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Website Backups with Apple iCloud Website Backups with Apple iCloud 2024-02-16 My main work machine, an M2 MacBook Air, meshes really...
16th Feb 2024
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Website Backups with Apple iCloud

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

16th Feb 2024
Website Backups with Apple iCloud 2024-02-16 My main work machine, an M2 MacBook Air, meshes really well with my iPhone SE (they are in the same ecosystem after all - duh!). Since both of these devices are Apple products, it makes sense that I pay for the optional iCloud service...
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My experience as a remote worker I've spent half of my career working remotely. This post chronicles those experiences, giving a...
2nd Dec 2019
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My experience as a remote worker

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

2nd Dec 2019
I've spent half of my career working remotely. This post chronicles those experiences, giving a real-world window into what it's like to work fully-remote as a software engineer.
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Jason Cohen: About the author Thanks for visiting. As a four-time entrepreneur, both bootstrapped and fundraised, resulting in two...
6th Feb 2023
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Jason Cohen: About the author

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

6th Feb 2023
Thanks for visiting. As a four-time entrepreneur, both bootstrapped and fundraised, resulting in two exits and two unicorns, I’ve been writing about startups for 16 years. I hope you’ll find it useful! As founder # Currently I’m the Chief Innovation Officer of WP Engine, which I...
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Full-Stack Ops: Back-end and DevOps Roles are Merging It’s time for some speculation on my part 🔗 I believe that the job duties of “back-end” and...
10th Oct 2022
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Full-Stack Ops: Back-end and DevOps Roles are Merging

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Oct 2022
It’s time for some speculation on my part 🔗 I believe that the job duties of “back-end” and “DevOps” engineers will coalesce to include almost everything that “the user doesn’t see”. There will still be room for specialization, but these roles will become less distinguishable...
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You can't always fix it I have some weird hobbies, and one of those is opening up the network tab on just about anything I'm...
2nd Mar 2026
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You can't always fix it

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

2nd Mar 2026
I have some weird hobbies, and one of those is opening up the network tab on just about anything I'm using. Sometimes, I find egregious problems. Usually, this is something that can be fixed, when responsibly reported. But over time, I learned a bitter lesson: sometimes, you...
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Sharing a project I built - Postcard Over the last two years I've quit Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. I replaced social media with...
19th May 2022
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Sharing a project I built - Postcard

from Philip Ilic Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th May 2022
Over the last two years I've quit Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. I replaced social media with newsletters and blogs as the ways I stay in touch. Not many people have blogs - so I built a bot to le...
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Where I've been, and the future of this blog Recently, I got an email from a reader who noted that I hadn't published anything in a little while,...
17th Jun 2026
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Where I've been, and the future of this blog

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

17th Jun 2026
Recently, I got an email from a reader who noted that I hadn't published anything in a little while, and he said he hopes I'm doing well. The truth is, some days I am and some days I'm not. I want to share a little bit about what's been going on, and what the future looks...
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Japanese Glory Hole Funny Onion gag
2nd Mar 2026
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Japanese Glory Hole

from Some Bits: Nelson's Linkblog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Mar 2026
Funny Onion gag
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Kidz Fun Art – Tablet app for kids I’ve built a fun new app for young kids, called Kidz Fun Art. Get it at https://kidzfun.art. I’m a...
14th Sep 2022
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Kidz Fun Art – Tablet app for kids

from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Sep 2022
I’ve built a fun new app for young kids, called Kidz Fun Art. Get it at https://kidzfun.art. I’m a software engineer, but far more importantly I’m the happy dad of two amazing girls, currently 4 and 6 years old. They love to draw, colour in pictures and tell stories, and when I...
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Job Interviews By Zombies The golden rule of interviewing is: make yourself easy to hire. Like many organizations at the...
18th Jan 2022
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Job Interviews By Zombies

from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Jan 2022
The golden rule of interviewing is: make yourself easy to hire. Like many organizations at the moment, we’re hiring. As I’m interviewing people, I’m struck by how hard some folks make it for me to give them a “yes.” Candidates tend to murmur things like, “we decided to move...
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Recurse Center Day 1: init This is a draft post that I have prematurely published. Currently, I am attending RC and I want to...
1st Nov 2021
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Recurse Center Day 1: init

from blag [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Nov 2021
This is a draft post that I have prematurely published. Currently, I am attending RC and I want to write as much as possible, log my daily learnings and activities. But, I also don't want to spend time on grammar and prose, so I am publishing all the posts which usually I'd have...
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River Flows Crouched on the side of his bed, Tambu sat sobbing. He had slammed the door to his bedroom and...
11th Nov 2023
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River Flows

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

11th Nov 2023
Crouched on the side of his bed, Tambu sat sobbing. He had slammed the door to his bedroom and needed time out after yet another fight with his parents.  I really don’t belong here. They’ll never understand me. They’re so toxic and oppressive. I don’t know how much longer I can...
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Developer relations Apple’s leaders continue to deny developers of two obvious truths: That our apps provide substantial...
3rd Jun 2021
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Developer relations

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

3rd Jun 2021
Apple’s leaders continue to deny developers of two obvious truths: That our apps provide substantial value to iOS beyond the purchase commissions collected by Apple. That any portion of our customers came to our apps from our own marketing or reputation, rather than the App...
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Growing Teams and Baking Bread One of the keys in baking bread is getting the dough to rise well. As the yeast does its work, it...
21st Jan 2017
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Growing Teams and Baking Bread

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

21st Jan 2017
One of the keys in baking bread is getting the dough to rise well. As the yeast does its work, it ferments some of the sugars in the dough into alcohol and carbon dioxide, resulting in a growing, bubbly mass of dough. There are some tricks to making dough rise quickly, like using...
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Fetishism & Mechanical Keyboards Developer self-expression through coloured switches, keystroke actuation, and LED light displays
19th Feb 2021
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Fetishism & Mechanical Keyboards

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

19th Feb 2021
Developer self-expression through coloured switches, keystroke actuation, and LED light displays
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A guide to bookmarklets I'm a frequent user of bookmarklets. As I'm sharing some of them on my blog, I wrote this post to...
4th Nov 2024
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A guide to bookmarklets

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

4th Nov 2024
I'm a frequent user of bookmarklets. As I'm sharing some of them on my blog, I wrote this post to explain what bookmarklets are and how to use them. In short, a bookmarklet is a browser bookmark containing JavaScript code. Clicking the bookmark executes the script in the context...
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TikTok and the Sorting Hat I often describe myself as a cultural determinist, more as a way to differentiate myself from people...
4th Aug 2020
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TikTok and the Sorting Hat

from Remains of the Day [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Aug 2020
I often describe myself as a cultural determinist, more as a way to differentiate myself from people with other dominant worldviews, though I am not a strict adherent. It’s more that in many situations when people ascribe causal power to something other than culture, I’m...
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Good advice on JSX conditionals Conditional rendering is a cornerstone of any templating language. React / JSX bravely chose not to...
17th Jan 2022
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Good advice on JSX conditionals

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

17th Jan 2022
Conditional rendering is a cornerstone of any templating language. React / JSX bravely chose not to have a dedicated conditional syntax, like ng-if="condition", relying on JS boolean operators instead: condition && <JSX /> renders <JSX /> iff condition is truthy, condition ?...
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Create a Course on Boot.dev We create most of our courses at Boot.dev in-house, but we also love to collaborate with talented...
4th Sep 2025
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Create a Course on Boot.dev

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Sep 2025
We create most of our courses at Boot.dev in-house, but we also love to collaborate with talented authors! If you’re interested in creating a course for Boot.dev, here’s some preliminary info about how we work:
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The $100b Bull Case for Temporal Why Temporal is worth >$1b now, why it will be worth >$10b, and how it could be worth $100b
7th Mar 2022
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The $100b Bull Case for Temporal

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

7th Mar 2022
Why Temporal is worth >$1b now, why it will be worth >$10b, and how it could be worth $100b
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Converting HEIF Images with macOS Automator Converting HEIF Images with macOS Automator 2023-07-21 Often times when you save or export photos...
21st Jul 2023
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Converting HEIF Images with macOS Automator

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

21st Jul 2023
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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#21 Legendary legend! Context: A button that expands and collapses a section of text. Bad code <button...
24th Jul 2020
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#21 Legendary legend!

