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Switching Things Over to ikiwiki Switching Things Over to ikiwiki 2023-12-17 I’ve done it again. My personal website is no longer...
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Switching Things Over to ikiwiki 2023-12-17 I’ve done it again. My personal website is no longer generated with barf but is instead built on top of ikiwiki. The old RSS feed (btxx.org/atom.xml) still exists but will no longer receive updates. The new feed can be found on the...
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Serverless Machine Learning at Google ---
over a year ago
Tinloof - Blog
How we boosted the performance of a Gatsby website by 80% Sbaï Dentaire is the number 1 user-rated dental practice in Casablanca (Morocco) by Google...
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Sbaï Dentaire is the number 1 user-rated dental practice in Casablanca (Morocco) by Google users: Many patients book appointments through the website on the go from their mobile, therefore page speed is critical to avoid a high bounce rate. This article explains how we improved...
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Our switch to Kamal is complete In a fit of frustration, I wrote the first version of Kamal in six weeks at the start of 2023. Our...
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In a fit of frustration, I wrote the first version of Kamal in six weeks at the start of 2023. Our plan to get out of the cloud was getting bogged down in enterprisey pricing and Kubernetes complexity. And I refused to accept that running our own hardware had to be that expensive...
Yale E360
Changing my relationship with GitHub Copilot I've been using GitHub Copilot on personal projects since March. It's been an interesting...
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I've been using GitHub Copilot on personal projects since March. It's been an interesting experience, and one that I realized I have to change. Using Copilot nearly full time has had some positive and negative impacts on me, and it's time to take control of how I interact with...
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Fixing LocalWP on Fedora 32 Fixing LocalWP on Fedora 32 2020-05-06 I recently upgraded from Fedora 31 to 32 and everything went...
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Fixing LocalWP on Fedora 32 2020-05-06 I recently upgraded from Fedora 31 to 32 and everything went very smoothly - except for one application: LocalWP. After the upgrade, all local WordPress builds would fail and complain about two missing packages: libnettle6 libhogweed4 After...
Contraption Co.
How I use data to optimize AI apps A video collaboration between Find AI and Velvet
9 months ago
Blog - Bitfield...
Cryptography in Go: AES implementation The AES cipher is complicated in principle, but the code isn’t all that scary in practice. Let’s...
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The AES cipher is complicated in principle, but the code isn’t all that scary in practice. Let’s take a look at the implementation in the Go standard library. Even I can understand it!
Eric Bailey
Accessible SVGs in High Contrast Mode
over a year ago
Ink & Switch
Ink Note January 2025: Super simple stroke simplification A technique for reducing the number of points needed to represent an ink stroke.
4 months ago
David Heinemeier...
Back in the market (Sonos Edition) I've been a Sonos megafan for years. Owned probably two dozen devices for different homes. Mainly...
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I've been a Sonos megafan for years. Owned probably two dozen devices for different homes. Mainly amps for in-ceiling speakers, but also some Ones, 3s, 5s. All of it. Because it Just Worked when it came to multi-room music. Now it doesn't, and it hasn't for a long time, so I've...
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The YC Interview We submitted the application, then got back to work. We couldn't work out how long it'd take to hear...
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We submitted the application, then got back to work. We couldn't work out how long it'd take to hear back, but then we did. It was now October 16th…
A Beautiful Site
Creating stylesheets for handheld devices It's not uncommon so see someone surfing the net with their cell phone or PDA these days or, at...
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It's not uncommon so see someone surfing the net with their cell phone or PDA these days or, at least, trying to. Unfortunately, portable technologies still have a long way to go before they conquer the web with their tiny screens. The good news is that, with a little help from...
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SOMA Inspired Terminal Display with CSS SOMA Inspired Terminal Display with CSS 2021-05-29 A few years back I played (and loved) SOMA, a...
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SOMA Inspired Terminal Display with CSS 2021-05-29 A few years back I played (and loved) SOMA, a first-person sci-fi horror-adventure game. The story was intriguing and the developers nailed the overall atmosphere of Pathos-II. Though both those aspects were great, what I found...
A Beautiful Site
Subtle Patterns: hundreds of free backgrounds that tile I've been using Subtle Patterns for quite some time now. All the patterns are great, and their...
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I've been using Subtle Patterns for quite some time now. All the patterns are great, and their Photoshop plugin is incredibly useful. I can't remember when it first launched, but I do remember when there was only one or two pages to browse on the site. Now it has over 380 images...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Become the master of your eslint with no-restricted-syntax The other day I was doing my normal thing trying to force import '*.css' to be the last import in a...
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The other day I was doing my normal thing trying to force import '*.css' to be the last import in a file, which ensures a predicatbale CSS order. I spent hours looking for a eslint plugin to do that, but with little luck. Without getting into too much details: The built-in...
Blog of Simple...
Road to 1 Million ARR - June update
a year ago
davidyat.es
Advent of Code 2024: Days 6–10
6 months ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Brian Regan Helped Me Understand My Aversion to Job Titles I like the job title “Design Engineer”. When required to label myself, I feel partial to that term...
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I like the job title “Design Engineer”. When required to label myself, I feel partial to that term (I should, I’ve written about it enough). Lately I’ve felt like the term is becoming more mainstream which, don’t get me wrong, is a good thing. I appreciate the diversification of...
Blog of Simple...
Ultimate HIPAA Compliance Checklist: Essential Steps for Healthcare Providers
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Vladimir Klepov as a...
Is your babel's transform-runtime getting lazy? You better check. IE11 is not dead yet, and our library is supposed to run there and make russian grandmas happy. As...
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IE11 is not dead yet, and our library is supposed to run there and make russian grandmas happy. As you can guess, we rely on babel's preset-env a lot. We also don't want our code to be 55% babel helpers, so we use babel's transform-runtime — it should make babel import someHelper...
Julia Evans
How to add a directory to your PATH I was talking to a friend about how to add a directory to your PATH today. It’s something that feels...
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I was talking to a friend about how to add a directory to your PATH today. It’s something that feels “obvious” to me since I’ve been using the terminal for a long time, but when I searched for instructions for how to do it, I actually couldn’t find something that explained all of...
David Heinemeier...
The premise trap The hardest part for me about collaborating with junior programmers, whether it's in open source or...
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The hardest part for me about collaborating with junior programmers, whether it's in open source or at work, is avoiding the premise trap. That's where the fundamental assumptions baked into the first draft of the code aren't questioned until you've already spent far too long...
Elad Blog
Discussion w Arthur Mensch, CEO of Mistral AI Mistral launched multiple LLM models in less then 1 year from founding. We discuss
a year ago
Grant Slatton
Algorithms we develop software by Pathfinding applied to the software solution domain
10 months ago
A Beautiful Site
What is my browser? This tool will tell you Last week I wrote about how to get faster and better help from support. One of my suggestions was to...
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Last week I wrote about how to get faster and better help from support. One of my suggestions was to tell them what browser, OS, etc. you're using. Here's a free tool that will make that so much easier. As soon as you visit About My Browser, it will show you what browser and...
tonsky.me
Podcast: Nikitonsky про современные редакторы кода @ Тысяча фичей Каким должен быть редактор кода в 2024 году? Почему Vim морально устарел, а IDEA, кажется, сдает...
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Каким должен быть редактор кода в 2024 году? Почему Vim морально устарел, а IDEA, кажется, сдает позиции? Популярность Zed, минимализм SublimeText, гибкость Emacs и многое другое в новом выпуске.
Charles Chen
Server Sent Events with .NET 7 An HTTP alternative to web sockets that makes it easy to push events from the server.
a year ago
A Smart Bear
A butterfly flaps its wings and you make a sale It is true that small changes can have enormous effects? Or is this just what optimization...
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It is true that small changes can have enormous effects? Or is this just what optimization consultants want us to believe?
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57 MicroConf videos for self-funded software businesses MicroConf is a conference for small/indie/self-funded software businesses. Many of their talks are...
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MicroConf is a conference for small/indie/self-funded software businesses. Many of their talks are available on Vimeo but not well indexed. They have a better index (and another here) on their website, but also not great. This is a list of videos and a bit of info about each...
Josh Comeau's blog
CSS in React Server Components You can’t make an omelette without cracking a few eggs, and when the core React team unveiled their...
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You can’t make an omelette without cracking a few eggs, and when the core React team unveiled their vision for the future of React, some of my favourite libraries got scrambled 😅. In this blog post, we’re going to explore the compatibility issues between React Server Components...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, October 2023 The Ware for October 2023 is shown below. Thanks to JeffreyO for contributing this ware!
a year ago
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Endless - A dive into a C64 game Endless - A dive into a C64 game
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The Pragmatic...
PagerDuty alternatives 12 alternatives to the market-leading alerting tool, PagerDuty.
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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...
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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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Simple Accessibility Simple Accessibility 2018-09-07 Implementing proper accessibility practices can seem a little...
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Simple Accessibility 2018-09-07 Implementing proper accessibility practices can seem a little daunting at first, but there are a few basic standards you can introduce into your project work-flow that are fairly straightforward: Basic design Test that your project has the proper...
David Heinemeier...
Five big open source gifts from us It’s been an incredibly productive year at 37signals. Perhaps our most productive one yet, in terms...
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It’s been an incredibly productive year at 37signals. Perhaps our most productive one yet, in terms of total number of product improvements, new product developments, and open source extractions. But it’s only by looking back at the work from a distance that you can really...
Grant Slatton
"Passage" A poem
5 months ago
blag
Recurse Center Day 16: Open Source merged few open pull requests on my projects
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Product Pseudoscience In his post about “Vibe Drive Development”, Robin Rendle warns against what I’ll call the...
