Basta’s Notes
That time I broke login at Box
and what it says about business logic and code re-use
a year ago
and what it says about business logic and code re-use
Irrational...
Trying Tailscale.
Like most folks working in infrastructure engineering in 2014, I really enjoyed Google’s BeyondCorp...
a year ago
Like most folks working in infrastructure engineering in 2014, I really enjoyed Google’s BeyondCorp whitepaper. My foremost personal interest was grounded in the fact that Uber’s contemporaneous security implementation didn’t include a VPN, so it was interesting to see a...
ntietz.com blog
Paper review: C-store
It's that time again: I read another paper, and here's what I took away from it!
This week I read...
over a year ago
It's that time again: I read another paper, and here's what I took away from it!
This week I read "C-store: a column-oriented DBMS" from chapter 4 of the Red Book.
This one I picked since I thought it would be helpful for the chess database I'm working on, and it does seem...
alexwlchan
My (tiny) contribution to Rust 1.64
A couple of months ago, I was writing some Rust, and the compiler spat out an error:
error[E0412]:...
over a year ago
A couple of months ago, I was writing some Rust, and the compiler spat out an error:
error[E0412]: cannot find type `Boolean` in this scope
--> src/fs_helpers.rs:29:33
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29 | pub fn is_ds_store(p: &Path) -> Boolean
| ^^^^^^^ not found in...
Stephen Wolfram...
Instant Plugins for ChatGPT: Introducing the Wolfram ChatGPT Plugin Kit
This is the first in a series of posts about new LLM-related technology associated with the...
a year ago
This is the first in a series of posts about new LLM-related technology associated with the Wolfram technology stack. "Color" with something like: When you set up a plugin, it can contain many endpoints, that do different things. And—in addition to sharing prompts—one reason this...
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
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...
3 days ago
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...
Liz Denys
Slack doesn't listen to its users.
In a rush of hubris, Slack published a full page ad taunting Microsoft Teams in the New York...
over a year ago
In a rush of hubris, Slack published a full page ad taunting Microsoft Teams in the New York Times:
That feeling when you think "we should buy a full page in the Times and publish an open letter," and then you do. 💫 pic.twitter.com/BQiEawRA6d
— Stewart Butterfield (@stewart)...
The Pragmatic...
The Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter in 2023
The articles you enjoyed most this year, my personal favorites, and a recap of an unusually...
a year ago
The articles you enjoyed most this year, my personal favorites, and a recap of an unusually turbulent year in tech.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Slowmad Q&A
The other thing about [Netlify Year One](https://www.swyx.io/writing/netlify-year-one) that people...
over a year ago
The other thing about [Netlify Year One](https://www.swyx.io/writing/netlify-year-one) that people are generally interested in is my experience of remote work. As I put it [recently](https://mobile.twitter.com/swyx/status/1154916667606130689):
Ink & Switch
Project Cambria: Translate your data with lenses
Changing schemas in distributed software is hard. Could adopting bidirectional lenses help?
over a year ago
Changing schemas in distributed software is hard. Could adopting bidirectional lenses help?
Confessions of a...
CPython Internals: What Happens Before Bytecode Execution Starts
Learn about runtime initialization, parsing and compilation of the Python code into bytecode leading...
4 months ago
Learn about runtime initialization, parsing and compilation of the Python code into bytecode leading to execution on the virtual machine
PostHog's RSS Feed
Moving to San Francisco
YC (a startup accelerator we are taking part in) ask you to move to the Bay Area for the whole...
over a year ago
YC (a startup accelerator we are taking part in) ask you to move to the Bay Area for the whole program. This gives you “a socially acceptable excuse…
bt RSS Feed
The Wonders of Text Ellipsis
The Wonders of Text Ellipsis
2016-11-15
A common issue when working with constrained UI elements is...
over a year ago
The Wonders of Text Ellipsis
2016-11-15
A common issue when working with constrained UI elements is text overflowing outside of it’s parent or breaking into addition lines (thus breaking the layout).
This is most commonly seen with the direct and placeholder values for input...
Making software...
Skip to Content Button
Skip to Content Button
2019-03-25
One of the golden rules for testing your website's accessibility...
over a year ago
Skip to Content Button
2019-03-25
One of the golden rules for testing your website's accessibility is the "keyboard-only" audit. This is where you test navigating through your entire site without the use of a mouse, but instead rely solely on tabbing through your...
bt RSS Feed
Poor Man's CSS Full-Bleed Layout
Poor Man’s CSS Full-Bleed Layout
2020-10-07
I recently came across the very well written and...
over a year ago
Poor Man’s CSS Full-Bleed Layout
2020-10-07
I recently came across the very well written and interesting article, Full-Bleed Layout Using CSS Grid, while browsing my daily designer feeds. I won’t go into the post’s specifics here (I recommend you read the article for yourself)...
alexwlchan
Documenting my DNS records
I had to change some of my DNS records recently, a phrase which strikes fear into the heart of...
7 months ago
I had to change some of my DNS records recently, a phrase which strikes fear into the heart of sysadmins everywhere.
It all went fine, but I definitely felt like I was playing with fire.
My current domain registrar is Hover, and the only way I can manage my domains is through a...
Steve Klabnik
Shoes 4 work is starting: get involved!
over a year ago
Vladimir Klepov as a...
How to timeout a promise
Timeouts are one of the key building blocks to make your app stable. In short, if you send a request...
over a year ago
Timeouts are one of the key building blocks to make your app stable. In short, if you send a request to an endpoint and a response does not, for whatever reason, come soon, we act as if the request failed and fall back to plan B — try again, show an error message and let the user...
Ferd.ca
The Demanding Work of Analyzing Incidents
2022/11/01
The Demanding Work of Analyzing Incidents
A few weeks ago, a coworker of mine was running...
over a year ago
2022/11/01
The Demanding Work of Analyzing Incidents
A few weeks ago, a coworker of mine was running an incident analysis in Jeli, and pointed out that the overall process was a big drag on their energy level, that it was hard to do, even if the final result was useful. They were...
Daniel Immke's Blog...
The “je ne sais quoi” of TikTok
Note: When I originally wrote this post, TikTok oEmbeds did not auto-play. I recommend pausing them...
over a year ago
Note: When I originally wrote this post, TikTok oEmbeds did not auto-play. I recommend pausing them and pressing play when ready to view…
Code Of Honor
StarCraft: Orcs in space go down in flames
In my previous article about StarCraft I talked about why we rebooted the project and changed it...
over a year ago
In my previous article about StarCraft I talked about why we rebooted the project and changed it from a follow-on to Warcraft — derisively called “Orcs in space” in 1996 — into the award-winning game that we were finally able to deliver after two more years of hardship. But one...
alexwlchan
Making alt text more visible
I add alt text to every image on this site.
I have an automated check to remind me to add alt text...
2 months ago
I add alt text to every image on this site.
I have an automated check to remind me to add alt text before I publish the site, but that means alt text has often been an afterthought – something I’d dash out at the very end of writing a post.
I wanted to give it more attention, and...
somenice
Coastal Mountain Forest Triptych
Often found growing together in the Coastal Mountain forest of British Columbia, these three species...
a year ago
Often found growing together in the Coastal Mountain forest of British Columbia, these three species were inspiration to capture the texture and light of my local forest.The idea to frame each with their own type of wood came both as a natural idea but also because of materials...
Josh Collinsworth
Follow-up: the Glove80 after six months
A followup on my previous first impressions post, with an update on how the Glove80 ergonomic split...
9 months ago
A followup on my previous first impressions post, with an update on how the Glove80 ergonomic split keyboard has been after about six months of daily use.
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Programmer's guide to linear equations
This is an introduction to linear equation systems. It explains linear dependency, under- and...
over a year ago
This is an introduction to linear equation systems. It explains linear dependency, under- and over-specification, direct and iterative solvers. The guide should give you enough knowledge to find a proper solution for your task but not enough to implement one efficiently yourself.
Darek Kay
Building a photography website
Last year, I started a photography hobby. Soon after, I've created a place where I can share some of...
a year ago
Last year, I started a photography hobby. Soon after, I've created a place where I can share some of my work, without any attention-driven algorithms dictating the terms. Here's a technical write-up of my journey.
Table of...
Vadim Kravcenko
My coworker rewrote all my code, what should I do?
Dear Robert, The short answer is — stop getting attached to your code. Now lets continue to a more...
10 months ago
Dear Robert, The short answer is — stop getting attached to your code. Now lets continue to a more detailed […]
The post My coworker rewrote all my code, what should I do? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Miguel Carranza
My role as a founder CTO: Year Six
Another year as a founder CTO, and let me tell you, it’s been one for the books. I can’t remember a...
12 months ago
Another year as a founder CTO, and let me tell you, it’s been one for the books. I can’t remember a time in my life that was more demanding and emotionally draining. Those early years were filled with hard work, but we were also full of energy, ambition to build, and the sense...
Blog - Bitfield...
Rust vs Go in 2024
Which is a better choice, Rust or Go? Which language should you choose for
your next project, and...
11 months ago
Which is a better choice, Rust or Go? Which language should you choose for
your next project, and why? How do the two compare in areas like
performance, simplicity, safety, features, scale, and concurrency?
A Beautiful Site
BrowserStack: stop using virtual machines for browser testing
Sick of booting up an entire virtual machine (VM) just to test something in IE? With BrowserStack,...
over a year ago
Sick of booting up an entire virtual machine (VM) just to test something in IE? With BrowserStack, you don't need VMware or VirtualBox. Just enter a URL and instantly test on just about any browser you can think of.
This is legit. It's not just another screenshot service or...
PostHog's RSS Feed
How Spotify (and PostHog) build successful features
This post is from our Substack newsletter, Product for Engineers . It's all about helping engineers...
a year ago
This post is from our Substack newsletter, Product for Engineers . It's all about helping engineers and founders build better products, and…
Alice GG
Writing GDScript with Neovim
Neovim is by far my favorite text editor.
The clutter-free interface and keyboard-only navigation...
2 months ago
Neovim is by far my favorite text editor.
The clutter-free interface and keyboard-only navigation are what keep me productive in my daily programming.
In an earlier post, I explained how I configure it into a minimalist development environment.
Today, I will show you how to use...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
SumatraPDF 2.5.2 released
We, the SumatraPDF developers have released a version 2.5.2 of Sumatra, a PDF and ebook reader for...
over a year ago
We, the SumatraPDF developers have released a version 2.5.2 of Sumatra, a PDF and ebook reader for Windows.
