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Words and Buttons...
Bi-whatever transformations An interactive explanation of how polynomial transformations such as trilinear or biquadratic or...
over a year ago
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Bi-whatever transformations

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

over a year ago
An interactive explanation of how polynomial transformations such as trilinear or biquadratic or even linear-cubic work, and how to craft your own that fits your particular task the best.
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Josh Collinsworth
Forty-two I'm 42 years old today. This is a personal post about where I am now, what's going on in my head,...
over a year ago
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Forty-two

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

over a year ago
I'm 42 years old today. This is a personal post about where I am now, what's going on in my head, and 42 things I've learned (or at least, think I've learned).
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Blog of Simple...
Is Google Analytics CCPA-compliant?
over a year ago
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Is Google Analytics CCPA-compliant?

from Blog of Simple Analytics [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
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Yale E360
Asheville Asheville is in crisis right now. They're without drinking water, faucets run dry, and it's...
9 months ago
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Asheville

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

9 months ago
Asheville is in crisis right now. They're without drinking water, faucets run dry, and it's difficult to flush toilets. As of yesterday, the hospital has water (via tanker trucks), but 80% of the public water system is still without running water. Things are really bad. Lots of...
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The Pragmatic...
Will Facebook / Meta do engineering layoffs? Will Meta do layoffs? This is the question on everyone’s mind who I talked with at Meta. I outline...
over a year ago
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Will Facebook / Meta do engineering layoffs?

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

over a year ago
Will Meta do layoffs? This is the question on everyone’s mind who I talked with at Meta. I outline possible options and give my opinion on the likelihood of layoffs in the coming months.
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Yale E360
Reasons to write design docs Sometimes I joke that as a principal engineer, my main programming language is English. It's half...
10 months ago
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Reasons to write design docs

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

10 months ago
Sometimes I joke that as a principal engineer, my main programming language is English. It's half true, though, since my job is as much about people and communciation as it is about technology. Probably more, actually. Writing is useful at all levels of software engineering. It's...
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Blog System/5
Links: February 2024 edition Interesting articles, videos and projects from this time period—with commentary
a year ago
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Links: February 2024 edition

from Blog System/5 [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Interesting articles, videos and projects from this time period—with commentary
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A Beautiful Site
Prevent white noise from appearing in images after fading The first time I ever saw this alleged bug was in Internet Explorer 7 yesterday. Images were...
over a year ago
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Prevent white noise from appearing in images after fading

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over a year ago
The first time I ever saw this alleged bug was in Internet Explorer 7 yesterday. Images were rotating on a page in the form of a slideshow, fading in and out for a nice, smooth transition. One problem, though: in Internet Explorer 7 (and 6, as it turned out), one of the images...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Supervised Learning: Neural Networks That one time we tried to emulate our brains with computer chips
over a year ago
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Supervised Learning: Neural Networks

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

over a year ago
That one time we tried to emulate our brains with computer chips
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Vladimir Klepov as a...
Why I always wrap Context.Provider and useContext React context is a cool feature, and I use it a lot for injecting configuration and making container...
over a year ago
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Why I always wrap Context.Provider and useContext

from Vladimir Klepov as a Coder [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
React context is a cool feature, and I use it a lot for injecting configuration and making container / child component APIs (think <RadioGroup /> + <RadioButton />). Unfortunately, out of the box Context comes with a limiting and not very convenient API. In most cases, I choose...
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Eric Bailey
Harm reduction principles for digital accessibility practitioners I debuted these principles in my axe-con 2025 talk, It is designed to break your heart: Cultivating...
4 months ago
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Harm reduction principles for digital accessibility practitioners

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

4 months ago
I debuted these principles in my axe-con 2025 talk, It is designed to break your heart: Cultivating a harm reduction mindset as an accessibility practitioner. They are adapted from The National Harm Reduction Coalition’s original eight principles. My adapted principles reflect...
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Epic Web Dev
Authentication Strategies & Implementation (workshop) Learn best practices for managing user sessions, passwords, 2FA, email verification, OAuth, and more...
a year ago
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Authentication Strategies & Implementation (workshop)

from Epic Web Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Learn best practices for managing user sessions, passwords, 2FA, email verification, OAuth, and more in the Authentication Strategies & Implementation Workshop!
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ntietz.com blog -...
Parsing arguments in Rust with no dependencies When pairing with my friend Emily, we had a choice of what to implement in her project: start a new...
8 months ago
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Parsing arguments in Rust with no dependencies

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

8 months ago
When pairing with my friend Emily, we had a choice of what to implement in her project: start a new feature, or add a command line argument parser? We opted for the latter, because it had to happen eventually and it was more well bounded. It ended up having a lot of depth! We...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
What motivates me as a CEO PostHog got pretty far (17k customers across all our products, went through Y Combinator, seed,...
over a year ago
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What motivates me as a CEO

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

over a year ago
PostHog got pretty far (17k customers across all our products, went through Y Combinator, seed, series A and B raised, $MM revenue) before I really…
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HTMHell
The search input: They almost got it right by Steve Frenzel This example is a classic - in a bad way - and can cause quite some confusion for...
6 months ago
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The search input: They almost got it right

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

6 months ago
by Steve Frenzel This example is a classic - in a bad way - and can cause quite some confusion for users of assistive technology (AT). But it's also very easy to fix! It's the <input> element missing its dear friend, the <label>... 😭 Bad code <input placeholder="Search" /> It's...
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bt RSS Feed
Building rbenv on OpenBSD 7.5 Building rbenv on OpenBSD 7.5 2024-06-02 I use Ruby (specifically with Jekyll) for a lot of my...
a year ago
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Building rbenv on OpenBSD 7.5

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

a year ago
Building rbenv on OpenBSD 7.5 2024-06-02 I use Ruby (specifically with Jekyll) for a lot of my clubs/projects while using my personal laptop (X220 ThinkPad) which is runs OpenBSD. Since I recently upgraded to OpenBSD 7.5 I thought it could be helpful for others if I shared my...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
A software engineer's guide to A/B testing As a software engineer, you have two options: YOLO every change and hope they have the desired...
over a year ago
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A software engineer's guide to A/B testing

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

over a year ago
As a software engineer, you have two options: YOLO every change and hope they have the desired impact. Track user metrics and run A/B tests to verify…
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Elad Blog
Startup Markets, Summer 2022 Edition About a month ago, I wrote a tweet storm on the changing startup financing and employment...
over a year ago
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Startup Markets, Summer 2022 Edition

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over a year ago
About a month ago, I wrote a tweet storm on the changing startup financing and employment environment. This blog captures aspects of that tweet storm and some of its predictions and extends them further. Like all predictions this is what I view as a highly likely scenario versus...
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Seán Barry
Understanding TypeScript Generics TypeScript generics can be confusing for beginners. This article explains why they are useful and...
over a year ago
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Understanding TypeScript Generics

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

over a year ago
TypeScript generics can be confusing for beginners. This article explains why they are useful and when to use them.
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A Smart Bear
Why I don't like the LTV metric (LifeTime Value) The LTV metric overcomplicates and misleads. Learn why you should use other SaaS metrics instead.
over a year ago
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Why I don't like the LTV metric (LifeTime Value)

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over a year ago
The LTV metric overcomplicates and misleads. Learn why you should use other SaaS metrics instead.
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Yale E360
Work on tasks, not stories One tenet of big-a Agile1 is that developers should all work on individual user stories as the...
a year ago
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Work on tasks, not stories

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

a year ago
One tenet of big-a Agile1 is that developers should all work on individual user stories as the smallest unit of work2. That a ticket should almost always be a story, because that means it's something that delivers concrete value to the users. There are some cases in which this...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Nov 2019 Recap Hello mailing list friends!
over a year ago
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Nov 2019 Recap

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over a year ago
Hello mailing list friends!
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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
over a year ago
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The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI

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

over a year ago
An exploration of the problems and possible futures of flooding the web with generative AI content
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Hixie's Natural Log
Reflecting on 18 years at Google I joined Google in October 2005, and handed in my resignation 18 years later. Last week was my last...
a year ago
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Reflecting on 18 years at Google

from Hixie's Natural Log [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
I joined Google in October 2005, and handed in my resignation 18 years later. Last week was my last week at Google. I feel very lucky to have experienced the early post-IPO Google; unlike most companies, and contrary to the popular narrative, Googlers, from the junior...
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Joel Gascoigne
Founders: failure comes with the territory * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * A couple of...
over a year ago
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Founders: failure comes with the territory

from Joel Gascoigne [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * A couple of things have happened this week that made me think a little about what failure means for startup founders. Firstly, one of my favorite startups Sprouter has announced that it is...
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Joel Gascoigne
The next step in Buffer’s social media journey Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Can you remember where you were seven years...
over a year ago
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The next step in Buffer’s social media journey

from Joel Gascoigne [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Can you remember where you were seven years ago? I was in my apartment in Birmingham, UK, coding up the very first version of Buffer as a tool to schedule tweets. So much has changed since then: the Buffer product has
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The Changelog
Music Playing: Both Whole-House and Mobile It’s been nearly 8 years since I last made choices about music playing. At the time, I picked...
over a year ago
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Music Playing: Both Whole-House and Mobile

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over a year ago
It’s been nearly 8 years since I last made choices about music playing. At the time, I picked Logitech Media Server (LMS, aka Slimserver and Squeezebox server) for whole-house audio and Ampache with the DSub Android app. It’s time to revisit that approach. Here are the things I’m...
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the singularity is...
Resentment If you give some monkeys a slice of cucumber each, they are all pretty happy. Then you give one...
3 months ago
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Resentment

from the singularity is nearer [alt+shift+b] in programming

3 months ago
If you give some monkeys a slice of cucumber each, they are all pretty happy. Then you give one monkey a grape, and nobody is happy with their cucumber any more. They might even throw the slices back at the experimenter. He got a god damned grape this is bullshit I don’t want a...
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bt RSS Feed
Setup Jekyll from Scratch on a New Linux System Setup Jekyll from Scratch on a New Linux System 2022-09-19 Special Note: Credit needs to be given to...
over a year ago
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Setup Jekyll from Scratch on a New Linux System

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

over a year ago
Setup Jekyll from Scratch on a New Linux System 2022-09-19 Special Note: Credit needs to be given to user Achraf JEDAY for putting these instructions together on Stack Overflow (although his comments were targeting an older version of Ruby). This post is more for my own personal...
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Yale E360
[Talk] Scaling Graphs On March 22, 2016, I talked about scaling up graphs at Scale Tech. It was recorded and is viewable...
over a year ago
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[Talk] Scaling Graphs

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

over a year ago
On March 22, 2016, I talked about scaling up graphs at Scale Tech. It was recorded and is viewable on YouTube: If you have thoughts on scaling graphs or big data in general, please reach out to me! I'm always happy to talk about this.
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Making software...
I Want to Suckless and You Can Too I Want to Suckless and You Can Too 2022-12-23 The Desire to Suckless While I have been happy with my...
over a year ago
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I Want to Suckless and You Can Too

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over a year ago
I Want to Suckless and You Can Too 2022-12-23 The Desire to Suckless While I have been happy with my previous desktop setup using Wayland on Alpine Linux, I just couldn't shake the urge to fully embrace the suckless ecosystem. Although, this meant ditching Wayland and returning...
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A Beautiful Site
The HTML5 download attribute Years ago I showed you how to force a file to download with PHP. Now with HTML5, you [almost] don't...
over a year ago
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The HTML5 download attribute

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over a year ago
Years ago I showed you how to force a file to download with PHP. Now with HTML5, you [almost] don't have to do that anymore. The HTML5 download attribute is intended to tell the browser that a certain link should force a certain file to download, optionally with a certain name...
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Ognjen Regoje •...
What if I spent exactly two hours on each post Over the past year, the backlog of things I wanted to write had piled up. But my free time had...
a year ago
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What if I spent exactly two hours on each post

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

a year ago
Over the past year, the backlog of things I wanted to write had piled up. But my free time had dwindled. So, in the interest of being prolific and producing content that I can iterate and learn from, at the start of the year I decided that this year I would not spend more than...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
The best open-source analytics tools you can self-host Author: Andy Vandervell There's no shortage of powerful open-source analytics tools. In this guide...
a year ago
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The best open-source analytics tools you can self-host

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a year ago
Author: Andy Vandervell There's no shortage of powerful open-source analytics tools. In this guide we've split them into two categories: Self-hosted…
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Alice GG
Detecting offensive words with Mistral AI 7B When working on a simple one-time passphrase generator, I stumbled upon the issue of offensive words...
a year ago
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Detecting offensive words with Mistral AI 7B

from Alice GG [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
When working on a simple one-time passphrase generator, I stumbled upon the issue of offensive words coming up in the output displayed to users. To solve this problem, I needed a way to detect and filter them out automatically. Do you really need an LLM for that? The problem of...
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HTMHell
Never underestimate HTML by Lara Aigmüller “HTML is easy.”, “Frontend development is easier than backend development.”,...
a year ago
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Never underestimate HTML

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
by Lara Aigmüller “HTML is easy.”, “Frontend development is easier than backend development.”, “Updating the UI should be a simple task once the backend is ready.”—these and other similar statements reached my ears time and again during my career as a web developer. Very often,...
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Maggie Appleton
Assumed Audiences Naming your invisible audiences to free yourself from unspoken obligations
over a year ago
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Assumed Audiences

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over a year ago
Naming your invisible audiences to free yourself from unspoken obligations
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A Smart Bear
How much of success is luck? "You're so lucky." That's true. There's also decades of sacrifice, emotional turmoil, long hours,...
11 months ago
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How much of success is luck?

