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20th Feb 2017
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20th Feb 2017
> Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog [https://open.buffer.com/change-at-buffer/]. We’ve always done things differently at Buffer. For me, this has always come from a natural desire to question things. Why base your company and team in a single location? Why is...
Code Review is Work Software companies have tried to measure productivity with time tracking, counting closed bugs, and,...
25th Jul 2021
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Code Review is Work

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

25th Jul 2021
Software companies have tried to measure productivity with time tracking, counting closed bugs, and, infamously, by counting lines of code. But what are organizations doing about the time developers lose waiting for code review? As an industry, we obsess over the 10x developer...
Your Hiring Funnel Is Broken and How to Fix It Hiring is hard and your broken pipeline is making it harder. But with this simple framework, you can...
24th Dec 2022
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Your Hiring Funnel Is Broken and How to Fix It

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

24th Dec 2022
Hiring is hard and your broken pipeline is making it harder. But with this simple framework, you can dramatically improve your odds of hiring exceptional software engineers.
Protect Your Wireless Network Short of leaving your wireless network open, the Wifi Protected Setup (WPS) vulnerability is...
12th May 2013
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Protect Your Wireless Network

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

12th May 2013
Short of leaving your wireless network open, the Wifi Protected Setup (WPS) vulnerability is probably the single biggest security hole on any home wireless network. About WiFi Protected Setup WiFi Protected Setup is a security standard that comes enabled by default on many...
7th Apr 2024
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Year X

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

7th Apr 2024
How to hire people who are better than you If you don't hire people better than you, the organization gets bigger, not better. But how do you...
19th Apr 2026
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How to hire people who are better than you

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

19th Apr 2026
If you don't hire people better than you, the organization gets bigger, not better. But how do you hire for something you don't understand?
Achieving overnight success: Kevin Systrom * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Frequently...
5th May 2012
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Achieving overnight success: Kevin Systrom

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

5th May 2012
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Frequently startups pop up and take over the press, framed as an “overnight success” taking just a year or two to reach some incredible milestone. For some time I’ve had a slight intuition that...
Happy New Year: Diffusion Model image generator in about 700 lines of pure SQL Regular readers of my blog will be aware that SQL is an excellent tool for graphics. You can use it...
31st Dec 2024
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Happy New Year: Diffusion Model image generator in about 700 lines of pure SQL

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

31st Dec 2024
Regular readers of my blog will be aware that SQL is an excellent tool for graphics. You can use it to draw snowflakes, fractals, ray-traced 3D pictures, and many other things. SQL art is beautiful, albeit slow to generate. These days they say AI is taking over, and human-made...
There's no rebound in sight for unprofitable SaaS Anyone reviewing their S&P 500 retirement fund these days will do so with a broader smile than last...
19th Jul 2023
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There's no rebound in sight for unprofitable SaaS

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

19th Jul 2023
Anyone reviewing their S&P 500 retirement fund these days will do so with a broader smile than last year. The market as a whole is up, and if you're in the whole market, you're benefitting. But all of that upside, basically, belongs to just a handful of mega tech companies. This...
Berkeley Mono Font Variant Popularity Berkeley Mono Typeface Absolutely thrilled by the response after Hacker News launch of Berkeley...
5th Mar 2022
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Berkeley Mono Font Variant Popularity

from Neil Panchal [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Mar 2022
Berkeley Mono Typeface Absolutely thrilled by the response after Hacker News launch of Berkeley Mono Typeface. I am truly humbled by the feedback, interest and people that have keen interest in typography. Berkeley Mono Font Variants Quick update on people asking what's the...
Habits of great software engineers The role of a software developer often gets distilled down to a singular activity: coding. While...
4th Nov 2023
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Habits of great software engineers

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

4th Nov 2023
The role of a software developer often gets distilled down to a singular activity: coding. While coding is undeniably the […] The post Habits of great software engineers appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
How to build a PostHog integration with the provisioning API I live on a little farm and recently built a website to sell shares of hogs. My fellow farmers are...
6th Jul 2026
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How to build a PostHog integration with the provisioning API

from Eric Migicovsky's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Jul 2026
I live on a little farm and recently built a website to sell shares of hogs. My fellow farmers are better versed in the subtle arts of soil, plants…
24th Jan 2016
Kagi search features *New* : More features in our Dec 22 update ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-search-dec22-update ) and...
31st May 2022
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Kagi search features

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

31st May 2022
*New* : More features in our Dec 22 update ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-search-dec22-update ) and May 23 update ( https://blog.kagi.com/search-enhancements ).
How Cryptology Can Fix Identity Theft Identity theft is a huge problem, costing Americans more than $4.5 billion in 2012. Identity theft...
22nd Feb 2015
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How Cryptology Can Fix Identity Theft

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

22nd Feb 2015
Identity theft is a huge problem, costing Americans more than $4.5 billion in 2012. Identity theft victims frequently lose time and money and undergo significant mental hardships while dealing with the fallout. It can happen a few different ways, but one large attack vector is...
Eventually consistent plain text accounting .title { text-wrap: balance } Spending for October, generated by piping hledger → R Over the past...
24th Oct 2024
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Eventually consistent plain text accounting

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

24th Oct 2024
.title { text-wrap: balance } Spending for October, generated by piping hledger → R Over the past six months, I’ve tracked my money with hledger—a plain text double-entry accounting system written in Haskell. It’s been surprisingly painless. My previous attempts to pick up...
1st May 2012
How I Use GitHub Issues I like using GitHub issues for actionable things such as bugs and backlog items I've committed to...
4th Aug 2025
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How I Use GitHub Issues

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

4th Aug 2025
I like using GitHub issues for actionable things such as bugs and backlog items I've committed to doing. Non-maintainers are encouraged to open issues only for bugs, whereas everything else is a discussion. Bug Report 👉 Issue Help/support 👉 Discussion Ask a question 👉...
Video: Barbershop tag taught with hand signs I recorded a video multitrack of a barbershop tag, showing all four parts in sol-feg hand signs.
14th Jun 2008
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Video: Barbershop tag taught with hand signs

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

14th Jun 2008
I recorded a video multitrack of a barbershop tag, showing all four parts in sol-feg hand signs.
From startup to scaleup: What we’re changing as we make the transition > Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer...
1st Jun 2016
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From startup to scaleup: What we’re changing as we make the transition

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

1st Jun 2016
> Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog [https://open.buffer.com/from-startup-to-scaleup-what-were-changing-as-we-make-the-transition/] . In the past couple of months, I’ve had a number of thoughts around the growth Buffer has experienced in the last year and some...
Solid Cache We’ve just open-sourced Solid Cache, a new ActiveRecord::Cache::Store that we use in Basecamp and...
3rd Oct 2023
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Solid Cache

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

3rd Oct 2023
We’ve just open-sourced Solid Cache, a new ActiveRecord::Cache::Store that we use in Basecamp and HEY. Solid Cache uses a SQL database as its cache store. We get a much larger cache at a fraction of the storage costs of memory caches like Redis or Memcached. For us, that’s a...
C# Discriminated Unions and .NET Channels For parallel processing of records, C# discriminated unions and .NET System.Threading.Channels make...
6th Jul 2024
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C# Discriminated Unions and .NET Channels

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

6th Jul 2024
For parallel processing of records, C# discriminated unions and .NET System.Threading.Channels make it easy.
Inferring Cruise occupancy from Kyle Vogt’s fleet dashboard screenshot Background Last month, Kyle Vogt (CEO of Cruise) tweeted a screenshot of Cruise’s fleet management...
5th Jan 2023
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Inferring Cruise occupancy from Kyle Vogt’s fleet dashboard screenshot

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

5th Jan 2023
Background Last month, Kyle Vogt (CEO of Cruise) tweeted a screenshot of Cruise’s fleet management dashboard: The press: AVs are over-hyped and are still 5-10 years away. Us: At this moment there are 100 @Cruise AVs in driverless mode in SF, and many are currently carrying...
A clever way to style the <mark> element I was checking out the CashNotify app today and I noticed a beautiful style for highlighting text in...
1st Feb 2019
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A clever way to style the <mark> element

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

1st Feb 2019
I was checking out the CashNotify app today and I noticed a beautiful style for highlighting text in their testimonials: Most textual highlights use a boring rectangle background color, but this stands out and looks gorgeous. I was really hoping they were using a simple <mark>...
Databases = Frameworks for Distributed Systems This article was originally posted on dev.to, but it turns out that HackerNews banned this website,...
21st May 2022
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Databases = Frameworks for Distributed Systems