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th Jul 2020
Context: A button that expands and collapses a section of text. Bad code <button class="panel-heading" tabindex="0" href="#collapse0" aria-expanded="true"> <legend> Industries Served </legend> </button> Issues and how to fix them legend is not allowed as a child of any other...
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Place Your Bets Startups are a sequence of nested bets. Like poker, you’ve got a limited bankroll and imperfect...
18th Dec 2024
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Place Your Bets

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

18th Dec 2024
Startups are a sequence of nested bets. Like poker, you’ve got a limited bankroll and imperfect information. The Market Bet Your foundational bet isn’t just picking a market, it’s betting that you understand how that market will evolve. This bet shapes everything downstream: If...
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Testing WebGPU data layouts with Facet
23rd Aug 2026
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Testing WebGPU data layouts with Facet

from Matt Keeter [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Aug 2026
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Boot.dev Beat. December 2022 I hope you’ve been able to enjoy some time with family! I took (almost) an entire week off from...
6th Jan 2023
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Boot.dev Beat. December 2022

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Jan 2023
I hope you’ve been able to enjoy some time with family! I took (almost) an entire week off from writing code, which I haven’t done in a long time. It’s good to be back though, and I can’t wait to see you around the Discord community.
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Reverse Outlining with Language Models Using language models to generate reverse outlines of writing drafts
8th Jan 2023
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Reverse Outlining with Language Models

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

8th Jan 2023
Using language models to generate reverse outlines of writing drafts
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All about QA Quality Assurance (QA) is a team of two at 37signals: Michael, who created the department 12 years...
15th Oct 2024
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All about QA

from 37signals Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Oct 2024
Quality Assurance (QA) is a team of two at 37signals: Michael, who created the department 12 years ago, and Gabriel, who joined the team in 2022. Together, we have a hand in projects across all of our products, from kickoff to release. Our goal is to help designers and...
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Network Latencies in the Data Center Jeff Dean used to do a talk that included "Numbers Everyone Should Know" (2007 at Stanford, 2009 at...
25th Sep 2021
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Network Latencies in the Data Center

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

25th Sep 2021
Jeff Dean used to do a talk that included "Numbers Everyone Should Know" (2007 at Stanford, 2009 at LADIS), which included "round trip within same data center" as 500 us. I was recently wondering if that is still true, and more importantly what does the distribution of latencies...
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From Mac to Windows From Mac to Windows
12th Aug 2020
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From Mac to Windows

from A Day In The Life Of... [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Aug 2020
From Mac to Windows
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Stopwatch ASIC
19th Apr 2010
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Stopwatch ASIC

from Matt Keeter [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Apr 2010
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What Are the Career Options in Computer Science? The future is bright for career options in computer science with remote work opening up doors that...
1st Aug 2022
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What Are the Career Options in Computer Science?

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Aug 2022
The future is bright for career options in computer science with remote work opening up doors that weren’t present before. Trying to navigate through computer science career options can be overwhelming what with all the options at your disposal. While we won’t go through every...
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Crosscut: Drawing Dynamic Models Uniting the directness of pen & paper with the dynamism of software.
29th Mar 2022
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Crosscut: Drawing Dynamic Models

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

29th Mar 2022
Uniting the directness of pen & paper with the dynamism of software.
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Happy New Year: 3D picture of the coronavirus in SQL A picture of the nasty coronavirus using 3d ray tracing in SQL The post Happy New Year: 3D picture...
31st Dec 2020
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Happy New Year: 3D picture of the coronavirus in SQL

from EXPLAIN EXTENDED [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Dec 2020
A picture of the nasty coronavirus using 3d ray tracing in SQL The post Happy New Year: 3D picture of the coronavirus in SQL appeared first on EXPLAIN EXTENDED.
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Guile-websocket 0.3.0 released I'm happy to announce that guile-websocket 0.3.0 has been released! Guile-websocket is an...
23rd Jan 2026
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Guile-websocket 0.3.0 released

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Jan 2026
I'm happy to announce that guile-websocket 0.3.0 has been released! Guile-websocket is an implementation of the WebSocket protocol, both the client and server sides, for Guile Scheme. Highlights for this release are: New (web socket) module that provides a standard Scheme...
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The next iteration of Contraption Company From indiehacker back to venture-funded founder
6th Sep 2024
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The next iteration of Contraption Company

from Contraption Co. [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Sep 2024
From indiehacker back to venture-funded founder
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ONNX introduction
17th Feb 2025
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ONNX introduction

from MMapped blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Feb 2025
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Buying a House in Portland After nearly 6 months of looking, my wife and I finally bought a house in Portland. We physically...
13th Oct 2016
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Buying a House in Portland

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

13th Oct 2016
After nearly 6 months of looking, my wife and I finally bought a house in Portland. We physically toured more than 70 houses, put in 13 offers and looked over hundreds of listings in nearly every neighborhood in the city. I thought it might be a good time to reflect on the...
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On Designing For Children I’ve been building Kidz Fun Art (web, iPad & Windows) since 2021, so 4 years at time of writing....
28th Jul 2025
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On Designing For Children

from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming

28th Jul 2025
I’ve been building Kidz Fun Art (web, iPad & Windows) since 2021, so 4 years at time of writing. It’s a tablet optimized application intended to be used by children of all ages – my daughters were 3 and 5 when I started, and are 7 and 9 now, so I’ve seen how they use it almost...
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Maintaining MediaWiki User Scripts via Git This week I’m at the Wikimedia Technical Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. I’ve attended a bunch...
14th Nov 2019
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Maintaining MediaWiki User Scripts via Git

from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Nov 2019
This week I’m at the Wikimedia Technical Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. I’ve attended a bunch of great sessions and I’m getting a lot out of my attendance. Today I attended a session about “user scripts” that piqued my interest. MediaWiki user scripts are powerful...
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The Inevitability of Change Everything is the same and yet everything is different. That's how I feel sitting on the edge of the...
8th Aug 2024
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The Inevitability of Change

from The Web Witch's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Aug 2024
Everything is the same and yet everything is different. That's how I feel sitting on the edge of the water in West Seattle. I've not been living here since January 2023. I've been back 5 or 6 times in the last year and a half and suddenly the buildings that were steel bones and...
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Archives on custom domains unreachable Our public postmortem for the incident on October 20th, 2026.
a week ago
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Archives on custom domains unreachable

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

a week ago
Our public postmortem for the incident on October 20th, 2026.
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Recently The weather is starting to get better. Listening Gift from the Trees by Mammal Hands I am still...
1st Apr 2023
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Recently

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

1st Apr 2023
The weather is starting to get better. Listening Gift from the Trees by Mammal Hands I am still really loving the constellation of bands around Mammal Hands. They just released a new album, “Gift from the Trees”, and it’s really excellent. RETURN by tAKX Their guitarist,...
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The Wonders of Text Ellipsis The Wonders of Text Ellipsis 2016-11-15 A common issue when working with constrained UI elements is...
15th Nov 2016
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The Wonders of Text Ellipsis

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

15th Nov 2016
The Wonders of Text Ellipsis 2016-11-15 A common issue when working with constrained UI elements is text overflowing outside of it's parent or breaking into addition lines (thus breaking the layout). This is most commonly seen with the direct and placeholder values for input...
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Rickrolling Turso DB (SQLite rewrite in Rust) This is a beginner’s guide to hacking into Turso DB (formerly known as Limbo), the SQLite rewrite in...
20th Jul 2025
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Rickrolling Turso DB (SQLite rewrite in Rust)

from blag [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Jul 2025
This is a beginner’s guide to hacking into Turso DB (formerly known as Limbo), the SQLite rewrite in Rust. I will explore how to get familiar with Turso’s codebase, tooling and tests
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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...
11th Feb 2025
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What happens to what we’ve already created?

from The History of the Web [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Feb 2025
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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Oxide’s Compensation Model: How is it Going? How it started Four years ago, we were struggling to hire. Our team was small (~23 employees),...
1st May 2025
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Oxide’s Compensation Model: How is it Going?

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

1st May 2025
How it started Four years ago, we were struggling to hire. Our team was small (~23 employees), and we knew that we needed many more people to execute on our audacious vision. While we had had success hiring in our personal networks, those networks now felt tapped; we needed...
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Supporting multiple TLDs in Laravel Valet Supporting multiple TLDs in Laravel Valet Dnsmasq Valet ¶Supporting multiple TLDs in Laravel...
9th Sep 2019
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Supporting multiple TLDs in Laravel Valet

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

9th Sep 2019
Supporting multiple TLDs in Laravel Valet Dnsmasq Valet ¶Supporting multiple TLDs in Laravel Valet Valet is great. Occasionally though I need an app to respond on a different TLD to the default one. And there are even times when it makes sense to have an app respond on multiple...
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WatchKit is a sweet solution that will only ever give us baby apps In the original 2007 iPhone introduction, Steve Jobs famously derided other smartphones at the time...
26th Feb 2018
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WatchKit is a sweet solution that will only ever give us baby apps

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

26th Feb 2018
In the original 2007 iPhone introduction, Steve Jobs famously derided other smartphones at the time for running “baby” software and the “baby” internet. He was right. Developers weren’t given access to make native apps until the iPhone’s second year. Before the native development...
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Animated Radio Tab Toggles Animated Radio Tab Toggles 2021-01-05 In this demo tutorial, we are making the assumption that we...
5th Jan 2021
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Animated Radio Tab Toggles

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

5th Jan 2021
Animated Radio Tab Toggles 2021-01-05 In this demo tutorial, we are making the assumption that we need to create a radio slide toggle for our made-up payment options. For this we want to display 3 simple payment choices to the user: One-time payment Recurring payment Free tier...
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Top 10 Books on Web Development in 2023 If you’re looking for good web development books, you’re probably interested in becoming a web...
5th Sep 2023
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Top 10 Books on Web Development in 2023