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11 months ago
"You're so lucky." That's true. There's also decades of sacrifice, emotional turmoil, long hours, perseverance. So… is it lucky?
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Irrational...
Create technical leverage: workflow improvements & product capabilities More than a decade ago, I typed up a few paragraphs of notes, titled it “Building Technical...
a year ago
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Create technical leverage: workflow improvements & product capabilities

from Irrational Exuberance [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
More than a decade ago, I typed up a few paragraphs of notes, titled it “Building Technical Leverage,” and proceeded to forget about it. Those notes were from a meeting with Kevin Scott, then SVP Engineering at LinkedIn, while we wandered the Valley trying to convince potential...
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samwho.dev
API Design: In The Wild We've explored some guiding principles in previous posts, but we're yet to use our new-found skills....
over a year ago
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API Design: In The Wild

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over a year ago
We've explored some guiding principles in previous posts, but we're yet to use our new-found skills. Let's take a break and look at some examples from real-world code you can find in use today, and how we might improve them. › Go's math/big package Most languages have a library...
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dthompson
Guile-Bstructs 0.1.0 released I'm pleased to announce that the very first release of guile-bstructs, version 0.1.0, has been...
6 months ago
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Guile-Bstructs 0.1.0 released

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6 months ago
I'm pleased to announce that the very first release of guile-bstructs, version 0.1.0, has been released! This is a library I've been working on for quite some time and after more than one rewrite and many smaller refactors I think it's finally ready to release publicly. Let's...
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David Gerrells
how not to run a saas company Founder mode, somewhere someone said something and a meme was born. Join me as we explore what it...
9 months ago
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how not to run a saas company

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9 months ago
Founder mode, somewhere someone said something and a meme was born. Join me as we explore what it means to founder mode.
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MMapped blog
IC internals: XNet protocol
over a year ago
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IC internals: XNet protocol

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over a year ago
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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...
a year ago
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Rendering Tidbyt graphics in Rust

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

a year ago
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...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
Cancer and revenue - the latest board meeting It has been a dramatic month. Four weeks ago, our 16 month old daughter was diagnosed with ...
over a year ago
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Cancer and revenue - the latest board meeting

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over a year ago
It has been a dramatic month. Four weeks ago, our 16 month old daughter was diagnosed with retinoblastoma - a fairly rare form of cancer that…
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PostHog's RSS Feed
How to choose job titles in your early stage startup One huge mistake some startups make is using titles to establish and reinforce hierarchy. This is...
over a year ago
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How to choose job titles in your early stage startup

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over a year ago
One huge mistake some startups make is using titles to establish and reinforce hierarchy. This is dangerous for two reasons: Iteration and speed…
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Confessions of a...
Everything You Wanted to Know About Profilers in Python Learn what profilers are, when to use them and quick demo of few profilers for Python
a year ago
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Everything You Wanted to Know About Profilers in Python

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a year ago
Learn what profilers are, when to use them and quick demo of few profilers for Python
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Mahmoud Felfel's...
Handling State & User Interactions In UI Applications An early thinking about handling your app or component state can help you to avoid many bugs even...
over a year ago
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Handling State & User Interactions In UI Applications

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over a year ago
An early thinking about handling your app or component state can help you to avoid many bugs even before starting to write code.
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Nelson's Weblog
New linkblog website I launched a new website for my linkblog; go check it out! I'm proud of how it looks. My linkblog...
over a year ago
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New linkblog website

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over a year ago
I launched a new website for my linkblog; go check it out! I'm proud of how it looks. My linkblog is a collection of links I find interesting. I write it for an audience, a few links a day of general interest. I've been doing this for 19 years now and I think it's one of the...
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37signals Dev
Kamal 2.0 released We’ve just released version 2 of Kamal, our deployment tool for running web apps directly on VMs or...
9 months ago
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Kamal 2.0 released

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9 months ago
We’ve just released version 2 of Kamal, our deployment tool for running web apps directly on VMs or bare metal servers. Kamal 1.0 was designed with 37signal’s use case in mind — deploying an application across multiple hosts, served with an external load balancer. With Kamal 2.0...
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Stephen Wolfram...
Alien Intelligence and the Concept of Technology The Nature of Alien Intelligence “We’re going to launch lots of tiny spacecraft into interstellar...
over a year ago
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Alien Intelligence and the Concept of Technology

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over a year ago
The Nature of Alien Intelligence “We’re going to launch lots of tiny spacecraft into interstellar space, have them discover alien intelligence, then bring back its technology to advance human technology by a million years”. I’ve heard some pretty wacky startup pitches over the...
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alexwlchan
What is psephology? Yesterday there were local elections in the UK, and this morning I’ve been catching up on the...
a year ago
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What is psephology?

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a year ago
Yesterday there were local elections in the UK, and this morning I’ve been catching up on the news. As I was reading Yohannes Lowe’s live coverage in the Guardian, I spotted a word I didn’t recognise (emphasis mine): Labour and the Conservatives are each defending about 1,000...
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Irrational...
Ex-technology companies. One of the most interesting questions I got after joining Calm in 2020 was whether Calm was a...
a year ago
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Ex-technology companies.

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a year ago
One of the most interesting questions I got after joining Calm in 2020 was whether Calm was a technology company. Most interestingly, this question wasn’t coming from friends or random strangers on the internet, it was coming from the engineers working there! In an attempt to...
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A Smart Bear
Color Wheels are wrong? How color vision actually works Artists say all colors are a mixture of red, yellow, and blue. But physics and TV screens and...
a year ago
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Color Wheels are wrong? How color vision actually works

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a year ago
Artists say all colors are a mixture of red, yellow, and blue. But physics and TV screens and printers disagree. How does color really work?
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swyx's site RSS Feed
The Power of Personal Podcasting Celebrating following 100 episodes of my mixtape, and reflecting on why this works
over a year ago
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The Power of Personal Podcasting

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over a year ago
Celebrating following 100 episodes of my mixtape, and reflecting on why this works
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General Robots
Why Build a Robot Company? So You Want To Do Robots: Part 1
over a year ago
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Why Build a Robot Company?

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over a year ago
So You Want To Do Robots: Part 1
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David Gerrells
How fast is rust? Simulating 200,000,000 particles The challenge, simulate 100,000,000 particles in rust using only the cpu. Let’s go.
8 months ago
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How fast is rust? Simulating 200,000,000 particles

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8 months ago
The challenge, simulate 100,000,000 particles in rust using only the cpu. Let’s go.
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Making software...
Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean 2021-02-02 Since my previous post walked through the...
over a year ago
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Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean

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over a year ago
Self-Hosting Fathom Analytics with DigitalOcean 2021-02-02 Since my previous post walked through the process of setting up Fathom PRO on Netlify, I figured it made sense to create a similar tutorial for the "Lite" variation, self-hosted on DigitalOcean. Please note that while I...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
In-depth: ClickHouse vs Snowflake Two years ago, Snowflake versus ClickHouse was a straightforward comparison. Back then, Snowflake...
over a year ago
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In-depth: ClickHouse vs Snowflake

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over a year ago
Two years ago, Snowflake versus ClickHouse was a straightforward comparison. Back then, Snowflake was fully managed, expensive, and broadly featured…
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Maggie Appleton
Making Programming Visual, Spatial, and Learnable What's wrong with linear, static programming mediums and how might we improve them?
over a year ago
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Making Programming Visual, Spatial, and Learnable

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over a year ago
What's wrong with linear, static programming mediums and how might we improve them?
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Maggie Appleton
Squish Meets Structure Designing with Language Models
over a year ago
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Squish Meets Structure

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over a year ago
Designing with Language Models
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Vadim Kravcenko
Contracts you should never sign When it comes to software engineering and the IT industry in general, contracts are a necessary part...
over a year ago
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Contracts you should never sign

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over a year ago
When it comes to software engineering and the IT industry in general, contracts are a necessary part of doing business. […] The post Contracts you should never sign appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Blog - Bitfield...
What is 'iota' in Go? iota is a neat feature of Go that lets us create “enums”: lists of constants with arbitrary...
a year ago
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What is 'iota' in Go?

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a year ago
iota is a neat feature of Go that lets us create “enums”: lists of constants with arbitrary values. Let’s find out how to use iota, with this quick tutorial.
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Ink & Switch
01 · Welcome to the Beehive An introduction to the Beehive project
10 months ago
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01 · Welcome to the Beehive

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10 months ago
An introduction to the Beehive project
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Steve Klabnik
Thoughts on Rust in 2019
over a year ago
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Thoughts on Rust in 2019

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over a year ago
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wingolog
partitioning ambiguous edges in guile Today, some more words on memory management, on the practicalities of a system with...
2 months ago
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partitioning ambiguous edges in guile

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2 months ago
Today, some more words on memory management, on the practicalities of a system with conservatively-traced references. The context is that I have finally started banging into , initially in a configuration that continues to use the conservative Boehm-Demers-Weiser (BDW)...
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A Smart Bear
Procrastinate for Success! Procrastination can be a useful tool. You can't do everything. So don't.
a year ago
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Procrastinate for Success!

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a year ago
Procrastination can be a useful tool. You can't do everything. So don't.
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HTMHell
Modern HTML as a foundation for progressive enhancement Reading HTMHell, you might be aware that progressive enhancement is a thing. To sum things up, it's...
over a year ago
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Modern HTML as a foundation for progressive enhancement

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over a year ago
Reading HTMHell, you might be aware that progressive enhancement is a thing. To sum things up, it's a way to make sure anyone gets a viable version of your page whatever is their context — slow bandwitdh, oldish browser, etc. — but also making the said page more resilient (e.g....
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Blog of Simple...
Host analytics on Cloudflare Zaraz
a year ago
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Host analytics on Cloudflare Zaraz

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a year ago
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Alex Meub
Craigslist Alerts with Python I love Craigslist, but trying to buy certain things (like Subarus in Portland) can be ridiculously...
over a year ago
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Craigslist Alerts with Python

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over a year ago
I love Craigslist, but trying to buy certain things (like Subarus in Portland) can be ridiculously competitive. I wanted a simple way to be alerted immediately when an item I was looking for was posted. Craigslist Search Alerts I tried using Craigslist’s built in Search Alert...
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Tyler Cipriani: blog
Eternal shell history 🐢 XKCD #1168 by Randall Munroe (Licensed: CC-By-NC 2.5) Over the past eight years, I’ve hoarded...
a year ago
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Eternal shell history 🐢

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a year ago
XKCD #1168 by Randall Munroe (Licensed: CC-By-NC 2.5) Over the past eight years, I’ve hoarded ¾ million commands in my bash history: $ wc -l < ~/.muh_history 763075 My history accounts for every shell command I’ve run since 2016—all saved in a 102MB file: ~/.muh_history. $...
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the singularity is...
A Way Forward “For example, if one believes that affirmative action is good for black people, does it make sense...
2 months ago
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A Way Forward

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2 months ago
“For example, if one believes that affirmative action is good for black people, does it make sense to demand affirmative action in hostile or dogmatic terms? Obviously it would be more productive to take a diplomatic and conciliatory approach that would make at least verbal and...
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Grant Slatton
Status among whom? An essay about status relativism
11 months ago
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Status among whom?

