Kevin Chen
Saving six round trips with OCSP stapling
I was trying to figure out why my site was so slow on my phone after I enabled
HTTPS. After all, TLS...
25th Aug 2017
I was trying to figure out why my site was so slow on my phone after I enabled
HTTPS. After all, TLS is supposed to be fast now, right? But
even when there was plenty of bandwidth, it still took several seconds to load a
page of text.
One WebPageTest later, and I found the...
Ink & Switch
Pixelpusher: Real-time peer-to-peer collaboration with React
Documenting the Pixelpusher project for real-time peer-to-peer collaboration
1st Feb 2018
Documenting the Pixelpusher project for real-time peer-to-peer collaboration
Sebastian Witowski
Upgrade Your Python Version
Here is an idea for a completely free[1] speed improvement for your code - upgrade your Python...
14th Nov 2022
Here is an idea for a completely free[1] speed improvement for your code - upgrade your Python version!
I started this series of articles using Python 3.8, but today we already have version 3.11. Python 3.11 is the first version of Python that brings pretty significant speed...
Liz Denys
L'Insurrection qui vient
I can trace different periods of my life back to the music with which I decided to fill my ears and...
7th Jun 2010
I can trace different periods of my life back to the music with which I decided to fill my ears and the stories towards which I let my eyes venture. Rereading tends to bring a part of me back to previous points in times, and occasionally, I partake in this.
But there are few...
tonsky.me
Logo: Squawkbox
Squawkbox is a boiler fleet monitor.
14th Jul 2026
Squawkbox is a boiler fleet monitor.
Making software...
Clickable Links Inside XML
Clickable Links Inside XML
2022-06-20
With the recent patch to the Shinobi Website project, I...
20th Jun 2022
Clickable Links Inside XML
2022-06-20
With the recent patch 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...
Buttondown's blog
Typescript-friendly label fallbacks
Here's a quick workaround that keeps Typescript happy.
2nd Mar 2023
Here's a quick workaround that keeps Typescript happy.
Sebastian Witowski
Checking for True or False
How do you check if something is True in Python? There are three ways:
One "bad" way: if variable ==...
1st Oct 2020
How do you check if something is True in Python? There are three ways:
One "bad" way: if variable == True:
Another "bad" way: if variable is True:
And the good way, recommended even in the Programming Recommendations of PEP8: if variable:
The "bad" ways are not only frowned upon...
Nelson's Weblog
What are passkeys?
That’s the post. What are passkeys? I don’t have answers, just
questions. I believe passkeys are...
18th May 2023
That’s the post. What are passkeys? I don’t have answers, just
questions. I believe passkeys are a
great idea but the tech world is doing a terrible job explaining
them. Someone really needs to explain how passkeys work in Internet
products. Existing
descriptions aren’t sinking...
Buttondown's blog
Granular tracking settings
Authors now have more control than ever over their data collection
6th Feb 2022
Authors now have more control than ever over their data collection
Vadim Kravcenko
🎭 Owning up to your mistakes
Some self reflection on owning up to your mistakes. A few weeks ago my business partner Jakob...
19th Apr 2022
Some self reflection on owning up to your mistakes. A few weeks ago my business partner Jakob mentioned that I […]
The post 🎭 Owning up to your mistakes appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Brendan Gregg's Blog
No More Blue Fridays
In the future, computers will not crash due to bad software updates, even those updates that involve...
21st Jul 2024
In the future, computers will not crash due to bad software updates, even those updates that involve kernel code. In the future, these updates will push eBPF code.
Friday July 19th provided an unprecedented example of the inherent dangers of kernel programming, and has been...
Sedimental
The Many Layers of Packaging
The packaging gradient, and why PyPI isn't an app store.
Update: I turned this post into a talk. The...
9th May 2017
The packaging gradient, and why PyPI isn't an app store.
Update: I turned this post into a talk. The video from PyBay is
here, the slides are available here. The
long-cut video from BayPiggies is coming, but the
"Extended Edition" slides are here.
One lesson threaded...
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - December 2023
This is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Dec 2023
This is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in November - Started writing some essays about online work, dependability, tools, and craft on t...
Kagi Blog
Kagi search features
*New* : More features in our Dec 22 update ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-search-dec22-update ) and...
31st May 2022
*New* : More features in our Dec 22 update ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-search-dec22-update ) and May 23 update ( https://blog.kagi.com/search-enhancements ).
James Vaughan's blog
Micro reviews: Bun, Cursor, Cloudflare Pages, and more
14th Oct 2023
Tyler Cipriani: blog
The Pull Request
A brief and biased history.
Oh yeah, there’s pull requests now
– GitHub blog, Sat,
23 Feb 2008
When...
31st Aug 2024
A brief and biased history.
Oh yeah, there’s pull requests now
– GitHub blog, Sat,
23 Feb 2008
When GitHub launched, it had no code review.
Three
years after launch, in 2011, GitHub user rtomayko
became the first person to make a real code comment, which read, in
full:...
Buttondown's blog
NaNoWriMo and the creative power of looming fear
A cross between a marathon and a literary block party.
1st Nov 2025
A cross between a marathon and a literary block party.
The Pragmatic...
Big Tech job-switching stats
Which companies grew their software engineering headcount, which ones shrank, and how has the...
3rd Mar 2023
Which companies grew their software engineering headcount, which ones shrank, and how has the “open-to-new-opportunities” ratio shifted across Big Tech? I collaborated with a recruiter to find out, and the data is in.
Tinloof - Blog
Perfecting the design handover process
At Tinloof, we aim for seamless and efficient design handoffs, drawing from our experience...
2nd Oct 2023
At Tinloof, we aim for seamless and efficient design handoffs, drawing from our experience completing dozens of projects.
Our ultimate goal is a "0 questions asked" handoff, akin to an improved IKEA assembly experience.
In this article, we'll explore the three core sections...
The Pragmatic...
Behind the Scenes with Two New Salary Transparency Websites
On the back of US salary transparency regulations, two new salary transparency websites have...
6th Apr 2023
On the back of US salary transparency regulations, two new salary transparency websites have launched, built by the creators of Levels.fyi and Layoffs.fyi. I talked to both teams to learn how they were developed.
Darek Kay
Style your RSS feed
RSS is not dead. It is not mainstream, but it's still a thriving protocol, especially among tech...
20th Jun 2023
RSS is not dead. It is not mainstream, but it's still a thriving protocol, especially among tech users. However, many people do not know what RSS feeds are or how to use them. Most browsers render RSS as raw XML files, which doesn't help users understand what it's all about:
In...
alexwlchan
How Tailscale tracked down a 16-year-old SQLite bug →
I wrote a post for the Tailscale blog about a long-running series of corruption incidents, and how...
