somenice
Atlas of AI by Kate Crawford
I’ll admit I’m a HUGE believer of advances in Artificial Intelligence. Deep learning or just general...
over a year ago
I’ll admit I’m a HUGE believer of advances in Artificial Intelligence. Deep learning or just general machine learning. From Bayesian beginnings to GANs and CNNs, I’m all about data, ML and all of the promises it’s future holds. The problems it can solve today seemed impossible...
Coding Horror
Building a PC, Part IX: Downsizing
Hard to believe that I've had the same PC case since 2011, and my last serious upgrade was in 2015....
over a year ago
Hard to believe that I've had the same PC case since 2011, and my last serious upgrade was in 2015. I guess that's yet another sign that the PC is over, because PC upgrades have gotten really boring. It took 5 years for me to muster
TokyoDev
自営業している開発者の事例
[IT飲み会名古屋](http://www.it-nomikai.jp/nagoya/before-info/...
Kagi Blog
Dawn of a new era in Search: Balancing innovation, competition, and public good
Google search is in the news.
4 months ago
Google search is in the news.
Irrational...
2022 in review.
Previously: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017
After the past two years, it’s odd to write an annual...
over a year ago
Previously: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017
After the past two years, it’s odd to write an annual reflection where my first thoughts are happy rather than bleak.
The truth is that there is a lot of bleak out there right now–just look at the layoffs and the funding environment–but...
Joel Gascoigne
Buffer's product journey, and our next step to hire a VP of Product
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog.
We've been building Buffer for coming up to ten...
over a year ago
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog.
We've been building Buffer for coming up to ten years now. We’re currently a 90-person fully remote team with over 70,000 paying customers and $20M in annual revenue. We’re proud to be a leader
Making software...
Sharing The Things We Use
Sharing The Things We Use
2021-07-24
I always love stumbling across personal websites that include...
over a year ago
Sharing The Things We Use
2021-07-24
I always love stumbling across personal websites that include some form of a "uses" page. A place where the author lists out all the tools they use on a regular basis - whether it be hardware, software or something else entirely. It allows...
Irrational...
Grab bag of random thoughts.
A bit over a week from now, I’ll be joining a company to start a new role, and I wanted to ramble a...
a year ago
A bit over a week from now, I’ll be joining a company to start a new role, and I wanted to ramble a bit to braindump
the numerous loose threads in my head as I transitioned from Calm to the past month of full-time writing, and then
into this new role.
This isn’t really a job...
Josh Comeau's blog
Understanding useMemo and useCallback
What's the deal with these two hooks?! Lots of devs find them confusing, for a whole host of...
over a year ago
What's the deal with these two hooks?! Lots of devs find them confusing, for a whole host of reasons. In this tutorial, we'll dig deep and understand what they do, why they're useful, and how to get the most out of them.
HTMHell
The underrated <dl> element
by David Luhr
The Description List (<dl>) element is useful for many common visual design patterns,...
a week ago
by David Luhr
The Description List (<dl>) element is useful for many common visual design patterns, but is unfortunately underutilized.
It was originally intended to group terms with their definitions, but it's also a great fit for other content that has a key/value structure,...
Jibran’s Perspective
Project 2: Gift cards to Pakistan
I’ve completed a freelance project I was working on for a few months, and have started saying no to...
a month ago
I’ve completed a freelance project I was working on for a few months, and have started saying no to new opportunities. It’s time to work on one of my own ideas again. This is part of my plan to start failing more.
I’ve decided to build a business sending gift cards to Pakistan -...
A Beautiful Site
CSS reset with box-sizing fix
For ultra lightweight projects where a framework is overkill, I tend to use Eric Meyers' CSS reset....
over a year ago
For ultra lightweight projects where a framework is overkill, I tend to use Eric Meyers' CSS reset. And since I'm not a glutton for punishment, I also throw in the tried and tested box-sizing fix popularized by Paul Irish. Instead of searching for and combining these...
Basta’s Notes
Gumby Coin: a story about a 1958 claymation character, cryptocurrency, and pizza
A grift, a failure, or a mistake?
a year ago
A grift, a failure, or a mistake?
Words and Buttons...
Challenge your performance intuition with nanosecond sorting
If the operation you want to speed-up already runs in a few nano-seconds, your reasoning about...
over a year ago
If the operation you want to speed-up already runs in a few nano-seconds, your reasoning about algorithmic complexity probably wouldn't apply. The most effective algorithms become mediocre while the useless rise from the oblivion to shine and amaze. One of these algorithms is the...
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How To Add Prettier and ESLint Automation to a React Codebase
Automated code quality with GitHub Actions, Husky, Lint-staged, Prettier, and ESLint
over a year ago
Automated code quality with GitHub Actions, Husky, Lint-staged, Prettier, and ESLint
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Review: Beepy, the pocket-sized, linux-powered cyberdeck
THIS IS NOT A REAL FINISHED PRODUCT.
– Erohead,
birther of Beepy
The SQFMI Beepy alongside my...
a year ago
THIS IS NOT A REAL FINISHED PRODUCT.
– Erohead,
birther of Beepy
The SQFMI Beepy alongside my cat
printer
The Beepy is a handheld Linux console designed by artists and built
for nerds.
From the first announcement, Beepy’s creator—SQFMI—was candid about the device’s lack
of...
Alex Meub
Building a Wi-Fi Controlled Nerf Turret
Earlier this year, I decided to build a 3D-printed Nerf turret with streaming video that is fully...
over a year ago
Earlier this year, I decided to build a 3D-printed Nerf turret with streaming video that is fully controllable from a web browser. It’s something a 6th grader would have thought was a good use of time, but for some reason as a dad in my thirties, I spent the last several months...
Kevin Chen
!!Con West 2019 Notes
!!Con is a conference held every spring in New York
City. It’s two days of lightning talks that can...
over a year ago
!!Con is a conference held every spring in New York
City. It’s two days of lightning talks that can be about anything related to
computers!
At the beginning of last year’s !!Con, I wrote:
This conference is a great showcase of the diverse backgrounds of the NYC tech
scene. I’m...
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How I learned to love feedback loops (and make better products)
I recently wrote a blog post for my personal site about the lessons I'd learned from leading my...
over a year ago
I recently wrote a blog post for my personal site about the lessons I'd learned from leading my first two projects as a Software Engineer at PostHog…
Blog System/5
Hard disk LEDs and noisy machines
The little annoyances that alerted us developers of performance problems
a year ago
The little annoyances that alerted us developers of performance problems
A Beautiful Site
How to use currentColor in your stylesheet
I've had my head buried so deep in code that I hadn't even noticed this existed. It's a simple way...
over a year ago
I've had my head buried so deep in code that I hadn't even noticed this existed. It's a simple way to reference the current text color when writing CSS. Works in modern browsers, including IE9+.
If you use Less or Sass then you probably already use something like @text-color....
Patrick Kayongo
Substack vs Africa
The writing site, Substack, has taken the world by storm. At a time when everyone thought blogging...
5 months ago
The writing site, Substack, has taken the world by storm. At a time when everyone thought blogging and online writing was dead, superseded by YouTube, Substack came along and solved the problems of discovery and monetisation. Their feed and recommendations have allowed many to...
ntietz.com blog
Start to finish on self-publishing a technical book
I've been writing this blog since 2015, and my writing picked up pace in 2022.
That year I wrote...
9 months ago
I've been writing this blog since 2015, and my writing picked up pace in 2022.
That year I wrote 37,000 words, more than the 33,000 I'd written up to that point.
It has accelerated since then.
At some point, I realized that I've put in a lot of time and effort writing here, and...
TokyoDev
Facebook is Japan's LinkedIn
A couple of weeks back, an article [Facebook Wins Relatively Few...
over a year ago
A couple of weeks back, an article [Facebook Wins Relatively Few Friends
in
Japan](http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/10/technology/10facebook.html?pagewanted=all)
made its rounds. As usual, Facebook is compared to the big three
Japanese SNS: mixi, Gree, and Mobage-town. However,...
Evan Jones -...
Nanosecond timestamp collisions are common
I was wondering: how often do nanosecond timestamps collide on modern systems? The answer is: very...
a year ago
I was wondering: how often do nanosecond timestamps collide on modern systems? The answer is: very often, like 5% of all samples, when reading the clock on all 4 physical cores at the same time. As a result, I think it is unsafe to assume that a raw nanosecond timestamp is a...
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Notes on 'Metaphysics and JavaScript'
_[Slides...
over a year ago
_[Slides here](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_aeM_UkwS9qaSzHDz87zC9bmtvbuLbPof7RnN96SJKE/edit?usp=sharing)_
A Beautiful Site
I switched from tabs to spaces and haven't looked back
Last week I started using spaces to indent code instead of tabs. It's something I swore I would...
over a year ago
Last week I started using spaces to indent code instead of tabs. It's something I swore I would never do, but I'm glad I finally did.
Why I always preferred tabs #
Tabs are sensible. They were made to indent things, and code needs to be indented, so it was a good relationship....
bt RSS Feed
Web Development on a $200 Chromebook
Web Development on a $200 Chromebook
2020-01-07
This blog post was written, edited and tested...
over a year ago
Web Development on a $200 Chromebook
2020-01-07
This blog post was written, edited and tested locally on a cheap $200 Chromebook. The article draft was composed in Sublime Text. Jekyll (the SSG this website uses) was generated via the Linux Beta Terminal running alongside Chrome...
Alex Meub
Building a 3D Printer Enclosure
Earlier this year, I purchased a 3D printer and it’s been a blast! I had no idea how easy it would...
over a year ago
Earlier this year, I purchased a 3D printer and it’s been a blast! I had no idea how easy it would be to create high-quality prints with such little effort. I’ve printed raspberry pi cases, kids’ toys, ceiling hooks, custom parts, electronics enclosures, curtain rod holders,...
Julia Evans
"Rules" that terminal programs follow
Recently I’ve been thinking about how everything that happens in the terminal
is some combination...
3 weeks ago
Recently I’ve been thinking about how everything that happens in the terminal
is some combination of:
Your operating system’s job
Your shell’s job
Your terminal emulator’s job
The job of whatever program you happen to be running (like top or vim or cat)
The first three (your...
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Benchmarking the impact of session recording on performance
The 2010s were marked by an explosion of tools focused on data. One of the biggest was session...
over a year ago
The 2010s were marked by an explosion of tools focused on data. One of the biggest was session recording – a screen-recording-like service that…
bt RSS Feed
Website Backups with Apple iCloud
Website Backups with Apple iCloud
2024-02-16
My main work machine, an M2 MacBook Air, meshes really...
10 months ago
Website Backups with Apple iCloud
2024-02-16
My main work machine, an M2 MacBook Air, meshes really well with my iPhone SE (they are in the same ecosystem after all - duh!). Since both of these devices are Apple products, it makes sense that I pay for the optional iCloud service...
A Smart Bear
The Iterative-Hypothesis customer development method
A simple but effective system for generating insights about how your potential customers think, what...
over a year ago
A simple but effective system for generating insights about how your potential customers think, what they need, and what they’ll buy. This method has been used both to reject startup ideas and to validate WP Engine before it had any customers (it is now a Unicorn).
macwright.com
How I write and publish the microblog by ()
This microblog, by the way… I felt like real blog posts on macwright.com were becoming too...
a year ago
This microblog, by the way… I felt like real blog posts on macwright.com were becoming too “official” feeling to post little notes-to-self and tech tricks and whatnot.