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

21st May 2022
This article was originally posted on dev.to, but it turns out that HackerNews banned this website, so I decided to create my own. Feel free to join the discussion on HackerNews. Lego of the database world It is quite common for a distributed database to have the following...
What email will look like in the future On patching a 1981-era system mid-flight
1st May 2026
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What email will look like in the future

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

1st May 2026
On patching a 1981-era system mid-flight
How to use currentColor in your stylesheet I've had my head buried so deep in code that I hadn't even noticed this existed. It's a simple way...
4th Dec 2014
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How to use currentColor in your stylesheet

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

4th Dec 2014
I've had my head buried so deep in code that I hadn't even noticed this existed. It's a simple way to reference the current text color when writing CSS. Works in modern browsers, including IE9+. If you use Less or Sass then you probably already use something like @text-color....
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
My Fave Podcasts 2024 - The Big Reset 4.5 years after my initial podcast inventory, with COVID and a career change under my belt, with my...
15th Jul 2024
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My Fave Podcasts 2024 - The Big Reset

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

15th Jul 2024
4.5 years after my initial podcast inventory, with COVID and a career change under my belt, with my OPML file growing from 566 rss feeds in 2022 to 771 in 2024, and my backlog mounting to 43GB (according to this script, I have Outstanding Episodes: 11915 (played: 22451)), I am...
Dispatch 013: ARIA Safeguarded AI Programme, new faces, and a splattering of ink lab notes Peter, our lab director, will announce a major new initiative. You’ll hear about two researchers who...
22nd Sep 2025
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22nd Sep 2025
Peter, our lab director, will announce a major new initiative. You’ll hear about two researchers who have recently joined our staff. Finally, we’ve got a collection of lab notes about Programmable Ink.
A new home for all my apps: apps.chofter.com Say hello to apps.chofter.com, the new home for everything I build. The speed at which I ship new...
2 weeks ago
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A new home for all my apps: apps.chofter.com

from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming

2 weeks ago
Say hello to apps.chofter.com, the new home for everything I build. The speed at which I ship new things has massively increased with the advent of AI, and I’ve been encouraged by the fact that, as I approach my sixth decade, new ideas for useful & fun things to build still...
Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher 2020-06-04 Update: This article is no longer relevant since my blog...
4th Jun 2020
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Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher

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

4th Jun 2020
Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher 2020-06-04 Update: This article is no longer relevant since my blog design has changed. I’m keeping this post up since it will still be useful for those wanting to implement a theme switcher on their own site. I recently added a fairly...
Understanding Common Table Expressions in SQL One of the lesser known features of modern SQL are so-called “Common Table Expressions” (CTE) or...
4th Aug 2020
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Understanding Common Table Expressions in SQL

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

4th Aug 2020
One of the lesser known features of modern SQL are so-called “Common Table Expressions” (CTE) or “WITH queries”. I’ll explain the mental model that helped me make sense of them, and how to use them to execute recursive queries. Afterwards I’ll show how to apply these techniques...
Status as a Service (StaaS) Editor's Note 1: I have no editor. Editor’s Note 2: I would like to assure new subscribers to this...
26th Feb 2019
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Status as a Service (StaaS)

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

26th Feb 2019
Editor's Note 1: I have no editor. Editor’s Note 2: I would like to assure new subscribers to this blog that most my posts are not as long as this one. Or as long as my previous one. My long break from posting here means that this piece is a collection of what would’ve normally...
Spelunking desktop apps saves time Spelunking desktop apps saves time A tale of restoring Tower bookmarks 0. Quit Tower 1. Edit the...
20th Apr 2020
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Spelunking desktop apps saves time

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

20th Apr 2020
Spelunking desktop apps saves time A tale of restoring Tower bookmarks 0. Quit Tower 1. Edit the bookmarks plist 2. Update the Tower database 3. Open Tower Lessons ¶Spelunking desktop apps saves time ¶A tale of restoring Tower bookmarks I’m a big fan of Tower, a native Git GUI...
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,...
What a startup does to you. Or: A celebration of new life A startup is a crucible -- a fiery place that tests your limits, not by probing them but by...
7th May 2023
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What a startup does to you. Or: A celebration of new life

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

7th May 2023
A startup is a crucible -- a fiery place that tests your limits, not by probing them but by violently exceeding them, all of the time. It's worth it.
If You Sell Anything Online, This Book Will Make You Money My glowing review of Rob Hope's Landing Page Hot Tips Book
7th Sep 2020
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If You Sell Anything Online, This Book Will Make You Money

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

7th Sep 2020
My glowing review of Rob Hope's Landing Page Hot Tips Book
So you think you know everything about React refs React refs appear to be a very simple feature. You pass a special prop to a DOM component, and you...
17th May 2021
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So you think you know everything about React refs

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

17th May 2021
React refs appear to be a very simple feature. You pass a special prop to a DOM component, and you can access the current DOM node for that component in your JS. This is one of those great APIs that work just the way you'd expect, so you don't even think about how, exactly, it...
Infrastructure: From Zero to Enterprise Back when I was coding in 2007, my stack was straightforward. I had a shared hosting provider that...
3rd Feb 2024
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Infrastructure: From Zero to Enterprise

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

3rd Feb 2024
Back when I was coding in 2007, my stack was straightforward. I had a shared hosting provider that cost me […] The post Infrastructure: From Zero to Enterprise appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Skyrocketing software developer salaries in Japan a portent of a seismic shift Traditionally in Japan, salaried employees work for a single company their entire life, with their...
5th Feb 2021
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5th Feb 2021
Traditionally in Japan, salaried employees work for a single company their entire life, with their pay rising as their seniority increases. So uniform is compensation that common wisdom even gives [a formula](https://news.nicovideo.jp/watch/nw1745758) for what your monthly...
17th Nov 2011
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Burnout

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

17th Nov 2011
Mutation testing - not just for unit tests I wrote about mutation testing a few times on this blog, and I even have a mutation testing workshop...
3rd Sep 2025
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Mutation testing - not just for unit tests

from On Test Automation [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Sep 2025
I wrote about mutation testing a few times on this blog, and I even have a mutation testing workshop that I run on a pretty frequent basis. One misconception that pops up sometimes, either explicitly in a question or implicitly when I hear others talk about mutation testing, is...
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...
Low Power Mode for Mac laptops: making the case again In light of today’s rumor that a Pro Mode may be coming that seems to offer benefits in the opposite...
14th Jan 2020
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Low Power Mode for Mac laptops: making the case again

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

14th Jan 2020
In light of today’s rumor that a Pro Mode may be coming that seems to offer benefits in the opposite direction,1 I wanted to re-make the case for a Low Power Mode on macOS — and explain why now is the time. Modern hardware constantly pushes thermal and power limits, trying to...
Open sourcing the nginx playground Hello! In 2021 I released a small playground for testing nginx configurations called nginx...
8th Jul 2023
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Open sourcing the nginx playground

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

8th Jul 2023
Hello! In 2021 I released a small playground for testing nginx configurations called nginx playground. There’s a blog post about it here. This is an extremely short post to say that at the time I didn’t make it open source, but I am making it open source now. It’s not a lot of...
UTF-7: a ghost from the time before UTF-8 UTF-7: a ghost from the time before UTF-8 2018-10-31 On Halloween this year I learned two scary...
31st Oct 2018
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UTF-7: a ghost from the time before UTF-8

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

31st Oct 2018
UTF-7: a ghost from the time before UTF-8 2018-10-31 On Halloween this year I learned two scary things. The first is that a young toddler can go trick-or-treating in your apartment building and acquire a huge amount of candy. When they are this young they have no interest in the...
What's new, Kubernetes? It’s hard to believe, but Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes has been out for nearly a year!...
2nd Apr 2020
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What's new, Kubernetes?

