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Irrational...
Internal comms for executives. Whenever an executive joins a new company, there is an awkward merger between the executive’s...
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Whenever an executive joins a new company, there is an awkward merger between the executive’s preferred communication style and the norms that organization has already established. I remember a recently joined executive complaining that engineers weren’t reading his emails. He...
Confessions of a...
Celebrating 2^13 Subscribers & My Birthday I started this Substack on 23rd April, 2024 from 0 subscribers with a dream of writing deeply...
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I started this Substack on 23rd April, 2024 from 0 subscribers with a dream of writing deeply technical articles and making a living.
bt RSS Feed
Dynamic Viewports with CSS Dynamic Viewports with CSS 2023-02-08 I think it’s safe to assume most web designers and developers...
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Dynamic Viewports with CSS 2023-02-08 I think it’s safe to assume most web designers and developers are familiar with the standard vh and vw parameters in CSS. These parameters are used for setting an element’s height and/or width, relative to the viewport (v) height (h) or width...
markround.com
DevOps for the Sinclair Spectrum - Part 2 In Part 1, I explored the hardware and development environment. In this article, I’ll cover the...
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In Part 1, I explored the hardware and development environment. In this article, I’ll cover the server-side components as well as coding and launching the first iteration of the site along with some of the limitations I encountered when programming on such an old system. Server...
Blog System/5
Rust doesn't solve the CrowdStrike outage Look, I like Rust. I really, really do, and I agree with the premise that memory-unsafe languages...
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Look, I like Rust. I really, really do, and I agree with the premise that memory-unsafe languages like C++ should not be used anymore. But claiming that Rust would have prevented the massive outage that the world went through last Friday is misleading and actively harmful to...
David Heinemeier...
Beautiful motivations Programmers are often skeptical of aesthetics because they frequently associate it with veneering. A...
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Programmers are often skeptical of aesthetics because they frequently associate it with veneering. A thin sheen of flashy marketing design covering up for a rotten or deficient product. Something that looks good from afar, but reveals itself to be a disappointing imitation up...
Stephen Wolfram...
We’ve Got a Science Opportunity Overload: It’s Time to Launch the Wolfram Institute! Suddenly There’s Just So Much New Science to Do Something remarkable has happened these past two...
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Suddenly There’s Just So Much New Science to Do Something remarkable has happened these past two years. For 45 years I’ve devoted myself to building a taller and taller tower of science and technology—which along the way has delivered many outputs of which I’m quite proud. But...
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
Joel Gascoigne
Want to be happy and successful? Bring happiness to others * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * For the last 3...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * For the last 3 months I’ve regularly been meeting startup founders here in Hong Kong to try and help them with the biggest challenges they have. It’s been truly enjoyable and fascinating. I feel...
PostHog's RSS Feed
In-depth: PostHog vs Amplitude Contents: How is PostHog different to Amplitude? PostHog vs Amplitude feature comparison...
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Contents: How is PostHog different to Amplitude? PostHog vs Amplitude feature comparison Integrations and data sources Strengths of PostHog Strengths…
Blog - Bitfield...
Rust and Go vs everything else Alex Pliutau and I discuss what Go programmers should know about Rust, and why the two languages...
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Alex Pliutau and I discuss what Go programmers should know about Rust, and why the two languages make perfect partners.
Coding Horror
The Great Filter Comes For Us All With a 13 billion year head start on evolution, why haven't any other forms of life in the universe...
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With a 13 billion year head start on evolution, why haven't any other forms of life in the universe contacted us by now? teaching the aliens how to exit Vim (Arrival is a fantastic movie. Watch it, but don't stop there - read the Story of
swyx's site RSS Feed
Unsupervised Learning: Randomized Optimization Hill Climbing, Simulated Annealing, Genetic Algorithms, oh my!
over a year ago
Basta’s Notes
Don't ask me to embarrass myself. Or: Please Lucy, stop asking me to kick the football.
12 months ago
davidyat.es
Year X
a year ago
Engineer’s Codex
How Fireship became YouTube's favorite programmer How Fireship wins YouTube
9 months ago
macwright.com
A shortcut for bash using tt by () I heavily use the ~/tmp directory of my computer and have the habit of moving to it, creating a new...
a year ago
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a year ago
I heavily use the ~/tmp directory of my computer and have the habit of moving to it, creating a new temporary directory, moving into that, and creating a short-lived project. Finally I automated that and have been actually using the automation: I wrote this tiny zsh function...
David Heinemeier...
Stick with the customer One of the biggest mistakes that new startup founders make is trying to get away from the...
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One of the biggest mistakes that new startup founders make is trying to get away from the customer-facing roles too early. Whether it's customer support or it's sales, it's an incredible advantage to have the founders doing that work directly, and for much longer than they find...
Ralph Ammer
J.J. Gibson—The meaning of the world A quick introduction for beginners to J.J. Gibson's ecological approach to visual perception. Gibson...
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A quick introduction for beginners to J.J. Gibson's ecological approach to visual perception. Gibson was an American pragmatist and psychologist. The post J.J. Gibson—The meaning of the world appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Power of Fast Feedback Cycles I was hyperlinked to this comment where Rich Harris stopped by Hacker News to clarify his position...
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I was hyperlinked to this comment where Rich Harris stopped by Hacker News to clarify his position on the (controversial?) steps Svelte is taking to move off Typescript in favor of types-via-JSDoc comments. First off, I love how Rich prefaces his comments by basically saying,...
Charles Chen
React is the New IBM You’ll never get fired for picking it, but it’s going to be expensive, bloated, difficult to get...
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You’ll never get fired for picking it, but it’s going to be expensive, bloated, difficult to get right, and joyless every step of the way.
Ink & Switch
Ink Note Fall 2023: Phase 2 Snapshot At the end of Phase 2 of our “Ongoing Ink” project, we shared a handful of small progress reports.
a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
The best Google Optimize alternatives for apps and websites Google recently confirmed the sunsetting Google Optimize, its A/B testing platform. In a statement ...
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Google recently confirmed the sunsetting Google Optimize, its A/B testing platform. In a statement on its website, Google said: "Google Optimize and…
David Gerrells
journey before destination It is hard to be focused and motivated when ones eyes are not on the task at hand but rather the...
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It is hard to be focused and motivated when ones eyes are not on the task at hand but rather the accolades in the future.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Pick Up What They Put Down > Translations welcome!...
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> Translations welcome! ([Português](https://meleu.github.io/artigos-traduzidos/aprenda-em-publico-hack.html))
bt RSS Feed
Two Weeks with the DuckDuckGo Browser Two Weeks with the DuckDuckGo Browser 2022-05-17 After using the beta apps for the new DuckDuckGo...
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Two Weeks with the DuckDuckGo Browser 2022-05-17 After using the beta apps for the new DuckDuckGo browser for both macOS and iOS, I have returned to Safari. This switch back doesn’t mean that these browsers are bad by any means. Both browsers are decently fine for casual users....
swyx's site RSS Feed
Networking Essentials: Rate Limiting and Traffic Shaping How Computer Networks shape, police, measure, and limit the traffic that flow across them.
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Introducing HogQL: Direct SQL access for PostHog Today, we're releasing a major new feature as a public beta: the ability to directly query your...
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Today, we're releasing a major new feature as a public beta: the ability to directly query your PostHog data using SQL . We call this HogQL because…
PostHog's RSS Feed
7 best free open source LLM observability tools right now To build LLM-powered apps, developers need to know how users are using their app. LLM observability...
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To build LLM-powered apps, developers need to know how users are using their app. LLM observability tools help them do this by capturing LLM provider…
bt RSS Feed
Basic Gulp Build for Sass Basic Gulp Build for Sass 2019-01-15 Some designers might shy away from build tools when first...
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Basic Gulp Build for Sass 2019-01-15 Some designers might shy away from build tools when first starting out and I can understand the reasoning - task runners like gulp and grunt can seem daunting at first. So, I’ve decided to showcase my go-to setup for gulp and explain what the...
Steve Klabnik
Abstract vs concrete
over a year ago
Epic Web Dev
A Deep Dive in Tailwind Font Settings (tip) Take a deep dive on multiple approaches for controlling typographic settings on an element with...
11 months ago
TokyoDev
Announcing the 2022 International Developers in Japan Survey The 2022 International Developers in Japan Survey is now live! By taking this survey, you'll be...
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The 2022 International Developers in Japan Survey is now live! By taking this survey, you'll be helping other developers living here better understand the experience of their peers, and also help people considering making the move here understand what working here is actually...
Ink & Switch
Ink Note Q2 2025: Sketchy Calendar Can we have a calendar that combines the convenience of a digital calendar with the simplicity and...
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4 months ago
Can we have a calendar that combines the convenience of a digital calendar with the simplicity and expressivity you get from pen & paper?
Blog - Bitfield...
Rust error handling: Option & Result The night is dark and full of errors, so how should we handle these gracefully and safely in our...
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The night is dark and full of errors, so how should we handle these gracefully and safely in our Rust programs? Let’s introduce two of every Rust programmer’s favourite types: Option and Result.
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...
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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...
Evan Jones -...
Network Latencies in the Data Center Jeff Dean used to do a talk that included "Numbers Everyone Should Know" (2007 at Stanford, 2009 at...
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Jeff Dean used to do a talk that included "Numbers Everyone Should Know" (2007 at Stanford, 2009 at LADIS), which included "round trip within same data center" as 500 us. I was recently wondering if that is still true, and more importantly what does the distribution of latencies...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Data outlasts Code, yet Code keeps winning My recent End of Localhost piece on Hacker News came with the usual dash of HN criticism devolving...
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My recent End of Localhost piece on Hacker News came with the usual dash of HN criticism devolving into blaming beginners for not knowing the same parts of the stack that they consider mandatory:
blag
Recurse Center Day 17 Disk Storage I
over a year ago
Ferd.ca
Embrace Complexity; Tighten Your Feedback Loops 2023/06/20 Embrace Complexity; Tighten Your Feedback Loops This post contains a transcript of the...
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2023/06/20 Embrace Complexity; Tighten Your Feedback Loops This post contains a transcript of the talk I wrote for and gave at QCon New York 2023 for Vanessa Huerta Granda's track on resilience engineering. The official talk title was "Embrace Complexity; Tighten Your Feedback...
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....
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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...
HTMHell
Improving User Experience for Multilingual Web Browsing by Anastasiia Batarei Today, I’d like to talk about the experience of browsing websites where...