The setup is intentionally pretty boring. I have been using Obsidian for notetaking, and I store micro blog...
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Why we're removing the sessions page
This blog post explains why we're removing the "Sessions" page in PostHog. This page used to contain...
over a year ago
This blog post explains why we're removing the "Sessions" page in PostHog. This page used to contain a daily list of all sessions by your users…
Renegade Otter
I am not your Cloud person
Jack of all clouds
In an episode of
Screaming in the Cloud podcast,
Corey Quinn, a cloud services...
a year ago
Jack of all clouds
In an episode of
Screaming in the Cloud podcast,
Corey Quinn, a cloud services expert, mentioned a running prank that he sometimes pulls on Amazon engineers: Quinn
inserts a fictional AWS service name into the conversation, with the AWS person not batting an...
A Smart Bear
The roadmap to Product/Market Fit… maybe
This eight-step process brought WP Engine from an idea to a Unicorn. While there are other roads to...
a year ago
This eight-step process brought WP Engine from an idea to a Unicorn. While there are other roads to Product/Market Fit, consider copying some of these ideas.
bt RSS Feed
Burning & Playing PS2 Games without a Modded Console
Burning & Playing PS2 Games without a Modded Console
2024-09-02
Important: I do not support pirating...
4 months ago
Burning & Playing PS2 Games without a Modded Console
2024-09-02
Important: I do not support pirating or obtaining illegal copies of video games. This process should only be used to copy your existing PS2 games for backup, in case of accidental damage to the original...
ntietz.com blog
Where are we going from here? Software engineering needs formal methods
The job of a software engineer is not to produce code, but to solve problems; we just happen to...
over a year ago
The job of a software engineer is not to produce code, but to solve problems; we just happen to solve most of those problems by producing code. Ultimately, producing code is hard, and we need help. That's why GitHub's Copilot is exciting, but it's far from ideal, and it's the tip...
Joel Gascoigne
6 things I do to be consistently happy
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
*
Now that it’s...
over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
*
Now that it’s almost two years since I first had the idea for Buffer
[http://bufferapp.com], and with the year and a half before that which I worked
on my previous startup, I’ve started to notice...
alexwlchan
The Collected Works of Ian Flemingo
On Monday evening, about two hundred Mincefluencers descended on the Fortune Theatre for “Operation...
11 months ago
On Monday evening, about two hundred Mincefluencers descended on the Fortune Theatre for “Operation Human Thermos”, a fan gathering to celebrate Operation Mincemeat, a musical that gives us all the warm and fuzzies.
A lot of people dressed in cosplay to mark the occasion, and I...
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HogMail #16
Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product...
over a year ago
Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product guides, and curated articles on building great products…
The Changelog
Try the Last Internet Kermit Server
$ grep kermit /etc/services kermit 1649/tcp What is this mysterious protocol? Who uses it and what...
a year ago
$ grep kermit /etc/services kermit 1649/tcp What is this mysterious protocol? Who uses it and what is its story? This story is a winding one, beginning in 1981. Kermit is, to the best of my knowledge, the oldest actively-maintained software package with an original developer...
Josh Comeau's blog
Building a Magical 3D Button
Every action we take on the web starts with a button click, and yet most buttons are ho-hum and...
over a year ago
Every action we take on the web starts with a button click, and yet most buttons are ho-hum and uninspired. In this tutorial, we'll build an animated 3D button with HTML and CSS that sparks joy.
Ruud van Asseldonk
An API for my Christmas tree
over a year ago
Ralph Ammer
The Book of Change
Introduction to the Yijing or "book of change", China's oldest philosophical book.
The post The Book...
over a year ago
Introduction to the Yijing or "book of change", China's oldest philosophical book.
The post The Book of Change appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
HTMHell
#11 The trigram for heaven
Bad code
<span class="nav-toggle"> ☰ Menu </span>
Issues and how to fix them
A screen reader may...
over a year ago
Bad code
<span class="nav-toggle"> ☰ Menu </span>
Issues and how to fix them
A screen reader may announce this as trigram for heaven menu, because ☰ is the unicode character for the trigram for heaven.
The purpose of the icon is decorative, it should be hidden from screen...
TokyoDev
The Remarkable Decline in Home Burglary Rates in Japan
I stumbled across an amazing fact. From 2003 to 2022, the number of home burglaries in Japan...
a year ago
I stumbled across an amazing fact. From 2003 to 2022, the number of home burglaries in Japan decreased by a factor of 12! Home burglaries in Japan peaked in 2003, with 190,473 cases in Japan. But as of 2022, where the most recent data is available, they have dropped to a mere...
blag
Recurse Center Day 2: BTree Node
This is a draft post that I have prematurely published. Currently, I am attending RC and I want to...
over a year ago
This is a draft post that I have prematurely published. Currently, I am attending RC and I want to write as much as possible, log my daily learnings and activities. But, I also don't want to spend time on grammar and prose, so I am publishing all the posts which usually I'd have...
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
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...
Writing - Andreas...
It’s hard to grow without trust
Trust is a key enabler of growth (and conversely, lack of trust a key
inhibitor).
5 months ago
Trust is a key enabler of growth (and conversely, lack of trust a key
inhibitor).
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Clientside Webmentions
How you can enhance your blog with webmentions without adding heavy build times.
over a year ago
How you can enhance your blog with webmentions without adding heavy build times.
The Pragmatic...
Datadog’s $65M/year customer mystery solved
The internet has been speculating the past few days on which crypto company spent $65M on Datadog in...
a year ago
The internet has been speculating the past few days on which crypto company spent $65M on Datadog in 2022. I confirmed it was Coinbase, and here are the details of what happened.
David Heinemeier...
Cookie banners show everything that's wrong with the EU
Companies have spent billions on cookie banner compliance only to endlessly annoy users with no...
5 months ago
Companies have spent billions on cookie banner compliance only to endlessly annoy users with no material improvement to their privacy, but this unsightly blight is still with us (and the rest of the internet!). All because the EU has no mechanism for self-correcting its...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, April 2023
The Ware for April 2023 is shown below. Another PCB with a funny shape, this time from a different...
a year ago
The Ware for April 2023 is shown below. Another PCB with a funny shape, this time from a different era…but what does it do? Thanks to artemb for contributing this ware!
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5 analytics ideas for marketing teams using PostHog
One of the great things about PostHog is that it democratizes your product strategy by making...
over a year ago
One of the great things about PostHog is that it democratizes your product strategy by making analytics accessible to more than just analysts. There’s…
Dan Slimmon
Explaining the fire
When the firefighters arrive at the blazing building, they don't need to explain the fire. They need...
9 months ago
When the firefighters arrive at the blazing building, they don't need to explain the fire. They need to put it out. It doesn't matter whether a toaster malfunctioned, or a cat knocked over a candle, or a smoker fell asleep watching The Voice.
But when PagerDuty blows up and we...
Computer Things
Paradigms succeed when you can strip them for parts
I'm speaking at DDD Europe about Empirical Software Engineering!1 I have complicated thoughts about...
8 months ago
I'm speaking at DDD Europe about Empirical Software Engineering!1 I have complicated thoughts about ESE and foolishly decided to update my talk to cover studies on DDD, so I'm going to be spending a lot of time doing research. Newsletters for the next few weeks may be light.
The...
alexwlchan
My favourite books from 2024
I read 58 books this year – slightly down on last year, but I’m still happy with that number.
I...
3 days ago
I read 58 books this year – slightly down on last year, but I’m still happy with that number.
I spent a lot of time this on my own writing and crafting, and I had less time for books.
I returned to a couple of favourite authors and their latest releases – including Toshikazu...
Josh Comeau's blog
Understanding Layout Algorithms
As front-end developers, we often learn CSS by focusing on individual properties. Instead, we should...
over a year ago
As front-end developers, we often learn CSS by focusing on individual properties. Instead, we should focus on how the language uses those properties to calculate layouts. In this blog post, we'll pop the hood on CSS and see how the language is structured, and how to learn it...
Epic Web Dev
Professional Web Forms (workshop)
The Professional Web Forms Workshop will equip you for building complex, fully accessible forms that...
a year ago
The Professional Web Forms Workshop will equip you for building complex, fully accessible forms that handle validation and file uploads while preventing spam.
Acko.net
On Sperging Out
The Boy Who Cried Leopard
Recently there's been a new dust up about Richard Stallman and the Free...
over a year ago
The Boy Who Cried Leopard
Recently there's been a new dust up about Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation. For those of you just tuning in: an open letter demands that the entire board of the Free-as-in-speech Software Foundation resign, because of past statements and...
Engineer’s Codex
The Boolean Trap
Use enums instead
4 months ago
Computer Things
What Mob Programming is Bad At
Pairing is two people working together to write code, while mobbing is three or more. Pairing has...
9 months ago
Pairing is two people working together to write code, while mobbing is three or more. Pairing has been part of the programming milleau since at least the 90's (with extreme programming), while mobbing is more of a 10's thing. I'm going to use them interchangeably from here on out...
A Beautiful Site
Democratizing publishing
One of the objectives Matt Mullenweg has for WordPress is to democratize publishing, which is...
over a year ago
One of the objectives Matt Mullenweg has for WordPress is to democratize publishing, which is excellent. But the very same article states another objective is to "capture the 75 percent of the internet that WordPress doesn't already manage."
In my opinion, these goals conflict...
Stephen Wolfram...
Remembering Doug Lenat (1950–2023) and His Quest to Capture the World with Logic
Logic, Math and AI In many ways the great quest of Doug Lenat’s life was an attempt to follow on...
a year ago
Logic, Math and AI In many ways the great quest of Doug Lenat’s life was an attempt to follow on directly from the work of Aristotle and Leibniz. For what Doug was fundamentally trying to do over the forty years he spent developing his CYC system was to use the framework of...
David Heinemeier...
Ears rarely open until a rapport is established
It's hard to open cold with a controversial take to a bunch of strangers. And the room is always...
3 months ago
It's hard to open cold with a controversial take to a bunch of strangers. And the room is always cold on X or in a one-off blog post. Just like comedy, half the battle of winning over the audience comes from a solid introduction, good timing, and a broad smile to warm the room....
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How we’re improving performance by combining persons and events
In a previous product update we announced a beta for a substantial change to the way we handle...
over a year ago
In a previous product update we announced a beta for a substantial change to the way we handle persons and events on PostHog. Today, after gathering…
A Beautiful Site
Superpowers
I stumbled upon a short post that intrigued me. In it, the author claims that the cure for boredom...
over a year ago
I stumbled upon a short post that intrigued me. In it, the author claims that the cure for boredom is superpowers. Not superpowers in the Superman sense, but ones that we can teach ourselves.
Learn Photoshop, and you’ll have a superpower. You’ll be able to see what your bedroom...