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

2nd Apr 2020
It’s hard to believe, but Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes has been out for nearly a year! While much has changed in the Kubernetes landscape, a lot is also the same. In this post we’ll cover some of the things that have changed (and what hasn’t).
Build a career path by multiplying your value Oftentimes senior developers lack ideas on where to go next. Let's try to explore some ideas.
15th Nov 2023
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Build a career path by multiplying your value

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

15th Nov 2023
Oftentimes senior developers lack ideas on where to go next. Let's try to explore some ideas.
Why SmashingConf SF 2019 will always hold a special spot in my heart I find my perception of time to mind-boggling sometimes. Today is the 15th of April 2020 and when I...
15th Apr 2020
1

Why SmashingConf SF 2019 will always hold a special spot in my heart

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

15th Apr 2020
I find my perception of time to mind-boggling sometimes. Today is the 15th of April 2020 and when I look back at the last year, I look at how much has changed in my professional and personal life. It feels like yesterday and forever ago. I did not think I would be in this spot...
Prefers Reduced Motion By now, most devs are familiar with the prefers-reduced-motion media query that tells whether or not...
19th May 2021
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Prefers Reduced Motion

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

19th May 2021
By now, most devs are familiar with the prefers-reduced-motion media query that tells whether or not a user prefers, well, reduced motion. You can use this to tone down (or turn off) transitions and animations in your stylesheet to accommodate users with vestibular motion...
Colophon Most blogs, like this one, are reverse-chronological, causing the first post to appear last in the...
1st May 2015
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Colophon

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st May 2015
Most blogs, like this one, are reverse-chronological, causing the first post to appear last in the archive. This convention makes a colophon the King's Pawn Game of web authorship; there's no better place to showcase certain implementation details than the first post of a...
How to Manifest a Meetup > 2024 update: for those who work in devrel/organize less-social-more-technical meetups, I have now...
15th Jul 2022
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How to Manifest a Meetup

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

15th Jul 2022
> 2024 update: for those who work in devrel/organize less-social-more-technical meetups, I have now written How to Organize Meetups Good on Dx.tips
How I became a machine learning practitioner For the first three years of OpenAI, I dreamed of becoming a machine learning expert but made little...
30th Jul 2019
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How I became a machine learning practitioner

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

30th Jul 2019
For the first three years of OpenAI, I dreamed of becoming a machine learning expert but made little progress towards that goal. Over the past nine months, I’ve finally made the transition to being a machine learning practitioner. It was hard but not impossible, and I think most...
The Money Filter One of the biggest challenges I’ve faced as a web designer is how often people expect a website for...
30th Nov 2025
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The Money Filter

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

30th Nov 2025
One of the biggest challenges I’ve faced as a web designer is how often people expect a website for next to nothing. Somewhere along the way, the perception formed that a website is a commodity—quick, cheap, and interchangeable. So when someone asks what I charge (for a very...
How NOT to apply to Y Combinator Getting into Y Combinator in 2018 was a defining event in the history of RevenueCat. It was also...
2nd Aug 2020
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How NOT to apply to Y Combinator

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

2nd Aug 2020
Getting into Y Combinator in 2018 was a defining event in the history of RevenueCat. It was also quite impactful for Jacob and me as founders. I want to believe we would still be around even if we had not gotten into YC, but I am sure the company would not be where it is today....
The Boot.dev Beat. April 2025 The Lord of the Mire has been the hardest boss yet (by far), weighing it with 150,000,000 HP. The...
27th Apr 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. April 2025

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

27th Apr 2025
The Lord of the Mire has been the hardest boss yet (by far), weighing it with 150,000,000 HP. The community rallied during the event, dealing a whopping 132,282,452 damage in total, but not quite enough to bring him down.
never give up Why do fun project ideas end up dead even when they are feature complete? The fear of unknown timed...
30th Sep 2021
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never give up

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

30th Sep 2021
Why do fun project ideas end up dead even when they are feature complete? The fear of unknown timed tasks is why I'll tell you what.
Add captions to your images! Add captions to your images!
5th Sep 2023
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Add captions to your images!

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

5th Sep 2023
Add captions to your images!
Stimela 23 June 1898. Mqanduli, Tembuland. “But who’s going to teach our sons to become men?” Gcinikhaya...
28th Jan 2023
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Stimela

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

28th Jan 2023
23 June 1898. Mqanduli, Tembuland. “But who’s going to teach our sons to become men?” Gcinikhaya asked this while squashing the newspaper within her clenched fist. Her lips were quivering, her face contorted to hold back the tears of anger and fear. “My brother went to the mines...
Facebook is Japan's LinkedIn A couple of weeks back, an article [Facebook Wins Relatively Few...
23rd Jan 2011
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Facebook is Japan's LinkedIn

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Jan 2011
A couple of weeks back, an article [Facebook Wins Relatively Few Friends in Japan](http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/10/technology/10facebook.html?pagewanted=all) made its rounds. As usual, Facebook is compared to the big three Japanese SNS: mixi, Gree, and Mobage-town. However,...
The Elon Swing Voter I’m getting on a plane back to America tonight, been away for over 3 months. It sort of fills me...
6th Dec 2024
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The Elon Swing Voter

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

6th Dec 2024
I’m getting on a plane back to America tonight, been away for over 3 months. It sort of fills me with dread and anxiety. I remember going to the Apple store before I was leaving, the uhhhhhhh from the sales people was awful. 0 pride. Nobody cares. So different from the sales...
Exploring Interlisp-10 and TWENEX <![CDATA[I'm exploring another corner of the Interlisp ecosystem and history: the Interlisp-10...
1st Sep 2025
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Exploring Interlisp-10 and TWENEX

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

1st Sep 2025
<![CDATA[I'm exploring another corner of the Interlisp ecosystem and history: the Interlisp-10 implementation for DEC PDP-10 mainframes, a 1970s character based environment that predated the graphical Interlisp-D system. I approached this corner when I set out to learn and...
What is a product engineer (and why they're awesome) Startups see their path to success as building a product many people want and pay for. Out of this...
1st Dec 2022
81

What is a product engineer (and why they're awesome)

from Eric Migicovsky's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Dec 2022
Startups see their path to success as building a product many people want and pay for. Out of this need came the role of product engineer. They are a…
Hotel Guest User Agent Data I wrote a script that exposes browser and software platform data from hotels across the country....
5th May 2012
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Hotel Guest User Agent Data

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

5th May 2012
I wrote a script that exposes browser and software platform data from hotels across the country. This data is very different from say: StatCounter or NetApplications estimates because they rely on getting their data from trackers on specific websites. The data I pulled comes...
On AI doomerism So what's going on? This is a reflection on this post (of the same title) that I thoroughly enjoyed,...
20th Jan 2025
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On AI doomerism

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

20th Jan 2025
So what's going on? This is a reflection on this post (of the same title) that I thoroughly enjoyed, by Flavio Copes. "I am the genuine article, therefore I don't have to try. I just have to be. You, on the other hand, have to try any passing bandwagon, because what else have you...
Best Rust books for 2024 There are many Rust books, but these are my favourites—and I think you’ll like them too. Here are...
5th Jul 2024
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Best Rust books for 2024

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

5th Jul 2024
There are many Rust books, but these are my favourites—and I think you’ll like them too. Here are my reviews of what I think are the truly essential Rust books available today.
The Long Run They say only one out of 1000–2000 startups becomes a unicorn, and that only 1% of humans will ever...
7th Dec 2025
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The Long Run

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

7th Dec 2025
They say only one out of 1000–2000 startups becomes a unicorn, and that only 1% of humans will ever finish a marathon. If you had asked my mother, though, she would have told you it was a thousand times more likely I’d build a billion-dollar tech company than finish a marathon....
How I program with Agents How I program with Agents 2025-06-08 This is the second part of my ongoing self-education in how to...
8th Jun 2025
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How I program with Agents

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

8th Jun 2025
How I program with Agents 2025-06-08 This is the second part of my ongoing self-education in how to adapt my programming experience to a world with computers that talk. The first part, , covered ways LLMs can be adapted into our existing tools (basically, autocomplete) and how...
Building an Asynchronous, Internet-Optional Instant Messaging System I loaded up this title with buzzwords. The basic idea is that IM systems shouldn’t have to only use...
8th Dec 2022
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Building an Asynchronous, Internet-Optional Instant Messaging System

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

8th Dec 2022
I loaded up this title with buzzwords. The basic idea is that IM systems shouldn’t have to only use the Internet. Why not let them be carried across LoRa radios, USB sticks, local Wifi networks, and yes, the Internet? I’ll first discuss how, and then why. How do set it up I’ve...
The Boolean Trap Use enums instead
5th Sep 2024
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The Boolean Trap

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

5th Sep 2024
Use enums instead
How to Use SSH with FIDO2/U2F Security Keys For many years now, I’ve been using an old YubiKey along with the free tier of Duo Security to add a...
17th May 2025
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How to Use SSH with FIDO2/U2F Security Keys

