talked about my Latent Space adventures in April and last December. Even as a well regarded...
a year ago
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250k downloads of Latent Space Pod

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a year ago
I last talked about my Latent Space adventures in April and last December. Even as a well regarded developer-part-time-creator, the Latent Space Newsletter + Pod has done much better than I usually do. Here are the stats as of today:
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Tyler Cipriani: blog
Distraction-free writing: a failed experiment This 2000-era word processor is the ultimate distraction-free writing device. Maybe that’s why I...
over a year ago
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Distraction-free writing: a failed experiment

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over a year ago
This 2000-era word processor is the ultimate distraction-free writing device. Maybe that’s why I never use it. AlphaSmart3000 in its Bondi-blue glory Before the term “distraction-free” made sense, there was AlphaSmart. Oozing with early-aughts Apple aesthetics, the...
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wingolog
finalizers, guardians, phantom references, et cetera Consider . Compared to finalizers, in which the , guardians allow the mutator to control...
11 months ago
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finalizers, guardians, phantom references, et cetera

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11 months ago
Consider . Compared to finalizers, in which the , guardians allow the mutator to control concurrency. See for more notes. Java’s / seems to be similar in spirit, though the details differ.guardianscleanup procedures are run concurrently with the mutator, by the...
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Vadim Kravcenko
Things they didn’t teach you about Software Engineering As always, a disclaimer before we start, this is purely subjective. Whether you are a seasoned...
over a year ago
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Things they didn’t teach you about Software Engineering

from Vadim Kravcenko [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
As always, a disclaimer before we start, this is purely subjective. Whether you are a seasoned professional or just starting […] The post Things they didn’t teach you about Software Engineering appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Feedback Ladders A post for the Netlify blog on how we did Code Reviews during my recent product rotation.
over a year ago
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Feedback Ladders

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over a year ago
A post for the Netlify blog on how we did Code Reviews during my recent product rotation.
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Seldo.com
Becoming American
over a year ago
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Becoming American

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over a year ago
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Circles and Momentum I had not come across this graphic from swyx until recently: I like this reminder. I know for me,...
over a year ago
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Circles and Momentum

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
I had not come across this graphic from swyx until recently: I like this reminder. I know for me, it’s often too easy to slip into a kind of cynicism that only sees endless stationary circles rather than ones with directional momentum. It reminds me of the visualizations of...
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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
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What is TypeScript and why should I use it?

from Seán Barry [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
A beginner's guide to TypeScript. What is TypeScript? What problems does it solve? Why should I use it?
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Making software...
Making a Website Under 1kB Making a Website Under 1kB 2022-08-02 I recently launched (another) website club called the 1kB...
over a year ago
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Making a Website Under 1kB

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over a year ago
Making a Website Under 1kB 2022-08-02 I recently launched (another) website club called the 1kB Club. Unlike the 1MB Club, it isn't as accessible for most modern websites to become official members. Building a website that actually serves useful content while squeezing its page...
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blag
Recurse Center Day 8: B Tree Fill Factor (Part 2) I found out the answer to B tree fill factor
over a year ago
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Recurse Center Day 8: B Tree Fill Factor (Part 2)

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over a year ago
I found out the answer to B tree fill factor
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macwright.com
Focus For fun, I wrote a raytracer in Zig yesterday. It’s a port of a project I did in 2013, in...
over a year ago
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Focus

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over a year ago
For fun, I wrote a raytracer in Zig yesterday. It’s a port of a project I did in 2013, in JavaScript. It’s the first time in a while I’ve made a project just for kicks. If you look at the number of GitHub repositories I’ve committed to since 2013, the number is decreasing. Same...
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Florian Bellmann |...
On picking side-projects Food for thought on how to pick the right side projects and how to manage them effectively.
a year ago
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On picking side-projects

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a year ago
Food for thought on how to pick the right side projects and how to manage them effectively.
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TokyoDev
My experience with Vulcanus in Japan, a training programme for EU engineering students My journey in Japan started in a slightly unconventional way. While there are several paths to enter...
a year ago
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My experience with Vulcanus in Japan, a training programme for EU engineering students

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a year ago
My journey in Japan started in a slightly unconventional way. While there are several paths to enter the country, such as a working holiday visa, English teaching, or getting hired by one of the [many wonderful companies](http://www.tokyodev.com/companies), posting jobs on...
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Steve Klabnik
Should you learn C to "learn how the computer works"?
over a year ago
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Should you learn C to "learn how the computer works"?

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over a year ago
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Yale E360
Start to finish on self-publishing a technical book I've been writing this blog since 2015, and my writing picked up pace in 2022. That year I wrote...
a year ago
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Start to finish on self-publishing a technical book

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a year ago
I've been writing this blog since 2015, and my writing picked up pace in 2022. That year I wrote 37,000 words, more than the 33,000 I'd written up to that point. It has accelerated since then. At some point, I realized that I've put in a lot of time and effort writing here, and...
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Oxide Computer...
March 2020 Update Hello friends! I want to start by saying we wish you the very best during this unprecedented time in...
over a year ago
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March 2020 Update

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

over a year ago
Hello friends! I want to start by saying we wish you the very best during this unprecedented time in which we are all united. Our thoughts go out to everyone working hard to help those in need. We wish you and your families health and resilience. Hard at work…​ and growing A lot...
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macwright.com
Playing with bikeshare data, part one Since July, I’ve been archiving data from the Citi Bike GBFS feed. Every five minutes, I have a...
a year ago
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Playing with bikeshare data, part one

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

a year ago
Since July, I’ve been archiving data from the Citi Bike GBFS feed. Every five minutes, I have a datapoint for each of the roughly 2,090 stations with numbers for how many bikes are available or broken, and how many bikes are electric. It’s a long-term project that combines my...
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Maggie Appleton
The Echo & Narcissus Writing Club A Hyperlink Academy writing club where we mimic the work of others
over a year ago
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The Echo & Narcissus Writing Club

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

over a year ago
A Hyperlink Academy writing club where we mimic the work of others
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Ognjen Regoje •...
BSL is not good, it's great Another day, another project adopted BSL. Another day, another round of outrage from people harping...
a year ago
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BSL is not good, it's great

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a year ago
Another day, another project adopted BSL. Another day, another round of outrage from people harping on the difference between Open Source and open source. Another day, another inferior fork of a product due to a technicality that has nothing to do with the product itself and that...
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Irrational...
Notes on The Value Flywheel Effect The Value Flywheel Effect is a worthwhile read. It’s imperfect, but a fascinating look into...
a year ago
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Notes on The Value Flywheel Effect

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a year ago
The Value Flywheel Effect is a worthwhile read. It’s imperfect, but a fascinating look into real-world application of Wardley mapping, and a rare view of a company’s engineering strategy. I’m currently diving into the topic of engineering strategy, and a sub-topic that I’ve not...
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Maggie Appleton
Statistically, When Will My Baby Be Born? A tiny tool to calculate when your baby might arrive
3 months ago
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Statistically, When Will My Baby Be Born?