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by Anastasiia Batarei Today, I’d like to talk about the experience of browsing websites where content is fully or partially in a language different from the user’s native one. This situation is common for users navigating government portals or local service providers in a country...
Josh Comeau's blog
Effective Collaboration with Product and Design How we work with design can have a tremendous impact on our overall output, and yet we don't always...
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How we work with design can have a tremendous impact on our overall output, and yet we don't always treat it as very important. A look at how collaborating with design can supercharge our own productivity.
PostHog's RSS Feed
The state of plugins on PostHog Update (May 2022): Plugins are now known as apps ! The plugin server has become an integral part...
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Update (May 2022): Plugins are now known as apps ! The plugin server has become an integral part of PostHog, as it is responsible for event…
Blog System/5
Demystifying secure NFS My lab notes on the arduous process of setting up NFSv4 with Kerberos across a Synology NAS and...
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My lab notes on the arduous process of setting up NFSv4 with Kerberos across a Synology NAS and various Linux and FreeBSD clients.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Netlify Year One - 360 Review I thought I would write a quick coda to my [Netlify Year...
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I thought I would write a quick coda to my [Netlify Year One](https://www.swyx.io/writing/netlify-year-one) Recap. That post was entirely me looking back at myself. It's helpful to see what others said about me at my review.
TokyoDev
Childcare Options in Japan Though arranging childcare in Japan can be tricky, there are a wide variety of options available....
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Though arranging childcare in Japan can be tricky, there are a wide variety of options available. Services will vary greatly depending on your location, the ages of your children, and the time of year. This article explores all of the most common childcare offerings, to get you...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Implementation of optimized vector of strings in C++ in SumatraPDF SumatraPDF is a fast, small, open-source PDF reader for Windows, written in C++. This article...
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SumatraPDF is a fast, small, open-source PDF reader for Windows, written in C++. This article describes how I implemented StrVec class for efficiently storing multiple strings. Much ado about the strings Strings are among the most used types in most programs. Arrays...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Introducing the Avo Inspector app We're excited to announce that we have launched a new app with Avo , a leading data governance...
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We're excited to announce that we have launched a new app with Avo , a leading data governance platform which enables you track data consistently and…
Vadim Kravcenko
Being a good mentor – a developers guide Let’s talk about the process where the experienced welcome the inexperienced under their wing and...
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Let’s talk about the process where the experienced welcome the inexperienced under their wing and illuminate the path ahead. I’ve […] The post Being a good mentor – a developers guide appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
A Beautiful Site
GIF, JPEG or PNG? Using images on the web This article aims to describe the difference between the three most popular types of images used on...
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This article aims to describe the difference between the three most popular types of images used on the Web, and how to use them effectively in your websites. JPEG # JPEG files are compressed images that maintain a balance of size versus quality. For example: More compression =...
The Changelog
KDE: A Nice Tiling Envieonment and a Surprisingly Awesome DE I recently wrote that managing an external display on Linux shouldn’t be this hard. I went down a...
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I recently wrote that managing an external display on Linux shouldn’t be this hard. I went down a path of trying out some different options before finally landing at an unexpected place: KDE. I say “unexpected” because I find tiling window managers are just about a necessity....
Julia Evans
Importing a frontend Javascript library without a build system I like writing Javascript without a build system and for the millionth time yesterday I ran into a...
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I like writing Javascript without a build system and for the millionth time yesterday I ran into a problem where I needed to figure out how to import a Javascript library in my code without using a build system, and it took FOREVER to figure out how to import it because...
A Smart Bear
Satisficing vs Maximizing Fast, or Best? Choose your decision-making goal wisely, especially if you're a natural...
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Fast, or Best? Choose your decision-making goal wisely, especially if you're a natural perfectionist.
Blog of Simple...
Road to 1 million ARR - August Update
a year ago
The Pragmatic...
The state of startup funding I’ve crunched data from a variety of sources for a sense of how startup funding is trending. So far,...
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I’ve crunched data from a variety of sources for a sense of how startup funding is trending. So far, it’s downwards. What does this mean for tech? My analysis.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
All About That Button, ’Bout That Button In modern SPAs it’s common to immediately escape baked-in browser behaviors. For example, using...
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In modern SPAs it’s common to immediately escape baked-in browser behaviors. For example, using <button> often looks like this: <div> <input type="text" name="q" /> <button type="submit" onClick={(e) => { // Stop the baked-in behavior ...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Why Tailwind CSS Why I changed my mind on Tailwind CSS, and why I now consider it the Goldilocks Styling Solution
over a year ago
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Are many useStates better than useState(object)? Lately I've converted a lot of class components to functional. One question left me curious every...
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Lately I've converted a lot of class components to functional. One question left me curious every time — why do I feel like splitting the old class state into so many useState(atom) — one for each state key? Is there any real benefit in it? Should I just leave a single...
the singularity is...
A Way Forward “For example, if one believes that affirmative action is good for black people, does it make sense...
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“For example, if one believes that affirmative action is good for black people, does it make sense to demand affirmative action in hostile or dogmatic terms? Obviously it would be more productive to take a diplomatic and conciliatory approach that would make at least verbal and...
A Beautiful Site
Tips for the aspiring web developer So you want to be a web developer...excellent choice! It's a very rewarding position that can be a...
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So you want to be a web developer...excellent choice! It's a very rewarding position that can be a lot more fun than most other programming jobs. However, before you take the plunge into a career in web development, there are a few things you should probably consider. A different...
Max Countryman
Indie Web Stack of the Future You're a soloprenuer building a SaaS in 2023. What does your ideal tech stack look like? There's a...
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You're a soloprenuer building a SaaS in 2023. What does your ideal tech stack look like? There's a few things that make indie development different and we should design our stack around our unique goals. Let's explore an ideal web stack we can build the future on.
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
2025-06-25 Wed: Automatic Chrome Dev Tools workspace setup In Chrome Dev Tools you can setup a mapping between the files web server sends to the browser and...
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In Chrome Dev Tools you can setup a mapping between the files web server sends to the browser and files on disk. This allows editing files in dev tools and having those changes saved to a file, which is handy. Early in 2025 they’ve added a way to automatically configure this...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Using Whisper to Transcribe Podcasts You want
over a year ago
Maggie Appleton
The Art and Craft of Gatsby Themes Illustrated notes on building Gatsby themes
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
On The Importance of 15-5 Updates We had a delightful discussion on the importance of writing weekly updates in this week's [Coding...
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We had a delightful discussion on the importance of writing weekly updates in this week's [Coding Career Community meetup](https://learninpublic.org/#community). I rarely get so excited about an idea I immediately know I need to start doing it, so I'm choosing to write it up to...
bt RSS Feed
Happily Paying For macOS Apps Happily Paying For macOS Apps 2022-06-29 It’s no secret that I am a huge advocate for open source...
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Happily Paying For macOS Apps 2022-06-29 It’s no secret that I am a huge advocate for open source software. A solid chunk of my day-to-day workload is done so via FOSS1 systems. I also manage a handful of fun side projects that are normally shipped under either MIT or GPL...
David Heinemeier...
Apple needs a new asshole in charge When things are going well, managers can fool themselves into thinking that people trying their best...
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When things are going well, managers can fool themselves into thinking that people trying their best is all that matters. Poor outcomes are just another opportunity for learning! But that delusion stops working when the wheels finally start coming off — like they have now for...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Betwixt Reason and Result I'm writing to you from a cheap hostel in downtown Toronto ([Hostelling...
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I'm writing to you from a cheap hostel in downtown Toronto ([Hostelling International](https://reservations.hostellingtoronto.com/iqreservations/asp/IQHome.asp), highly recommend for solo travel, I have stayed in SF, LA, NY, PHL, TO, NZ and more I probably forget) where a cute...
Making software...
February 2022 Update February 2022 Update 2022-02-23 It's been a little quiet around here lately and for good reason: my...
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February 2022 Update 2022-02-23 It's been a little quiet around here lately and for good reason: my wife gave birth to our third child last Thursday. Her name is Harmony and she was born in the late afternoon weighing in at 7 pounds 8 ounces. Besides the lack of sleep, everything...
HTMHell
The devil is in the &lt;details&gt; by J. Pedro Ribeiro Not too long ago, building an accordion component would require you to use a...
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by J. Pedro Ribeiro Not too long ago, building an accordion component would require you to use a combination of JavaScript and CSS. If you've been around for as long as I have, you might have used a library like jQuery or Mootools. "vanilla", your code would look something like...
Alex Meub
Chromecast Backgrounds I finally had a chance to use my Chromecast over the past few weeks. In doing so I noticed that the...
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I finally had a chance to use my Chromecast over the past few weeks. In doing so I noticed that the background images that cycle through the home screen are pretty awesome. I looked into it and was able to find the URL that this page uses and pull all the images using a Node...
Tony Finch's blog
BIND9 dnssec-policy appendices Here are some miscellaneous unsorted notes about BIND9’s dnssec-policy that turned out not to be...
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Here are some miscellaneous unsorted notes about BIND9’s dnssec-policy that turned out not to be useful in my previous blog posts, but which some readers might find informative. Some of them I learned the hard way, so I hope I can make it easier for others! contents of key...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Computers Are a Feeling Exploring diagram.website, I came across The Computer is a Feeling by Tim Hwang and Omar Rizwan: ...
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5 days ago
Exploring diagram.website, I came across The Computer is a Feeling by Tim Hwang and Omar Rizwan: the modern internet exerts a tyranny over our imagination. The internet and its commercial power has sculpted the computer-device. It's become the terrain of flat, uniform, common...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
A Well Known URL For Your Personal Avatar Well-known URLs are pretty neat. I’ve even dared propose one before here on my blog. And now I’m...
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Well-known URLs are pretty neat. I’ve even dared propose one before here on my blog. And now I’m here to propose another: .well-known/avatar The idea is: anybody that owns a domain can put their avatar in a well-known location. I’ve already implemented this for my own site[1]....
HTMHell
#3 image-buttons Bad code <img src="/images/edit.gif" onclick="openEditDialog(123)"> <img src="/images/delete.gif"...
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over a year ago
Bad code <img src="/images/edit.gif" onclick="openEditDialog(123)"> <img src="/images/delete.gif" onclick="openDeleteDialog(123)"> Issues and how to fix them The purpose of the img element is to display images, not to execute JavaScript. A click event on a img triggers only on...
Eric Bailey
Presentation panic I used to get panic attacks when I had to give a client presentation. This was before I was really...