13th Aug 2026
I wrote a post for the Tailscale blog about a long-running series of corruption incidents, and how they eventually led us to find an SQLite bug that predates my entire programming career.
I’m incredibly proud of this, both the work and the blog post.
Before Tailscale, I was...
Buttondown's blog
Archive search
Archive search
1st Jul 2024
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Daylight confusion week
Time is a river. A violent current of events.
– Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Here we are again:...
29th Oct 2023
Time is a river. A violent current of events.
– Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Here we are again: Daylight Confusion Week.
Much of Europe ends Daylight Savings Time today.
But North America will neglect their clocks for another week. And for
us remoties, that means next week’s...
TokyoDev
Good Design Sells Open Source
I updated my blog from my own homebrew Rails application to
[Octopress](http://octopress.org/), a...
7th Aug 2011
I updated my blog from my own homebrew Rails application to
[Octopress](http://octopress.org/), a blogging framework backed by the
static site generator [Jekyll](http://jekyllrb.com/). I first read about
Octopress a couple of weeks ago on Hacker News. Although Octopress
appealed...
David Heinemeier...
Pay yourself first
There'll always be more emails in need of reply, more meetings to attend, and more updates to read....
4th Oct 2025
There'll always be more emails in need of reply, more meetings to attend, and more updates to read. A person can fill the entire workweek with these tasks over and over again. But to stay sane and sharp, you must pay yourself first by doing the work that actually means something...
Engineer’s Codex
How to Not Write "Garbage Code" (by Linus Torvalds)
Linus Torvalds, Creator of Git and Linux, on reducing cognitive load
12th Sep 2025
Linus Torvalds, Creator of Git and Linux, on reducing cognitive load
Writing - Andreas...
Early-stage engineering
Early on you need to be fast. And to do that you have to have the
confidence to break with best...
1st Oct 2023
Early on you need to be fast. And to do that you have to have the
confidence to break with best practices.
markround.com
Amiga Systems Programming in 2023
Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs
If you ever get a chance to look through the...
30th Aug 2023
Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs
If you ever get a chance to look through the classic Amiga OS source-code still floating around some murky corners of the internet, it is a thing of beauty and astonishing capabilities. It’s an inspirational piece of computing...
James Vaughan's blog
Saving $167,000 on Groceries
26th Feb 2018
Irrational...
Who gets to do strategy?
If you talk to enough aspiring leaders, you’ll become familiar with
the prevalent idea that they...
6th Mar 2025
If you talk to enough aspiring leaders, you’ll become familiar with
the prevalent idea that they need to be promoted before they can
work on strategy. It’s a truism, but I’ve also found this idea
perfectly wrong: you can work on strategy from anywhere in an organization,
it just...
Making software...
Proper UI Hierarchy
Proper UI Hierarchy
2019-02-05
I often feel like an old man when I complain about flat design and...
5th Feb 2019
Proper UI Hierarchy
2019-02-05
I often feel like an old man when I complain about flat design and how designers these days have lost (or willfully forgotten) the skill to create accessible UIs with proper visual hierarchy. A skill which at it's core seems so simple - yet is...
Making software...
This Site is Now a Shinobi Website
This Site is Now a Shinobi Website
2022-05-13
Update 2023: this website is now built with barf
My...
13th May 2022
This Site is Now a Shinobi Website
2022-05-13
Update 2023: this website is now built with barf
My personal website is now an RSS-focused blog, generated from a collection of plain text files.
But before we get into greater details about the switch, let me first introduce the...
Irrational...
Predictability.
Right now I’m reading Michael S. Malone’s The Big Score, and one thing that I love about it is how...
1st Jan 2024
Right now I’m reading Michael S. Malone’s The Big Score, and one thing that I love about it is how much it believes that key individuals drive and create industries. It’s an infectious belief, and a necessary one to write a concise, coherent narrative story about the origins of...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Repos that always pass their tests
Losing faith in your build hobbles a software project. Continual test
failures create alarm...
17th Feb 2022
Losing faith in your build hobbles a software project. Continual test
failures create alarm fatigue—people habituate to ignoring test
results.
Ignoring your tests creates an apathy spiral: more breakage, more
failure, more apathy, resulting in decreased velocity. Fortunately,...
Daniel Immke
The “je ne sais quoi” of TikTok
Note: When I originally wrote this post, TikTok oEmbeds did not auto-play. I recommend pausing them...
2nd Sep 2022
Note: When I originally wrote this post, TikTok oEmbeds did not auto-play. I recommend pausing them and pressing play when ready to view…
Words and Buttons...
Check if your performance intuition still works with CUDA
An interactive quiz about microoptimizations in CUDA. 10 rounds, two pieces of code per each, you...
1st Jun 2021
An interactive quiz about microoptimizations in CUDA. 10 rounds, two pieces of code per each, you get to guess which is the faster.
Marco.org
Developer relations
Apple’s leaders
continue
to
deny
developers
of two obvious truths:
That our apps provide substantial...
3rd Jun 2021
Apple’s leaders
continue
to
deny
developers
of two obvious truths:
That our apps provide substantial value to iOS beyond the purchase commissions collected by Apple.
That any portion of our customers came to our apps from our own marketing or reputation, rather than the App...
alexwlchan
Detecting AV1-encoded videos with Python
In my previous post, I wrote about how I’ve saved some AV1-encoded videos that I can’t play on my...
8th Nov 2025
In my previous post, I wrote about how I’ve saved some AV1-encoded videos that I can’t play on my iPhone.
Eventually, I’ll upgrade to a new iPhone which supports AV1, but in the meantime, I want to convert all of those videos to an older codec.
The problem is finding all the...
Marco.org
Low Power Mode for Mac laptops: making the case again
In light of today’s rumor that a Pro Mode may be coming that seems to offer benefits in the opposite...
14th Jan 2020
In light of today’s rumor that a Pro Mode may be coming that seems to offer benefits in the opposite direction,1 I wanted to re-make the case for a Low Power Mode on macOS — and explain why now is the time.
Modern hardware constantly pushes thermal and power limits, trying to...
macwright.com
Recently
What to say about this month - well, I’m a few days
late to the Recently, because I’ve been pretty...
3rd Mar 2023
What to say about this month - well, I’m a few days
late to the Recently, because I’ve been pretty busy! Things
are good. Building products is fun but also a lot of work.
Pretty excited about what I’m working on. Ready for winter to
end.