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

17th May 2025
For many years now, I’ve been using an old YubiKey along with the free tier of Duo Security to add a second factor to my SSH logins. This is klunky, and has a number of drawbacks (dependency on a cloud service and Internet among them). I decided it was time to upgrade, so I...
Sub-pixel Distance Transform High quality font rendering for WebGPU This page includes diagrams in WebGPU, which has limited...
16th Jul 2023
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Sub-pixel Distance Transform

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

16th Jul 2023
High quality font rendering for WebGPU This page includes diagrams in WebGPU, which has limited browser support. For the full experience, use Chrome on Windows or Mac, or a developer build on other platforms. In this post I will describe Use.GPU's text rendering, which uses...
The New Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen Some might remember a book I released in 2016, “The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen”. A...
16th Dec 2023
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The New Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen

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

16th Dec 2023
Some might remember a book I released in 2016, “The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen”. A lot has changed in the world since then, and Shenzhen is no exception. There’s a new maintainer of the guide, Naomi Wu (@realsexycyborg), and she is crowdfunding an updated, new...
Third Stage Engineering The real performance of any computer hardware in production is the result of the hardware, software,...
16th Nov 2025
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Third Stage Engineering

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

16th Nov 2025
The real performance of any computer hardware in production is the result of the hardware, software, and tuning; the investment and sequence of these efforts can be pictured as a three-stage rocket: I recently presented this embarrassingly simple diagram to Intel's executive...
Joining Toastmasters in Japan to Make Friends “Find a hobby or join a group so you can make friends.” That’s one of the most common pieces of...
3rd Aug 2026
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Joining Toastmasters in Japan to Make Friends

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Aug 2026
“Find a hobby or join a group so you can make friends.” That’s one of the most common pieces of advice people give when you’re wondering how to meet new people, and I decided to take it. I had just moved to Fukuoka after my job hunt as a post-graduate and a friend introduced me...
Gzip hates your DRY code How to remove code and still increase your library weight.
13th Mar 2017
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Gzip hates your DRY code

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

13th Mar 2017
How to remove code and still increase your library weight.
Lowering the Barrier to Blogging I really want to blog more. The problem is that most of the posts to this blog are fairly long-form....
2nd Sep 2016
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Lowering the Barrier to Blogging

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

2nd Sep 2016
I really want to blog more. The problem is that most of the posts to this blog are fairly long-form. This will probably change as I do blog more. I've also moved to Pandoc for rendering posts via ikiwiki-pandoc. In that process, I've also come to realize that pandoc handles...
The Echo & Narcissus Writing Club A Hyperlink Academy writing club where we mimic the work of others
9th Apr 2021
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The Echo & Narcissus Writing Club

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

9th Apr 2021
A Hyperlink Academy writing club where we mimic the work of others
It's Disability Pride Month! Let's Get Accessible This month we have several community updates, a couple of Flatpak releases available on OS 7, and...
3rd Jul 2024
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It's Disability Pride Month! Let's Get Accessible

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

3rd Jul 2024
This month we have several community updates, a couple of Flatpak releases available on OS 7, and plenty of OS 8 news. Disability Pride Month It’s disability pride month, which means making space to talk about how we can build communities and systems that better accommodate...
a11y-syntax-highlighting has been updated I created the a11y-syntax-highlighting library seven years ago, forked from xiaozi’s...
9th Sep 2024
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a11y-syntax-highlighting has been updated

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

9th Sep 2024
I created the a11y-syntax-highlighting library seven years ago, forked from xiaozi’s solarized-prism-theme for PrismJS. To not bury the lede, the new update: Supports Forced Colors mode, Is encapsulated in a Cascade Layer, Uses Custom Properties, Groups its selectors using the...
what is a favicon? I must confess. There is this pet peeve I have. Whenever I come across a project, website, or app...
11th Nov 2025
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what is a favicon?

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

11th Nov 2025
I must confess. There is this pet peeve I have. Whenever I come across a project, website, or app which sports the default favicon (favorite icon) of whatever framework, tool, or library used to make said project, website, or app, I cannot help but be disappointed. Nay, more than...
Agents are commoditizing the complement Implementation — writing code — is a complement to specification — writing down what the code...
3rd Nov 2025
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Agents are commoditizing the complement

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

3rd Nov 2025
Implementation — writing code — is a complement to specification — writing down what the code should do. Agents are commoditizing the former, pushing up demand for the latter.
State of Data Engineering 2025 Q1 AI Updates There is a lot of chatter about 2025 being the year of agentic frameworks.  To me, this...
6th Feb 2025
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State of Data Engineering 2025 Q1

from Dan Quach Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Feb 2025
AI Updates There is a lot of chatter about 2025 being the year of agentic frameworks.  To me, this means a system in which a subset can allow AI models to take independent actions based on their environment, typically interacting with external APIs or interfaces.  The terminology...
How we made feature flags faster and more reliable Feature-flags-as-a-service is an interesting space. If your service stops working, it affects both...
8th Sep 2023
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How we made feature flags faster and more reliable

from Eric Migicovsky's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Sep 2023
Feature-flags-as-a-service is an interesting space. If your service stops working, it affects both your customers and your customer's customers…
A World of First Drafts Five short essays on where we are currently at. A World of First Drafts Dreams and the Uncanny...
14th Jun 2026
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A World of First Drafts

from Lee A Johnson [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Jun 2026
Five short essays on where we are currently at. A World of First Drafts Dreams and the Uncanny Valley Fiddlers in the Room The Last Hike Semantic Satiation of an Acronym A World of First Drafts I recently picked up a copy of “An Evening With Windham Hill”, a collection of early...
Supply and Demand Are Broken in Programming Education Markets are efficient, right? I understand that every ~10 years we find ourselves in some sort of...
24th Nov 2025
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Supply and Demand Are Broken in Programming Education

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

24th Nov 2025
Markets are efficient, right? I understand that every ~10 years we find ourselves in some sort of stock market bubble, but I do believe that most markets are mostly efficient. Everyone out there is looking for a good deal, and despite the well-known irrationalities of human...
Automating Capacitive Buttons with a Modified Switchbot I’ve had a heater in my home office this winter and I’ve wished it could turn on/off automatically...
14th Mar 2023
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Automating Capacitive Buttons with a Modified Switchbot

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

14th Mar 2023
I’ve had a heater in my home office this winter and I’ve wished it could turn on/off automatically based on whether or not I was in the room. A smart outlet wouldn’t work for this because the heater has a manual switch. My next thought was to use my Switchbot smart button pusher,...
The Dopamine Problem Every New Manager Face I recently wrote an internal Management 101 guide for new RevenueCat managers. It is not meant to be...
10th Jul 2026
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The Dopamine Problem Every New Manager Face

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

10th Jul 2026
I recently wrote an internal Management 101 guide for new RevenueCat managers. It is not meant to be a universal management guide. Most universal management advice is either too vague to be useful or too generic to survive contact with a real company. My goal was simpler: explain...
The Mary Queen of Scots Channel Anamorphosis: A 3D Simulation I’ve been going down some odd rabbit holes recently while researching my free online...
17th May 2025
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The Mary Queen of Scots Channel Anamorphosis: A 3D Simulation

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

17th May 2025
I’ve been going down some odd rabbit holes recently while researching my free online book-in-progress The Lost Art of Logarithms. Although the book is mostly focused on the history, use, meaning, and importance of logarithms, I believe that even histories of science and...
Let's learn SvelteKit by building a static Markdown blog from scratch Learn the fundamentals of SvelteKit by building a statically generated blog from scratch, with...
27th Dec 2021
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Let's learn SvelteKit by building a static Markdown blog from scratch

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

27th Dec 2021
Learn the fundamentals of SvelteKit by building a statically generated blog from scratch, with Markdown support, Sass, an API, and an RSS feed.
What I Miss And Don't From Working As A Programmer I retired almost four years ago after nearly 40 years as a programmer. While I still write code...
25th Jan 2025
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What I Miss And Don't From Working As A Programmer

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

25th Jan 2025
I retired almost four years ago after nearly 40 years as a programmer. While I still write code daily, I do so to support my generative art rather than get paid for it. Most of my career was spent building new applications, and no matter what my title was, I
Why should you learn Golang? [2026] Golang has skyrocketed in popularity year over year, making it one of the best choices for...
8th Feb 2021
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Why should you learn Golang? [2026]

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

8th Feb 2021
Golang has skyrocketed in popularity year over year, making it one of the best choices for career-conscious developers to learn. As an example, StackOverflow’s Developer survey saw it climb in popularity among developers from 10th in 2019 all the way to 5th in 2020. Additionally,...
AI - SkyNet Is Not Coming to Kill You .highlight pre { background-color: #efecec; border-color:...
22nd Apr 2024
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AI - SkyNet Is Not Coming to Kill You

from Renegade Otter [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Apr 2024
.highlight pre { background-color: #efecec; border-color: var(--theme-secondary-background-color); border-radius: 10px; } The firehose of data is turned on In the beginning, the Internet was a small, cozy place. Most people weren’t online, and most businesses...
Embed Bluesky posts in your Buttondown emails Embed Bluesky posts in your Buttondown emails
5th Dec 2024
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Embed Bluesky posts in your Buttondown emails

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

5th Dec 2024
Embed Bluesky posts in your Buttondown emails
Wait, IPython Can Do That?! Here are the slides for my talk called "Wait, IPython can do that?!". Since I update the slides...
7th Jul 2019
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Wait, IPython Can Do That?!