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

3 months ago
A tiny tool to calculate when your baby might arrive
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Making software...
Building openring with Jekyll Build Building openring with Jekyll Build 2022-12-02 I think it's great when bloggers post their own...
over a year ago
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Building openring with Jekyll Build

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Building openring with Jekyll Build 2022-12-02 I think it's great when bloggers post their own personal "reading list" of blogs they themselves follow. Whether this is a customized Blogroll page or footnotes in their individual articles, I find it really helpful to find more...
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blag
Recurse Center Day 19
over a year ago
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Recurse Center Day 19

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over a year ago
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MMapped blog
Enlightenmentware
a year ago
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Enlightenmentware

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a year ago
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Computer Things
You can cheat a test suite with a big enough polynomial Hi nerds, I'm back from Systems Distributed! I'd heartily recommend it, wildest conference I've been...
2 weeks ago
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You can cheat a test suite with a big enough polynomial

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

2 weeks ago
Hi nerds, I'm back from Systems Distributed! I'd heartily recommend it, wildest conference I've been to in years. I have a lot of work to catch up on, so this will be a short newsletter. In an earlier version of my talk, I had a gag about unit tests. First I showed the test...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Some Miscellaneous Thoughts on Visual Design Prodded By The Sameness of AI Company Logos Radek Sienkiewicz in a funny-because-its-true piece titled “Why do AI company logos look like...
a month ago
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Some Miscellaneous Thoughts on Visual Design Prodded By The Sameness of AI Company Logos

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a month ago
Radek Sienkiewicz in a funny-because-its-true piece titled “Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?“: We made a circular shape [logo] with some angles because it looked nice, then wrote flowery language to justify why our…design is actually profound. As someone who has grown...
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Copper • A blog...
Making my own sharpening blocks When I started wood carving, the only sharpening method I remembered was from seeing my mother use...
9 months ago
67

Making my own sharpening blocks

from Copper • A blog about conductive layers [alt+shift+b] in programming

9 months ago
When I started wood carving, the only sharpening method I remembered was from seeing my mother use some kind of smooth broken stone that she passed over the length of the knife blade before sacrificing a chicken. I also remember seeing my father use a very coarse stone wheel...
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Words and Buttons...
Honeycomb texture generator It generates a seamless black and white honeycomb texture. There are a few options in the UI but if...
over a year ago
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Honeycomb texture generator

from Words and Buttons Online [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
It generates a seamless black and white honeycomb texture. There are a few options in the UI but if you need more, there is some changeable code too. If you need more freedom, just get this thing on Github.
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Eric Bailey
The optics of pair programming If you are not familiar, pair programming (pairing) is the practice of collaborating directly with...
over a year ago
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The optics of pair programming

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

over a year ago
If you are not familiar, pair programming (pairing) is the practice of collaborating directly with another person to work on a problem. You’ll often hear it in development contexts, but I've also encountered it with design. In the Before Times, we paired by walking over to a...
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Steve Klabnik
Draper 1.0.0.beta1 release
over a year ago
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Draper 1.0.0.beta1 release

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over a year ago
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Ognjen Regoje •...
The value of "Yes, and..." I love Ben Brode’s Design Lessons from Improv talk. It presents techniques that we could all use...
2 months ago
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The value of "Yes, and..."

from Ognjen Regoje • ognjen.io [alt+shift+b] in programming

2 months ago
I love Ben Brode’s Design Lessons from Improv talk. It presents techniques that we could all use more frequently. I particularly took the “Yes, and…“ to heart. It is an excellent technique, or attitude really, that keeps the conversation going. Conversations often start slow but...
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A Smart Bear
AI startups require new strategies: This time it's actually different The typical dynamics between startups and incumbents do not apply in AI as they did in previous...
a year ago
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AI startups require new strategies: This time it's actually different

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a year ago
The typical dynamics between startups and incumbents do not apply in AI as they did in previous technology revolutions like mobile and the Internet. Ignore this at your peril.
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Evan Jones -...
TCP and gRPC Failed Connection Timeouts After my last article about how gRPC is hard to configure, with a client keepalive example, I...
over a year ago
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TCP and gRPC Failed Connection Timeouts

from Evan Jones - Software Engineer | Computer Scientist [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
After my last article about how gRPC is hard to configure, with a client keepalive example, I realized that I don't understand how TCP and gRPC handle failed connections. This article is my attempt to figure it out, and document it so I can find it again in the future. The best...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
The 9 best GA4 alternatives for apps and websites In July 2023, Google closed Universal Analytics (UA), forcing users to switch to Google Analytics 4...
a year ago
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The 9 best GA4 alternatives for apps and websites

from PostHog's RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
In July 2023, Google closed Universal Analytics (UA), forcing users to switch to Google Analytics 4 (GA4) or another provider. This hasn't proved a…
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macwright.com
Chrome Devtools protip: Emulate a focused page This is a Devtools feature that you will only need once in a while, but it is a life-saver. Some...
a year ago
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Chrome Devtools protip: Emulate a focused page

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

a year ago
This is a Devtools feature that you will only need once in a while, but it is a life-saver. Some frontend libraries, like CodeMirror, have UIs like autocompletion, tools, or popovers, that are triggered by typing text or hovering your mouse cursor, and disappear when that...
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macwright.com
Don't use marked With all love to the maintainers, who are good people and are to some extent bound by their...
a year ago
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Don't use marked

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

a year ago
With all love to the maintainers, who are good people and are to some extent bound by their obligation to maintain compatibility, I just have to put it out there: if you have a new JavaScript/TypeScript project and you need to parse or render Markdown, why are you using...
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Alex MacCaw
A personal update In March 2020, as the world locked down, I was on the tail end of a vacation in New Zealand. As...
over a year ago
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A personal update

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

over a year ago
In March 2020, as the world locked down, I was on the tail end of a vacation in New Zealand. As COVID started to spin out of control in the states, my girlfriend and I made the decision to stay. A ten day trip turned into a year-long adventure. I
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Steve Klabnik
More rstat.us refactoring
over a year ago
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More rstat.us refactoring

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over a year ago
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bt RSS Feed
Goodbye WordPress, Hello Jekyll (Again) Goodbye WordPress, Hello Jekyll (Again) 2020-08-13 For the past four months this blog has been...
over a year ago
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Goodbye WordPress, Hello Jekyll (Again)

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Goodbye WordPress, Hello Jekyll (Again) 2020-08-13 For the past four months this blog has been running on WordPress - but that ended today. I’ve officially switched back over to Jekyll. I’m not going to spend too much time delving into why I made the transition back, but I’ll...
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Elad Blog
Video & transcript: Apoorva Metha, founder & former CEO, Instacart Full video & transcript from Fireside chat with Apoorva Metha
a year ago
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Video & transcript: Apoorva Metha, founder & former CEO, Instacart

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

a year ago
Full video & transcript from Fireside chat with Apoorva Metha
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Sometimes It Works...
Moving from Medium What this runs on I finally did it! I took the plunge and am running my own blog. It's been many...
over a year ago
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Moving from Medium

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

over a year ago
What this runs on I finally did it! I took the plunge and am running my own blog. It's been many years since I ran my own site 'properly'. And now that it's practically free, it was about time. For the eagle-eyed among you, you'll know that I sporadically published content to...
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Ognjen Regoje •...
Tracking the cursor in Selenium driven Chrome From the links in the sources, the following code snippet can be used to track the cursor: <style> ...
a year ago
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Tracking the cursor in Selenium driven Chrome

from Ognjen Regoje • ognjen.io [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
From the links in the sources, the following code snippet can be used to track the cursor: <style> .dot { background: red; position: absolute; width: 2px; height: 2px; z-index: 10000; } </style> (function () { "use strict"; document.onmousemove =...
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A Beautiful Site
Web Components Are Not the Future — They’re the Present It’s disappointing that some of the most outspoken individuals against Web Components are framework...
9 months ago
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Web Components Are Not the Future — They’re the Present