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11 months ago
An essay about status relativism
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A Smart Bear
Capturing luck with "or" instead of "and" Luck always plays a role in startups, but there are ways to better capture upside and mitigate...
a year ago
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Capturing luck with "or" instead of "and"

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a year ago
Luck always plays a role in startups, but there are ways to better capture upside and mitigate downside.
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PostHog's RSS Feed
Reflecting on YC, 2 years on Y Combinator (YC) is seen as the world's best, and most prolific, three-month accelerator program....
over a year ago
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Reflecting on YC, 2 years on

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over a year ago
Y Combinator (YC) is seen as the world's best, and most prolific, three-month accelerator program. Upwards of 7,000 founders have taken part. Yet, no…
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How To Add Prettier and ESLint Automation to a React Codebase Automated code quality with GitHub Actions, Husky, Lint-staged, Prettier, and ESLint
over a year ago
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How To Add Prettier and ESLint Automation to a React Codebase

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over a year ago
Automated code quality with GitHub Actions, Husky, Lint-staged, Prettier, and ESLint
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macwright.com
Make a ViewPlugin configurable in CodeMirror by () ViewPlugin.fromClass only allows the class constructor to take a single argument with the CodeMirror...
a year ago
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Make a ViewPlugin configurable in CodeMirror by ()

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a year ago
ViewPlugin.fromClass only allows the class constructor to take a single argument with the CodeMirror view. You use a Facet. Great example in JupyterLab. Like everything in CodeMirror, this lets you be super flexible with how configuration works - it is designed with multiple...
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Josh Comeau's blog
Understanding the JavaScript Modulo Operator One of the most commonly-misunderstood operators is Modulo (%). In this tutorial, we'll unpack...
a year ago
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Understanding the JavaScript Modulo Operator

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a year ago
One of the most commonly-misunderstood operators is Modulo (%). In this tutorial, we'll unpack exactly what this little bugger does, and learn how it can help us solve practical problems.
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Tony Finch's blog
tolower() small string performance I’m pleased that so many people enjoyed my previous blog post on tolower() with AVX-512. Thanks for...
11 months ago
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tolower() small string performance

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11 months ago
I’m pleased that so many people enjoyed my previous blog post on tolower() with AVX-512. Thanks for all the great comments and discussion! One aspect that needed more work was examining the performance for small strings. The previous blog post had a graph for strings up to about...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
Tell me about features, not benefits Features tell, benefits sell. Well, they used to. What are you talking about? Benefits are why ...
over a year ago
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Tell me about features, not benefits

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over a year ago
Features tell, benefits sell. Well, they used to. What are you talking about? Benefits are why someone would use your product. Features are what…
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Sometimes It Works...
Punctuated Excitement Punctuated Excitement Sunsets always lead to sunrises ¶Punctuated Excitement When I try to tell new...
over a year ago
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Punctuated Excitement

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over a year ago
Punctuated Excitement Sunsets always lead to sunrises ¶Punctuated Excitement When I try to tell new acquaintances about what I do, the conversation usually finishes in 30 seconds with them saying something like “oh yeah, IT, I thought so” or “so you’re a web designer?” So I...
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David Heinemeier...
X marks the motivated reasoning I’ve lost track of all the things that Musk has done to Twitter that ought to have brought it down...
a year ago
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X marks the motivated reasoning

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a year ago
I’ve lost track of all the things that Musk has done to Twitter that ought to have brought it down by now. Scarcely a month goes by without some action triggering the incessant bells of doom, ringing from the bellies of bloviating ding dongs. And the ringing seemingly never stops...
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Steve Klabnik
The first week of rstat.us: users, press, and scaling, oh my!
over a year ago
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The first week of rstat.us: users, press, and scaling, oh my!

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over a year ago
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PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.19.0 This new release is a great mix between old and new, with significant improvements to both our newer...
over a year ago
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Array 1.19.0

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over a year ago
This new release is a great mix between old and new, with significant improvements to both our newer features, as well as our core analytics stack…
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The Changelog
Roundup of Secure Messengers with Off-The-Grid Capabilities (Distributed/Mesh Messengers) Amid all the conversation about Signal, and the debate over decentralization, one thing has often...
over a year ago
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Roundup of Secure Messengers with Off-The-Grid Capabilities (Distributed/Mesh Messengers)

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over a year ago
Amid all the conversation about Signal, and the debate over decentralization, one thing has often not been raised: all of these things require an Internet connection. “Of course,” you might say. “Internet is everywhere these days.” Well, not so much, and it turns out there are...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
HogMail #14 Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product...
over a year ago
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HogMail #14

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over a year ago
Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product guides, and curated articles on building great products…
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Josh Comeau's blog
Animated Sparkles in React In this dazzling tutorial, we'll see how to build an animated component. Wrap it around text or...
over a year ago
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Animated Sparkles in React

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over a year ago
In this dazzling tutorial, we'll see how to build an animated component. Wrap it around text or images and watch them twinkle! This neat trick is a perfect way to emphasize positive or exciting things.
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Ralph Ammer
Why study Philosophy? Why you should study philosophy. 5 reasons why philosophy is useful. The post Why study Philosophy?...
over a year ago
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Why study Philosophy?

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over a year ago
Why you should study philosophy. 5 reasons why philosophy is useful. The post Why study Philosophy? appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
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Sometimes It Works...
You Don’t Need a Website You Don’t Need a Website ¶You Don’t Need a Website I came across this Reddit post the other day. The...
over a year ago
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You Don’t Need a Website

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over a year ago
You Don’t Need a Website ¶You Don’t Need a Website I came across this Reddit post the other day. The gist of it is: Websites are an expensive necessity that companies hate paying for And you can understand why sometimes. Some organisations just have a completely absurd view of...
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bunnie's blog
Solution, Name that Ware January 2025 The ware for January 2025 is the Gavilan SC laptop motherboard. The Gavilan laptop is one of the...
4 months ago
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Solution, Name that Ware January 2025

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4 months ago
The ware for January 2025 is the Gavilan SC laptop motherboard. The Gavilan laptop is one of the first portable computer designs, announced in 1983, at a 2024-equivalent price of $12,400. However, the company only survived for one year, per Wikipedia: Owing to a rigorous overhaul...
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Tinloof - Blog
Perfecting the design handover process At Tinloof, we aim for seamless and efficient design handoffs, drawing from our experience...
a year ago
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Perfecting the design handover process

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a year ago
At Tinloof, we aim for seamless and efficient design handoffs, drawing from our experience completing dozens of projects. Our ultimate goal is a "0 questions asked" handoff, akin to an improved IKEA assembly experience. In this article, we'll explore the three core sections...
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Ink & Switch
01 · Versioning and provenance for empirical research Introducing Jacquard: a project exploring better collaborative editing environments for empirical...
11 months ago
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01 · Versioning and provenance for empirical research

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11 months ago
Introducing Jacquard: a project exploring better collaborative editing environments for empirical research.
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Dan Slimmon
It’s fine to use names in post-mortems The purpose of the blameless post-mortem is not to make everyone feel comfortable. Discomfort can be...
over a year ago
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It’s fine to use names in post-mortems

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over a year ago
The purpose of the blameless post-mortem is not to make everyone feel comfortable. Discomfort can be healthy and useful. The purpose of the blameless post-mortem is to let us find explanations deeper than human error.
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A Beautiful Site
External popup links using jQuery With the deprecation of the target attribute in XHTML Strict, opening links in new windows has...
over a year ago
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External popup links using jQuery

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over a year ago
With the deprecation of the target attribute in XHTML Strict, opening links in new windows has become a bit trivial, if not annoying, to standardize. I always look for a consistent, unobtrusive approach that degrades gracefully; and since I use jQuery quite frequently, this is...
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Ink & Switch
Pushpin: Towards Production-Quality Peer-to-Peer Collaboration Taking peer-to-peer beyond research prototypes, and working towards commercial-grade P2P...
over a year ago
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Pushpin: Towards Production-Quality Peer-to-Peer Collaboration

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over a year ago
Taking peer-to-peer beyond research prototypes, and working towards commercial-grade P2P collaboration software.
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Hixie's Natural Log
Extracts from a private Q&A retrospective about the WHATWG Several years ago, a group involved in standardisation in an industrial field reached out to me to...
a year ago
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Extracts from a private Q&A retrospective about the WHATWG

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a year ago
Several years ago, a group involved in standardisation in an industrial field reached out to me to learn more about our experience with the WHATWG. I thought some of my responses might have broader interest, and saved them for publication at some later date, and then promptly...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
add Whisper to your iOS Action Button The new iPhones ditched the physical mute button with a software enabled action button, that allows...
a year ago
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add Whisper to your iOS Action Button

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

a year ago
The new iPhones ditched the physical mute button with a software enabled action button, that allows some customization. the highest degree of customization is Shortcuts. Apple's default transcription is terrible. I got a new iPhone recently and so this is my chance.
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Computer Things
A list of ternary operators Sup nerds, I'm back from SREcon! I had a blast, despite knowing nothing about site reliability...
8 months ago
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A list of ternary operators

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8 months ago
Sup nerds, I'm back from SREcon! I had a blast, despite knowing nothing about site reliability engineering and being way over my head in half the talks. I'm trying to catch up on The Book and contract work now so I'll do something silly here: ternary operators. Almost all...
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bt RSS Feed
Designers Need Thicker Skin Designers Need Thicker Skin 2017-07-10 I’m not normally one to comment or even really care about...
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Designers Need Thicker Skin

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over a year ago
Designers Need Thicker Skin 2017-07-10 I’m not normally one to comment or even really care about “drama” within our design industry. Opinions are just that and should just be consumed at face value. But this week I was moderately annoyed with a subset of designers in...
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Irrational...
How should we control access to user data? At some point in a startup’s lifecycle, they decide that they need to be ready to go public in 18...
5 months ago
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How should we control access to user data?

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5 months ago
At some point in a startup’s lifecycle, they decide that they need to be ready to go public in 18 months, and a flurry of IPO-readiness activity kicks off. This strategy focuses on a company working on IPO readiness, which has identified a gap in their internal controls for...
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exist
Emoji Griddle
8 months ago
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Emoji Griddle

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8 months ago
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the jsomers.net blog
DocWriter: the typewriter that sends its keystrokes in real time to a Google Doc For years I’ve wanted a writing machine that would combine the best parts of a typewriter and a word...
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DocWriter: the typewriter that sends its keystrokes in real time to a Google Doc

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over a year ago
For years I’ve wanted a writing machine that would combine the best parts of a typewriter and a word processor. After months of tinkering, a friend and I just finished building one. We call it the DocWriter. It’s a typewriter that sends its keystrokes in real time to a Google...
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blag
Accepted to the Recurse Center! I got accepted into Recurse Center, wooo!
over a year ago
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Accepted to the Recurse Center!

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over a year ago
I got accepted into Recurse Center, wooo!
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PostHog's RSS Feed
Why use feature flags? Benefits, types and use cases, explained What is a feature flag? Feature flags (aka feature toggles) are a powerful tool to help improve your...
over a year ago
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Why use feature flags? Benefits, types and use cases, explained

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over a year ago
What is a feature flag? Feature flags (aka feature toggles) are a powerful tool to help improve your product. They enable engineering teams to…
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Yale E360
Rust needs a web framework for lazy developers I like to make silly things, and I also like to put in minimal effort for those silly things. I also...
9 months ago
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Rust needs a web framework for lazy developers

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9 months ago
I like to make silly things, and I also like to put in minimal effort for those silly things. I also like to make things in Rust, mostly for the web, and this is where we run into a problem. See, if I want to make something for the web, I could use Django but I don't want that. I...
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alexwlchan
Doodling with the Mac’s command icon The command key (⌘) has been a ubiquitious part of the Mac for over forty years. It was chosen by...
a year ago
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Doodling with the Mac’s command icon

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a year ago
The command key (⌘) has been a ubiquitious part of the Mac for over forty years. It was chosen by legendary icon designer Susan Kare, who picked it from a symbol dictionary – this shape was already being used in Sweden to highlight an interesting feature on a map. It’s an...
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Ferd.ca
My favorite Erlang Container 2022/07/09 My favorite Erlang Container Joe Armstrong wrote a blog post titled My favorite Erlang...
over a year ago
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My favorite Erlang Container

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over a year ago
2022/07/09 My favorite Erlang Container Joe Armstrong wrote a blog post titled My favorite Erlang Program, which showed a very simple universal server written in Erlang: universal_server()->receive{become,F}->F()end. You could then write a small program that could fit this...
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A Beautiful Site
Password protection using .htaccess and .htpasswd The simplest way I know to password protect files and directories using Apache's .htaccess and...
over a year ago
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Password protection using .htaccess and .htpasswd

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over a year ago
The simplest way I know to password protect files and directories using Apache's .htaccess and .htpasswd files. .htpasswd # Create a text file with the following text: username:password The usernames and passwords are stored in this file, one per line, separated by a colon. To...
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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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How to measure product engagement

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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…
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Making software...
Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME 2023-11-02 The dwm window manager is my standard "go-to" for most of...
a year ago
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Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME

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a year ago
Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME 2023-11-02 The dwm window manager is my standard "go-to" for most of my personal laptop environments. For desktops with larger, higher resolution monitors I tend to lean towards using GNOME. The GNOME DE is fairly solid for my own purposes. This...
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Stephen Wolfram...
Observer Theory The Concept of the Observer We call it perception. We call it measurement. We call it analysis. But...
a year ago
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Observer Theory

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a year ago
The Concept of the Observer We call it perception. We call it measurement. We call it analysis. But in the end it’s about how we take the world as it is, and derive from it the impression of it that we have in our minds. We might have thought that we could do science “purely […]
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Max Countryman
Anatomy of the Update Email Crafting effective update emails to a wide audience can be challenging, but by examining the...
over a year ago
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Anatomy of the Update Email