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Sep 2023
If you’re looking for good web development books, you’re probably interested in becoming a web developer. Makes sense – great pay, solid job security, and interesting work. But beyond that broad goal, you might be looking for some web development reading to satisfy other goals.
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Hello Internet
9th May 2020
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Hello Internet

from sancho.dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th May 2020
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New Beginnings
1st Oct 2013
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New Beginnings

from Steve Klabnik [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Oct 2013
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Literate Vimrc Literate ~/.vimrc This blog post is my ~/.vimrc now. Hold on, let me explain. Why would anyone do a...
14th Jun 2017
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Literate Vimrc

from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Jun 2017
Literate ~/.vimrc This blog post is my ~/.vimrc now. Hold on, let me explain. Why would anyone do a thing like this? I have tons of comments in my ~/.vimrc file. I try to leave a lot of comments because everything in my Vim configuration is hard-won knowledge. My ~/.vimrc is...
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On Jakob Nielsen, AI hype, and accessibility A few years ago I made a New Year’s Eve resolution to stop overthinking assholes. I could...
5th Mar 2024
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On Jakob Nielsen, AI hype, and accessibility

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

5th Mar 2024
A few years ago I made a New Year’s Eve resolution to stop overthinking assholes. I could delicately, patiently, and painstakingly debunk the gigantic, misplaced swing of a man who is burning others' lived experience as fuel to propel his increasingly irrelevant career. I could...
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Introducing Loose Leaf Security, and our first episode: Securing your online account passwords I just launched a new project with Geoffrey Thomas: Loose Leaf Security, a podcast about making good...
4th Jun 2018
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Introducing Loose Leaf Security, and our first episode: Securing your online account passwords

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

4th Jun 2018
I just launched a new project with Geoffrey Thomas: Loose Leaf Security, a podcast about making good computer security for everyone. We believe you don't need to be a software engineer or security professional to understand how to keep your devices and data safe. In every...
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What is GitOps? It began with shell scripts and config management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, and Chef. Now...
3rd Jul 2020
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What is GitOps?

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

3rd Jul 2020
It began with shell scripts and config management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, and Chef. Now GitOps brings some new tools for managing containerized applications in Kubernetes clusters.
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If Edgar Allan Poe was into Design Systems Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, While I nodded, nearly napping,...
19th Nov 2024
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If Edgar Allan Poe was into Design Systems

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

19th Nov 2024
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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Sometimes never compete on price The difference between "low prices" as a race to the bottom or as a success story (like Amazon,...
6th Apr 2025
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Sometimes never compete on price

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

6th Apr 2025
The difference between "low prices" as a race to the bottom or as a success story (like Amazon, Costco, IKEA, Vanguard) is in leveraging intentional weaknesses.
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Inspiring high school students with HTML and CSS Nearly a year ago I reached out to my high school across the state about coming in and giving a talk...
17th Feb 2020
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Inspiring high school students with HTML and CSS

from The Web Witch's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Feb 2020
Nearly a year ago I reached out to my high school across the state about coming in and giving a talk about careers in tech. Due to conflicting schedules I had to reschedule a few times and after a few crazy months of travel to end my 2019, I finally got the trip on the calendar...
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Lerna vs Turborepo vs Rush: Which is better in 2023? Monorepos are becoming more and more popular with web development. In this article, we will compare...
5th Feb 2023
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Lerna vs Turborepo vs Rush: Which is better in 2023?

from ByteofDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Feb 2023
Monorepos are becoming more and more popular with web development. In this article, we will compare some of the most popular monorepo tools' performance, ease of use, and more.
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Over-Nesting Over-Nesting 2019-01-06 I think since our design industry moves so quickly and exciting new...
6th Jan 2019
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Over-Nesting

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

6th Jan 2019
Over-Nesting 2019-01-06 I think since our design industry moves so quickly and exciting new technologies get released almost daily, that we often forget some of the basics when writing CSS. I bring this up because I've recently worked on a few projects that show a slight...
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Why and how to override Laravel’s built-in auth controller methods Why and how to override Laravel’s built-in auth controller methods ¶Why and how to override...
6th Feb 2016
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Why and how to override Laravel’s built-in auth controller methods

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

6th Feb 2016
Why and how to override Laravel’s built-in auth controller methods ¶Why and how to override Laravel’s built-in auth controller methods Maybe like me you like to do things the ‘Laravel way’. So let’s say you’re still using the out-of-the-box Auth flow (can anyone recommend an...
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React Miami: Temporal - React for the Backend These are the raw notes of my talk prep for my React Miami 2022 talk - Temporal - React for the...
19th Apr 2022
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React Miami: Temporal - React for the Backend

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

19th Apr 2022
These are the raw notes of my talk prep for my React Miami 2022 talk - Temporal - React for the Backend. Includes links and initial draft at the bottom.
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WWII watch cap crown shaping Like so many other hat knitters, I've knitted the classic WWII watch cap, which is also known as...
15th Dec 2025
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WWII watch cap crown shaping

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

15th Dec 2025
Like so many other hat knitters, I've knitted the classic WWII watch cap, which is also known as Beanie no. 212, more than a handful of times. (You can find it on Ravelry here and here, respectively.) It's a charming, quick knit that's easy to resize, but I've never really liked...
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5 coding interview questions I hate I’ve taken part in well over a hundred tech interviews now, on both sides. Some were fun, and some...
21st Mar 2022
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5 coding interview questions I hate

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

21st Mar 2022
I’ve taken part in well over a hundred tech interviews now, on both sides. Some were fun, and some were pure cringe. I’ve been asked if I have kids (supposedly, people with children won’t have time to job hop), and if “I bet my ass I cost that much”. Fun times. But today I’d like...
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Should I Have a Blog? Yes. Or did you expect a different answer? You came to a blog to read an article on whether you...
14th Nov 2023
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Should I Have a Blog?

from Sebastian Witowski [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Nov 2023
Yes. Or did you expect a different answer? You came to a blog to read an article on whether you should have a blog. Did you really think, even for a split second, the answer would be, "No, you shouldn't. And thinking about it, I'm closing my blog too. Sayōnara!" Blogs are great....
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Liftmaster 87504-267 This is gonna sound silly but one of the nicest home improvements we've done recently is install a...
13th Sep 2022
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Liftmaster 87504-267

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

13th Sep 2022
This is gonna sound silly but one of the nicest home improvements we've done recently is install a new garage door opener, the Liftmaster 87504-267. It works so much better than my old insecure garage door! Internet access is the surprise best feature; I use it all the time....
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Load testing is hard, and the tools are... not great. But why? If you're building an application that needs to scale—and we all tell ourselves that we are—then at...
4th Jan 2021
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Load testing is hard, and the tools are... not great. But why?

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

4th Jan 2021
If you're building an application that needs to scale—and we all tell ourselves that we are—then at some point you have to figure out if it does or not. This is where load testing comes in: if you want to see whether or not your application can handle scale, just generate scale...
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How to use ESM on the web and in Node.js ES (ECMAScript) Modules is a modern module format with many advantages over previous formats like...
3rd Sep 2022
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How to use ESM on the web and in Node.js

from ByteofDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Sep 2022
ES (ECMAScript) Modules is a modern module format with many advantages over previous formats like CommonJS. How do you switch to it?
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Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len() Discover why 'if not mylist' is twice as fast as 'len(mylist) == 0' by examining CPython's VM...
12th Mar 2025
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Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len()

from Confessions of a Code Addict [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Mar 2025
Discover why 'if not mylist' is twice as fast as 'len(mylist) == 0' by examining CPython's VM instructions and object memory access patterns.
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Adaptable Flexbox Grid Adaptable Flexbox Grid 2018-11-22 You can use flexbox for many tricky layout "hacks" and...
22nd Nov 2018
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Adaptable Flexbox Grid

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

22nd Nov 2018
Adaptable Flexbox Grid 2018-11-22 You can use flexbox for many tricky layout "hacks" and implementing a grid layout is no different. Check out the CodePen below to see how you can implement a flexbox grid system that adapts automatically based on how many items you insert per row...
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MCP is Dead; Long Live MCP! Understanding the social media zeitgeist around CLIs and the premature death of MCP
14th Mar 2026
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MCP is Dead; Long Live MCP!

from Charles Chen [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Mar 2026
Understanding the social media zeitgeist around CLIs and the premature death of MCP
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Auditing User Intent in Closed Source IoT Applications (Header image under CC-BY by Gregory Varnum)Hardware-backed voice assistants like Amazon Alexa and...
25th Oct 2019
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Auditing User Intent in Closed Source IoT Applications

from home automation - Tinker, Tamper, Alter, Fry [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Oct 2019
(Header image under CC-BY by Gregory Varnum)Hardware-backed voice assistants like Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant have received some criticism for their handling of voice data behind the scenes. The companies had outsourced quality control/machine learning feedback to external...
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Reverse Twins
2nd Oct 2025
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Reverse Twins

from Jaz's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Oct 2025
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Challenge your performance intuition with C++ operators A guessing game with C++ operators, context, and disassembly.
25th Dec 2018
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Challenge your performance intuition with C++ operators