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9 months ago
It’s disappointing that some of the most outspoken individuals against Web Components are framework maintainers. These individuals are, after all, in some of the best positions to provide valuable feedback. They have a lot of great ideas! Alas, there’s little incentive for them...
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David Heinemeier...
When to give up Most of our cultural virtues, celebrated heroes, and catchy slogans align with the idea of "never...
4 months ago
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When to give up

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

4 months ago
Most of our cultural virtues, celebrated heroes, and catchy slogans align with the idea of "never give up". That's a good default! Most people are inclined to give up too easily, as soon as the going gets hard. But it's also worth remembering that sometimes you really should...
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bt RSS Feed
Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME 2023-11-02 The dwm window manager is my standard “go-to” for most of...
a year ago
22

Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME 2023-11-02 The dwm window manager is my standard “go-to” for most of my personal laptop environments. For desktops with larger, higher resolution monitors I tend to lean towards using GNOME. The GNOME DE is fairly solid for my own purposes. This...
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Making software...
Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME 2023-11-02 The dwm window manager is my standard "go-to" for most of...
a year ago
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Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME

from Making software better without sacrificing user experience. [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME 2023-11-02 The dwm window manager is my standard "go-to" for most of my personal laptop environments. For desktops with larger, higher resolution monitors I tend to lean towards using GNOME. The GNOME DE is fairly solid for my own purposes. This...
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David Heinemeier...
Finishing Hotwire with the introduction of Strada When we announced Hotwire a few years back, it was always meant as a triptych. The center piece is...
a year ago
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Finishing Hotwire with the introduction of Strada

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

a year ago
When we announced Hotwire a few years back, it was always meant as a triptych. The center piece is Turbo. That's the drop-in level-up that makes multi-page web apps feel like single-page web apps – without giving up any of the development advantages to server-side programming....
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Idea for code editors Added a daily notes section to the blog. It’s the one you’re reading right now. Data stored in...
3 weeks ago
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Idea for code editors

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

3 weeks ago
Added a daily notes section to the blog. It’s the one you’re reading right now. Data stored in \daily_notes.md file. Trying Obsidian for editing markdown files I’m always looking for that perfect note taking / markdown editor. I’m even writing one (but it’s web based so not...
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Julia Evans
New talk: Making Hard Things Easy A few weeks ago I gave a keynote at Strange Loop called Making Hard Things Easy. It’s about why I...
a year ago
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New talk: Making Hard Things Easy

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

a year ago
A few weeks ago I gave a keynote at Strange Loop called Making Hard Things Easy. It’s about why I think some things are hard to learn and ideas for how we can make them easier. Here’s the video, as well as the slides and a transcript of (roughly) what I said in the talk. the...
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Greg Brockman
Leaving Stripe I originally got hooked on programming because I loved the act of creating something from nothing. I...
over a year ago
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Leaving Stripe

from Greg Brockman [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
I originally got hooked on programming because I loved the act of creating something from nothing. I soon discovered the deep satisfaction of having others actually use my creations. It didn’t take me long to realize I wanted to build a startup. Startups # Throughout college, I...
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A Beautiful Site
Creating stylesheets for handheld devices It's not uncommon so see someone surfing the net with their cell phone or PDA these days or, at...
over a year ago
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Creating stylesheets for handheld devices

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over a year ago
It's not uncommon so see someone surfing the net with their cell phone or PDA these days or, at least, trying to. Unfortunately, portable technologies still have a long way to go before they conquer the web with their tiny screens. The good news is that, with a little help from...
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The Changelog
Pipe Issue Likely a Kernel Bug Saturday, I wrote in Pipes, deadlocks, and strace annoyingly fixing them about an issue where a...
over a year ago
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Pipe Issue Likely a Kernel Bug

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

over a year ago
Saturday, I wrote in Pipes, deadlocks, and strace annoyingly fixing them about an issue where a certain pipeline seems to have a deadlock. I described tracing it into kernel code. Indeed, it appears to be kernel bug 212295, which has had a patch for over a year that has never...
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alexwlchan
Making inventory spreadsheets for my LEGO sets One of my recent home organisation projects has been sorting out my LEGO collection. I have a bunch...
5 months ago
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Making inventory spreadsheets for my LEGO sets

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5 months ago
One of my recent home organisation projects has been sorting out my LEGO collection. I have a bunch of sets which are mixed together in one messy box, and I’m trying to separate bricks back into distinct sets. My collection is nowhere near large enough to be worth sorting by...
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The Changelog
The Grumpy Cricket (And Other Enormous Creatures) This Christmas, one of my gifts to my kids was a text adventure (interactive fiction) game for them....
a year ago
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The Grumpy Cricket (And Other Enormous Creatures)

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a year ago
This Christmas, one of my gifts to my kids was a text adventure (interactive fiction) game for them. Now that they’ve enjoyed it, I’m releasing it under the GPL v3. As interactive fiction, it’s like an e-book, but the reader is also the player, guiding the exploration of the...
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A Beautiful Site
Archiving Postleaf Postleaf — at least in its current form — has been discontinued. In the future, I'd like to bring it...
over a year ago
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Archiving Postleaf

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over a year ago
Postleaf — at least in its current form — has been discontinued. In the future, I'd like to bring it back as something different. Maybe an open source project. Maybe a SaaS product. I'm not sure at this point. The world still needs a simple platform to encourage blogging and the...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Quick Guide to setup your React + Typescript Storybook Design System a no-bs guide to set up your new React and Typescript Design System powered by Storybook!
over a year ago
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Quick Guide to setup your React + Typescript Storybook Design System

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
a no-bs guide to set up your new React and Typescript Design System powered by Storybook!
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Cognitive...
Playing with ChatGPT API I thought I would try out ChatGPT's new API, so I decided to write a command line interface. My code...
over a year ago
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Playing with ChatGPT API

from Cognitive Computations [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
I thought I would try out ChatGPT's new API, so I decided to write a command line interface. My code is located here: I wanted it to be conversational, so it will remember your conversation history as you type. Similar to chatgpt-wrapper. ...
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Epic Web Dev
What Is A Test Boundary? (article) Learn automated testing essentials: prepare code, execute actions, verify outcomes. Discover the...
a year ago
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What Is A Test Boundary? (article)

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a year ago
Learn automated testing essentials: prepare code, execute actions, verify outcomes. Discover the importance of mocking and setting proper test boundaries.
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HTMHell
One day we'll have a fully customisable select Today, I want to look at a proposed HTML feature that may end up replacing a lot of <div>s-based...
over a year ago
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One day we'll have a fully customisable select

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Today, I want to look at a proposed HTML feature that may end up replacing a lot of <div>s-based custom input components: <selectmenu>. CSS is awesome I realise this calendar is about HTML. And I'll get to that. But first, let me start with CSS. CSS is fantastic, because it has...
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Steve Klabnik
Write better cukes with the rel attribute
over a year ago
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Write better cukes with the rel attribute

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over a year ago
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Irrational...
Drafted Eng Executive's Primer! Back in late April, I mentioned that I was working on a new book, The Engineering Executive’s...
a year ago
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Drafted Eng Executive's Primer!