Reading
I enjoyed reading Ross Barkan’s...
The Changelog
The Joy of Easy Personal Radio: FRS, GMRS, and Motorola DLR/DTR
Most of us carry cell phones with us almost everywhere we go. So much so that we often forget not...
15th Aug 2022
Most of us carry cell phones with us almost everywhere we go. So much so that we often forget not just the usefulness, but even the joy, of having our own radios. For instance: When traveling to national parks or other wilderness areas, family and friends can keep in touch even...
Eric Migicovsky's...
What we built at our windswept Mykonos hackathon
As a fully-remote company with 47 misfits spread across ten countries, our offsites are a vital part...
28th May 2024
As a fully-remote company with 47 misfits spread across ten countries, our offsites are a vital part of our culture. They’re a great way to get to…
Buttondown's blog
Reminding folks to confirm their subscription
Now you can gently remind your subscribers to confirm their address.
4th Nov 2019
Now you can gently remind your subscribers to confirm their address.
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: GIF decoder in SQL
An implementation of GIF decoder and ASCII renderer in PostreSQL.
The post Happy New Year: GIF...
31st Dec 2018
An implementation of GIF decoder and ASCII renderer in PostreSQL.
The post Happy New Year: GIF decoder in SQL appeared first on EXPLAIN EXTENDED.
MMapped blog
Transaction models are programming paradigms
16th Aug 2024
elementary Blog
OS 8 Now Available in Early Access
I’m super excited to let you know that OS 8 builds are available in Early Access and they are now...
6th Feb 2024
I’m super excited to let you know that OS 8 builds are available in Early Access and they are now installable! While we highly recommend you don’t run these experimental builds in production, they’re perfect for trying in a virtual machine or a spare computer. Early Access is a...
Steve Klabnik
A word about _why, Whyday, and Hackety Hack
19th Aug 2010
Eric Migicovsky's...
Andrej Karpathy's AI Autoresearch found a 3-year-old bug in PostHog's query engine (and improved...
A few weeks ago at a team offsite in Lisbon, we pointed an AI agent at our query engine, fed it slow...
1st Jun 2026
A few weeks ago at a team offsite in Lisbon, we pointed an AI agent at our query engine, fed it slow queries from production, and let it run overnight…
Jaz's Blog
Non-Empty Recursion in Elm
13th Jul 2016
Patrick Kayongo
Familiar Spirits
The eerie cold breeze from Fourways Memorial Park cemetery slips into Daudi’s open window during the...
14th Dec 2022
The eerie cold breeze from Fourways Memorial Park cemetery slips into Daudi’s open window during the fourth watch of the night. The blue radiance of the moon and the stars fill in for the lights darkened by stage 5 loadshedding. As the nighttime creatures prepare for their...
Buttondown's blog
Homepage headline test
Testing different headline variants on the index page
4th Apr 2025
Testing different headline variants on the index page
TokyoDev
Being the CTO and on the Board of Directors
July 1, 2026 marked my seventh year in Japan. Relocating to the other side of the world was not my...
2 weeks ago
July 1, 2026 marked my seventh year in Japan. Relocating to the other side of the world was not my original plan, but somehow I ended up here.
I came to fill in a high management role at an AI startup, and within a few years was appointed CTO, and then a member of the Board of...
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - September 2022
This is a monthly email about what I'm up to! ✨ Highlights of last month - Had a relaxing,...
1st Sep 2022
This is a monthly email about what I'm up to! ✨ Highlights of last month - Had a relaxing, Walden-esque week in Mexico City, spent mostly in Parque México. I spent a lot of time reading - includi...
MMapped blog
Square joy: trapped rainwater
15th Feb 2022
Coding Horror
What does Stack Overflow want to be when it grows up?
I sometimes get asked by regular people in the actual real world what it is that I do for a living,...
22nd Oct 2018
I sometimes get asked by regular people in the actual real world what it is that I do for a living, and here's my 15 second answer:
We built a sort of Wikipedia website for computer programmers to post questions and answers. It's called Stack Overflow
swyx's site RSS Feed
Swyx's Simple Guide to Singapore
A personal guide to Singapore for foreign friends visiting.
7th Sep 2023
A personal guide to Singapore for foreign friends visiting.
Seldo.com
Biographies of every US president as audiobooks
27th Sep 2019
swyx's site RSS Feed
What if Stripe is the next Google?
Working out a thought exercise by Paul Graham.
14th May 2021
Working out a thought exercise by Paul Graham.
Eliran Turgeman
Introducing Collecto - Open-Source Email Collection Service
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working on solving a problem that’s been nagging me for a...
17th Oct 2024
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working on solving a problem that’s been nagging me for a while. Whenever I wanted to launch something new or set up a waiting list, I couldn’t find a simple, flexible, and free tool to collect emails. Most options out there are either too...
Making software...
My Cheapskate Commenting System
My Cheapskate Commenting System
2022-02-03
My blog now has comments! Well, kind of...
I went down a...
3rd Feb 2022
My Cheapskate Commenting System
2022-02-03
My blog now has comments! Well, kind of...
I went down a two day long rabbit-hole trying to find the best solution for implementing comments on my static website (generated via Jekyll FYI). There are a ton of options out there and many...
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...
20th Feb 2018
How to leverage tools like snippets to speed up the development process and increase your efficiency.
Josh Collinsworth
Follow-up: the Glove80 after six months
A followup on my previous first impressions post, with an update on how the Glove80 ergonomic split...
8th Apr 2024
A followup on my previous first impressions post, with an update on how the Glove80 ergonomic split keyboard has been after about six months of daily use.
Computer Things
Some notes on for loops
New Blogpost
Don't let Alloy facts make your specs a fiction, about formal methods practices (and a...
10th Apr 2024
New Blogpost
Don't let Alloy facts make your specs a fiction, about formal methods practices (and a lot of Alloy). Patreon link here.
Some notes on for loops
I sometimes like to sharpen the axe by looking at a basic programming concept and seeing what I can pull out. In this...
A Beautiful Site
Thoughts on Framework Churn
I often worry about framework churn. A lot. But using a framework isn't a bad thing. After all, they...
16th Nov 2023
I often worry about framework churn. A lot. But using a framework isn't a bad thing. After all, they save time. They help you build things faster.
Yes, there are costs associated with frameworks later on, especially as new versions come out and your app instantly feels like...
Jordan Eldredge's...
Barbershop Happy Birthday For Amanda
I multitracked 'Happy Birthday' for my friend Amanda Ortmayer's birthday.