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over a year ago
I used to get panic attacks when I had to give a client presentation. This was before I was really aware of my anxiety and depression—I didn’t know what they were or what caused them. Because of this, I spent way too much time fixating on the symptoms, and not the cause. Both my...
swyx's site RSS Feed
I'm Writing A Book! I'm writing a Dev Career Advice book... and I'm scared shitless!
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
How we raised $3M for an open source project Open source projects have long battled with how to finance themselves. PostHog is lucky to have...
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over a year ago
Open source projects have long battled with how to finance themselves. PostHog is lucky to have significant funding and wanted to share what we did…
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Types in JavaScript With Zod and JSDoc There are cases where I like types in JavaScript. And I don’t mind Typescript, especially for bigger...
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over a year ago
There are cases where I like types in JavaScript. And I don’t mind Typescript, especially for bigger projects — as long as somebody more knowledgable than me sets it up and maintains it. When I want type hints in VSCode for smaller, personal projects, I use JSDoc which lets you...
Daniel Marino
Don’t Overthink Remote Working The coronavirus is here, and as a result a lot of employers are asking employees to work remotely if...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The coronavirus is here, and as a result a lot of employers are asking employees to work remotely if possible. I’ve seen a fair share of tips for remote working blog posts this past week. I figured I’d cash in on the action and share my thoughts. Don’t Overthink It Most of the...
David Heinemeier...
The most interesting people We didn’t used to need an explanation for having kids. That was just life. That’s just what you did....
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We didn’t used to need an explanation for having kids. That was just life. That’s just what you did. But now we do, because now we don’t. So allow me: Having kids means making the most interesting people in the world. Not because toddlers or even teenagers are intellectual...
alexwlchan
Spotting spam in our CloudFront logs About two months ago, I wrote about some Python code I’d written to parse CloudFront logs. I wrote...
a year ago
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a year ago
About two months ago, I wrote about some Python code I’d written to parse CloudFront logs. I wrote this code to help with analysing some searches on wellcomecollection.org, and I thought it would be useful to explain a bit more of what I was doing. There’s a lot of spam in the...
Eric Bailey
Building a Good Download… Button?
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Becoming an Asshole Read more about RSS Club. I’ve been reading Apple in China by Patrick McGee. There’s this...
4 weeks ago
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4 weeks ago
Read more about RSS Club. I’ve been reading Apple in China by Patrick McGee. There’s this part in there where he’s talking about a guy who worked for Apple and was known for being ruthless, stopping at nothing to negotiate the best deal for Apple. He was so aggressive yet...
Max Countryman
People-First Leadership Investment in people is absolutely essential to building a business that's not just getting by but...
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Investment in people is absolutely essential to building a business that's not just getting by but actively thriving. People-first leadership offers an approach which consistently cultivates an environment where folks can show up and do their best work, propelling the business...
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Analyzing Tesla AI Day 2022 I was fortunate enough to attend this year’s Tesla AI Day. Tesla’s architecture has always been...
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I was fortunate enough to attend this year’s Tesla AI Day. Tesla’s architecture has always been interesting to me because their hardware limitations drive advances in their software. Relative to other players in the industry: Low-spec sensors require ML- and data-first...
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We go over the "Wake up, Remix!" article by the remix team and talk about their decisions moving forward and also speculate on what is coming next.
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Proper UI Hierarchy Proper UI Hierarchy 2019-02-05 I often feel like an old man when I complain about flat design and...
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Proper UI Hierarchy 2019-02-05 I often feel like an old man when I complain about flat design and how designers these days have lost (or willfully forgotten) the skill to create accessible UIs with proper visual hierarchy. A skill which at it's core seems so simple - yet is...
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If you've ever worked in, on, with, or around the Internet, you've undoubtedly heard the terms "Web Designer" and "Web Developer". Oftentimes, the two phrases are used interchangeably by someone who is not familiar with the industry. Perhaps the concept is irrelevant to a...
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Clojure macros continue to surprise me Clojure macros have two modes: avoid them at all costs/do very basic stuff, or go absolutely...
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Clojure macros have two modes: avoid them at all costs/do very basic stuff, or go absolutely crazy. Here’s the problem: I’m working on Humble UI’s component library, and I wanted to document it. While at it, I figured it could serve as an integration test as well—since I showcase...
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Hosting with Codeberg Pages Hosting with Codeberg Pages 2022-07-29 I recently switched the pblog project repo over from...
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Hosting with Codeberg Pages 2022-07-29 I recently switched the pblog project repo over from Sourcehut to Codeberg (mostly for UX reasons) and it got me looking into Codeberg Pages. It seemed like a cleaner approach to host my personal blog on the same platform I planned to also...
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Using the Switch(true) Pattern in JavaScript The switch true pattern isn't well known but it is incredibly useful. It's not a JavaScript specific...
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The switch true pattern isn't well known but it is incredibly useful. It's not a JavaScript specific pattern, but I use it in almost every single project.
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Winner, Name that Ware April 2023 The ware for April 2023 is an X-rite DTP22 spectrophotometer. This one almost made it through the...
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The ware for April 2023 is an X-rite DTP22 spectrophotometer. This one almost made it through the month without being guessed, but congrats to cpresser for figuring it out in the last week! email me for your prize. Here’s some more context images of the ware. The colored filter...
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Profile on Livecycle.io Devx Project I was interviewed for Livecycle's DevX interview series here. Reproducing for posterity.
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Our switch to Kamal is complete In a fit of frustration, I wrote the first version of Kamal in six weeks at the start of 2023. Our...
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In a fit of frustration, I wrote the first version of Kamal in six weeks at the start of 2023. Our plan to get out of the cloud was getting bogged down in enterprisey pricing and Kubernetes complexity. And I refused to accept that running our own hardware had to be that expensive...
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How Python Compares Floats and Ints: When Equals Isn’t Really Equal Another Python gotcha and an investigation into its internals to understand why this happens
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Normal boyhood is ADHD Nearly a quarter of seventeen-year-old boys in America have an ADHD diagnosis. That's crazy. But...
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Nearly a quarter of seventeen-year-old boys in America have an ADHD diagnosis. That's crazy. But worse than the diagnosis is that the majority of them end up on amphetamines, like Adderall or Ritalin. These drugs allow especially teenage boys (diagnosed at 2-3x the rate of girls)...
Dan Quach Blog
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These are a mix of stories from Norway, Croatia, and Slovenia from some past trips. Make Serbia Great Again Our first stop is the city of Dubrovnik in Croatia, which has become well known being the primary filming location for Game of Thrones seasons 2 – 8.  I watched the series,...
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4 Q&A's on Blogging for Developers Answering Q&A's
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Cookie banners show everything that's wrong with the EU Companies have spent billions on cookie banner compliance only to endlessly annoy users with no...
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Companies have spent billions on cookie banner compliance only to endlessly annoy users with no material improvement to their privacy, but this unsightly blight is still with us (and the rest of the internet!). All because the EU has no mechanism for self-correcting its...
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Visualizing the FIDE World Chess Championship This week is Never Graduate Week at the Recurse Center, where alumni come back to do Recurse-y...
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This week is Never Graduate Week at the Recurse Center, where alumni come back to do Recurse-y things together. It's a great experience and I've had a lot of fun reconnecting with friends and meeting some new friends. But it wouldn't be an RC experience without working at the...
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A Bridge Over a River Never Crossed 2023/01/01 A Bridge Over a River Never Crossed When I first started my forever project, a peer to...
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2023/01/01 A Bridge Over a River Never Crossed When I first started my forever project, a peer to peer file sync software using Interval Tree Clocks, I wanted to build it right. That meant property-based testing everything, specifying the protocol fully, dealing with error...
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Finally! I said "no"! 😱 The only offer on the table I'm no beggar I haven't been super vocal about this very...
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I said "no"! 😱 The only offer on the table I'm no beggar I haven't been super vocal about this very much over the past few months (I maybe need to be better at that?), but you may know that I left Elvie back at the end of October 2022. I was there for almost 6 years, the...
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Notes on cone 6 clay bodies, part 2 I'm continuing my clay body reviews series with two very heavily grogged "sculpture" clays I've...
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I'm continuing my clay body reviews series with two very heavily grogged "sculpture" clays I've used. Note that I currently practice in a community studio that glaze fires to cone 6 in oxidation, so my observations reflect that. Standard 420 Sculpture: Cone 6: average shrinkage...
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Array 1.40.0: Interface improvements and more! Want to know more about what we're up to? Subscribe to our new newsletter , which we send once...
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Want to know more about what we're up to? Subscribe to our new newsletter , which we send once every two weeks! Running a self-hosted instance? Check…
Maggie Appleton
A Collection of Design Engineers Collecting people I know who work at the intersection of design and engineering, in an attempt to...
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Collecting people I know who work at the intersection of design and engineering, in an attempt to figure out what a design engineer is
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Guile-websocket 0.2.0 released I'm happy to announce that guile-websocket 0.2.0 has been released! Guile-websocket is an...
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I'm happy to announce that guile-websocket 0.2.0 has been released! Guile-websocket is an implementation of the WebSocket protocol, both the client and server sides, for Guile Scheme. This release introduces breaking changes that overhaul the client and server implementations in...
TokyoDev
“Can They Change My Contract?”: Protecting Your Workplace Rights in Japan Right now, the General Union is handling cases at Japanese tech companies where well-established...
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Right now, the General Union is handling cases at Japanese tech companies where well-established workplace practices have come under threat. These include businesses pushing for return-to-office mandates after years of remote work, eliminating flexible scheduling, and cutting...
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Obsidian Obsidian is good software for taking and organizing notes. There are many apps for this task,...
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Obsidian is good software for taking and organizing notes. There are many apps for this task, Obsidian is my current favorite. In the past I’ve used a text file, SimpleNote, Standard Notes, Joplin. I never used emacs org-mode nor Evernote. Obsidian works reliably and is simple...
Josh Collinsworth
New Site, New Theme for 2018 Building a WordPress theme (and a new brand) from scratch.
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3 Tips from Kent C Dodds for People Just Getting Started advice for beginners from a podcast
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Figma Plugins At the beginning of 2023, I released a Figma plugin called Placemark, which lets you create vector...
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At the beginning of 2023, I released a Figma plugin called Placemark, which lets you create vector maps in Figma, the graphic design tool. Since then I’ve been maintaining that plugin for fun, and introduced another one, Placemark Globe. They’ve been somewhat successful! The...