Max Countryman
A Framework for Prioritizing Tech Debt
Leverage is a powerful tool that applies to many things, including the code we write. However, tech...
a year ago
Leverage is a powerful tool that applies to many things, including the code we write. However, tech debt like all leverage, comes with interest payments. How do we know when to start spending bandwidth on addressing it? We'll look at a framework that can help us ensure we don't...
alexwlchan
Beware of transparent backgrounds when using AVIF with ImageMagick 6
One of the things I did over my Christmas break was redo all the image handling on this site.
Mostly...
a year ago
One of the things I did over my Christmas break was redo all the image handling on this site.
Mostly I’m catching up on the current “best practices” for images on the web.
I’ve written a Jekyll plugin which allows me to use an image in a post like so:
{%
picture
...
Miguel Carranza
From J1 visa to Blue Passport: A startup founder's immigration journey
I am drafting this post at 35,000 feet flying back from Japan. I’ve entered the US about 30 times,...
9 months ago
I am drafting this post at 35,000 feet flying back from Japan. I’ve entered the US about 30 times, but this will be the first time I’ll be using my shiny blue passport. No anxiety about aggressive questions, secondary inspection, or the possibility of deportation. A couple of...
The Pragmatic...
A Return to the Office (RTO) Wave?
Dozens of tech companies are starting to have their staff return to the office. I talked with...
over a year ago
Dozens of tech companies are starting to have their staff return to the office. I talked with software engineers and managers at these companies. Are we seeing the start of a trend?
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The Part Time Creator Manifesto
Why we need more people creating Part Time and how you can do it too.
over a year ago
Why we need more people creating Part Time and how you can do it too.
Nelson's Weblog
Class action employment suits
Google has agreed
to settle a gender discrimination suit brought by employees.
Congratulations to...
over a year ago
Google has agreed
to settle a gender discrimination suit brought by employees.
Congratulations to the plaintiffs, suing your employer is a difficult and
stressful thing. But while the $118M
headline looks big it works out to only $7600 per employee, less after the
lawyers'...
Dan Slimmon
Why transaction order matters, even if you’re only reading
There are 4 isolation levels defined by the SQL standard, and Postgres supports them through the SET...
11 months ago
There are 4 isolation levels defined by the SQL standard, and Postgres supports them through the SET TRANSACTION statement. They are: This last guarantee is one against serialization anomalies. A serialization anomaly is any sequence of events that produces a result that would be...
Seán Barry
Using snippets in sublime text to speed up your development
How to leverage tools like snippets to speed up the development process and increase your...
over a year ago
How to leverage tools like snippets to speed up the development process and increase your efficiency.
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Supervised Learning: Neural Networks
That one time we tried to emulate our brains with computer chips
over a year ago
That one time we tried to emulate our brains with computer chips
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Array 1.36.0: Introducing AND/OR filtering, timezone support and universal search
PostHog 1.36.0 introduces AND/OR filtering, timezone support, universal search, multi-dashboard...
over a year ago
PostHog 1.36.0 introduces AND/OR filtering, timezone support, universal search, multi-dashboard insights and much, much more.
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Meta-Creator Ceiling
Don't play games you don't want to win.
over a year ago
Don't play games you don't want to win.
TokyoDev
How to create your own company in Japan
Since coming to Japan, I've incorporated three companies. Although creating a company isn't a walk...
over a year ago
Since coming to Japan, I've incorporated three companies. Although creating a company isn't a walk in the park, I think it is easier than the general perception is. Part of the problem is the lack of English-language information about it. I hope by sharing my experiences I can...
Epic Web Dev
The Drawbacks of Bundling All CSS Files Together (tip)
Discover the drawbacks of bundling all CSS files together and why it's recommended to use separate...
a year ago
Discover the drawbacks of bundling all CSS files together and why it's recommended to use separate style sheets for better control and performance.
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.37.0: Cohorts 2.0 and event & property detail pages
PostHog 1.37.0 introduces advanced filtering for cohorts, improved events and property pages,...
over a year ago
PostHog 1.37.0 introduces advanced filtering for cohorts, improved events and property pages, dancing hedgehogs and much, much more.
A Smart Bear
When you want to quit because it's just not worth it
Are you crying in the shower because you can't handle it anymore? Beyond Impostor Syndrome: Complete...
a year ago
Are you crying in the shower because you can't handle it anymore? Beyond Impostor Syndrome: Complete melt-down? Well, at least you're in good company.
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September 11th from Singapore
just some memories 20 years after 9/11.
over a year ago
just some memories 20 years after 9/11.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Big L Notation
In this post I sketch out `Big L` notation, which plots your learning as a function of `N` years of...
over a year ago
In this post I sketch out `Big L` notation, which plots your learning as a function of `N` years of experience, with `P` peers.
Steve Klabnik
Run Rails with custom patches
over a year ago
Kevin Chen
Tearing down the Rewind app
Rewind is a Mac app that records your computer’s screen and audio, allowing the user to scroll...
over a year ago
Rewind is a Mac app that records your computer’s screen and audio, allowing the user to scroll through a timeline of past screen recordings. Rewind also recognizes text, including text in videos and Zoom calls, allowing the user to perform full-text search on anything that has...
bt RSS Feed
Clickable Links Inside XML
Clickable Links Inside XML
2022-06-20
With the recent patch1 to the Shinobi Website project, I...
over a year ago
Clickable Links Inside XML
2022-06-20
With the recent patch1 to the Shinobi Website project, I thought it would be best to share my experience implementing clickable links inside a rendered XML RSS file directly through a browser. This is made possible thanks to the awesome power...
Neil Panchal
Coming soon
This is Neil Panchal's Blog, a brand new site by Neil Panchal that's just getting started. Things...
7 months ago
This is Neil Panchal's Blog, a brand new site by Neil Panchal that's just getting started. Things will be up and running here shortly, but you can subscribe in the meantime if you'd like to stay up to date and receive emails when new
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Reviewing "TypeScript in 50 Lessons"
My first time being a technical reviewer for a published book!
over a year ago
My first time being a technical reviewer for a published book!
alexwlchan
Getting the base directory of an sbt project
This is a command you can run in a shell script to print the base directory of an sbt project:
$...
over a year ago
This is a command you can run in a shell script to print the base directory of an sbt project:
$ sbt --batch -error "project $PROJECT" "print baseDirectory" | tr -d "\n"
For example:
$ sbt --batch -error "project ingests_api" "print baseDirectory" | tr -d...
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: 3D picture of the coronavirus in SQL
A picture of the nasty coronavirus using 3d ray tracing in SQL
The post Happy New Year: 3D picture...
over a year ago
A picture of the nasty coronavirus using 3d ray tracing in SQL
The post Happy New Year: 3D picture of the coronavirus in SQL appeared first on EXPLAIN EXTENDED.
37signals Dev
Demo of page refreshes with morphing
We published a demo showing how Page Refreshes with morphing work in Turbo 8:
Comparing code...
a year ago
We published a demo showing how Page Refreshes with morphing work in Turbo 8:
Comparing code helps a lot in software discussions, so I thought it would be valuable to show how the new feature compares to Turbo stream actions for performing partial updates and broadcasts....
37signals Dev
All about QA
Quality Assurance (QA) is a team of two at 37signals: Michael, who created the department 12 years...
2 months ago
Quality Assurance (QA) is a team of two at 37signals: Michael, who created the department 12 years ago, and Gabriel, who joined the team in 2022. Together, we have a hand in projects across all of our products, from kickoff to release. Our goal is to help designers and...
Engineer’s Codex
How Google writes clean, maintainable code
Google's SWE Book explains their readability process and style guides
a year ago
Google's SWE Book explains their readability process and style guides
Confessions of a...
The Pythonic Emptiness
Why the Pythonic way of doing emptiness check on sequences is not necessarily ambiguous in most...
a month ago
Why the Pythonic way of doing emptiness check on sequences is not necessarily ambiguous in most cases
Alex Meub
My Favorite Web Apps and Tools
I’ve found myself more often using web apps instead of dedicated desktop applications at work. It...
over a year ago
I’ve found myself more often using web apps instead of dedicated desktop applications at work. It seems that in general, desktop apps have been getting slower and more resource intensive lately. The trend of teams using Electron or the Chromium Embedded Framework in order to ship...
ntietz.com blog
PyOhio
This was my first time going to PyOhio, and it was a blast. There will be some videos being posted...
over a year ago
This was my first time going to PyOhio, and it was a blast. There will be some videos being posted soon, so I will opt to link to those as they come in, but first, here are some of the highlights:
Ed Finkler of OSMI gave a great talk on mental illness in tech, resources that are...
Making software...
Skip to Content Button
Skip to Content Button
2019-03-25
One of the golden rules for testing your website's accessibility...
over a year ago
Skip to Content Button
2019-03-25
One of the golden rules for testing your website's accessibility is the "keyboard-only" audit. This is where you test navigating through your entire site without the use of a mouse, but instead rely solely on tabbing through your...
macwright.com
On Placemark
Yesterday, I announced that I was joining Val.town, but that Placemark lived. And I haven’t really...
a year ago
Yesterday, I announced that I was joining Val.town, but that Placemark lived. And I haven’t really given an update on Placemark, the product and business, in a while. Writing about an operating business is a different thing that writing feature announcements or essays about...
The History of the...
It’s Lists All the Way Down
When you get down to it, a lot of the web is just lists. And that's kind of what it was meant...
3 months ago
When you get down to it, a lot of the web is just lists. And that's kind of what it was meant for.
The post It’s Lists All the Way Down appeared first on The History of the Web.
TokyoDev
Recruiters and Human Traffickers: A Short History of Employment Agencies in Japan
Japan's [Employment Security...
over a year ago
Japan's [Employment Security Act](http://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/law/detail_main?id=10&vm=2&re=) requires a recruitment business to obtain a license. Failure to do so can result in imprisonment of up to a year. While I've met sleazy recruiters, sending them to prison...
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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
PostHog is a growing platform. We used to call ourselves a product analytics platform, but product analytics is just one feature among many these…
Tony Finch's blog
Where does "where does my computer get the time from?" come from?
I am pleased that so many people enjoyed
my talk about time at RIPE86.
I thought I would write a few...
a year ago
I am pleased that so many people enjoyed
my talk about time at RIPE86.
I thought I would write a few notes on some of the things I left out.
genesis
Essen & Markowitz
Galileo
zones
BIH
irony
genesis
There were a couple of things that I thought would make a fun talk:
Just how many...
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Naked Emperors in Tech
Some things we often repeat as truth just aren't. We should call bullshit more often.
over a year ago
Some things we often repeat as truth just aren't. We should call bullshit more often.
Vadim Kravcenko
I’m finishing university, scared about future career prospects
Question:
Hey, my name's Kalesh, I'm 22 and about to finish my bachelor's in August. Planning to be...
9 months ago
Question:
Hey, my name's Kalesh, I'm 22 and about to finish my bachelor's in August. Planning to be a software engineer. But, I keep hearing the job market's tough. Been reading online that lots of devs are struggling to find steady gigs. Is your company looking for any devs?...
Tony Finch's blog
nsnotifyd-2.1 released
I have made
a new release of nsnotifyd,
a tiny DNS server that just listens for NOTIFY messages
and...
6 months ago
I have made
a new release of nsnotifyd,
a tiny DNS server that just listens for NOTIFY messages
and runs a script when one of your zones changes.