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In his post about “Vibe Drive Development”, Robin Rendle warns against what I’ll call the pseudoscientific approach to product building prevalent across the software industry: when folks at tech companies talk about data they’re not talking about a well-researched study from a...
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How we made feature flags faster and more reliable Feature-flags-as-a-service is an interesting space. If your service stops working, it affects both...
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Feature-flags-as-a-service is an interesting space. If your service stops working, it affects both your customers and your customer's customers…
Yale E360
What's the difference between references and pointers in Rust? I've been working on writing a Rust training course, and one of the things I struggled with...
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I've been working on writing a Rust training course, and one of the things I struggled with explaining in there was the difference between references and pointers. Ultimately, the underlying representation is the same: both hold an address for some memory. The difference between...
HTMHell
Improving User Experience for Multilingual Web Browsing by Anastasiia Batarei Today, I’d like to talk about the experience of browsing websites where...
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by Anastasiia Batarei Today, I’d like to talk about the experience of browsing websites where content is fully or partially in a language different from the user’s native one. This situation is common for users navigating government portals or local service providers in a country...
Yale E360
Visualizing the FIDE World Chess Championship This week is Never Graduate Week at the Recurse Center, where alumni come back to do Recurse-y...
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This week is Never Graduate Week at the Recurse Center, where alumni come back to do Recurse-y things together. It's a great experience and I've had a lot of fun reconnecting with friends and meeting some new friends. But it wouldn't be an RC experience without working at the...
Vadim Kravcenko
🌈 Hedonic Treadmill I’m sure you’re like me. It happens time and time again that we pour our hearts into achieving...
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I’m sure you’re like me. It happens time and time again that we pour our hearts into achieving something we […] The post 🌈 Hedonic Treadmill appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
A Beautiful Site
Smoothly scroll to an element without a jQuery plugin You know that special effect where you click on a link and your browser smoothly scrolls down to the...
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You know that special effect where you click on a link and your browser smoothly scrolls down to the appropriate section of the page? Pretty slick, right? Here are a couple snippets so you can do the same thing on your own website. Scroll to a specific element # Here's how to...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Upgrading to Raspberry Pi OS 2024-11-19 <![CDATA[I upgraded my Raspberry Pi 400 to 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS 2024-11-19 based on Debian...
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<![CDATA[I upgraded my Raspberry Pi 400 to 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS 2024-11-19 based on Debian Bookworm 12.9: The desktop of 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS 2024-11-19 on a Raspberry Pi 400. Since I had no files to preserve the process was surprisingly easy as I went with a full...
HTMHell
#23 A card pattern Bad code <article> <div> <div class="sr-only">Image</div> <img src="/feature-teaser.png"...
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Bad code <article> <div> <div class="sr-only">Image</div> <img src="/feature-teaser.png" alt="Feature teaser" /> </div> </article> <div> <span> <span>Exciting feature!</span> </span> <div> This text describes what the feature does! </div> <a...
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Array 1.4.0 Session times are here! They're a great way to help understand how engaged users are. The Array...
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Session times are here! They're a great way to help understand how engaged users are. The Array 1.4.0 brings plenty of improvements to our core…
Eric Bailey
Instituting a culture of accessibility in your organization: Part 2
over a year ago
Daniel Immke's Blog...
Beginner interaction design with Principle Earlier this year when I was designing this site, I had a bit of a problem: I wanted to go above and...
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Earlier this year when I was designing this site, I had a bit of a problem: I wanted to go above and beyond with the animations and…
macwright.com
Rendering Tidbyt graphics in Rust One of my other long-term projects has been building new graphics for my Tidbyt in Rust. It has been...
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One of my other long-term projects has been building new graphics for my Tidbyt in Rust. It has been a slow, silly process in which I celebrate when a single pixel lights up on the device. I’m not even writing firmware or code that runs “on the device” - that’s a stretch goal for...
Yale E360
Sometimes, I can't talk Part of being a social animal is that we communicate with each other. We live in a society, and we...
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Part of being a social animal is that we communicate with each other. We live in a society, and we have to interact with other people. A lot of that communication happens through language, especially spoken and signed language. For many of us, this language happens so freely and...
Ink & Switch
Muse: Designing a studio for ideas Physical workspaces inspire a fast, fluid digital tool for creative thinking.
over a year ago
Yale E360
If software engineering roles were chess pieces, what would they be? Chess is booming, and tech is burning to the ground. It's inevitable, soon, that Chess is going to...
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Chess is booming, and tech is burning to the ground. It's inevitable, soon, that Chess is going to acquire the entire tech industry. And when Chess acquires us, they'll replace us and take our software engineering jobs1. Then we'll be stuck playing their game, and we'll be...
Neil Panchal
How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS If you need a basic NAS and don't care about GUI features, it is suprisingly simple to set up a ZFS...
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If you need a basic NAS and don't care about GUI features, it is suprisingly simple to set up a ZFS dataset and share it over the network using Samba.
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How PostHog uses Wren to offset carbon emissions during offsites Earlier this month, we finished our first PostHog offsite of the year near Porto, in Portugal. Team...
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Earlier this month, we finished our first PostHog offsite of the year near Porto, in Portugal. Team members travelled from America, Estonia, The…
Vadim Kravcenko
The silent majority The “silent majority” was used by President Richard Nixon during his presidency and his campaign. In...
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The “silent majority” was used by President Richard Nixon during his presidency and his campaign. In this usage, it referred […] The post The silent majority appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Unit and Integration Testing for Plugin Authors Some thoughts on how to set up testing with plugins
over a year ago
samwho.dev
Fun With Rust's Traits Rust's trait system is wonderful. Everyone I know that has used it agrees with this statement. It's...
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Rust's trait system is wonderful. Everyone I know that has used it agrees with this statement. It's a great way to encode shared behaviour between data types, and create flexible APIs. It's also great for writing nonsense like this: use std::f64::consts::PI; use...
MMapped blog
Square joy: pre-order
over a year ago
Irrational...
Writers who operate. Occasionally folks tell me that I should “write full time.” I’ve thought about this a lot, and have...
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Occasionally folks tell me that I should “write full time.” I’ve thought about this a lot, and have rejected that option because I believe that writers who operate (e.g. write concurrently with holding a non-writing industry role) are best positioned to keep writing valuable work...
Tony Finch's blog
random numbers from pcg32 at 200 Gbit/s One of the neat things about the PCG random number generator by Melissa O’Neill is its use of...
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One of the neat things about the PCG random number generator by Melissa O’Neill is its use of instruction-level parallelism: the PCG state update can run in parallel with its output permutation. However, PCG only has a limited amount of ILP, about 3 instructions. Its overall...
The Changelog
Memoirs of the Early Internet The Internet is an amazing place, and occasionally you can find things on the web that have somehow...
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The Internet is an amazing place, and occasionally you can find things on the web that have somehow lingered online for decades longer than you might expect. Today I’ll take you on a tour of some parts of the early Internet. The Internet, of course, is a “network of networks” and...
Ink & Switch
00 · Keyhive Background Contextualizing Keyhive
11 months ago
Coding Horror
I Fight For The Users If you haven't been able to keep up with my blistering pace of one blog post per year (if that), I...
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If you haven't been able to keep up with my blistering pace of one blog post per year (if that), I can't blame you. There's a lot going on right now. It's a busy time. But let's pause and take
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Ranking #1 on HN in the December Dead Zone For those who weren't aware (you would be if you were...
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For those who weren't aware (you would be if you were [subscribed](https://lspace.swyx.io/subscribe?simple=true&next=https://lspace.swyx.io/) on email!), I started a separate AI blog, [L-space Diaries](https://lspace.swyx.io/), this year to 1) try out Substack in anger and 2)...
macwright.com
Recently What to say about this month - well, I’m a few days late to the Recently, because I’ve been pretty...
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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...
Dan Slimmon
The queueing shell game Queues are not just architectural widgets that you can insert into your architecture wherever...
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Queues are not just architectural widgets that you can insert into your architecture wherever they're needed. Queues are spontaneously occurring phenomena, just like a waterfall or a thunderstorm.
TokyoDev
Coworking Spaces and Other Places you can Work Remotely in Tokyo So you’ve finally made it to Tokyo, and you’re looking for a place to work remotely in peace. Maybe...
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So you’ve finally made it to Tokyo, and you’re looking for a place to work remotely in peace. Maybe you’re all set with a home office, but maybe you live in a one room studio apartment or you’re stuck in a tiny hotel room. Whatever your reason, what are your options for places...
Making software...
Click to Load Website Images Click to Load Website Images 2021-03-25 In my previous post about switching my Jekyll blog over to...
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Click to Load Website Images 2021-03-25 In my previous post about switching my Jekyll blog over to PHPetite, I briefly mentioned how I only loaded in article images if the user clicked or tapped the empty file element. In this post, I'm going to quickly breakdown the update I've...
A Smart Bear
The three kinds of leverage that anchor effective strategies Leveraging strengths -- not "fixing weaknesses" -- is how to win. Better when differentiated. Best...
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Leveraging strengths -- not "fixing weaknesses" -- is how to win. Better when differentiated. Best when durable. Here's how to create leverage.
Cognitive...
Uploading CSV to DynamoDB with Node JS So I wanted to upload CSV to DynamoDB. Easy right? Not so fast. It turns out, you have to obey...
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over a year ago
So I wanted to upload CSV to DynamoDB. Easy right? Not so fast. It turns out, you have to obey your provisioned write capacity. Unlike S3, "Simple Storage Service" where you simply upload a file, DynamoDB isn't "Simple". There's no "upload CSV" button. You have to write a...