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(failing at) Executing JS from a QR code I’m trying to figure out how to get JavaScript embedded in a QR code. I’ve thought of a few ways to...
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I’m trying to figure out how to get JavaScript embedded in a QR code. I’ve thought of a few ways to do it, none of which are actually embedding and executing it directly. The most obvious is to link to a page that has the JS you need. Lame. If you wanted to have arbitrary JS in...
Liz Denys
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How to delete a tag on GitHub In the world of Git, tags are very useful for keeping track of your project's version history. A lot...
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In the world of Git, tags are very useful for keeping track of your project's version history. A lot of folks will argue that you shouldn't delete tags, but there are real-world examples in which tags need to be deleted.  That said, it's both a good and a bad thing that GitHub...
Maggie Appleton
GreenSock Animations with React Hooks How to use the Greensock animation library inside React using React hooks
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wingolog
here we go again Good evening, fey readers. Tonight, a note on human rights and human wrongs. I am in my...
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Good evening, fey readers. Tonight, a note on human rights and human wrongs. I am in my mid-fourties, and so I have seen some garbage governments in my time; one of the worst was Trump’s election in 2016. My heart ached in so many ways, but most of all for immigrants in the US....
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I've been thinking about tradeoffs all wrong Sup nerds, I'm back from DDD Europe! Still processing the conference and adjusting to the horrible...
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Sup nerds, I'm back from DDD Europe! Still processing the conference and adjusting to the horrible jetlag but also itching to get writing again, so let's go. The opening keynote to the conference was called "Modern Tradeoff Analysis for Software Architecture". It was mostly about...
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We tried that, didn’t work In our quest for making programming simpler, faster, and prettier, no logical fallacy provides as...
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In our quest for making programming simpler, faster, and prettier, no logical fallacy provides as much of an obstacle as “we tried that, didn’t work”. The fallacy that past failed attempts dictates the scope of what's possible. That just because someone, somewhere, one time...
Joel Gascoigne
5 reasons as a CEO you should develop a habit of daily meditation * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Through my...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Through my journey from a founder whose role it was to essentially build the product and code all day, to growing into a CEO role with more management duties and a fast growing team of 7 people,...
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...
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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...
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Array 1.25.0 PostHog 1.25.0 is here! Read about our new features, why we're giving 1M events for free to...
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PostHog 1.25.0 is here! Read about our new features, why we're giving 1M events for free to everyone, and find out who are the 6 new team members we've onboarded.
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#HeyForGood Recounting my process of how I started with 2 HEY email invites and ended up raising $2575 in...
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Recounting my process of how I started with 2 HEY email invites and ended up raising $2575 in Donations to Support Diversity in Tech!
Alex Meub
Install JSDOM On Windows JSDOM is an awesome node package for simulating a browser environment. It’s a NodeJS implementation...
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JSDOM is an awesome node package for simulating a browser environment. It’s a NodeJS implementation of the DOM that makes it super easy to work with pages retrieved from the Internet. Unfortunately, JSDOM relies on a node package called Contextify that is difficult to get working...
blag
PSA: Most databases do not do checksums by default Most databases don’t do checksums by default. Disk corruptions go silently unnoticed.
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A Smart Bear
The Fairytale Narrative: Structured strategic planning Traditional fairytale structure fits naturally in our brains, and thus can guide strategic...
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Traditional fairytale structure fits naturally in our brains, and thus can guide strategic problem-analysis, and a plan that everyone understands.
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All about Svelte 5 snippets Snippets are a useful addition to Svelte 5. I use them in my Svelte 5 projects like Edna. Snippet...
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Snippets are a useful addition to Svelte 5. I use them in my Svelte 5 projects like Edna. Snippet basics A snippet is a function that renders html based on its arguments. Here’s how to define and use a snippet: {#snippet hello(name)} <div>Hello...
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The innovative designs of 1995 In 1995, a new industry was born, and design became a true practice. The post The innovative designs...
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In 1995, a new industry was born, and design became a true practice. The post The innovative designs of 1995 appeared first on The History of the Web.
Yale E360
RC Week 1: Getting Unexpected Extrovert Energy The first week of my batch at Recurse Center (RC) just finished, and it was an intense week! I'm...
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The first week of my batch at Recurse Center (RC) just finished, and it was an intense week! I'm planning to write a blog post each week about my experience at RC. They'll vary, but it'll probably be a mixture of what I did and my feelings about everything. There won't be too...
Eric Bailey
Short note: Disavowing Snake People 3.0: Slither with a Hiss I am the original author of the browser extension Millennials to Snake People. The code that powers...
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I am the original author of the browser extension Millennials to Snake People. The code that powers this extension is public and transparent. There is another browser extension called “Snake People 3.0: Slither with a Hiss”. It is made by the highly suspicious Firefox user...
Irrational...
Poking around OpenAI. I haven’t spent much time playing around with the latest LLMs, and decided to spend some time doing...
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I haven’t spent much time playing around with the latest LLMs, and decided to spend some time doing so. I was particularly curious about the usecase of using embeddings to supplement user prompts with additional, relevant data (e.g. supply the current status of their recent...
bt RSS Feed
Setting Up a Free SSL Setting Up a Free SSL 2018-08-07 I never had to worry about SSL certificates when I originally...
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Setting Up a Free SSL 2018-08-07 I never had to worry about SSL certificates when I originally hosted my blog through Github Pages, but since switching over to Surge.sh I lost my ability to utilize https protocol. Luckily, Cloudflare offers a very simple way to implement SSL on...
Patrick Kayongo
Software Developers vs ChatGPT & Friends The machines are coming to steal our jobs. It took the jobs of the farm labourers and the factory...
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The machines are coming to steal our jobs. It took the jobs of the farm labourers and the factory workers, and in a twist of irony, it’s now taking the jobs of those who developed its predecessors – the software developers. At least that’s what many alarmist headlines are saying...
Ink & Switch
Tablet Platform Showdown Comparison of Android, iPad, Surface, and Chrome OS for research prototypes
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wingolog
needed-bits optimizations in guile Hey all, I had a fun bug this week and want to share it with you. First, though, some background. ...
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Hey all, I had a fun bug this week and want to share it with you. First, though, some background. Guile’s numeric operations are defined over the complex numbers, not over e.g. a finite field of integers. This is generally great when writing an algorithm, because you don’t have...
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Feel, don't think I started playing clarinet in fourth grade, and dabbled in other instruments.. I never stopped...
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I started playing clarinet in fourth grade, and dabbled in other instruments.. I never stopped entirely, but I took years-long breaks from playing music. Earlier this year, I picked up a new instrument while I was very sick. I got a wind synth, the Roland AE-20. It was a somewhat...
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The Particle/Wave Duality Theory of Knowledge Learning is *BOTH* a discrete and a continuous process. If the tools we use don't respect this...
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Learning is *BOTH* a discrete and a continuous process. If the tools we use don't respect this duality, information is lost — either writing involves too much effort, or reading requires too much context.
alexwlchan
Filtering AWS CLI output by tags using jq Recently I was writing a shell script to deal with the AWS CLI, and I wanted to filter the list of...
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Recently I was writing a shell script to deal with the AWS CLI, and I wanted to filter the list of results using jq. Specifically, I wanted to filter using some of the AWS tags, which are a bit unwieldy – although the tags form a set of key/value pairs, they’re returned as a list...
Tinloof - Blog
Learn ESLint concepts, not rules What is ESLint and why is it useful? A solution is useless if it doesn't solve a problem. So let's...
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What is ESLint and why is it useful? A solution is useless if it doesn't solve a problem. So let's start with the problems we have when writing JavaScript code. Problem #1: JavaScript is not compiled while you write it
Dan Slimmon
Podcast appearance: The Debrief from Incident.io I’m so grateful to Incident.io for the opportunity to shout from their rooftop about Clinical...
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I’m so grateful to Incident.io for the opportunity to shout from their rooftop about Clinical troubleshooting, which I firmly believe is the way we should all be diagnosing system failures. Enjoy the full episode!
David Heinemeier...
Why don't more people use Linux? A couple of weeks ago, I saw a tweet asking: "If Linux is so good, why aren't more people using it?"...
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A couple of weeks ago, I saw a tweet asking: "If Linux is so good, why aren't more people using it?" And it's a fair question! It intuitively rings true until you give it a moment's consideration. Linux is even free, so what's stopping mass adoption, if it's actually better? My...
Darek Kay
Git explained: Commit ranges Git's log and diff commands are useful for inspecting your repository changes. Both commands accept...
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Git's log and diff commands are useful for inspecting your repository changes. Both commands accept ranges of commits in different formats, which can be confusing. In this post, I will shed some light on the differences between a b, a..b and a...b commit ranges. Check out the...
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Dan Slimmon
Putting a meaningful dent in your error backlog We often don't realize how noisy the errors have gotten until things are already well out of hand....
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We often don't realize how noisy the errors have gotten until things are already well out of hand. After all, we've got shit to do. Deadlines to hit. By the time we decide to get serious about error management, a huge, impenetrable, meaningless backlog of errors has already...
wingolog
javascript weakmaps should be iterable Good evening. Tonight, a brief position statement: it is a mistake for JavaScript’s to not be...
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Good evening. Tonight, a brief position statement: it is a mistake for JavaScript’s to not be iterable, and we should fix it.WeakMap A associates a key with a value, as long as the key is otherwise reachable in a program. (It is an .)WeakMapephemeron table When was added to...
Josh Comeau's blog
Persisting React State in localStorage A common thing in React development is that we want to store a bit of React state in localStorage,...
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A common thing in React development is that we want to store a bit of React state in localStorage, and re-initialize from that value on the next page-load. This quick tutorial shows you how we can build a custom hook that does exactly this!
Steve Klabnik
GitHub is anarchy for programmers
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
How we made feature flags faster and more reliable Feature-flags-as-a-service is an interesting space. If your service stops working, it affects both...
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Feature-flags-as-a-service is an interesting space. If your service stops working, it affects both your customers and your customer's customers…
Ink & Switch
Ink Note Fall 2023: Constraint System At the beginning of phase 2, we weren’t sure what to do about constraints. Based on past...
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At the beginning of phase 2, we weren’t sure what to do about constraints. Based on past exploration, constraints seemed to hold a lot of promise but were notoriously unreliable. A good constraint system could unify and power a number of key aspects of the dynamic medium we seek.
blag
Using uWSGI with Python 3 Simple steps to get uWSGI up and running in Python 3.