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a year ago
Back in late April, I mentioned that I was working on a new book, The Engineering Executive’s Primer, with O’Reilly. I wanted to share a few notes on progress! First, there’s a cover, shown above in this post’s image, and also in the right rail (or bottom footer if you’re reading...
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A Beautiful Site
Component Machines Components are like little machines. You build them once. Use them whenever you need them. Every now...
10 months ago
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Component Machines

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10 months ago
Components are like little machines. You build them once. Use them whenever you need them. Every now and then you open them up to oil them or replace a part, then you send them back to work. And work, they do. Little component machines just chugging along so you never have to...
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Vadim Kravcenko
How to better handle stress in a startup? Dear Reader, First off, let me commend you on the courage and determination you’ve already shown on...
a year ago
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How to better handle stress in a startup?

from Vadim Kravcenko [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Dear Reader, First off, let me commend you on the courage and determination you’ve already shown on your journey. The […] The post How to better handle stress in a startup? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Tony Finch's blog
BIND zone transfer performance This year I have rewritten BIND’s DNS name compression and decompression code. I didn’t plan to, it...
over a year ago
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BIND zone transfer performance

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over a year ago
This year I have rewritten BIND’s DNS name compression and decompression code. I didn’t plan to, it just sort of happened! Anyway, last week my colleague Petr was doing some benchmarking, and he produced some numbers that seemed too good to be true, so I have re-done the...
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Steve Klabnik
An API ontology
over a year ago
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An API ontology

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The Codist
How Talking Over A Wall Changed My Direction As A Programmer I started my programming career in October 1981 at a large defense contractor (GD). At the time, my...
9 months ago
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How Talking Over A Wall Changed My Direction As A Programmer

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9 months ago
I started my programming career in October 1981 at a large defense contractor (GD). At the time, my goal was to work for a couple of years and then continue my education with a Ph.D. in Chemistry (I had already been accepted). The office I worked in was a
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charity.wtf
How Hard Should Your Employer Work To Retain You? Recently we learned that Google spent $2.7 billion to re-hire a single AI researcher who had left to...
9 months ago
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How Hard Should Your Employer Work To Retain You?

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9 months ago
Recently we learned that Google spent $2.7 billion to re-hire a single AI researcher who had left to start his own company. As Charlie Brown would say: “Good grief.” 🙄 This is an (incredibly!) extreme example. But back in the halcyon days of the zero interest rate phenomenon...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
Introducing Notebooks for PostHog Today we’ve released a major change, dubbed PostHog 3000, which updates the look and feel of PostHog...
a year ago
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Introducing Notebooks for PostHog

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a year ago
Today we’ve released a major change, dubbed PostHog 3000, which updates the look and feel of PostHog dramatically. You can read all about what’s…
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Ognjen Regoje •...
Using robots.txt to discover hidden content I sometimes check the robots.txt of sites to see what they might not want to be indexed. It’s...
a year ago
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Using robots.txt to discover hidden content

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a year ago
I sometimes check the robots.txt of sites to see what they might not want to be indexed. It’s interesting because some sites use it as access control, which, of course, is silly. Just because robots won’t index it doesn’t mean people won’t find it. Plus, by specifying it in...
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Liz Denys
Quiche as a method and lightly sweet pâte brisée I love to make and eat quiche. In fact, there was hardly a week last year that would pass where...
over a year ago
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Quiche as a method and lightly sweet pâte brisée

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over a year ago
I love to make and eat quiche. In fact, there was hardly a week last year that would pass where there wasn't a quiche in my refrigerator because I just love quiche that much. Why? Well, it's great any time of day, it reheats well, it can feed a crowd, and it doesn't have to be...
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A Beautiful Site
Why developers hate being interrupted I stumbled across a post today (that unfortunately no longer exists) and I was almost convinced that...
over a year ago
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Why developers hate being interrupted

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over a year ago
I stumbled across a post today (that unfortunately no longer exists) and I was almost convinced that I had written it myself. Many of the points in it hit home, so I hope it helps people better understand how developers think and what they go through when interruptions arise. One...
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Maggie Appleton
Plebeian Programming with Keyboard Maestro How to write macros without touching the terminal
over a year ago
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Plebeian Programming with Keyboard Maestro

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over a year ago
How to write macros without touching the terminal
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Seldo.com
Twenty years of blogging
over a year ago
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Twenty years of blogging

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over a year ago
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Tinloof - Blog
How to get a taste of ReasonML by building something useful ReasonML, a programming language that compiles to JavaScript, was built by extending the functional...
over a year ago
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How to get a taste of ReasonML by building something useful

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over a year ago
ReasonML, a programming language that compiles to JavaScript, was built by extending the functional programming language OCaml, leveraging powerful and safe types smartly inferred by default. Reason’s official documentation is clear, yet covering the theory with “Hello World”...
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Founder's blog
Speeding up a huge multi-tenant SaaS database Here's a little story of how we sped up our SaaS backend with a one-liner magic silver...
over a year ago
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Speeding up a huge multi-tenant SaaS database

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over a year ago
Here's a little story of how we sped up our SaaS backend with a one-liner magic silver bullet The problem Our SaaS is powered by a huge multi terabyte "multi tenant" relational database cluster. Some tables are more than 200 GB - this is crazy, to be honest. And for the...
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Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Logic programming in C++ When you write in C++ you actually write in two languages at once. First is C++, and the second one...
over a year ago
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[Renovated] Logic programming in C++

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over a year ago
When you write in C++ you actually write in two languages at once. First is C++, and the second one is the invisible Prolog. If written properly, the second program is helpful. However, if being neglected, it turns your code into an untangleable mess of incomprehencibles...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Jan 2020 Recap a belated recap, highlighting my best writing over the past couple months
over a year ago
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Jan 2020 Recap

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over a year ago
a belated recap, highlighting my best writing over the past couple months
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Daniel Marino
Self-avoiding Walk I’m a bit late to this, but back in summer 2024 I participated in the OST Composing Jam. The goal of...
3 months ago
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Self-avoiding Walk

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3 months ago
I’m a bit late to this, but back in summer 2024 I participated in the OST Composing Jam. The goal of this jam is to compose an original soundtrack (minimum of 3 minutes) of any style for an imaginary game. While I’ve composed a lot of video game music, I’ve never created an...
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Steve Klabnik
Hackety Hack v1.0
over a year ago
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Hackety Hack v1.0

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over a year ago
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A Smart Bear
Using the Needs Stack for competitive strategy This simple method positions your product to be more valuable, especially against competitors who...
over a year ago
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Using the Needs Stack for competitive strategy

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over a year ago
This simple method positions your product to be more valuable, especially against competitors who aim to disrupt you, or you them.
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Blog of Simple...
CCPA and Data Protection: all there is to know
a year ago
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CCPA and Data Protection: all there is to know

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a year ago
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Grant Slatton
How to write complex software A general method
6 months ago
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How to write complex software

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6 months ago
A general method
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
JavaScript Imports Under The Hood In my notes from Rich Harris’ talk, I noted: in order to successfully work with JavaScript or...
over a year ago
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JavaScript Imports Under The Hood

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over a year ago
In my notes from Rich Harris’ talk, I noted: in order to successfully work with JavaScript or TypeScript these days, there’s a growing need to understand some of the very sophisticated transformations that are happening under the hood between the code that you’re writing and the...
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Yale E360
Paper review: The Gamma Database Project Last week, I read "The Gamma Database Project" for a Red Book reading group. Unlike the last paper...
over a year ago
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Paper review: The Gamma Database Project