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

7th Jul 2019
Here are the slides for my talk called "Wait, IPython can do that?!". Since I update the slides before each conference to incorporate any new ideas that come to my mind and make sure they are up to date, if you are interested in a particular version of the slides, just send me an...
random numbers from pcg32 at 200 Gbit/s One of the neat things about the PCG random number generator by Melissa O’Neill is its use of...
13th Feb 2025
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random numbers from pcg32 at 200 Gbit/s

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

13th Feb 2025
One of the neat things about the PCG random number generator by Melissa O’Neill is its use of instruction-level parallelism: the PCG state update can run in parallel with its output permutation. However, PCG only has a limited amount of ILP, about 3 instructions. Its overall...
What I'm up to - March 2023 ✨ What I've been up to Part of my work at The Contraption Company includes helping startups...
1st Mar 2023
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What I'm up to - March 2023

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

1st Mar 2023
✨ What I've been up to Part of my work at The Contraption Company includes helping startups develop new products. For the last six months, I've unintentionally been working almost exclusively wit...
too many birthdays I have a hard enough time remembering to take the trash out let alone the birthdays of my massive...
10th Mar 2021
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too many birthdays

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

10th Mar 2021
I have a hard enough time remembering to take the trash out let alone the birthdays of my massive family. Does this make me a bad uncle?
Recently A little late on this one, but I got around to it! Reading I got stuck on two books: books that I...
6th Jun 2025
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Recently

from Tom MacWright [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Jun 2025
A little late on this one, but I got around to it! Reading I got stuck on two books: books that I want to enjoy but can’t get any momentum on. So my reading “stats” are suffering and this is a light year for books so far. But I switched gears to read Glass Century by Ross Barkan,...
The Boot.dev Beat. October 2025 Searchable challenges in the Training Grounds, and realtime voice chats with Boots are now a thing....
1st Oct 2025
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The Boot.dev Beat. October 2025

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

1st Oct 2025
Searchable challenges in the Training Grounds, and realtime voice chats with Boots are now a thing. Also, my children and those of half my employees are sick with the flu… I hope you’ve all been able to avoid it!
Recently: Cycling and Autumn I haven’t been posting much to the ‘main blog’ recently, but I have been keeping the micro blog...
3rd Nov 2024
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Recently: Cycling and Autumn

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

3rd Nov 2024
I haven’t been posting much to the ‘main blog’ recently, but I have been keeping the micro blog updates humming. If you want more content in your RSS reader, you can subscribe to those posts, which are shorter, more scattered, and even less copyedited. It feels bad to have...
West Coast Trail – The 75km/48 mile death hike Author Note: This trip was taken in 2021, but updated in 2023 with updated details. I’m not really...
1st Aug 2021
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West Coast Trail – The 75km/48 mile death hike

from Dan Quach Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Aug 2021
Author Note: This trip was taken in 2021, but updated in 2023 with updated details. I’m not really sure where I get these crazy ideas, but a friend and I booked the West Coast Trail. It is this multi day thru hike in the west coast of Vancouver Island, which is accessible via...
Chartjunk: What I've learned about data visualization For many people the first word that comes to mind when they think about statistical charts is...
18th May 2023
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Chartjunk: What I've learned about data visualization

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

18th May 2023
For many people the first word that comes to mind when they think about statistical charts is “lie.” – Edward R. Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information I wish we could all agree: pie charts should die. I know this is unreasonable. And pie charts are only part of...
Pragmatism, Neutrality and Leadership Every year or so, some tech CEO does something massively stupid, like declaring “No politics at...
24th Jul 2024
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Pragmatism, Neutrality and Leadership

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

24th Jul 2024
Every year or so, some tech CEO does something massively stupid, like declaring “No politics at work!”, or “Trump voters are oppressed and live in fear!”, and we all get a good pained laugh over how out of touch and lacking in self-awareness they are. We hear a lot about the...
"The Surprise Slide" Ukulele Micro Song A micro song for Chelsea, written and recorded while she was in San Diego.
22nd May 2011
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"The Surprise Slide" Ukulele Micro Song

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

22nd May 2011
A micro song for Chelsea, written and recorded while she was in San Diego.
The Hierarchy Is Bullshit (And Bad For Business) My friend Molly has had an impressive career. She got a job as a software engineer after graduating...
23rd Sep 2022
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The Hierarchy Is Bullshit (And Bad For Business)

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

23rd Sep 2022
My friend Molly has had an impressive career. She got a job as a software engineer after graduating from college, and after kicking ass for a year or so she was offered a promotion to management, which she accepted with relish. Molly was smart, driven, and fiercely ambitious, so...
CSS Parts Inspired by BEM In a previous post, I explored valid names for CSS parts and discovered that there are very few...
10th Mar 2022
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CSS Parts Inspired by BEM

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

10th Mar 2022
In a previous post, I explored valid names for CSS parts and discovered that there are very few restrictions in what you can call them. The purpose of that deep dive was to help identify a pattern for naming parts that lets me expose states and subparts, or parts exported as a...
A Simple Guide for Calm UI Read the post here.
17th Sep 2026
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A Simple Guide for Calm UI

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

17th Sep 2026
Read the post here.
Leaving Google Leaving Google 2018-03-27 Today is my last day at Google. It has been a wonderful place to work...
27th Mar 2018
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Leaving Google

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

27th Mar 2018
Leaving Google 2018-03-27 Today is my last day at Google. It has been a wonderful place to work filled with excellent coworkers. I am sad to be leaving Fuchsia before 1.0. As an operating system it gets so many things right. No doubt I will get a chance to be a user. For the...
Moving to Node.js The first version of Postleaf was written in PHP and lives on as Leafpub. It's a beautiful piece of...
6th Feb 2017
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Moving to Node.js

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

6th Feb 2017
The first version of Postleaf was written in PHP and lives on as Leafpub. It's a beautiful piece of software that I'm very proud of, but I decided to move the project to Node.js for a few important reasons. This is by no means a knock on PHP, which will always have a special...
How to Recursively Traverse JSON Objects I’ve found that it’s pretty rare that I need recursion in application code, but every once in a...
22nd Sep 2019
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How to Recursively Traverse JSON Objects

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

22nd Sep 2019
I’ve found that it’s pretty rare that I need recursion in application code, but every once in a while I need to write a function that operates on a tree of unknown depth, such as a JSON object, and that’s often best solved recursively. Even though recursion is rare, it is...
Recently We saw this Monarch butterfly caterpillar at the pretty unusual Naval Cemetery Landscape. The...
1st Oct 2023
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Recently

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

1st Oct 2023
We saw this Monarch butterfly caterpillar at the pretty unusual Naval Cemetery Landscape. The landscape is just native pollinators and native plants growing wild, with a wood platform above the field so you can walk around and see the bugs and plants. It’s also built on a...
18 Plugins for Writing Python in VS Code VS Code is a great text editor. But when you install it, its functionality is limited. You can edit...
27th Apr 2020
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18 Plugins for Writing Python in VS Code

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

27th Apr 2020
VS Code is a great text editor. But when you install it, its functionality is limited. You can edit JavaScript and TypeScript, but for other programming languages, it will be just a text editor. You will need to add some plugins to turn it into a proper IDE. Luckily, when you...
What I'm up to - September 2025 Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Sep 2025
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What I'm up to - September 2025

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

1st Sep 2025
Here is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in last month - Launched Chroma Cloud - Had a quick trip to Colorado - Went on a first bike ride ...
Building a Second Brain: The Illustrated Notes Illustrated notes on the Building A Second Brain course
16th Apr 2020
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Building a Second Brain: The Illustrated Notes

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

16th Apr 2020
Illustrated notes on the Building A Second Brain course
Read every error. You can't read every error. System stability is a steady state, not a goal
18th Aug 2023
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Read every error. You can't read every error.