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A Beautiful Site
Getting duplicate ids in an HTML document I needed a way to identify all HTML elements with duplicate IDs. This is a seemingly simple task,...
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I needed a way to identify all HTML elements with duplicate IDs. This is a seemingly simple task, but unfortunately, I didn't find anything out there that fit the bill. I did find a couple functions that returned the duplicates, but they didn't include the first occurrence (I...
Josh Comeau's blog
Full-Bleed Layout Using CSS Grid Certain layouts are surprisingly dastardly. On the modern web, one of the most common layouts is...
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Certain layouts are surprisingly dastardly. On the modern web, one of the most common layouts is also one of the trickiest. In this tutorial, I break down how to build the "full-bleed" layout using CSS Grid.
The Changelog
The Good, Bad, and Scary of the Banning of Donald Trump, and How Decentralization Makes It All... It is undeniable that banning Donald Trump from Facebook, Twitter, and similar sites is a benefit...
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It is undeniable that banning Donald Trump from Facebook, Twitter, and similar sites is a benefit for the moment. It may well save lives, perhaps lots of lives. But it raises quite a few troubling issues. First, as EFF points out, these platforms have privileged speakers with...
Steve Klabnik
Thinking like a compiler: places and values in Rust
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David Crawshaw
The Tragedy of Finalizers The Tragedy of Finalizers 2018-04-04, David Crawshaw Like many garbage collected languages, ...
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The Tragedy of Finalizers 2018-04-04, David Crawshaw Like many garbage collected languages, lets you register a on an object. The finalizer is a function that the language runtime calls when the object is garbage collected.Gofinalizer Finalizers are deeply unsatisfying. They...
Josh Comeau's blog
Animating the Unanimatable An in-depth look at the surprisingly complicated problem of animating the transition when two items...
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An in-depth look at the surprisingly complicated problem of animating the transition when two items in a list swap positions.
Ruud van Asseldonk
Please put units in names
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Reinforcement Learning: Game Theory RL with multiple actors
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A Beautiful Site
A free HTML, CSS, and JavaScript beautifier Ten years ago, I launched DirtyMarkup to clean up dirty code. It was a fun little tool, but its best...
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Ten years ago, I launched DirtyMarkup to clean up dirty code. It was a fun little tool, but its best feature was that it was easy to use and didn't have intrusive advertisements. I sold DirtyMarkup a couple years ago, and since then the new owners slapped on a header that makes...
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A Walkthrough of *that* React Suspense Demo Annotated commentary on the code behind the Movie search demo featuring React Suspense
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Making software...
Styling Empty Table Cells Styling Empty Table Cells 2019-07-17 Often when designing tables on the web you're bound to come...
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Styling Empty Table Cells 2019-07-17 Often when designing tables on the web you're bound to come across empty pockets of data. These will be rendered as "blank" table cells, which isn't always the intended outcome. Let's take a quick look at how to target and style empty table...
Eric Bailey
Where do you put spacing on design system components? I work on design systems now. It scratches a lot of itches I have, most importantly organizing and...
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I work on design systems now. It scratches a lot of itches I have, most importantly organizing and standardizing things, as well as baking accessibility in at both the design and development layers. My very cool boss is working on updating our grid system, and with that comes...
bt RSS Feed
Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201 Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201 2023-04-02 I recently received a ThinkPad X201...
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Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201 2023-04-02 I recently received a ThinkPad X201 to start using as my daily driver. I purchased the X201 to replace my existing X260. Although some might look at this as a “downgrade” in terms of specs and hardware, I would have...
Steve Klabnik
Pointers in Rust, a guide
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bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware March 2023 The Ware for March 2023 is the controller board from a Hövding 3 “Airbag for Urban Cyclists”....
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The Ware for March 2023 is the controller board from a Hövding 3 “Airbag for Urban Cyclists”. Congrats to jackw01 for arriving at the correct answer! congrats, email me for your prize. This one was surprisingly difficult to guess from just the PCB alone, but once the associated...
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...
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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 …...
Daniel Marino
Making Generative Art I saw Joshua Davis give a talk over 10 years ago, and I was mesmorized. Not just by how engaging he...
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I saw Joshua Davis give a talk over 10 years ago, and I was mesmorized. Not just by how engaging he was, but more so with the work he was doing with generative art. I had never heard of generative art before, but I immediately fell in love with the concept of it. I like to draw,...
Engineer’s Codex
4 lessons from software teams that ship fast Software engineering provides a lot of leverage. A small team can generate a disproportionate amount...
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Software engineering provides a lot of leverage. A small team can generate a disproportionate amount of value or impact a huge number of users. For example, Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers, back in 2011. Examples of teams that ship fast
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#15 letter by letter Bad code Letters are wrapped in divs to animate each letter with JavaScript. <h3> <div...
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Bad code Letters are wrapped in divs to animate each letter with JavaScript. <h3> <div style="display: block; text-align: start; position: relative;" class="title"> <div style="position: relative; display: inline-block; transform: rotateX(90deg); transform-origin: 50% 50%...
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CSS Variables CSS Variables 2018-03-24 The CSS language is becoming even more awesome and powerful everyday. In...
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CSS Variables 2018-03-24 The CSS language is becoming even more awesome and powerful everyday. In this quick article I'd like to focus specifically on the "new" CSS variable function that you can start using in your projects right now. Getting started is easy Let's just jump...
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I accepted the Blog Question Challenge <![CDATA[MattoF has tagged me for the Blog Question Challenge which asks bloggers questions about...
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<![CDATA[MattoF has tagged me for the Blog Question Challenge which asks bloggers questions about their background and motivations, tools, and workflows. It is a variation by Kev Quirk of a challenge originally created by Ava at Bear Blog. I have accepted this fun challenge and...
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Making an Escape Room with only HTML and CSS Beware! This post includes spoilers! I recently built an escape room game called CSScape Room. This...
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Beware! This post includes spoilers! I recently built an escape room game called CSScape Room. This isn’t my first JavaScript-free web game, but HTML and CSS have evolved significantly since my previous attempts, with newer additions allowing for more complex selectors and native...
alexwlchan
What is psephology? Yesterday there were local elections in the UK, and this morning I’ve been catching up on the...
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Yesterday there were local elections in the UK, and this morning I’ve been catching up on the news. As I was reading Yohannes Lowe’s live coverage in the Guardian, I spotted a word I didn’t recognise (emphasis mine): Labour and the Conservatives are each defending about 1,000...
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Let It Fail I've always had a strong inclination towards action: if something isn't working or about to break, I...
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I've always had a strong inclination towards action: if something isn't working or about to break, I feel compelled to jump in and lend a hand. However, sometimes that's a leadership blunder which does a greater disservice to the longer view of things.
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Array 1.35.0: Introducing SAML, world map view and new plugins PostHog 1.35.0 introduces activity logs and a brand new way of visualizing where your users are...
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PostHog 1.35.0 introduces activity logs and a brand new way of visualizing where your users are coming from with the World Map. Additionally we now support organization-level SAML login on both Cloud and Self-Hosted instances. Plus check out your Project Homepage for a few...
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Announcing Quina (My First App)! The story of building Quina, a word game Progressive Web App built with Nuxt, and launched on the...
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The story of building Quina, a word game Progressive Web App built with Nuxt, and launched on the Google Play Store.
Ink & Switch
01 · A spreadsheet for exploring scenarios In our *Ambsheets* project, we are exploring a small extension to the familiar spreadsheet: **what...
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In our *Ambsheets* project, we are exploring a small extension to the familiar spreadsheet: **what if a single spreadsheet cell could hold multiple values at once**?
HTMHell
#20 HTMHell special: close buttons This first HTMHell special inspects one of the most complicated and most controversial patterns in...
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This first HTMHell special inspects one of the most complicated and most controversial patterns in front-end development: 🔥 the close button. 🔥 In modals, ads, and other overlays you often find a button with a close symbol that allows users, or at least some of them, to close...
A Smart Bear
COC: A new metric for thinking about cancellations in SaaS business models Introducing COC: The true cost of cancellations in a scaling SaaS business.
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alexwlchan
*Spy for Spy*, at Riverside Studios Last night I went to see the second preview of Spy For Spy, which I very much enjoyed. It’s a...
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Last night I went to see the second preview of Spy For Spy, which I very much enjoyed. It’s a romance story with a clever narrative twist – it’s being told in the wrong order. Aside from the prologue and epilogue, the show is split into six scenes from the Molly and Sarah’s...
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Set Explicit Help Timeouts A simple way to normalize asking for help.
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Try React Suspense In 5 Minutes ---
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Daniel Immke's Blog...
How I write blog posts every month Back in September of last year I started this blog and seeded it with a few posts. I wrote in my...
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Back in September of last year I started this blog and seeded it with a few posts. I wrote in my first post that my goal was to write one…
Basta’s Notes
The rough edges of Terraform that I awkwardly stumble over First and foremost, thanks to everyone who has subscribed recently. I know I’ve been quieter than...
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over a year ago
First and foremost, thanks to everyone who has subscribed recently. I know I’ve been quieter than usual. I actually have a number of nearly-complete drafts ready to go, but each is waiting on something. Two of them are posts that I think y’all will hopefully enjoy very much!
Eric Bailey
All the user-facing states I find myself needing a reference like this more often than not lately. So, here’s a blog acting as...
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I find myself needing a reference like this more often than not lately. So, here’s a blog acting as augmented memory—I’ll update it as I encounter more user-facing states in the wild. What user-facing state is User-facing state is what someone experiences when they interact with...
Liz Denys
A short comic about the Internet Protocol Just a cleaned up version of a silly little comic that I came up with during a 6.033 (Computer...
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Just a cleaned up version of a silly little comic that I came up with during a 6.033 (Computer Systems Engineering) recitation last semester:
Alex MacCaw
The Beginning of Infinity It's easy to be nihilistic. You might even try to claim that it's rational to be nihilistic. Just...
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It's easy to be nihilistic. You might even try to claim that it's rational to be nihilistic. Just look up. There are a hundred billion stars in a hundred billion galaxies (that we know of!). What are we but a spec of dust? And don'
Sometimes It Works...
A Modular Monolith in Laravel Lumen A Modular Monolith in Laravel Lumen What’s not in Lumen A Ghost in the Shell MaaM: Module as a...