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over a year ago
Crafting effective update emails to a wide audience can be challenging, but by examining the components of a well-structured email, we can bridge the gap and ensure effective communication.
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In-depth: How to measure product-market fit Startups can't succeed without achieving product-market fit – it's one of the few things startup...
a year ago
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In-depth: How to measure product-market fit

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a year ago
Startups can't succeed without achieving product-market fit – it's one of the few things startup gurus agree on. It's often described as a feeling…
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Eric Bailey
Equivalent experience can cut both ways I’ve been taking screen reader lessons. I found someone who is kind enough to offer their time and...
a year ago
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Equivalent experience can cut both ways

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a year ago
I’ve been taking screen reader lessons. I found someone who is kind enough to offer their time and expertise (and grace in answering the occasional ignorant question) in exchange for payment. The goal here is to uncover assumptions I carry with me when using assistive technology,...
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Confessions of a...
Live Session: How Modern CPUs Execute Your Code: A Deep Dive into Performance I hope you enjoyed the recent article on how Unix spell was designed to lookup a 250kB dictionary on...
5 months ago
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Live Session: How Modern CPUs Execute Your Code: A Deep Dive into Performance

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5 months ago
I hope you enjoyed the recent article on how Unix spell was designed to lookup a 250kB dictionary on a 64kB machine. Writing it wore me down.
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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...
a month ago
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Webkit’s New Color Picker as an Example of Good Platform Defaults

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a month ago
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...
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Why infrastructure is a competitive advantage for us We're hiring Site Reliability Engineers (SREs). I'm biased of course, but I think it's worth...
over a year ago
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Why infrastructure is a competitive advantage for us

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over a year ago
We're hiring Site Reliability Engineers (SREs). I'm biased of course, but I think it's worth explaining why we think PostHog is the most exciting…
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David Crawshaw
Leaving Google Leaving Google 2018-03-27 Today is my last day at Google. It has been a wonderful place to work...
over a year ago
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Leaving Google

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over a year ago
Leaving Google 2018-03-27 Today is my last day at Google. It has been a wonderful place to work filled with excellent coworkers. I am sad to be leaving Fuchsia before 1.0. As an operating system it gets so many things right. No doubt I will get a chance to be a user. For the...
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David Crawshaw
2015-12-29 "One of Heraclitus’ best lines turns on a pun. In the archaic dialect of Greek that Homer used the...
over a year ago
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2015-12-29

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over a year ago
"One of Heraclitus’ best lines turns on a pun. In the archaic dialect of Greek that Homer used the word for an archer’s bow is bios (βιός). The Greek word for ‘life’ is spelled the same way (βίος). Heraclitus’ line runs:βιός τῷ τόξῳ ὄνομα βίος ἔργον δὲ θάνατοςThe name of the bow...
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Liz Denys
Refusing to verify myself: I am liz on Keybase.io. Keybase seeks to be a "public directory of publicly auditable public keys" with simpler usernames...
over a year ago
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Refusing to verify myself: I am liz on Keybase.io.

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over a year ago
Keybase seeks to be a "public directory of publicly auditable public keys" with simpler usernames than PGP and verified account linking to popular sites such as Twitter and GitHub. This is awesome because "PGP for humans" is long overdue and because I snatched up the namespace...
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Eric Bailey
Crafting a chatbot people will use: Part 2
over a year ago
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Crafting a chatbot people will use: Part 2

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over a year ago
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davidyat.es
Review: The Excavation of Hob's Barrow
a year ago
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Review: The Excavation of Hob's Barrow

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a year ago
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Making software...
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...
over a year ago
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Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch

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over a year ago
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...
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A Beautiful Site
Getting proportionally-resized dimensions of an image This is extremely useful when you need to scale down an image within a certain pair of...
over a year ago
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Getting proportionally-resized dimensions of an image

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over a year ago
This is extremely useful when you need to scale down an image within a certain pair of dimensions. get_resized_dimensions() # Parameters # $width - The width of the image to be resized $height - The height of the image to be resized $max_width - The maximum allowed width of the...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Counting to Ten We’re sitting around the dinner table discussing what happened at school today and it leads us to...
a year ago
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Counting to Ten

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a year ago
We’re sitting around the dinner table discussing what happened at school today and it leads us to the subject of counting to ten. Realizing everyone in the family can count to ten in a language unique to them at this moment in their life, we go around the table to do it...
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Alex Meub
Fixing the Prusa MINTEMP Error with Custom Firmware Last week I switched to a new nozzle on my Prusa MK3S 3D Printer and made the mistake of not...
over a year ago
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Fixing the Prusa MINTEMP Error with Custom Firmware

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over a year ago
Last week I switched to a new nozzle on my Prusa MK3S 3D Printer and made the mistake of not watching the first layer of the print. This led to a large blob of PLA sticking to my heat block. In my attempts to remove it, I severely damaged the thermistor wires resulting in the...
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Irrational...
Thoughts on writing and publishing Primer. I’m materially finished writing my 3rd book, The Engineering Executive’s Primer. There’s one last...
a year ago
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Thoughts on writing and publishing Primer.

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a year ago
I’m materially finished writing my 3rd book, The Engineering Executive’s Primer. There’s one last chapter to go through tech review, and a fine line editing pass, but the hard stuff is largely done. Of course, that’s an author’s perspective, there is other hard stuff still to be...
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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
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Why I hate JavaScript numbers and what everyone has (not) done with them

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3 months ago
JavaScript went against the grain in only using floating point numbers initially, and now we pay the price
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bt RSS Feed
Blogging for 7 Years Blogging for 7 Years 2023-06-24 My first public article was posted on June 28th 2016. That was seven...
over a year ago
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Blogging for 7 Years

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over a year ago
Blogging for 7 Years 2023-06-24 My first public article was posted on June 28th 2016. That was seven years ago. In that time, quite a lot has changed in my life both personally and professionally. So, I figured it would be interesting to reflect on these years and document it for...
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Maggie Appleton
Folk Interfaces People reappropriating existing software to solve their own unique problems
over a year ago
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Folk Interfaces

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over a year ago
People reappropriating existing software to solve their own unique problems
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Vladimir Klepov as a...
How we made our pre-commit check 7x faster As a guy who's somewhat responsible for a large chunk of front-end development infrastructure at our...
over a year ago
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How we made our pre-commit check 7x faster

from Vladimir Klepov as a Coder [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
As a guy who's somewhat responsible for a large chunk of front-end development infrastructure at our company, I've spent the last couple of months woried about the performance of our pre-commit checks. We have around 50 projects on a standard react + typescript stack, and a...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
My Three Strikes Rule for Blogging A simple way to decide when and what to write.
over a year ago
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My Three Strikes Rule for Blogging

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over a year ago
A simple way to decide when and what to write.
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HTMHell
#24 A placeholder is not a label Bad code <input type="text" placeholder="First name"> Issues and how to fix them Every form input...
over a year ago
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#24 A placeholder is not a label

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over a year ago
Bad code <input type="text" placeholder="First name"> Issues and how to fix them Every form input element needs a label. When screen reader users access a form field, the label is announced with the field type (e.g. first name, edit text). If it’s missing, users might not know...
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Advanced markdown processing in Go Using gomarkdown/markdown library This article describes an advanced markdown processing...
over a year ago
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Advanced markdown processing in Go

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over a year ago
Using gomarkdown/markdown library This article describes an advanced markdown processing in Go using gomarkdown/markdown library. All the code examples are available at https://github.com/gomarkdown/markdown/tree/master/examples Basics first Here’s a good...
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Epic Web Dev
Fluid Hover Cards with Tailwind CSS (tutorial)
a year ago
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Fluid Hover Cards with Tailwind CSS (tutorial)

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a year ago
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Quentin Santos
Merging Responsibly tl;dr: I do not like merging the main branch into feature branches, and I do not like squashing...
a year ago
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Merging Responsibly

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a year ago
tl;dr: I do not like merging the main branch into feature branches, and I do not like squashing MR/PRs git commit git has emerged as the obvious choice for SCCS (Source Code Control System). The consensus is that it is unambiguously better than the previous standard, SVN. There...
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bt RSS Feed
Burning & Playing PS2 Games without a Modded Console Burning & Playing PS2 Games without a Modded Console 2024-09-02 Important: I do not support pirating...
10 months ago
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Burning & Playing PS2 Games without a Modded Console

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10 months ago
Burning & Playing PS2 Games without a Modded Console 2024-09-02 Important: I do not support pirating or obtaining illegal copies of video games. This process should only be used to copy your existing PS2 games for backup, in case of accidental damage to the original...
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Evan Jones -...
Huge Pages are a Good Idea Nearly all programs are written to access virtual memory addresses, which the CPU must translate to...
over a year ago
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Huge Pages are a Good Idea

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

over a year ago
Nearly all programs are written to access virtual memory addresses, which the CPU must translate to physical addresses. These translations are usually fast because the mappings are cached in the CPU's Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB). Unfortunately, virtual memory on x86 has...
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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...
over a year ago
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MegaCycles in Tech & Crypto

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over a year ago
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...
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Oxide Computer...
dtrace.conf(24) Sometime in late 2007, we had the idea of a DTrace conference. Or really, more of a meetup; from the...
7 months ago
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dtrace.conf(24)

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

7 months ago
Sometime in late 2007, we had the idea of a DTrace conference. Or really, more of a meetup; from the primordial e-mail I sent: The goal here, by the way, is not a DTrace user group, but more of a face-to-face meeting with people actively involved in DTrace — either by porting...
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A Smart Bear
Your idea sucks, now go do it anyway Your idea probably sucks, and it doesn't matter because your business will probably turn out to be...
over a year ago
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Your idea sucks, now go do it anyway

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over a year ago
Your idea probably sucks, and it doesn't matter because your business will probably turn out to be something completely different.
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A Smart Bear
Limiting Options The winning strategy in Othello is to minimize your opponent's options, rather than maximizing your...
over a year ago
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Limiting Options

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over a year ago
The winning strategy in Othello is to minimize your opponent's options, rather than maximizing your own. The same principle applies to competitive strategy.
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ByteofDev
Migrating ByteofDev from SvelteKit to Astro Why and how I rebuilt my blog in Astro
over a year ago
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Migrating ByteofDev from SvelteKit to Astro

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over a year ago
Why and how I rebuilt my blog in Astro
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The Pragmatic...
Working at a Startup vs in Big Tech A software engineer I worked in the same team with at Uber has gone back-and-forth between startups...
a year ago
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Working at a Startup vs in Big Tech

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a year ago
A software engineer I worked in the same team with at Uber has gone back-and-forth between startups and large companies. Willem Spruijt shares the good, the bad and the ugly, about both environments.
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Tinloof - Blog
Explain Like I'm Five: React This post is part of the series Explain Like I'm Five (#eli5), which aims to make tech concepts and...
over a year ago
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Explain Like I'm Five: React

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over a year ago
This post is part of the series Explain Like I'm Five (#eli5), which aims to make tech concepts and terms easy to understand. In this post, we’ll be answering the question: what is React? We’ll look into its origins, usage, explain key terminology and also cover how and why...
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Steve Klabnik
Protological Control: an introduction
over a year ago
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Protological Control: an introduction

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over a year ago
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Joel Gascoigne
Thoughts on dropping out to do a startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * In the past...
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Thoughts on dropping out to do a startup

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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * In the past couple of years, I’ve been through a number of interesting experiences through building Buffer [http://bufferapp.com]. One of the things I’ve ended up thinking about a lot is the...
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the singularity is...
p(doom) Yesterday I debated Eliezer Yudkowsky This is totally me spitballing here, but I think the crux of...
a year ago
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p(doom)

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a year ago
Yesterday I debated Eliezer Yudkowsky This is totally me spitballing here, but I think the crux of the debate is whether AIs will look more like formal systems or like inscrutable weight matrices. I think it’s the latter, and I think it’s the something like the latter forever....
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Contraption Co.
Archetypes of LLM apps What businesses are actually doing with AI
7 months ago
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Archetypes of LLM apps

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7 months ago
What businesses are actually doing with AI
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Maggie Appleton
Growing the Evergreens Illustrated notes on the concept of 'Evergreen notes' and how to write them
over a year ago
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Growing the Evergreens

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over a year ago
Illustrated notes on the concept of 'Evergreen notes' and how to write them
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charity.wtf
On Writing, Social Media, and Finding the Line of Embarrassment Brace yourself, because I’m about to utter a sequence of words I never thought I would hear myself...
2 months ago
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On Writing, Social Media, and Finding the Line of Embarrassment

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2 months ago
Brace yourself, because I’m about to utter a sequence of words I never thought I would hear myself say: I really miss posting on Twitter. I really, really miss it. It’s funny, because Twitter was never not a trash fire. There was never a time when it felt like we were living...
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Blog of Simple...
GDPR and fines: all there is to know
9 months ago
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GDPR and fines: all there is to know

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HTMHell
#15 letter by letter Bad code Letters are wrapped in divs to animate each letter with JavaScript. <h3> <div...
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#15 letter by letter

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over a year ago
Bad code Letters are wrapped in divs to animate each letter with JavaScript. <h3> <div style="display: block; text-align: start; position: relative;" class="title"> <div style="position: relative; display: inline-block; transform: rotateX(90deg); transform-origin: 50% 50%...
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David Heinemeier...
One happy Rails World Celebrating twenty years of Ruby on Rails with more than 700 happy developers packed into the...
a year ago
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One happy Rails World

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a year ago
Celebrating twenty years of Ruby on Rails with more than 700 happy developers packed into the coolest conference venue possible in Amsterdam was epic. Safe to say, Rails World was a roaring success. Which is deeply satisfying to conclude, because it really wasn't a given outcome...
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Grant Slatton
Tesla Full Self-Driving My experience with FSD
12 months ago
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Tesla Full Self-Driving

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12 months ago
My experience with FSD
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charity.wtf
Questionable Advice: “My boss says we don’t need any engineering managers. Is he right?” I recently joined a startup to run an engineering org of about 30-40 engineers. My title is VP...
a year ago
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Questionable Advice: “My boss says we don’t need any engineering managers. Is he right?”