Changes in this release:
2 page view for ebooks
new keybindings:
Ctrl+PgDn, Ctrl+Right : go to next page
Ctrl+PgUp, Ctrl+Left : go to previous page
10x faster ebook...
Steve Klabnik
Rust is surprisingly expressive
over a year ago
Making software...
Simple Accessibility
Simple Accessibility
2018-09-07
Implementing proper accessibility practices can seem a little...
over a year ago
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...
PostHog's RSS Feed
A story about pivots
PostHog has pivoted a lot . After 5 pivots in 6 months, we got into Y Combinator last year,...
over a year ago
PostHog has pivoted a lot . After 5 pivots in 6 months, we got into Y Combinator last year, pivoted again whilst we were there and have now gone…
Confessions of a...
Reflections on 2024 and Exciting Plans for 2025
Looking back at what we accomplished in 2024, and plans for 2025
2 weeks ago
Looking back at what we accomplished in 2024, and plans for 2025
Irrational...
Setting engineering org values.
Uber’s best known corporate value is probably Super Pumped,
which, in addition to being a one-time...
a year ago
Uber’s best known corporate value is probably Super Pumped,
which, in addition to being a one-time company value, is also the title of Mike Isaac’s account of Uber
and the subsequent television show.
However, for me personally, the value I remember most is Let Builders...
Joel Gascoigne
How to start your startup in 4 steps
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Having started...
over a year ago
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Having started my latest venture [http://bufferapp.com] just over 5 months ago,
and having just reached ramen profitability
[http://www.paulgraham.com/ramenprofitable.html], I want to share some...
ntietz.com blog
The origin and virtues of semicolons in programming languages
While working on the grammar for my programming language, Lilac, I was exploring different choices...
8 months ago
While working on the grammar for my programming language, Lilac, I was exploring different choices for statement terminators.
. is very appealing, or !.
Ultimately, I might make the "boring" choice of using either ; or significant whitespace.
But that had me asking: why is it...
David Heinemeier...
New year, new calendar
We’ve spent the last year tackling the number one request for our email service HEY.com: Adding a...
a year ago
We’ve spent the last year tackling the number one request for our email service HEY.com: Adding a calendar! And now, in celebration of the new year, it’s finally ready, and we’re rolling it out to the first customers starting today 🎉
See, it turns out that lots of people would...
Steve Klabnik
Rails 4.0.0-beta1 to Rails 4.0.0-rc1
over a year ago
Coding Horror
I Fight For The Users
If you haven't been able to keep up with my blistering pace of one blog post per year (if that), I...
a year ago
If you haven't been able to keep up with my blistering pace of one blog post per year (if that), I can't blame you. There's a lot going on right now. It's a busy time. But let's pause and take
Liz Denys
Une petite valse en jazz
Now that I have a weighted-key digital piano in my room, I've been playing a lot more. More like:...
over a year ago
Now that I have a weighted-key digital piano in my room, I've been playing a lot more. More like: I've gone from playing the piano only when I'm home in Chicago to playing it a couple hours a day. Over the past few days, I've been alternating between playing pieces from Philip...
Joel Gascoigne
Two simple changes that helped increase my happiness and improve my sleep
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Three of our key...
over a year ago
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Three of our key values at Buffer
[http://www.slideshare.net/bufferapp/buffer-culture-03] are “Always choose
positivity and happiness”, “Have a focus on self-improvement” and “Live smarter,
not...
TokyoDev
How to create your own company in Japan
Since coming to Japan, I've incorporated three companies. Although creating a company isn't a walk...
over a year ago
Since coming to Japan, I've incorporated three companies. Although creating a company isn't a walk in the park, I think it is easier than the general perception is. Part of the problem is the lack of English-language information about it. I hope by sharing my experiences I can...
The Codist
How Talking Over A Wall Changed My Direction As A Programmer
I started my programming career in October 1981 at a large defense contractor (GD). At the time, my...
3 months ago
I started my programming career in October 1981 at a large defense contractor (GD). At the time, my goal was to work for a couple of years and then continue my education with a Ph.D. in Chemistry (I had already been accepted).
The office I worked in was a
Ink & Switch
Potluck: Dynamic documents as personal software
Gradually enriching text documents into interactive applications
over a year ago
Gradually enriching text documents into interactive applications
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
How I Take and Publish Notes
I publish notes at notes.jim-nielsen.com.
I’ve written about why I made that site as well as some of...
a year ago
I publish notes at notes.jim-nielsen.com.
I’ve written about why I made that site as well as some of my favorite aspects of its design.
But I’ve yet to write about how I take and publish notes to it.
The other day Bill Beckelman emailed me and told me he made a similar site of...
Ferd.ca
Negotiable Abstractions
2023/12/21
Negotiable Abstractions
When I used to write more software and do more architecture...
a year ago
2023/12/21
Negotiable Abstractions
When I used to write more software and do more architecture professionally (I still do, but less intensively so with the SRE title), one of the most important questions I'd seek answers to was "how do I cut this up?" Or more accurately, "how do...
Josh Comeau's blog
What The Heck, z-index??
The z-index property can be a tricky little bugger. Sometimes, no matter how much you crank up the...
over a year ago
The z-index property can be a tricky little bugger. Sometimes, no matter how much you crank up the number, the element never rises to the top! In this article, we explore stacking contexts, and see how they can thwart our efforts to use z-index. We'll also learn how to use this...
bt RSS Feed
Build and Deploy Websites Automatically with Git
Build and Deploy Websites Automatically with Git
2024-09-20
I recently began the process of setting...
3 months ago
Build and Deploy Websites Automatically with Git
2024-09-20
I recently began the process of setting up my self-hosted1 cgit server as my main code forge. Updating repos via cgit on NearlyFreeSpeech on its own has been simple enough, but it lacked the “wow-factor” of having some...
Liz Denys
Uber's robocall blitz to NYC landlines
Uber was robocalling me about Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to place a cap on the number of vehicles...
over a year ago
Uber was robocalling me about Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to place a cap on the number of vehicles they could operate in New York City. Uber has robocalled my home phone number - not the mobile number they have on file for me - four times to ask me to lobby on their behalf. This...
charity.wtf
Why Should You (Or Anyone) Become An Engineering Manager?
The first piece I ever wrote about engineering management, The Engineer/Manager Pendulum, was...
a year ago
The first piece I ever wrote about engineering management, The Engineer/Manager Pendulum, was written as a love letter to a friend of mine who was unhappy at work. He was an engineering director at a large and fast-growing startup, where he had substantially built out the entire...
Liz Denys
Starlit sky Brutalist planter with attached drip tray, 2024
Starlit sky on a clear night / the milky way / eternity / clarity / raindrops sticking to window...
7 months ago
Starlit sky on a clear night / the milky way / eternity / clarity / raindrops sticking to window glass
Quentin Santos
Upgrading to Debian Trixie
I had been running Bookworm for quite a while. It has now been stable for more than a year. In other...
3 months ago
I had been running Bookworm for quite a while. It has now been stable for more than a year. In other words, Trixie has now been testing for more than a year, and will most likely become the new stable in less than a year. In the past, I encountered a few surprises with unstable …...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Finding your North Star metric and why it matters
Successful products need actionable metrics and for many businesses this starts with identifying...
over a year ago
Successful products need actionable metrics and for many businesses this starts with identifying what many refer to as a 'North Star' metric. This…
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Roaring 2020's
Five themes I am optimistic about for the next decade - and more open questions I have no idea...
over a year ago
Five themes I am optimistic about for the next decade - and more open questions I have no idea about.
General Robots
Tech Debt
When people start working on General Purpose Robots there is a tendency to try to make sure that...
a year ago
When people start working on General Purpose Robots there is a tendency to try to make sure that everything they do is Fully General Purpose And Future Proof. They have grand visions and world changing ambitions. Those make it seem like they should be building grand software, to...
Acko.net
Teardown Frame Teardown
Rendering analysis
In this post I'll do a "one frame" breakdown of Tuxedo Labs' indie game...
a year ago
Rendering analysis
In this post I'll do a "one frame" breakdown of Tuxedo Labs' indie game Teardown.
The game is unique for having a voxel-driven engine, which provides a fully destructible environment. It embraces this boon, by giving the player a multitude of tools that...
Josh Collinsworth
The Five Things I Wish Somebody Had Told Me as a Design Student
Your worst instructor as a design student will lay out clear goals and expectations which will not...
over a year ago
Your worst instructor as a design student will lay out clear goals and expectations which will not change; this is not a given with clients.
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Don't trust JS library size, min+gzip
Many modern front-end libraries and apps obsess over their bundle size. It’s a noble pursuit — an...
over a year ago
Many modern front-end libraries and apps obsess over their bundle size. It’s a noble pursuit — an app that uses smaller libraries has less bloat, loads faster, and the users are happier. We can agree to that.
Measuring the impact of a library on the app’s bundle size sounds easy,...
exist
Non-Empty Recursion in Elm
over a year ago
A Smart Bear
Adjacency Matrix: How to expand after PMF
A simple workshop that evaluates new business ideas relative to your existing strengths -- the key...
8 months ago
A simple workshop that evaluates new business ideas relative to your existing strengths -- the key to expanding without overreaching.
The Pragmatic...
Google Domains to shut down
The world’s 3rd most popular domain registrar has been sold to Squarespace – but Google didn’t...
a year ago
The world’s 3rd most popular domain registrar has been sold to Squarespace – but Google didn’t notify customers just yet. When could this happen, and why is Google silent?
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.23.0
In this edition of the PostHog Array: Release 1.23 is out, and our 🔥 new PostHog.com homepage is...
over a year ago
In this edition of the PostHog Array: Release 1.23 is out, and our 🔥 new PostHog.com homepage is live - amazing work from PostHoggers Cory, Lottie…
ntietz.com blog
Growing Teams and Baking Bread
One of the keys in baking bread is getting the dough to rise well. As the yeast does its work, it...
over a year ago
One of the keys in baking bread is getting the dough to rise well. As the yeast does its work, it ferments some of the sugars in the dough into alcohol and carbon dioxide, resulting in a growing, bubbly mass of dough.
There are some tricks to making dough rise quickly, like using...
Making software...
Fixing LocalWP on Fedora 32
Fixing LocalWP on Fedora 32
2020-05-06
I recently upgraded from Fedora 31 to 32 and everything went...
over a year ago
Fixing LocalWP on Fedora 32
2020-05-06
I recently upgraded from Fedora 31 to 32 and everything went very smoothly - except for one application: LocalWP. After the upgrade, all local WordPress builds would fail and complain about two missing packages:
libnettle6
libhogweed4
After...
Ognjen Regoje •...