This nsnotifyd-2.1 release includes a few bugfixes:
more lenient handling of trailing . in domain names on the command line
avoid...
Engineer’s Codex
How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers
Instagram's guiding principles and tech stack explained simply
a year ago
Instagram's guiding principles and tech stack explained simply
Liz Denys
New Loose Leaf Security episode: Security stories! Plus, a 2FA zine!
The previous Loose Leaf Security series on safely surfing the web was pretty dense, so Geoffrey and...
over a year ago
The previous Loose Leaf Security series on safely surfing the web was pretty dense, so Geoffrey and I filled the latest episode of Loose Leaf Security with a bunch of our own personal security mishaps:
Security stories: lost phones, a compromised computer, and an unexpected...
James Vaughan's blog
Counting Usernames from Malicious Login Attempts
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Bouldering
My first introduction to bouldering was in 2017, in DUMBO:
a year ago
My first introduction to bouldering was in 2017, in DUMBO:
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.39.0: Betas, persons, events and libraries
PostHog 1.39.0 introduces a new beta for you to try, a new display chart and big improvements to our...
over a year ago
PostHog 1.39.0 introduces a new beta for you to try, a new display chart and big improvements to our client libraries.
Ralph Ammer
So… this is a job?
What is Design?
The post So… this is a job? appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
over a year ago
What is Design?
The post So… this is a job? appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
Josh Collinsworth
For whatever it's worth: my advice on job hunting in tech
A collection of things I've learned over my decade in the industry, on how and where to look for...
7 months ago
A collection of things I've learned over my decade in the industry, on how and where to look for jobs, applying, interviewing, and all those fun things. For whatever it's worth.
Tony Finch's blog
Where does my computer get the time from?
This week I was in Rotterdam for a RIPE meeting.
On Friday morning I gave a lightning talk called...
a year ago
This week I was in Rotterdam for a RIPE meeting.
On Friday morning I gave a lightning talk called where does my
computer get the time from?
The RIPE meeting website has a copy of my slides and a video of the
talk; this is a blogified low-res version of the slides with a rough
and...
Julia Evans
New playground: integer.exposed
Hello! For the last few months we’ve been working on a zine about how integers
and floating point...
a year ago
Hello! For the last few months we’ve been working on a zine about how integers
and floating point numbers work. Whenever I make a zine I like to release a
playground to go with it, like mess with dns for the DNS zine or the sql playground.
For this one, I made a simple playground...
HTMHell
#14 not my type
Bad code
<a type="button" class="button" href="/signup" tabindex="-1">Sign up</a>
Issues and how to...
over a year ago
Bad code
<a type="button" class="button" href="/signup" tabindex="-1">Sign up</a>
Issues and how to fix them
The type attribute has no effect on the semantics of an <a> element.
An anchor may have the type attribute, but the value should be a valid MIME type. Browsers may...
Founder's blog
SQL is the most long lasting skill in tech
In January 2020, right before COVID hit, a question has popped up at the HackerNews front...
a year ago
In January 2020, right before COVID hit, a question has popped up at the HackerNews front page:
"Which technology is worth learning in 2020?"
And the most "upvoted" answer was:
Learn how to really use a relational database, relational data modeling, and SQL
Well,...
Elad Blog
AI: Startup Vs Incumbent Value
In each technology wave the value, revenue, market cap, profits and great people captured by...
over a year ago
In each technology wave the value, revenue, market cap, profits and great people captured by startups versus incumbents differs. In some waves it all goes to startups, while in others it goes to incumbents or is split between them. Unexpectedly, the prior wave of
charity.wtf
Questionable Advice: “How can I drive change and influence teams…without power?”
Last month I got to attend GOTO Chicago and give a talk about continuous deployment and...
a year ago
Last month I got to attend GOTO Chicago and give a talk about continuous deployment and high-performing teams. Honestly I did a terrible job, and I’m not being modest. I had just rolled off a delayed redeye flight; I realized partway through that I had the wrong slides loaded,...
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
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"...
Irrational...
Developing domain expertise: get your hands dirty.
Recently, I’ve been thinking about developing domain expertise, and wanted to collect my thoughts...
5 months ago
Recently, I’ve been thinking about developing domain expertise, and wanted to collect my thoughts here. Although I covered some parts of this in Your first 90 days as CTO (understanding product analytics, shadowing customer support, talking to customers, and talking with your...
Ognjen Regoje •...
Poll: How anxious are you before an interview?
From the HackerNews poll:
Given the spike in interviewing questions, I’m curious to know: how...
a year ago
From the HackerNews poll:
Given the spike in interviewing questions, I’m curious to know: how anxious are you before an interview?
To qualify the choices a bit:
Not at all - I feel confident and not worried about the prospect of failure.
A little - I’m fairly confident. Maybe the...
Writing - Andreas...
The LLM productivity puzzle
Code generation is arguably one of the most interesting applications of
LLMs, and one of the first...
a year ago
Code generation is arguably one of the most interesting applications of
LLMs, and one of the first with real commercial use (Copilot/Codex,
Codegen, etc.). If you spend time on the internet these days you’ll see
people claim productivity gains ranging from 0 to 100x,...
Josh Comeau's blog
An Interactive Guide to Keyframe Animations
CSS keyframe animations are incredibly flexible and powerful, but they’re also a bit weird. In this...
over a year ago
CSS keyframe animations are incredibly flexible and powerful, but they’re also a bit weird. In this deep-dive tutorial, we'll learn how CSS keyframes work from the ground up, and see how to use them to build high-quality animations.
A Beautiful Site
On Using Web Component Libraries
We tend to think of components as things that belong to a framework. After all, React has...
over a year ago
We tend to think of components as things that belong to a framework. After all, React has components, Vue has components, Angular has components…it's just how we've always used them.
Because of that, people tend to refer to Lit and FAST Element as frameworks, but they’re not....
The Pragmatic...
What is a Senior Software Engineer at Wise and Amazon?
Common expectations for the senior level at the two companies, and compensation packages at Wise.
a year ago
Common expectations for the senior level at the two companies, and compensation packages at Wise.
The Pragmatic...
The Pragmatic Engineer in 2024
The last 12 months, The Pragmatic Engineer covered a variety of deepdives, revealing previously...
a month ago
The last 12 months, The Pragmatic Engineer covered a variety of deepdives, revealing previously unshared details like what Stripe's engineering culture is like, The architecture evolution of Bluesky, How the ChatGPT scaled to meet demand, How Anthropic builds products, How and...
Liz Denys
The shape is everything: sun-dried tomato and pesto pane bianco
I've been getting into baking bread a lot lately instead of focusing more on the sweet and pastry...
over a year ago
I've been getting into baking bread a lot lately instead of focusing more on the sweet and pastry side of things. While I've been enjoying making fresh sourdough from fresh sourdough starter and love the end results, I sometimes find that basic breads are a lot of kneading (read:...
Joel Gascoigne
Make progress faster by cooperating: 4 tips to try with your co-founder or co-worker
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
*
For a number of...
over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
*
For a number of years now, I’ve found that I generally always had a “training
partner” for my entrepreneurial goals. A few years ago, this was my great friend
Khuram...
The Changelog
Flying Joy
Wisdom from my 5-year-old: When flying in a small plane, it is important to give your dolls a...
over a year ago
Wisdom from my 5-year-old: When flying in a small plane, it is important to give your dolls a headset and let them see out the window, too! Moments like this make me smile at being a pilot dad. A week ago, I also got to give 8 children and one adult their first ever ride …...
Confused bit
Simply explained: how does GPT work?
By now, you have probably heard of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, or any of the alternatives GPT-3, GPT-4,...
a year ago
By now, you have probably heard of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, or any of the alternatives GPT-3, GPT-4, Microsoft’s Bing Chat, Facebook’s LLaMa or even Google’s Bard. They are artificial intelligence programs that can participate in a conversation. Impressively smart, they can easily be...
Max Countryman
Delivering Value with Platform Engineering
Platform Engineering offers a unique value prop to engineering orgs by focusing its attention on the...
a year ago
Platform Engineering offers a unique value prop to engineering orgs by focusing its attention on the holistic system. This in contrast to and in direct support of teams which focus on a narrower domain. In doing so, platform teams elevate and accelerate the work of their peers...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Quick Tip: docx is a zip Archive
Microsof Office's docx files are actually zip archives with a bunch of XMLs and all the attached...
over a year ago
Microsof Office's docx files are actually zip archives with a bunch of XMLs and all the attached media. Super useful, everyone should know it!
When I tell my colleagues, friends, or students about it, they don't take me seriously the first time. So, here we go again. If you have...
Max Countryman
Taming AWS Costs
AWS costs are tricky: they can grow in seemingly unbounded ways and often represent significant...
a year ago
AWS costs are tricky: they can grow in seemingly unbounded ways and often represent significant portions of our engineering budgets. However there are techniques we can use to get them under control and even reduce overall spend significantly.
markround.com
DevOps for the Sinclair Spectrum - Part 4
In Part 3 I covered the backend server processes and protocols, CI/CD pipelines and unit tests I...
over a year ago
In Part 3 I covered the backend server processes and protocols, CI/CD pipelines and unit tests I used to build the TNFS site. In this (much shorter) part, I’d like to take a step back from the hardcore geekery, and wrap up with my thoughts on the whole thing.
Other Sites
But...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
“The iOS App Icon Book” in Japanese
Seeing something you made put in print is exciting.
Seeing something you made translated and put in...
a year ago
Seeing something you made put in print is exciting.
Seeing something you made translated and put in print, well that’s pretty damn exciting too.
Such was the feeling when I opened my copy of the Japanese translation of The iOS App Icon Book.
While the core idea of the book...
David Heinemeier...
The law of the land
Affirmative action is right up there with abortion and gun control among the highest-profile,...
a year ago
Affirmative action is right up there with abortion and gun control among the highest-profile, longest-running social fissures in America. So of course the recent ruling from the Supreme Court making its use in college admissions illegal was going to light a political fire. The...
alexwlchan
Starting Docker just before I need it
Although I use Docker a lot, I don’t leave it running all the time – it can be quite a resource hog,...
a year ago
Although I use Docker a lot, I don’t leave it running all the time – it can be quite a resource hog, and even if it’s doing nothing it can make my laptop feel sluggish.
I’ll often stop if it my computer feels slow, which is great right until the next time I need to use it:
$...
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Introducing Phil Leggetter, our new head of Developer Relations
We’re proud to announce a new hire; Phil Leggetter will head up Developer Relations at PostHog....
over a year ago
We’re proud to announce a new hire; Phil Leggetter will head up Developer Relations at PostHog. Developer relations sits at the intersection of…
Steve Klabnik
The hardest decision I've ever made
over a year ago
Daniel Immke's Blog...
Building and launching my first iPhone app
Update Late 2020: I decided to take the app down to focus more on other endeavors, so you cannot...
over a year ago
Update Late 2020: I decided to take the app down to focus more on other endeavors, so you cannot download the app any longer. I am leaving…
Founder's blog
Reasons NOT to upgrade ASP.NET to ASP.NET Core (but you will have to anyway)
I know, I know, .NET Core is the future of .NET, and "cross-platform blah-blah", and...
a year ago
I know, I know, .NET Core is the future of .NET, and "cross-platform blah-blah", and "high-performance and scalable blah-blah", and also "microservices!!! containers!!!" etc. Even more - I understand that's it's inevitable. But still. Consider this an angry post on what's wrong...