14th Mar 2009
I multitracked 'Happy Birthday' for my friend Amanda Ortmayer's birthday.
Tinloof - Blog
SEO best practices on Sanity
When we build a website with Sanity, we configure SEO best practices to rank higher on search engine...
5th Sep 2022
When we build a website with Sanity, we configure SEO best practices to rank higher on search engine result pages.
Blog System/5
Synology DS923+ vs. FreeBSD w/ZFS
A comparison of a home-built FreeBSD NAS with ZFS against the DS923+ storage appliance from...
13th Dec 2024
A comparison of a home-built FreeBSD NAS with ZFS against the DS923+ storage appliance from Synology.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Getting Closure on React Hooks
Learn React Hooks by building a clone of React - in 30 minutes!
11th Mar 2019
Learn React Hooks by building a clone of React - in 30 minutes!
swyx's site RSS Feed
(incomplete) Organizing AI Engineer World's Fair 2024
We have just come off a very intense production period of the first AI Engineer World's Fair, the...
29th Jun 2024
We have just come off a very intense production period of the first AI Engineer World's Fair, the large, multi-track format of the AI Engineer series of conferences that my biz partner Ben and I are building. I am historically bad at writing down lessons and thoughts, so I am...
The Web Witch's Blog
Personal Sprint Retrospectives
Due to time zone differences, I'm not typically able to attend team sprint retrospectives on...
21st Oct 2022
Due to time zone differences, I'm not typically able to attend team sprint retrospectives on Fridays.
If you've never done a sprint, a sprint is a set amount of time to complete a specific set of tasks. For example, we work in two week sprints at RapidAPI. I believe we did the...
A Smart Bear
Navigating the unpredictability of everything
We dramatically, repeatedly fail predict the future. Does that mean "strategy" is senseless? No, it...
19th Mar 2023
We dramatically, repeatedly fail predict the future. Does that mean "strategy" is senseless? No, it means you need these techniques to navigate a volatile world.
Acko.net
The Bouquet Residence
Keeping up appearances in tech
The word "rant" is used far too often,...
23rd Jul 2024
Keeping up appearances in tech
The word "rant" is used far too often, and in various ways.
It's meant to imply aimless, angry venting.
But often it means:
Naming problems without proposing solutions,
this makes me feel confused.
Naming problems and...
elementary Blog
Surprise! Big Updates for OS 7 Are Here!
This month we have a bunch of surprise updates for OS 7 and as always a progress update on OS 8....
7th Aug 2024
This month we have a bunch of surprise updates for OS 7 and as always a progress update on OS 8. We’re getting very close to releasing the latest version of our operating system and that means releasing new versions of all of the projects we maintain! That means big new versions...
Seldo.com
What I've learned about data recently
21st Jun 2021
SOS
How to clean up after your NextJS dev server
Sometimes you need to modify files when building a web application that must be reverted before...
10th Nov 2023
Sometimes you need to modify files when building a web application that must be reverted before committing. In my case I’m building a Chrome extension that reads from a NextJS based web service, and when I’m working on the browser extension it reads from http://localhost:3005, so...
37signals Dev
Lexxy: A new rich text editor for Rails
Today, we are introducing Lexxy, a new rich text editor for Action Text. It’s based on Lexical —...
4th Sep 2025
Today, we are introducing Lexxy, a new rich text editor for Action Text. It’s based on Lexical — Meta’s text editing framework — and it brings a much better text editing experience to Rails:
Good HTML semantics. Paragraphs are real <p> tags, as they should be.
Markdown support:...
Joel Gascoigne
From startup to scaleup: What we’re changing as we make the transition
> Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer...
1st Jun 2016
> Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog
[https://open.buffer.com/from-startup-to-scaleup-what-were-changing-as-we-make-the-transition/]
.
In the past couple of months, I’ve had a number of thoughts around the growth
Buffer has experienced in the last year and some...
Charles Petzold
Reading About the Dreyfus Affair
One of my 2024 projects is to read Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time at the rate of about 10...
27th May 2024
One of my 2024 projects is to read Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time at the rate of about 10 pages a day, and so far it’s been successful: I’m currently heading towards the end of the 3rd volume, The Guermantes Way. During a long dinner party in this novel, seemingly...
Boot.dev Blog
The Boot.dev Beat. May 2025
Our biggest content release ever just dropped: the complete backend learning path, but now in Python...
11th May 2025
Our biggest content release ever just dropped: the complete backend learning path, but now in Python and TypeScript! This is a massive update that we’ve been working on for a year, I hope you enjoy it!
Jordan Eldredge's...
Why I switched from Vundle to Plug
I've found Plug to be superior to Vundle in several regards.
10th Sep 2014
I've found Plug to be superior to Vundle in several regards.
elementary Blog
Getting in shape for summer
This month we have mostly minor maintenance updates as we gear up for a feature-filled future...
2nd Jun 2023
This month we have mostly minor maintenance updates as we gear up for a feature-filled future release. Enjoy a mild May because this summer is going to get hot!
Calculator
Calculator now follows keyboard shortcuts for copy and paste, even when the main text entry isn’t focused,...
SOS
Huge under-the-hood upgrade to Animations in Kidz Fun Art
One of the absolutely coolest features of Kidz Fun Art is the ability to create Animations. This...
2nd Jul 2026
One of the absolutely coolest features of Kidz Fun Art is the ability to create Animations. This was initially inspired by watching my nieces creating an animation on another Android app, so I focused purely on the creation case. This worked well, where most animations were...
Kagi Blog
Kagi Small Web
As a part of our ongoing pursuit to humanize the web, we are pleased to announce the launch of the...
7th Sep 2023
As a part of our ongoing pursuit to humanize the web, we are pleased to announce the launch of the Kagi Small Web initiative.
-----------------------
What is Kagi Small Web?
-----------------------
To begin with, while there is no single definition, “small web” typically refers...
Jordan Eldredge's...
I Love You Truly [Ukulele Mp3]
I arranged and recorded 'I Love You Truly' on electric ukulele for Chelsea.
10th Feb 2012
I arranged and recorded 'I Love You Truly' on electric ukulele for Chelsea.
Sedimental
RWC 2016 Lightning Talk
Today I had the pleasure of talking on stage for ~2 minutes at the
Real World Crypto 2016 conference...
7th Jan 2016
Today I had the pleasure of talking on stage for ~2 minutes at the
Real World Crypto 2016 conference in Stanford, CA. This
is a pseudotranscript of that lightning talk.