A review of the blog in 2024
I didn’t write much this year.
The projects that I worked on (at work) used up most of my creative...
3 days ago
I didn’t write much this year.
The projects that I worked on (at work) used up most of my creative mental capacity leaving little for writing.
The backlog is brimming, however.
Targets for 2024
❌ Publish at least 40 posts
11
❌ Reach at least 200k readers
Don’t have an...
Joel Gascoigne
The power of ignoring mainstream news
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over a year ago
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> "The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads
nothing but newspapers." - Thomas Jefferson
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson]
Around 2 years ago I...
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
A case for socks with toes
Yes, I wear toe socks. Yes, they're amazing.
I've exclusively been wearing toe socks for the past...
a year ago
Yes, I wear toe socks. Yes, they're amazing.
I've exclusively been wearing toe socks for the past 8-ish years. Every now and again (say I enter a house which has a no-shoe rule), someone will spot them and find the concept strange, commenting on how weird they look, and if the...
The Changelog
The PC & Internet Revolution in Rural America
Inspired by several others (such as Alex Schroeder’s post and Szczeżuja’s prompt), as well as a...
over a year ago
Inspired by several others (such as Alex Schroeder’s post and Szczeżuja’s prompt), as well as a desire to get this down for my kids, I figure it’s time to write a bit about living through the PC and Internet revolution where I did: outside a tiny town in rural Kansas. And, as...
wingolog
fedi is for losers
Does the have a vibe? I think that yes, there’s a flave, and
with reason: we have things in...
3 months ago
Does the have a vibe? I think that yes, there’s a flave, and
with reason: we have things in common. We all left Twitter, or refused
to join in the first place. Many of us are technologists or
tech-adjacent, but generally not startuppy. There is a pervasive do-it-yourself...
Ink & Switch
Local First Unconference [2023 / STL]
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Extracting domain models: a practical example
over a year ago
A Smart Bear
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...
12 months ago
Targeting your "Ideal Customer Profile" (ICP) is the best way to differentiate and win sales, but does it limit your target market?
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Writing raft
✏️⚡🔪
The club that’s write or die.
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all...
over a year ago
✏️⚡🔪
The club that’s write or die.
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others:
read a lot and write a lot.
– Stephen King, “On Writing”
In 2022, I made a Ulysses pact to
force myself to write—either write or feel the white-hot shame of
(temporary)...
dthompson
Guile-SDL2 0.7.0 released
I'm happy to announce that Guile-SDL2 0.7.0 has been released!
Guile-SDL2 provides Guile Scheme...
over a year ago
I'm happy to announce that Guile-SDL2 0.7.0 has been released!
Guile-SDL2 provides Guile Scheme bindings for the SDL2 C shared
library. The bindings are written in pure Scheme using Guile's foreign
function interface.
New bindings in this...
Founder's blog
Speeding up a huge multi-tenant SaaS database
Here's a little story of how we sped up our SaaS backend with a one-liner magic silver...
a year ago
Here's a little story of how we sped up our SaaS backend with a one-liner magic silver bullet
The problem
Our SaaS is powered by a huge multi terabyte "multi tenant" relational database cluster. Some tables are more than 200 GB - this is crazy, to be honest. And for the...
alexwlchan
Splitting a class into balanced groups
Earlier this week, my mum sent me an interesting problem.
She’s got a class of 12 students, who are...
a year ago
Earlier this week, my mum sent me an interesting problem.
She’s got a class of 12 students, who are going to meet over 7 sessions.
In each session, they’re going to split into 3 or 4 groups, and she wants to find an even distribution of groups – each person gets to work with...
Ralph Ammer
Aristotle — How to live a good life
2400 years ago Aristotle found out how to be happy. His Nicomachean Ethics is an operating manual...
10 months ago
2400 years ago Aristotle found out how to be happy. His Nicomachean Ethics is an operating manual for a good life: What is good? First of all, what makes a thing a good thing? A good thing fulfils its unique function. A good knife is a knife that is good at cutting. A good eye is...
A Smart Bear
Ignoring the Wisdom of Crowds
Discover how to leverage the wisdom of the crowds, but also when to avoid it, as it can easily lead...
3 months ago
Discover how to leverage the wisdom of the crowds, but also when to avoid it, as it can easily lead you astray.
the singularity is...
choose your own adventure
In about 15 years, a desktop computer will be able to do everything a human can. In 25, a mobile...
a year ago
In about 15 years, a desktop computer will be able to do everything a human can. In 25, a mobile phone.
Barring a catastrophe, these are facts. What does the future look like for humanity?
The only reason we killed all the animals is because the Earth is small. The longest...
Posts on Nikita...
RustLab 2024
I had the chance to speak at RustLab 2024! I will be honest, this was the point I realised that 4...
2 weeks ago
I had the chance to speak at RustLab 2024! I will be honest, this was the point I realised that 4 conferences in one year was a bad idea. I was exhausted and overwhelmed, but I still had a blast meeting new people and answering the questions after the talk. It had the following...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Immeasurable Impact
Jerod has a good post on The Changelog contrasting the different ways of measuring impact.
One way...
11 months ago
Jerod has a good post on The Changelog contrasting the different ways of measuring impact.
One way to measure impact is breadth (i.e. virality):
Virality is all about breadth of impact: your content reaching as many people as possible as fast as possible. This feels great and is...
Making software...
Stay Hungry
Stay Hungry
2018-02-12
It can feel daunting in this developer / designer landscape to keep yourself...
over a year ago
Stay Hungry
2018-02-12
It can feel daunting in this developer / designer landscape to keep yourself up-to-date with the latest and greatest technologies available. Which new framework should I invest the most time into? Will it even be maintained a couple years down the road? Is...
macwright.com
How to set headers on objects in R2 using rclone
How do you set a Cache-Control header on an object in R2 when you’re using rclone to upload?
I...
11 months ago
How do you set a Cache-Control header on an object in R2 when you’re using rclone to upload?
I burned a lot of time figuring this out. There are a lot of options that look like they’ll do it, but here it is:
--header-upload='Cache-Control:...
bt RSS Feed
Setting Up Pi-Hole with Eero on Starlink
Setting Up Pi-Hole with Eero on Starlink
2024-07-24
A couple years ago I wrote about setting up a...
5 months ago
Setting Up Pi-Hole with Eero on Starlink
2024-07-24
A couple years ago I wrote about setting up a standard pi-hole server with eero WiFi but since that time I have swapped out my “cell tower” internet for Starlink. The speed improvement has been incredible and there is no looking...
blag
Zero Disk Architecture
State is pain. The next generation of infrastructure tools will be built on diskless paradigm. In...
a month ago
State is pain. The next generation of infrastructure tools will be built on diskless paradigm. In this short post I will explain what is Diskless / Zero Disk Architecture
Ink & Switch
Fine-grained provenance, Automerge updates
Some explorations of new editor interactions for writing science papers, and a trio of projects...
2 months ago
Some explorations of new editor interactions for writing science papers, and a trio of projects advancing the future of Automerge.
Darek Kay
My personal one-pager
I've been using "Darek Kay" as my pseudonym since school. My surname was long and difficult to...
a year ago
I've been using "Darek Kay" as my pseudonym since school. My surname was long and difficult to pronounce, so I've been mostly using it in a formal context. Last year, I changed my legal name, which also influenced my online presence. Due to the change, looking up my new name via...
Words and Buttons...
[Republishing] Redundant stories about redundancy
Component redundancy is used heavily in safety-critical and mission-critical systems for reliability...
over a year ago
Component redundancy is used heavily in safety-critical and mission-critical systems for reliability improvement. But outside this niche, it's surprisingly little known in the world of software. Which is a shame since it's a simple but economical idea. It costs nothing to keep in...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
SemVer: The Tricky Parts
Semantic versioning, is the way to version packages in JS ecosystem. I always thought I understood...
over a year ago
Semantic versioning, is the way to version packages in JS ecosystem. I always thought I understood semver, but that illusion disappeared once I started maintaining libraries myself. Semver has tricky edge cases where it's unclear what the new version number should be:
Should you...
bt RSS Feed
Pure CSS Bar Graphs with Graceful Mobile Fallbacks
Pure CSS Bar Graphs with Graceful Mobile Fallbacks
2020-12-08
I recently published a new open source...
over a year ago
Pure CSS Bar Graphs with Graceful Mobile Fallbacks
2020-12-08
I recently published a new open source project, Flexbox Bar Graphs, and wanted to share a simple breakdown of how it was built. It isn’t anything mind-blowing, but I like the idea of placing bar graphs in a web page...
elementary Blog
One Last Bug Fix Update Before The Big One
It turns out we have one more updates blog before OS 7.1 and it brings a number of fixes and a few...
a year ago
It turns out we have one more updates blog before OS 7.1 and it brings a number of fixes and a few small features. We’re hard at work resolving your reported issues to make this release as smooth and shiny as it possibly can be! So read ahead and find out what was new last...
ntietz.com blog
Introducing Yet Another Rust Resource (or YARR!)
Rust is a hard language to learn, in the scheme
1
of things.
I've previously talked about why...
a year ago
Rust is a hard language to learn, in the scheme
1
of things.
I've previously talked about why the learning curve is hard and what we could do about it.
Today, I'm proud to say that there's another resource to help people learn Rust in a more approachable way.
Introducing Yet...
macwright.com
Reverse engineering a day’s worth of websites
Some light reverse-engineering of websites has been
a source of entertainment and knowledge for me....
5 months ago
Some light reverse-engineering of websites has been
a source of entertainment and knowledge for me. I’ll poke around
in the Chrome DevTools and figure out the basics of
how popular websites work.
Sure, it’s common to compress JavaScript
and other resources, and the HTML source of...
Daniel Immke's Blog...
Improving my productivity in 2018
2017 was a really good year for me. I did a lot of freelance work, improved my financial situation,...
over a year ago
2017 was a really good year for me. I did a lot of freelance work, improved my financial situation, built this site and started blogging…
TokyoDev
Working as a Female Software Developer in Japan
For some people, [working as a software developer in Japan](/articles/first-job-programmer-japan)...
a year ago
For some people, [working as a software developer in Japan](/articles/first-job-programmer-japan) would be a dream come true. As an Australian software developer who has been in Japan for 6 months, I’m one of those dreamers.
If you’ve been looking to work in Japan for a while,...
ntietz.com blog
A systematic approach to debugging
I've got a reputation at work as being a skilled debugger.
It's a frequent occurrence that the weird...
a year ago
I've got a reputation at work as being a skilled debugger.