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

25th Dec 2018
A guessing game with C++ operators, context, and disassembly.
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Counting the days, revisited Many years ago I wrote about how to convert Gregorian dates to Julian Day numbers or similar counts...
9th Aug 2026
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Counting the days, revisited

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

9th Aug 2026
Many years ago I wrote about how to convert Gregorian dates to Julian Day numbers or similar counts such as rata die as used in Calendrical Calculations. This algorithm is the core of C’s mktime() function that converts a broken-down date-time into linear time_t. I recently...
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Introduction
29th Apr 2018
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Introduction

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

29th Apr 2018
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Things nobody taught me about money When I was growing up, I was one of the first generations of students to have a strikingly different...
2nd Jun 2023
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Things nobody taught me about money

from Basta’s Notes [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Jun 2023
When I was growing up, I was one of the first generations of students to have a strikingly different education from previous generations. I grew up under the Bush administration’s No Child Left Behind policies. Classes teaching important life skills like home economics and...
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Advanced Vitest Patterns (workshop) Learn advanced Vitest patterns—custom fixtures, matchers, and performance tuning—to craft faster,...
6th Aug 2025
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Advanced Vitest Patterns (workshop)

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

6th Aug 2025
Learn advanced Vitest patterns—custom fixtures, matchers, and performance tuning—to craft faster, more effective test experiences.
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It’s Only When You Look Back I remember talking to my Grandfather shortly before he passed away about the changes he’d seen in...
17th Jun 2026
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It’s Only When You Look Back

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

17th Jun 2026
I remember talking to my Grandfather shortly before he passed away about the changes he’d seen in his lifetime. Born in 1911, the thing he said that really stuck with me was that when he was a child people were barely puttering around off the ground in aeroplanes; A few years...
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Winner, Name that Ware September 2026 The Ware for September 2026 is a tire pressure monitor from a late 80’s to early 90’s model Porsche,...
2 weeks ago
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Winner, Name that Ware September 2026

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

2 weeks ago
The Ware for September 2026 is a tire pressure monitor from a late 80’s to early 90’s model Porsche, made by Bosch. According to the submitter: Kind of a crazy piece of hardware for the late 80’s – this would be pretty cutting edge for the time. Nobody quite got what the part was...
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"C is how the computer works" is a dangerous mindset for C programmers
31st Mar 2020
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"C is how the computer works" is a dangerous mindset for C programmers

from Steve Klabnik [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Mar 2020
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From 0 to 1 MB in DOS A tour on how DOS was able to use most of the 1 MB address space of the 8086
17th Jan 2024
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From 0 to 1 MB in DOS

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

17th Jan 2024
A tour on how DOS was able to use most of the 1 MB address space of the 8086
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A Few Things About the Anchor Element’s href You Might Not Have Known I’ve written previously about reloading a document using only HTML but that got me thinking: What...
3rd Aug 2025
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A Few Things About the Anchor Element’s href You Might Not Have Known

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

3rd Aug 2025
I’ve written previously about reloading a document using only HTML but that got me thinking: What are all the values you can put in an anchor tag’s href attribute? Well, I looked around. I found some things I already knew about, e.g. Link protocols like mailto:, tel:, sms: and...
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The Boot.dev Beat. September 2025 The training grounds are LIVE! 21,000 challenges have been generated between the launch and as I...
8th Sep 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. September 2025

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Sep 2025
The training grounds are LIVE! 21,000 challenges have been generated between the launch and as I write this, and we’re just getting started. Big things to come.
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How to Communicate When Trust Is Low (Without Digging Yourself Into A Deeper Hole) This is based on an internal quip doc I wrote up about careful communication in the context of...
17th Aug 2023
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How to Communicate When Trust Is Low (Without Digging Yourself Into A Deeper Hole)

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

17th Aug 2023
This is based on an internal quip doc I wrote up about careful communication in the context of rebuilding trust. I got a couple requests to turn it into a blog post for sharing purposes; here you go.🌈✨🥂 In this doc I mention Christine, my wonderful, brilliant cofounder and CEO,...
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Recently I have a non-recently post ready to write, any day now… Reading This was a strong month for reading:...
1st Mar 2025
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Recently

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

1st Mar 2025
I have a non-recently post ready to write, any day now… Reading This was a strong month for reading: I finished The Hidden Wealth of Nations, Useful Not True, and Cyberlibertarianism. I had a book club that read Cyberlibertarianism so we discussed it last week. I have a lot of...
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Incentives My friend Forest has been making some good thoughts about open source and incentives....
1st Mar 2024
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Incentives

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

1st Mar 2024
My friend Forest has been making some good thoughts about open source and incentives. Coincidentally, this month saw a new wave of open source spam because of the tea.xyz project, which encouraged people to try and claim ‘ownership’ of existing open source projects, to get crypto...
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Winner, Name that Ware March 2026 The Ware for March 2026 is a Elecom DST C30SV 6 in 1 USB “docking station”. I’ll give the prize to...
29th Apr 2026
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Winner, Name that Ware March 2026

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

29th Apr 2026
The Ware for March 2026 is a Elecom DST C30SV 6 in 1 USB “docking station”. I’ll give the prize to tayken – the ware itself wasn’t terribly hard to guess on its own, so this month I’m just going with the first interesting response. Congrats, email me for your prize! As other...
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If we do not stop to help each other, what do we become? Yesterday, I received this email as a response to You Can't Vibe Code Love. It's such a remarkable...
25th Sep 2026
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If we do not stop to help each other, what do we become?

from Coding Horror [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Sep 2026
Yesterday, I received this email as a response to You Can't Vibe Code Love. It's such a remarkable and powerful statement that I asked permission to share it here, in its entirety, with personal information redacted: Hey Jeff, Hope you and your family are doing well.
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Remembering the LAN Remembering the LAN How it was How it is A dream: How it will be 2020-01-28 A memory and a dream. I...
28th Jan 2020
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Remembering the LAN

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

28th Jan 2020
Remembering the LAN How it was How it is A dream: How it will be 2020-01-28 A memory and a dream. I started programming in the 1990s living above my parent's medical practice. We had 15 PCs for the business, and one for me. The standard OS was MS-DOS. The network started off...
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Conway’s Favicon I find favicons pretty useful overall. That weird little Earthworm-Jim-esque bug-head in my...
30th Nov 2014
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Conway’s Favicon

from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

30th Nov 2014
I find favicons pretty useful overall. That weird little Earthworm-Jim-esque bug-head in my bookmarks bar immediately queues me in on where to click to get to bugzilla. My site hasn’t had a favicon. The only explanation I can offer is laziness mixed with a lack of inspiration....
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Free idea: design token ugly mode A lot of work goes into making every page and view of a website or webapp look consistent with every...
1st Jul 2024
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Free idea: design token ugly mode

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

1st Jul 2024
A lot of work goes into making every page and view of a website or webapp look consistent with every other page or view. It’s just good design. Smaller, newer experiences tend to be more uniform than not. This makes sense in that the bulk of the experience is created at the same...
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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics This is part 3 in a 3-part series about the Second Law: 1. Computational Foundations for the Second...
1st Feb 2023
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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

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

1st Feb 2023
This is part 3 in a 3-part series about the Second Law: 1. Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics (forthcoming) 2. A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics (forthcoming) 3. How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the...
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The smallest (useful) HTTP responses possible
2nd Nov 2024
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The smallest (useful) HTTP responses possible

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

2nd Nov 2024
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French onion soup redux If I call the soup I've been making nearly weekly for the past few months French onion soup, I'm...
2nd Jan 2012
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French onion soup redux

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

2nd Jan 2012
If I call the soup I've been making nearly weekly for the past few months French onion soup, I'm probably lying a little bit. What most people call French onion soup is mostly a thing of the past for me. But this soup is very similar. I grew out of the big croutons and the...
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ckBTC internals: event log
1st May 2023
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ckBTC internals: event log

from MMapped blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st May 2023
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What I'm up to - January 2024 Happy New Year! Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social...
1st Jan 2024
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What I'm up to - January 2024

from Philip Ilic Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jan 2024
Happy New Year! Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in December - Published updates to Booklet, including a design refresh, dynamic op...
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AI is a gamechanger for TLA+ users New Logic for Programmers Release v0.10 is now available! This is a minor release, mostly focused on...
5th Jun 2025
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AI is a gamechanger for TLA+ users

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

5th Jun 2025
New Logic for Programmers Release v0.10 is now available! This is a minor release, mostly focused on logic-based refactoring, with new material on set types and testing refactors are correct. See the full release notes at the changelog page. Due to conference pressure v0.11 will...
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Switching Things Over to ikiwiki Switching Things Over to ikiwiki 2023-12-17 I’ve done it again. My personal website is no longer...
17th Dec 2023
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Switching Things Over to ikiwiki

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

17th Dec 2023
Switching Things Over to ikiwiki 2023-12-17 I’ve done it again. My personal website is no longer generated with barf but is instead built on top of ikiwiki. The old RSS feed (btxx.org/atom.xml) still exists but will no longer receive updates. The new feed can be found on the...
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Restic Restic is good backup software. It’s a command line tool for backing up filesystems to various local...
5th Feb 2024
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Restic

