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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
RSS in HTML I have a question: has anyone ever tried to standardize an RSS feed in HTML? I can’t find any...
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I have a question: has anyone ever tried to standardize an RSS feed in HTML? I can’t find any discussion around it — but I’d love to read more about the idea because it intrigues me. The OG RSS was an XML feed. Later we got JSON feeds. So why not an HTML feed standard? (I know,...
Ognjen Regoje •...
(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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3 months ago
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...
Blog - Bitfield...
Being a good co-worker is your job now In the final part of this series on the world of work, we’ll talk about how not to suck at...
a year ago
TokyoDev
TokyoDev supports the legalization of same-sex marriage in Japan Japan’s lack of recognition for same-sex marriage doesn’t affect me personally, but it does affect...
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Japan’s lack of recognition for same-sex marriage doesn’t affect me personally, but it does affect people I care about. So when I saw Business for Marriage Equality, a campaign that highlights 500+ companies and organizations that support legalization of same-sex marriage, I...
Making software...
Over-Nesting Over-Nesting 2019-01-06 I think since our design industry moves so quickly and exciting new...
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Over-Nesting 2019-01-06 I think since our design industry moves so quickly and exciting new technologies get released almost daily, that we often forget some of the basics when writing CSS. I bring this up because I've recently worked on a few projects that show a slight...
Ink & Switch
02 · Group Key Agreement with BeeKEM How Beehive groups can agree on keys over time
5 months ago
Charles Chen
.NET Task Parallel Library vs System.Threading.Channels Wondering which concurrency library is right for you? Let's dive in!
a year ago
Epic Web Dev
Check if Custom Fonts are Properly Loaded in Your App (tip) Learn how to use DevTools to check if the correct font is being applied to your app and troubleshoot...
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over a year ago
Learn how to use DevTools to check if the correct font is being applied to your app and troubleshoot issues related to loading custom fonts.
A Beautiful Site
CSS reset with box-sizing fix For ultra lightweight projects where a framework is overkill, I tend to use Eric Meyers' CSS reset....
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For ultra lightweight projects where a framework is overkill, I tend to use Eric Meyers' CSS reset. And since I'm not a glutton for punishment, I also throw in the tried and tested box-sizing fix popularized by Paul Irish. Instead of searching for and combining these...
Confessions of a...
Launching Live Courses on Systems Programming Modern software development has created a paradox: we build increasingly complex systems, yet fewer...
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Modern software development has created a paradox: we build increasingly complex systems, yet fewer engineers understand how these systems work under the hood.
Marco.org
Clip sharing with Overcast Sharing podcasts has never been easy, but I’ve always tried to lead the way with Overcast, with...
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Sharing podcasts has never been easy, but I’ve always tried to lead the way with Overcast, with publicly shareable episode links and optional recommendations from your Twitter friends since version 1.0 in 2014. Podcast sharing has been limited to audio and links, but today’s...
Epic Web Dev
AI Assistants (tutorial)
a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Down with the share widget! In a world dominated by social media, it's natural to want visitors to share your content with...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In a world dominated by social media, it's natural to want visitors to share your content with friends and followers. This really isn't a bad thing, but how you go about encouraging them can actually be discouraging. The rise of the "share" widget # Six years ago, Twitter wasn't...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.2.0 Big new integration - PostHog now has a library for iOS! Like what you see and self-hosting? Update...
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Big new integration - PostHog now has a library for iOS! Like what you see and self-hosting? Update your instance. Release notes PostHog iOS Library…
TokyoDev
Facebook is Japan's LinkedIn A couple of weeks back, an article [Facebook Wins Relatively Few...
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A couple of weeks back, an article [Facebook Wins Relatively Few Friends in Japan](http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/10/technology/10facebook.html?pagewanted=all) made its rounds. As usual, Facebook is compared to the big three Japanese SNS: mixi, Gree, and Mobage-town. However,...