It's a frequent occurrence that the weird stuff lands on my desk1 after it goes through another skilled engineer or two.
To say my job is substantially "debug the weird shit" would not be an understatement and I'm here...
Josh Comeau's blog
How To Center a Div
Back in the day, centering an element was one of the trickiest things in CSS. As the language has...
10 months ago
Back in the day, centering an element was one of the trickiest things in CSS. As the language has evolved, we’ve been given lots of new tools we can use… But how do we pick the best option? When do we use Flexbox, or CSS Grid, or something else? Let's dig into it.
A Beautiful Site
box-sizing: border-box explained
It's been over two years since Paul Irish famously posted the box-sizing trick that would bring us...
over a year ago
It's been over two years since Paul Irish famously posted the box-sizing trick that would bring us back to the days of early Internet Explorer.
The good ol' days #
You might remember how Internet Explorer 6 (quirks mode) and below did that whole box model thing wrong. If not,...
Blog System/5
Why do I know shell, and how can you?
My personal story with this ancient language and some tips to learn it
a year ago
My personal story with this ancient language and some tips to learn it
markround.com
Disqus - An Apology
Earlier today, I got an email alerting me to an angrier than usual comment on this website. It was a...
6 months ago
Earlier today, I got an email alerting me to an angrier than usual comment on this website. It was a proper keyboard warrior rant accusing me of all sorts of misdeads revolving around “forcing ads down people’s throats”. I replied saying that there had never been any ads on this...
Liz Denys
National Gallery of Art
"Walkway to east building," where arguably necessary conveyor belts come with sparkling lights.
over a year ago
"Walkway to east building," where arguably necessary conveyor belts come with sparkling lights.
Kevin Chen
Large language models are a sustaining innovation for Siri
Many people assume that large language models (LLMs) will disrupt existing consumer voice...
6 months ago
Many people assume that large language models (LLMs) will disrupt existing consumer voice assistants. Compared to Siri, while today’s ChatGPT is largely unable to complete real-world tasks like hailing an Uber, it’s far better than Siri at understanding and generating language,...
blag
Setting up Github Actions for Hugo
Github Actions for Hugo but with particular requirements
over a year ago
Github Actions for Hugo but with particular requirements
TokyoDev
On the Value of Software
One of the biggest challenges in moving from a software developer to entrepreneur has been changing...
over a year ago
One of the biggest challenges in moving from a software developer to entrepreneur has been changing my perception of the value of software. As a developer, the underlying assumption was the more functionality software had, the more valuable it was. This proposition was...
Neil Panchal
Overkill Objects for Everyday Life
I routinely make a fool of myself when I tell friends I want a Martin Baker ejection seat as a chair...
over a year ago
I routinely make a fool of myself when I tell friends I want a Martin Baker ejection seat as a chair in my living room. Of course, with the pyrotechnic charge removed. Seriously, I would totally buy it if it weren't $5,000 on eBay and I'
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PostHog Joins Hacktoberfest 2020
Let the pull requests come in! We're happy to announce that PostHog has joined Hacktoberfest 2020 ....
over a year ago
Let the pull requests come in! We're happy to announce that PostHog has joined Hacktoberfest 2020 . For those who don't know, Hacktoberfest is an…
Julia Evans
Reasons to use your shell's job control
Hello! Today someone on Mastodon asked about job control (fg, bg, Ctrl+z,
wait, etc). It made me...
6 months ago
Hello! Today someone on Mastodon asked about job control (fg, bg, Ctrl+z,
wait, etc). It made me think about how I don’t use my shell’s job
control interactively very often: usually I prefer to just open a new terminal
tab if I want to run multiple terminal programs, or use tmux...
Making software...
Over-Engineering an Oil Tank Gauge
Over-Engineering an Oil Tank Gauge
2020-09-09
I almost went down the path of investing a huge amount...
over a year ago
Over-Engineering an Oil Tank Gauge
2020-09-09
I almost went down the path of investing a huge amount of time and effort into fixing a stuck oil fuel tank float-gauge in my house. Recently, the float mechanism became stuck and permanently displayed empty regardless of how much...
Joel on Software
The next CEO of Stack Overflow
We’re looking for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. I’m stepping out of the day-to-day and up to the...
over a year ago
We’re looking for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. I’m stepping out of the day-to-day and up to the role of Chairman of the Board. Read more "The next CEO of Stack Overflow"
Dan Slimmon
Don’t fix it just because it’s technical debt.
Why should we only spend part of our time doing work that maximizes value, and the rest of our time...
a year ago
Why should we only spend part of our time doing work that maximizes value, and the rest of our time doing other, less optimal work?
Identity Designed
OOP
Designed by Futura, Mexico City.
over a year ago
Designed by Futura, Mexico City.
samwho.dev
API Design: Errors
Errors are one of the easiest things to overlook when creating an API. Your users will have problems...
over a year ago
Errors are one of the easiest things to overlook when creating an API. Your users will have problems from time to time, and an error is the first thing they're going to see when they do. It's worth spending time on them to make using your API a more pleasant experience.
›
Guiding...
TokyoDev
Web Accessibility in Japan: What Developers Need to Know
Many people with disabilities use assistive technology, which allows them to access websites in ways...
a year ago
Many people with disabilities use assistive technology, which allows them to access websites in ways different from most people. People who are blind, for example, use screen readers to convert website content into audio. Some use braille displays. There are also people who use...
Epic Web Dev
Writing Tests That Fail (article)
There can be a lot of confusion and doubt when it comes to writing tests. Answering this simple...
2 months ago
There can be a lot of confusion and doubt when it comes to writing tests. Answering this simple question may help clear a lot of it out.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Metrics, Logs, and Traces in JavaScript Tools
The DX of JavaScript Developer Tools could be better if we added Metrics, Logs, and Traces
over a year ago
The DX of JavaScript Developer Tools could be better if we added Metrics, Logs, and Traces
ntietz.com blog
My first impressions from a few weeks with Lean and Coq
For the last few weeks, some of us have been working through learning about interactive theorem...
over a year ago
For the last few weeks, some of us have been working through learning about interactive theorem proving together at Recurse Center.
I've been curious about proof assistants since undergrad, and finally have the time, space, and peers to dive into it with.
It's been an interesting...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Swyx's Simple Guide to Singapore
A personal guide to Singapore for foreign friends visiting.
a year ago
A personal guide to Singapore for foreign friends visiting.
alexwlchan
Going through my old school papers
I left school in 2011, and I graduated from university in 2014.
When I was done, I had six plastic...
a year ago
I left school in 2011, and I graduated from university in 2014.
When I was done, I had six plastic crates full of paper – exercise books, worksheets, school newsletters – everything I’d accumulated over nearly two decades of education.
It was a lot.
🤯
I’m trying to reduce this...
PostHog's RSS Feed
"How come your website is so nice?"
I've been asked this three times today, so I thought I'd explain it from a founder's perspective....
over a year ago
I've been asked this three times today, so I thought I'd explain it from a founder's perspective. This is what I've learned so far. Figure out if…
ntietz.com blog
[Talk] Scaling Graphs
On March 22, 2016, I talked about scaling up graphs at Scale Tech. It was recorded and is viewable...
over a year ago
On March 22, 2016, I talked about scaling up graphs at Scale Tech. It was recorded and is viewable on YouTube:
If you have thoughts on scaling graphs or big data in general, please reach out to me! I'm always happy to talk about this.
macwright.com
Recently
Early this month I arrived at work to see a Concorde parked in the
Brooklyn Navy Yard. It’s
been fun...
a year ago
Early this month I arrived at work to see a Concorde parked in the
Brooklyn Navy Yard. It’s
been fun to identify the ships docked there, but an airplane was new,
especially such a rare one. I guess a lot of airplane knowledge from
my childhood has stayed with me, and being...
macwright.com
Val.town
Last week I joined val.town as Steve Krouse’s cofounder. Val.town is a system for programming in the...
a year ago
Last week I joined val.town as Steve Krouse’s cofounder. Val.town is a system for programming in the small, for writing short programs in TypeScript that can link together into something larger. It’s for writing that scheduled web scraper or basic API that you wanted to make but...
Kevin Chen
What’s on my ballot: June 2022 California primary election
Here’s how I’m voting in the June 2022 primary election. While
preparing for this election, I...
over a year ago
Here’s how I’m voting in the June 2022 primary election. While
preparing for this election, I consulted the San Francisco
Chronicle and SPUR endorsements.
Contents
California
Governor
Lieutenant Governor
Secretary of State
Controller
Treasurer
Insurance Commissioner
United...
The Codist
My Art And Color-After Tiling
I make generative art with Swift and use tiling in many pieces. Truchet tiles are generally arranged...
2 months ago
I make generative art with Swift and use tiling in many pieces. Truchet tiles are generally arranged randomly and contain everything appearing in the final image. What I do differently is to separate the layout of tiles from colorizing the image. I call this technique...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Gratitude For a Web That Tries Not to Break
Chris wrote a response to my wondering-out-loud remarks about whether logical properties make CSS...
a year ago
Chris wrote a response to my wondering-out-loud remarks about whether logical properties make CSS easier to learn.
His response is great. And his tabular comparison of properties is short and concise and punchy in the way only Chris Coyier can reason about CSS.
His post actually...
Patrick Kayongo
River Flows
Crouched on the side of his bed, Tambu sat sobbing. He had slammed the door to his bedroom and...
a year ago
Crouched on the side of his bed, Tambu sat sobbing. He had slammed the door to his bedroom and needed time out after yet another fight with his parents. I really don’t belong here. They’ll never understand me. They’re so toxic and oppressive. I don’t know how much longer I can...
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: the Sultan’s Riddle in SQL
Here is a riddle I read a long time ago in Nauka i Zhizn, a popular Russian science magazine. The...
over a year ago
Here is a riddle I read a long time ago in Nauka i Zhizn, a popular Russian science magazine. The Sultan's Riddle Once upon a time there was a Sultan who was looking for a vizier to help him rule his country. It became known to him that among the multitudes of his loyal subjects...
ntietz.com blog -...
Using Talon in a game jam
I use Talon to control my computer some of the time.
It's mostly voice control, but it has so many...
a month ago
I use Talon to control my computer some of the time.
It's mostly voice control, but it has so many other controls built in!
One lets you use an eye tracker as a mouse.
I thought this sounded like a neat interaction for other situations too.
When I mentioned this to a friend, he...
bt RSS Feed
Plain Text Emails, Please
Plain Text Emails, Please
2019-09-09
When it comes to website / product design and development most...
over a year ago
Plain Text Emails, Please
2019-09-09
When it comes to website / product design and development most devs should try to keep things simple. By only using as much code as absolutely necessary, projects avoid growing out of scope or becoming bloated. So, why isn’t this same approach...