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A Modular Monolith in Laravel Lumen What’s not in Lumen A Ghost in the Shell MaaM: Module as a microservice Packages all the way down ¶A Modular Monolith in Laravel Lumen If you use Laravel, you’ve probably heard of Lumen. In case you haven’t: Lumen is the micro-framework to...
Liz Denys
Dinosaur pie! I wanted to make a special pie for my amazing boyfriend, Matt, on his birthday a month ago....
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I wanted to make a special pie for my amazing boyfriend, Matt, on his birthday a month ago. Naturally, I decided to make an apple pie because he likes apple pie and because I can make a mean apple pie with fresh ground cinnamon and a small amount of pre-cooking the apples on the...
A Smart Bear
Distributed Logical Time Properly ordering events in time is notoriously difficult in distributed systems. This algorithm is...
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Properly ordering events in time is notoriously difficult in distributed systems. This algorithm is a simple, decentralized, scalable, constant-memory mechanism for independent replicas to record events in time, such that “happened-before” is preserved in almost all cases.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Link Preload as Image I’ve been playing with these fancy new view transitions and my experience thus far is that they work...
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I’ve been playing with these fancy new view transitions and my experience thus far is that they work ok on localhost, but as soon as I push code to a preview branch on a remote server, the image loads between transitions are janky because of image loading. Granted, this stuff...
Words and Buttons...
A picture is worth a thousand tags This shows how a picture can be turned into an HTML table. With this, you can not only have nicer...
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This shows how a picture can be turned into an HTML table. With this, you can not only have nicer tables or uglier pictures, but you can have something that is both at the same time.
Alex Meub
Building the DataToaster 3000 Last summer, I was inspired by a computer that was built inside of a toaster that I saw at a local...
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Last summer, I was inspired by a computer that was built inside of a toaster that I saw at a local computer recycling store. The idea of a computer with the design of a home appliance was really appealing and so was the absurdity of it. It occurred to me that this would be a fun...
Tony Finch's blog
syntax highlighting with tree-sitter I have added syntax highlighting to my blog using tree-sitter. Here are some notes about what I...
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I have added syntax highlighting to my blog using tree-sitter. Here are some notes about what I learned, with some complaining. static site generator markdown ingestion highlighting incompatible?! highlight names class names styling code results future...
David Crawshaw
jsonfile: a quick hack for tinkering jsonfile: a quick hack for tinkering Consider your requirements! A reference implementation A final...
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jsonfile: a quick hack for tinkering Consider your requirements! A reference implementation A final thought 2024-02-06 The year is 2024. I am on vacation and dream up a couple of toy programs I would like to build. It has been a few years since I built a standalone toy, I have...
TokyoDev
Will a company in Japan find out your previous salary? When it comes to [salary negotiation in...
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When it comes to [salary negotiation in Japan](/articles/a-guide-to-salary-negotiations-in-japan-s-tech-industry), companies often have the upper hand. Not only do they know what they're willing to pay for a position, but it is very common for companies to ask you to disclose...
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?
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A Smart Bear
The practical application of "Rocks, Pebbles, Sand" You’ve probably seen this analogy before, but many real-world complications get in the way of...
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over a year ago
You’ve probably seen this analogy before, but many real-world complications get in the way of actually doing it. It’s not just about how big tasks are, but about using different frameworks to prioritize each, and following certain guidelines about how to construct sprints.
bt RSS Feed
Adaptable Flexbox Grid Adaptable Flexbox Grid 2018-11-22 You can use flexbox for many tricky layout “hacks” and...
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Adaptable Flexbox Grid 2018-11-22 You can use flexbox for many tricky layout “hacks” and implementing a grid layout is no different. Check out the CodePen below to see how you can implement a flexbox grid system that adapts automatically based on how many items you insert per row...
David Heinemeier...
Until the end of the internet It's hard to know what'll stick around when shopping for software online. Popular services and...
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over a year ago
It's hard to know what'll stick around when shopping for software online. Popular services and crucial products get shut down all the time. You can't even trust that major conglomerates like Google to provide something you can count on two-five-ten years from now. And if you're...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
How I made SumatraPDF crash less You don’t want your software to crash, do you? This post describes my experiences in making...
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You don’t want your software to crash, do you? This post describes my experiences in making SumatraPDF crash less. SumatraPDF is a Windows desktop app. It’s a fast viewer for PDF, ePub, comic books etc.. It’s small and yet full of features. Know thy crashes The most...
Blog - Bitfield...
Things fall apart The night is dark and full of errors—and durable Rust software is not only ready for them, but...
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The night is dark and full of errors—and durable Rust software is not only ready for them, but handles them sensibly. Let’s see how, by returning to our line-counter project.
Blog of Simple...
Privacy Monthy January 2024
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Steve Klabnik
Is WebAssembly the return of Java Applets & Flash?
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Eric Bailey
These three links spell out a big uh oh for where things are headed when placed in context with each... Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal - 404 Media Thread by...
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Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal - 404 Media Thread by stillorangecrushed - Thread Reader App AI models fed AI-generated data quickly spew nonsense - Nature
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Why I retired from the tech crusades When Ruby on Rails was launched over twenty years ago, I was a twenty-some young programmer...
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When Ruby on Rails was launched over twenty years ago, I was a twenty-some young programmer convinced that anyone who gave my stack a try would accept its universal superiority for solving The Web Problem. So I pursued the path of the crusade, attempting to convert the...
The Changelog
Visiting Germany: Reflections on Schloss Charlottenburg 200 years ago, my ancestors migrated from Prussia to Ukraine. They left for many reasons, many of...
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200 years ago, my ancestors migrated from Prussia to Ukraine. They left for many reasons, many of which boiled down to their strong pacifism in the midst of a highly militarized country. Last week, my wife, the boys, and I walked through the favorite palace of Friedrich Wilhelm...
Vadim Kravcenko
Security at Startup In my opinion, security is one of the most forgotten aspects of software engineering. It rarely gets...
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a year ago
In my opinion, security is one of the most forgotten aspects of software engineering. It rarely gets focused on until […] The post Security at Startup appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Organic Intelligence Jeremy wrote about how the greatest asset of a company like Google is the trust people put in...
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Jeremy wrote about how the greatest asset of a company like Google is the trust people put in them: If I use a [knowledge tool] I need to be able to trust [it] is good...I don’t expect perfection, but I also don’t expect to have to constantly be thinking “was this generated by a...
David Crawshaw
2015-07-17 books.google.com/googlebooks/error.html
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Making software...
Two Weeks with the DuckDuckGo Browser Two Weeks with the DuckDuckGo Browser 2022-05-17 After using the beta apps for the new DuckDuckGo...
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over a year ago
Two Weeks with the DuckDuckGo Browser 2022-05-17 After using the beta apps for the new DuckDuckGo browser for both macOS and iOS, I have returned to Safari. This switch back doesn't mean that these browsers are bad by any means. Both browsers are decently fine for casual users....
Paolo Amoroso's...
Adding graphics support to DandeGUI <![CDATA[DandeGUI now does graphics and this is what it looks like. Some text and graphics output...
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<![CDATA[DandeGUI now does graphics and this is what it looks like. Some text and graphics output windows created with DandeGUI on Medley Interlisp. In addition to the square root table text output demo, I created the other graphics windows with the newly implemented...
Ink & Switch
Ink Note Feb 2023: Crosscut Extension Design Jam • Marcel's Notes Marcel Goethals’ notes on Crosscut extensions
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The History of the...
Can Directories Rise Again? With search getting worse by the day, maybe it's time we rebounded in the other direction. The long...
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a month ago
With search getting worse by the day, maybe it's time we rebounded in the other direction. The long forgotten directory. The post Can Directories Rise Again? appeared first on The History of the Web.
A Beautiful Site
Design Systems Are An Investment It's hard to put a value on a design system. It's a lot easier to add up the costs of said design...
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a year ago
It's hard to put a value on a design system. It's a lot easier to add up the costs of said design system, especially in terms of salaries and development time. It's even easier to target a design system as the thing that's holding up a product from getting delivered. The truth...
Words and Buttons...
Yet another floating point tutorial I still think that reexplaining some obscure concepts with different words (and buttons) might help...
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I still think that reexplaining some obscure concepts with different words (and buttons) might help someone understand floating point numbers better. To do fewer mistakes, to make things faster, to create better software in general.
A Beautiful Site
TinyPNG: A better way to compress PNG images By now, you know that optimizing images and other resources can reduce bandwidth and help your...
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over a year ago
By now, you know that optimizing images and other resources can reduce bandwidth and help your website load faster. Perhaps you've even used a tool like Pngcrush before to make your images smaller. Now, there's an even better solution. TinyPNG uses "smart lossy compression...
Marco.org
Why it’s hard to read the time on Infograph Quick, what time is it? If that took you a bit longer than usual to tell the time on the Apple...
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over a year ago
Quick, what time is it? If that took you a bit longer than usual to tell the time on the Apple Watch’s new default Infograph face, you’re not alone: John Gruber finds it “far too busy” Jason Snell finds it “pretty and packed with features”, but misses hour numerals Zac Hall...
Steve Klabnik
Contributing to Ruby's documentation
over a year ago
Cognitive...
Demystifying OpenAI's Terms of Use with Regards to Dataset Licenses With the recent update to OpenAI's Terms of Use on October 23, 2024, there’s been a flurry of online...
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With the recent update to OpenAI's Terms of Use on October 23, 2024, there’s been a flurry of online discussions around what these terms mean for developers, businesses, and everyday users of AI tools like ChatGPT. Much of the conversation, especiall...
The History of the...
The Free Web There is something you can do to help the open web. Put yourself on it. The post The Free Web...
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7 months ago
There is something you can do to help the open web. Put yourself on it. The post The Free Web appeared first on The History of the Web.
Liz Denys
Starlit sky hexagonal teacups, 2024 Starlit sky on a clear night / the milky way / eternity / clarity / raindrops sticking to window...
a year ago
Maggie Appleton
Computational Notebooks Shareable, browser-based documents that can compile and run code
over a year ago
Irrational...
Numbers go up. There’s a genre of computer games called incremental games, whose entire design philosophy can be...
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10 months ago
There’s a genre of computer games called incremental games, whose entire design philosophy can be summarized as, “numbers go up.” These games focus on the fundamental gaming loop rather than plot, characterization or anything beyond the foundational satisfaction of numbers...
alexwlchan
What mammal is that? I was visiting my parents over Christmas, and they have a large dog called Ziva. I like to take...