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

18th Aug 2023
System stability is a steady state, not a goal
Most Software Was Already Slop As software engineers, we take pride in hand-written code and knowing how everything we build works...
4th Sep 2026
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Most Software Was Already Slop

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

4th Sep 2026
As software engineers, we take pride in hand-written code and knowing how everything we build works in detail. While there are many developers out there who build good software, there are many, many more who don’t. Yet we balk at the idea of vibe coding, even when it yields...
Things I Don't Know About AI The more I learn about AI markets, the less I think I know. I list questions and some thoughts.
21st Feb 2024
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Things I Don't Know About AI

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

21st Feb 2024
The more I learn about AI markets, the less I think I know. I list questions and some thoughts.
The Uncanny Valley of Interactivity I believe mass entertainment suffers from a bit of format rigidity due to the natural inertia from...
7th Jan 2020
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The Uncanny Valley of Interactivity

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

7th Jan 2020
I believe mass entertainment suffers from a bit of format rigidity due to the natural inertia from structural ossification in the music, film, and publishing businesses, to name the most prominent. One of the ways this manifests is in the one-way broadcast nature of much of our...
Accessible, Typesafe, Progressively Enhanced Modern Web Forms Learn how to use modern tools that offer the best user and developer experience for web forms.
2nd Oct 2023
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Accessible, Typesafe, Progressively Enhanced Modern Web Forms

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

2nd Oct 2023
Learn how to use modern tools that offer the best user and developer experience for web forms.
What I've been up to in 2025 Been quiet around here. Time to change that! The short version up front: Since starting a family...
25th Aug 2025
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What I've been up to in 2025

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Aug 2025
Been quiet around here. Time to change that! The short version up front: Since starting a family and leaving Stripe, I've pursued the dream that brought me to Silicon Valley. I've founded a startup. After taking some parental leave, helping found a Python non-profit, and a nice...
AmigaGuide Reference Library As I slowly but surely work towards the next release of my setcmd project for the Amiga (see the 68k...
30th Jun 2025
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AmigaGuide Reference Library

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

30th Jun 2025
As I slowly but surely work towards the next release of my setcmd project for the Amiga (see the 68k branch for the gory details and my total noob-like C flailing around), I’ve made heavy use of documentation in the AmigaGuide format. Despite it’s age, it’s a great Amiga-native...
How Oxide Cuts Data Center Power Consumption in Half Here’s a sobering thought: today, data centers already consume 1-2% of the world’s power, and that...
8th Nov 2024
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How Oxide Cuts Data Center Power Consumption in Half

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

8th Nov 2024
Here’s a sobering thought: today, data centers already consume 1-2% of the world’s power, and that percentage will likely rise to 3-4% by the end of the decade. According to Goldman Sachs research, that rise will include a doubling in data center carbon dioxide emissions. As the...
1st May 2013
The New World of LLM Functions: Integrating LLM Technology into the Wolfram Language This is part of a series about our LLM technology.Other parts of this series: ChatGPT Gets Its...
23rd May 2023
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The New World of LLM Functions: Integrating LLM Technology into the Wolfram Language

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

23rd May 2023
This is part of a series about our LLM technology.Other parts of this series: ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram Superpowers”!Instant Plugins for ChatGPT: Introducing the Wolfram ChatGPT Plugin Kit Turning LLM Capabilities into Functions So far, we mostly think of LLMs as things we...
Welcome, Prashanth! Last March, I shared that we were starting to look for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. We were looking...
24th Sep 2019
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Welcome, Prashanth!

from Joel on Software [alt+shift+b] in programming

24th Sep 2019
Last March, I shared that we were starting to look for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. We were looking for that rare combination of someone who… Read more "Welcome, Prashanth!"
How to solve it (with raycasting) In 1945, mathematician George Pólya released the book “How to solve it”. It aims at helping math...
1st May 2024
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How to solve it (with raycasting)

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

1st May 2024
In 1945, mathematician George Pólya released the book “How to solve it”. It aims at helping math teachers guide their students into solving abstract problems by asking the right questions. It has since had a large influence on math education and computer science, to the point of...
2025: A big year for Kidz Fun Art Kidz Fun Art grew a lot in 2025! Many more people use it regularly, many more choose the paid...
20th Dec 2025
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2025: A big year for Kidz Fun Art

from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Dec 2025
Kidz Fun Art grew a lot in 2025! Many more people use it regularly, many more choose the paid version & I added far more cool features. Loads of Work… First off, here’s a graph of the number of changes (“commits” in technical terms) that I made. 612 changes in total with a few...
How to argue for something without any scientific evidence Last week I got this interesting question: I want to write a book about automated testing. Much of...
6th Mar 2024
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How to argue for something without any scientific evidence

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

6th Mar 2024
Last week I got this interesting question: I want to write a book about automated testing. Much of the book would be me explaining the best practices I’ve learned. I know these are good practices; I’ve seen them work over and over again. But have no [scientific] data at all to...
Tech Blog of the Week? Me? That's Cool. DUNDUNDaDUHH! (that's right it's a triumphant music sound. I can use onomatopoeia, I'm the tech blog...
1st Jun 2007
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Tech Blog of the Week? Me? That's Cool.

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

1st Jun 2007
DUNDUNDaDUHH! (that's right it's a triumphant music sound. I can use onomatopoeia, I'm the tech blog of the week!) As my five or six regular readers may already know, there exists a fantastic website called Daily Cup of Tech that I have featured on this website a few times (or...
Knowledge Nuggets From My Tmux.conf When I switched from GNU Screen to Tmux, I was just jazzed that Tmux had a status bar. To achieve...
12th Sep 2013
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Knowledge Nuggets From My Tmux.conf

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

12th Sep 2013
When I switched from GNU Screen to Tmux, I was just jazzed that Tmux had a status bar. To achieve that same effect in Screen I had a cryptic 115-character hardstatus string that I copy–pasted from someplace lost to the annals of the Internet Archive. It wasn’t too long after I...
Implicit Assertions (article) Have a better understanding about the explicit and implicit assertions now, and perhaps even have a...
12th Mar 2024
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Implicit Assertions (article)

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

12th Mar 2024
Have a better understanding about the explicit and implicit assertions now, and perhaps even have a test or two in mind to improve.
Patchwork 06 · Simple branching Branches are a powerful concept for source control systems. This Patchwork experiment explores how...
5th Mar 2024
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Patchwork 06 · Simple branching

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

5th Mar 2024
Branches are a powerful concept for source control systems. This Patchwork experiment explores how writers can use branches to try variations on a document.
Selling to Carol: Why targeting an ICP brings 10x more customers than you expected Targeting your "Ideal Customer Profile" (ICP) is the best way to differentiate and win sales, but...
7th Jan 2024
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7th Jan 2024
Targeting your "Ideal Customer Profile" (ICP) is the best way to differentiate and win sales, but does it limit your target market?
Using fewer parts Fewer parts make for better software and better products.
26th Nov 2023
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Using fewer parts

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

26th Nov 2023
Fewer parts make for better software and better products.
On the Fearless Girl, what constitutes art, authorial intent, and the patriarchy A little over a month ago, Kristen Visbal's Fearless Girl statue was placed face to face with...
19th Apr 2017
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19th Apr 2017
A little over a month ago, Kristen Visbal's Fearless Girl statue was placed face to face with Charging Bull statue in Manhattan's Financial District: Moody Man's photo of Fearless Girl Anthony Quintano's photo of Fearless Girl facing Charging Bull But she wasn't...
State of Data Engineering 2024 Q1 The current state of data engineering offers a plethora of options in the market, which can be...
25th Jan 2024
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State of Data Engineering 2024 Q1

from Dan Quach Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Jan 2024
The current state of data engineering offers a plethora of options in the market, which can be challenging when selecting the right tool We are approaching a period where the traditional boundaries between between databases, datalakes, and data warehouses are overlapping. As...
Explore Wallpapers for Mac Many years ago (2010 or so) I released an app called Flickr Addict for Palm WebOS phones, which...
22nd Apr 2025
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Explore Wallpapers for Mac

from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming

22nd Apr 2025
Many years ago (2010 or so) I released an app called Flickr Addict for Palm WebOS phones, which automatically downloaded beautiful images from the Flickr photography website and changed the phone background image on a regular basis. I wanted to see if I could rebuild that app in...
A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Robotics (An homage to one of my favorite pieces on the internet: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong...
10th Jun 2025
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A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Robotics

from General Robots [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Jun 2025
(An homage to one of my favorite pieces on the internet: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages)
How I Built My Blog An in-depth look at the technical stack behind this very blog! We'll see how I use Next's API routes...
20th Apr 2021
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How I Built My Blog