I'm Mahmoud Hashemi and I work as a Lead Developer at PayPal. I mostly
focus on Python frameworks and software...
bt RSS Feed
Using HTML Validator Badges Again
Using HTML Validator Badges Again
2019-07-05
There was a time on the Internet when websites wore...
5th Jul 2019
Using HTML Validator Badges Again
2019-07-05
There was a time on the Internet when websites wore badges of honor, declaring that their code was semantic and followed the W3C guidelines. The validators we used weren’t great (and still aren’t perfect) but they represented a...
Maggie Appleton
Programming Portals
Small, scoped areas within a graphical interface that allow users to read and write simple...
23rd Oct 2022
Small, scoped areas within a graphical interface that allow users to read and write simple programmes
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...
28th Jul 2020
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
Chris Nicholas
Dark mode by local sunlight
Dark mode is increasingly appearing as an option on websites, but why not have it enable...
16th Jun 2021
Dark mode is increasingly appearing as an option on websites, but why not have it enable automatically?
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Buying a house 🏠 in 2020
My significant other and I bought our very first home in July. We
just finished moving. I learned a...
4th Sep 2020
My significant other and I bought our very first home in July. We
just finished moving. I learned a lot during this process. I’m writing
it down while it’s still fresh in my mind.
Why not rent?
I’ve always rented and thought I would continue to rent forever. When
I was still in...
Buttondown's blog
You should add SSO
We added new log in options, and we can't recommend it enough.
4th Jul 2023
We added new log in options, and we can't recommend it enough.
A Beautiful Site
Getting localized month and day names in the browser
JavaScript has a well-supported date/time formatting API called Intl.DateTimeFormat. Here's a tip —...
25th Nov 2020
JavaScript has a well-supported date/time formatting API called Intl.DateTimeFormat. Here's a tip — you can use it to generate localized month and day names without the need for a language pack! This is super useful if you're building, say, a date picker or a calendar app.
I've...
Boot.dev Blog
JavaScript vs TypeScript: What's the Difference?
Whether you’re new or old to the computer science community, you’ve probably asked yourself, “What...
6th Sep 2021
Whether you’re new or old to the computer science community, you’ve probably asked yourself, “What is TypeScript?” and if you haven’t, it won’t be long before you do.
Alex Meub
Chromecast Backgrounds
I finally had a chance to use my Chromecast over the past few weeks. In doing so I noticed that the...
28th Jan 2014
I finally had a chance to use my Chromecast over the past few weeks. In doing so I noticed that the background images that cycle through the home screen are pretty awesome.
I looked into it and was able to find the URL that this page uses and pull all the images using a Node...
Ink & Switch
Untangle: Solving problems with fuzzy constraints
How to sketch, and satisfy, logic problems
1st Jan 2023
How to sketch, and satisfy, logic problems
Liz Denys
I've been programming since I was 10, but I don't feel like a 'hacker'
When I was 10, I was programming in Logo after being introduced to it in my school's required...
3rd Jan 2014
When I was 10, I was programming in Logo after being introduced to it in my school's required computer class. Our teacher did not once call this programming; it was just another project among ones that usually weren't programming. I generalized almost every exercise - something...
Joel Gascoigne
What no one talks about when building a team: Letting people go
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One of the...
17th Sep 2013
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One of the things I enjoy most about building a company is to focus on culture,
and to think about how we can create a team which is a joy to be part of. A
large part of this is
Matt Keeter
Zero-crossing logic for robust meshing
13th May 2017
Eric Bailey
Equivalent experience can cut both ways
I’ve been taking screen reader lessons. I found someone who is kind enough to offer their time and...
5th Sep 2023
I’ve been taking screen reader lessons. I found someone who is kind enough to offer their time and expertise (and grace in answering the occasional ignorant question) in exchange for payment.
The goal here is to uncover assumptions I carry with me when using assistive technology,...
Daniel Immke
Making noisy SVGs
Addendum Dec 7, 2023 One of my ongoing fixations with the web is how improvements in technology...
30th Nov 2023
Addendum Dec 7, 2023 One of my ongoing fixations with the web is how improvements in technology inform web design. In an earlier post this…
General Robots
RobotEra Has Two More Robot Olympic Wins!
RobotEra has two more Olympic Medals. This time orange peeling (which PI accomplished but needed an...
6th Apr 2026
RobotEra has two more Olympic Medals. This time orange peeling (which PI accomplished but needed an external tool, which disqualified them) and unlocking a padlock 25% faster than PI’s demonstration.
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Showing UI on mouse move, in Svelte 5
In my note taking application Edna I’ve implemented unorthodox UI feature: in the editor a top left...
11th Jun 2025
In my note taking application Edna I’ve implemented unorthodox UI feature: in the editor a top left navigation element is only visible when you’re moving the mouse or when mouse is over the element.
Here’s UI hidden:
Here’s UI visible:
The thinking is: when writing, you want...
Josh Collinsworth
The quiet, pervasive devaluation of frontend
I keep noticing those of us in the frontend field being treated much the same as nurses, paralegals,...
7th Mar 2024
I keep noticing those of us in the frontend field being treated much the same as nurses, paralegals, and executive assistants. Our work is seen as important, certainly, but just not the same as, or as important as, the “real” work.
The Codist
Yet Another Post On Scrum, But Different
Everyone hates Scrum, or at least it seems so, except for management.
I did as well, but a...
4th Jun 2024
Everyone hates Scrum, or at least it seems so, except for management.
I did as well, but a difference is that I started my career in 1981, long before the hordes of Scrums took root.
1981, you say, so you must have done Waterfall, so you are old and have
ntietz.com blog -...
Kill the crunch time heroics
Crunch time has an allure: it feels like if you just push hard enough, you can get more done. You...
2nd Nov 2018
Crunch time has an allure: it feels like if you just push hard enough, you can get more done. You can push hard and get that next release done on time, get those new features out, earn more revenue for your company. Engineers are under immense pressure to deliver more and do it...
Irrational...
Building an internal agent: Iterative prompt and skill refinement
Some of our internal workflows are being used quite frequently,
and usage reveals gaps in the...
1st Jan 2026
Some of our internal workflows are being used quite frequently,
and usage reveals gaps in the current prompts, skills, and tools.
Here is how we’re working to iterate on these internal workflows.
This is part of the Building an internal agent series.
Why does iterative refinement...
The Pragmatic...
Apple cracking down to enforce its RTO policy
Software engineers and their managers have started to receive warnings for not working in the office...
2nd Feb 2023
Software engineers and their managers have started to receive warnings for not working in the office at least 3 days per week. I talked with engineers on how they see the policy being enforced.