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over a year ago
Last week, I read "The Gamma Database Project" for a Red Book reading group. Unlike the last paper for this group, this one was a lot more approachable in length: 19 pages. I'm putting up some of my notes here from reading the paper. If you read through to the end, there's...
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Ink & Switch
Ink Note Fall 2023: Phase 2 Gestures Some of the techniques we use to handle events and gestures in our prototypes
a year ago
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Ink Note Fall 2023: Phase 2 Gestures

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a year ago
Some of the techniques we use to handle events and gestures in our prototypes
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MMapped blog
Universal domain types
a year ago
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Universal domain types

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a year ago
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swyx's site RSS Feed
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
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The Radiating Circles of DX Architecture

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over a year ago
> This post was originally published on my new dedicated DX site: https://dx.tips/circles
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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
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Let's Talk OS 8

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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...
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macwright.com
Recently Reading Since last time, I read a few books: Sea of Tranquility, a book club book, Doppelganger, the...
10 months ago
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Recently

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10 months ago
Reading Since last time, I read a few books: Sea of Tranquility, a book club book, Doppelganger, the new Naomi Klein, and Manywhere, a collection of short stories. Sea of Tranquility was very digestible sci-fi. I haven’t read that much sci-fi overall, so it’s probably inaccurate...
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Daniel Immke's Blog...
Manifest V3’s foibles You have probably heard rumblings about Chrome’s Manifest V3. If you haven’t, here’s what you need...
over a year ago
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Manifest V3’s foibles

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over a year ago
You have probably heard rumblings about Chrome’s Manifest V3. If you haven’t, here’s what you need to know: Google has been developing a new…
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David Heinemeier...
Optimize for bio cores first, silicon cores second A big part of the reason that companies are going ga-ga over AI right now is the promise that it...
10 months ago
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Optimize for bio cores first, silicon cores second

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10 months ago
A big part of the reason that companies are going ga-ga over AI right now is the promise that it might materially lower their payroll for programmers. If a company currently needs 10 programmers to do a job, each have a cost of $200,000/year, then that's a $2m/year problem. If AI...
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charity.wtf
On Dropouts and Bootstraps In my early twenties I had a cohort of friends and coworkers, all Silicon Valley engineers, all...
2 months ago
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On Dropouts and Bootstraps

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2 months ago
In my early twenties I had a cohort of friends and coworkers, all Silicon Valley engineers, all quite good at their jobs, all college dropouts. We developed a shared conviction that only losers got computer science degrees. This sounds like a joke, or a self-defense mechanism,...
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Steve Klabnik
Fire Mario not fire flowers
over a year ago
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Fire Mario not fire flowers

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over a year ago
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Steve Klabnik
Protological Control: an introduction
over a year ago
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Protological Control: an introduction

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over a year ago
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Steve Klabnik
Mixins: a refactoring anti-pattern
over a year ago
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Mixins: a refactoring anti-pattern

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over a year ago
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PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.1.0 Major update time (hence the change to 1. 1 .0) - push-based integrations have been introduced! Like...
over a year ago
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Array 1.1.0

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over a year ago
Major update time (hence the change to 1. 1 .0) - push-based integrations have been introduced! Like what you see and self-hosting? Update your…
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Eric Bailey
All the user-facing states I find myself needing a reference like this more often than not lately. So, here’s a blog acting as...
over a year ago
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All the user-facing states

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over a year ago
I find myself needing a reference like this more often than not lately. So, here’s a blog acting as augmented memory—I’ll update it as I encounter more user-facing states in the wild. What user-facing state is User-facing state is what someone experiences when they interact with...
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charity.wtf
The Future of Ops is Platform Engineering First published on 2022-09-30 at https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/future-ops-platform-engineering. Two...
over a year ago
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The Future of Ops is Platform Engineering

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over a year ago
First published on 2022-09-30 at https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/future-ops-platform-engineering. Two years ago I wrote a piece in The New Stack about the Future of Ops Careers. Towards the end, I wrote: The reality is that jack-of-all-trades systems infrastructure jobs are slowly...
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Josh Collinsworth
My Essential Tools for WordPress Development Some of these apps, resources and tools aren’t directly WordPress-related, or even necessarily...
over a year ago
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My Essential Tools for WordPress Development

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over a year ago
Some of these apps, resources and tools aren’t directly WordPress-related, or even necessarily development-related; some have to do with productivity or just make life a little easier. That’s by design. Part of being a developer is learning to work and use your tools as...
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Steve Klabnik
Living in the cloud
over a year ago
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Living in the cloud

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over a year ago
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Epic Web Dev
Why I Won’t Use JSDOM (article) Explore how JSDOM's browser simulation works, and learn front-end testing approaches using Vitest...
5 months ago
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Why I Won’t Use JSDOM (article)

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5 months ago
Explore how JSDOM's browser simulation works, and learn front-end testing approaches using Vitest Browser Mode for direct browser testing and native APIs
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Vadim Kravcenko
Self-Organizing Teams This article is part of the Technical Manager Guide that I’m writing for technical leads to scale...
over a year ago
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Self-Organizing Teams

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over a year ago
This article is part of the Technical Manager Guide that I’m writing for technical leads to scale their development and […] The post Self-Organizing Teams appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Steve Klabnik
Draper 1.0.0 released
over a year ago
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Draper 1.0.0 released

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over a year ago
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Computer Things
GitHub Search for research and learning Hi everyone! I have a new blog post out: An RNG that runs in your brain. It's a mix of cool tricks...
a year ago
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GitHub Search for research and learning

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a year ago
Hi everyone! I have a new blog post out: An RNG that runs in your brain. It's a mix of cool tricks and math analysis done with an exotic gremlin language. Patreon is here. Also TLA+ workshop on Feb 12 etc etc use the code NEWSLETTERDISCOUNT for $100 off etc Anyway I've been all...
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David Crawshaw
2016-01-03 "As if this were somehow a morally inferior form of megadeath to lobbing a couple thousand half...
over a year ago
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2016-01-03

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over a year ago
"As if this were somehow a morally inferior form of megadeath to lobbing a couple thousand half megaton nuclear missile warheads at your least favorite country. Apparently this is how civilized countries who do not possess enemies with a plurality of coastal cities exterminate...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Why do Webdevs keep trying to kill REST? How I broke out of the tiresome REST vs GraphQL debate - by realizing that the real battle is...
over a year ago
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Why do Webdevs keep trying to kill REST?

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over a year ago
How I broke out of the tiresome REST vs GraphQL debate - by realizing that the real battle is between Smart Clients and Smart Servers!
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Computer Things
How to convince engineers that formal methods is cool Sorry there was no newsletter last week! I got COVID. Still got it, which is why this one's also...
9 months ago
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How to convince engineers that formal methods is cool

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9 months ago
Sorry there was no newsletter last week! I got COVID. Still got it, which is why this one's also short. Logic for Programmers v0.4 Now available! This version adds a chapter on TLA+, significantly expands the constraint solver chapter, and adds a "planner programming" section to...
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A Smart Bear
Easy to criticize, hard to create It's easy to explain why any given business will fail. So what? But neither is it wise to totally...
a year ago
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Easy to criticize, hard to create

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a year ago
It's easy to explain why any given business will fail. So what? But neither is it wise to totally ignore the critics.
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PostHog's RSS Feed
PostHog's recommended reading for startup teams The PostHog team includes a number of voracious readers — we even have our own book club ! — so...
a year ago
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PostHog's recommended reading for startup teams

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a year ago
The PostHog team includes a number of voracious readers — we even have our own book club ! — so here’s a collection of the books our teams recommend…
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David Crawshaw
2014-06-13 articles.manugarg.com/aboutelfauxiliaryvectors.html
over a year ago
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2014-06-13

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over a year ago
articles.manugarg.com/aboutelfauxiliaryvectors.html
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A Smart Bear
A butterfly flaps its wings and you make a sale It is true that small changes can have enormous effects? Or is this just what optimization...
6 months ago
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A butterfly flaps its wings and you make a sale

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6 months ago
It is true that small changes can have enormous effects? Or is this just what optimization consultants want us to believe?
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Computer Things
What makes concurrency so hard? A lot of my formal specification projects involve concurrent or distributed system. That's in the...
a year ago
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What makes concurrency so hard?