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

20th Apr 2021
An in-depth look at the technical stack behind this very blog! We'll see how I use Next's API routes to implement my hit and like counters, how I use MDX to add interaction and customization, and how I organize my codebase, among others.
LLMs Demand Observability-Driven Development Originally posted on the Honeycomb blog on September 20th, 2023 Our industry is in the early days of...
20th Sep 2023
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LLMs Demand Observability-Driven Development

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

20th Sep 2023
Originally posted on the Honeycomb blog on September 20th, 2023 Our industry is in the early days of an explosion in software using LLMs, as well as (separately, but relatedly) a revolution in how engineers write and run code, thanks to generative AI. Many software engineers are...
Modifications for Purl Soho's Snow Day Stockings My partner and I don't always decorate for Christmas, but when we do, we love to hang stockings to...
6th Dec 2020
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Modifications for Purl Soho's Snow Day Stockings

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

6th Dec 2020
My partner and I don't always decorate for Christmas, but when we do, we love to hang stockings to fill with little notes, candies, chapsticks, stickers, or other small snacks and trinkets we pick up over the course of December. His family has a tradition of handmade stockings,...
Breaking changes in SvelteKit, August 2022 SvelteKit introduced breaking changes to its routing and data loading in August 2022. Learn how to...
17th Aug 2022
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Breaking changes in SvelteKit, August 2022

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

17th Aug 2022
SvelteKit introduced breaking changes to its routing and data loading in August 2022. Learn how to convert from the old way of doing things to the new.
Ballad of The Lean Startup An ode to validated learning.
26th Sep 2011
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Ballad of The Lean Startup

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

26th Sep 2011
An ode to validated learning.
Bugs I fixed in SumatraPDF Unexamined life is not worth living said Socrates. I don’t know about that but to become a better,...
1st Jul 2025
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Bugs I fixed in SumatraPDF

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jul 2025
Unexamined life is not worth living said Socrates. I don’t know about that but to become a better, faster, more productive programmer it pays to examine what makes you un-productive. Fixing bugs is one of those un-productive activities. You have to fix them but it would be even...
Happy New Year: Conway’s Game of Life in SQL Christmas divination: implementing Conway's Life in SQL The post Happy New Year: Conway’s Game of...
31st Dec 2015
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Happy New Year: Conway’s Game of Life in SQL

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

31st Dec 2015
Christmas divination: implementing Conway's Life in SQL The post Happy New Year: Conway’s Game of Life in SQL appeared first on EXPLAIN EXTENDED.
AWS Networking, Environments and You Last week we hit an important milestone in the life of our baby startup: a functional production...
23rd Mar 2016
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AWS Networking, Environments and You

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

23rd Mar 2016
Last week we hit an important milestone in the life of our baby startup: a functional production environment, with real data flowing from ingestion to storage to serving queries out!  (Of course everything promptly exploded , but whatever.) This got me started thinking about how...
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
Project 2: Gift cards to Pakistan I’ve completed a freelance project I was working on for a few months, and have started saying no to...
10th Nov 2024
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Project 2: Gift cards to Pakistan

from Jibran’s Perspective [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Nov 2024
I’ve completed a freelance project I was working on for a few months, and have started saying no to new opportunities. It’s time to work on one of my own ideas again. This is part of my plan to start failing more. I’ve decided to build a business sending gift cards to Pakistan -...
In Memoriam, Encountering World War I, and Thinkable Horrors A delayed education on the trenches and scales of suffering
18th Jul 2026
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In Memoriam, Encountering World War I, and Thinkable Horrors

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

18th Jul 2026
A delayed education on the trenches and scales of suffering
Back to the office Prior to COVID, there were only 3 companies in tech that reached any real scale as remote first...
7th Oct 2022
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Back to the office

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

7th Oct 2022
Prior to COVID, there were only 3 companies in tech that reached any real scale as remote first companies - Automattic, Gitlab, and Zapier [1]. During COVID companies were forced to work remote. Many companies are now going back into the office and companies are navigating this...
Simple Accessibility Simple Accessibility 2018-09-07 Implementing proper accessibility practices can seem a little...
7th Sep 2018
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Simple Accessibility

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

7th Sep 2018
Simple Accessibility 2018-09-07 Implementing proper accessibility practices can seem a little daunting at first, but there are a few basic standards you can introduce into your project work-flow that are fairly straightforward: Basic design Test that your project has the proper...
16th Oct 2025
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Congrats to IHMC Robotics for winning Bronze in my Humanoid Olympics: Doors Event

from General Robots [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Oct 2025
Round Knob Push Door with a time of 18 Seconds
DevOps for the Sinclair Spectrum - Part 1 Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs Intro When I was around 8-9 years old, I...
21st Dec 2021
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DevOps for the Sinclair Spectrum - Part 1

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

21st Dec 2021
Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs Intro When I was around 8-9 years old, I received a Sinclair ZX Spectrum home computer for my birthday. One of my earliest memories I remember is sitting with my Dad, reading the manual to work out the magic commands to load...
Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll 2019-11-01 After creating the ET-Jekyll theme almost two years ago, I...
1st Nov 2019
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Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll

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

1st Nov 2019
Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll 2019-11-01 After creating the ET-Jekyll theme almost two years ago, I finally got around to revamping the structure and improving a lot of minor performance issues. Items that have been surely needing of updates for the last couple of...
Replicating Database Changes to a Message Queue is Tricky Let's imagine we have an program that stores its state in a database, and we want other programs to...
13th Dec 2022
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Replicating Database Changes to a Message Queue is Tricky

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

13th Dec 2022
Let's imagine we have an program that stores its state in a database, and we want other programs to do things when changes occur. For example, we might want to send email notifications if a bank balance drops below a threshold. This is a very common reason applications use...
Bear is now source-available Updates to the Bear license
1st Sep 2025
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Bear is now source-available

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

1st Sep 2025
Updates to the Bear license
On ditching hourly and productizing my services In the last couple of weeks, I’ve spent much more time commuting than normal. I mostly work remotely...
5th Dec 2024
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On ditching hourly and productizing my services

from On Test Automation [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Dec 2024
In the last couple of weeks, I’ve spent much more time commuting than normal. I mostly work remotely these days, for clients both in the Netherlands and abroad. And I like it that way. Don’t get me wrong, I like to drive, but commuting takes up a lot of time, time I would rather...
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...
Announcing the Hatnote Top 100 Originally published on the Hatnote blog. Moreso than any other major site, Wikipedia is centered...
14th Dec 2015
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Announcing the Hatnote Top 100

from Sedimental [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Dec 2015
Originally published on the Hatnote blog. Moreso than any other major site, Wikipedia is centered around knowledge, always growing, and brimming with information. It's important to remember that the insight of our favorite community-run encyclopedia often follows the focus of its...
End-to-end tool testing with Bazel and shtk If you use Bazel, your project is of a moderate size. And because your project is of a moderate...
4th Nov 2023
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End-to-end tool testing with Bazel and shtk

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

4th Nov 2023
If you use Bazel, your project is of a moderate size. And because your project is of a moderate size, it almost-certainly builds one or more binaries, at least one of which is a CLI tool. But let’s face it: you don’t have end-to-end testing for those tools, do you?
Protests Then and Now When a government engages in deviant behavior, it is the responsibility of the people to express...
24th Mar 2026
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Protests Then and Now

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

24th Mar 2026
When a government engages in deviant behavior, it is the responsibility of the people to express their opposition. That’s why I’ll be participating in the No Kings protest in New York City on Saturday. ... more ...
Optimizing iWittr.com to reduce Google Cloud &#038; Vercel costs Last month I decided to do a quick fun project as an excuse to try out AI coding tools, called...
25th Mar 2025
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Optimizing iWittr.com to reduce Google Cloud &#038; Vercel costs

from SOS [alt+shift+b] in programming

25th Mar 2025
Last month I decided to do a quick fun project as an excuse to try out AI coding tools, called iWittr.com. It’s a fan site for the Kermode & Mayo podcast, which I’ve been listening to for over 10 years. I might do another post about that experience, but this one is about reducing...
Moonlight's pitch deck In 2017, I co-founded Moonlight as a professional community for software developers with Emma...
15th Oct 2020
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Moonlight's pitch deck