Boot.dev Blog
Qvault is moving to Boot.dev
We’ll keep this announcement short – we’ve moved Qvault.io to Boot.dev! As you know, we’ve been hard...
7th Apr 2022
We’ll keep this announcement short – we’ve moved Qvault.io to Boot.dev! As you know, we’ve been hard at work bootstrapping on online computer science bootcamp. Qvault (now Boot.dev) is a simple CS curriculum where our students build real projects using modern programming...
On Test Automation
The ‘valuable’ in valuable feedback, fast
When I talk about the goals and the purpose of test automation, I often use the phrase ‘valuable...
1st Apr 2026
When I talk about the goals and the purpose of test automation, I often use the phrase ‘valuable feedback, fast’: we use tools to support our testing to help us get valuable information about the state of our product in the most efficient manner possible.
The ‘fast’ part of...
Steve Klabnik
Some people understand REST and HTTP
7th Aug 2011
Blog of Simple...
Google Analytics data collection
14th Apr 2023
Buttondown's blog
What the hell is a Webmention?
If you're mentioned on the internet and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
1st Aug 2025
If you're mentioned on the internet and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
Liz Denys
Liz rides the subway on October 4, 2016: social media, differing political views, and friendship
Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway. On the 3 and B trains...
5th Oct 2016
Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway. On the 3 and B trains home:
I came across this Good Guy Boss meme on Facebook yesterday:
I will respect you regardless of who you support in this election.
I don't unfriend people due to political views....
Marco.org
Overcast 4.2: The privacy update
Overcast 4.2 is out now. It enhances privacy in two major areas:
Anonymous sync by default
Overcast...
27th Apr 2018
Overcast 4.2 is out now. It enhances privacy in two major areas:
Anonymous sync by default
Overcast has offered anonymous sync accounts since 2014. They’re fully functional, but they lack email addresses or passwords, so they can’t log into the website. A login token is stored in...
Basta’s Notes
My event-driven life
I apologize for my extended absence! I once again find myself with lots of drafts that I’d love to...
8th Jul 2023
I apologize for my extended absence! I once again find myself with lots of drafts that I’d love to publish, but haven’t found the words to complete any of them to my satisfaction. I thought I’d take the time to publish something that is maybe a bit rambly and less focused than...
Eric Bailey
Basic keyboard shortcut support for focused links
This is one of those cases where circumstances at my job led to needing to document expected...
21st Aug 2024
This is one of those cases where circumstances at my job led to needing to document expected behavior in order to create “synthetic” links via JavaScript. Sometimes this sort of thing is regrettably unavoidable.
A large part of the effort was capturing all the different actions...
TokyoDev
From Paperclip to Active Storage: An incremental, zero-downtime approach
I recently switched [Doorkeeper](https://www.doorkeeper.jp) from using...
23rd Mar 2021
I recently switched [Doorkeeper](https://www.doorkeeper.jp) from using [Paperclip](https://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip) to [Active Storage](https://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_storage_overview.html) for storing and processing uploaded files. The approach we took was a bit...
Kagi Blog
Announcing The Assistant
Yes, the rumours are true!
Kagi has been thoughtfully integrating AI into our search experience,...
4th Sep 2024
Yes, the rumours are true!
Kagi has been thoughtfully integrating AI into our search experience, creating a smarter, faster, and more intuitive search.
Alice GG
Self-hosting your code on Gitea
Afraid of GitHub suddenly enshittifying their product?
The best way to shield yourself from that is...
16th Oct 2025
Afraid of GitHub suddenly enshittifying their product?
The best way to shield yourself from that is to start self-hosting your code repositories.
I have been running a self-hosted instance of Gitea for around two months,
and so far the process has been pretty close to...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Set Explicit Help Timeouts
A simple way to normalize asking for help.
5th Apr 2021
A simple way to normalize asking for help.
Nelson's Weblog
AI enhanced search
LLMs are good search helpers. Here’s three search tools I use every day.
All of these use an AI to...
20th Sep 2024
LLMs are good search helpers. Here’s three search tools I use every day.
All of these use an AI to synthesize answers but also provide an essential
feature: specific web search results for you to verify and further research.
I use these for conversational inquiries in addition...
Dan Slimmon
Clinical troubleshooting: diagnose any production issue, fast.
Over the years, I've developed a reliable method for harnessing the diagnostic power of groups. My...
8th Mar 2024
Over the years, I've developed a reliable method for harnessing the diagnostic power of groups. My approach is derived from a different field in which groups of experts with various levels of context need to reason together about problems in a complex, dynamic system:...
Sedimental
Designing a version
In modern software development, a project isn't a project without a
proper versioning scheme.
Weak...
23rd Feb 2016
In modern software development, a project isn't a project without a
proper versioning scheme.
Weak version management neglects clients like lack of source control
neglects collaborators. Dependency management and migration rely on
versions. Beyond the technical, a project's...
Alex MacCaw
Sailing across the Atlantic
16th Dec 2021
A Beautiful Site
Component Machines
Components are like little machines. You build them once. Use them whenever you need them.
Every now...
5th Sep 2024
Components are like little machines. You build them once. Use them whenever you need them.
Every now and then you open them up to oil them or replace a part, then you send them back to work.
And work, they do.
Little component machines just chugging along so you never have to...
Ognjen Regoje •...
Not wanting to work remotely is now a competitive advantage
As much as working remotely is a competitive hiring advantage again, not wanting to work remotely is...
14th Oct 2023
As much as working remotely is a competitive hiring advantage again, not wanting to work remotely is now an advantage for getting hired.
A lot of companies are mandating returns to the office. Many more are scrapping fully remote positions, with some even rescinding fully-remote...
David Crawshaw
2015-08-04
www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/lunar-icecube-to-take-on-big-mission-from-small-package
4th Aug 2015
www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/lunar-icecube-to-take-on-big-mission-from-small-package
Confessions of a...
One Law to Rule All Code Optimizations
A systems-level reasoning model for understanding why optimizations succeed or fail.
8th Jun 2025
A systems-level reasoning model for understanding why optimizations succeed or fail.
charity.wtf
17 Reasons NOT To Be A Manager
Yesterday we had a super fun meetup here at Intercom in Dublin. We split up into small discussion...
8th Sep 2019
Yesterday we had a super fun meetup here at Intercom in Dublin. We split up into small discussion groups and talked about things related to managing teams and being a senior individual contributor (IC), and going back and forth throughout your career. One interesting question...
Jordan Eldredge's...
I Come To the Garden Alone (For George Morris)
I arranged and recorded the hymn 'In The Garden' on ukulele in memory of George Morris.