Making software...
Introducing Notez
Introducing Notez
2021-01-13
I have always been a fan of simple note taking applications, since I...
over a year ago
Introducing Notez
2021-01-13
I have always been a fan of simple note taking applications, since I tend to take a lot of random notes throughout the work day. Sometimes I reach for simple pen and paper, but other times it's nice to stay focused jotting down notes on the same...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Sharding Yourself
An advanced tip for high-volume writers.
over a year ago
An advanced tip for high-volume writers.
Nelson's Weblog
AI enhanced search
LLMs are good search helpers. Here’s three search tools I use every day.
All of these use an AI to...
3 months ago
LLMs are good search helpers. Here’s three search tools I use every day.
All of these use an AI to synthesize answers but also provide an essential
feature: specific web search results for you to verify and further research.
I use these for conversational inquiries in addition...
A Beautiful Site
Browser makers: where’s the new tab + homepage option?
Ever since tabbed browsing hit the mainstream I've been hooked. It's rare to see less than a handful...
over a year ago
Ever since tabbed browsing hit the mainstream I've been hooked. It's rare to see less than a handful of tabs open in my web browser at any time. Whether I'm developing, checking email, or just surfing around, I can never seem to have enough tabs! But there's one thing about this...
Joel Gascoigne
Why I'm helping startup founders
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over a year ago
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Last month I wrote about my discovery that helping others makes me happier
[https://joel.is/post/26003263041/want-to-be-happy-and-successful-bring-happiness-to]
than spending the time seeing a...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.34.0
PostHog 1.34.0 focuses on supporting collaboration. New features include a new default homepage for...
over a year ago
PostHog 1.34.0 focuses on supporting collaboration. New features include a new default homepage for projects, smart names for all insights, an entire Data Management tool as well as support for horizontal scalability!
Stephen Wolfram...
The Physicalization of Metamathematics and Its Implications for the Foundations of Mathematics
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over a year ago
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A Beautiful Site
Know When To Draw The Line
One-off variations aren't uncommon, but they don't belong in your design system. You're design...
over a year ago
One-off variations aren't uncommon, but they don't belong in your design system. You're design system isn't solving for every possible use case — it's encouraging visual consistency and efficient development. Use custom styles for one-offs.
This came up recently on my team.
We...
ntietz.com blog
RSA is deceptively simple (and fun)
While reading Real-World Cryptography, I came across the "million message attack".
This is an attack...
11 months ago
While reading Real-World Cryptography, I came across the "million message attack".
This is an attack that Daniel Bleichenbacher demonstrated in 1998, which effectively broke RSA with a particular encoding function called PKCS #1.
It was only mentioned briefly, so I dug in and...
Tony Finch's blog
Slower DNS name decompression
In a previous entry, I wrote about making DNS name decompression
faster by moving work left on this...
over a year ago
In a previous entry, I wrote about making DNS name decompression
faster by moving work left on this diagram so that we do
less of it:
names < pointers < labels < bytes
Last week I had a bright idea about that leftmost step, moving
per-pointer work to per-name, using some...
Basta’s Notes
We need to be liked, and it might be the fault of social media.
If our god is a benevolent one, then why did he make us crave approval?
a year ago
If our god is a benevolent one, then why did he make us crave approval?
Josh Comeau's blog
Designing Beautiful Shadows in CSS
When I look around the web, most of the shadows I see are fuzzy grey boxes. It doesn't have to be...
over a year ago
When I look around the web, most of the shadows I see are fuzzy grey boxes. It doesn't have to be this way, though! CSS gives us the tools to create rich, lush, lifelike shadows. In this tutorial, I'll show you how.
Ferd.ca
Counting Forest Fires
2024/01/26
Counting Forest Fires
Today I'm hitting my 3 years mark at Honeycomb, and so I thought...
11 months ago
2024/01/26
Counting Forest Fires
Today I'm hitting my 3 years mark at Honeycomb, and so I thought I'd re-publish one of my favorite short blog posts written over there, Counting Forest Fires, which has become my go-to argument when discussing incident metrics when asked to count...
Irrational...
Thoughts on writing and publishing Primer.
I’m materially finished writing my 3rd book, The Engineering Executive’s Primer. There’s one last...
a year ago
I’m materially finished writing my 3rd book, The Engineering Executive’s Primer. There’s one last chapter to go through tech review, and a fine line editing pass, but the hard stuff is largely done. Of course, that’s an author’s perspective, there is other hard stuff still to be...
A Smart Bear
What makes a strategy great
Most so-called "strategies" are vague, wishful thinking, written once and never seen again. Don't do...
a year ago
Most so-called "strategies" are vague, wishful thinking, written once and never seen again. Don't do that. These are the characteristics of great strategy.
Paolo Amoroso's...
Adding title bar menu items to WebCard cards
<![CDATA[A URL is associated with a WebCard card of type Web at creation time but it may later be...
2 months ago
<![CDATA[A URL is associated with a WebCard card of type Web at creation time but it may later be necessary to change or take action on the URL. For example, to correct a typo or visit the URL again if its web browser tab was closed since an earlier visit.
For such situations I...
Daniel Marino
How I Manage Projects
As a Product Designer at Harvest, part of my role is running projects. While I don’t believe there...
over a year ago
As a Product Designer at Harvest, part of my role is running projects. While I don’t believe there is a right or wrong way to manage projects, I do think there are some methods that can yield better results. I’m hardly an expert in this area, but I’d like to share some of the...
A Smart Bear
When you have nothing: How to find potential customers to interview
How do you find potential customers to interview before you have a product, a website, or even a...
a week ago
How do you find potential customers to interview before you have a product, a website, or even a name?
swyx's site RSS Feed
Serverless Functions are Stateful
A reminder that serverless functions actually have a lot of state, and how the "function" analogy...
over a year ago
A reminder that serverless functions actually have a lot of state, and how the "function" analogy breaks down when you look through the abstraction
ntietz.com blog
RC Week 3: Returning to Math
The third week of my batch at Recurse Center is finished.
It is still flying by too quickly.
Nine...
over a year ago
The third week of my batch at Recurse Center is finished.
It is still flying by too quickly.
Nine weeks left!
This week was a whirlwind and really busy.
I think I pushed myself too hard.
I had just recovered from my cold and was a little drained, and then got my COVID booster and...
Dan Slimmon
Why transaction order matters, even if you’re only reading
There are 4 isolation levels defined by the SQL standard, and Postgres supports them through the SET...
11 months ago
There are 4 isolation levels defined by the SQL standard, and Postgres supports them through the SET TRANSACTION statement. They are: This last guarantee is one against serialization anomalies. A serialization anomaly is any sequence of events that produces a result that would be...
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to run Python and Portray on Netlify
How to deploy Python projects to Netlify
over a year ago
How to deploy Python projects to Netlify
PostHog's RSS Feed
HogMail #17: The personal traits that can't be taught
Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product...
over a year ago
Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product guides, and curated articles on building great products…
bt RSS Feed
Yes, I Still Use jQuery
Yes, I Still Use jQuery
2019-04-15
I have seen a handful of condescending comments from front-end...
over a year ago
Yes, I Still Use jQuery
2019-04-15
I have seen a handful of condescending comments from front-end developers since the newest build of (jQuery 3.4.0) released a couple of days ago. While I understand not all developers share the same work-style or are using the same tech-stack,...
Joel Gascoigne
Acting with incomplete information in a startup
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over a year ago
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As a fledgling entrepreneur in the midst of a growing startup, I try to read
quite a lot around the subject. I’ve been deeply involved in startup culture for
around two years now and I often find...
Alex Meub
A Craigslist Early Notification Exploit
I wrote this post on November 23rd, 2020 when I reported the issue via Craigslist’s vulnerability...
over a year ago
I wrote this post on November 23rd, 2020 when I reported the issue via Craigslist’s vulnerability disclosure process. I didn’t want to publish it until I confirmed the issue was fixed, but it appears to have been fixed on February 28th, 2021 so I am posting it...
Computer Things
Be Suspicious of Success
From Leslie Lamport's Specifying Systems:
You should be suspicious if [the model checker] does not...
2 months ago
From Leslie Lamport's Specifying Systems:
You should be suspicious if [the model checker] does not find a violation of a liveness property... you should also be suspicious if [it] finds no errors when checking safety properties.
This is specifically in the context of...
ntietz.com blog
The Beginning of Something
It seems like everyone in the software industry goes through a blogging phase. This is the beginning...
over a year ago
It seems like everyone in the software industry goes through a blogging phase. This is the beginning of mine.
I have started this blog time and time again over the last three years. My original inspiration for having a technical blog came from one of my mentors at my internship....
Josh Comeau's blog
The Front-End Developer's Guide to the Terminal
If you want to learn a modern JavaScript framework like React or Angular, you better be familiar...
over a year ago
If you want to learn a modern JavaScript framework like React or Angular, you better be familiar with the terminal! So many frameworks and tools assume that you're proficient with it, without ever explaining it. This blog post is your missing manual, covering all of the most...
Alex MacCaw
Nothing matters
I'd just like to take a second to point out how absurd all this is. We're monkeys on a rock flying...
over a year ago
I'd just like to take a second to point out how absurd all this is. We're monkeys on a rock flying through space who've decided to climb down from the trees, put on costumes, and makeup names for each other.
We didn't
David Heinemeier...
Five big open source gifts from us
It’s been an incredibly productive year at 37signals. Perhaps our most productive one yet, in terms...
a year ago
It’s been an incredibly productive year at 37signals. Perhaps our most productive one yet, in terms of total number of product improvements, new product developments, and open source extractions. But it’s only by looking back at the work from a distance that you can really...
PostHog's RSS Feed
How we’re making PostHog deployments easier
When PostHog was born in 2020, it was a simple Python application (Django + Celery) backed by a...
over a year ago
When PostHog was born in 2020, it was a simple Python application (Django + Celery) backed by a PostgreSQL datastore. Troubleshooting was easy, while…
Kagi Blog
We moved mountains (of cotton) to deliver on our promise
Dear Kagi Community, Remember those t-shirts we promised ( https://blog.kagi.com/celebrating-20k ) ?...