Ink & Switch
Pixelpusher: Real-time peer-to-peer collaboration with React Documenting the Pixelpusher project for real-time peer-to-peer collaboration.
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Implementing HATEOS with presenters
over a year ago
Grant Slatton
Technocapital An essay on post-AI economics
4 months ago
Tinloof - Blog
Website migration 101: transitioning to a headless CMS In this article, we share insights gleaned from migrating websites created with WordPress, Hubspot...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In this article, we share insights gleaned from migrating websites created with WordPress, Hubspot CMS, Webflow, and similar tools, to a headless CMS setup.
Josh Collinsworth
How to Create Custom Editor Blocks with Block Lab Block Lab is a WordPress plugin that simplifies the process of creating custom blocks to use in the...
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over a year ago
Block Lab is a WordPress plugin that simplifies the process of creating custom blocks to use in the block editor, AKA Gutenberg, the new content editor in WordPress 5.0. This post explains how to use it, even if you only know basic HTML.
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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a year ago
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.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Working at a Startup From Series B to C Some careful thoughts from joining a startup from Series B to C.
over a year ago
A small freedom area...
Exploring intricate execution mysteries by reversing a crackme It's been a very long time since I've done some actual reverse engineering work. Going through a...
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It's been a very long time since I've done some actual reverse engineering work. Going through a difficult period currently, I needed to take a break from the graphics world and go back to the roots: understanding obscure or elementary tech stuff. One may argue that it was most...
ntietz.com blog -...
Big endian and little endian Every time I run into endianness, I have to look it up. Which way do the bytes go, and what does...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Every time I run into endianness, I have to look it up. Which way do the bytes go, and what does that mean? Something about it breaks my brain, and makes me feel like I can't tell which way is up and down, left and right. This is the blog post I've needed every time I run into...
Joel Gascoigne
Two simple changes that helped increase my happiness and improve my sleep * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Three of our key...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Three of our key values at Buffer [http://www.slideshare.net/bufferapp/buffer-culture-03] are “Always choose positivity and happiness”, “Have a focus on self-improvement” and “Live smarter, not...
A Smart Bear
"ROI" is the wrong way to sell your product Customers ask for ROI calculations to justify purchasing your software, but it still doesn't...
a year ago
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a year ago
Customers ask for ROI calculations to justify purchasing your software, but it still doesn't convince them. Here's what to do instead.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Temporal - the iPhone of System Design Temporal ties Orchestration, Event Sourcing, and Workflows-as-Code in one distributed system and it...
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over a year ago
Temporal ties Orchestration, Event Sourcing, and Workflows-as-Code in one distributed system and it is eating the world.
bt RSS Feed
Using HTML Validator Badges Again Using HTML Validator Badges Again 2019-07-05 There was a time on the Internet when websites wore...
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over a year ago
Using HTML Validator Badges Again 2019-07-05 There was a time on the Internet when websites wore badges of honor, declaring that their code was semantic and followed the W3C guidelines. The validators we used weren’t great (and still aren’t perfect) but they represented a...
A Beautiful Site
Adding and removing virtual hosts on Ubuntu 14.04 Here's a cheat sheet for working with virtual hosts on an Ubuntu server. The instructions assume...
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Here's a cheat sheet for working with virtual hosts on an Ubuntu server. The instructions assume you're not logged in as the root user. Change example.com to your own domain/subdomain. Adding a virtual host # Create the directory for your new site and grant permissions. If your...
bt RSS Feed
The Wonders of Text Ellipsis The Wonders of Text Ellipsis 2016-11-15 A common issue when working with constrained UI elements is...
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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...
Irrational...
Diagnosis in engineering strategy. Once you’ve written your strategy’s exploration, the next step is working on its...
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4 months ago
Once you’ve written your strategy’s exploration, the next step is working on its diagnosis. Diagnosis is understanding the constraints and challenges your strategy needs to address. In particular, it’s about doing that understanding while slowing yourself down from deciding how...