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a year ago
I was visiting my parents over Christmas, and they have a large dog called Ziva. I like to take silly photos of the family pets, and this is one from last week that shows off a super-sized snoot: No Photoshop here, just my iPhone’s Ultra Wide camera held close to...
Grant Slatton
Road Width Extremism In favor of narrow roads
a year ago
macwright.com
Web technology optimism hour It’s too easy lately to get into a very pessimistic mood about technology. Between the developer...
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over a year ago
It’s too easy lately to get into a very pessimistic mood about technology. Between the developer energy wasted on crypto, which has produced negative real-world value, the wider downturn in tech stocks, and the often-antagonistic interactions between developers on Twitter and...
Patrick Kayongo
A World Offline Loadshedding has hit South Africa in a bad way. Interruptions to electricity has disrupted...
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Loadshedding has hit South Africa in a bad way. Interruptions to electricity has disrupted businesses and resulted in unanticipated cost increases from those who have had to find alternative sources of electricity. 16 years ago, it was unimaginable that we would have some days...
charity.wtf
How to Throw A Company Offsite In A “Post-COVID” World Earlier this month we had our first Honeycomb all-hands offsite in three years … our first one since...
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over a year ago
Earlier this month we had our first Honeycomb all-hands offsite in three years … our first one since February of 2020, before the plague. It was wonderful and glorious and silly and energizing and so, so SO much fun. It was a potent reminder of the reality that no virtual...
alexwlchan
Creating static map images with OpenStreetMap, Web Mercator, and Pillow I’ve been working on a project where I need to plot points on a map. I don’t need an interactive or...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
I’ve been working on a project where I need to plot points on a map. I don’t need an interactive or dynamic visualisation – just a static map with coloured dots for each coordinate. I’ve created maps on the web using Leaflet.js, which load map data from OpenStreetMap (OSM) and...
the jsomers.net blog
Most book clubs are doing it wrong The standard way to run a book club is to have everybody finish the book before meeting to talk...
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over a year ago
The standard way to run a book club is to have everybody finish the book before meeting to talk about it. You have one meeting per book. The discussion goes on for one or two hours before it runs out of gas, and then the group picks the next book, and you agree to meet […]
Vadim Kravcenko
What I learned building a $1K MRR SaaS in 6 weeks Question: Answer: The post What I learned building a $1K MRR SaaS in 6 weeks appeared first on...
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Blog of Simple...
Google search alternative
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dthompson
Haunt 0.2.6 released Haunt version 0.2.6 has been released. This release restores compatibility with Guile < 3.0 that...
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over a year ago
Haunt version 0.2.6 has been released. This release restores compatibility with Guile < 3.0 that was accidentally broken in 0.2.5. Additionally, Haunt now uses the inotify API to watch for file changes on Linux when running haunt serve --watch, replacing a slower and more naive...
bt RSS Feed
New Domain and Code Forge New Domain and Code Forge 2024-01-29 As you can clearly see, my site’s domain has switched over to...
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a year ago
New Domain and Code Forge 2024-01-29 As you can clearly see, my site’s domain has switched over to btxx.org. This post will go into details about the reason for this URL swap (spoilers: I’m a cheapskate) - but that isn’t all. I have moved my personal git repositories over to my...
Kagi Blog
Introducing the Kagi Family Plan We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the Kagi Family Plan, a new way for families to enjoy the...
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We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the Kagi Family Plan, a new way for families to enjoy the power of Kagi Search together.
Sometimes It Works...
Breaking the Chain Breaking the Chain Querying Eloquent Models consistently across your...
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Breaking the Chain Querying Eloquent Models consistently across your application Requirements Problems Solutions Explicitly store the current Builder in the model Results ¶Breaking the Chain ¶Querying Eloquent Models consistently across your application I’ve got to admit I’ve...
David Heinemeier...
Introducing Omakub Linux can look and feel so good, but it often doesn't out of the box. It's almost like there's a...
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Linux can look and feel so good, but it often doesn't out of the box. It's almost like there's a rite of passage in certain parts of the community where becoming an expert in the intricacies of every tool and its theming is required to prove you're a proper nerd. I think that's a...
Elad Blog
AI Revolution - Transformers and Large Language Models (LLMs) NLP & AI Revolution - Transformers and Large Language Models (LLMs) Part of the challenge of “AI” is...
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over a year ago
NLP & AI Revolution - Transformers and Large Language Models (LLMs) Part of the challenge of “AI” is we keep raising the bar on what it means for something to be a machine intelligence. Early machine learning models have been quite successful in terms of real world impact. Large...
Dan Quach Blog
State of Data Engineering 2023 Q2 When looking at data engineering for your projects, it is important to think about market...
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When looking at data engineering for your projects, it is important to think about market segmentation. In particular, you might be able to think about it in four segments Small Data – This refers to scenarios where companies have data problems (organization, modeling,...
bt RSS Feed
February 2022 Update February 2022 Update 2022-02-23 It’s been a little quiet around here lately and for good reason: my...
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over a year ago
February 2022 Update 2022-02-23 It’s been a little quiet around here lately and for good reason: my wife gave birth to our third child last Thursday. Her name is Harmony and she was born in the late afternoon weighing in at 7 pounds 8 ounces. Besides the lack of sleep, everything...
David Crawshaw
2015-11-18 arstechnica.com/apple/2015/11/ipad-pro-review-mac-like-speed-with-all-the-virtues-and-limitations-of...
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over a year ago
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Vladimir Klepov as a...
Major Garbage Producers in JS The reckless coding culture of JS favors producing garbage. In real life, if you're environmentally...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The reckless coding culture of JS favors producing garbage. In real life, if you're environmentally conscious (hey there, my European readers), you probably do all sorts of crazy thinks to cut down on garbage — reject plastic bags in a supermarket, recycle bottles, keep the paper...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Mimicry vs Reflexivity Two opposing forces that describe how perception and reality do battle.
over a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
An invitation to come and hack on Buffer * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * The last two...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * The last two years have been truly incredible. What started in my bedroom in the UK has taken us across the world [https://joel.is/post/27260290057/thoughts-on-travelling-with-your-startup] to...
swyx's site RSS Feed
The 4 Types of Activity timeouts in Temporal This post (together with the embedded talk) aims to give you a solid mental model on what each...
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This post (together with the embedded talk) aims to give you a solid mental model on what each Activity timeout in Temporal does and when to use it.
Irrational...
Benchmarking. Many of the most important questions for running an organization don’t have clear answers. In most...
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a year ago
Many of the most important questions for running an organization don’t have clear answers. In most engineering organizations, both the teams working on infrastructure and the teams working on product feel they are undersized. It’s also true that most individuals feel they are...
Ruud van Asseldonk
A reasonable configuration language
a year ago
Computer Things
Texttools dot py I make a lot of personal software tools. One of these is "texttools.py", which is easiest to explain...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
I make a lot of personal software tools. One of these is "texttools.py", which is easiest to explain with an image: Paste text in the top box, choose a transform, output appears in the bottom box. I can already do most of these transformations in vim, or with one of the many...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Building WebSites With LLMS And by LLMS I mean: (L)ots of (L)ittle ht(M)l page(S). I recently shipped some updates to my blog....
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4 months ago
And by LLMS I mean: (L)ots of (L)ittle ht(M)l page(S). I recently shipped some updates to my blog. Through the design/development process, I had some insights which made me question my knee-jerk reaction to building pieces of a page as JS-powered interactions on top of the...
Liz Denys
6/8 time, beat on the dotted quarter, 60 bpm My subconscious seems to be running in 6/8 time with the beat on the dotted quarter and 60 beats per...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My subconscious seems to be running in 6/8 time with the beat on the dotted quarter and 60 beats per minute; at least, whenever I sit down at a piano without sheet music in front of me, I always converge on that setting. Sometimes, I write some of these musings down: I've...
Posts on Nikita...
What's that touchscreen in my room? Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. Roughly a year ago I moved into my new apartment. One of the...
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Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. Roughly a year ago I moved into my new apartment. One of the reasons I picked this apartment was age of the building. The construction was finished in 2015, which ensured pretty good thermal isolation for winters as well as small nice things...
macwright.com
Running motivation hacks Things that have worked to get me back on a running regimen and might work for you: Try to run all...
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a year ago
Things that have worked to get me back on a running regimen and might work for you: Try to run all the streets in my neighborhood. I use CityStrides, there are many similar apps. Run the same exact route, every time, at any speed: focus on consistency-only. Repetition...
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The Wonders of Text Ellipsis The Wonders of Text Ellipsis 2016-11-15 A common issue when working with constrained UI elements is...
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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...
alexwlchan
Snippets to manage albums in Photos.app Recently I’ve been building some tools to help me manage my photo collection, and part of that...
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Recently I’ve been building some tools to help me manage my photo collection, and part of that involves moving photos in and out of albums. The tool I’ve built is very specific to my workflow and unlikely to be immediately useful to anyone else, but I thought some of the code for...
HTMHell
#28 alert level 1 Bad code <h1 aria-busy="true" aria-live="polite" role="alert" class="sr-only"> Done </h1> Issues...
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over a year ago
Bad code <h1 aria-busy="true" aria-live="polite" role="alert" class="sr-only"> Done </h1> Issues and how to fix them The element is used for communicating status updates, not to structure the page. A div with a role of status or alert is more suitable than a h1. The heading is...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, October 2024 The Ware for October 2024 is shown below. This one should be a smidge easier to guess than last...
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8 months ago
The Ware for October 2024 is shown below. This one should be a smidge easier to guess than last month’s ware. The main reason I liked this ware is actually the board shown below with the prominent star-routing. It’s such traditional hand-routing work, I love craftsmanship like...
Yale E360
TIL: enabling features on transitive dependencies (Rust) While pairing on a small Rust program with a friend, I ran into a problem: to compile to WASM, one...
a year ago
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a year ago
While pairing on a small Rust program with a friend, I ran into a problem: to compile to WASM, one of my dependencies needed one of its dependencies to turn on a feature. A variation of this that I've run into in other projects is where a transitive dependency has a bug/CVE and I...
alexwlchan
Telling mechanize how to find local issuer certificates I was doing some work on my library lookup tool recently, and I ran into an issue with mechanize,...
a year ago
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a year ago
I was doing some work on my library lookup tool recently, and I ran into an issue with mechanize, the Python library I use to simulate a web browser. I’d upgraded my version of Python and mechanize, and now I wasn’t able to connect to HTTPS sites. If I tried a simple...