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a year ago
I recently joined a startup to run an engineering org of about 30-40 engineers. My title is VP Engineering. However, I have been having lots of ongoing conflict with the CEO (a former engineer) around whether or not I am allowed to have or hire any dedicated engineering managers....
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Max Countryman
We Need To Talk About Vercel Vercel's hefty price tag promises to be worth it if the developer experience and product hold up....
over a year ago
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We Need To Talk About Vercel

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over a year ago
Vercel's hefty price tag promises to be worth it if the developer experience and product hold up. But in my recent experience, the product and especially customer service, do not.
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Ink & Switch
Ink Note Fall 2023: As concrete as possible programming How far can we push programming away from symbol manipulation and into the act of drawing?
a year ago
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Ink Note Fall 2023: As concrete as possible programming

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a year ago
How far can we push programming away from symbol manipulation and into the act of drawing?
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Liz Denys
Seeing every BAM Next Wave Festival show From October to December of last year, I saw a lot of shows at the Brooklyn Academy of Music -...
over a year ago
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Seeing every BAM Next Wave Festival show

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over a year ago
From October to December of last year, I saw a lot of shows at the Brooklyn Academy of Music - specifically, I saw all 26 of the Next Wave Festival productions. I've been coming to BAM regularly since I moved to New York in 2011, and Next Wave is always an exciting time of year...
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ntietz.com blog -...
Some things that make Rust lifetimes hard to learn After I wrote YARR (Yet Another Rust Resource, with requisite pirate mentions), one of my friends...
4 months ago
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Some things that make Rust lifetimes hard to learn

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4 months ago
After I wrote YARR (Yet Another Rust Resource, with requisite pirate mentions), one of my friends tried it out. He gave me some really useful insights as he went through it, letting me see what was hard about learning Rust from a newcomer's perspective. Unsurprisingly, lifetimes...
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HTMHell
One day we'll have a fully customisable select Today, I want to look at a proposed HTML feature that may end up replacing a lot of <div>s-based...
over a year ago
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One day we'll have a fully customisable select

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over a year ago
Today, I want to look at a proposed HTML feature that may end up replacing a lot of <div>s-based custom input components: <selectmenu>. CSS is awesome I realise this calendar is about HTML. And I'll get to that. But first, let me start with CSS. CSS is fantastic, because it has...
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The History of the...
What happens to what we’ve already created? When we think about AI, we can't only think of what it has generated. We need to think about what it...
5 months ago
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What happens to what we’ve already created?

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5 months ago
When we think about AI, we can't only think of what it has generated. We need to think about what it does to what the world has already created. The post What happens to what we’ve already created? appeared first on The History of the Web.
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Dan Slimmon
No Observability Without Theory: The Talk Last month, I had the unadulterated pleasure of presenting “No Observability Without Theory” at...
a year ago
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No Observability Without Theory: The Talk

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a year ago
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,...
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Oxide Computer...
Reflections on Founder Mode Paul Graham’s Founder Mode is an important piece, and you should read it if for no other reason that...
10 months ago
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Reflections on Founder Mode

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10 months ago
Paul Graham’s Founder Mode is an important piece, and you should read it if for no other reason that "founder mode" will surely enter the lexicon (and as Graham grimly predicts: "as soon as the concept of founder mode becomes established, people will start misusing it"). When...
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Epic Web Dev
Server Componets (RSC) in react-router are... actually good? (tip) Explore Remix's new React Server Components (RSC) preview in react-router! Learn usage, different...
a month ago
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Server Componets (RSC) in react-router are... actually good? (tip)

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a month ago
Explore Remix's new React Server Components (RSC) preview in react-router! Learn usage, different approaches, and trade-offs.
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David Heinemeier...
Picking a purpose Victor Frankl wrote Man’s Search for Meaning after surviving a concentration camp during World War...
a year ago
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Picking a purpose

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a year ago
Victor Frankl wrote Man’s Search for Meaning after surviving a concentration camp during World War II. He observed the outer  extreme of what happens to people who no longer have a WHY to live for. They’d wither and die in the camp. Even the most dire rations and punishing labor...
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Hixie's Natural Log
The Spectrum of Openness "Open Source" is a broad spectrum, with various axes. The following is an attempt to describe...
a year ago
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The Spectrum of Openness

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a year ago
"Open Source" is a broad spectrum, with various axes. The following is an attempt to describe various ways to look at openness to aid project leaders in determining what they want their project to look like. I originally wrote this for my colleagues at Google, but the concepts...
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somenice
Mount Sproattember
over a year ago
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Mount Sproattember

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over a year ago
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alexwlchan
A flash of light in the darkness I support dark mode on this site, and as part of the dark theme, I have a colour-inverted copy of...
2 months ago
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A flash of light in the darkness

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2 months ago
I support dark mode on this site, and as part of the dark theme, I have a colour-inverted copy of the default background texture. I like giving my website a subtle bit of texture, which I think makes it stand out from a web which is mostly solid-colour backgrounds. Both my...
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The Codist
My Art And Color-After Tiling I make generative art with Swift and use tiling in many pieces. Truchet tiles are generally arranged...
8 months ago
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My Art And Color-After Tiling

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8 months ago
I make generative art with Swift and use tiling in many pieces. Truchet tiles are generally arranged randomly and contain everything appearing in the final image. What I do differently is to separate the layout of tiles from colorizing the image. I call this technique...
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Lennart Koopmann
Moving to Mastodon After the recent events of Elon Musk taking over, I and many others started using Mastodon and...
over a year ago
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Moving to Mastodon

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over a year ago
After the recent events of Elon Musk taking over, I and many others started using Mastodon and reduced Twitter activity. I avoid calling this a "switch" because I do not plan to remove my account on Twitter.
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Eric Bailey
Consent, LLM scrapers, and poisoning the well I remember feeling numb learning that my writing had been sucked up by OpenAI. It came out of...
a year ago
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Consent, LLM scrapers, and poisoning the well

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a year ago
I remember feeling numb learning that my writing had been sucked up by OpenAI. It came out of nowhere and was done without my permission or consent. I have a lot of ethical issues with contemporary AI productization, notably notions around consent, ownership, and environment....
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Fathy Boundjadj
Forking Chrome to render in a terminal I wrote about forking Chrome to turn HTML to SVG two months ago, today we're going to do something...
over a year ago
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Forking Chrome to render in a terminal

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over a year ago
I wrote about forking Chrome to turn HTML to SVG two months ago, today we're going to do something similar by making it render into a terminal. Let me introduce you to the Carbonyl web browser! Drawing Read more..
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Ferd.ca
Embrace Complexity; Tighten Your Feedback Loops 2023/06/20 Embrace Complexity; Tighten Your Feedback Loops This post contains a transcript of the...
over a year ago
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Embrace Complexity; Tighten Your Feedback Loops

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over a year ago
2023/06/20 Embrace Complexity; Tighten Your Feedback Loops This post contains a transcript of the talk I wrote for and gave at QCon New York 2023 for Vanessa Huerta Granda's track on resilience engineering. The official talk title was "Embrace Complexity; Tighten Your Feedback...
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HTMHell
Smooth Multi-Page Experiences with Just a Few Lines of CSS by John Allsopp A single line of CSS can enable slick multi-page transitions for web applications...
7 months ago
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Smooth Multi-Page Experiences with Just a Few Lines of CSS

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7 months ago
by John Allsopp A single line of CSS can enable slick multi-page transitions for web applications (and web sites for those who maintain there's a difference), opening up new possibilities for web app architectures, and website experiences. So let’s take a look at View...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Thinking Big and Small It’s so easy to start with the question, “What should I do?” And end up with a discussion about...
a year ago
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Thinking Big and Small

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a year ago
It’s so easy to start with the question, “What should I do?” And end up with a discussion about other people and what they’re doing. Here’s Paul Ford: I’ll give you a good example. Do you go out and raise venture capital? Well, it would be nice to have more money. But then...
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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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RC Week 10: Thankful for Family, Missing my Family

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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,...
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The Pragmatic...
What Big Tech layoffs suggest for the industry Microsoft, Amazon and Salesforce have announced large layoffs in January. What will these events...
over a year ago
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What Big Tech layoffs suggest for the industry

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over a year ago
Microsoft, Amazon and Salesforce have announced large layoffs in January. What will these events mean for the rest of the industry?
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TokyoDev
Web Accessibility in Japan: What Developers Need to Know Many people with disabilities use assistive technology, which allows them to access websites in ways...
a year ago
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Web Accessibility in Japan: What Developers Need to Know

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a year ago
Many people with disabilities use assistive technology, which allows them to access websites in ways different from most people. People who are blind, for example, use screen readers to convert website content into audio. Some use braille displays. There are also people who use...
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Steve Klabnik
Run Rails with custom patches
over a year ago
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Run Rails with custom patches

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over a year ago
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Ink & Switch
Keyhive 03 · What's In a Name? Why we’ve renamed the project
4 months ago
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Keyhive 03 · What's In a Name?

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4 months ago
Why we’ve renamed the project
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A small freedom area...
Hacking window titles to help OBS This write-up is meant to present the rationale and technical details behind a tiny project I wrote...
over a year ago
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Hacking window titles to help OBS

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over a year ago
This write-up is meant to present the rationale and technical details behind a tiny project I wrote the other day, WTH, or WindowTitleHack, which is meant to force a constant window name for apps that keep changing it (I'm looking specifically at Firefox and Krita, but there are...
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A Smart Bear
When customers are "willing" to pay This fresh take on "Willingness-to-Pay" analyzes three types of customer motivation, leading to...
over a year ago
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When customers are "willing" to pay

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over a year ago
This fresh take on "Willingness-to-Pay" analyzes three types of customer motivation, leading to superior strategies for growth that also better the world.
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Liz Denys
Indicating coarser Niche Zero grind settings When brewing filter coffee, it's common to come up against one of the main limitations of the Niche...
a year ago
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Indicating coarser Niche Zero grind settings

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a year ago
When brewing filter coffee, it's common to come up against one of the main limitations of the Niche Zero grinder: the Niche Zero has no markings past the 50 mark. Fortunately, there's a really simple solution to this problem: Set your grinder to 50 and place a small piece of...
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Engineer’s Codex
5 Non-LLM Software Trends To Be Excited About Innovations outside the AI spotlight
8 months ago
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5 Non-LLM Software Trends To Be Excited About

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8 months ago
Innovations outside the AI spotlight
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Ink & Switch
Ink & Switch Unconference [2023 / Lisboa, PT]
over a year ago
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Ink & Switch Unconference [2023 / Lisboa, PT]

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over a year ago
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TokyoDev
Why I sold Doorkeeper この記事は[日本語でも](/articles/why-i-sold-doorkeeper-ja)お読みいただけます。 I can pinpoint the exact time when I...
over a year ago
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Why I sold Doorkeeper

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over a year ago
この記事は[日本語でも](/articles/why-i-sold-doorkeeper-ja)お読みいただけます。 I can pinpoint the exact time when I decided to sell [Doorkeeper](https://www.doorkeeper.jp), the event management platform I helped launch in 2010, incorporated in 2013, and made profitable in 2016. It was a Friday...
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A Smart Bear
Breaking the Rules When you know the rules, then you can break the rules.
over a year ago
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Breaking the Rules