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

5th Feb 2024
Restic is good backup software. It’s a command line tool for backing up filesystems to various local and remote options. It is well documented, easy to set up, secure, and quite fast. It’s a very professional product. I am now backing up all my Linux systems with it. Note it’s a...
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I Am Happy Not To Be A Web Developer Anymore I wrote my first single-page web app in Javascript in 2005, right after learning about...
15th Sep 2023
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I Am Happy Not To Be A Web Developer Anymore

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

15th Sep 2023
I wrote my first single-page web app in Javascript in 2005, right after learning about XMLHttpRequest and before any serious frameworks existed. I left professional web development behind around 2009 (I started in 1997 with WebObjects) and spent the final decade of my career...
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How Apple built iCloud to store billions of databases Apple uses Cassandra and FoundationDB for CloudKit, their cloud backend service. We take a look into...
14th Jan 2024
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How Apple built iCloud to store billions of databases

from Engineer’s Codex [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Jan 2024
Apple uses Cassandra and FoundationDB for CloudKit, their cloud backend service. We take a look into how exactly each is used within their cloud and the problems they've solved.
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A Web App Store That Makes The Web Safer Maintaining security & privacy without the loss of convenience The Price of Security Enter OpenID &...
24th Oct 2014
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A Web App Store That Makes The Web Safer

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

24th Oct 2014
Maintaining security & privacy without the loss of convenience The Price of Security Enter OpenID & OAuth Unnecessary Access The Idea Why would they pay? Potential Stumbling Blocks Can you really sleep safe on all those passwords? Image "Sweet Dreams…" by pulpoluxA Platform to...
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New Loose Leaf Security episode: Security stories! Plus, a 2FA zine! The previous Loose Leaf Security series on safely surfing the web was pretty dense, so Geoffrey and...
5th Sep 2018
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New Loose Leaf Security episode: Security stories! Plus, a 2FA zine!

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

5th Sep 2018
The previous Loose Leaf Security series on safely surfing the web was pretty dense, so Geoffrey and I filled the latest episode of Loose Leaf Security with a bunch of our own personal security mishaps: Security stories: lost phones, a compromised computer, and an unexpected...
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Engineering Manager Archetypes and Career Paths Cross-posted from leaddev.com Exploring seven common leadership scenarios. If you’re looking for a...
3rd Aug 2021
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Engineering Manager Archetypes and Career Paths

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

3rd Aug 2021
Cross-posted from leaddev.com Exploring seven common leadership scenarios. If you’re looking for a very traditional breakdown of engineering manager archetypes – tech lead manager, team manager, director, and so forth – you can’t do better than Will Larson’s post, and I won’t...
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Offline spellcheck In which I futilely attempt to use aspell to stop using Google as spellcheck. I am embarrassingly...
14th Aug 2017
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Offline spellcheck

from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Aug 2017
In which I futilely attempt to use aspell to stop using Google as spellcheck. I am embarrassingly atrocious at spelling. In Vim, which I use for email via Mutt, I can use :set spell. In Emacs I can use flyspell-mode. Browsers all have spellcheck now, seemingly. Still… sometimes I...
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Clickable Links Inside XML Clickable Links Inside XML 2022-06-20 With the recent patch to the Shinobi Website project, I...
20th Jun 2022
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Clickable Links Inside XML

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

20th Jun 2022
Clickable Links Inside XML 2022-06-20 With the recent patch to the Shinobi Website project, I thought it would be best to share my experience implementing clickable links inside a rendered XML RSS file directly through a browser. This is made possible thanks to the awesome power...
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You can't fix core competency with a stern conversation When things aren't going well with a new hire, the problem usually falls into one of two categories:...
1st Sep 2023
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You can't fix core competency with a stern conversation

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

1st Sep 2023
When things aren't going well with a new hire, the problem usually falls into one of two categories: competency or engagement. If it's a problem with engagement – their style of collaboration, their communication, their approach – there's a good chance you can fix it with some...
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Jazz Ukulele "Love Is a Song" from Bambi I arranged and recorded 'Love Is a Song' from Walt Disney's Bambi on my new ukulele.
6th Feb 2010
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Jazz Ukulele "Love Is a Song" from Bambi

from Jordan Eldredge's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Feb 2010
I arranged and recorded 'Love Is a Song' from Walt Disney's Bambi on my new ukulele.
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PHP functions to get and remove the file extension from a string I use these regular expressions all the time, but it's much more convenient to have them both in...
12th Mar 2009
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PHP functions to get and remove the file extension from a string

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

12th Mar 2009
I use these regular expressions all the time, but it's much more convenient to have them both in convenient PHP functions. // Returns only the file extension (without the dot) function file_ext($filename) { return preg_match('/\./', $filename) ? preg_replace('/^.*\./', '',...
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Familiar Spirits The eerie cold breeze from Fourways Memorial Park cemetery slips into Daudi’s open window during the...
14th Dec 2022
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Familiar Spirits

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

14th Dec 2022
The eerie cold breeze from Fourways Memorial Park cemetery slips into Daudi’s open window during the fourth watch of the night. The blue radiance of the moon and the stars fill in for the lights darkened by stage 5 loadshedding. As the nighttime creatures prepare for their...
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dict() vs. {} There are two different ways to create a dictionary. You can call the dict() function or use the...
1st Dec 2022
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dict() vs. {}

from Sebastian Witowski [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Dec 2022
There are two different ways to create a dictionary. You can call the dict() function or use the literal syntax: {}. And in many cases, these are equivalent choices, so you might give it little thought and assume they both take the same amount of time. But they don't! Starting...
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Querying through shadow roots Let's say I have a web component with an open shadow root, like this one from...
4th Aug 2021
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Querying through shadow roots

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

4th Aug 2021
Let's say I have a web component with an open shadow root, like this one from Shoelace. <sl-button>Click me</sl-button> Inside the shadow root is a <button> that I want to target with JavaScript.* Alas, Element.querySelector() doesn't offer a shortcut for traversing shadow roots...
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Tough times on the road to Starcraft I’ve been writing about the early development of Warcraft, but a recent blog post I read prompted me...
7th Sep 2012
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Tough times on the road to Starcraft

from Code Of Honor [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Sep 2012
I’ve been writing about the early development of Warcraft, but a recent blog post I read prompted me to start scribbling furiously, and the result is this three-part, twenty-plus page article about the development of StarCraft, along with my thoughts about writing more reliable...
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Money, power and credibility I don’t really do “women stuff” (awkward umbrella term for gender-segregated events and spaces).  I...
2nd Mar 2018
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Money, power and credibility

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

2nd Mar 2018
I don’t really do “women stuff” (awkward umbrella term for gender-segregated events and spaces).  I don’t really identify with any gender and I find a lot of the advice to be condescending and overly delicate, and it’s just a really boring thing to think and talk about. For me....
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When complaints are a good sign When you build something, you have to pick some design goals and priorities. Ideally you do so...
27th Sep 2024
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When complaints are a good sign

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

27th Sep 2024
When you build something, you have to pick some design goals and priorities. Ideally you do so explicitly, but even if you don't, you're still implicitly doing so based on your design choices. These choices are trade-offs. If you want to write a quiet song, it won't be loud....
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Moving in Big Cities: Lugg vs Clutter > 2026 update: used Lugg to move a sectional sofabed couch and ended up regretting it - it cost...
1st Nov 2024
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Moving in Big Cities: Lugg vs Clutter

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

1st Nov 2024
> 2026 update: used Lugg to move a sectional sofabed couch and ended up regretting it - it cost $222.51 one way (44min labor pickup 55min labor dropoff, which i think was fraud, no way dropoff cost more than pickup) and total base fare 38 + 14.5 fee. for the two way move price i...
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Full-Stack Ops: Back-end and DevOps Roles are Merging It’s time for some speculation on my part 🔗 I believe that the job duties of “back-end” and...
10th Oct 2022
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Full-Stack Ops: Back-end and DevOps Roles are Merging

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Oct 2022
It’s time for some speculation on my part 🔗 I believe that the job duties of “back-end” and “DevOps” engineers will coalesce to include almost everything that “the user doesn’t see”. There will still be room for specialization, but these roles will become less distinguishable...
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2023 Book Roundup My goal for 2023 was to read 24 books. I read 21, just shy of 22. I don't get particularly hung up...
1st Jan 2024
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2023 Book Roundup

from The Web Witch's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jan 2024
My goal for 2023 was to read 24 books. I read 21, just shy of 22. I don't get particularly hung up on whether or not I met my goal unless it's really abysmally off target. I ended up reading many 700+ page fantasy books this year so when I average that out, that's nearly 3...
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Dash it all
4th Jan 2026
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Dash it all

from davidyat.es [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Jan 2026
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Migrating Buttondown to mypy The journey of 37,000 lines of static types begins with a single annotation.
19th Jan 2022
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Migrating Buttondown to mypy