TokyoDev
The Difficulties of Getting a Software Developer Job in Japan in 2023 Given the current climate in tech globally, people often ask me what the current situation in Japan...
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Given the current climate in tech globally, people often ask me what the current situation in Japan is. Overall, my impression is that it is nowhere as bad as places like the US, but nevertheless I have been hearing stories of developers struggling to get jobs here. In this...
samwho.dev
Having a Baby During the pregnancy of our first child, I kept a journal. I don’t keep journals. I don’t feel like...
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During the pregnancy of our first child, I kept a journal. I don’t keep journals. I don’t feel like I have much to say in them. This was different. The whole experience was new, and there was a lot to learn. This post is a cleaning up and stitching together of that journal. It...
elementary Blog
elementary OS 8.0.1 Available Now It’s been a little over 100 days since elementary OS 8 was released, and we’re proud to announce...
3 months ago
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It’s been a little over 100 days since elementary OS 8 was released, and we’re proud to announce another round of updates, including a fresh new download. We’ve been hard at work this winter addressing issues that you reported and we’ve added a couple new creature comforts along...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Idioms as Code This is silly. I wrote code depicting common idioms. You read the code and try to guess the...
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a year ago
This is silly. I wrote code depicting common idioms. You read the code and try to guess the idiom. Answers are below the code (and, for clients viewing in supported readers, appear upside down like a children’s book). pen > sword >>> true The pen is mightier than the...
the singularity is...
Influence Agents Check 1, 2 is the mic on? Most AI doom scenarios are nonsense. The idea of a rogue computer behaving...
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Check 1, 2 is the mic on? Most AI doom scenarios are nonsense. The idea of a rogue computer behaving in a way no humans want never made sense to me, only to Hollywood who doesn’t know all that much about computers. Paul Christiano has one of my favorite takes, that the creation...
Eric Bailey
What they don’t tell you when you translate your app Forget inverting binary trees, translating or localizing a digital experience is one of the most...
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Forget inverting binary trees, translating or localizing a digital experience is one of the most difficult things you can do with software. There’s plenty of content out there about how to perform the basic design and development aspects of translation and localization work....
James Vaughan's blog
Wifi without internet on a Southwest flight
a year ago
Ognjen Regoje •...
Poll: How anxious are you before an interview? From the HackerNews poll: Given the spike in interviewing questions, I’m curious to know: how...
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From the HackerNews poll: Given the spike in interviewing questions, I’m curious to know: how anxious are you before an interview? To qualify the choices a bit: Not at all - I feel confident and not worried about the prospect of failure. A little - I’m fairly confident. Maybe the...
Ink & Switch
Capstone: A tablet for thinking Cards and inking on a freeform canvas for the two-step creative process.
over a year ago
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
swyx's site RSS Feed
Holding Space for Wicked (Part One)
6 months ago
David Heinemeier...
Free speech isn't guaranteed to be forever History is full of long stretches of dominance by noble ideas and despots, times of prosperity and...
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History is full of long stretches of dominance by noble ideas and despots, times of prosperity and of dark ages. Each of which must have seemed like they would never end to the people who lived through them. If you were a citizen of the Ottoman empire 1452, you probably didn't...
Nelson's Weblog
Cronometer is a good food diary Recently I switched to a new calorie counting app, Cronometer. I’m quite happy with it. It’s a huge...
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Recently I switched to a new calorie counting app, Cronometer. I’m quite happy with it. It’s a huge improvement over MyFitnessPal (MFP) or Lose It and is not exploitative like Noom. The key improvement with Cronometer is accuracy, particularly good data sources for nutrition...
samwho.dev
Memory Allocation .memory { width: 100%; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top:...
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.memory { width: 100%; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 0.5em; } input[type=range]:focus { outline: none; } a[simulation] { cursor: pointer; } .size { color: #0072B2 !important; font-weight: bold; } .free { color: #009E73 !important; font-weight:...
Liz Denys
My love-hate relationship with typeface rendering in Ubuntu We take good, er at least reasonable, typography for granted all the time. This is especially true...