18th Jul 2011
I arranged and recorded the hymn 'In The Garden' on ukulele in memory of George Morris.
Making software...
Goodbye WordPress, Hello Jekyll (Again)
Goodbye WordPress, Hello Jekyll (Again)
2020-08-13
For the past four months this blog has been...
13th Aug 2020
Goodbye WordPress, Hello Jekyll (Again)
2020-08-13
For the past four months this blog has been running on WordPress - but that ended today. I've officially switched back over to Jekyll. I'm not going to spend too much time delving into why I made the transition back, but I'll...
markround.com
Haiku Package Management
Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs
I’ve long since been a die-hard BeOS fan and have...
13th Feb 2023
Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs
I’ve long since been a die-hard BeOS fan and have been running the open-source recreation Haiku for many years. I think it’s interesting to explore the “alternative OS” world and consider some great ideas that for whatever reason...
bt RSS Feed
Perspective
Perspective
2024-08-06
I recently read both Starting Hospice and No Salt posted on Jake’s blog and...
6th Aug 2024
Perspective
2024-08-06
I recently read both Starting Hospice and No Salt posted on Jake’s blog and was quite moved. I don’t know Jake and have never met him - but his writing and shared experiences give a very real look into his mind and perspective. If you haven’t yet, I...
A Beautiful Site
Most Software Was Already Slop
As software engineers, we take pride in hand-written code and knowing how everything we build works...
2 weeks ago
As software engineers, we take pride in hand-written code and knowing how everything we build works in detail. While there are many developers out there who build good software, there are many, many more who don’t. Yet we balk at the idea of vibe coding, even when it yields...
Marco.org
Low Power Mode on the Mac
Laptop battery life is decreasingly relevant to me as more airplanes offer power outlets. But...
31st Jul 2018
Laptop battery life is decreasingly relevant to me as more airplanes offer power outlets. But sometimes you lose that lottery, as I did on my latest 8-hour daytime flight.
Apple’s “Up to 10 hours” claim doesn’t apply to my work,1 which is usually a mix of Xcode, web browsing, and...
Vadim Kravcenko
How to Hire a CTO for Your Startup
This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help...
9th Jul 2021
This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help early-stage founders tackle the problems they […]
The post How to Hire a CTO for Your Startup appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Alex Meub
A Quick Look at Portland Parking Ticket Data
I work in downtown Portland and see a lot of people getting parking tickets every day (parking is...
5th Feb 2019
I work in downtown Portland and see a lot of people getting parking tickets every day (parking is one of the reasons I ride my bike to work). I was curious to learn more about it.
Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, Portland parking ticket data is available to anyone who...
Boot.dev Blog
Learn Go Fast - Top Courses and Resources
Want to learn Go fast? The good news is that Go is one of the simplest programming languages out...
2nd Nov 2020
Want to learn Go fast? The good news is that Go is one of the simplest programming languages out there. It was designed to have a compact feature set, which means you can learn it much faster than most other languages.
SOS
Gif to MP4 encoding in the browser, the terminal & everywhere else
TLDR: I’ve shipped a new NPM module called gif2vid that enabled video encoding of GIF files in the...
6th Nov 2025
TLDR: I’ve shipped a new NPM module called gif2vid that enabled video encoding of GIF files in the browser, in your terminal and in a web app backend. I’ve also created an uber simple website at https://gif2vid.com where you can use it.
My kids enjoy building cute (and...
Josh Collinsworth
The Five Things I Wish Somebody Had Told Me as a Design Student
Your worst instructor as a design student will lay out clear goals and expectations which will not...
21st Feb 2016
Your worst instructor as a design student will lay out clear goals and expectations which will not change; this is not a given with clients.
Words and Buttons...
Complex numbers and conformal mapping
This explains the geometry of complex numbers. Explains conformal transformations, introduces...
8th Mar 2021
This explains the geometry of complex numbers. Explains conformal transformations, introduces analytic functions, and shows that analytic complex functions are conformal. And using the connection between the geometry and the analysis explains it all in just some five minutes.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Add Netlify Identity Authentication to any React App in 5 minutes with React Context, Hooks and...
Adding authentication is a pain point for many React beginners. We’ve made it ridiculously easy to...
21st Jun 2019
Adding authentication is a pain point for many React beginners. We’ve made it ridiculously easy to add Netlify Identity onto any React app, including create-react-app, Gatsby, Next.js, or any other setup you may have, by wrapping it all into one simple React Hook! However, this...
A Day In The Life...
Endless - A dive into a C64 game
Endless - A dive into a C64 game
7th Mar 2025
Endless - A dive into a C64 game
Charles Chen
I'm a Gen AI Maximalist and Why You Should Be, Too
Putting things into perspective: many think that we are in the trough of disillusionment; but...
17th Oct 2024
Putting things into perspective: many think that we are in the trough of disillusionment; but really, gen AI is just getting started.
A Beautiful Site
My Stance on AI in Software Development
I believe artificial intelligence is a powerful and valuable tool that can significantly improve how...
20th Apr 2026
I believe artificial intelligence is a powerful and valuable tool that can significantly improve how we create, solve problems, and bring ideas to life.
I didn't always feel this way.. But these days, I use AI regularly in my work and I expect that to continue.
We may not have...
Jordan Eldredge's...
PGP Desktop was causing OS X to run slowly
Sharing an issue I found where PGP Desktop was causing my computer to run slowly.
5th Feb 2008
Sharing an issue I found where PGP Desktop was causing my computer to run slowly.
Buttondown's blog
How we migrated to TypeIDs without breaking clients
Making every ID in our API self-describing, one endpoint at a time
1st Mar 2026
Making every ID in our API self-describing, one endpoint at a time
On Life and Lisp
AAA gaming on Asahi Linux
Gaming on Linux on M1 is here! We’re thrilled to release our Asahi
game playing toolkit, which...
10th Oct 2024
Gaming on Linux on M1 is here! We’re thrilled to release our Asahi
game playing toolkit, which integrates our Vulkan 1.3 drivers with x86
emulation and Windows compatibility. Plus a bonus: conformant OpenCL
3.0.
Asahi Linux now ships the only conformant OpenGL®,
OpenCL™,
and...
A Smart Bear
Letters to Joel Spolsky
I regret to inform you…
16th Jun 2009
Boot.dev Blog
What is Backend-as-a-Service?
Plenty of people have heard of SaaS, or Software-as-a-Service, which is simply software made...