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Building an open source data stack
At PostHog, we believe an open source approach doesn’t just lead to greater growth; it also leads to...
over a year ago
At PostHog, we believe an open source approach doesn’t just lead to greater growth; it also leads to better products. That’s what inspired us to make…
Words and Buttons...
Lexical differential highlighting instead of syntax highlighting
“Lexical” since it doesn't need true syntax analysis, primitive tokenization and filtering are...
over a year ago
“Lexical” since it doesn't need true syntax analysis, primitive tokenization and filtering are enough. And it's “differential” because it aims to highlight the difference between lexemes. Ideally, the smaller the lexical difference, the greater the color difference should be.
...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Keeping track of visited URLs in WebCard
<![CDATA[WebCard has very limited control over the web browser of the host operating system.
It can...
2 months ago
<![CDATA[WebCard has very limited control over the web browser of the host operating system.
It can only command the browser to visit a URL when the user traverses a Web link or executes the Visit URL menu command. But with no precautions the browser would open a new tab for...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Introduction to self-service analytics
There are lots of ways to do analytics. You can do SQL . You can do it in the cloud. You can not do...
over a year ago
There are lots of ways to do analytics. You can do SQL . You can do it in the cloud. You can not do it at all and hire an analytics agency or…
blag
Installing Transmission (remote and CLI) client on Raspberry Pi
This tutorial will explain you how to install Transmission client on Raspberry Pi running Raspbian.
over a year ago
This tutorial will explain you how to install Transmission client on Raspberry Pi running Raspbian.
A Smart Bear
Using the Needs Stack for competitive strategy
This simple method positions your product to be more valuable, especially against competitors who...
a year ago
This simple method positions your product to be more valuable, especially against competitors who aim to disrupt you, or you them.
Identity Designed
OOP
Designed by Futura, Mexico City.
over a year ago
Designed by Futura, Mexico City.
Liz Denys
Pentagonal antiprism planter with drip tray, 2023
Aged leather / dazzle camouflage / coming together? pushing apart?
a year ago
Aged leather / dazzle camouflage / coming together? pushing apart?
swyx's site RSS Feed
Fave New Podcasts in 2021
My picks of best podcasts I found in 2021, across tech, business, and creator categories. I also...
over a year ago
My picks of best podcasts I found in 2021, across tech, business, and creator categories. I also pick up on best of the best from 2020.
A Beautiful Site
Detecting mobile devices with JavaScript
While I understand and value the concept of feature detection over browser detection, sometimes the...
over a year ago
While I understand and value the concept of feature detection over browser detection, sometimes the need for knowing whether or not we're dealing with a mobile device arises. For in-depth device checking, you can rely on a complex library such as The MobileESP Project. But for...
The Codist
I Am Not Betty, And I Can't Do Anything About It
At some point around 2016, a person named Betty, in the town I used to live in, gave my phone number...
a year ago
At some point around 2016, a person named Betty, in the town I used to live in, gave my phone number to someone (either by accident or a random number), and it became associated with her name and address.
Her home sits atop a giant gas field, and she gets
Making software...
How to "FLOSS" as a Web Designer
How to "FLOSS" as a Web Designer
2020-02-07
I have a profound respect for the open source community....
over a year ago
How to "FLOSS" as a Web Designer
2020-02-07
I have a profound respect for the open source community. I most likely wouldn't have the skills or knowledge I do today with it. Unfortunately, when I was just starting out in "web dev" some 10 years ago, proprietary software was the...
the jsomers.net blog
Introducing Five’Em, a Texas Hold’Em variant
The game of Five'Em was invented by two friends of mine, Ben Gross and Rich Berger, to combat...
over a year ago
The game of Five'Em was invented by two friends of mine, Ben Gross and Rich Berger, to combat Hold'Em fatigue. The rules are simple: You're dealt five hole cards instead of two, and after each round of community cards comes out (starting with the flop), you discard one of these...
Blog - Bitfield...
Being a good co-worker is your job now
In the final part of this series on the world of work, we’ll talk about how
not to suck at...
a year ago
In the final part of this series on the world of work, we’ll talk about how
not to suck at meetings.
bt RSS Feed
Transferring Media from macOS to a Jellyfin Server (Raspberry Pi 4)
Transferring Media from macOS to a Jellyfin Server (Raspberry Pi 4)
2022-03-12
I run a personal...
over a year ago
Transferring Media from macOS to a Jellyfin Server (Raspberry Pi 4)
2022-03-12
I run a personal media server using Jellyfin on a Raspberry Pi 4 in my home. It’s pretty great and works well across most devices - Google TV, iOS and Android devices, Chromebooks, etc.
The only small...
Hixie's Natural Log
The Spectrum of Openness
"Open Source" is a broad spectrum, with various axes. The following is an attempt to describe...
a year ago
"Open Source" is a broad spectrum, with various axes. The following is an attempt to describe various ways to look at openness to aid project leaders in determining what they want their project to look like. I originally wrote this for my colleagues at Google, but the concepts...
HTMHell
The Gift You Do NOT Want: A Div in a Button's Clothing
by Corina Murg
With the right CSS makeup and a click event, almost anything can pretend to be a...
2 weeks ago
by Corina Murg
With the right CSS makeup and a click event, almost anything can pretend to be a button. In accessibility work, we spot these fakes and fix them, but teaching others why and how to do it is just as important. It’s not just about correcting a single mistake; it’s...
PostHog's RSS Feed
How to turn user interviews into actionable snapshots
Regularly talking to users is an important habit for any product team, but it's wasted without an...
a year ago
Regularly talking to users is an important habit for any product team, but it's wasted without an efficient way to share what you learn. At PostHog…
ntietz.com blog
Making progress on side projects with content-driven development
It's hard to make progress on side projects sometimes.
Getting started is easy when we see the...
3 months ago
It's hard to make progress on side projects sometimes.
Getting started is easy when we see the bright future of the project.
Then somewhere in the middle, we get stuck in lists of tasks to do, a long way in and still a long way from the finish line.
This happens to me as much as...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Hexadecimal Sucks
Humans do no operate on hexadecimal symbols effectively […] there are
exceptions.
– Dan...
7 months ago
Humans do no operate on hexadecimal symbols effectively […] there are
exceptions.
– Dan Kaminsky
When SSH
added ASCII art fingerprints (AKA, randomart), the author credited a
talk by Dan
Kaminsky.
As a refresher, randomart looks like this:
$ ssh-keygen -lv -f...
Joel on Software
Progress on the Block Protocol
Since the 1990s, the web has been a publishing place for human-readable documents. Documents...
over a year ago
Since the 1990s, the web has been a publishing place for human-readable documents. Documents published on the web are in HTML. HTML has a little bit of… Read more "Progress on the Block Protocol"
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Networking Essentials: Router Design
A small detour into Router Hardware!
over a year ago
A small detour into Router Hardware!
Joel Gascoigne
Taking time to reflect
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over a year ago
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It’s been a while since my last blog post, and I’ve recently been pondering why
that may be.
It’s not that I’ve been doing less than when I was regularly blogging, it’s in
fact quite
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JAMstack for Indie Hackers
_This article was [published on Indie...
over a year ago
_This article was [published on Indie Hackers](https://www.indiehackers.com/article/jamstack-for-indie-hackers-b07f7a943d)!_
Paolo Amoroso's...
A fix for duplicate definitions in Femtounit
<![CDATA[I finally fixed a longstanding duplicate definitions issue with Femtounit, my Interlisp...
9 months ago
<![CDATA[I finally fixed a longstanding duplicate definitions issue with Femtounit, my Interlisp unit test framework.
Femtounit creates a new File Manager type for unit tests, TESTS. DEFTEST, which defines a test, adds an entry of type TESTS and expands into an internal function...
37signals Dev
Thruster is now open source
We’ve just released Thruster as open source!
Thruster is a minimal HTTP/2 proxy server that we wrote...
10 months ago
We’ve just released Thruster as open source!
Thruster is a minimal HTTP/2 proxy server that we wrote to make it easier to serve a Rails application with great performance and security.
It runs alongside your existing Puma process, and adds:
HTTP/2 support
SSL (via Let’s Encrypt,...
Liz Denys
New Loose Leaf Security episode: More security stories!
The latest Loose Leaf Security is out, a handful of Geoffrey and my own security adventures,...
over a year ago
The latest Loose Leaf Security is out, a handful of Geoffrey and my own security adventures, including concerns about Twitter's "favorites" evolved into "likes," and some juicier news stories:
Security stories: surveillance databases, unlocking apps, unexpected photo booths, and...
Founder's blog
The state of modern Front End
Let's talk about front-end. There'll be a lot of swearing, I'm sorry.
About once every six...
a year ago
Let's talk about front-end. There'll be a lot of swearing, I'm sorry.
About once every six months another blogger bursts into HackerNews/Twitter trends, saying - hey, enough of that JavaScript bloat, let's all use modern HTML controls!
There's <dialog> for modal dialogs,...
Daniel Immke's Blog...
2018: A year in review
It’s the end of the year, and I’ve been reflecting on what I accomplished this year and what I...
over a year ago
It’s the end of the year, and I’ve been reflecting on what I accomplished this year and what I didn’t, as well as what I can do better next…
David Heinemeier...
Back to America
After spending much of the past three years in Denmark, our family is returning to America full time...
a year ago
After spending much of the past three years in Denmark, our family is returning to America full time this summer. The original reasons for temporarily emigrating – the prolonged school lockdowns and other pandemic madness – have long since evaporated, and we've had a solid chance...
bt RSS Feed
OpenBSD is a Cozy Operating System
OpenBSD is a Cozy Operating System
2024-04-11
OpenBSD 7.5 running dwm on my X220
With the recent...
8 months ago
OpenBSD is a Cozy Operating System
2024-04-11
OpenBSD 7.5 running dwm on my X220
With the recent release of OpenBSD 7.5, I decided to run through my personal OpenBSD “installer” for laptop/desktop devices. The project is built off of the dwm tiling window manager and only...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
So you think you know everything about React refs
React refs appear to be a very simple feature. You pass a special prop to a DOM component, and you...
over a year ago
React refs appear to be a very simple feature. You pass a special prop to a DOM component, and you can access the current DOM node for that component in your JS. This is one of those great APIs that work just the way you'd expect, so you don't even think about how, exactly, it...
Computer Things
Logic for Programmers Update
I spent the early week recovering and the later week working on Logic for Programmers ([init]...
6 months ago
I spent the early week recovering and the later week working on Logic for Programmers ([init] [update]) because I have a self-imposed deadline of mid-July, backed up by a $1000 toxx clause. Here's where I currently am:
1: The book is now 14k words. About 4k are "basics", covering...
Ognjen Regoje •...
User-Agent: ChatGPT Disallow: *
Edit: It’s happening!
ChatGPT et. al. are bots and as such should obey robots.txt.
User-Agent:...
a year ago
Edit: It’s happening!