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We take good, er at least reasonable, typography for granted all the time. This is especially true when it comes to personal computers because with Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X - upwards of 98 percent of the market - you get characters that are easy on the eye right out of the...
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”....
over a year ago
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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...
Maggie Appleton
Building a Second Brain: The Illustrated Notes Illustrated notes on the Building A Second Brain course
over a year ago
Ink & Switch
Making a new medium and other recaps It's always nice to celebrate publications and presenting our research in public, but much of our...
a year ago
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a year ago
It's always nice to celebrate publications and presenting our research in public, but much of our work are ongoing journeys. So, in this end of the year dispatch we wanted to share some recaps and talk a bit about one of our longest standing research tracks: programmable ink.
Dan Slimmon
No Observability Without Theory: The Talk Last month, I had the unadulterated pleasure of presenting “No Observability Without Theory” at...
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Last month, I had the unadulterated pleasure of presenting “No Observability Without Theory” at Monitorama 2024. If you’ve never been to Monitorama, I can’t recommend it enough. I think it’s the best tech conference, period. This talk was adapted from an old blog post of mine,...
Alice GG
Specialization considered harmful It is sometimes recommended that software engineers should learn “depth-first”, and seek to...
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It is sometimes recommended that software engineers should learn “depth-first”, and seek to specialize early in their careers. I think his advice is misguided. In my opinion, having a wide range of knowledge is in many cases more important than being extremely good at a very...
Joel Gascoigne
The highs and lows of startup life * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I was recently...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I was recently back in the UK for two weeks and had the chance to speak at an event in London about the incredible journey with my startup in the last two years. When I speak, I try my best
David Heinemeier...
Apple’s new extortion regime to keep big app makers Apple’s recent threat of financial audits for developers who dare link to their own website was a...
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Apple’s recent threat of financial audits for developers who dare link to their own website was a big, revealing moment to a lot of people. Folks who perhaps didn’t think Apple would be “that kind of company”. That they wouldn't so blatantly threaten developers into compliance...
Liz Denys
Seeing every BAM Next Wave Festival show From October to December of last year, I saw a lot of shows at the Brooklyn Academy of Music -...
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over a year ago
From October to December of last year, I saw a lot of shows at the Brooklyn Academy of Music - specifically, I saw all 26 of the Next Wave Festival productions. I've been coming to BAM regularly since I moved to New York in 2011, and Next Wave is always an exciting time of year...
Sometimes It Works...
Smile Smile Be thankful Resist the pressure to own things Be good to yourself, but no more than...
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Smile Be thankful Resist the pressure to own things Be good to yourself, but no more than necessary Be a friend Reflect; don’t regret Fail, learn, repeat Stop. Think. Speak Exercise your mind, your body, and your soul Work hard Be true Respect others Value life Give openly Love...
Founder's blog
How I learned to stop worrying and wrote my own memory-cache Here I am, writing about performance optimization again. I'm a performance junkie. Constantly...
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over a year ago
Here I am, writing about performance optimization again. I'm a performance junkie. Constantly monitoring and investigating bottlenecks for our SaaS helpdesk webapp is my favorite thing ever. And I'm proud to say that with thousands of clients, even some really big ones, our app's...
Contraption Co.
Craft in the digital era The next iteration of Contraption Company
5 months ago
Liz Denys
National Gallery of Art "Walkway to east building," where arguably necessary conveyor belts come with sparkling lights.
over a year ago
Liz Denys
Puffed millet and qui'nola I've never been to Sqirl, but ever since I ordered their puffed millet 'nola on a whim, I've been...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've never been to Sqirl, but ever since I ordered their puffed millet 'nola on a whim, I've been obsessed. All I want for breakfast these days is a bowl of this granola with some plain yogurt. UPDATE: I no longer order from Sqirl after hearing about their jam mold and the deeper...
Copper • A blog...
Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software Some of you might remember the legendary comment of Eric Diven on a Docker CLI issue he opened years...