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a year ago
A lot of my formal specification projects involve concurrent or distributed system. That's in the sweet spot of "difficult to get right" and "severe costs to getting it wrong" that leads to people spending time and money on writing specifications. Given its relevance to my job, I...
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Nelson's Weblog
My surprise brother I learned a few years ago I have a brother. No one knew, my mother gave birth to him in 1959 and...
over a year ago
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My surprise brother

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over a year ago
I learned a few years ago I have a brother. No one knew, my mother gave birth to him in 1959 and immediately gave him up for adoption. My mother died two decades ago so details are hard to come by. My brother worked for years to find us. I'm glad he succeeded! And I feel sad...
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Hixie's Natural Log
Flutter: Static analysis of sample code snippets in API docs One of the things I am particularly proud of with Flutter is the quality of our API documentation....
a year ago
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Flutter: Static analysis of sample code snippets in API docs

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a year ago
One of the things I am particularly proud of with Flutter is the quality of our API documentation. With Flutter's web support, we're even able to literally inline full sample applications into the API docs and have them literally editable and executable inline. For example,...
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Irrational...
Those five spare hours each week. One of the recurring debates about senior engineering leadership roles is whether Chief Technology...
a year ago
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Those five spare hours each week.

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a year ago
One of the recurring debates about senior engineering leadership roles is whether Chief Technology Officers should actively write code. There are a lot of strongly held positions, from “Real CTOs code.” at one end of the spectrum, to “Low ego managers know they contribute more by...
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TokyoDev
Why do so many Japanese homes have bars over the windows? If you wander around any residential neighbourhood in Japan, you’ll notice many home windows with...
a year ago
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Why do so many Japanese homes have bars over the windows?

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a year ago
If you wander around any residential neighbourhood in Japan, you’ll notice many home windows with bars over them. This seems incongruous with the country’s reputation for safety, and so I sought to answer the question as to why. “Crime prevention” is the obvious answer. But...
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David Heinemeier...
X marks the motivated reasoning I’ve lost track of all the things that Musk has done to Twitter that ought to have brought it down...
a year ago
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X marks the motivated reasoning

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a year ago
I’ve lost track of all the things that Musk has done to Twitter that ought to have brought it down by now. Scarcely a month goes by without some action triggering the incessant bells of doom, ringing from the bellies of bloviating ding dongs. And the ringing seemingly never stops...
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A Beautiful Site
Don't hate on PHP It wasn't long after launching a major open source PHP project until I started hearing things like...
over a year ago
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Don't hate on PHP

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over a year ago
It wasn't long after launching a major open source PHP project until I started hearing things like this: I [...] immediately drop interest in a project when I see that it is implemented in PHP. A lot of people have been hating on PHP in recent years, and frankly, they have every...
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Irrational...
No Wrong Doors. Some governmental agencies have started to adopt No Wrong Door policies, which aim to provide...
a year ago
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No Wrong Doors.

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a year ago
Some governmental agencies have started to adopt No Wrong Door policies, which aim to provide help–often health or mental health services–to individuals even if they show up to the wrong agency to request help. The core insight is that the employees at those agencies are far...
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A small freedom area...
Deconstructing Bézier curves Graphists, animators, game programmers, font designers, and other graphics professionals and...
over a year ago
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Deconstructing Bézier curves

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over a year ago
Graphists, animators, game programmers, font designers, and other graphics professionals and enthusiasts are often working with Bézier curves. They're popular, extensively documented, and used pretty much everywhere. That being said, I find them being explained almost exclusively...
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Liz Denys
Refusing to verify myself: I am liz on Keybase.io. Keybase seeks to be a "public directory of publicly auditable public keys" with simpler usernames...
over a year ago
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Refusing to verify myself: I am liz on Keybase.io.

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over a year ago
Keybase seeks to be a "public directory of publicly auditable public keys" with simpler usernames than PGP and verified account linking to popular sites such as Twitter and GitHub. This is awesome because "PGP for humans" is long overdue and because I snatched up the namespace...
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A Beautiful Site
New shortcut keys in Windows 7 I was happy to learn that Windows 7 has some new shortcut keys that let you control certain aspects...
over a year ago
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New shortcut keys in Windows 7

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over a year ago
I was happy to learn that Windows 7 has some new shortcut keys that let you control certain aspects of window management right out of the box.  They're pretty easy to remember too: Win + Up - Maximize the current window Win + Down - Restore a maximized window, otherwise minimize...
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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...
a year ago
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Bulletproof Method to Solving Problems

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a year 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...
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bt RSS Feed
Stripe Menu Dropdowns (CSS) Stripe Menu Dropdowns (CSS) 2020-03-31 In a previous article I wrote, Minimal CSS: Dropdown Menus, I...
over a year ago
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Stripe Menu Dropdowns (CSS)

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over a year ago
Stripe Menu Dropdowns (CSS) 2020-03-31 In a previous article I wrote, Minimal CSS: Dropdown Menus, I showed how you could create a basic menu dropdown with only 121 bytes of CSS. While this demo is great for simple text-based menu dropdowns, it doesn’t show just how complex (in a...
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alexwlchan
How I use the notes field in my password manager I use 1Password to store the passwords for my online accounts, and I’ve been reviewing it as a new...
6 months ago
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How I use the notes field in my password manager

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6 months ago
I use 1Password to store the passwords for my online accounts, and I’ve been reviewing it as a new year cleanup task. I’ve been deleting unused accounts, changing old passwords which were weak, and making sure I’ve enabled multi-factor authentication for key accounts. Each...
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Elad Blog
When Executives Break When your company is scaling rapidly due to product market fit, one of the biggest impediments (or...
over a year ago
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When Executives Break

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over a year ago
When your company is scaling rapidly due to product market fit, one of the biggest impediments (or boosters) to growth will turn out to be the composition of your executive team. If your executives are not able to scale with the company, entire functions may be thrown into...
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Steve Klabnik
Run Rails with custom patches
over a year ago
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Run Rails with custom patches

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over a year ago
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Elad Blog
Substack: Most Interesting Consumer Startups of 2021 (Part 2) This post is the first in a small series on the new wave of hyperinteresting consumer tech products...
over a year ago
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Substack: Most Interesting Consumer Startups of 2021 (Part 2)

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over a year ago
This post is the first in a small series on the new wave of hyperinteresting consumer tech products that are most likely to have had society-level impact in 5 years. My first two posts are on Clubhouse and Substack [1]. Both are social network and media platforms of different...
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Liz Denys
The crispiest chocolate chip cookies Remember how I was craving chocolate chip cookies not too long ago? Well, the ricotta chocolate...
over a year ago
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The crispiest chocolate chip cookies

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over a year ago
Remember how I was craving chocolate chip cookies not too long ago? Well, the ricotta chocolate shavings cookies didn't satisfy that craving for long - probably because I was craving deep dark chocolate in a rich buttery dough. Normally, I make chewy chocolate chip cookies that...
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A Smart Bear
All pretty models are wrong, but some ugly models are useful Identifying useful frameworks for companies, strategy, markets, and organizations, instead of those...
3 months ago
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All pretty models are wrong, but some ugly models are useful

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3 months ago
Identifying useful frameworks for companies, strategy, markets, and organizations, instead of those that just look pretty in PowerPoint.
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Irrational...
Modeling driving onboarding. The How should you adopt LLMs? strategy explores how Theoretical Ride Sharing might adopt LLMs. It...
8 months ago
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Modeling driving onboarding.