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over a year ago
When you know the rules, then you can break the rules.
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Blog of Simple...
CJEU: cookie-based analytics collects sensitive data
a year ago
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CJEU: cookie-based analytics collects sensitive data

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a year ago
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Writing - Andreas...
It’s hard to grow without trust Trust is a key enabler of growth (and conversely, lack of trust a key inhibitor).
12 months ago
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It’s hard to grow without trust

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12 months ago
Trust is a key enabler of growth (and conversely, lack of trust a key inhibitor).
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Typesafe, Fullstack React & GraphQL with AWS Amplify This is the blog version of a talk I am giving at React Summit 2020
over a year ago
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Typesafe, Fullstack React & GraphQL with AWS Amplify

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over a year ago
This is the blog version of a talk I am giving at React Summit 2020
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Julia Evans
New zine: The Secret Rules of the Terminal Hello! After many months of writing deep dive blog posts about the terminal, on Tuesday I released a...
2 weeks ago
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New zine: The Secret Rules of the Terminal

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2 weeks ago
Hello! After many months of writing deep dive blog posts about the terminal, on Tuesday I released a new zine called “The Secret Rules of the Terminal”! You can get it for $12 here: https://wizardzines.com/zines/terminal, or get an 15-pack of all my zines here. Here’s the...
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Analyzing browserify bundles to minimize JavaScript bundle size When building web apps, it’s important to keep the size of JavaScript code delivered to the browser...
over a year ago
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Analyzing browserify bundles to minimize JavaScript bundle size

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over a year ago
When building web apps, it’s important to keep the size of JavaScript code delivered to the browser as small as possible. I write in ES6 or TypeScript then use browserify to combine all JavaScript code into a single bundle file. For production builds I use uglify to make the...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
How To Optimize for Change Lessons from React, GraphQL, and Rich Hickey on how to design software that doesn't implode the...
over a year ago
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How To Optimize for Change

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over a year ago
Lessons from React, GraphQL, and Rich Hickey on how to design software that doesn't implode the first time requirements change.
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The History of the...
The Analog Web On reclaiming the web's lost humanity, and the people still very much trying to do it. The post The...
a year ago
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The Analog Web

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a year ago
On reclaiming the web's lost humanity, and the people still very much trying to do it. The post The Analog Web appeared first on The History of the Web.
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Epic Web Dev
Auto Layout in Figma (tip) Figma's Auto Layout feature makes designing layouts feel more like building with Flexbox.
12 months ago
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Auto Layout in Figma (tip)

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12 months ago
Figma's Auto Layout feature makes designing layouts feel more like building with Flexbox.
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Ink & Switch
Dispatch 007: Fine-grained provenance, Automerge updates, LIVE workshop Some explorations of new editor interactions for writing science papers, and a trio of projects...
8 months ago
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Dispatch 007: Fine-grained provenance, Automerge updates, LIVE workshop

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8 months ago
Some explorations of new editor interactions for writing science papers, and a trio of projects advancing the future of Automerge.
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Steve Klabnik
The next iteration of my blog
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The next iteration of my blog

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Code Of Honor
Avoiding game crashes related to linked lists In this post I’m going to talk about linked lists, a seemingly trivial subject that many programmers...
over a year ago
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Avoiding game crashes related to linked lists

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over a year ago
In this post I’m going to talk about linked lists, a seemingly trivial subject that many programmers — even good ones — seem to get terribly wrong! Then I’m going to share techniques (with source code) to make your game engine code simpler, faster, more memory efficient and more...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
In-depth: PostHog vs Amplitude Contents: How is PostHog different to Amplitude? PostHog vs Amplitude feature comparison...
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In-depth: PostHog vs Amplitude

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over a year ago
Contents: How is PostHog different to Amplitude? PostHog vs Amplitude feature comparison Integrations and data sources Strengths of PostHog Strengths…
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A Beautiful Site
Redirecting to and from the www subdomain with .htaccess Here are a few snippets that will come in handy if you ever need to redirect www.example.com to...
over a year ago
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Redirecting to and from the www subdomain with .htaccess

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over a year ago
Here are a few snippets that will come in handy if you ever need to redirect www.example.com to example.com or vice versa.  There are a number of similar methods out there, but I prefer these as you don't need to modify anything between development and production. #...
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blag
Recurse Center Day 4: B Tree fill factor Q: How do I have a same B Tree fill factor across all nodes?
over a year ago
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Recurse Center Day 4: B Tree fill factor

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over a year ago
Q: How do I have a same B Tree fill factor across all nodes?
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A Beautiful Site
Table cells and max-widths in Internet Explorer 8 I recently came across a little issue with Internet Explorer 8 and max-width. I had an image inside...
over a year ago
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Table cells and max-widths in Internet Explorer 8

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over a year ago
I recently came across a little issue with Internet Explorer 8 and max-width. I had an image inside of a table cell and, for some reason, IE8 completely neglected the corresponding CSS max-width property. The result was the image rendering at full size rather than scaled down to...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
PostHog Joins Hacktoberfest 2020 Let the pull requests come in! We're happy to announce that PostHog has joined Hacktoberfest 2020 ....
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PostHog Joins Hacktoberfest 2020

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over a year ago
Let the pull requests come in! We're happy to announce that PostHog has joined Hacktoberfest 2020 . For those who don't know, Hacktoberfest is an…
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37signals Dev
Announcing Hotwire Native As Rails World 2024 is about to begin, we have an exciting Hotwire announcement! We’re launching a...
9 months ago
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Announcing Hotwire Native

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9 months ago
As Rails World 2024 is about to begin, we have an exciting Hotwire announcement! We’re launching a brand new, yet familiar, framework for building hybrid mobile apps. Background But first, let me provide some context. Last year, shortly before Rails World 2023, we open sourced...
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David Crawshaw
The Tragedy of Finalizers The Tragedy of Finalizers 2018-04-04, David Crawshaw Like many garbage collected languages, ...
over a year ago
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The Tragedy of Finalizers

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over a year ago
The Tragedy of Finalizers 2018-04-04, David Crawshaw Like many garbage collected languages, lets you register a on an object. The finalizer is a function that the language runtime calls when the object is garbage collected.Gofinalizer Finalizers are deeply unsatisfying. They...
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Josh Collinsworth
Why Designers Shouldn't "Fix" Other Designers' Logos No matter how simple the end product, design is hard work. To come up with something that looks...
over a year ago
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Why Designers Shouldn't "Fix" Other Designers' Logos

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over a year ago
No matter how simple the end product, design is hard work. To come up with something that looks good, something people like, is at best tangential to the main point. The question is: does it succeed at meeting the project goals? And you don’t know how to answer that question.
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Jibran’s Perspective
My knowledge management system This is a follow-up on my previous notes about Zettelkasten; Thoughts on Zettelkasten and the slip...
over a year ago
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My knowledge management system

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over a year ago
This is a follow-up on my previous notes about Zettelkasten; Thoughts on Zettelkasten and the slip box. Since then, I’ve had a chance to read and think more about the problems I listed out with trying to adapt a Zettelkasten style slip box for my knowledge management system. I’ve...
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bt RSS Feed
Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes) Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes) 2020-03-18 An extremely overlooked process for displaying fonts,...
over a year ago
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Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes)

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over a year ago
Base64 All The Things! (Sometimes) 2020-03-18 An extremely overlooked process for displaying fonts, images, documents, spreadsheets, etc. on the web is the use of base64 encoding. Although it may not be the most efficient (or easy) way to display and include these elements it can...
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The Changelog
Tools for Communicating Offline and in Difficult Circumstances Note: this post is also available on my website, where it will be updated periodically. When things...
over a year ago
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Tools for Communicating Offline and in Difficult Circumstances

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over a year ago
Note: this post is also available on my website, where it will be updated periodically. When things are difficult – maybe there’s been a disaster, or an invasion (this page is being written in 2022 just after Russia invaded Ukraine), or maybe you’re just backpacking off the grid...
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blag
Disaggregated Storage - a brief introduction a brief introduction to disaggregated storage systems in context of database systems
8 months ago
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Disaggregated Storage - a brief introduction

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8 months ago
a brief introduction to disaggregated storage systems in context of database systems
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Eric Bailey
Improving The Accessibility Of Your Markdown
over a year ago
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Improving The Accessibility Of Your Markdown

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over a year ago
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Irrational...
Wardley mapping the service orchestration ecosystem (2014). In Uber’s 2014 service migration strategy, we explore how to navigate the move from a Python...
3 months ago
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Wardley mapping the service orchestration ecosystem (2014).

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3 months ago
In Uber’s 2014 service migration strategy, we explore how to navigate the move from a Python monolith to a services-oriented architecture while also scaling with user traffic that doubled every six months. This Wardley map explores how orchestration frameworks were...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Write Errors That Don't Make Me Think How we plan to fail with Thoughtful Error Message Design at Temporal.
over a year ago
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Write Errors That Don't Make Me Think

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over a year ago
How we plan to fail with Thoughtful Error Message Design at Temporal.
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Futuristic Progressive Enhancement Imagine someone came to you in a time machine and said, “In the future we will write software that...
a year ago
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Futuristic Progressive Enhancement

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a year ago
Imagine someone came to you in a time machine and said, “In the future we will write software that becomes more capable as time passes without any effort on our part.” Wouldn’t that be amazing? Surely you’d want to know what sorcery makes this possible, right? Well the future is...
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Eric Bailey
I’ve had enough! When access friction becomes an access barrier
over a year ago
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I’ve had enough! When access friction becomes an access barrier

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over a year ago
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PostHog's RSS Feed
HogMail #18: What can SaaS learn from the New York Times? Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product...
over a year ago
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HogMail #18: What can SaaS learn from the New York Times?

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over a year ago
Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product guides, and curated articles on building great products…
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PostHog's RSS Feed
HogMail #16 Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product...
over a year ago
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HogMail #16

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over a year ago
Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product guides, and curated articles on building great products…
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Maggie Appleton
The Dark Forest and the Cozy Web An illustrated diagram exposing the inner layers of the dark and cozy web
over a year ago
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The Dark Forest and the Cozy Web

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over a year ago
An illustrated diagram exposing the inner layers of the dark and cozy web
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Making software...
Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll 2019-11-01 After creating the ET-Jekyll theme almost two years ago, I...
over a year ago
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Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll

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over a year ago
Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll 2019-11-01 After creating the ET-Jekyll theme almost two years ago, I finally got around to revamping the structure and improving a lot of minor performance issues. Items that have been surely needing of updates for the last couple of...
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Computer Things
Keep perfecting your config First of all, I wanted to extend a huge and heartfelt thank you to all of the people who bought...
12 months ago
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Keep perfecting your config

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12 months ago
First of all, I wanted to extend a huge and heartfelt thank you to all of the people who bought Logic for Programmers. Seeing the interest is incredible motivation to continue improving it. If you read it and have feedback, please share it with me! Second, I have a new blogpost...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
You can now reverse ETL into PostHog with Hightouch We're delighted to announce that Hightouch has released an integration with PostHog so you can...
over a year ago
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You can now reverse ETL into PostHog with Hightouch

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over a year ago
We're delighted to announce that Hightouch has released an integration with PostHog so you can sync modeled data from your data warehouse into…
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Oxide Computer...
Navigating Today’s Supply Chain Challenges We’ve all experienced it. From toilet paper, exercise equipment, toys, cars, and everything in...
over a year ago
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Navigating Today’s Supply Chain Challenges

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over a year ago
We’ve all experienced it. From toilet paper, exercise equipment, toys, cars, and everything in between, the supply chain during COVID has been blamed for many consumer goods shortages, and rightfully so. During lockdown, how many of us stalked our local warehouse clubs for that...
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Ink & Switch
Universal version control and rich text on Automerge In this dispatch we're sharing some updates about our ongoing research on universal version control.
a year ago
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Universal version control and rich text on Automerge

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a year ago
In this dispatch we're sharing some updates about our ongoing research on universal version control.
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Sometimes It Works...
Simon Shares I've started a little podcast! If you give it a listen, I'd love to know what you think.
a year ago
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Simon Shares

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a year ago
I've started a little podcast! If you give it a listen, I'd love to know what you think.
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the jsomers.net blog
How I reverse-engineered Google Docs to play back any document’s keystrokes If you’ve ever typed anything into a Google Doc, you can now play it back as if it were a movie —...
over a year ago
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How I reverse-engineered Google Docs to play back any document’s keystrokes

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over a year ago
If you’ve ever typed anything into a Google Doc, you can now play it back as if it were a movie — like traveling through time to look over your own shoulder as you write. This is possible because every document written in Google Docs since about May 2010 has a revision history...
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Computer Things
Some notes on for loops New Blogpost Don't let Alloy facts make your specs a fiction, about formal methods practices (and a...
a year ago
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Some notes on for loops