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

19th Jan 2022
The journey of 37,000 lines of static types begins with a single annotation.
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Install Mcrypt PHP Extension on OSX Yosemite After updating Statamic to 1.10.2, I started getting Mcrypt errors. After some Googling, I found...
29th Jan 2015
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Install Mcrypt PHP Extension on OSX Yosemite

from Daniel Marino [alt+shift+b] in programming

29th Jan 2015
After updating Statamic to 1.10.2, I started getting Mcrypt errors. After some Googling, I found some complicated fixes. After some noodling around, here’s a simple way to fix it with Homebrew: First, figure out which version of PHP you’re running. You can do this by opening up...
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Redesigning the Cakedesk Website Read the post here.
30th Dec 2025
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Redesigning the Cakedesk Website

from Max Schmitt [alt+shift+b] in programming

30th Dec 2025
Read the post here.
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.io considered harmful The .io top-level domain funds and legitimises Britain's exile of the Chagossian people from their...
19th Jun 2023
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.io considered harmful

from beep.blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

19th Jun 2023
The .io top-level domain funds and legitimises Britain's exile of the Chagossian people from their homeland. Here's the history and the facts.
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I Learned We All Have Linux Seats, and I’m Not Entirely Pleased I recently wrote about How to Use SSH with FIDO2/U2F Security Keys, which I now use on almost all of...
11th Jun 2025
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I Learned We All Have Linux Seats, and I’m Not Entirely Pleased

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

11th Jun 2025
I recently wrote about How to Use SSH with FIDO2/U2F Security Keys, which I now use on almost all of my machines. The last one that needed this was my Raspberry Pi hooked up to my DEC vt510 terminal and IBM mechanical keyboard. Yes I do still use that setup! To my surprise,...
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Fibonacci Goals A system for goalsetting.
1st Jan 2021
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Fibonacci Goals

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

1st Jan 2021
A system for goalsetting.
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Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built...
5th Jun 2025
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Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps

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

5th Jun 2025
The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. In this essay, we envision malleable software: tools that users can reshape with minimal friction to suit their unique needs.
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Retreating to Safety Ten years ago, Apple’s Phil Schiller surprised Apple enthusiasts and developers by walking out on...
30th May 2025
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Retreating to Safety

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

30th May 2025
Ten years ago, Apple’s Phil Schiller surprised Apple enthusiasts and developers by walking out on stage at John Gruber’s The Talk Show Live WWDC event and giving an open, human, honest interview to a somewhat jaded community. I wrote this in response: Both Apple and Phil Schiller...
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Assumed Audiences Naming your invisible audiences to free yourself from unspoken obligations
8th Jan 2022
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Assumed Audiences

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

8th Jan 2022
Naming your invisible audiences to free yourself from unspoken obligations
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Building the Open Task Light
31st Aug 2026
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Building the Open Task Light

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

31st Aug 2026
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The Exodus Curve The concept of Product-Market Fit (PMF) collapse has gained renewed attention with the rise of large...
8th Feb 2025
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The Exodus Curve

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

8th Feb 2025
The concept of Product-Market Fit (PMF) collapse has gained renewed attention with the rise of large language models (LLMs), as highlighted in a recent Reforge article. The article argues we’re witnessing unprecedented market disruption, in this post, I propose we’re experiencing...
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Mixins: a refactoring anti-pattern
7th May 2012
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Mixins: a refactoring anti-pattern

from Steve Klabnik [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th May 2012
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Why Do Japanese Companies Hire International Developers? TokyoDev has already reported that Japan really needs international developers. But the more...
12th Feb 2025
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Why Do Japanese Companies Hire International Developers?

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Feb 2025
TokyoDev has already reported that Japan really needs international developers. But the more Japanese companies we’ve interviewed, the more we’ve realized that a talent shortage is not the only reason for Japanese companies to hire from overseas. There are a host of other...
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Continued Fraction Streams
17th Aug 2016
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Continued Fraction Streams

from Jaz's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Aug 2016
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How to clean up after your NextJS dev server Sometimes you need to modify files when building a web application that must be reverted before...
10th Nov 2023
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How to clean up after your NextJS dev server

from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Nov 2023
Sometimes you need to modify files when building a web application that must be reverted before committing. In my case I’m building a Chrome extension that reads from a NextJS based web service, and when I’m working on the browser extension it reads from http://localhost:3005, so...
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Date Me! if you like me, and you're interested but never thought to ask, just ask!
2nd Jan 2025
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Date Me!

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

2nd Jan 2025
if you like me, and you're interested but never thought to ask, just ask!
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Not apparent “Are you sure you want to move to San Francisco?” my dad asked me as we drove home from the...
1st May 2026
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Not apparent

from Basta’s Notes [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st May 2026
“Are you sure you want to move to San Francisco?” my dad asked me as we drove home from the electrical supply store.
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Why linting errors should cause tests to fail Making the case against allowing linting errors in master.
16th Sep 2016
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Why linting errors should cause tests to fail

from Jordan Eldredge's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Sep 2016
Making the case against allowing linting errors in master.
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Paper Review: “Did you miss my comments or what?” Toxicity in Open Source Discussions On entitlement, toxicity, and burnout in Open Source. [Toxicity is] rude, disrespectful, or...
15th Jan 2023
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Paper Review: “Did you miss my comments or what?” Toxicity in Open Source Discussions

from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Jan 2023
On entitlement, toxicity, and burnout in Open Source. [Toxicity is] rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable language that is likely to make someone leave a discussion. – Google, Project Jigsaw Thu, 19 Aug 2021 @EmilyKager & @[email protected] I didn’t expect to learn...
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Voxel Editors Kind of Suck, so I’m Vibe Coding One
14th May 2026
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Voxel Editors Kind of Suck, so I’m Vibe Coding One

from Daniel Marino [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th May 2026
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Goodreads lost all of my reviews Goodreads lost my entire account last week. Nine years as a user, some 600 books and 250 carefully...
28th Feb 2022
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Goodreads lost all of my reviews

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

28th Feb 2022
Goodreads lost my entire account last week. Nine years as a user, some 600 books and 250 carefully written reviews all deleted and unrecoverable. Their support has not been helpful. In 35 years of being online I've never encountered a company with such callous disregard for their...
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Solving my fun, frustrating docker-machine error Last Saturday, I ran into a problem doing a routine backup of a web app I maintain. In fact, this...
8th Dec 2020
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Solving my fun, frustrating docker-machine error

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

8th Dec 2020
Last Saturday, I ran into a problem doing a routine backup of a web app I maintain. In fact, this was the second time I ran into the exact same issue, so it's time to write it down. (Hopefully, the third time I run into this, I have the presence of mind to look up my own...
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Arduino’s Automatic Reset As mentioned in my previous article, I am planning to publish a long-form article on UART. I am...
1st May 2025
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Arduino’s Automatic Reset

from Quentin Santos [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st May 2025
As mentioned in my previous article, I am planning to publish a long-form article on UART. I am doing a series of shorter articles to lay the groundwork. This is one of these “short” articles; this one about how Arduino uses UART. Of course, I still went way too deep in this...
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useLayoutEffect is a bad place for deriving state Today we'll talk about updating state inside useLayoutEffect in reaction to prop changes. Will it...
21st Sep 2021
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useLayoutEffect is a bad place for deriving state

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

21st Sep 2021
Today we'll talk about updating state inside useLayoutEffect in reaction to prop changes. Will it work? Is it safe? Are there better ways to implement such state changes? TLDR: it works, but leaves you with an extra DOM update that may break stuff. As we all know, useLayoutEffect...
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Leaving Intel InnovatiON 2022 AI Flame Graphs GPU Flame Scope Harshad Sane SREcon APAC Cloud strategy Last...
4th Dec 2025
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Leaving Intel

from Brendan Gregg's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Dec 2025
InnovatiON 2022 AI Flame Graphs GPU Flame Scope Harshad Sane SREcon APAC Cloud strategy Last day I've resigned from Intel and accepted a new opportunity. If you are an Intel employee, you might have seen my fairly long email that summarized what I did in my 3.5 years. Much...
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Name that Ware, October 2025 The Ware for October 2025 is shown below. Thanks to Juan C. for contributing this curious ware! I...
30th Oct 2025
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Name that Ware, October 2025

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

30th Oct 2025
The Ware for October 2025 is shown below. Thanks to Juan C. for contributing this curious ware! I really can’t get enough of how the whole device is integrated with a multi-layer stacked PCB. I imagine that inside the middle of the stack there could be some interesting circuitry...
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Website Contrast Ratio in Practice While perusing Hacker News I ran across a single-page site called Contrast Rebellion— which I...
27th Jul 2012
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Website Contrast Ratio in Practice

from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Jul 2012
While perusing Hacker News I ran across a single-page site called Contrast Rebellion— which I understand has created a bit of controversy. I think the point espoused by Contrast Rebellion is both well-made and well-taken (despite the host of straw-man style arguments to...
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Meta's new LLM-based test generator is a sneak peek to the future of development Meta's TestGen-LLM is a sneak peek to the future of developer productivity: specialized,...
23rd Feb 2024
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Meta's new LLM-based test generator is a sneak peek to the future of development

from Engineer’s Codex [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Feb 2024
Meta's TestGen-LLM is a sneak peek to the future of developer productivity: specialized, orchestrated, and rigorously filtered.
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Choose Boring Technology Culture Honeycomb recently announced our $50M Series D funding round. We aren’t the type to hype this a lot;...
1st May 2023
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Choose Boring Technology Culture