David Crawshaw
2015-05-08 docs.google.com/document/d/1iNSQIyNpVGHeak6isbP6AHdHD50gs8MNXF1GCf08efg/pub
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David Heinemeier...
Chart the course, set the pace, hold the line I break the essential responsibilities of the company executive into three distinct buckets. They...
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I break the essential responsibilities of the company executive into three distinct buckets. They are:   1. Chart the course Where are we going? What are we building? Who is it for? Any executive running anything has to know the answer to these questions in order to lead anyone...
Elad Blog
MegaCycles in Tech & Crypto Every 8-10 years, the technology industry used to go through a boom and bust cycle. A new technology...
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Every 8-10 years, the technology industry used to go through a boom and bust cycle. A new technology or platform would emerge, there would be rampant investment and speculation, a few strong hypergrowth survivors would emerge and most of the rest of the new startups would...
Making software...
Installing Ruby with RVM on Alpine Linux Installing Ruby with RVM on Alpine Linux 2023-03-16 For some on-going projects I need to switch to...
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Installing Ruby with RVM on Alpine Linux 2023-03-16 For some on-going projects I need to switch to different versions of ruby. Although there exist many step-by-step instructions on installing and configuring rvm for most Linux distros, there aren't many focused on Alpine "daily...
HTMHell
datalists are more powerful than you think by Alexis Degryse I think we all know the <datalist> element (and if you don’t, it’s ok). It holds a...
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by Alexis Degryse I think we all know the <datalist> element (and if you don’t, it’s ok). It holds a list of <option> elements, offering suggested choices for its associated input field. It’s not an alternative for the <select> element. A field associated to a <datalist> can...
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...
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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.
Making software...
CSS Value: `currentColor` CSS Value: currentColor 2019-04-13 There are a large number of nuanced and mostly unheard of CSS...
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CSS Value: currentColor 2019-04-13 There are a large number of nuanced and mostly unheard of CSS value types, but today we are going to focus on currentColor. So what is the currentColor value type anyway? The currentColor value type will apply the existing color value to other...
Steve Klabnik
Hackety Hack v1.0
over a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Installing WordPress on NearlyFreeSpeech Installing WordPress on NearlyFreeSpeech 2024-05-27 I recently went through the process of porting...
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Installing WordPress on NearlyFreeSpeech 2024-05-27 I recently went through the process of porting over my wife’s small business website (built off of WordPress + Woocommerce) from EasyWP to NearlyFreeSpeech. Although the process was fairly easy-going, I thought I would post my...
Irrational...
Safe defaults. Back in 2018, when I first wrote about sizing engineering teams, I was surprised how much my advice...
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Back in 2018, when I first wrote about sizing engineering teams, I was surprised how much my advice rankled a colleague. He wanted to spin up a new engineering team of two people, which I thought was a bad idea. It would be a fragile team that would fall apart quickly if it...
Yale E360
Starting my (overkill) homelab I've set up a homelab finally! This is something I've wanted for a while and finally the timing was...
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I've set up a homelab finally! This is something I've wanted for a while and finally the timing was right. The right project came along to justify it, so I took the plunge. Naturally, that leads to a few questions: What's a home lab? Why do you want one? And what is the shiny...
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First Look at AWS Amplify Flutter (Developer Preview) AWS Amplify launched a Flutter Integration, so I thought I would record a quick video and blogpost
over a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
Maximize your excitement * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’m a huge...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’m a huge believer of the lean startup movement and the concept of validating ideas as quickly as possible. I think wasted time and resources are disastrous and no matter how much you love an...
Sometimes It Works...
ASAP ASAP ¶ASAP When asking for something, it’s really pointless to attach the typical “as soon as...
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ASAP ¶ASAP When asking for something, it’s really pointless to attach the typical “as soon as possible” to the end. Here’s why: What I think you mean when you use the phrase “as soon as possible” or, even worse, “ASAP”: I really want this now or sooner. I don’t care what you’re...
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Patchwork 08 · History and diffs with Automerge Version control capabilities like history, branching, and diffs are enabled by the Automerge CRDT...
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So Long, Prog21 I always intended "Programming in the 21st Century" to have a limited run. I knew since the entry...
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I always intended "Programming in the 21st Century" to have a limited run. I knew since the entry from January 1, 2010, that I needed to end it. It just took a while.Recovering Programmer And now, an explanation. I started this blog to talk about issues tangentially related to...
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Lyft in Trouble Financials paint a worrying picture of the US’s #2 ridesharing company. The founders have just...
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Financials paint a worrying picture of the US’s #2 ridesharing company. The founders have just stepped down and a former Amazon executive is the new CEO. What does this major change mean?
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Making AWS Amplify work with Rollup AWS Amplify assumes CommonJS, which Rollup is allergic to. I recently discovered that you can make...
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AWS Amplify assumes CommonJS, which Rollup is allergic to. I recently discovered that you can make it work with Rollup with a few tweaks.
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The Day I Became A Software Engineer A single mindset shift that changed my entire attitude to software.
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Disabling Comments in WordPress Disabling Comments in WordPress 2020-12-28 I seem to come across a decent amount of clients and...
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Disabling Comments in WordPress 2020-12-28 I seem to come across a decent amount of clients and users online that have a difficult time knowing how to disable comments for both future and previous blog posts. It isn’t the easiest for both use cases, so let’s break it down. Back...
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There’s Something You Need to Know About Web Design and Development You’re doing great at it. (❤️ from Bluey: Baby Race) Email, Twitter, Mastodon
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Why Tailwind CSS Why I changed my mind on Tailwind CSS, and why I now consider it the Goldilocks Styling Solution
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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...
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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...
Yale E360
"Help, I see a problem and no one is prioritizing it!" A mentee recently mentioned a really frustrating problem that her manager seems to be ignoring. The...
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A mentee recently mentioned a really frustrating problem that her manager seems to be ignoring. The specific problem doesn't matter, so don't focus on the technical details here. Hey Nicole! At $DAYJOB, we have some big problems and it's frustrating, I keep pointing them out and...
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The best Google Optimize alternatives for apps and websites Google recently confirmed the sunsetting Google Optimize, its A/B testing platform. In a statement ...
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Google recently confirmed the sunsetting Google Optimize, its A/B testing platform. In a statement on its website, Google said: "Google Optimize and…
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Waterfall The worlds of software, business, and music use the word "Waterfall" incredibly differently and they...
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The worlds of software, business, and music use the word "Waterfall" incredibly differently and they are completely ignorant of each other. I figured I would make a quick note to compare and contrast them!
Ink & Switch
Peritext: A CRDT for Rich-Text Collaboration Collaboration on rich text is hard to model with plain-text approaches. We review the challenges and...
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Collaboration on rich text is hard to model with plain-text approaches. We review the challenges and how to construct a CRDT for rich text.
elementary Blog
Getting in shape for summer This month we have mostly minor maintenance updates as we gear up for a feature-filled future...
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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,...
markround.com
DevOps for the Sinclair Spectrum - Part 3 In Part 2 I discussed the server environment, as well as how I built and launched the first...
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In Part 2 I discussed the server environment, as well as how I built and launched the first prototype version of the site. I hit some speedbumps along the way and quickly reached the limits of what I could do with a pure client-only 1980s BASIC codebase. In this part, I’ll look...
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When to give up Most of our cultural virtues, celebrated heroes, and catchy slogans align with the idea of "never...
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Most of our cultural virtues, celebrated heroes, and catchy slogans align with the idea of "never give up". That's a good default! Most people are inclined to give up too easily, as soon as the going gets hard. But it's also worth remembering that sometimes you really should...
Kagi Blog
Kagi status update: First three months Kagi search and Orion browser officially entered public beta exactly three months ago (...
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Kagi search and Orion browser officially entered public beta exactly three months ago ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-orion-public-beta ).
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Array 1.15.0 Hey there! It's been a while... With our last release being over a month ago, this new release has...
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Hey there! It's been a while... With our last release being over a month ago, this new release has the largest changelog to date, with 175 PRs merged…
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Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch 2022-07-06 If you're an RSS subscriber, I've probably blown...
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Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch 2022-07-06 If you're an RSS subscriber, I've probably blown up your feed reader (again). This seems to be an on-going theme with this blog. I can't help it. This website now uses my new Pandoc-based static blog generator: pblog. I won't go...
Julia Evans
Some notes on using nix Recently I started using a Mac for the first time. The biggest downside I’ve noticed so far is that...
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Recently I started using a Mac for the first time. The biggest downside I’ve noticed so far is that the package management is much worse than on Linux. At some point I got frustrated with homebrew because I felt like it was spending too much time upgrading when I installed new...
Eric Bailey
accessiBe and the false David vs. Goliath narrative immediately stop creating harm for the people trying to use your website or web app. Remove...
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immediately stop creating harm for the people trying to use your website or web app. Remove accessiBe’s one line of embed code, ride out your contract’s remaining time, and don’t renew—treat the cost as lesson learned. If you are unfamiliar with the concept of accessibility...
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Menu Toggle with Pure CSS Menu Toggle with Pure CSS 2020-10-19 When thinking through navigation designs for mobile devices...
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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...
Ink & Switch
Ink & Switch Unconference [2023 / Lisboa, PT]
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Tabbed Content Without JavaScript Tabbed Content Without JavaScript 2019-01-28 Creating tabs is a fairly trivial and common practice...
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Tabbed Content Without JavaScript 2019-01-28 Creating tabs is a fairly trivial and common practice in web design, but many times it requires JavaScript to properly implement. Fortunately it is possible to create tabbed content with only using CSS. Live CodePen...