5th Dec 2022
Plenty of people have heard of SaaS, or Software-as-a-Service, which is simply software made available by a third party over the internet. Think Salesforce, WordPress, or MailChimp. And most people know what a “backend developer” is, that is, someone who is responsible for things...
Alex MacCaw
We Won’t Save the Planet by Shrinking
At first, it sounds obvious: if we want to save the planet, we should do less. Fewer people, less...
25th Mar 2025
At first, it sounds obvious: if we want to save the planet, we should do less. Fewer people, less consumption, smaller footprints. I believed this too—so much so that I once thought having kids was irresponsible.
But the more I looked into it, the less sense it made.
Daniel Immke
Beginner interaction design with Principle
I was able to pick up this powerful motion design tool in about 10 minutes and you can too!
30th Nov 2017
I was able to pick up this powerful motion design tool in about 10 minutes and you can too!
Matt Keeter
Abstraction and instances in graph programming
17th Dec 2016
Joel on Software
Progress on the Block Protocol
Since the 1990s, the web has been a publishing place for human-readable documents. Documents...
19th Dec 2022
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"
Sebastian Witowski
18 Plugins for Writing Python in VS Code
VS Code is a great text editor. But when you install it, its functionality is limited. You can edit...
27th Apr 2020
VS Code is a great text editor. But when you install it, its functionality is limited. You can edit JavaScript and TypeScript, but for other programming languages, it will be just a text editor. You will need to add some plugins to turn it into a proper IDE.
Luckily, when you...
Alice GG
How to publish your Godot game on Mac
Since 2019, Apple has required all MacOS software to be signed and notarized.
This is meant to...
12th Sep 2024
Since 2019, Apple has required all MacOS software to be signed and notarized.
This is meant to prevent naive users from installing malware while running software from unknown sources.
Since this process is convoluted, it stops many indie game developers from releasing their Godot...
Josh Comeau's blog
An Interactive Guide to CSS Transitions
This comprehensive guide shows how to use CSS transitions! A back-to-basics look at the fundamental...
9th Feb 2021
This comprehensive guide shows how to use CSS transitions! A back-to-basics look at the fundamental building blocks we need to create microinteractions and other animations.
Irrational...
Create technical leverage: workflow improvements & product capabilities
More than a decade ago, I typed up a few paragraphs of notes, titled it “Building Technical...
1st Dec 2023
More than a decade ago, I typed up a few paragraphs of notes, titled it “Building Technical Leverage,” and proceeded to forget about it. Those notes were from a meeting with Kevin Scott, then SVP Engineering at LinkedIn, while we wandered the Valley trying to convince potential...
Acko.net
Stable Fiddusion
Acko.queue(function () {
renderMathInElement(document.querySelector('article'), {delimiters: [
...
1st Oct 2023
Acko.queue(function () {
renderMathInElement(document.querySelector('article'), {delimiters: [
{left: "$$", right: "$$", display: true},
{left: "$", right: "$", display: false},
]});
});
Frequency-domain blue noise generator
In computer graphics, stochastic...
Buttondown's blog
Tags now get auto-grouped
Tags now get auto-grouped
5th Feb 2024
Tags now get auto-grouped
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Doing It Manually
I have a standing desk that goes up and down via a manual crank.
I’ve had it for probably ten...
2nd Oct 2025
I have a standing desk that goes up and down via a manual crank.
I’ve had it for probably ten years.
Every time I raise or lower that thing, it gets my blood pumping.
I often think: “I should upgrade to one of those standing desks that goes up and down with the push of a...
Josh Collinsworth
WordPress Child Theme Explanation and Walkthrough
When you’re just starting out with WordPress, it’s easy to think that you can just open up the...
31st Dec 2015
When you’re just starting out with WordPress, it’s easy to think that you can just open up the style.css file included with your theme and begin making alterations. And that will work—at least for a while—but it won’t be a good idea…
A Beautiful Site
Success Requires Luck
I've concluded that successful "makers" have one thing in common: luck.
It's not that strategy and...
14th Jan 2022
I've concluded that successful "makers" have one thing in common: luck.
It's not that strategy and vision don't play a role in success, but nobody — literally nobody — can guarantee that a product or service will be successful. Think about some of the major corporations that...
David Heinemeier...
Delusional dreams of excess freedom
Jim Carey once said that he hoped everyone could "...get rich and famous and do everything they...
6th Jan 2025
Jim Carey once said that he hoped everyone could "...get rich and famous and do everything they dreamed of so they can see that it is not the answer". And while I sorta agree, I think the opposite position also has its appeal: That believing in a material fix to the problem of...
Boot.dev Blog
How To Cache Images - React Native Expo (Managed)
Caching images in React Native can be easy, even if you are using Expo’s managed workflow. The...
4th Feb 2020
Caching images in React Native can be easy, even if you are using Expo’s managed workflow. The problem many devs run into is that React Native only supports caching images on IOS out of the box.
David Crawshaw
Buried by the media
"No one else would follow; even the minister failed to show. Shaking his head ever so slightly,...
5th Sep 2016
"No one else would follow; even the minister failed to show. Shaking his head ever so slightly, Jerry Flemmons of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram turned to me and said, 'Cochran, if we're gonna write a story about the burial of Lee Harvey Oswald, we're gonna have to bury the son of...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Cognition: The Devin is in the Details
My thesis for the future of software dev agents. This is a hastily written blogpost done on not a...
8th Sep 2025
My thesis for the future of software dev agents. This is a hastily written blogpost done on not a lot of sleep, so pardon poor pacing and structure and typos and mistakes but just getting it out there.
blag
SQLite prefixes its temp files with `etilqs_`
Here’s some wild lore inside SQLite’s source code explaining why temp files start with etilqs_
18th Apr 2026
Here’s some wild lore inside SQLite’s source code explaining why temp files start with etilqs_
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...
20th Nov 2023
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...
David Crawshaw
2014-12-11
shop.evilmadscientist.com/productsmenu/652
11th Dec 2014
shop.evilmadscientist.com/productsmenu/652
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Replacing Jekyll with Pandoc and a Makefile
EDIT: 2016-08-19
I got an email a very long time ago that I meant to post about on ye
old weblog...
13th May 2014
EDIT: 2016-08-19
I got an email a very long time ago that I meant to post about on ye
old weblog from a fellow named Tom Duck
who built a CMS based around some of the ideas presented here.
It’s called Bassclef
and it looks pretty amazing and folks should check it out.
I used to...
Buttondown's blog
Cross-post to Bluesky
Cross-post to Bluesky
1st Sep 2024
Jake Zimmerman
Bug squash: An underrated interview question
17th Aug 2024
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