ChatGPT et. al. are bots and as such should obey robots.txt.
User-Agent: ChatGPT
Disallow: *
User-Agent: ChatGPT Disallow: * was originally published by Ognjen Regoje at Ognjen Regoje • ognjen.io on March 26, 2023.
Elad Blog
**Signup Now** Fireside- Dylan Field: Design, AI, School & Careers
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a year ago
Sign up now for new fireside chat
Ralph Ammer
Immanuel Kant — Beauty
Why is beauty so important? It leads us to truth and goodness, says Immanuel Kant. How? Beauty To...
11 months ago
Why is beauty so important? It leads us to truth and goodness, says Immanuel Kant. How? Beauty To uncover the secret of beauty, let us first examine how we usually view the world. This is what happens when we see something: 1. Our senses receive a lot of raw data from the...
Cognitive...
My Own AI Server Cluster
When a16z generously sponsored Dolphin, I had some compute budget, and because the original...
a year ago
When a16z generously sponsored Dolphin, I had some compute budget, and because the original dolphin-13b was a flop, I had some time to go back to the drawing board. When I was ready to train the next iteration, I reconsidered whether to rent or buy the compute for the build. I...
Joel Gascoigne
The power of company retreats: Thoughts after the 8th Buffer retreat
By now we have a fairly long history of doing retreats at Buffer. We’re now a
75
person team...
over a year ago
By now we have a fairly long history of doing retreats at Buffer. We’re now a
75
person team [https://buffer.com/about], and we just wrapped up our 8th company
retreat in Madrid, Spain. Here’s a quick history of retreat locations, timeline
and size over time:
1.
Dan Slimmon
Squeeze the hell out of the system you have
When complexity leaps are on the table, there's usually also an opportunity to squeeze some extra...
a year ago
When complexity leaps are on the table, there's usually also an opportunity to squeeze some extra juice out of the system you have. By tweaking the workload, tuning performance, or supplementing the system in some way, you may be able to add months or even years of runway. When...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Big Sur-ification of macOS Icons
Here’s an example of some icons that transitioned well in the Big Sur-ification of macOS icons:
And...
8 months ago
Here’s an example of some icons that transitioned well in the Big Sur-ification of macOS icons:
And just for good measure, here’s a few more — I love this stuff.
While some apps made this transition fun (and further infused their brand with character), others did not. They did...
Dan Slimmon
Ask questions first, shoot later
The fact that fixing and diagnosing often converge to the same actions doesn't change the fact that...
7 months ago
The fact that fixing and diagnosing often converge to the same actions doesn't change the fact that these two concurrent activities have different goals. The goal of fixing is to bring the system into line with your mental model of how it's supposed to function. The goal of...
Josh Comeau's blog
Demystifying styled-components
For so many React devs, styled-components seems kinda magical. It isn't at all clear how it uses...
over a year ago
For so many React devs, styled-components seems kinda magical. It isn't at all clear how it uses traditional CSS features under-the-hood, and that lack of clarity can cause real problems when things go awry. In this post, we'll learn exactly how styled-components works by...
The Pragmatic...
The Pulse: Will US companies hire fewer engineers due to Section 174?
It’s rare that a tax change causes panic across the tech industry, but it’s happening in the US. If...
12 months ago
It’s rare that a tax change causes panic across the tech industry, but it’s happening in the US. If Section 174 tax changes stay, the US will be one of the least desirable countries to launch startups
Dan Slimmon
Fix tomorrow’s problems by fixing today’s problems
A bug in our deployment system causes O(N²) latency with respect to the number of deploys that have...
a year ago
A bug in our deployment system causes O(N²) latency with respect to the number of deploys that have been performed. At first, it’s too minuscule to notice. But the average deploy latency grows over time. Eventually, deploys start randomly timing out. The deploy pipeline grinds to...
Mahmoud Felfel's...
Logical Fallacies, Biases, and Useful Heuristics
A list of logical fallacies and biases I found useful for a better understanding of human behavior...
over a year ago
A list of logical fallacies and biases I found useful for a better understanding of human behavior and decision making.
macwright.com
Code-folding JSX elements in CodeMirror
This came up for Val Town - we implemented code folding in our default editor which uses CodeMirror,...
10 months ago
This came up for Val Town - we implemented code folding in our default editor which uses CodeMirror, but wanted it to work with JSX elements, not just functions and control flow statements. It’s not enough to justify a module of its own because CodeMirror’s API is unbelievably...
Daniel Immke's Blog...
Tips for a successful WooCommerce project
I recently wrapped up a very large WooCommerce build that I am planning on writing a case study for...
over a year ago
I recently wrapped up a very large WooCommerce build that I am planning on writing a case study for next month. In the meantime, I thought I…
Steve Klabnik
Devise: ActionController::RoutingError (No Route Matches [GET] /users/sign_out)
over a year ago
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, September 2024
The Ware for September 2024 is shown below: This ware was a gift, but I won’t credit the donor until...
3 months ago
The Ware for September 2024 is shown below: This ware was a gift, but I won’t credit the donor until the solution is revealed, because the credit itself might give a clue about the ware. My first reaction to seeing this board is: “this thing has a high BOM cost”. My second...
Seán Barry
Using Git Bisect to Find Code Regressions
Want to find out the exact commit that introduced a bug to your code? Git Bisect is just the tool...
over a year ago
Want to find out the exact commit that introduced a bug to your code? Git Bisect is just the tool for the job.
alexwlchan
Saving your alt text from Twitter
It seems like Twitter might be circling a drain, and so a lot of people are downloading a copy of...
over a year ago
It seems like Twitter might be circling a drain, and so a lot of people are downloading a copy of their archive in case the site goes down unexpectedly.
But large as it is, the archive doesn’t contain everything:
Kate
@thingskatedid
my twitter archive...
HTMHell
You don't need JavaScript for that
by Kilian Valkhof
Hello, my dear friend of RSS! This post contains interactive demos. You may want...
a year ago
by Kilian Valkhof
Hello, my dear friend of RSS! This post contains interactive demos. You may want to read it on the website.
Please don't feel antagonised by the title of this article. I don't hate JavaScript, I love it. I write bucketloads of it every single day. But I also...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Using Gatsby and Puppeteer to create dynamic Open Graph images
The image preview you see when sharing a link is a great opportunity to get your brand’s message in...
over a year ago
The image preview you see when sharing a link is a great opportunity to get your brand’s message in front of people without them even clicking through to your website. Most sites just opt to display a logo and some brand elements.
Seán Barry
What is TypeScript and why should I use it?
A beginner's guide to TypeScript. What is TypeScript? What problems does it solve? Why should I use...
over a year ago
A beginner's guide to TypeScript. What is TypeScript? What problems does it solve? Why should I use it?
A Beautiful Site
The SimpleImage library for PHP
If you love working with PHP but hate the GD library, you'll love the Simple Image PHP class I'm...
over a year ago
If you love working with PHP but hate the GD library, you'll love the Simple Image PHP class I'm releasing today. This class takes the headache out of dealing with images and features over 25 useful methods.
The class is incredibly simple to use. The following two lines will...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
“That’s Another Podcast”
I’ve long been a fan of the Rich Ziade / Paul Ford podcast duo. They did Track Changes then The...
a year ago
I’ve long been a fan of the Rich Ziade / Paul Ford podcast duo. They did Track Changes then The Postlight Podcast then The Aboard Podcast then Ziade+Ford, and now (again?) The Aboard Podcast.
Through all my listening, one thing I’ve noticed is that they often make comedic...
Don Melton
Happy twentieth to Safari and WebKit
Safari and WebKit aren’t teenagers anymore. I just want to make note of that. To quote a previous...
over a year ago
Safari and WebKit aren’t teenagers anymore. I just want to make note of that. To quote a previous post:
On June 25, 2001, I arrived at Apple Computer to lead the effort in building a new Web browser. It was also Ken Kocienda’s first day on the job, both at Apple and on that same...
Acko.net
In Search of Sophistication
Cultural Assimilation, Theory vs Practice
The other day, I read the following, shared 22,000+ times...
over a year ago
Cultural Assimilation, Theory vs Practice
The other day, I read the following, shared 22,000+ times on social media:
"Broken English is a sign of courage and intelligence, and it would be nice if more people remembered that when interacting with immigrants and refugees."
This...
Irrational...
Running your engineering onboarding program.
Most companies say that it takes three to six months for newly hired engineers to fully ramp...
a year ago
Most companies say that it takes three to six months for newly hired engineers to fully ramp up.
Engineering leaders know it’s impolitic to admit that it takes their team longer than three to six months to onboard new engineers,
so that’s what they say out loud, but they...
Josh Comeau's blog
The Front-End Developer's Guide to the Terminal
If you want to learn a modern JavaScript framework like React or Angular, you better be familiar...
over a year ago
If you want to learn a modern JavaScript framework like React or Angular, you better be familiar with the terminal! So many frameworks and tools assume that you're proficient with it, without ever explaining it. This blog post is your missing manual, covering all of the most...
The Changelog
Managing an External Display on Linux Shouldn’t Be This Hard
I first started using Linux and FreeBSD on laptops in the late 1990s. Back then, there were all...
over a year ago
I first started using Linux and FreeBSD on laptops in the late 1990s. Back then, there were all sorts of hassles and problems, from hangs on suspend to pure failure to boot. I still worry a bit about suspend on unknown hardware, but by and large, the picture of Linux on laptops...
Irrational...
Refining strategy with Wardley Mapping.
The first time I heard about Wardley Mapping was
from Charity Majors discussing it on Twitter.
Of...
17 hours ago
The first time I heard about Wardley Mapping was
from Charity Majors discussing it on Twitter.
Of the three core strategy refinement techniques,
this is the technique that I’ve personally used the least.
Despite that, I decided to include it in this book because it
highlights how...
Ruud van Asseldonk
A type system for RCL, part 1: Introduction
5 months ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Two Quick Tips When Building With React Router
I’ve been working with the latest Remix-ification of React Router and there are two things I wish I...
10 months ago
I’ve been working with the latest Remix-ification of React Router and there are two things I wish I had known when I started.
So I’m writing them down in case anyone else is about to start a React Router app.
1. Flat Action Data When Using JSON
If you’re submitting JSON,...
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Profile on Livecycle.io Devx Project
I was interviewed for Livecycle's DevX interview series here. Reproducing for posterity.
over a year ago
I was interviewed for Livecycle's DevX interview series here. Reproducing for posterity.
A Beautiful Site
I should have been asking my users this from the start
Feedback is critical to an app's success. How will you know what to fix or improve on if your users...
over a year ago
Feedback is critical to an app's success. How will you know what to fix or improve on if your users don't tell you? It seems obvious, but here is something I should have been asking my users from the start.
Getting the right feedback is critical #
When someone signs up for my...
PostHog's RSS Feed
The two ways to estimate your monthly event usage
When talking through our editions and pricing options with potential customers I'm often asked "How...
over a year ago
When talking through our editions and pricing options with potential customers I'm often asked "How can I estimate my event count?" If you're not…
MMapped blog
Fungible tokens: payment flows
over a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Stop Using Hamburger Menus (Sometimes)
Stop Using Hamburger Menus (Sometimes)
2023-05-05
I recently tooted about my hatred of website...
a year ago
Stop Using Hamburger Menus (Sometimes)
2023-05-05
I recently tooted about my hatred of website hamburger menus which was met with a surprising amount of support from other users. It seems like most people don’t actually like hamburger menus. So why do we, as developers, keep...