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Back to Basics: 5 HTML attributes for improved accessibility and user experience by Daniela Kubesch In the fast-paced world of web development, it's easy to get caught up in the...
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by Daniela Kubesch In the fast-paced world of web development, it's easy to get caught up in the latest frameworks, libraries and cutting-edge technologies. But sometimes, the most impactful improvements come from revisiting the fundamentals. In this blog post, I'll guide you...
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What to do when iCloud is stuck on uploading items I use iCloud as my syncing engine for my [Obsidian Second...
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I use iCloud as my syncing engine for my [Obsidian Second Brain](https://www.swyx.io/obsidian-brain), and twice now I've seen iCloud get corrupted into a really bad state. I also [back up everything to github](https://github.com/sw-yx/brain), so I dont really experience much data...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Webkit’s New Color Picker as an Example of Good Platform Defaults I’ve written about how I don’t love the idea of overriding basic computing controls. Instead, I...
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I’ve written about how I don’t love the idea of overriding basic computing controls. Instead, I generally favor opting to respect user choice and provide the controls their platform does. Of course, this means platforms need to surface better primitives rather than supplying...
Computer Things
Five Unusual Raku Features Logic for Programmers is now in Beta! v0.5 marks the official end of alpha! With the new version,...
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Logic for Programmers is now in Beta! v0.5 marks the official end of alpha! With the new version, all of the content I wanted to put in the book is now present, and all that's left is copyediting, proofreading, and formatting. Which will probably take as long as it took to...
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Clever code is probably the worst code you could write And clear, readable code is probably the hardest code to write
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the algebra of dependent types TIL (or this week-ish I learned) why big-sigma and big-pi turn up in the notation of dependent type...
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TIL (or this week-ish I learned) why big-sigma and big-pi turn up in the notation of dependent type theory. I’ve long been aware of the zoo of more obscure Greek letters that turn up in papers about type system features of functional programming languages, μ, Λ, Π, Σ. Their...
David Heinemeier...
The endangered state of normality When I was growing up in the 80s and 90s, I had friends who were socially awkward nerds, friends who...
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When I was growing up in the 80s and 90s, I had friends who were socially awkward nerds, friends who were cool but didn't like school at all, friends who were good at school but couldn't muster the will to finish their math homework, and friends who were tomboys. None of these...
Ink & Switch
Pixelpusher: Real-time peer-to-peer collaboration with React Documenting the Pixelpusher project for real-time peer-to-peer collaboration.
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Realtime Offline-First Chat App in 100 Seconds A quick demo of how easy it is to add realtime, offline persistence to an app with Amplify DataStore
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The profile link relation and you
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Dot website I changed this website’s domain from .design to .website as part of my redesign. If you subscribe to...
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I changed this website’s domain from .design to .website as part of my redesign. If you subscribe to my RSS feed (and thank you if you do!), the new URL is: https://ericwbailey.website/feed/feed.xml Before this website was .design it was a .com. I’m not a company, and my...
Sometimes It Works...
Stop Trying to Reach the Top Source: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/london-2012-olympics-heston-blumenthal-179574 Read...
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Source: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/london-2012-olympics-heston-blumenthal-179574 Read this. Were you hit by Google Panda? Will you be hit when they start penalising non-mobile sites? The lesson? Stop trying to reach the top of Google. You’ll live longer/keep more of...
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Negotiable Abstractions 2023/12/21 Negotiable Abstractions When I used to write more software and do more architecture...
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2023/12/21 Negotiable Abstractions When I used to write more software and do more architecture professionally (I still do, but less intensively so with the SRE title), one of the most important questions I'd seek answers to was "how do I cut this up?" Or more accurately, "how do...
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Travis build matrix for Rails
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The Importance of Heading Levels for Assistive Technology
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Announcing Ensemble Announcing Ensemble Bringing your Composer dependencies together Keeping you informed about...
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Announcing Ensemble Bringing your Composer dependencies together Keeping you informed about outdated packages Security Vulnerabilities Bringing it all together How it works Requirements A note on security It’s not just apps, you know… Automated alerting ¶Announcing...
macwright.com
Recently This was a big month of change for me – I announced that I was joining Val.town and wrote a big...
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This was a big month of change for me – I announced that I was joining Val.town and wrote a big update about Placemark. Plenty more to write, but at least here I’ll take a little breather and just do the usual: what’s new! Reading I only finished one book this month - Meet Us By...
Yale E360
Where is the source code for ping? Lately, I've been working on implementing ping on my own as a project to keep learning Rust and to...
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Lately, I've been working on implementing ping on my own as a project to keep learning Rust and to deepen my knowledge of networks. I'm just going for a super basic utility here, nothing fancy, not even all the features of ping. But since the language is new to me and my...
Marc Astbury
The Exodus Curve The concept of Product-Market Fit (PMF) collapse has gained renewed attention with the rise of large...
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The concept of Product-Market Fit (PMF) collapse has gained renewed attention with the rise of large language models (LLMs), as highlighted in a recent Reforge article. The article argues we’re witnessing unprecedented market disruption, in this post, I propose we’re experiencing...
Eric Bailey
Battery Status API: We need to talk
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Irrational...
Navigating Private Equity ownership. In 2020, you could credibly argue that ZIRP explains the world, but that’s an impossible argument to...
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In 2020, you could credibly argue that ZIRP explains the world, but that’s an impossible argument to make in 2024 when zero-interest rate policy is only a fond memory. Instead, we’re seeing a number of companies designed for rapid expansion learning to adapt to a world that...
charity.wtf
On Versioning Observabilities (1.0, 2.0, 3.0…10.0?!?) Hazel Weakly, you little troublemaker.  As I whined to Hazel over text, after she sweetly sent me a...
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Hazel Weakly, you little troublemaker.  As I whined to Hazel over text, after she sweetly sent me a preview draft of her post: “PLEASE don’t post this! I feel like I spend all my time trying to help bring clarity and context to what’s happening in the market, and this is NOT...
TokyoDev
Working as a Software Engineer Intern in Tokyo There isn't much information available about being a software engineering intern in Japan. I...
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There isn't much information available about being a software engineering intern in Japan. I remember when I first considered doing one that I wanted an online resource on the topic. Now that I've done several software engineering internships at Japanese companies, I'll help...
Epic Web Dev
Improve UX and Security with Time-based One Time Passwords (TOTPs) (tip) Watch Kent show you the improved user experience, security, and the implementation of Time-based One...
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Watch Kent show you the improved user experience, security, and the implementation of Time-based One Time Passwords in the Epic Stack.
Maggie Appleton
What the Fork is Babel? Illustrated notes on how Babel works
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Homeownership Most people I know fit into one of two camps: they either want to buy a house and they can’t, or...
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Most people I know fit into one of two camps: they either want to buy a house and they can’t, or they’ve bought a house. The desire to own ones own home is almost universal in the people I know in the US. It’s even stronger for folks who live outside of major cities. And people...
Yale E360
Optimize sprint points to get nowhere fast As developers, we can be metric obsessed. We tend to like objective measures of things. 99th...
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As developers, we can be metric obsessed. We tend to like objective measures of things. 99th percentile request times, CPU percentage, disk utilization. Nothing escapes our attempts to quantify it, not even our productivity: enter story points1. We measure our productivity in...
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A Glance through Docusaurus, Docz, and React-Static a survey of new documentation/static site generators
over a year ago
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How to see beauty Last summer, I found myself at a farmers market of a small town in Southern France. The air was...
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Last summer, I found myself at a farmers market of a small town in Southern France. The air was alive with chatter and the joy of yet another sunny day ahead. I made my way through tourists, neighbourhood regulars and other early birds. To escape the buzz, I stepped into the...
Dan Slimmon
No Observability Without Theory: The Talk Last month, I had the unadulterated pleasure of presenting “No Observability Without Theory” at...
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Last month, I had the unadulterated pleasure of presenting “No Observability Without Theory” at Monitorama 2024. If you’ve never been to Monitorama, I can’t recommend it enough. I think it’s the best tech conference, period. This talk was adapted from an old blog post of mine,...
wingolog
javascript weakmaps should be iterable Good evening. Tonight, a brief position statement: it is a mistake for JavaScript’s to not be...
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Good evening. Tonight, a brief position statement: it is a mistake for JavaScript’s to not be iterable, and we should fix it.WeakMap A associates a key with a value, as long as the key is otherwise reachable in a program. (It is an .)WeakMapephemeron table When was added to...
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How To Deploy a Django App to Render.com Messing around learning Django and deploying
over a year ago
Tinloof - Blog
How to make and test your own React drag and drop list with 0 dependencies I know, drag and drop is a solved problem. There are several great utilities you can use to easily...
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I know, drag and drop is a solved problem. There are several great utilities you can use to easily have a drag and drop list in your application (dragula, react-beautiful-dnd, and react-dnd). These libraries offer APIs that make it easy to meet your needs without worrying about...
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,...
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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...
Josh Comeau's blog
The Importance of Learning CSS I know so many super-talented developers who share the same achilles heel: CSS. Instead of trying to...
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I know so many super-talented developers who share the same achilles heel: CSS. Instead of trying to “outrun” CSS, this article explores why leaning in and going deeper can be a tremendous boon for your development life and your career.
Steve Klabnik
I invented hypermedia APIs by accident
over a year ago
Elad Blog
A return to company core mission & values If you want to refocus on your core mission, and end political discourse at work, now is a window of...