Jibran’s Perspective
Bootstrap with Ruby on Rails 7 If you have a brand new RoR 7 project that you created with the defaults by running rails new...
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If you have a brand new RoR 7 project that you created with the defaults by running rails new <PROJECT> then you can safely follow the following steps to get Bootstrap 5 installed in your project. Install gems Add the following to your Gemfile and run bundle install. gem...
Eric Bailey
Equivalent Experiences: Thinking Equivalently
over a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Smaller volume increments in macOS Ever wish you turn the volume up or down just a tiny bit more on your Mac? Well, you can. You...
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over a year ago
Ever wish you turn the volume up or down just a tiny bit more on your Mac? Well, you can. You already know you can increase and decrease your Mac's volume with the keyboard, but sometimes the intervals are a bit too much. I usually end up adjusting my external speakers just to...
Irrational...
Engineering strategy notes. Recently, I am thinking quite a bit about engineering strategy, and as part of that have started...
a year ago
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a year ago
Recently, I am thinking quite a bit about engineering strategy, and as part of that have started re-reading previous resources on the topic, and looking for new things to read while I refine my point of view on what makes for good engineering strategy. The best introduction to my...
On Test Automation
Improving the tests for RestAssured.Net with mutation testing and Stryker.NET When I build and release new features or bug fixes for RestAssured.Net, I rely heavily on the...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
When I build and release new features or bug fixes for RestAssured.Net, I rely heavily on the acceptance tests that I wrote over time. Next to serving as living documentation for the library, I run these tests both locally and on every push to GitHub to see if I didn’t...
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Supa Pecha Kucha slug: supapechakucha
4 months ago
Joel Gascoigne
Don&#x27;t register your idea as a company * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * When to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * When to incorporate is one of those topics which comes up time and time again, and there is much conflicting advice out there. I’m lucky enough to have a number of different experiences and...
Ink & Switch
Ink & Switch Unconference [2024 / Los Angeles] Our third Ink & Switch Unconference, at the beautifully retro Preserve in Los Angeles
8 months ago
dthompson
Chickadee 0.8.0 released I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.8.0 has been released! Chickadee is a game development...
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I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.8.0 has been released! Chickadee is a game development toolkit for Guile. Chickadee aims to provide all the features that parenthetically inclined game developers need to make 2D and 3D games in Scheme. Notable improvements and...
Blog of Simple...
Google Tag Manager vs Google Analytics
a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
What we learned about hiring from our first five employees Our CEO and co-founder, James Hawkins, recently joined Y Combinator to talk about the first five...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Our CEO and co-founder, James Hawkins, recently joined Y Combinator to talk about the first five hires PostHog ever made, how we made them, and why…
David Heinemeier...
Celebrating a million copies of REWORK It’s been 14 years since REWORK was first published. It was our first big-publisher book, and it hit...
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a year ago
It’s been 14 years since REWORK was first published. It was our first big-publisher book, and it hit the New York Times bestseller list right out the gate. In the first two years, it sold over 200,000 copies. And then... it just kept selling. Now it has passed one million copies...
Basta’s Notes
Matt Basta: purveyor of fake news A story about how I accidentally duped the Bay Area press in 2013
over a year ago
ntietz.com blog -...
Great things about Rust that aren't just performance Nearly every line of code I write for fun is in Rust. It's not because I need great performance,...
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6 months ago
Nearly every line of code I write for fun is in Rust. It's not because I need great performance, though that's a nice benefit. I write a lot of Rust because it's a joy to write code in. There is so much else to love about Rust beyond going fast without segfaults. Here are a few...
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How I Approach First Principles Thinking An explanation of First Principles via comparing Inductive vs Deductive Reasoning, and thoughts on...
over a year ago
Jake Zimmerman
Using my iPhone as a travel laptop
10 months ago
Marco.org
Low Power Mode on the Mac Laptop battery life is decreasingly relevant to me as more airplanes offer power outlets. But...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Laptop battery life is decreasingly relevant to me as more airplanes offer power outlets. But sometimes you lose that lottery, as I did on my latest 8-hour daytime flight. Apple’s “Up to 10 hours” claim doesn’t apply to my work,1 which is usually a mix of Xcode, web browsing, and...
Making software...
Building openring with Jekyll Build Building openring with Jekyll Build 2022-12-02 I think it's great when bloggers post their own...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Building openring with Jekyll Build 2022-12-02 I think it's great when bloggers post their own personal "reading list" of blogs they themselves follow. Whether this is a customized Blogroll page or footnotes in their individual articles, I find it really helpful to find more...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Simplest C++ callback, from SumatraPDF SumatraPDF is a Windows GUI application for viewing PDF, ePub and comic books written in C++. A...
a month ago
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a month ago
SumatraPDF is a Windows GUI application for viewing PDF, ePub and comic books written in C++. A common need in GUI programs is a callback. E.g. when a button is clicked we need to call a function with some data identifying which button was clicked. Callback is therefore a combo...
Kevin Chen
Ideas for fooling Amazon Go Amazon Go is a grocery store that does away with checkout lines by using computer vision to figure...
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over a year ago
Amazon Go is a grocery store that does away with checkout lines by using computer vision to figure out what you purchased. What happens if you… Take an item off the shelf and give it to someone else. Go shopping with your identical twin. Use the restroom to put on a face...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Watch Transitions in Slow Motion in Chrome’s DevTools For those of you about to do view transitions, I salute you! And I pass on this super useful...
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For those of you about to do view transitions, I salute you! And I pass on this super useful (perhaps obvious) piece of information I received from Bramus: watch your animations play out in slow motion using Chrome’s devtools. I’ve been working on view transitions on my icon...
blag
Recurse Center Day 11: B Tree Insertions I started writing code for B Tree insertions
over a year ago
Epic Web Dev
The Drawbacks of Bundling All CSS Files Together (tip) Discover the drawbacks of bundling all CSS files together and why it's recommended to use separate...
a year ago
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a year ago
Discover the drawbacks of bundling all CSS files together and why it's recommended to use separate style sheets for better control and performance.
Confessions of a...
CPython Memory Management Internals A high-level but detailed explanation of how CPython implements memory management
a year ago
macwright.com
Masked email is a killer feature for Fastmail I last sang the praises of Fastmail in 2018, writing about how it’s pretty easy to avoid Google now...
a year ago
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a year ago
I last sang the praises of Fastmail in 2018, writing about how it’s pretty easy to avoid Google now that Google’s products are relatively middling. I’ve been using Fastmail exclusively since then and have only good things to say about it. The user interface is rock-solid and...
Making software...
Being More Efficient as a Designer and Developer Being More Efficient as a Designer and Developer 2019-09-28 I recently began working on a small side...
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over a year ago
Being More Efficient as a Designer and Developer 2019-09-28 I recently began working on a small side project (a marketing site / blog for an upcoming UX book I'm writing, but I have nothing to promote yet - sorry) and found myself circling around different static site generators...
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Interview on Will Larson's Infrastructure Engineering a reprint of my interview on Will Larson's InfraEng project.
over a year ago
Liz Denys
Rising sea levels, eroding beaches, melting ice caps When I was glazing this v60-style cone, I was thinking of rising sea levels, eroding beaches, and...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
When I was glazing this v60-style cone, I was thinking of rising sea levels, eroding beaches, and melting ice caps. Trying to tackle large challenges like climate change is overwhelming in the best of times, and these are not the best of times. There are many things we can...
Eric Bailey
Multipage Version Zine, Issue 1 I contributed two pages to Multipage Version, Mat Marquis’ new zine. The zine is about HTML...
a year ago
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a year ago
I contributed two pages to Multipage Version, Mat Marquis’ new zine. The zine is about HTML elements, and is intended to be printed out as physical media. It was a ton of fun to make, and so refreshing to get back to print media design for a bit. Here are the two pages I...
Yale E360
Feature flags and authorization abstract the same concept When I think of feature flags and authorization, I usually think about very different things. They...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When I think of feature flags and authorization, I usually think about very different things. They are used for different purposes. But ultimately, they are abstractions of the same thing. They might even be the same thing except for how they are used and the consequences for...
Making software...
Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery 2022-10-03 This article was updated on October 11, 2022 I'm a big...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Simplifying the Craigslist Gallery 2022-10-03 This article was updated on October 11, 2022 I'm a big fan of craigslist.org and the overall UX used throughout their application. My own website is an ever-changing example of "brutalist" or minimalist design, so I'm always inspired...
MMapped blog
Tutorial: stable-structures
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Actually Structured Journaling (Jan 2025) I was very excited when I saw Cal Newport's episode on Structured Journaling come up, but I was...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
I was very excited when I saw Cal Newport's episode on Structured Journaling come up, but I was disappointed by the recommendations:
the singularity is...
A dive into the AMD driver workflow I ended up getting a response from high level people at AMD. It was still very light on any real...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I ended up getting a response from high level people at AMD. It was still very light on any real technical information, but it did include some great phrases like “I am able to replicate the issues you are facing” and some mockable phrases like “We are hoping that this will...
HTMHell
The Gift You Do NOT Want: A Div in a Button's Clothing by Corina Murg With the right CSS makeup and a click event, almost anything can pretend to be a...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
by Corina Murg With the right CSS makeup and a click event, almost anything can pretend to be a button. In accessibility work, we spot these fakes and fix them, but teaching others why and how to do it is just as important. It’s not just about correcting a single mistake; it’s...
alexwlchan
How I set up my Obsidian vaults Obsidian still feels like my “new” app for managing my notes, but according to my daily journal I’ve...
a year ago
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a year ago
Obsidian still feels like my “new” app for managing my notes, but according to my daily journal I’ve been using it for nearly three years. Time flies when you’re organising information! I’ve grown to really like it, and I expect to keep using it for a while to come. Its approach...
David Heinemeier...
Air purifiers are a simple answer to allergies I developed seasonal allergies relatively late in life. From my late twenties onward, I spent many...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
I developed seasonal allergies relatively late in life. From my late twenties onward, I spent many miserable days in the throes of sneezing, headache, and runny eyes. I tried everything the doctors recommended for relief. About a million different types of medicine, several bouts...
The Changelog
Martha the Pilot Martha, now 5, can’t remember a time when she didn’t fly periodically. She’s come along in our...
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over a year ago
Martha, now 5, can’t remember a time when she didn’t fly periodically. She’s come along in our airplane in short flights to a nearby restaurant and long ones to Michigan and South Dakota. All this time, she’s been riding in the back seat next to Laura. Martha has been talking...