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8 months ago
The How should you adopt LLMs? strategy explores how Theoretical Ride Sharing might adopt LLMs. It builds on several models, the first is about LLMs impact on Developer Experience. The second model, documented here, looks at whether LLMs might improve a core product and business...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
React Suspense Q&A a friendly cheat sheet for those wondering what React Suspense is and if they should care
over a year ago
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React Suspense Q&A

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over a year ago
a friendly cheat sheet for those wondering what React Suspense is and if they should care
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Joel on Software
Announcing Stack Overflow for Teams New product: Stack Overflow for Teams lets you direct questions to members of your own team,...
over a year ago
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Announcing Stack Overflow for Teams

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over a year ago
New product: Stack Overflow for Teams lets you direct questions to members of your own team, company, or organization. Read more "Announcing Stack Overflow for Teams"
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David Heinemeier...
Closing the borders alone won't fix the problems Denmark has been reaping lots of delayed accolades from its relatively strict immigration policy...
4 months ago
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Closing the borders alone won't fix the problems

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4 months ago
Denmark has been reaping lots of delayed accolades from its relatively strict immigration policy lately. The Swedes and the Germans in particular are now eager to take inspiration from The Danish Model, given their predicaments. The very same countries that until recently...
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elementary Blog
It's Disability Pride Month! Let's Get Accessible This month we have several community updates, a couple of Flatpak releases available on OS 7, and...
a year ago
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It's Disability Pride Month! Let's Get Accessible

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a year ago
This month we have several community updates, a couple of Flatpak releases available on OS 7, and plenty of OS 8 news. Disability Pride Month It’s disability pride month, which means making space to talk about how we can build communities and systems that better accommodate...
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TokyoDev
Helping Japanese companies build global engineering teams TokyoDev has launched a new Japanese language blog focused on aiding Japanese companies in building...
10 months ago
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Helping Japanese companies build global engineering teams

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10 months ago
TokyoDev has launched a new Japanese language blog focused on aiding Japanese companies in building English-speaking engineering teams. This is our first step towards our goal of helping these companies internationalize their engineering departments, which will allow them to take...
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Making software...
Installing Older Versions of MongoDB on Arch Linux Installing Older Versions of MongoDB on Arch Linux 2023-09-11 I've recently been using Arch Linux...
a year ago
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Installing Older Versions of MongoDB on Arch Linux

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a year ago
Installing Older Versions of MongoDB on Arch Linux 2023-09-11 I've recently been using Arch Linux for my main work environment on my ThinkPad X260. It's been great. As someone who is constantly drawn to minimalist operating systems such as Alpine or OpenBSD, it's nice to use...
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Elad Blog
Leaving Delaware This post covers why companies are considering reincorporating from Delaware to Nevada & Texas
5 months ago
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Leaving Delaware

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5 months ago
This post covers why companies are considering reincorporating from Delaware to Nevada & Texas
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TokyoDev
Venture Cafe ![Venture...
over a year ago
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Venture Cafe

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over a year ago
![Venture Cafe](https://www.tokyodev.com/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBZzRsIiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--ba1e65f25bf034abe1e412b48d5578aafd57c2af/venture_cafe.jpg) [Venture Cafe] had its first event, はたらくモチベーション...
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Making software...
Animated Card Tiles Animated Card Tiles 2019-02-27 The design trend of using "cards" or "tiles" to display interactive...
over a year ago
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Animated Card Tiles

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over a year ago
Animated Card Tiles 2019-02-27 The design trend of using "cards" or "tiles" to display interactive sections/article headings in an app or website remains a popular choice among designers. So, let's build a set of animated cards with only HTML & CSS. What we will be building...
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Writing - Andreas...
Overconfidence and future-proofing “Just to future-proof things” is perhaps the most common argument I hear to defend questionable...
over a year ago
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Overconfidence and future-proofing

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over a year ago
“Just to future-proof things” is perhaps the most common argument I hear to defend questionable design decisions. Future-proofing only makes sense if you have some idea of what the future will look like and you understand what the tradeoffs are.
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Maggie Appleton
Joining Ought A new role at an AI research lab working on tools for open-ended reasoning
over a year ago
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Joining Ought

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over a year ago
A new role at an AI research lab working on tools for open-ended reasoning
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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
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My Favorite Web Apps and Tools

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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...
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Yale E360
Measuring the overhead of HashMaps in Rust While working on a project where I was putting a lot of data into a HashMap, I started to notice my...
over a year ago
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Measuring the overhead of HashMaps in Rust

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over a year ago
While working on a project where I was putting a lot of data into a HashMap, I started to notice my hashmaps were taking up a lot of RAM. I mean, a lot of RAM. I did a back of the napkin calculation for what the minimum memory usage should be, and I was getting more than twice...
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Alice GG
Specialization considered harmful It is sometimes recommended that software engineers should learn “depth-first”, and seek to...
over a year ago
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Specialization considered harmful

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over a year ago
It is sometimes recommended that software engineers should learn “depth-first”, and seek to specialize early in their careers. I think his advice is misguided. In my opinion, having a wide range of knowledge is in many cases more important than being extremely good at a very...
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blag
Recurse Center Day 9: Papers We Love I learnt a few things about Dynamo
over a year ago
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Recurse Center Day 9: Papers We Love

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over a year ago
I learnt a few things about Dynamo
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samwho.dev
API Design: In The Wild (part 2) In a previous post we looked at some real-world APIs, highlighting the good and the bad, and in this...
over a year ago
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API Design: In The Wild (part 2)

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over a year ago
In a previous post we looked at some real-world APIs, highlighting the good and the bad, and in this post we’re going to do the same! › Python’s datetime.datetime Most experienced Pythonistas have written something like this at some point in their career: import datetime now =...
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The Pragmatic...
Is the strategy of joining late-stage startups for the financial upside, a dead end? The past decade, one of the best ways to maximize compensation outcomes was to join a pre-IPO...
over a year ago
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Is the strategy of joining late-stage startups for the financial upside, a dead end?