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a year ago
Some of you might remember the legendary comment of Eric Diven on a Docker CLI issue he opened years ago: @solvaholic: Sorry I missed your comment of many months ago. I no longer build software; I now make furniture out of wood. The hours are long, the pay sucks, and there’s...
The Changelog
Excellent Experience with Debian Bullseye I’ve appreciated the bullseye upgrade, like most Debian upgrades. I’m not quite sure how, since I...
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over a year ago
I’ve appreciated the bullseye upgrade, like most Debian upgrades. I’m not quite sure how, since I was already running a backports kernel, but somehow the entire system is snappier. Maybe newer X or something? I’m really pleased with it. Hardware integration is even nicer now,...
dthompson
Spring Lisp Game Jam 2023 Summary The Spring Lisp Game Jam 2023 submission deadline has now passed and we are now in the rating...
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over a year ago
The Spring Lisp Game Jam 2023 submission deadline has now passed and we are now in the rating period. I was a co-host of the jam alongside technomancy but he did all the real work setting everything up. There were 30 submissions this time around, which I believe is a new record...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware, November 2024 The Ware for November 2024 is the NLP-16A by cherry-takuan. It’s a bespoke 16-bit CPU made entirely...
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The Ware for November 2024 is the NLP-16A by cherry-takuan. It’s a bespoke 16-bit CPU made entirely from 74HC00 NAND gates. Even the D-flip flops are made from NAND gates: Lots and lots of NAND gates… I got to meet the maker, who goes by Cherry Takuan, at the Chiba Institute of...
General Robots
Humanoid Robots: Dollars and GPTs Whats With All The Humanoid Robots? Part 2
a year ago
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, March 2024 The ware for March 2024 is shown below. This fine ware is courtesy of KE5FX. Really fascinating...
a year ago
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a year ago
The ware for March 2024 is shown below. This fine ware is courtesy of KE5FX. Really fascinating stuff, thanks for the contribution!
HTMHell
#9 Cookie Consent from Hell Bad code <body> <header>…</header> <main>…</main> <footer>…</footer> <div...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Bad code <body> <header>…</header> <main>…</main> <footer>…</footer> <div class="cookie_consent modal"> <p>We use cookies…</p> <div class="cookie_consent__close"> <i class="fa fa-times"></i> </div> <div class="cookie_consent__ok">OK</div> ...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app I released first version of SumatraPDF in 2006. That’s 15 years ago which seems like a good time for...
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over a year ago
I released first version of SumatraPDF in 2006. That’s 15 years ago which seems like a good time for a retrospective. The app SumatraPDF is a multi-format (PDF, ePub, Mobi, comic book, DjVu, XPS, CHM) viewer for Windows and currently looks like this: The...
Liz Denys
Hold back on some of the sweet tooth: citrus almond poundcake When I had come across an article on "sneaking" citrus almond poundcake out of a food processor in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When I had come across an article on "sneaking" citrus almond poundcake out of a food processor in Mark Bittman's column, I realized that it had been too long since I had even eaten poundcake. Further, this one was flavored like oranges and marzipan - two of my favorite flavors -...
Steve Klabnik
A new introduction to Rust
over a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Hide the mouse cursor with CSS I know you can change the mouse cursor using CSS, but I never realized that you can actually hide it...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I know you can change the mouse cursor using CSS, but I never realized that you can actually hide it altogether. .no-cursor { cursor: none; } Of course, that doesn't mean you should, it just means you can. Practical uses for this are definitely limited, but things like...
Steve Klabnik
Protological Control: an introduction
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Notes from Pen & Teller’s Masterclass I quite enjoyed Pen & Teller’s Masterclass (paywall, sorry!). I learned some practical card tricks...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
I quite enjoyed Pen & Teller’s Masterclass (paywall, sorry!). I learned some practical card tricks that came in handy while we sitting in the airport waiting for a connecting fight with restless kids. I also really enjoyed Pen & Teller’s reflections on the art of their craft....