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

1st May 2023
Honeycomb recently announced our $50M Series D funding round. We aren’t the type to hype this a lot; Emily summed it up crisply as, “Living another day on someone else’s money isn’t business success, even though it is a lovely vote of confidence.” Agreed. The vote of confidence...
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Questionable Advice: The Trap of The Premature Senior I’ve been at my current job for three years, and I am suddenly, accidentally, the most senior...
1st Nov 2020
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Questionable Advice: The Trap of The Premature Senior

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

1st Nov 2020
I’ve been at my current job for three years, and I am suddenly, accidentally, the most senior engineer on the team. I spend my days handling things like bootcamps, mentoring, architecture, and helping other engineers carve off meaningful work. This has taken a huge toll on the...
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Finding Fulfillment What creates a fulfilling existence? Exploring the question from different directions leads to a...
25th Dec 2022
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Finding Fulfillment

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

25th Dec 2022
What creates a fulfilling existence? Exploring the question from different directions leads to a framework I’ve used for years for myself and the people around me. I hope it helps you too.
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2014-01-17 "pogo oscillation occurs when a surge in engine pressure increases back pressure against the fuel...
17th Jan 2014
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2014-01-17

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

17th Jan 2014
"pogo oscillation occurs when a surge in engine pressure increases back pressure against the fuel coming into the engine, reducing engine pressure, causing more fuel to come in and increasing engine pressure again." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogo_oscillation
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Chicago Parking Ticket Visualization Intro Hi there! In this post, I want to show off a fun little web app I made for visualizing parking...
27th Mar 2019
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Chicago Parking Ticket Visualization

from Civic Hax [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Mar 2019
Intro Hi there! In this post, I want to show off a fun little web app I made for visualizing parking tickets in Chicago, but because I've spent so much time on the overall project, I figured I'd share the story that got me to this point. In many ways, this work is the foundation...
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Load-bearing / Career-minded / Act Two rationales One of the common conceits in leadership is that nobody is truly essential for a company’s...
2nd May 2024
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Load-bearing / Career-minded / Act Two rationales

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

2nd May 2024
One of the common conceits in leadership is that nobody is truly essential for a company’s continuity. I call it a conceit, but I do mostly agree with it: I’ve felt literally sick after hearing about some peer’s unexpected departure, but I’m continually amazed at how resilient...
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The future of large files in Git is Git .title {text-wrap:balance;} #content > p:first-child {text-wrap:balance;} If Git had a nemesis, it’d...
15th Aug 2025
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The future of large files in Git is Git

from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Aug 2025
.title {text-wrap:balance;} #content > p:first-child {text-wrap:balance;} If Git had a nemesis, it’d be large files. Large files bloat Git’s storage, slow down git clone, and wreak havoc on Git forges. In 2015, GitHub released Git LFS—a Git extension that hacked around problems...
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What happened to the comment section? In 1998, Bruce and Susan Abelson launched Open Diary. Building on personal site builders like...
11th Nov 2025
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What happened to the comment section?

from The History of the Web [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Nov 2025
In 1998, Bruce and Susan Abelson launched Open Diary. Building on personal site builders like Geocities, Angelfire, and Tripod, Open […] The post What happened to the comment section? appeared first on The History of the Web.
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Recently Reading It is very easy to get ChatGPT to emit a series of words such as “I am happy to see you.”...
1st Oct 2024
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Recently

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

1st Oct 2024
Reading It is very easy to get ChatGPT to emit a series of words such as “I am happy to see you.” There are many things we don’t understand about how large language models work, but one thing we can be sure of is that ChatGPT is not happy to see you. Ted Chiang’s article about AI...
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Some notes on NixOS Hello! Over the holidays I decided it might be fun to run NixOS on one of my servers, as part of my...
1st Jan 2024
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Some notes on NixOS

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

1st Jan 2024
Hello! Over the holidays I decided it might be fun to run NixOS on one of my servers, as part of my continuing experiments with Nix. My motivation for this was that previously I was using Ansible to provision the server, but then I’d ad hoc installed a bunch of stuff on...
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High Trust Society I just want you to see, I just want you to see Regardless of who wins on Tuesday, does anyone think...
2nd Nov 2024
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High Trust Society

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

2nd Nov 2024
I just want you to see, I just want you to see Regardless of who wins on Tuesday, does anyone think this gets fixed? Is Kamala going to restore trust in government? Is Trump going to restore trust in government? Despite what Western media might have you believe about how the...
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How fast is swift? Heavy Metal Edition (feat Nardi) The challenge, confirm a friends belief that swift is real system language by simulating buckets of...
12th Jul 2025
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How fast is swift? Heavy Metal Edition (feat Nardi)

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

12th Jul 2025
The challenge, confirm a friends belief that swift is real system language by simulating buckets of particles, at least 100m on the cpu, hopefully beating out rust.
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Transclusion and Transcopyright Dreams The lost permissioning and copyright system of the Web
2nd Jan 2021
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Transclusion and Transcopyright Dreams

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

2nd Jan 2021
The lost permissioning and copyright system of the Web
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A confusing lifetime error related to Rust's lifetime elision Earlier this week, I ran into a confusing situation with lifetimes and the borrow checker while...
2nd Jan 2023
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A confusing lifetime error related to Rust's lifetime elision

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

2nd Jan 2023
Earlier this week, I ran into a confusing situation with lifetimes and the borrow checker while working on my Lox interpreter. It took me a little while to figure out, and it's an instructive situation. Here's a reduced-down version of what I was working on. It's an interpreter,...
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libc delenda est Chris Wellons posted a good review of why large chunks of the C library are terrible, especially if...
12th Feb 2023
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libc delenda est

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

12th Feb 2023
Chris Wellons posted a good review of why large chunks of the C library are terrible, especially if you are coding on Windows - good fun if you like staring into the abyss. He followed up with let’s write a setjmp which is fun in a more positive way. I was also pleased to learn...
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I see a future in jj
22nd Oct 2025
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I see a future in jj

from Steve Klabnik [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Oct 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. June 2025 We’ve capitulated into the vibe coding era? Well… not really. But it’s cool to understand how AI...
10th Jun 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. June 2025

from Boot.dev Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Jun 2025
We’ve capitulated into the vibe coding era? Well… not really. But it’s cool to understand how AI agents like Cursor and Claude Code work under the hood.
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Asheville Asheville is in crisis right now. They're without drinking water, faucets run dry, and it's...
6th Oct 2024
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Asheville

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

6th Oct 2024
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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Learnings after 4 years at ahrefs TBD
12th Oct 2024
1

Learnings after 4 years at ahrefs

from sancho.dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Oct 2024
TBD
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Securing modern applications in the cloud Kubernetes security is in the news at the moment, not necessarily in a good way. We thought it...
8th Dec 2018
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Securing modern applications in the cloud

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

8th Dec 2018
Kubernetes security is in the news at the moment, not necessarily in a good way. We thought it might be an appropriate time to share an interesting conversation we had recently with our friends Todd and Hannah at Threat Stack about Kubernetes, container security, and much...
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Switching From C++ to Rust Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. I have been writing C++ professionally for the last 4 years...
13th Mar 2023
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Switching From C++ to Rust

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

13th Mar 2023
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. I have been writing C++ professionally for the last 4 years and 3 months ago I started a new job in Rust. I would like to share my experience and thoughts on the transition between 2 languages. Disclaimer: This article is not a C++ vs Rust...
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Developer variants Software development takes all kinds. I'm not talking about appearances or job titles. I'm talking...
9th Aug 2016
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Developer variants

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Aug 2016
Software development takes all kinds. I'm not talking about appearances or job titles. I'm talking about motivations and fulfillment. In my years of writing code and leading projects, I've come to learn a bit about how my teammates, and I, experience success, through a...
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Let's Write an IPython Extension the Hard Way I love IPython. I love using it, I love writing about it, I love taking pictures with its core...
16th Jul 2020
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Let's Write an IPython Extension the Hard Way

from Sebastian Witowski [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Jul 2020
I love IPython. I love using it, I love writing about it, I love taking pictures with its core contributors (Hi Paul!). If I ever get invited to the "Talk Python To Me" podcast (not that I have anything interesting to talk about), and Michael Kennedy is going to ask me what my...
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Bottom-Up Idea Exploration My own content creation philosophy, explored through my own personal story with React
6th Jun 2021
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Bottom-Up Idea Exploration

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

6th Jun 2021
My own content creation philosophy, explored through my own personal story with React
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The Art and Craft of Gatsby Themes Illustrated notes on building Gatsby themes
1st Jan 2020
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The Art and Craft of Gatsby Themes

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

1st Jan 2020
Illustrated notes on building Gatsby themes
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I'm quitting Hacker News
3rd Mar 2011
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I'm quitting Hacker News

from Steve Klabnik [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Mar 2011
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Compensation at Publicly Traded Tech Companies Insights from 50 publicly traded tech companies, and a list of those paying the most and the least...
9th May 2023
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Compensation at Publicly Traded Tech Companies