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over a year ago
The past decade, one of the best ways to maximize compensation outcomes was to join a pre-IPO company issuing generous equity, then wait for the IPO. This strategy seems to be less profitable in 2022.
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TokyoDev
Working as an Indonesian Software Engineer in Japan Even though I love Japan, I had never planned to work there. Like many Indonesian children, my first...
a year ago
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Working as an Indonesian Software Engineer in Japan

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a year ago
Even though I love Japan, I had never planned to work there. Like many Indonesian children, my first exposure to Japanese culture was through anime on Sunday morning TV broadcasts. At that time, I didn't even know it was called anime, let alone that it came from Japan since it...
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Eric Bailey
Heading elements have been added to Project board views to improve screen reader page navigation
9 months ago
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Heading elements have been added to Project board views to improve screen reader page navigation

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9 months ago
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Steve Klabnik
Protocol and language
over a year ago
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Protocol and language

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over a year ago
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Blog System/5
ioctls from Rust Diving into what the ioctl system call is and how to invoke it from Rust
4 months ago
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ioctls from Rust

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4 months ago
Diving into what the ioctl system call is and how to invoke it from Rust
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Ink & Switch
Untangle: Solving problems with fuzzy constraints How to sketch, and satisfy, logic problems
over a year ago
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Untangle: Solving problems with fuzzy constraints

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over a year ago
How to sketch, and satisfy, logic problems
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Using Quadratic to Discover Newsletter Links I built myself a daily email digest that informs me who is linking back to my blog. It’s a fun way...
a year ago
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Using Quadratic to Discover Newsletter Links

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a year ago
I built myself a daily email digest that informs me who is linking back to my blog. It’s a fun way to discover new people, blogs, and newsletter that I didn’t know existed. I recently saw links to my blog from the tldr newsletter but didn’t know which posts specifically they were...
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Oxide Computer...
Engineering a culture We ran into an interesting issue recently. On the one hand, it was routine: we had a bug — a...
a year ago
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Engineering a culture

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a year ago
We ran into an interesting issue recently. On the one hand, it was routine: we had a bug — a regression — and the team quickly jumped on it, getting it root caused and fixed. But on the other, this particular issue was something of an Oxide object lesson, representative not...
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Code Of Honor
Uh-oh: was the company site hacked? Anyone who runs a web site knows that they’re constantly under attack. You only have to look at your...
over a year ago
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Uh-oh: was the company site hacked?

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over a year ago
Anyone who runs a web site knows that they’re constantly under attack. You only have to look at your log files to know that hackers running site-scanners are constantly hitting your servers looking for unpatched vulnerabilities to exploit. One of the servers I wrote for Guild...
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bt RSS Feed
Skip to Content Button Skip to Content Button 2019-03-25 One of the golden rules for testing your website’s accessibility...
over a year ago
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Skip to Content Button

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over a year ago
Skip to Content Button 2019-03-25 One of the golden rules for testing your website’s accessibility is the “keyboard-only” audit. This is where you test navigating through your entire site without the use of a mouse, but instead rely solely on tabbing through your...
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Joel Gascoigne
How coffee shops helped my startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Right now I’m...
over a year ago
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How coffee shops helped my startup

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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Right now I’m sat in a great coffee shop in Tel Aviv writing this blog post. It’s got a casual feel to it which is relaxing, yet there are people here with laptops hustling away. I come here
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Liz Denys
Cocoa brownies Cocoa brownies are pretty magical, i.e. particularly good at staying soft and gooey, and Alice...
over a year ago
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Cocoa brownies

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over a year ago
Cocoa brownies are pretty magical, i.e. particularly good at staying soft and gooey, and Alice Medrich's ingredient list is nearly flawless. (Okay, okay, I can never truly stick to a recipe as written. Here, I prefer a little more vanilla extract and like to put a pinch of flaky...
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Irrational...
Exploring for strategy. A surprising number of strategies are doomed from inception because their authors get attached to...
4 months ago
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Exploring for strategy.

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4 months ago
A surprising number of strategies are doomed from inception because their authors get attached to one particular approach without considering alternatives that would work better for their current circumstances. This happens when engineers want to pick tools solely because they...
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Liz Denys
He's not my friend. Appearances can be deceiving. When a man comes over to talk to me, I can't always speak my mind....
over a year ago
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He's not my friend.

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over a year ago
Appearances can be deceiving. When a man comes over to talk to me, I can't always speak my mind. What I want to say is often not what someone else wants to hear, and I learned early in life that men who don't hear what they want to hear often get angry. Maybe that anger will...
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A Beautiful Site
Select all, select none, and invert selection with jQuery A demonstration of selecting checkboxes using jQuery.We start off with a bunch of...
over a year ago
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Select all, select none, and invert selection with jQuery

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over a year ago
A demonstration of selecting checkboxes using jQuery.We start off with a bunch of checkboxes: <fieldset id="group_1"> <input type="checkbox" name="numbers[]" value="0" /> <input type="checkbox" name="numbers[]" value="1" /> <input type="checkbox" name="numbers[]" value="2"...
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Eric Bailey
The Importance Of Manual Accessibility Testing
over a year ago
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The Importance Of Manual Accessibility Testing

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over a year ago
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bunnie's blog
Formlabs Form 4 Teardown Formlabs has recently launched the fourth edition of their flagship SLA printer line, the Form 4. Of...
a year ago
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Formlabs Form 4 Teardown

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a year ago
Formlabs has recently launched the fourth edition of their flagship SLA printer line, the Form 4. Of course, I jumped on the chance to do a teardown of the printer; I’m grateful that I was able to do the same for the Form 1, Form 2, and Form 3 generations. In addition to learning...
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Google Tag Manager vs Google Analytics
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Google Tag Manager vs Google Analytics

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Computer Things
The Halting Problem is a terrible example of NP-Harder Short one this time because I have a lot going on this week. In computation complexity, NP is the...
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The Halting Problem is a terrible example of NP-Harder

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2 months ago
Short one this time because I have a lot going on this week. In computation complexity, NP is the class of all decision problems (yes/no) where a potential proof (or "witness") for "yes" can be verified in polynomial time. For example, "does this set of numbers have a subset that...
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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
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Une petite valse en jazz

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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...
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alexwlchan
Agile and iterative project management Earlier today, I gave a talk for the the Open Life Science Program about agile and iterative project...
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Agile and iterative project management

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over a year ago
Earlier today, I gave a talk for the the Open Life Science Program about agile and iterative project management. I was talking about how READMEs serve as the first point of contact for a project; how they get new users interested in and excited about the project. The cohort calls...
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Acko.net
Occlusion with Bells On Modern SSAO in a modern run-time Use.GPU 0.14 is out, so here's an update on my...
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Occlusion with Bells On

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3 months ago
Modern SSAO in a modern run-time Use.GPU 0.14 is out, so here's an update on my declarative/reactive rendering efforts. The highlights in this release are: dramatic inspector viewing upgrades a modern ambient-occlusion (SSAO/GTAO) implementation newly revised render pass...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
How to download YouTube Videos quickly I used to use yt5s all the time to rip and remix videos:
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How to download YouTube Videos quickly

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5 months ago
I used to use yt5s all the time to rip and remix videos:
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PostHog vs LogRocket LogRocket is a frontend monitoring platform which, like PostHog, combines multiple tools into one...
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PostHog vs LogRocket

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over a year ago
LogRocket is a frontend monitoring platform which, like PostHog, combines multiple tools into one platform. In this article we’ll explain some of the…
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My Raspberry Pi Desktop My Raspberry Pi Desktop 2020-09-02 I use a Raspberry Pi 4 as my personal daily driver and it’s...
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My Raspberry Pi Desktop

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My Raspberry Pi Desktop 2020-09-02 I use a Raspberry Pi 4 as my personal daily driver and it’s pretty great. I know these types of devices tend to be used for smaller pet-projects or fun experiments, but I thought I would share my experience using one as my main computer....
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