3 months ago
Dear Kagi Community, Remember those t-shirts we promised ( https://blog.kagi.com/celebrating-20k ) ? Well, hold onto your search bars, because they’re finally ready to ship! TL;DR: Kagi Store ( https://store.kagi.com ).
bt RSS Feed
Using Parent Selectors in CSS
Using Parent Selectors in CSS
2018-12-19
I recently saw a Twitter thread posted by Tommy Hodgins on...
over a year ago
Using Parent Selectors in CSS
2018-12-19
I recently saw a Twitter thread posted by Tommy Hodgins on implementing highly requested styling features in CSS with only a minimal amount of JavaScript. Many of his examples are great, but the parent selector instantly peaked my...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Signs that a Startup is Going Bad
All rocketship startups are alike, but every fading startup is fading in its own way.
a year ago
All rocketship startups are alike, but every fading startup is fading in its own way.
A small freedom area...
Fixing the iterative damping interpolation in video games
As I'm exploring the fantastic world of indie game development lately, I end up
watching a large...
7 months ago
As I'm exploring the fantastic world of indie game development lately, I end up
watching a large number of video tutorials on the subject. Even though the
quality of the content is pretty variable, I'm very grateful to the creators
for it. That being said, I couldn't help...
Dan Slimmon
Incident, Inçident, Incidënt
When you deploy broken code, it may cause an incident. Then you'll have to declare an incident. And...
9 months ago
When you deploy broken code, it may cause an incident. Then you'll have to declare an incident. And don't forget to create an incident so customers can stay informed!
Paolo Amoroso's...
Upgrading Crostini Linux from Bullseye to Bookworm
<, as well as some [job sites](https://todorokis.medium.com/job-hunting-websites-to-get-an-it-job-in-japan-c7516846ce5) that...
Steve Klabnik
How often does Rust change?
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
swyx in 2024 End of Year wraps
i was involved in 3 end of year-ish recaps today:
2 weeks ago
i was involved in 3 end of year-ish recaps today:
Computer Things
A brief introduction to interval arithmetic
You've got a wall in your apartment and a couch. You measure the wall with a ruler and get 7 feet,...
6 months ago
You've got a wall in your apartment and a couch. You measure the wall with a ruler and get 7 feet, then you measure the couch and get 7 feet. Can you fit the couch against that wall?
Maybe. If the two measure is exactly 7 feet than sure, 7 ≤ 7. But you probably didn't line your...
HTMHell
Preloading fonts for web performance with link rel=”preload”
by Alistair Shepherd
Web performance is incredibly important. If you were here for the advent...
a week ago
by Alistair Shepherd
Web performance is incredibly important. If you were here for the advent calendar last year you may have already read many of my thoughts on the subject. If not, read Getting started with Web Performance when you’re done here!
This year I’m back for more web...
A Beautiful Site
An icon converter that supports multiple sizes and transparency
If you're looking for an online utility to convert JPEG, PNG, or GIF images to ICO format, here's...
over a year ago
If you're looking for an online utility to convert JPEG, PNG, or GIF images to ICO format, here's one that does exactly that. It supports full transparency when converting 24-bit PNGs and even lets you combine multiple resolutions into one icon file — perfect for generating...
Nelson's Weblog
Restic
Restic is good backup software.
It’s a command line tool for backing up filesystems to various
local...
11 months ago
Restic is good backup software.
It’s a command line tool for backing up filesystems to various
local and remote options. It is well
documented, easy to set up, secure, and quite fast. It’s a very
professional product. I am now backing up all my Linux systems with it.
Note it’s a...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Software 3.0 and the AI Engineer Landscape (talk notes & slides)
Everyone has gone AI mad, and there is a lot of noise, hype, and demos, but not a lot of guidance on...
a year ago
Everyone has gone AI mad, and there is a lot of noise, hype, and demos, but not a lot of guidance on practical usecases. We will go over a mental model of who is doing what and explain both where the opportunities are and where the non-AI developer can start going down the rabbit...
Ralph Ammer
Ludwig Wittgenstein – How we speak
This is a quick introduction to the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein.
The post Ludwig Wittgenstein...
over a year ago
This is a quick introduction to the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein.
The post Ludwig Wittgenstein – How we speak appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
PostHog's RSS Feed
The 9 best GDPR-compliant analytics tools
The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) places significant restrictions on how you can use...
a year ago
The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) places significant restrictions on how you can use tools like Google Analytics to track and collect user…
Darek Kay
Style your RSS feed
RSS is not dead. It is not mainstream, but it's still a thriving protocol, especially among tech...
a year ago
RSS is not dead. It is not mainstream, but it's still a thriving protocol, especially among tech users. However, many people do not know what RSS feeds are or how to use them. Most browsers render RSS as raw XML files, which doesn't help users understand what it's all about:
In...
TokyoDev
Pair Programming Event a Success
The [first pair programming event](https://trbmeetup.doorkeeper.jp/events/1777) of Tokyo Rubyist...
over a year ago
The [first pair programming event](https://trbmeetup.doorkeeper.jp/events/1777) of Tokyo Rubyist Meetup went event better than I expected it to. The event was hosted at [HatchUp's TechBuzz space](http://www.socialtoprunners.jp/techbuzz/), and started with an introduction to pair...
swyx's site RSS Feed
AmpliBox - a Self Hosted File Storage App with AWS Amplify
A demo using AWS S3 (Simple Storage Service) using Amplify Storage, Svelte, and Tailwind CSS
over a year ago
A demo using AWS S3 (Simple Storage Service) using Amplify Storage, Svelte, and Tailwind CSS
Ink & Switch
Local-First Conf, Ink Selection with Flux
A report from the inaugural Local-First Conference in Berlin, and a deep dive on a new ink selection...
5 months ago
A report from the inaugural Local-First Conference in Berlin, and a deep dive on a new ink selection model.
alexwlchan
A script to get Live Text from images
One of my favourite new features on Apple’s OSes in the last few years is Live Text, which is an...
over a year ago
One of my favourite new features on Apple’s OSes in the last few years is Live Text, which is an optical character recognition tool that lets you select text in images.
This sort of tech has been around for decades, but having it built into the OS makes it much easier to use.
The...
bt RSS Feed
Open Source Typeface Pairings
Open Source Typeface Pairings
2018-01-25
I always love finding new typeface pairings to use across...
over a year ago
Open Source Typeface Pairings
2018-01-25
I always love finding new typeface pairings to use across my personal and client projects, but I find many suggested pairings come with a hefty price tag (rightly so - premium typefaces are normally always worth their cost).
So, I’ve...
swyx's site RSS Feed
You're Allowed To Make Your Own Tools
Making personal side projects for fun and profit.
over a year ago
Making personal side projects for fun and profit.
PostHog's RSS Feed
Cancer and revenue - the latest board meeting
It has been a dramatic month. Four weeks ago, our 16 month old daughter was diagnosed with ...
over a year ago
It has been a dramatic month. Four weeks ago, our 16 month old daughter was diagnosed with retinoblastoma - a fairly rare form of cancer that…
Basta’s Notes
No sacred masterpieces
Or "that time I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it like a week after launch"
a year ago
Or "that time I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it like a week after launch"
David Heinemeier...
Developers are on edge
It's a double whammy of anxiety for developers at the moment. On the one hand, the layoffs are...
9 months ago
It's a double whammy of anxiety for developers at the moment. On the one hand, the layoffs are dragging on. The industry has shed more jobs in a shorter period than any time since the dot-com bust over twenty years ago. Seasoned veterans who used to have recruiters banging on...
swyx's site RSS Feed
TL;DR of Why React is Not Reactive
A recap of my first ever conference talk
over a year ago
A recap of my first ever conference talk
Josh Comeau's blog
The Surprising Truth About Pixels and Accessibility
“Should I use pixels or rems?”. In this comprehensive blog post, we'll answer this question once and...
over a year ago
“Should I use pixels or rems?”. In this comprehensive blog post, we'll answer this question once and for all. You'll learn about the accessibility implications, and how to determine the best unit to use in any scenario.
swyx's site RSS Feed
$120k in Infoproduct Sales - How to Extend the Long Tail
*This post originated as [an AMA on...
over a year ago
*This post originated as [an AMA on IndieHackers](https://www.indiehackers.com/post/made-121-326-since-launching-my-book-last-july-63-of-it-after-launch-month-ama-about-long-tail-infoproducts-41b55f5670)*
PostHog's RSS Feed
Tell me about features, not benefits
Features tell, benefits sell. Well, they used to. What are you talking about? Benefits are why ...
over a year ago
Features tell, benefits sell. Well, they used to. What are you talking about? Benefits are why someone would use your product. Features are what…
swyx's site RSS Feed
How To Deploy a Django App to Render.com
Messing around learning Django and deploying
over a year ago
Messing around learning Django and deploying
Alex Meub
Windows 98 Icons are Great
In my opinion, the UI design of Windows peaked in the late 1990s. The classic, utilitarian icons...
over a year ago
In my opinion, the UI design of Windows peaked in the late 1990s. The classic, utilitarian icons from Windows 98 just look amazing.
Why are they so good?
Rather than some designer’s flashy vision of the future, Windows 98 icons made the operating system feel like a place to get...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Fixing Up the Svelte Community Site
Adding GitHub Actions and Updating Data Dependencies
over a year ago
Adding GitHub Actions and Updating Data Dependencies
TokyoDev
Keeping your job board legal in Japan
I've previously written about [how recruiting is a licensed industry in...
a year ago
I've previously written about [how recruiting is a licensed industry in Japan](/articles/recruiting-in-japan), and because of this, [you need to be careful](/articles/legally-operating-a-job-board-in-japan) about how you operate your job board to ensure it isn't classified as...
Miguel Carranza
Evolution of my role as a founder CTO
There is a lot written about the importance of scaling as a founder in a fast-growing startup. Most...
over a year ago
There is a lot written about the importance of scaling as a founder in a fast-growing startup. Most of it focused on the CEO role. The generic advice on leadership also applies to other non-CEO roles, but I could not find a lot of content targeted to technical founders. In fact,...
ntietz.com blog
Write more "useless" software
After my last blog post about Hurl, someone asked me, and I quote: "... why?"
The simple answer is...
a year ago
After my last blog post about Hurl, someone asked me, and I quote: "... why?"
The simple answer is "for the joke."
But the longer answer is that useless software1 is a fantastic way to explore and experience the joy of computing.
Play is an important part of exploration and...
Making software...
Do You Have an Extra $10?
Do You Have an Extra $10?
2022-11-23
As software designers and developers, think of all the little...
over a year ago
Do You Have an Extra $10?