Founder's blog
ChatGPT won't "kill Google" because Google is already dead
I have just conducted an experiment where I forced myself to use Bing's new chat-based search for...
a year ago
I have just conducted an experiment where I forced myself to use Bing's new chat-based search for almost a week, and spoiler alert: I loved it. But I'll get into that later.
Googling without Google
When was the last time you searched Google and found the answer on the...
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You Should Have A Virtual Mailbox
If you fit one of these criteria:
11 months ago
If you fit one of these criteria:
PostHog's RSS Feed
Product engineer vs software engineer: How are they different?
Software companies are changing. Where once product managers and software engineers dominated, now a...
a year ago
Software companies are changing. Where once product managers and software engineers dominated, now a new role is emerging: the product engineer…
Oxide Computer...
How Oxide Cuts Data Center Power Consumption in Half
Here’s a sobering thought: today, data centers already consume 1-2% of the world’s power, and that...
a month ago
Here’s a sobering thought: today, data centers already consume 1-2% of the world’s power, and that percentage will likely rise to 3-4% by the end of the decade. According to Goldman Sachs research, that rise will include a doubling in data center carbon dioxide emissions. As the...
Irrational...
Getting a job as an engineering executive.
I started my first executive job search when I was 25.
Eventually, I got an offer to lead...
a year ago
I started my first executive job search when I was 25.
Eventually, I got an offer to lead engineering at a startup with four engineers,
which I turned down to join Uber.
It wasn’t until a decade later that I joined Calm and started my first executive role.
If you start...
somenice
Mammoth Mountain Logo
Ooof. Hard to believe this would have passed all the checks and balances to get appropriated...
a year ago
Ooof. Hard to believe this would have passed all the checks and balances to get appropriated approved. It’s not a stretch to say that a California ski resort has naively combined two M’s to form a crown but to outright copy a symbol used repeatedly by one of the highest selling...
bt RSS Feed
Menu Toggle with Pure CSS
Menu Toggle with Pure CSS
2020-10-19
When thinking through navigation designs for mobile devices...
over a year ago
Menu Toggle with Pure CSS
2020-10-19
When thinking through navigation designs for mobile devices sometimes the best option is to store away the content behind a toggle button. This button would then display the menu items upon interaction. Let me show you how to create such an...
PostHog's RSS Feed
What launching Experimentation taught us about running effective A/B tests
We just launched our Experimentation suite, and there's a ton we learned about running successful...
over a year ago
We just launched our Experimentation suite, and there's a ton we learned about running successful experiments. It was a no brainer product decision…
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Why I Enjoy Svelte
Reasons I enjoy Svelte, despite not using it for work.
over a year ago
Reasons I enjoy Svelte, despite not using it for work.
Liz Denys
6/8 time, beat on the dotted quarter, 60 bpm
My subconscious seems to be running in 6/8 time with the beat on the dotted quarter and 60 beats per...
over a year ago
My subconscious seems to be running in 6/8 time with the beat on the dotted quarter and 60 beats per minute; at least, whenever I sit down at a piano without sheet music in front of me, I always converge on that setting. Sometimes, I write some of these musings down:
I've...
HTMHell
HTMHAIL
by Léonie Watson
Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike...
Can you give me the HTML for an...
3 weeks ago
by Léonie Watson
Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike...
Can you give me the HTML for an accessible button please?
It was a simple enough question. Or it would have been, had I been asking another person. As it was, I was asking ChatGPT, and so of course there was nothing...
Kagi Blog
Updates to Kagi pricing plans - More searches, unrestricted AI tools
We are thrilled to announce significant enhancements to our pricing plans, taking effect...
a year ago
We are thrilled to announce significant enhancements to our pricing plans, taking effect immediately.
Making software...
ThriftyName: $5 Brand Names
ThriftyName: $5 Brand Names
2021-02-25
It's been a while since I've written anything on this blog,...
over a year ago
ThriftyName: $5 Brand Names
2021-02-25
It's been a while since I've written anything on this blog, but for good reason - I've been working on a handful of side projects. I plan to drip-feed release these projects over time, but for today I'm announcing ThriftyName.
What is...
A Beautiful Site
Parsing URLs in JavaScript
There's an excellent trick to parsing URLs in JavaScript, which was introduced last year by John...
over a year ago
There's an excellent trick to parsing URLs in JavaScript, which was introduced last year by John Long over on GitHub. This technique works great, but the resulting search property will be a raw query string. This isn't very useful if you need to access certain variables in said...
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Write My Code For Me
_My thoughts to self while weighing adding `netlify functions:create` to Netlify Dev. [Originally a...
over a year ago
_My thoughts to self while weighing adding `netlify functions:create` to Netlify Dev. [Originally a gist](https://gist.github.com/sw-yx/6f97b9d7f3efbfad4c8e5b8a14b5bd27)_
swyx's site RSS Feed
What You Can Do with Netlify Build Plugins
Netlify Build Plugins are here! Here's a smattering of thoughts on what you can do with them.
over a year ago
Netlify Build Plugins are here! Here's a smattering of thoughts on what you can do with them.
David Gerrells
too many birthdays
I have a hard enough time remembering to take the trash out let alone the birthdays of my massive...
over a year ago
I have a hard enough time remembering to take the trash out let alone the birthdays of my massive family. Does this make me a bad uncle?
Oxide Computer...
A Gap in the TrustZone preset settings for the LPC55S69
We’re very excited to have announced
the general availability of our cloud computer. As part of this...
a year ago
We’re very excited to have announced
the general availability of our cloud computer. As part of this work, we
continue to build on top of the LPC55S69 from NXP as our Root of Trust. We’ve
discovered some gaps when using TrustZone preset settings on the LPC55S69 that
can allow for...
blag
Recurse Center Day 16: Open Source
merged few open pull requests on my projects
over a year ago
merged few open pull requests on my projects
Joel Gascoigne
10 lessons from my startup journey so far
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over a year ago
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It’s almost exactly a year since I started documenting my startup lessons
learned through this blog, and since my first post last November, I’ve blogged
26 times. I’ve been lucky enough to have...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Ranking #1 on HN in Mid April
I last wrote about Ranking #1 on HN in December, and wanted to offer an update from my mild hit...
a year ago
I last wrote about Ranking #1 on HN in December, and wanted to offer an update from my mild hit today. I am now taking Latent Space (the new name enabled by the previous owner of that domain selling it to me in my first P2P domain purchase) a lot more seriously with the support...
Joel Gascoigne
Beware of the social ideas
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
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Last time I wrote about how to start your startup in 4 steps
[https://joel.is/post/5507881155/how-to-start-your-startup-in-4-steps], and the
first step I mention is to “Have an idea”. This can...
Julia Evans
In a git repository, where do your files live?
Hello! I was talking to a friend about how git works today, and we got onto the
topic – where does...
a year ago
Hello! I was talking to a friend about how git works today, and we got onto the
topic – where does git store your files? We know that it’s in your .git
directory, but where exactly in there are all the versions of your old files?
For example, this blog is in a git repository, and...
David Heinemeier...
For what it'll make of you
I've always had an ambivalent relationship with goals. I don't like goals that feel like checkpoints...
4 months ago
I've always had an ambivalent relationship with goals. I don't like goals that feel like checkpoints on a treadmill. They make you reach for a million dollars in revenue, celebrate for a second, and then turn the chase to five million the minute after. No thanks. But specific,...
37signals Dev
Announcing Hotwire Native
As Rails World 2024 is about to begin, we have an exciting Hotwire announcement! We’re launching a...
3 months ago
As Rails World 2024 is about to begin, we have an exciting Hotwire announcement! We’re launching a brand new, yet familiar, framework for building hybrid mobile apps.
Background
But first, let me provide some context. Last year, shortly before Rails World 2023, we open sourced...
Coding Horror
The Great Filter Comes For Us All
With a 13 billion year head start on evolution, why haven't any other forms of life in the universe...
a month ago
With a 13 billion year head start on evolution, why haven't any other forms of life in the universe contacted us by now?
teaching the aliens how to exit Vim
(Arrival is a fantastic movie. Watch it, but don't stop there - read the Story of
Joel on Software
So, how’s that retirement thing going, anyway?
For the last couple of months, Prashanth Chandrasekar has been getting settled in as the new CEO of...
over a year ago
For the last couple of months, Prashanth Chandrasekar has been getting settled in as the new CEO of Stack Overflow. I’m still going on some customer calls… Read more "So, how’s that retirement thing going, anyway?"
ntietz.com blog
Introducing Hurl, a terrible (but cute) idea for a language
Sometimes we have ideas that are bad but demand to enter reality. A few months ago, while chatting...
a year ago
Sometimes we have ideas that are bad but demand to enter reality. A few months ago, while chatting with a friend, we toyed around with the idea of a language where the only control flow you get is error handling. This idea embedded itself in my brain and wouldn't let me go, so I...
Epic Web Dev
Testing Accessibility with Keyboard (article)
Learn how to improve keyboard accessibility in web apps, ensuring an inclusive experience for all...
3 months ago
Learn how to improve keyboard accessibility in web apps, ensuring an inclusive experience for all users, including those using assistive technologies.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Language-Level Toll Roads
I’m trying to put my finger on something, but I can’t quite figure out what it is — hence this post....
a year ago
I’m trying to put my finger on something, but I can’t quite figure out what it is — hence this post. Maybe by the end of writing, I’ll have figured it out.
Deno recently launched their KV storage. Being a fan of deno, I looked at it with interest. Here’s a sample:
const kv =...
TokyoDev
僕がDoorkeeperを売却した理由について
This article is also available [in...
over a year ago
This article is also available [in...
the singularity is...
Tech Heroin
Curtis dropped this post today, and I love the analogy. Liberals sell heroin, conservatives sell...
12 months ago
Curtis dropped this post today, and I love the analogy. Liberals sell heroin, conservatives sell cocaine.
Techno-Optimism is cocaine. Atlas Shrugged is cocaine. Futurism is cocaine.
I am a progressive. A liberal. I believe in progress.
I am not a conservative. Conservatives lose....
Joel Gascoigne
Raising funding as a first-time founder
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over a year ago
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I’ve been fortunate enough to meet with some outstanding first-time
entrepreneurs on a few different days during this week. In almost every case I
can really feel the passion and determination...
alexwlchan
Launching a rocket in the worst possible way
Last month, NASA made headlines as they (finally) launched their SLS rocket as part of the Artemis 1...
over a year ago
Last month, NASA made headlines as they (finally) launched their SLS rocket as part of the Artemis 1 mission.
The long and expensive development of SLS has been the subject of much debate, and caused a lot of online rage.
I will now induce similar rage at a fraction of the...
Dan Slimmon
I was on the Slight Reliability podcast!
Thanks very much to host Stephen Townshend of Slight Reliability podcast. We talked about incident...