David Heinemeier...
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...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
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...
alexwlchan
The surprising utility of a Flickr URL parser &rarr; As part of my work at the Flickr Foundation, I wrote a little Python library that can be used to...
a year ago
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a year ago
As part of my work at the Flickr Foundation, I wrote a little Python library that can be used to parse Flickr URLs. For example: $ flickr_url_parser 'https://www.flickr.com/photos/usnationalarchives/4727552068/' {"type": "single_photo", "photo_id": "4727552068"} This started...
Blog of Simple...
Web Analytics for Crypto Companies
10 months ago
Irrational...
How to get better at strategy? One of the most memorable quotes in Arthur Miller’s The Death of a Salesman comes from Uncle Ben,...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
One of the most memorable quotes in Arthur Miller’s The Death of a Salesman comes from Uncle Ben, who describes his path to becoming wealthy as, “When I was seventeen, I walked into the jungle, and when I was twenty-one I walked out. And by God I was rich.” I wish I could...
bt RSS Feed
Skip to Content Button Skip to Content Button 2019-03-25 One of the golden rules for testing your website’s accessibility...
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over a year ago
Skip to Content Button 2019-03-25 One of the golden rules for testing your website’s accessibility is the “keyboard-only” audit. This is where you test navigating through your entire site without the use of a mouse, but instead rely solely on tabbing through your...
Ink & Switch
Ink Note Fri. March 8, 2024: Inkbase demos A few quick demos of Inkbase
a year ago
Ink & Switch
Local First Unconference [2023 / STL]
over a year ago
Irrational...
Culture vs systems. Recently, I had a chat with a friend who was frustrated by their company culture. They’d been...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Recently, I had a chat with a friend who was frustrated by their company culture. They’d been pushing the company to operate with more urgency, but didn’t feel like it was landing. “How do we,” they wondered, “get the team to recognize that urgency is essential to our success?”...
Ink & Switch
Ink Note Feb 2023: Crosscut Extension Design Jam A design jam on Crosscut-related ideas.
over a year ago
charity.wtf
Questionable Advice: “People Used To Take Me Seriously. Then I Became A Software Vendor” I recently got a plaintive text message from my magnificent friend Abby Bangser, asking about a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I recently got a plaintive text message from my magnificent friend Abby Bangser, asking about a conversation we had several years ago: “Hey, I’ve got a question for you. A long time ago I remember you talking about what an adjustment it was becoming a vendor, how all of a sudden...
Dan Quach Blog
State of Data Engineering 2025 Q1 AI Updates There is a lot of chatter about 2025 being the year of agentic frameworks.  To me, this...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
AI Updates There is a lot of chatter about 2025 being the year of agentic frameworks.  To me, this means a system in which a subset can allow AI models to take independent actions based on their environment, typically interacting with external APIs or interfaces.  The terminology...
Contraption Co.
Why Ruby on Rails still matters An old tool endures in a Next.js world
4 months ago
Coding Horror
Building a PC, Part IX: Downsizing Hard to believe that I've had the same PC case since 2011, and my last serious upgrade was in 2015....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Hard to believe that I've had the same PC case since 2011, and my last serious upgrade was in 2015. I guess that's yet another sign that the PC is over, because PC upgrades have gotten really boring. It took 5 years for me to muster
Nelson's Weblog
8BitDo Game Controllers 8BitDo makes good game controllers. A wide variety of styles from retro to mainstream, with some...
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8BitDo makes good game controllers. A wide variety of styles from retro to mainstream, with some unusual shapes. And wide compatibility with various systems: PC, Macs, Switch, Android. They’re well built, work right, and quite inexpensive. A far cry from the...
A Smart Bear
You can have two Big Things, but not three No you can't "have it all." You can have two things, but not three.
over a year ago
ByteofDev
State of the Web: Serverless Functions What are serverless functions, why do they matter, and how are they currently used for server-side...
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What are serverless functions, why do they matter, and how are they currently used for server-side JavaScript?