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If you want to refocus on your core mission, and end political discourse at work, now is a window of time to do it
Alex MacCaw
The Toad
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Yes, I Still Use jQuery Yes, I Still Use jQuery 2019-04-15 I have seen a handful of condescending comments from front-end...
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Yes, I Still Use jQuery 2019-04-15 I have seen a handful of condescending comments from front-end developers since the newest build of (jQuery 3.4.0) released a couple of days ago. While I understand not all developers share the same work-style or are using the same tech-stack,...
Josh Comeau's blog
Persisting React State in localStorage A common thing in React development is that we want to store a bit of React state in localStorage,...
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A common thing in React development is that we want to store a bit of React state in localStorage, and re-initialize from that value on the next page-load. This quick tutorial shows you how we can build a custom hook that does exactly this!
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...
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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.
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...
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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…
A Beautiful Site
CSS drop caps Traditionally found in printed media, drop caps are created by emphasizing the size, color, weight,...
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Traditionally found in printed media, drop caps are created by emphasizing the size, color, weight, or style of the first letter in the first sentence of a paragraph. We can easily reproduce this effect on webpages by using the :first-letter pseudo element. Writing the styles...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
More Files Please Scott Jenson has a great article called “The future needs files”. The power of files comes from them...
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a year ago
Scott Jenson has a great article called “The future needs files”. The power of files comes from them being powerful nouns. They are temporary holding blocks that are used as a form of exchange between applications. A range of apps can edit a single file in a single...
Maggie Appleton
The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI An exploration of the problems and possible futures of flooding the web with generative AI content
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On Life and Lisp
Hilariously Fast Volume Computation with the Divergence Theorem (No, there won’t be jokes.) The following presents a fast algorithm for volume computation of a...
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(No, there won’t be jokes.) The following presents a fast algorithm for volume computation of a simple, closed, triangulated 3D mesh. This assumption is a consequence of the divergence theorem. Further extensions may generalise to other meshes as well, although that is presently...
Yale E360
My reference was dropped, why is the compiler complaining about multiple borrows? Recently someone I was talking to ran into a fun borrow checker problem in Rust which is...
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a year ago
Recently someone I was talking to ran into a fun borrow checker problem in Rust which is illustrative of some current underlying limitations of Rust's borrow checker. The problem boiled down to: they took a reference in a loop (dropped on each iteration), and the borrow checker...
Grant Slatton
Nobody Cares A rant about caring
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A Beautiful Site
SVG Repo I stumbled upon a great resource for free SVGs. They're currently boasting over 300,000 images....
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I stumbled upon a great resource for free SVGs. They're currently boasting over 300,000 images. Check it out over at SVG repo. Looks like they have a sister site for fonts, too. Lots of 'em.
Ognjen Regoje •...
All software engineers should freelance or found a business Many (most?) engineers go from university to a sizable company significantly distancing them from...
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Many (most?) engineers go from university to a sizable company significantly distancing them from the actual value their code creates. They labour under the delusion that they’re paid to write code. In fact, they’re paid to make money, and writing code is probably the most...
Eric Bailey
Little Library
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A Beautiful Site
Determining your app's base directory in Node.js Determining your app's base dir (or document root if you're from a PHP background) isn't as straight...
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Determining your app's base dir (or document root if you're from a PHP background) isn't as straight forward as you'd think in Node. Here's a little trick to get a globally available reference to your app's root directory. Add this somewhere towards the start of your main app...
A Smart Bear
Discount gambit Discounting is the typical sales technique, but refusing to discount can lead to a much better...
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Discounting is the typical sales technique, but refusing to discount can lead to a much better business, even in the Enterprise.
Maggie Appleton
Transclusion and Transcopyright Dreams The lost permissioning and copyright system of the Web
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Steve Klabnik
Seriously: numbers: use them!
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charity.wtf
How Hard Should Your Employer Work To Retain You? Recently we learned that Google spent $2.7 billion to re-hire a single AI researcher who had left to...
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Recently we learned that Google spent $2.7 billion to re-hire a single AI researcher who had left to start his own company. As Charlie Brown would say: “Good grief.” 🙄 This is an (incredibly!) extreme example. But back in the halcyon days of the zero interest rate phenomenon...
Epic Web Dev
Writing Tests That Fail (article) There can be a lot of confusion and doubt when it comes to writing tests. Answering this simple...
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There can be a lot of confusion and doubt when it comes to writing tests. Answering this simple question may help clear a lot of it out.
A Beautiful Site
Let's Encrypt renews but browsers still seeing old/expired SSL certificate This morning was frustrating. I recently upgraded my VPS from the deprecated letsencrypt client to...
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This morning was frustrating. I recently upgraded my VPS from the deprecated letsencrypt client to the newer cerbot client and generated new certificates for all my personal domains. I thought everything was fine — until I kept seeing intermittent SSL errors. I figured I did...
Basta’s Notes
Matt Basta: purveyor of fake news A story about how I accidentally duped the Bay Area press in 2013
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The History of the...
Our Online Homes Need Infastructure A home online is about as essential as it gets. But we need to make that easier. Where are we...
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A home online is about as essential as it gets. But we need to make that easier. Where are we heading to build this new web together? The post Our Online Homes Need Infastructure appeared first on The History of the Web.
Computer Things
What if the spec doesn't match the code? Whenever I talk about formal methods, I get the same question: Can I use the spec to generate my...
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Whenever I talk about formal methods, I get the same question: Can I use the spec to generate my code? People are worried about two things. One, that they'll make a mistake implementing the specification and have bugs. Two, that over time the implementation will "drift" and...
dthompson
Guix for development This wonderful article by Marius Bakke (thanks for using Haunt btw!) about guix shell hit the orange...
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This wonderful article by Marius Bakke (thanks for using Haunt btw!) about guix shell hit the orange website front page recently. I left a comment to the effect of “hell yeah I use it for all my projects!” and someone asked me for an example of what I do. I sent them some links...
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Links: February 2024 edition Interesting articles, videos and projects from this time period—with commentary
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Ink & Switch
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Announcing Emoji 1.0
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Stop Using Custom Web Fonts Stop Using Custom Web Fonts 2023-03-14 I recently read an excellent post by Manu Moreale titled A...
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Stop Using Custom Web Fonts 2023-03-14 I recently read an excellent post by Manu Moreale titled A rant on web font licenses. I highly recommend you give it a read (it’s relatively short) since Manu makes a solid argument against existing font licenses. After reading, I found...
Steve Klabnik
An early Christmas present for you
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PostHog's RSS Feed
Our simpler goal: Help engineers to be better at product One of the things I've learned at PostHog is the simpler a strategy, the more likely it's right. We...
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One of the things I've learned at PostHog is the simpler a strategy, the more likely it's right. We simplified our strategy recently. This post…
Ink & Switch
Untangle: Solving problems with fuzzy constraints How to sketch, and satisfy, logic problems
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A Beautiful Site
Forcing file downloads in PHP I've seen a number of methods to force file downloads using the PHP header() function which,...
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I've seen a number of methods to force file downloads using the PHP header() function which, essentially, sends a raw HTTP header to the browser. Depending on your browser, some files won't be downloaded automatically. Instead, they will be handled by the browser itself or a...
Ralph Ammer
The Creative Switch This secret to creativity will help you come up with many ideas. The post The Creative Switch...
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This secret to creativity will help you come up with many ideas. The post The Creative Switch appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
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Array 1.14.0 Over the past three weeks, there was one word on everyone's mind: feedback. We did a bunch of...
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Over the past three weeks, there was one word on everyone's mind: feedback. We did a bunch of interviews with users and had a lot of discussions with…
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Did you know AI is answering our community questions? AI. You may have heard of it. Sure, ChatGPT is pretty cool, but when it comes to AI chatbots that...
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AI. You may have heard of it. Sure, ChatGPT is pretty cool, but when it comes to AI chatbots that try to replace a human in a product support context…
Ognjen Regoje •...
CEOs are mandating return to office because they need instant gratification Many CEOs and companies are pushing for a return to the office. They can’t all be crazy – they must...
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Many CEOs and companies are pushing for a return to the office. They can’t all be crazy – they must have some justification. Remote work increases individual productivity, so what are they trading off against then? One argument is serendipity and those spontaneous moments of...
David Heinemeier...
Waiting on red Americans often laugh when they see how often Danes will patiently, obediently wait on the little...
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Americans often laugh when they see how often Danes will patiently, obediently wait on the little red man to turn green before crossing an empty intersection, in the rain, even at night. Nobody is coming! Why don't you just cross?! It seems silly, but the underlying philosophy is...
A Smart Bear
The only way to guarantee startup success What is it like to reach the pinnacle of success? Is that where you attain happiness and...
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What is it like to reach the pinnacle of success? Is that where you attain happiness and fulfillment? Or are those found right here, right now.
alexwlchan
We all lose when art is anonymised One rabbit hole I can never resist going down is finding the original creator of a piece of...
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One rabbit hole I can never resist going down is finding the original creator of a piece of art. This sounds simple, but it’s often quite difficult. The Internet is a maze of social media accounts that only exist to repost other people’s art, usually with minimal or non-existent...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Just stop adding people. “Communication is a sign of dysfunction.” – Jeff Bezos, via Brad Stone, The Everything Store Slack...
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“Communication is a sign of dysfunction.” – Jeff Bezos, via Brad Stone, The Everything Store Slack is a great way to destroy a workday. You can lose whole days hammering out details with coworkers across a few Slack threads. But communication is the cost you pay for capacity—the...
A Smart Bear
Easy statistics for A/B testing and hamsters A/B testing tools often lie about whether something is "statistically significant." Here's an...