9 months ago
Thanks very much to host Stephen Townshend of Slight Reliability podcast. We talked about incident response, diagnosis, and looking for trouble. It was very chill! Full 28-minute episode:
Joel Gascoigne
Snowmelt meetings
“When spring comes, snow melts first at the periphery, because that is where it is most exposed” -...
over a year ago
“When spring comes, snow melts first at the periphery, because that is where it is most exposed” - Andy Grove
This quote comes from Andy Grove, Intel’s former CEO, and which I was reminded of in the most recent book I finished reading, Seeing Around Corners
Stephen Wolfram...
Observer Theory
The Concept of the Observer We call it perception. We call it measurement. We call it analysis. But...
a year ago
The Concept of the Observer We call it perception. We call it measurement. We call it analysis. But in the end it’s about how we take the world as it is, and derive from it the impression of it that we have in our minds. We might have thought that we could do science “purely […]
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...
10 months 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.
Patrick Kayongo
Stimela
23 June 1898. Mqanduli, Tembuland. “But who’s going to teach our sons to become men?” Gcinikhaya...
a year ago
23 June 1898. Mqanduli, Tembuland. “But who’s going to teach our sons to become men?” Gcinikhaya asked this while squashing the newspaper within her clenched fist. Her lips were quivering, her face contorted to hold back the tears of anger and fear. “My brother went to the mines...
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HogMail #22: Why do companies over-hire?"
Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product...
a year ago
Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product guides, and curated articles on building great products…
Irrational...
Performance & Compensation (for Eng Execs).
Uber’s original performance process was called “T3B3” and was remarkably simple: write the...
a year ago
Uber’s original performance process was called “T3B3” and was remarkably simple: write the individuals top 3 strengths, and top 3 weaknesses, and share the feedback with them directly in person. There was a prolonged fight against even documenting the feedback, which was viewed...
Julia Evans
Some Go web dev notes
I spent a lot of time in the past couple of weeks working on a website in Go
that may or may not...
3 months ago
I spent a lot of time in the past couple of weeks working on a website in Go
that may or may not ever see the light of day, but I learned a couple of things
along the way I wanted to write down. Here they are:
go 1.22 now has better routing
I’ve never felt motivated to learn any...
tonsky.me
Local, first, forever
So I was at the Local-First Conf the other day, listening to Martin Kleppmann, and this slide caught...
6 months ago
So I was at the Local-First Conf the other day, listening to Martin Kleppmann, and this slide caught my attention:
Specifically, this part:
But first, some context.
What is local-first?
For the long version, go to Ink & Switch, who coined the term. Or listen for Peter van...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Sriracha Fight!! 🥊
At the birthplace of the famous rooster sauce. by
Paul Narvaez
(CC-By-2.0)
There’s plenty...
a year ago
At the birthplace of the famous rooster sauce. by
Paul Narvaez
(CC-By-2.0)
There’s plenty of sriracha—unless you’re looking for the brand anyone
wants.
Huy Fong Foods, Inc’s Sriracha vanished from stores, and they have
no idea when it’ll be back.
So, driven by the...
the jsomers.net blog
Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems
The obvious benefit to working quickly is that you'll finish more stuff per unit time. But there's...
over a year ago
The obvious benefit to working quickly is that you'll finish more stuff per unit time. But there's more to it than that. If you work quickly, the cost of doing something new will seem lower in your mind. So you'll be inclined to do more. The converse is true, too. If every time...
Steve Klabnik
Resque 1.25.0.pre has been released
over a year ago
Tinloof - Blog
How to dynamically create a sitemap with Sanity and Remix
In this article, we will explain how to dynamically create a sitemap using both Sanity and...
over a year ago
In this article, we will explain how to dynamically create a sitemap using both Sanity and Remix.
We’ll learn by following an existing example of a sitemap built for Heavybit’s website, a San Francisco-based VC whose website is built with both technologies.
Remix is a React...
Ink & Switch
01 · Universal version control
We believe that simple, powerful, universal version control tools could help all kinds of creators...
10 months ago
We believe that simple, powerful, universal version control tools could help all kinds of creators produce better work.
Jake Zimmerman
What if typing on phones was fast?
a month ago
macwright.com
The S&P 500 is largely a historical artifact
I see the S&P 500 referenced pretty frequently as an vanilla index for people investing. This isn’t...
9 months ago
I see the S&P 500 referenced pretty frequently as an vanilla index for people investing. This isn’t totally wrong, which is why this post is short. But, if you have the goal of just “investing in the market,” there’s a better option for doing that: a total market index. For...
Epic Web Dev
How the Epic Stack Makes You Faster
Streamline web choices, build top-notch apps efficiently.
a year ago
Streamline web choices, build top-notch apps efficiently.
Alice GG
Atlas: Declarative schemas for SQL databases
Database migrations are often one of the most dreaded parts of working with SQL databases.
In many...
a year ago
Database migrations are often one of the most dreaded parts of working with SQL databases.
In many cases, teams end up keeping a bunch of timestamped .sql files and automatically running them in order.
While this work, it doesn’t scale well: the more developers you have working...
David Heinemeier...
Microsoft taught Apple nothing
Apple is protecting its App Store racket with the same kind of indignant entitlement that...
11 months ago
Apple is protecting its App Store racket with the same kind of indignant entitlement that characterized Microsoft during its darkest monopoly days. They’re in full “cut off the air supply” mode in Cupertino, pursuing Epic for a $73m legal bill in a lawsuit they partially lost....
Steve Klabnik
A case study in being excellent: Divvy
over a year ago
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How we built our onboarding email flow (with actual performance data)
Marketers believe onboarding emails are a powerful tool for driving engagement. Everyone else thinks...
10 months ago
Marketers believe onboarding emails are a powerful tool for driving engagement. Everyone else thinks they're annoying and ineffective. The truth, as…
PostHog's RSS Feed
The time before YC
I'm James , and I work with Tim . We are the co-founders of PostHog - a current batch YC company....
over a year ago
I'm James , and I work with Tim . We are the co-founders of PostHog - a current batch YC company. This is us (I'm on the right), just after we got…
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...
6 months 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...
Josh Comeau's blog
Understanding the JavaScript Modulo Operator
One of the most commonly-misunderstood operators is Modulo (%). In this tutorial, we'll unpack...
a year ago
One of the most commonly-misunderstood operators is Modulo (%). In this tutorial, we'll unpack exactly what this little bugger does, and learn how it can help us solve practical problems.
swyx's site RSS Feed
How To Learn In Private
Of course I don't think that everything should be public. I don't even think everyone should Learn...
over a year ago
Of course I don't think that everything should be public. I don't even think everyone should Learn In Public. The majority of the time you are still learning in private. Here are some thoughts on how to do it well.
Writing - Andreas...
Why I don’t give investment advice
When people ask for advice on personal investing, I’ve found they are
either looking for...
a year ago
When people ask for advice on personal investing, I’ve found they are
either looking for confirmation that what they do is great (it’s usually
not) or some sort of secret sauce for outperforming the market (which
doesn’t exist). So people are inevitably disappointed by the...
Charles Chen
TypeScript is not a Programming Language
If you're struggling with TypeScript, reshaping your perspective might help.
a year ago
If you're struggling with TypeScript, reshaping your perspective might help.
Liz Denys
Seeing every BAM Next Wave Festival show
From October to December of last year, I saw a lot of shows at the Brooklyn Academy of Music -...
over a year ago
From October to December of last year, I saw a lot of shows at the Brooklyn Academy of Music - specifically, I saw all 26 of the Next Wave Festival productions.
I've been coming to BAM regularly since I moved to New York in 2011, and Next Wave is always an exciting time of year...
samwho.dev
Turing Machines
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2 weeks ago
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Clear the barnacles
The easiest way to squander your focus is by paying attention to a million inconsequential things at...
a year ago
The easiest way to squander your focus is by paying attention to a million inconsequential things at once. These little mental barnacles add up in imperceptible ways until you suddenly feel like you're getting nowhere, no matter how hard you push. You must keep scrubbing your...
A Smart Bear
Excuse me, is there a problem?
Many startups fail despite identifying a real problem and building a product that solves that...
a year ago
Many startups fail despite identifying a real problem and building a product that solves that problem. This explains why, so you can avoid their fate.
bt RSS Feed
Icons Should be Complementary - Text is Always Better
Icons Should be Complementary - Text is Always Better
2021-12-17
Designing1 software is a complex...
over a year ago
Icons Should be Complementary - Text is Always Better
2021-12-17
Designing1 software is a complex thing. A great deal of real-world testing and user feedback is needed to create the best solution to the problem you are trying to fix. Obvious requirements are to keep things...
TokyoDev
Hiring a Japanese Virtual Assistant
As someone [running a small business in Japan](/articles/creating-company-japan), I've hired several...
over a year ago
As someone [running a small business in Japan](/articles/creating-company-japan), I've hired several Japanese virtual assistants to help me with various small tasks. Especially if you're not a fluent Japanese speaker, knowing where to look for one can be tricky, so I'll share my...
Kagi Blog
Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month
This year has been extraordinary for Kagi ( https://kagi.com ).
a year ago
This year has been extraordinary for Kagi ( https://kagi.com ).
Joel Gascoigne
How to gain traction in two sided markets
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over a year ago
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buyers for the sellers to be interested,...
HTMHell
#13 link or label
Bad code
<input type="checkbox" id="accept" required>
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over a year ago
Bad code
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Issues and how to fix them
It’s bad practice to nest elements with activation behavior (e.g. click).
Users don’t expect a new...
Ralph Ammer
Bergson — Why we live in the past
Should we just live in the moment? In “Matter and Memory” the French philosopher Henri Bergson...
2 months ago
Should we just live in the moment? In “Matter and Memory” the French philosopher Henri Bergson claims that this is not even possible. 1. Perception is physical First of all: How do we perceive the “current moment” anyway? Bergson suggests that the whole point of perception is...
Don Melton
Sweet sixteen for Safari and WebKit
On June 25, 2001, I arrived at Apple Computer to lead the effort in building a new Web browser. It...
over a year ago
On June 25, 2001, I arrived at Apple Computer to lead the effort in building a new Web browser. It was also Ken Kocienda’s first day on the job, both at Apple and on that same project with me.
For that reason, Ken and I have always considered our start date to be when Safari and...
HTMHell
#17 inaccessible cards
Context: A list of linked cards, each with heading, image, and teaser text.
Bad code
<section>
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over a year ago
Context: A list of linked cards, each with heading, image, and teaser text.
Bad code
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Engineer’s Codex
4 lessons from software teams that ship fast
Software engineering provides a lot of leverage. A small team can generate a disproportionate amount...
a year ago
Software engineering provides a lot of leverage. A small team can generate a disproportionate amount of value or impact a huge number of users. For example, Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers, back in 2011. Examples of teams that ship fast
blag
Recurse Center Day 17
Disk Storage I
over a year ago
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$120k in Infoproduct Sales - How to Extend the Long Tail
*This post originated as [an AMA on...
over a year ago
*This post originated as [an AMA on IndieHackers](https://www.indiehackers.com/post/made-121-326-since-launching-my-book-last-july-63-of-it-after-launch-month-ama-about-long-tail-infoproducts-41b55f5670)*
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