2022-11-23
As software designers and developers, think of all the little things that we spend $10 on. Maybe it's a couple coffees over the course of a week. Maybe it's a TV streaming subscription. Maybe it's an impulse buy while we're out shopping for...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
10 Design Rules for Programmers
For some reason, many developers disdain design. We are programmers, we are smart and rational, and...
over a year ago
For some reason, many developers disdain design. We are programmers, we are smart and rational, and we think technically. Designers are weird and artistic, they wear black sweaters and long scarves, they are no match to us. I never quite understood how you can ignore design if...
PostHog's RSS Feed
How we justified quitting our jobs and financing PostHog early on
Let me tell you a story of the financial pressures that face new founders and how that pressure...
over a year ago
Let me tell you a story of the financial pressures that face new founders and how that pressure motivated Tim and me to make an epic pivot leap…
Seán Barry
Presentation: Pushing Compute to the Browser
Exporting vast quantities of data from platforms is common, but queues, scaling & latency pose...
over a year ago
Exporting vast quantities of data from platforms is common, but queues, scaling & latency pose technical and real-world problems. Using a number of modern solutions like HTTP 2, web workers and careful state management with redux we can offload the work to the browser and deliver...
Making software...
Chasing Performance
Chasing Performance
2017-11-20
Update
This post is no longer relevant since this blog has been...
over a year ago
Chasing Performance
2017-11-20
Update
This post is no longer relevant since this blog has been redesigned since. I'm keeping this article up as a point of reference.
So I decided to participate in Smashing Mag's Front End Performance Challenge, not only for the potential of...
PostHog's RSS Feed
A simple guide to personal data and PII
Engineers and product managers need to be vigilant when collecting user data. Punitive GDPR fines...
over a year ago
Engineers and product managers need to be vigilant when collecting user data. Punitive GDPR fines can run to €20 million or 4% of a company's global…
Making software...
The Death of Personality
The Death of Personality
2017-11-01
On September 18, 2013 truly original product design (everything...
over a year ago
The Death of Personality
2017-11-01
On September 18, 2013 truly original product design (everything from icon and app design to UI and experience interactions) began it's fast decline into the abyss with the release of Apple's iOS 7 update. It was called revolutionary. It was...
Blog - Bitfield...
Cryptography in Go: AES encryption
AES is an amazing, state-of-the-art encryption system, and it’s built right
in to Go as part of...
4 months ago
AES is an amazing, state-of-the-art encryption system, and it’s built right
in to Go as part of the standard library. It’s also incredibly easy to use.
Let’s see how!
37signals Dev
Exploring server-side diffing in Turbo
We did a lot of exploratory work before coming up with the Turbo improvement we presented in Rails...
a year ago
We did a lot of exploratory work before coming up with the Turbo improvement we presented in Rails World. One of those experiments included diffing in the server instead of in the client.
The idea
The inspiration for this idea came, again, from Phoenix Live View, a library I find...
A Smart Bear
The Pattern-Seeking Fallacy
We humans are terrible at discerning patterns from randomness, and in marketing data we unwittingly...
9 months ago
We humans are terrible at discerning patterns from randomness, and in marketing data we unwittingly find "insights" that are actually noise. Here's how to fix that.
David Heinemeier...
Picking a purpose
Victor Frankl wrote Man’s Search for Meaning after surviving a concentration camp during World War...
a year ago
Victor Frankl wrote Man’s Search for Meaning after surviving a concentration camp during World War II. He observed the outer extreme of what happens to people who no longer have a WHY to live for. They’d wither and die in the camp. Even the most dire rations and punishing labor...
37signals Dev
Turbo 8 released
We’re excited to announce the release of Turbo v8, a major update to the Turbo front-end framework....
11 months ago
We’re excited to announce the release of Turbo v8, a major update to the Turbo front-end framework. This release introduces a suite of innovative features designed to enhance web development and user experiences across the board.
Here are the key highlights of Turbo v8:
Morphing...
Making software...
This Site is Now a Shinobi Website
This Site is Now a Shinobi Website
2022-05-13
Update 2023: this website is now built with barf
My...
over a year ago
This Site is Now a Shinobi Website
2022-05-13
Update 2023: this website is now built with barf
My personal website is now an RSS-focused blog, generated from a collection of plain text files.
But before we get into greater details about the switch, let me first introduce the...
Nelson's Weblog
Phanpy, a Mastodon client
Phanpy is good software for reading
Mastodon or other Fediverse posts. Astonishingly it’s an open...
7 months ago
Phanpy is good software for reading
Mastodon or other Fediverse posts. Astonishingly it’s an open source
passion project from a single developer, Chee
Aun. Its quality is extraordinary, better than most commercial social
media software.
There’s so many good things about Phanpy...
Renegade Otter
Code Lab - Job queues in Postgres
Introduction
Friendly Fire needs to periodically execute scheduled jobs - to remind Slack
users to...
a year ago
Introduction
Friendly Fire needs to periodically execute scheduled jobs - to remind Slack
users to review GitHub pull requests. Instead of bolting on a new system just for this, I
decided to leverage Postgres instead.
The must-have requirement was the ability to schedule a job...
Liz Denys
Route: annoying insurance upsell or online shopping data aggregator?
I've been increasingly seeing an item for Route Package Protection automatically added to my cart...
over a year ago
I've been increasingly seeing an item for Route Package Protection automatically added to my cart when I purchase things online:
I went partially through the checkout flow of a shop that uses Route with a $278 item I have no interest in purchasing to illustrate this...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Flutter for React Native Devs in 30 Seconds
You may have heard of [Flutter](https://flutter.io), Google's answer to React Native. What should...
over a year ago
You may have heard of [Flutter](https://flutter.io), Google's answer to React Native. What should you know?
Computer Things
Paradigms succeed when you can strip them for parts
I'm speaking at DDD Europe about Empirical Software Engineering!1 I have complicated thoughts about...
8 months ago
I'm speaking at DDD Europe about Empirical Software Engineering!1 I have complicated thoughts about ESE and foolishly decided to update my talk to cover studies on DDD, so I'm going to be spending a lot of time doing research. Newsletters for the next few weeks may be light.
The...
elementary Blog
OS 8 Now Available in Early Access
I’m super excited to let you know that OS 8 builds are available in Early Access and they are now...
11 months ago
I’m super excited to let you know that OS 8 builds are available in Early Access and they are now installable! While we highly recommend you don’t run these experimental builds in production, they’re perfect for trying in a virtual machine or a spare computer. Early Access is a...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Power of Personal Podcasting
Celebrating following 100 episodes of my mixtape, and reflecting on why this works
over a year ago
Celebrating following 100 episodes of my mixtape, and reflecting on why this works
David Heinemeier...
Kamal 1.0
I count my lucky stars that SUSE's pricing for Rancher and Harvester was so ridiculous over the top...
a year ago
I count my lucky stars that SUSE's pricing for Rancher and Harvester was so ridiculous over the top for our situation. If they hadn't reached for those million-dollar contracts, we'd probably be stuck in enterprise vendor hell forever, buying over-priced consulting services for...
Elad Blog
Why Has Israel Succeeded At COVID Vaccination?
Israel has pulled ahead of much in the world in its rate of vaccinating its citizens - with roughly...
over a year ago
Israel has pulled ahead of much in the world in its rate of vaccinating its citizens - with roughly 1% of the entire population vaccinated per day and over 23% of the country vaccinated in the first few weeks. The country hopes to have the entire population over age 16
bunnie's blog
Turning Everyday Gadgets into Bombs is a Bad Idea
I think turning everyday gadgets into bombs is a bad idea. However, recent news coverage has been...
3 months ago
I think turning everyday gadgets into bombs is a bad idea. However, recent news coverage has been framing the weaponization of pagers and radios in the Middle East as something we do not need to concern ourselves with because “we” are safe. I respectfully disagree. Our militaries...
Greg Brockman
OpenAI Five intro
The text of my speech introducing OpenAI Five at yesterday’s Benchmark event:
“We’re here to watch...
over a year ago
The text of my speech introducing OpenAI Five at yesterday’s Benchmark event:
“We’re here to watch humans and AI play Dota, but today’s match will have implications for the world. OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that when we can build machines as smart as humans, they will benefit...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Pensieve: Mar 9 2024 - on Dune 2
the jeff tang vs anton meetup today was a super interesting study in contrasts: Life vs Death
9 months ago
the jeff tang vs anton meetup today was a super interesting study in contrasts: Life vs Death
Josh Comeau's blog
Demystifying styled-components
For so many React devs, styled-components seems kinda magical. It isn't at all clear how it uses...
over a year ago
For so many React devs, styled-components seems kinda magical. It isn't at all clear how it uses traditional CSS features under-the-hood, and that lack of clarity can cause real problems when things go awry. In this post, we'll learn exactly how styled-components works by...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Networking Essentials: Switching
Discussing why we need Switches in a network and how they work
over a year ago
Discussing why we need Switches in a network and how they work
swyx's site RSS Feed
Set Explicit Help Timeouts
A simple way to normalize asking for help.
over a year ago
A simple way to normalize asking for help.
Jibran’s Perspective
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...
a month ago
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 -...
markround.com
Apollo Vampire V1200 Review
After months of being on the waiting list, I recently recieved my Apollo Vampire V1200V2...
over a year ago
After months of being on the waiting list, I recently recieved my Apollo Vampire V1200V2 accelerator! Since then, my Amiga has had a new lease of life so I thought I’d write an update covering all the stuff I would have wanted to know while I was waiting for the package to...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Keyboard First
I enjoyed listening to [Des and Paul's discussion of keyboard-first apps on their podcast...
over a year ago
I enjoyed listening to [Des and Paul's discussion of keyboard-first apps on their podcast today](https://art19.com/shows/intercom-on-product/episodes/10ee6fbe-13ef-48c6-af5e-3477bdbe87e3). They discussed the rise of the `cmd+K` UI paradigm in apps like:
Making software...
Prescription Form UI Improvements
Prescription Form UI Improvements
2019-03-13
I was browsing the Clearly website a few days ago and...
over a year ago
Prescription Form UI Improvements
2019-03-13
I was browsing the Clearly website a few days ago and ended up using their prescription form to update my worsening eyesight. The design of this form wasn't bad per se, but it could certainly be improved.
Current design of the...
Vadim Kravcenko
Fake it till you make it
If you’ve been doing anything related to the startup world the last few years, then you’ve heard the...
over a year ago
If you’ve been doing anything related to the startup world the last few years, then you’ve heard the term “fake […]
The post Fake it till you make it appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Narrow Waists
When talking about "Narrow Waists" I should clarify that I'm only referring to the term from the...
over a year ago
When talking about "Narrow Waists" I should clarify that I'm only referring to the term from the somewhat obscure "Internet Architecture" model of the different technology layers ([my notes here](https://dev.to/swyx/networking-essentials-architecture-and-principles-2g5e)):
Julia Evans
Some notes on NixOS
Hello! Over the holidays I decided it might be fun to run NixOS on one of my
servers, as part of my...
a year ago
Hello! Over the holidays I decided it might be fun to run NixOS on one of my
servers, as part of my continuing experiments with Nix.