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A/B testing tools often lie about whether something is "statistically significant." Here's an extremely simple, mathematically sound formula to compute it for yourself.
The Codist
If You Don't Give A Crap, This Is the Shit That You Get Being retired after four decades as a programmer, there is nothing more irritating than seeing...
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a year ago
Being retired after four decades as a programmer, there is nothing more irritating than seeing broken or poor functionality in web and mobile apps. I always cared about what we were putting out, even if it was sometimes unimportant to my employer. When I see things that are easy...
Kagi Blog
We moved mountains (of cotton) to deliver on our promise Dear Kagi Community, Remember those t-shirts we promised ( https://blog.kagi.com/celebrating-20k ) ?...
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Dear Kagi Community, Remember those t-shirts we promised ( https://blog.kagi.com/celebrating-20k ) ? Well, hold onto your search bars, because they’re finally ready to ship! TL;DR: Kagi Store ( https://store.kagi.com ).
A Beautiful Site
Why You Should Prefix Custom Events Similar to how every custom element must contain a dash, I like to pretend that every custom event...
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Similar to how every custom element must contain a dash, I like to pretend that every custom event must also contain a dash. This removes all ambiguity between native events and custom events. Therefore, I prefix all custom events in Shoelace with sl-. It may seem contradictory...
ByteofDev
Why I hate JavaScript numbers and what everyone has (not) done with them JavaScript went against the grain in only using floating point numbers initially, and now we pay the...
3 months ago
Computer Things
Modeling Awkward Social Situations with TLA+ You're walking down the street and need to pass someone going the opposite way. You take a step...
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You're walking down the street and need to pass someone going the opposite way. You take a step left, but they're thinking the same thing and take a step to their right, aka your left. You're still blocking each other. Then you take a step to the right, and they take a step to...
Cognitive...
My Own AI Server Cluster When a16z generously sponsored Dolphin, I had some compute budget, and because the original...
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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...
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Should open source projects track you? Many open source projects now track their usage in some way, shape, or form. So much user tracking...
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Many open source projects now track their usage in some way, shape, or form. So much user tracking is horrible. It's usually buried deep in the…
Words and Buttons...
Challenge your performance intuition with C++ sine One more interactive quiz. This time, it's all about the sine function. Which one is faster and...
over a year ago
Josh Collinsworth
The blissful zen of a good side project One of life's greatest simple pleasures is creating something just for yourself.
3 months ago
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How I Approach First Principles Thinking An explanation of First Principles via comparing Inductive vs Deductive Reasoning, and thoughts on...
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Single Line Comments in CSS Brad Frost noted on Twitter how he recently made a website with plain HTML, CSS, JS, etc., and found...
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Brad Frost noted on Twitter how he recently made a website with plain HTML, CSS, JS, etc., and found himself missing some of the ergonomics from Sass. Having mostly abandoned Sass on personal projects, I was curious what he felt was missing. He mentioned nesting media queries,...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Novels as Prototypes of the Future Via Robin Rendle’s blog, I found this quote from Jack Cheng (emphasis mine): A novel…is a prototype...
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Via Robin Rendle’s blog, I found this quote from Jack Cheng (emphasis mine): A novel…is a prototype of the future. And if the ideas that the tech industry is pursuing feel stagnant…maybe it points to a shortage of compelling fictions for what the world could be. I love that...
PostHog's RSS Feed
How to measure product engagement Product engagement is the most important factor when it comes to driving retention and revenue for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Product engagement is the most important factor when it comes to driving retention and revenue for your business. Though it seems easy to view success…
HTMHell
Past HTML, Future HTML? by Jens Oliver Meiert Consider the following HTML document: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML...
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by Jens Oliver Meiert Consider the following HTML document: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 1996-01//EN"> <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> <p class="Author"> <h1></h1> <P> <P> <H2></H2> <P> <UL> <LI> <LI> ...
Maggie Appleton
A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden A newly revived philosophy for publishing personal knowledge on the web
over a year ago
samwho.dev
A Logical Way to Split Long Lines Splitting long lines is something we do every day as programmers, but rarely do I hear discussion...
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over a year ago
Splitting long lines is something we do every day as programmers, but rarely do I hear discussion about how best to do it. Considering our industry-wide obsession with “best practices,” line breaks have managed to stay relatively free from scrutiny. A few years ago, I learned a...
alexwlchan
Parsing CloudFront logs with Python I’ve been doing work recently to analyse some CloudFront access logs. There are lots of ways to do...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’ve been doing work recently to analyse some CloudFront access logs. There are lots of ways to do this, and I normally reach for Python inside a Jupyter Notebook because those are tools I’m very familiar with. I’ve done this a few times now, so I thought it’d be worth pulling...
Remains of the Day
Status Update, and How Everyone IPO'd in the 21st Century Sorry for the long hiatus. I've been doing some formal advisory work and a bit of angel investing...
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Sorry for the long hiatus. I've been doing some formal advisory work and a bit of angel investing these past months, and so more of my writing has been private. More than that, though, the Internet, with all the status games and incentives I wrote about in my last post, began to...
Joel Gascoigne
The paradox of how bugs and downtime can be a good thing * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Often if I give...
over a year ago
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Often if I give a talk or I speak with someone about getting their idea off the ground, the topic of how solid the product should be comes up. In particular, people very frequently wait far too...
Confessions of a...
Are Function Calls Still Slow in Python? An Analysis of Recent Optimizations in CPython How costly it is to call functions and builtins in your python code? Does inlining help? How have...
11 months ago
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How costly it is to call functions and builtins in your python code? Does inlining help? How have the recent CPython releases improved performance in these areas?
Maggie Appleton
Statistically, When Will My Baby Be Born? A tiny tool to calculate when your baby might arrive
3 months ago
A Smart Bear
Ballad of The Lean Startup An ode to validated learning.
over a year ago
Yale E360
RC Week 10: Thankful for Family, Missing my Family As I write this, I'm sitting, surrounded by family, recovering from a cold. I wasn't sure what I'd...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As I write this, I'm sitting, surrounded by family, recovering from a cold. I wasn't sure what I'd write this week for the RC week 10 recap, since it's a short week. This week I didn't get a whole lot of coding done, so it's time for the trope: the Thanksgiving post. Of course,...
Marco.org
The 2018 iPad Pro Watch my video review of the new iPad Pro in both sizes. Rather than try to be comprehensive, I...
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Watch my video review of the new iPad Pro in both sizes. Rather than try to be comprehensive, I focused on what matters most to me: size choice between the 11” and 12.9”, the Smart Keyboard Folio from my perspective as a frequent 10.5” Smart Keyboard user, the new Pencil, and why...
bt RSS Feed
Dynamic Viewports with CSS Dynamic Viewports with CSS 2023-02-08 I think it’s safe to assume most web designers and developers...
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Dynamic Viewports with CSS 2023-02-08 I think it’s safe to assume most web designers and developers are familiar with the standard vh and vw parameters in CSS. These parameters are used for setting an element’s height and/or width, relative to the viewport (v) height (h) or width...
Maggie Appleton
Synecdoche: Drawing the Part for the Whole Notes on the metaphorical varieties of synecdoche and metonymy
over a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch 2022-07-06 If you’re an RSS subscriber, I’ve probably blown...
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Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch 2022-07-06 If you’re an RSS subscriber, I’ve probably blown up your feed reader (again). This seems to be an on-going theme with this blog. I can’t help it. This website now uses my new Pandoc-based static blog generator: pblog. I won’t go...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Compressing for the browser in Go Comparing gzip, brotli and zstd compression in Go. When a modern browser sends a HTTP...
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Comparing gzip, brotli and zstd compression in Go. When a modern browser sends a HTTP request to a web server, it includes the following header: Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br, zstd This tells the server that the response can be compressed using one of the...
Dan Slimmon
did u ever read so hard u accidentally wrote? Owning a production Postgres database is never boring. The other day, I’m looking for trouble (as I...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Owning a production Postgres database is never boring. The other day, I’m looking for trouble (as I am wont to do), and I notice this weird curve in the production database metrics: So we’ve got these spikes in WALWrite: the number of processes waiting to write to the write-ahead...
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Cheatsheet for moving from Master to Main Notes I have collected on how to renaming the Git default/primary branch
over a year ago
TokyoDev
The 2022 International Developers in Japan survey results are live! In October 2022, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan. [The results are...
over a year ago
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In October 2022, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan. [The results are now live](/insights/2022-developer-survey), please check them out! This year's survey had 42 questions, up from 24 questions for [2021's...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
User Feedback I was listening to ShopTalkShow #544 where Dave mentions his craving for frank, almost brutal, user...
a year ago
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a year ago
I was listening to ShopTalkShow #544 where Dave mentions his craving for frank, almost brutal, user feedback on the app they’re building (Luro) and it reminded me of something I wanted to write down. At a previous gig, we hired a head of user research who helped formalize and...
David Heinemeier...
Workfeed goes to America During my three years in Denmark, I invested in five local startups. All on the premise that we'd...
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a year ago
During my three years in Denmark, I invested in five local startups. All on the premise that we'd work towards becoming profitable, remaining in the country, and avoiding the VC timebomb. The one that has already fulfilled all the objectives is Workfeed, and now they're ready to...
Ruud van Asseldonk
A float walks into a gradual type system
4 months ago
Tony Finch's blog
nsnotifyd-2.2 released I have made a new release of nsnotifyd, a tiny DNS server that just listens for NOTIFY messages and...
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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-2.2 release includes a new feature: nsnotify can now send NOTIFY messages from a specific source address Thanks to Adam...
A Beautiful Site
Moving to Node.js The first version of Postleaf was written in PHP and lives on as Leafpub. It's a beautiful piece of...