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

15th Oct 2020
In 2017, I co-founded Moonlight as a professional community for software developers with Emma Lawler. We were both leaving San Francisco, and wanted to make it easier for all developers to find specia...
Self-Organizing Teams This article is part of the Technical Manager Guide that I’m writing for technical leads to scale...
17th Dec 2021
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Self-Organizing Teams

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

17th Dec 2021
This article is part of the Technical Manager Guide that I’m writing for technical leads to scale their development and […] The post Self-Organizing Teams appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Code golfing a tiny demo using maths and a pinch of insanity A few weeks ago, I made a tiny demo that fits into 448 characters: Red Alp GLSL demo in 448...
29th Sep 2025
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Code golfing a tiny demo using maths and a pinch of insanity

from A small freedom area RSS [alt+shift+b] in programming

29th Sep 2025
A few weeks ago, I made a tiny demo that fits into 448 characters: Red Alp GLSL demo in 448 characters void main(){vec3 c,p,K=vec3(3,1,0);for(float...
Bike Brooklyn! zine I've been biking in Brooklyn for a few years now! It's hard for me to believe it, but I'm now one of...
23rd Apr 2025
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Bike Brooklyn! zine

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

23rd Apr 2025
I've been biking in Brooklyn for a few years now! It's hard for me to believe it, but I'm now one of the people other bicyclists ask questions to now. I decided to make a zine that answers the most common of those questions: Bike Brooklyn! is a zine that touches on everything I...
How fast is rust? Simulating 200,000,000 particles The challenge, simulate 100,000,000 particles in rust using only the cpu. Let’s go.
9th Nov 2024
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How fast is rust? Simulating 200,000,000 particles

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

9th Nov 2024
The challenge, simulate 100,000,000 particles in rust using only the cpu. Let’s go.
Recently Hello from sunny Brooklyn, where it’s suddenly summer. What’s new? Over at the Val Town Blog, I...
1st May 2024
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Recently

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

1st May 2024
Hello from sunny Brooklyn, where it’s suddenly summer. What’s new? Over at the Val Town Blog, I wrote about how searching source code is a pretty hard problem. It was pretty well-received: I confirmed that yes, it’s a pretty hard problem. We’re really trying not to write a search...
Super Apps vs WhatsApp Over the last little while, there has been this rise in Super Apps, these apps that attempt to be...
9th Nov 2022
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Super Apps vs WhatsApp

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

9th Nov 2022
Over the last little while, there has been this rise in Super Apps, these apps that attempt to be multi-functional “mobile malls”. In South Africa, Vodacom has released VodaPay where one can “enter” multiple stores to shop their products. Nedbank has Avo where one can also shop...
.NET Task Parallel Library vs System.Threading.Channels Wondering which concurrency library is right for you? Let's dive in!
4th Oct 2023
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.NET Task Parallel Library vs System.Threading.Channels

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

4th Oct 2023
Wondering which concurrency library is right for you? Let's dive in!
Peppermint brownie cookies, because chocolate was made to be rich I've never understood the common obsession with chocolatey baked goods that aren't insanely rich....
28th Dec 2011
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Peppermint brownie cookies, because chocolate was made to be rich

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

28th Dec 2011
I've never understood the common obsession with chocolatey baked goods that aren't insanely rich. Don't get me wrong - I like chocolate - but that's just it, I like chocolate, not a pinch of cocoa flavor. Chocolate chip cookies always tasted better to me with the chips on the...
Images display in Firefox and Safari, but not in Internet Explorer I ran into a little "gotcha" today where an image was displaying properly in Firefox and Safari, but...
24th Apr 2009
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Images display in Firefox and Safari, but not in Internet Explorer

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

24th Apr 2009
I ran into a little "gotcha" today where an image was displaying properly in Firefox and Safari, but not in Internet Explorer. The weird thing is that it wasn't showing up as a broken link (no missing image icon with the infamous red 'X'). Instead, it wasn't showing up at...
The imminent risk of vibe coding Negative feedback loops caused by vibe coded change sets
30th Jan 2026
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The imminent risk of vibe coding

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

30th Jan 2026
Negative feedback loops caused by vibe coded change sets
Security of the Infinity Ergodox on Mac OS A friend of mine is very into keyboards and, after seeing his keyboards at work and admiring his...
12th Oct 2016
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Security of the Infinity Ergodox on Mac OS

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

12th Oct 2016
A friend of mine is very into keyboards and, after seeing his keyboards at work and admiring his Ergodox many times, I took the plunge and built my own. 152 solder joints later, I have this beauty: It took a few days to get used to it and in the process, I found a bug in layer...
Texttools dot py I make a lot of personal software tools. One of these is "texttools.py", which is easiest to explain...
14th Aug 2024
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Texttools dot py

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

14th Aug 2024
I make a lot of personal software tools. One of these is "texttools.py", which is easiest to explain with an image: Paste text in the top box, choose a transform, output appears in the bottom box. I can already do most of these transformations in vim, or with one of the many...
The 10 (ok, 15) steps to setup your first Laravel Spark app The 10 (ok, 15) steps to setup your first Laravel Spark app a.k.a. “The long way” ¶The 10 (ok, 15)...
16th Apr 2016
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The 10 (ok, 15) steps to setup your first Laravel Spark app

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

16th Apr 2016
The 10 (ok, 15) steps to setup your first Laravel Spark app a.k.a. “The long way” ¶The 10 (ok, 15) steps to setup your first Laravel Spark app ¶a.k.a. “The long way” Edit: Since writing this, Laravel Valet has been launched. I haven’t tried it yet, but if you use a Mac it looks...
Find programming work by increasing luck surface area Antonio asked on HN: How do I earn a small amount of money to sustain myself as a developer? I wrote...
29th Jun 2022
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Find programming work by increasing luck surface area

from Krzysztof Kowalczyk blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

29th Jun 2022
Antonio asked on HN: How do I earn a small amount of money to sustain myself as a developer? I wrote a response centered around increasing luck surface area. This essay expands on it because I’ve seen this a few times now: good developers asking how to find work while botching...
New Song: Ballad of the man who can't sing I wrote and recorded an original song about not being able to write.
4th Aug 2008
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New Song: Ballad of the man who can't sing

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

4th Aug 2008
I wrote and recorded an original song about not being able to write.
Vue 3x3 - A Mental Model for Building Fast A mental model for helping you get oriented with with Vue3 and Composition API
14th Jan 2023
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Vue 3x3 - A Mental Model for Building Fast

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

14th Jan 2023
A mental model for helping you get oriented with with Vue3 and Composition API
baffled by generational garbage collection Usually in this space I like to share interesting things that I find out; you might call it a...
9th Feb 2025
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baffled by generational garbage collection

from wingolog [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Feb 2025
Usually in this space I like to share interesting things that I find out; you might call it a research-epistle-publish loop. Today, though, I come not with answers, but with questions, or rather one question, but with fractal surface area: what is the value proposition...
Moving in Big Cities: Lugg vs Clutter i recently had to move (from smolhaus 1.5 to a temporary place) and so had to evaluate some choices...
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
i recently had to move (from smolhaus 1.5 to a temporary place) and so had to evaluate some choices in moving options. TLDR: I made a huge mistake not choosing Clutter.
More Everything With AI From the announcement blog post for Microsoft 365 Copilot: You can give it natural language prompts...
2nd Apr 2023
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More Everything With AI

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

2nd Apr 2023
From the announcement blog post for Microsoft 365 Copilot: You can give it natural language prompts like “Tell my team how we updated the product strategy,” and it will generate a status update based on the morning’s meetings, emails and chat threads. With Copilot, you’re always...
Maybe not so much with the "optimization" In the quest for optimization, A/B tests, metrics, and funnels, we're in danger of losing the fun...
22nd Mar 2026
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Maybe not so much with the "optimization"

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

22nd Mar 2026
In the quest for optimization, A/B tests, metrics, and funnels, we're in danger of losing the fun and value of creative work.
Detecting AV1-encoded videos with Python In my previous post, I wrote about how I’ve saved some AV1-encoded videos that I can’t play on my...
8th Nov 2025
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Detecting AV1-encoded videos with Python

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Nov 2025
In my previous post, I wrote about how I’ve saved some AV1-encoded videos that I can’t play on my iPhone. Eventually, I’ll upgrade to a new iPhone which supports AV1, but in the meantime, I want to convert all of those videos to an older codec. The problem is finding all the...
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