My motivation for this was that previously I was using Ansible to
provision the server, but then I’d ad hoc installed a bunch of stuff on...
bt RSS Feed
Web Development on a $200 Chromebook
Web Development on a $200 Chromebook
2020-01-07
This blog post was written, edited and tested...
over a year ago
Web Development on a $200 Chromebook
2020-01-07
This blog post was written, edited and tested locally on a cheap $200 Chromebook. The article draft was composed in Sublime Text. Jekyll (the SSG this website uses) was generated via the Linux Beta Terminal running alongside Chrome...
Don Melton
Hot enough for you?
For some strange reason I checked the temperature today in Brawley, California, one of the many...
over a year ago
For some strange reason I checked the temperature today in Brawley, California, one of the many small towns in the Imperial Valley where I grew up.
It’s over 110 degrees Fahrenheit there as I write this. With a forecast for 123 degrees later today. The folks in Brawley sure know...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Scrollbar Shenanigans
Styling scrollbars for my space on the Internet
over a year ago
Styling scrollbars for my space on the Internet
swyx's site RSS Feed
Donating $10k to FreeCodeCamp
I benefited from FreeCodeCamp and would like to give back
over a year ago
I benefited from FreeCodeCamp and would like to give back
swyx's site RSS Feed
Supervised Learning: Support Vector Machines
Transforming dimensions, nearest neighbors, and boosting, all in service of "drawing the best line".
over a year ago
Transforming dimensions, nearest neighbors, and boosting, all in service of "drawing the best line".
bt RSS Feed
Cut Your Forms in Half
Cut Your Forms in Half
2019-05-09
Building web forms can sometimes feel like a boring or daunting...
over a year ago
Cut Your Forms in Half
2019-05-09
Building web forms can sometimes feel like a boring or daunting task. Don’t pass this dread on to your users - rip out as many of your form fields as possible.
Web forms tend to get a bad rep, mainly because so many horrible design choices are...
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: a stereogram in SQL
I'm spending this New Year holiday in sunny Florida. One of its most beautiful places is the...
over a year ago
I'm spending this New Year holiday in sunny Florida. One of its most beautiful places is the Everglades: the endless sea of grass, extending to the horizon, as far as the eye can see and beyond, and teeming with life. There are all kinds of animals there. Herons, egrets,...
Charles Chen
Your Interview Process Is Too Damn Long (and How To Fix It)
Long interview processes have become a bane in the tech industry. Can we fix it?
a year ago
Long interview processes have become a bane in the tech industry. Can we fix it?
Alex Meub
The Perfect Moscow Mule
The Moscow mule is one of my favorite cocktails because it’s simple, easy to make and delicious....
over a year ago
The Moscow mule is one of my favorite cocktails because it’s simple, easy to make and delicious. This is a guide to making the perfect Mule.
The Perfect Copper Mug
The copper mug is essential for a real Moscow Mule. Copper immediately takes on the temperature of the drink keeping...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Reloading a Document (and Preserving Query String Parameters) Using Only HTML
tl;dr: an empty string for your link, e.g. <a href="">Reload</a>
The other day I was trying to write...
a year ago
tl;dr: an empty string for your link, e.g. <a href="">Reload</a>
The other day I was trying to write some HTML to give the user the ability to reload the document in its exact state by clicking on a link (same functionality as if they hit CMD + R on their keyboard, or clicked...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Solving the mystery of PostHog’s missing session recordings
Session Recording is one of PostHog's core features, and one of the few completely open source...
over a year ago
Session Recording is one of PostHog's core features, and one of the few completely open source ression replay tools available. It allows you to see…
David Heinemeier...
Finished software
One of the driving aspirations behind once.com is the notion that not all software needs to evolve...
a year ago
One of the driving aspirations behind once.com is the notion that not all software needs to evolve forever. We’ve become so used to digital services being malleable that we’ve confused the possibility of software updates with their necessity. Some software can simply be finished,...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Why use feature flags? Benefits, types and use cases, explained
What is a feature flag? Feature flags (aka feature toggles) are a powerful tool to help improve your...
a year ago
What is a feature flag? Feature flags (aka feature toggles) are a powerful tool to help improve your product. They enable engineering teams to…
Hixie's Natural Log
Extracts from a private Q&A retrospective about the WHATWG
Several years ago, a group involved in standardisation in an industrial field reached out to me to...
a year ago
Several years ago, a group involved in standardisation in an industrial field reached out to me to learn more about our experience with the WHATWG. I thought some of my responses might have broader interest, and saved them for publication at some later date, and then promptly...
Remains of the Day
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...
over a year ago
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...
Josh Collinsworth
How to Check Uniqueness in an Array of Objects in JavaScript
Working with arrays of objects in JavaScript can be difficult. This post covers how to ensure all...
over a year ago
Working with arrays of objects in JavaScript can be difficult. This post covers how to ensure all object keys (IDs) are unique, and how to find non-unique values.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Shortcodes vs MDX
Comparing the two popular custom dynamic content solutions!
over a year ago
Comparing the two popular custom dynamic content solutions!
Ognjen Regoje •...
Not wanting to work remotely is now a competitive advantage
As much as working remotely is a competitive hiring advantage again, not wanting to work remotely is...
a year ago
As much as working remotely is a competitive hiring advantage again, not wanting to work remotely is now an advantage for getting hired.
A lot of companies are mandating returns to the office. Many more are scrapping fully remote positions, with some even rescinding fully-remote...
somenice
Generative Fill or Degenerate Phil
Generative fill in Adobe Photoshop (beta) is a pretty amazing tool to extend images. Background...
a year ago
Generative fill in Adobe Photoshop (beta) is a pretty amazing tool to extend images. Background artists, web designers, print layout artists, or anybody who deals with incorrect aspect ratios or odd image dimentions will be thrilled by the output. The image below represents a...
macwright.com
You can finally use :has() in most places by
The hot new thing in CSS is :has() and Firefox finally supports it, starting today - so the...
a year ago
The hot new thing in CSS is :has() and Firefox finally supports it, starting today - so the compatibility table is pretty decent (89% at this writing). I already used has() in a previous post - that Strava CSS hack, but I’m finding it useful in so many places.
For example, in Val...
Alex MacCaw
The six principles of lifestyle businesses
Let's talk about what makes a great lifestyle business.
over a year ago
Let's talk about what makes a great lifestyle business.
Making software...
Dynamic Checkboxes
Dynamic Checkboxes
2019-07-30
Checkboxes are used quite frequently on forms across the web. Whether...
over a year ago
Dynamic Checkboxes
2019-07-30
Checkboxes are used quite frequently on forms across the web. Whether you're selecting a pricing plan during a site's sign-up process or just simply selecting to opt-out from a newsletter, you have most likely interacted with some form of checkbox...
A Smart Bear
The Elephant in the room: The myth of exponential hypergrowth
Fast-growing startups are frequently described as “exponential,” especially when the product is...
over a year ago
Fast-growing startups are frequently described as “exponential,” especially when the product is “viral.” Turns out, this is incorrect, even for Facebook and Slack. If you have an incorrect model, you don’t understand growth, which means you can’t control it, nor predict it. Here...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Blogpost Annealing
Letting my writing improve under the heat of feedback
over a year ago
Letting my writing improve under the heat of feedback
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] Mathematical analysis explained with Python, blood, and TNT
A brief introduction to mathematical analysis with a little SymPy on the side. The page explains how...
over a year ago
A brief introduction to mathematical analysis with a little SymPy on the side. The page explains how to disassemble a function, and how to assemble it back from the derivatives.
Engineer’s Codex
How Google writes clean, maintainable code
Google's SWE Book explains their readability process and style guides
a year ago
Google's SWE Book explains their readability process and style guides
The Changelog
The Joy of Easy Personal Radio: FRS, GMRS, and Motorola DLR/DTR
Most of us carry cell phones with us almost everywhere we go. So much so that we often forget not...
over a year ago
Most of us carry cell phones with us almost everywhere we go. So much so that we often forget not just the usefulness, but even the joy, of having our own radios. For instance: When traveling to national parks or other wilderness areas, family and friends can keep in touch even...
Computer Things
Logic for Programmers now in early access!
I am delighted to announce that Logic for Programmers is now available for purchase! While still in...
5 months ago
I am delighted to announce that Logic for Programmers is now available for purchase! While still in early access, it's almost 20,000 words, has 30 exercises, and covers a wide variety of logic applications:
Property testing
Functional correctness and contracts
Formal...
Neil Panchal
Introducing Berkeley Mono
Now publicly available!
Berkeley Mono Typeface
Download a trial:...
over a year ago
Now publicly available!
Berkeley Mono Typeface
Download a trial: https://berkeleygraphics.com/typefaces/berkeley-mono
It will be available through Berkeley Graphics agency as a first release.
Berkeley Mono Typeface
Berkeley Mono is a love letter to the golden era of computing....
Elad Blog
Transcript & Video: Fireside w/ Dylan Field
Figma, AI, Design, & Education
a year ago
Figma, AI, Design, & Education
Civic Hax
Chicago Parking Ticket Visualization
Intro
Hi there! In this post, I want to show off a fun little web app I made for visualizing parking...
over a year ago
Intro
Hi there! In this post, I want to show off a fun little web app I made for visualizing parking tickets in Chicago, but because I've spent so much time on the overall project, I figured I'd share the story that got me to this point. In many ways, this work is the foundation...
HTMHell
Meaningful labels using ARIA – or not.
If I had a dollar for every time I've had to tell someone to remove an aria-label from an...
over a year ago
If I had a dollar for every time I've had to tell someone to remove an aria-label from an interactive control that has actual visible text, I could have bought Twitter! As a former developer and current accessibility consultant, it is my sincere hope that by reading this article,...
the singularity is...
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...
3 weeks ago
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...
The Changelog
Roundup of Secure Messengers with Off-The-Grid Capabilities (Distributed/Mesh Messengers)
Amid all the conversation about Signal, and the debate over decentralization, one thing has often...
over a year ago
Amid all the conversation about Signal, and the debate over decentralization, one thing has often not been raised: all of these things require an Internet connection. “Of course,” you might say. “Internet is everywhere these days.” Well, not so much, and it turns out there are...
Paolo Amoroso's...
The first three months since my return to Linux
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