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a year ago
New Blogpost Don't let Alloy facts make your specs a fiction, about formal methods practices (and a lot of Alloy). Patreon link here. Some notes on for loops I sometimes like to sharpen the axe by looking at a basic programming concept and seeing what I can pull out. In this...
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macwright.com
Placemark is now open source Placemark is now open source! In short: MIT license TypeScript codebase Contributions...
a year ago
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Placemark is now open source

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a year ago
Placemark is now open source! In short: MIT license TypeScript codebase Contributions welcome Placemark is the map editor software-as-a-service that I built for several years. It’s a website where you can import, create, edit, export, publish, and visualize geospatial data. I’m...
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Maggie Appleton
New Harvest & Illustrating the Cultivated Meat Podcast Illustrations made for a set of episodes of the Cultivated Meat podcast
over a year ago
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New Harvest & Illustrating the Cultivated Meat Podcast

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over a year ago
Illustrations made for a set of episodes of the Cultivated Meat podcast
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TokyoDev
Working as a Female Software Developer in Japan For some people, [working as a software developer in Japan](/articles/first-job-programmer-japan)...
over a year ago
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Working as a Female Software Developer in Japan

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over a year ago
For some people, [working as a software developer in Japan](/articles/first-job-programmer-japan) would be a dream come true. As an Australian software developer who has been in Japan for 6 months, I’m one of those dreamers. If you’ve been looking to work in Japan for a while,...
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Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Optimizing JavaScript by using arrays instead of objects Best optimizations are achievied by thinking about a problem holistically. In this article I...
over a year ago
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Optimizing JavaScript by using arrays instead of objects

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over a year ago
Best optimizations are achievied by thinking about a problem holistically. In this article I describe an optimization that uses arrays instead of classes while providing a class API for accessing data. Imagine you’re building a web-based note taking application. It uses modern,...
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Posts on Nikita...
Rust streams and timeouts gotcha Imagine we have a list of paths to Parquet files on R2. We need to fetch Parquet footer of each...
a month ago
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Rust streams and timeouts gotcha

from Posts on Nikita Lapkov [alt+shift+b] in programming

a month ago
Imagine we have a list of paths to Parquet files on R2. We need to fetch Parquet footer of each file. However, we don’t know in advance whether we will need footers of all files and we want to avoid fetching extra. Rust has a streams abstraction. It is kind of like an iterator,...
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Julia Evans
Making crochet cacti I noticed some tech bloggers I follow have been making April Cools Day posts about topics they don’t...
a year ago
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Making crochet cacti

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a year ago
I noticed some tech bloggers I follow have been making April Cools Day posts about topics they don’t normally write about (like decaf or microscopes). The goal isn’t to trick anyone, just to write about something different for a day. I thought those posts were fun so here is a...
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Blog of Simple...
Google search alternative
a year ago
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Google search alternative

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a year ago
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Ralph Ammer
How to see beauty Last summer, I found myself at a farmers market of a small town in Southern France. The air was...
a year ago
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How to see beauty

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a year ago
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...
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37signals Dev
Solid Queue 1.0 released We’ve just released Solid Queue v1.0.0, right before speaking about it at Rails World. This version...
9 months ago
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Solid Queue 1.0 released

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9 months ago
We’ve just released Solid Queue v1.0.0, right before speaking about it at Rails World. This version has come a long way since we published the first version, 0.1.1, back in December 2023, with 132 merged pull requests and 126 closed issues, and the help of multiple...
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Charles Chen
Using useMemo and useCallback to Save the Past from React Langoliers If you're confused about useMemo and useCallback and you have 10 minutes and nostalgia for 90’s...
over a year ago
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Using useMemo and useCallback to Save the Past from React Langoliers

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over a year ago
If you're confused about useMemo and useCallback and you have 10 minutes and nostalgia for 90’s sci-fi? You came to the right place!
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Evan Jones -...
Postgres large JSON value query performance Postgres supports three types for "schemaless" data: JSON (added in 9.2), JSONB (added in 9.4), and...
over a year ago
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Postgres large JSON value query performance

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

over a year ago
Postgres supports three types for "schemaless" data: JSON (added in 9.2), JSONB (added in 9.4), and HSTORE (added in 8.2 as an extension). Unfortunately, the performance of queries of all three gets substantially slower (2-10×) for values larger than about 2 kiB, due to how...
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bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware March 2024 Last month’s ware was internals from a VCH-1006 passive hydrogen maser. KE5FX has published a great...
a year ago
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Winner, Name that Ware March 2024

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a year ago
Last month’s ware was internals from a VCH-1006 passive hydrogen maser. KE5FX has published a great write-up about the unit, its history, and how it was repaired. I’ll give the prize to Hessel. The guess given was about as close as anything I could have done myself — a pretty...
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The Changelog
Flying Joy Wisdom from my 5-year-old: When flying in a small plane, it is important to give your dolls a...
over a year ago
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Flying Joy

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over a year ago
Wisdom from my 5-year-old: When flying in a small plane, it is important to give your dolls a headset and let them see out the window, too! Moments like this make me smile at being a pilot dad. A week ago, I also got to give 8 children and one adult their first ever ride …...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Writing an Authentication Store in Svelte This is my attempt today wrapping an Authentication workflow into a Svelte Store
over a year ago
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Writing an Authentication Store in Svelte

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over a year ago
This is my attempt today wrapping an Authentication workflow into a Svelte Store
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A Smart Bear
Hiring Employee #1 If you want another pair of hands to screw things up, how do you acquire resumes, pair them down,...
over a year ago
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Hiring Employee #1

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over a year ago
If you want another pair of hands to screw things up, how do you acquire resumes, pair them down, and identify someone who is going to work well in your company?
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Julia Evans
Do we think of git commits as diffs, snapshots, and/or histories? Hello! I’ve been extremely slowly trying to figure how to explain every core concept in Git...
a year ago
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Do we think of git commits as diffs, snapshots, and/or histories?

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a year ago
Hello! I’ve been extremely slowly trying to figure how to explain every core concept in Git (commits! branches! remotes! the staging area!) and commits have been surprisingly tricky. Understanding how git commits are implemented feels pretty straightforward to me (those are...
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sancho.dev
Run yarn/npm scripts with fzf
over a year ago
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Run yarn/npm scripts with fzf

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over a year ago
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Ink & Switch
Provenance for science papers, local-first access control In this Dispatch, we'll introduce you to two new projects at the lab: exploring writing environments...
10 months ago
73

Provenance for science papers, local-first access control

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10 months ago
In this Dispatch, we'll introduce you to two new projects at the lab: exploring writing environments for science papers and local-first access control. We also have some updates on WASM packaging for Automerge, and a new researcher-in-residence.
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Irrational...
Interviewing engineering executives. Earlier I wrote about getting hired as an Engineering executive, and it’s perhaps even more...
over a year ago
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Interviewing engineering executives.

from Irrational Exuberance [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Earlier I wrote about getting hired as an Engineering executive, and it’s perhaps even more important to discuss the opposite question: how should you interview and evaluate Engineering executives? As an Engineering executive, you may not directly run one of these searches, but...
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Blog - Bitfield...
Writing terrible code The secret of being a great coder is to write terrible code. Wait, wait. Hear me out: I’m going...
4 months ago
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Writing terrible code

from Blog - Bitfield Consulting [alt+shift+b] in programming

4 months ago
The secret of being a great coder is to write terrible code. Wait, wait. Hear me out: I’m going somewhere with this.
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Steve Klabnik
The Little Coder's Predicament
over a year ago
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The Little Coder's Predicament

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over a year ago
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HTMHell
Security Headers using &lt;meta&gt; by Saptak S Various HTTP headers are sent between the user and the server of a website in the...
a year ago
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Security Headers using &lt;meta&gt;

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
by Saptak S Various HTTP headers are sent between the user and the server of a website in the request-response cycle. Some of these HTTP response headers sent by the server to the browser help enhance the security and privacy of the website's users. These sets of headers are...
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Computer Things
Why do regexes use `$` and `^` as line anchors? Next week is April Cools! A bunch of tech bloggers will be writing about a bunch of non-tech topics....
a year ago
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Why do regexes use `$` and `^` as line anchors?

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

a year ago
Next week is April Cools! A bunch of tech bloggers will be writing about a bunch of non-tech topics. If you've got a blog come join us! You don't need to drive yourself crazy with a 3000-word hell essay, just write something fun and genuine and out of character for you. But I am...
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Yale E360
Automating my backups with restic and anacron I've been running my backups by hand1 every week on my laptop for as long as they've been set...
a year ago
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Automating my backups with restic and anacron

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

a year ago
I've been running my backups by hand1 every week on my laptop for as long as they've been set up. Automating them was something important but was on the back burner, because, well, it never felt very important. Then I lost a few days of work when my SSD died, and it felt more...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
My Favorite Podcasts 250 Podcasts I enjoy listening to
over a year ago
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My Favorite Podcasts

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

over a year ago
250 Podcasts I enjoy listening to
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bt RSS Feed
Setting Up 1.1.1.1 for Families on a Pi-Hole Setting Up 1.1.1.1 for Families on a Pi-Hole 2021-10-28 After seeing Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 for...
over a year ago
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Setting Up 1.1.1.1 for Families on a Pi-Hole

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

over a year ago
Setting Up 1.1.1.1 for Families on a Pi-Hole 2021-10-28 After seeing Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 for Families mentioned on the front page of HackerNews, I thought it might be helpful to show those currently using a pi-hole device how to include 1.1.1.1 alongside it. Keeping Things...
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David Heinemeier...
Finding The Last Editor Some programmers can code under any conditions. Open office? They'll bring headphones. Whatever...
a year ago
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Finding The Last Editor

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

a year ago
Some programmers can code under any conditions. Open office? They'll bring headphones. Whatever editor is on their system? They'll make it work. Using a different framework or language every few years? No problem. I envy that level of versatility, but I've come to accept it just...
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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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The paradox of how bugs and downtime can be a good thing

from Joel Gascoigne [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
* 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...
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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...
over a year ago
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The 2018 iPad Pro

from Marco.org [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
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...
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David Heinemeier...
You're not guaranteed a spot on the team I've always hated the saying "we're like family here" when it comes to work. Because it's obviously...
a year ago
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You're not guaranteed a spot on the team

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

a year ago
I've always hated the saying "we're like family here" when it comes to work. Because it's obviously not true, and it's usually cynically invoked by management to entice an undue obligation of sacrifice. Implying that you should give it all to The Company -- constantly working...
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Computer Things
How to argue for something without any scientific evidence Last week I got this interesting question: I want to write a book about automated testing. Much of...
a year ago
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How to argue for something without any scientific evidence

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

a year ago
Last week I got this interesting question: I want to write a book about automated testing. Much of the book would be me explaining the best practices I’ve learned. I know these are good practices; I’ve seen them work over and over again. But have no [scientific] data at all to...
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alexwlchan
Localising the `` with JavaScript I’ve been writing some internal dashboards recently, and one hard part is displaying timestamps. Our...
2 months ago
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Localising the `` with JavaScript

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

2 months ago
I’ve been writing some internal dashboards recently, and one hard part is displaying timestamps. Our server does everything in UTC, but the team is split across four different timezones, so the server timestamps aren’t always easy to read. For most people, it’s harder to...
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Steve Klabnik
Most things I do are interconnected
over a year ago
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Most things I do are interconnected

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over a year ago
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Naked Emperors in Tech Some things we often repeat as truth just aren't. We should call bullshit more often.
over a year ago
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Naked Emperors in Tech

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

over a year ago
Some things we often repeat as truth just aren't. We should call bullshit more often.
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Florian Bellmann |...
How to strategically approach technical improvements It's hard to make the right technical decisions in an active project. Particularly improvements...
a year ago
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How to strategically approach technical improvements

from Florian Bellmann | Be curious, explore and meditate. [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
It's hard to make the right technical decisions in an active project. Particularly improvements without direct business value are difficult to manage. In this post, we discuss some learnings from the battlefield on how improvements can be approached.
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A Beautiful Site
If Edgar Allan Poe was into Design Systems Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, While I nodded, nearly napping,...
7 months ago
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If Edgar Allan Poe was into Design Systems

from A Beautiful Site [alt+shift+b] in programming

7 months ago
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, "'Tis a design system," I muttered, "bringing order to the core— Ah, distinctly I remember, every button, every splendor, Each component, standardized,...
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Josh Comeau's blog
Becoming a Software Developer Without a CS Degree A look at how hundreds of developers got their start in the industry despite not having a Computer...
over a year ago
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Becoming a Software Developer Without a CS Degree

from Josh Comeau's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
A look at how hundreds of developers got their start in the industry despite not having a Computer Science or Software Engineering degree. We'll sort responses into 6 categories, and detail strategies that you can use to ensure you capture the attention of potential employers!
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Seán Barry
Useful reusable functions I use in (almost) every Meteor application Some core functions I find myself reusing in almost every Meteor.js application I build.
over a year ago
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Useful reusable functions I use in (almost) every Meteor application

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

over a year ago
Some core functions I find myself reusing in almost every Meteor.js application I build.
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macwright.com
Work hard and take everything really seriously Every few months on Twitter, there’s some dustup about work-life balance and whether it’s a good or...
a year ago
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Work hard and take everything really seriously

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

a year ago
Every few months on Twitter, there’s some dustup about work-life balance and whether it’s a good or bad idea to work hard when you’re young. Like most of these recurring debates, it has generated two opposite archetypes: The anti-capitalist tells the young worker not to trust HR...
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Julia Evans
Why is DNS still hard to learn? I write a lot about technologies that I found hard to learn about. A while back my friend Sumana...
a year ago
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Why is DNS still hard to learn?