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over a year ago
The first version of Postleaf was written in PHP and lives on as Leafpub. It's a beautiful piece of software that I'm very proud of, but I decided to move the project to Node.js for a few important reasons. This is by no means a knock on PHP, which will always have a special...
bt RSS Feed
Proper UI Hierarchy Proper UI Hierarchy 2019-02-05 I often feel like an old man when I complain about flat design and...
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over a year ago
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...
Tinloof - Blog
Using CSS files in web components When building a microfrontend in React using tools like create-react-app, Webpack, or Vite you might...
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over a year ago
When building a microfrontend in React using tools like create-react-app, Webpack, or Vite you might expect plain CSS files and CSS modules to just work, but they don’t 😱. Here is an example of a CSS module in a React component:
Eric Bailey
Implicit cultural norms and accessible social media Implicit cultural norms and accessible social media have come up in conversation a few times with...
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Implicit cultural norms and accessible social media have come up in conversation a few times with different groups in the past week, so I want to talk about it. Explicit norms are the parameters the social media platform sets for you. Tweets are predominately text and images,...
Dan Slimmon
Dead air on the incident call Silence can mean different things to different people in different situations. In this post, I'll...
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a year ago
Silence can mean different things to different people in different situations. In this post, I'll present a few incident scenarios and explore the role of the incident commander in breaking (or simply abiding in) dead air.
HTMHell
There can be only one: Options for building “choose one” fields When it comes to building out forms, it sometimes seems like there are at once both too few field...
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over a year ago
When it comes to building out forms, it sometimes seems like there are at once both too few field types and too many. This is especially true when it comes to having users choose an option from a pre-defined list, also known as “choose one” fields. This article will take you on a...
the singularity is...
Wireheading City I spent the last 2 weeks travelling around India, and I came up with this line: There’s a fine line...
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I spent the last 2 weeks travelling around India, and I came up with this line: There’s a fine line that defines civilization. Several beggars approached me on the street, and I didn’t give them anything. I suspect they would be surprised to learn that we have worse beggars in...
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Introduction to MobX 4 for React/Redux Developers an introduction to mobx 4 for people coming from react and redux
over a year ago
Making software...
A Warning for New Designers: Avoid Dribbble A Warning for New Designers: Avoid Dribbble 2022-09-08 Everyday a new designer begins their journey...
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A Warning for New Designers: Avoid Dribbble 2022-09-08 Everyday a new designer begins their journey into the world of [insert design industry here] and it is magical! Having a fresh pair of eyes untainted from the current trends of the time can help improve design as a whole....
MMapped blog
The plan-execute pattern
a year ago
James Vaughan's blog
A surprising scam email that evaded Gmail's spam filter
5 months ago
Steve Klabnik
I'm joining Cloudflare
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Personal Websites Are As Vulnerable As Us I look at some people’s personal websites and think, “Stupendous! If I ever reach that zenith of...
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10 months ago
I look at some people’s personal websites and think, “Stupendous! If I ever reach that zenith of personal web design, I will call it quits.” Then I read a post by them later and they say something like, “Gah! I just really don’t like where I’m at with my personal website.” And in...
Quentin Santos
Overanalyzing a minor quirk of Espressif’s reset circuit The mystery In the previous article, I briefly mentioned a slight difference between the ESP-Prog...
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The mystery In the previous article, I briefly mentioned a slight difference between the ESP-Prog and the reproduced circuit, when it comes to EN: Focusing on EN, it looks like the voltage level goes back to 3.3V much faster on the ESP-Prog than on the breadboard circuit. The...
David Heinemeier...
That Model S Plaid I've owned a lot of great cars in my time. It's been one of the few places where hitting it big has...
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a year ago
I've owned a lot of great cars in my time. It's been one of the few places where hitting it big has allowed for something that wouldn't otherwise be possible. From Lamborghini to Pagani, Porsche to Ferrari, Aston Martin to Bentley, I have owned and loved them all. A+ use of...
Steve Klabnik
Rust's Golden Rule
over a year ago
Ink & Switch
07 · AI bots in version control Co-creating with AI can use version control to make bot-suggested changes easier to see and manage.
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Swyx.io 2023 rewrite Discussing the 2023 migration of swyx.io to the SvelteKit 1.0 and the swyxkit template
over a year ago
HTMHell
PSA: Stop using the title attribute as tooltip! by Daniela Kubesch It's almost 2025, so it's time to stop using the title attribute everywhere....
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by Daniela Kubesch It's almost 2025, so it's time to stop using the title attribute everywhere. Images, text, buttons, ... you name it, devs really like to put it on any element in sight. Most of the time, people actually want to create a tooltip. You know, that little bubble of...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Documentation Levels People can't use your code without docs. People might get overwhelmed with too many docs. How can we...
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People can't use your code without docs. People might get overwhelmed with too many docs. How can we match the maturity of docs to the maturity of the project?
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
How I made SumatraPDF crash less You don’t want your software to crash, do you? This post describes my experiences in making...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
You don’t want your software to crash, do you? This post describes my experiences in making SumatraPDF crash less. SumatraPDF is a Windows desktop app. It’s a fast viewer for PDF, ePub, comic books etc.. It’s small and yet full of features. Know thy crashes The most...
Blog of Simple...
Minimal Product Analytics
over a year ago
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Monitoring my indoor air quality Fri, 19 May 2023 Denver air quality live cam If there’s one thing that feels like it’s gotten worse...
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Fri, 19 May 2023 Denver air quality live cam If there’s one thing that feels like it’s gotten worse in my lifetime, it’s air quality. Colorado’s air quality last week was dismal, filled with smoke from Canadian wildfires, making Denver’s air quality among the worst of any major...
Maggie Appleton
The Best Illustration Books and Courses My favourite resources for learning to draw and developing your visual thinking skills
over a year ago
wingolog
finalizers, guardians, phantom references, et cetera Consider . Compared to finalizers, in which the , guardians allow the mutator to control...
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Consider . Compared to finalizers, in which the , guardians allow the mutator to control concurrency. See for more notes. Java’s / seems to be similar in spirit, though the details differ.guardianscleanup procedures are run concurrently with the mutator, by the...
Julia Evans
Go structs are copied on assignment (and other things about Go I'd missed) I’ve been writing Go pretty casually for years – the backends for all of my playgrounds (nginx, dns,...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
I’ve been writing Go pretty casually for years – the backends for all of my playgrounds (nginx, dns, memory, more DNS) are written in Go, but many of those projects are just a few hundred lines and I don’t come back to those codebases much. I thought I more or less understood the...
Blog of Simple...
Legal troubles for Adobe Analytics
a year ago
Ink & Switch
Keyhive 03 · What's In a Name? Why we’ve renamed the project
4 months ago
Alex Meub
Setting Up Free SSL for Static Sites on AWS Setting up SSL is a pain. Even using free certificate authorities like Let’s Encrypt are difficult...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Setting up SSL is a pain. Even using free certificate authorities like Let’s Encrypt are difficult to get working. For some time now, I’ve been looking for a cheap and easy way to set up SSL for static sites. AWS Certficate Manager I recently discovered AWS Certificate Manager...
charity.wtf
“Founder Mode” and the Art of Mythmaking I’ve never been good at “hot takes”. Anyone who knows anything about marketing can tell you that the...
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I’ve never been good at “hot takes”. Anyone who knows anything about marketing can tell you that the best time to share your opinion about something is when everyone is all worked up about it. Hot topics drive clicks and eyeballs and attention en masse. Unfortunately, my internal...
Blog of Simple...
HIPAA and mental health
a year ago
Kevin Chen
What I learned in 2017 At the end of 2017, I wrote down a few important things I’d learned that year. And now that we’re...
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over a year ago
At the end of 2017, I wrote down a few important things I’d learned that year. And now that we’re more than halfway through 2018, I decided to stop procrastinating and flesh out the details. Some of these things are probably obvious to you, but they were new to me! Being right is...
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to Download Twitter Spaces That Aren't Yours Grabbing the audio
over a year ago
Liz Denys
It's beginning to feel a lot like fall: homemade pumpkin spice latte It's beginning to feel a lot like fall: the weather is finally cooling down, leaves are browning,...
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It's beginning to feel a lot like fall: the weather is finally cooling down, leaves are browning, and pumpkin spice lattes are abundant. Being a coffee fan, I caved about a year ago and bought pumpkin spice latte syrup. It made for a delicious replica of the coffee shop classic,...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Don’t Forget the Meta Theme-Color Tag Ever used a website where you toggle from light mode to dark mode and the web site changes but the...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Ever used a website where you toggle from light mode to dark mode and the web site changes but the chrome around the browser doesn’t? To illustrate, take a look at this capture of my blog on an iPhone. When you toggle the theme from light to dark, note how the website turns white...
Ink & Switch
Keyhive 01 · Welcome to the Keyhive An introduction to the Keyhive project
10 months ago
Yale E360
Books I Read in 2018 Every year, GoodReads has a Reading Challenge, where you set how many books you want to read and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Every year, GoodReads has a Reading Challenge, where you set how many books you want to read and record them as you go. This year, I got serious about it, and it was a wonderful motivational device. I set a goal of two books per month, and I just eked it out over the finish line,...
A Smart Bear
Using the Needs Stack for competitive strategy This simple method positions your product to be more valuable, especially against competitors who...
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over a year ago
This simple method positions your product to be more valuable, especially against competitors who aim to disrupt you, or you them.
Words and Buttons...
SWInE: Simplicial Weight Interpolation and Extrapolation I stole exactly three ideas from other people, made them work together, and gave that compilation a...