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Benchmarking the impact of session recording on performance The 2010s were marked by an explosion of tools focused on data. One of the biggest was session...
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The 2010s were marked by an explosion of tools focused on data. One of the biggest was session recording – a screen-recording-like service that…
Making software...
Using Parent Selectors in CSS Using Parent Selectors in CSS 2018-12-19 I recently saw a Twitter thread posted by Tommy Hodgins on...
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Using Parent Selectors in CSS 2018-12-19 I recently saw a Twitter thread posted by Tommy Hodgins on implementing highly requested styling features in CSS with only a minimal amount of JavaScript. Many of his examples are great, but the parent selector instantly peaked my...
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Beware the leviathans I've been pleading with antitrust authorities around the world to do something about Big Tech for...
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I've been pleading with antitrust authorities around the world to do something about Big Tech for years now. Especially with those awful app store monopolies that have been choking out developers left, right, and center. But now that something finally looks to be happening, I'm...
Charles Chen
.NET Source Generators with .NET 7 Exploring .NET source generators to reduce boilerplate code in everyday code!
a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Creating a printable website using print stylesheets I frequently see little printer icons all over the web that clearly mean I can print out a clean...
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I frequently see little printer icons all over the web that clearly mean I can print out a clean version of the webpage that I'm looking at. These little icons are indeed a beautiful sight from the user's perspective. No more having to modify printer settings or copy and paste...
Making software...
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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over a year ago
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 FOSS[^0] systems. I also manage a handful of fun side projects that are normally shipped under either MIT or GPL...
Quentin Santos
Git Super-Power: The Three-Way Merge tl;dr: git config --global merge.conflictstyle diff3 In my previous post, I preached about the one...
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a year ago
tl;dr: git config --global merge.conflictstyle diff3 In my previous post, I preached about the one true way to merge MRs in a git workflow. The answer is obviously to rebase for conflicts, and a merge commit for posterity of the MR. What I did not talk about is that there is a...
Acko.net
Use.GPU Goes Trad Old is new again I've released a new version of Use.GPU, my experimental reactive/declarative...
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Old is new again I've released a new version of Use.GPU, my experimental reactive/declarative WebGPU framework, now at version 0.8. My goal is to make GPU rendering easier and more sane. I do this by applying the lessons and patterns learned from the React world, and...
TokyoDev
Recruiters and Human Traffickers: A Short History of Employment Agencies in Japan Japan's [Employment Security...
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Japan's [Employment Security Act](http://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/law/detail_main?id=10&vm=2&re=) requires a recruitment business to obtain a license. Failure to do so can result in imprisonment of up to a year. While I've met sleazy recruiters, sending them to prison...
MMapped blog
Square joy: pre-order
over a year ago
A Smart Bear
The unfortunate math behind consulting companies Hiring even one person creates a lot less profit than you'd think, and launching a product rarely...
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a year ago
Hiring even one person creates a lot less profit than you'd think, and launching a product rarely works out. Here are some tips for consulting companies.
Miguel Carranza
Technical debt isn't evil Technical debt is a concept originally introduced by Ward Cunningham, one of the authors of the...
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over a year ago
Technical debt is a concept originally introduced by Ward Cunningham, one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto. There are multiple interpretations of what technical debt is, but I am going to focus on the financial debt metaphor. Like financial debt, technical debt is something...
David Crawshaw
2016-01-15 "The Unexotic Underclass" "Let’s pretend, for a moment, that you are a 22-year-old college student...
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"The Unexotic Underclass" "Let’s pretend, for a moment, that you are a 22-year-old college student in Kampala, Uganda. You’re sitting in class and discreetly scrolling through Facebook on your phone. You see that there has been another mass shooting in America, this time in a...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Custom search UI in CodeMirror 6 and Svelte 5 CodeMirror 6 has @codemirror/search package which provides UI for searching within a document,...