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

9th May 2023
Insights from 50 publicly traded tech companies, and a list of those paying the most and the least in median total compensation.
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Adding Open Graph to Pelican I just added Open Graph support to this Pelican-generated site so pretty previews would show up when...
19th Apr 2018
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Adding Open Graph to Pelican

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

19th Apr 2018
I just added Open Graph support to this Pelican-generated site so pretty previews would show up when people shared my posts, and I figured I'd share the fairly tidy way I went about it in case other people were interested. I only added support for articles, my journal entries,...
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Big new features and a mountain of bug fixes elementary OS 7 has been out for just over a month now and I’m excited to announce the first round...
6th Mar 2023
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Big new features and a mountain of bug fixes

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

6th Mar 2023
elementary OS 7 has been out for just over a month now and I’m excited to announce the first round of updates to our latest operating system includes both great feature updates and a long list of fixes for reported issues. As you may know, we prioritize our work based on your...
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The siren call of wrong-way dependencies Dependencies that point in the wrong direction are one of the easiest and most costly design...
21st Sep 2024
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The siren call of wrong-way dependencies

from Writing - Andreas Fragner [alt+shift+b] in programming

21st Sep 2024
Dependencies that point in the wrong direction are one of the easiest and most costly design mistakes one can make.
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Representing the universe of GravityLoops <![CDATA[I started working on the class Universe of GravityLoops, my gravity simulator in Interlisp...
5th Jun 2026
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Representing the universe of GravityLoops

from Paolo Amoroso's Journal [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Jun 2026
<![CDATA[I started working on the class Universe of GravityLoops, my gravity simulator in Interlisp and LOOPS. I defined the class itself and the main methods, Universe.Register and Universe.Simulate. The class represents a collection of bodies and manages the parameters and...
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Postleaf: reimagined It's been about nine months since Postleaf debuted as a simple, beautiful, open source, PHP blogging...
26th Apr 2017
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Postleaf: reimagined

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

26th Apr 2017
It's been about nine months since Postleaf debuted as a simple, beautiful, open source, PHP blogging platform. The initial version was well-received, landing an article on TechCrunch and making its way to #1 for the day on Product Hunt. (Thank you so much, everyone!) Today, I'm...
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doubly dual shuffles Here’s a pearlescent winter holiday gift for you! There are four variants of the algorithm for...
25th Dec 2025
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doubly dual shuffles

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

25th Dec 2025
Here’s a pearlescent winter holiday gift for you! There are four variants of the algorithm for shuffling an array, arising from two independent choices: whether to swap elements in the higher or lower parts of the array whether the boundary between the parts moves upwards or...
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Crash Safari with the Web Audio API Discovering, reproducing, and working around a bug that crashes Safari hard.
15th Aug 2017
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Crash Safari with the Web Audio API

from Jordan Eldredge's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th Aug 2017
Discovering, reproducing, and working around a bug that crashes Safari hard.
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Why Elliot Jay Stocks loves using Buttondown Designer and typographer Elliot Jay Stocks uses Buttondown to power Behind the Scenes, his weekly...
2nd Apr 2024
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Why Elliot Jay Stocks loves using Buttondown

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

2nd Apr 2024
Designer and typographer Elliot Jay Stocks uses Buttondown to power Behind the Scenes, his weekly newsletter about design, typography, and creativity.
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Cocoa brownies Cocoa brownies are pretty magical, i.e. particularly good at staying soft and gooey, and Alice...
16th Aug 2018
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Cocoa brownies

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

16th Aug 2018
Cocoa brownies are pretty magical, i.e. particularly good at staying soft and gooey, and Alice Medrich's ingredient list is nearly flawless. (Okay, okay, I can never truly stick to a recipe as written. Here, I prefer a little more vanilla extract and like to put a pinch of flaky...
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What I'm up to - November 2023 This is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Nov 2023
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What I'm up to - November 2023

from Philip I. Thomas [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Nov 2023
This is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in October - Switched my daily driver Aeropress coffee recipe to this one by Jonathan Gagné. It p...
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Fibonacci Goals A system for goalsetting.
1st Jan 2021
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Fibonacci Goals

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

1st Jan 2021
A system for goalsetting.
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#define CTO OpenAI It’s been two years since I wrote #define CTO, in which I documented my quest for a role where I...
9th Jan 2017
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#define CTO OpenAI

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

9th Jan 2017
It’s been two years since I wrote #define CTO, in which I documented my quest for a role where I could have scalable impact by writing code. I’ve finally found that role, though not by seeking it — instead, I sought out a problem more important to me than my role within it,...
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Guix for development This wonderful article by Marius Bakke (thanks for using Haunt btw!) about guix shell hit the orange...
23rd Sep 2022
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Guix for development

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Sep 2022
This wonderful article by Marius Bakke (thanks for using Haunt btw!) about guix shell hit the orange website front page recently. I left a comment to the effect of “hell yeah I use it for all my projects!” and someone asked me for an example of what I do. I sent them some links...
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Turning Claude into Postgres so I can raise a Series A Watch out, Databricks
1st Aug 2026
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Turning Claude into Postgres so I can raise a Series A

from ByteofDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Aug 2026
Watch out, Databricks
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Statements Vs. Expressions One of the most foundational things to understand about JavaScript is that programs are made up of...
11th Jul 2022
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Statements Vs. Expressions

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

11th Jul 2022
One of the most foundational things to understand about JavaScript is that programs are made up of statements, and statements have slots for expressions. In this blog post, we'll dig into how these two structures work, and see how building an intuition about this can help us...
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You should be using hackdays to supercharge your roadmap Internal company hack days (or hack weeks) are a common thing in tech companies, but not...
1st May 2023
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You should be using hackdays to supercharge your roadmap

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

1st May 2023
Internal company hack days (or hack weeks) are a common thing in tech companies, but not universal. They should be universal, though. Hackdays help you get great new ideas that are both impactful and feasible. They're probably the best thing you can do to improve your product and...
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Recently I am not going to repeat the news. But man, things are really, really bad and getting worse in...
4th Feb 2025
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Recently

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

4th Feb 2025
I am not going to repeat the news. But man, things are really, really bad and getting worse in America. It’s all so unendingly stupid and evil. The tech industry is being horrible, too. Wishing strength to the people who are much more exposed to the chaos than I am. Reading A...
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How good is Claude, really? At the beginning of 2026, I didn’t even know what vibe coding meant. So much has happened in the...
4th Mar 2026
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How good is Claude, really?

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

4th Mar 2026
At the beginning of 2026, I didn’t even know what vibe coding meant. So much has happened in the time I was busy carving wooden spoons, that I felt it simpler to just ignore the hype. One morning, in this seemingly never ending winter, a friend told me excitedly how his employer...
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Mission, Vision, poTAYto, poTAHto Mission, vision, purpose, BHAG. Are they useful north stars, or academic nonsense?
9th Nov 2025
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Mission, Vision, poTAYto, poTAHto

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

9th Nov 2025
Mission, vision, purpose, BHAG. Are they useful north stars, or academic nonsense?
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Apps lighter than a React button Nue is HTML, CSS, and JavaScript taken to their absolute peak.
1st Apr 2025
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Apps lighter than a React button

from Nue developer blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Apr 2025
Nue is HTML, CSS, and JavaScript taken to their absolute peak.
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"Integration tests" are just vibes New blog post! Software Friction is about how all the small issues we run into developing software...
1st May 2024
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"Integration tests" are just vibes

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

1st May 2024
New blog post! Software Friction is about how all the small issues we run into developing software cause us to miss deadlines, and how we can address some of them. Patreon here. "Integration tests" are just vibes You should write more unit tests than integration tests. You should...
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Starlink in Nov 2022 My Starlink Internet service has gotten pretty bad; every evening I'm well under 50Mbps and some...
26th Nov 2022
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Starlink in Nov 2022

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

26th Nov 2022
My Starlink Internet service has gotten pretty bad; every evening I'm well under 50Mbps and some hours I only get 2Mbps. (Compare 100Mbps+ last year.) I've given up trying to stream 1080p video at night; that's a pretty dismal result for a new Internet service in 2022. Starlink...
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Introducing Action Push Native Note: Shortly after releasing this gem, we renamed it from Action Native Push to Action Push Native,...
18th Aug 2025
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Introducing Action Push Native

from 37signals Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

18th Aug 2025
Note: Shortly after releasing this gem, we renamed it from Action Native Push to Action Push Native, in case you arrived here looking for the gem of the former name. More details here. We’ve open-sourced Action Push Native, a Rails gem for sending push notifications to mobile...
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When You Get to Be Smart Writing a Macro Day-to-day programming isn’t always exciting. Most of the code we write is pretty straightforward:...
1st May 2025
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When You Get to Be Smart Writing a Macro

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

1st May 2025
Day-to-day programming isn’t always exciting. Most of the code we write is pretty straightforward: open a file, apply a function, commit a transaction, send JSON. Finding a problem that can be solved not the hard way, but smart way, is quite rare. I’m really happy I found this...
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