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over a year ago
I stole exactly three ideas from other people, made them work together, and gave that compilation a funny name. I had my fun playing with the concept but the conclusion I had to put into my thesis was: “SWInE is rather promising”. In academic language, this means “useless”....
Blog - Bitfield...
Suite smells: undertesting and overtesting Tests are great, provided they actually test something. But are your tests too optimistic...
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Tests are great, provided they actually test something. But are your tests too optimistic (assuming the code already works), or too persnickety (testing the irrelevant)?
Liz Denys
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas: lemon ginger ricotta cookies There's something about using your escape from the cold as an excuse to bake cookies that really...
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There's something about using your escape from the cold as an excuse to bake cookies that really makes it feel like the Christmas season (or maybe I just like having excuses to bake). Before leaving New York for holidays with the family in Chicago, I made candy cane brownie...
the singularity is...
Death of the Visceral Pulled up at a stop light Imagine flying an x-wing down a corridor, having to turn the plane...
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Pulled up at a stop light Imagine flying an x-wing down a corridor, having to turn the plane sideways to fit, a missile on your tail and closing, hitting the turbo, feeling the g force, coming up on the end of the corridor, pulling back hard on the stick the second the corridor...
A Beautiful Site
Thoughts on uploads Uploads management is a concept I've always struggled with in Postleaf, but it's a necessary evil....
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over a year ago
Uploads management is a concept I've always struggled with in Postleaf, but it's a necessary evil. Users have to be able to view and delete files they upload; but at the same time, I've never felt that it should be an integral part of the app. Last night I had to face the fact...
David Heinemeier...
Turns out nobody cared about panel gaps One of the most fascinating aspects of Tesla's rise to dominance has been how they discarded many of...
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One of the most fascinating aspects of Tesla's rise to dominance has been how they discarded many of the traditional values of car making. While the rest of the industry was stuck competing on the size of their panel gaps, and other aspects of precision and quality assembly,...
PostHog's RSS Feed
The magic of a Hacker News Pre-Mortem Imagine you're working on something for other developers that you really, really want to be great....
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Imagine you're working on something for other developers that you really, really want to be great. Perhaps you're creating a new startup, perhaps…
David Heinemeier...
Open source hooliganism and the TypeScript meltdown I've seen a lot of true believers argue for virtues of their favorite paradigms and methods over the...
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a year ago
I've seen a lot of true believers argue for virtues of their favorite paradigms and methods over the decades working in software. And mostly, I look at people with a passionate preference and smile. Isn't it great that people care so much about their craft that they volunteer to...
A Beautiful Site
Find a name for almost any hex color Have you ever wondered what color that certain shade of blue is? Or maybe you've named your...
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Have you ever wondered what color that certain shade of blue is? Or maybe you've named your Less/Sass variables something like gray, light gray, lighter gray, etc. Here's a tool that will give you more reasonable names for all those colors. Name that Color lets you enter a hex...
Yale E360
Why Rust's learning curve seems harsh, and ideas to reduce it I've been thinking about the learning curve for Rust lately, and why it feels so hard to learn. I...
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over a year ago
I've been thinking about the learning curve for Rust lately, and why it feels so hard to learn. I think the reason is because the complexity is all front-loaded, and the resources generally don't actively reduce that front-loading1. There are two well-trod paths for learning...
A Beautiful Site
Access pages without the php extension using .htaccess There are a number of ways to make "clean URLs" work on your site, but this one is pretty straight...
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over a year ago
There are a number of ways to make "clean URLs" work on your site, but this one is pretty straight forward.  It allows you to access /any-page.php by simply going to /any-page.  Just place the following into your .htaccess file (and make sure that mod_rewrite is...
A Smart Bear
Enough with the "expert" guilt Tired of being told you need "10,000 hours" before you can call yourself an "expert," and maybe...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Tired of being told you need "10,000 hours" before you can call yourself an "expert," and maybe become a "success?" Maybe you don't.
Blog of Simple...
Facebook data transfers declared illegal
over a year ago
Blog of Simple...
Know your website’s Carbon Emissions - and how to reduce it
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Hello, I am making a modern fullstack JS tutorial livestream. What questions do you have for me? ---
over a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
The Heartbeat Podcast with Claire Lew I recently the pleasure of being interviewed on the Heartbeat Podcast by Claire Lew. Listen above,...
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over a year ago
I recently the pleasure of being interviewed on the Heartbeat Podcast by Claire Lew. Listen above, and check out the full transcript.
Patrick Kayongo
Mammon The cool winter’s breeze whispered through the open window, singing along with the familiar sound of...
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over a year ago
The cool winter’s breeze whispered through the open window, singing along with the familiar sound of the occasional car passing by outside. As the cool air gently brushes across her arms, Gladys Tyamzashe’s strands of hair stand up, mounted on the goose bumps of her aged and...
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...
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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...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Betwixt Reason and Result I'm writing to you from a cheap hostel in downtown Toronto ([Hostelling...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I'm writing to you from a cheap hostel in downtown Toronto ([Hostelling International](https://reservations.hostellingtoronto.com/iqreservations/asp/IQHome.asp), highly recommend for solo travel, I have stayed in SF, LA, NY, PHL, TO, NZ and more I probably forget) where a cute...
macwright.com
Luxury of simplicity by An evergreen blog topic is “writing my own blogging engine because the ones out there are too...
a year ago
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a year ago
An evergreen blog topic is “writing my own blogging engine because the ones out there are too complicated.” With the risk of stating the obvious: Writing a blog engine, with one customer, yourself, is the most luxuriously simple web application possible. Complexity lies...
Blog System/5
Why do I know shell, and how can you? My personal story with this ancient language and some tips to learn it
a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Generate random passwords in PHP Here is a function I wrote to generate a random string in PHP. It is probably most useful for...
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over a year ago
Here is a function I wrote to generate a random string in PHP. It is probably most useful for generating passwords. You can specify the length of the resulting string, as well as what characters are allowed. The default length is eight and the default character set is...
alexwlchan
Ten years of blogging I bought the alexwlchan.net domain on November 8th, 2012, and the first web page would have appeared...
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over a year ago
I bought the alexwlchan.net domain on November 8th, 2012, and the first web page would have appeared shortly after that (but the exact date is lost to history). This means I’ve been writing at alexwlchan.net for about a decade. The site looks very different now to how it...
Liz Denys
Patina tissue box, 2024 Tan stoneware clay with black speckles and light grog, slab-built, matte copper patina glaze
a year ago
Irrational...
Systems-Thinking
a year ago
Basta’s Notes
The state with the fancy plates Book typography-style serifs are for lovers
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
In-depth: PostHog vs FullStory PostHog and FullStory are both popular tools for understanding user behavior, but how are they...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
PostHog and FullStory are both popular tools for understanding user behavior, but how are they different? Here’s the short answer. PostHog is an all…
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Navigations on the Web When trying to define the difference between a link (<a>) and a button (<button>), a general rule of...
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8 months ago
When trying to define the difference between a link (<a>) and a button (<button>), a general rule of thumb is: links are for navigation, buttons are not. That can take you pretty far. However, like most things, there’s nuance and that mental model can fall apart under certain...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Moving to a GitHub CMS Discussing the 2022 migration of swyx.io to SvelteKit and GitHub Issues
over a year ago
The Codist
A Programming Career By The Numbers As I continue to recover from some health issues that kept me from writing, I thought it might be...
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a year ago
As I continue to recover from some health issues that kept me from writing, I thought it might be interesting to describe my long career with numbers. If you wind up working for four decades, your experience may vary. Years Active: 1981-2021, totaling 39.5 years. Irrespective of...
Ink & Switch
Slow Software What it means for software to be fast, and why most software is not.
over a year ago
Daniel Marino
Gamedev.js Jam 2021 Retrospective Recently, I participated in the Gamedev.js Jam 2021: a 13-day competition to build a game that can...
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over a year ago
Recently, I participated in the Gamedev.js Jam 2021: a 13-day competition to build a game that can run on the Web in a browser without extra plugins. This year’s theme for the competition was “mirror”, which could interpreted however participants chose. I had an itch I wanted to...
macwright.com
Chrome Devtools protip: Emulate a focused page This is a Devtools feature that you will only need once in a while, but it is a life-saver. Some...
a year ago
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a year ago
This is a Devtools feature that you will only need once in a while, but it is a life-saver. Some frontend libraries, like CodeMirror, have UIs like autocompletion, tools, or popovers, that are triggered by typing text or hovering your mouse cursor, and disappear when that...
TokyoDev
From Mongolia to Japan as a Software Engineer I’d love to share my journey of almost six years of experience as a Mongolian software engineer in...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’d love to share my journey of almost six years of experience as a Mongolian software engineer in Tokyo. My path to securing a job in Japan was somewhat unconventional in that I applied for jobs in Japan through career fairs at my graduate school, the Indian Institute of...
A Beautiful Site
What are favicons? A favicon (pronounced "fave-icon") is a small, iconic image that represents your website. Favicons...
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over a year ago
A favicon (pronounced "fave-icon") is a small, iconic image that represents your website. Favicons are most often found in the address bar of your web browser, but they can also be used in lists of bookmarks in web browsers and feed aggregators. Well-designed favicons are styled...
The Pragmatic...
The “10x engineer:" 50 years ago and now How has parts of the classic book on software engineering, ‘The Mythical Man Month,’ aged with time,...
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a year ago
How has parts of the classic book on software engineering, ‘The Mythical Man Month,’ aged with time, and is it still relevant half a century on – or does it belong in a museum, alongside floppy discs?