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

a year ago
I write a lot about technologies that I found hard to learn about. A while back my friend Sumana asked me an interesting question – why are these things so hard to learn about? Why do they seem so mysterious? For example, take DNS. We’ve been using DNS since the 80s (for more...
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Acko.net
Fuck It, We'll Do It Live How the Live effect run-time is implemented In this post I describe how the Live run-time...
over a year ago
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Fuck It, We'll Do It Live

from Acko.net [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
How the Live effect run-time is implemented In this post I describe how the Live run-time internals are implemented, which drive Use.GPU. Some pre-existing React and FP effect knowledge is useful. I have written about Live before, but in general terms. You may therefor have...
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Posts on Nikita...
Orange-Website-Proofing My Blog Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. Over the course of one year this website is deployed, I did...
over a year ago
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Orange-Website-Proofing My Blog

from Posts on Nikita Lapkov [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. Over the course of one year this website is deployed, I did not pay a penny for hosting it. Sure, I pay for renting the domain itself, but everything else is free and quite honestly I like it this way. So when I woke up to a 10$ bill from...
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Darek Kay
Website themes with uBlock Origin Browser extensions like Stylish, Stylus or Tampermonkey make it possible to create custom website...
a year ago
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Website themes with uBlock Origin

from Darek Kay [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Browser extensions like Stylish, Stylus or Tampermonkey make it possible to create custom website themes/skins. At the same time, I try to lower the number of add-ons that I use, mostly due to security and performance reasons. Interestingly, the uBlock Origin ad blocker can...
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bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware September 2023 The Ware from September 2023 is a Honeywell HPMA115S0-XXX PM2.5 sensor. Although Ben guessed the...
a year ago
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Winner, Name that Ware September 2023

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a year ago
The Ware from September 2023 is a Honeywell HPMA115S0-XXX PM2.5 sensor. Although Ben guessed the general category of the ware first, David was the first to give the exact model. Usually I award the prize to the first person to give an exact, correct model number and fall back to...
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bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware May 2024 The Ware from May 2024 is a Generac RXSC100A3 100-amp automated load transfer switch. It senses when...
a year ago
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Winner, Name that Ware May 2024

from bunnie's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
The Ware from May 2024 is a Generac RXSC100A3 100-amp automated load transfer switch. It senses when utility power fails and automatically throws a switch to backup power. Thanks to Curtis Galloway for contributing this ware; he has posted a nice write-up about his project using...
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blag
Snapshot Testing A smoll intro to snapshot testing
a year ago
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Snapshot Testing

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a year ago
A smoll intro to snapshot testing
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HTMHell
Web Components FTW! by Chris Ferdinandi Web Components are a collection of technologies that you can use to create...
a year ago
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Web Components FTW!

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
by Chris Ferdinandi Web Components are a collection of technologies that you can use to create reusable custom elements, with built-in interactivity, automatically scoped (or encapsulated) from the rest of your code. They have a wide range of features and functionality (some...
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Steve Klabnik
Seriously: numbers: use them!
over a year ago
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Seriously: numbers: use them!

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over a year ago
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alexwlchan
emptydir: look for (nearly) empty directories and delete them I’ve posted a new command-line tool on GitHub: emptydir, which looks for directories which are empty...
a year ago
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emptydir: look for (nearly) empty directories and delete them

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
I’ve posted a new command-line tool on GitHub: emptydir, which looks for directories which are empty or nearly empty, and deletes them. This isn’t a completely trivial problem, because emptiness is deceptive. Consider the following folder. Finder tells us it has 0 items, so it...
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alexwlchan
What mammal is that? I was visiting my parents over Christmas, and they have a large dog called Ziva. I like to take...
a year ago
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What mammal is that?

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
I was visiting my parents over Christmas, and they have a large dog called Ziva. I like to take silly photos of the family pets, and this is one from last week that shows off a super-sized snoot: No Photoshop here, just my iPhone’s Ultra Wide camera held...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Notes and Reflections from Rich Harris’ Talk Rich has a new talk and, as usual, it’s full of practicality. I’ve got my text editor open and ready...
over a year ago
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Notes and Reflections from Rich Harris’ Talk

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

over a year ago
Rich has a new talk and, as usual, it’s full of practicality. I’ve got my text editor open and ready to take notes as we go. Whatever Framework You’re Using, It’s Fine Note: that’s coming from the author of a framework! Rich points out that most of the degraded, slow, hostile...
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Eric Bailey
Centerless My sense of identity and community have been challenged in multiple, overwhelming ways recently. I...
over a year ago
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Centerless

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

over a year ago
My sense of identity and community have been challenged in multiple, overwhelming ways recently. I don’t know what to do about it. Some personal events recently transpired, ones that made me extremely aware of my mortality. They’ve also caused me to reevaluate my self-perception...
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Liz Denys
Inbox by Gmail's accidentally abusive algorithm The modern world really loves to use little algorithms here and there to help us speed things up....
over a year ago
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Inbox by Gmail's accidentally abusive algorithm

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

over a year ago
The modern world really loves to use little algorithms here and there to help us speed things up. Inbox by Gmail is no exception. Inbox has a concept of "speed dial" - an algorithmically determined set of "frequent" contacts that appears when hovering over the compose button: In...
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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...
over a year ago
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Let's Encrypt renews but browsers still seeing old/expired SSL certificate

from A Beautiful Site [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
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...
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Cognitive...
Dusting off my blog, and Machine Learning It's been a while. And I'm digging into Machine Learning. I was watching the excellent video by...
over a year ago
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Dusting off my blog, and Machine Learning

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

over a year ago
It's been a while. And I'm digging into Machine Learning. I was watching the excellent video by Andrej Karpathy about how to write a GPT (of which GPT-3 is an example) from scratch, using the paper "Attention is all you need" I implemented it from scratch while watching the...
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A Beautiful Site
Empowering Design System Users The question of whether or not component APIs should be locked down at the code level comes up quite...
over a year ago
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Empowering Design System Users

from A Beautiful Site [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
The question of whether or not component APIs should be locked down at the code level comes up quite a bit. For example, if a button spec only calls for primary, secondary, and tertiary variants, should we still expose parts and custom properties so users can make further...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
Introducing Notebooks for PostHog Today we’ve released a major change, dubbed PostHog 3000, which updates the look and feel of PostHog...
a year ago
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Introducing Notebooks for PostHog

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

a year ago
Today we’ve released a major change, dubbed PostHog 3000, which updates the look and feel of PostHog dramatically. You can read all about what’s…
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charity.wtf
Why Should You (Or Anyone) Become An Engineering Manager? The first piece I ever wrote about engineering management, The Engineer/Manager Pendulum, was...
a year ago
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Why Should You (Or Anyone) Become An Engineering Manager?

from charity.wtf [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
The first piece I ever wrote about engineering management, The Engineer/Manager Pendulum, was written as a love letter to a friend of mine who was unhappy at work. He was an engineering director at a large and fast-growing startup, where he had substantially built out the entire...
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TokyoDev
Build-Measure-Learn is a Dangerous Idea Tonight I had a chance to talk with one of my personal heroes,...
over a year ago
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Build-Measure-Learn is a Dangerous Idea

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Tonight I had a chance to talk with one of my personal heroes, [Eric Ries](http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/). While talking to him, I realized one of the pitfalls of [the...
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The Pragmatic...
Amazon doubling down on RTO (return to office) The tech giant is not blinking: after the unprecedented pushback on its 3-day return to office...
over a year ago
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Amazon doubling down on RTO (return to office)

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

over a year ago
The tech giant is not blinking: after the unprecedented pushback on its 3-day return to office policy last month, Amazon just made it clear that the policy is going ahead.
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Patrick Kayongo
Use Local Technology Services On 18 September 2022, the Competition Tribunal of South Africa ordered that bank accounts of the...
over a year ago
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Use Local Technology Services

from Patrick Kayongo [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
On 18 September 2022, the Competition Tribunal of South Africa ordered that bank accounts of the Sekunjalo Group of Companies should remain open after closure by some banks, and imminent closure by others. The reason the various banks were closing the accounts of Sekunjalo was...
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Stephen Wolfram...
What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work? See also: “Wolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT” » It’s...
over a year ago
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What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?

from Stephen Wolfram Writings [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
See also: “Wolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT” » It’s Just Adding One Word at a Time That ChatGPT can automatically generate something that reads even superficially like human-written text is remarkable, and unexpected. But how does...
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Computer Things
Refactoring Invariants (Feeling a little sick so this one will be short.) I'm often asked by clients to review their...
9 months ago
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Refactoring Invariants

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

9 months ago
(Feeling a little sick so this one will be short.) I'm often asked by clients to review their (usually TLA+) formal specifications. These specs are generally slower and more convoluted than an expert would write. I want to fix them up without changing the overall behavior of the...
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Miguel Carranza
My role as a founder CTO: Year Five It’s hard to believe that five years have already gone by since RevenueCat’s inception. In a matter...
over a year ago
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My role as a founder CTO: Year Five

from Miguel Carranza [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
It’s hard to believe that five years have already gone by since RevenueCat’s inception. In a matter of weeks, RevenueCat will become the company where I have worked the longest in my career. As Jason Lemkin says, it’s important to continuously reinvent the company and oneself...
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Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] NURBS is just an acronym NURBS stands for the non-uniform rational basis spline. There are three separate concepts. This...
over a year ago
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[Renovated] NURBS is just an acronym

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

over a year ago
NURBS stands for the non-uniform rational basis spline. There are three separate concepts. This guide walks you through these concepts one by one.
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Yale E360
Names should be cute, not descriptive A long-standing debate between me and a peer at work has been how we should name services. His...
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Names should be cute, not descriptive

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over a year ago
A long-standing debate between me and a peer at work has been how we should name services. His position was always that services should be named something descriptive, so that you can infer from the name what it does. My position is that the name should definitely not be...
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Vadim Kravcenko
As a recent college graduate, should I work in a tech startup? As someone that has worked in startups and large companies in their career, it depends on what you...
over a year ago
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As a recent college graduate, should I work in a tech startup?

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

over a year ago
As someone that has worked in startups and large companies in their career, it depends on what you want to […] The post As a recent college graduate, should I work in a tech startup? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Writing my first Security blogpost Today's fun emergency at work was a first - writing a security postmortem for a breach of an _open...
over a year ago
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Writing my first Security blogpost

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

over a year ago
Today's fun emergency at work was a first - writing a security postmortem for a breach of an _open source user_ (aka not a breach of us, which seems the norm).
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wingolog
an annoying failure mode of copying nurseries I just found a funny failure mode in the garbage collector and thought readers might be...
5 months ago
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an annoying failure mode of copying nurseries

from wingolog [alt+shift+b] in programming

5 months ago
I just found a funny failure mode in the garbage collector and thought readers might be amused.Whippet Say you have a semi-space nursery and a semi-space old generation. Both are block-structured. You are allocating live data, say, a long linked list. Allocation fills the...
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Maggie Appleton
JSX is a Lovechild Illustrated notes on how JSX in React works
over a year ago
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JSX is a Lovechild

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over a year ago
Illustrated notes on how JSX in React works
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Tony Finch's blog
Resurrected link log After an extremely long hiatus, I have resurrected my link log. As well as its web page,...
a year ago
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Resurrected link log

from Tony Finch's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
After an extremely long hiatus, I have resurrected my link log. As well as its web page, https://dotat.at/:/, my link log is shared via: an Atom feed https://dotat.at/:/feed.atom the fediverse https://mendeddrum.org/@fanf Dreamwidth...
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MMapped blog
Debug like Feynman, test like Faraday
over a year ago
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Debug like Feynman, test like Faraday

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over a year ago
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bt RSS Feed
Converting HEIF Images with macOS Automator Converting HEIF Images with macOS Automator 2023-07-21 Often times when you save or export photos...
a year ago
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Converting HEIF Images with macOS Automator

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

a year ago
Converting HEIF Images with macOS Automator 2023-07-21 Often times when you save or export photos from iOS to iCloud they often render themselves into heif or heic formats. Both macOS and iOS have no problem working with these formats, but a lot of software programs will not even...
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