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CodeMirror 6 has @codemirror/search package which provides UI for searching within a document, triggered via Ctrl + F. In my note-taking application Edna I wanted something slightly different. This article describes how I implemented it. The UI went from: to: CodeMirror is very...
HTMHell
The underrated &lt;dl&gt; element by David Luhr The Description List (<dl>) element is useful for many common visual design patterns,...
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by David Luhr The Description List (<dl>) element is useful for many common visual design patterns, but is unfortunately underutilized. It was originally intended to group terms with their definitions, but it's also a great fit for other content that has a key/value structure,...
Blog of Simple...
What are Google Analytics' identifiers?
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Digital Garden Terms of Service This is my attempt to explicitly define a not-legally-binding "terms of service" for people who...
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This is my attempt to explicitly define a not-legally-binding "terms of service" for people who peruse Digital Gardens, and the people who Learn in Public with them.
alexwlchan
Redecorating my bedroom Back in March, I was visiting my sister and her newly-redecorated home, and it gave me the...
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Back in March, I was visiting my sister and her newly-redecorated home, and it gave me the inspiration to finally redecorate my bedroom – something I’ve been thinking about for two years. My bedroom used to have white walls, a dark grey feature wall, and a purple sliding...
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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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...
A Smart Bear
Who's lying? Pilots use multiple dials, employing different sources of energy, to report identical data, because...
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Pilots use multiple dials, employing different sources of energy, to report identical data, because they understand that in a dashboard full of information, something is always lying to you. The lesson is useful for data and metrics at our companies.
Ralph Ammer
René Descartes – How to be certain This is a quick introduction for beginners to the philosophy of Rene Descartes. The post René...
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This is a quick introduction for beginners to the philosophy of Rene Descartes. The post René Descartes – How to be certain appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
Quentin Santos
The missing part of Espressif’s reset circuit In the previous article, we peeked at the reset circuit of ESP-Prog with an oscilloscope, and...
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2 days ago
In the previous article, we peeked at the reset circuit of ESP-Prog with an oscilloscope, and reproduced it with basic components. We observed that it did not behave quite as expected. In this article, we’ll look into the missing pieces. An incomplete circuit For a hint, we’ll...
Blog of Simple...
What is PHI under HIPAA?
a year ago
A Smart Bear
Being who you are, while becoming better We're told "be yourself" to seek happiness and success. But what if "being yourself" also means...
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We're told "be yourself" to seek happiness and success. But what if "being yourself" also means striving to become better? What is "yourself?"
Evan Jones -...
TCP and gRPC Failed Connection Timeouts After my last article about how gRPC is hard to configure, with a client keepalive example, I...
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After my last article about how gRPC is hard to configure, with a client keepalive example, I realized that I don't understand how TCP and gRPC handle failed connections. This article is my attempt to figure it out, and document it so I can find it again in the future. The best...
A Smart Bear
The Impossible Product Manager, a.k.a. the "Great" Product Manager According to the Internet, being a Product Manager is impossible. Can you ever measure up? No, but...
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According to the Internet, being a Product Manager is impossible. Can you ever measure up? No, but don’t worry, there’s a better answer.
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If You Sell Anything Online, This Book Will Make You Money My glowing review of Rob Hope's Landing Page Hot Tips Book
over a year ago
Ink & Switch
Dispatch 006: Provenance for science papers, local-first access control In this Dispatch, we’ll introduce you to two new projects at the lab: exploring writing environments...
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10 months ago
In this Dispatch, we’ll introduce you to two new projects at the lab: exploring writing environments for science papers and local-first access control. We also have some updates on WASM packaging for Automerge, and a new researcher-in-residence.
David Gerrells
Can you convert a video to pure css? Can you convert a video to pure css? There is only one way to find out.
10 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
React Distros Why we no longer have frontend framework wars, and musing on the state of React metaframeworks today...
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Why we no longer have frontend framework wars, and musing on the state of React metaframeworks today and tomorrow
Ink & Switch
Ink Note Feb 2023: Crosscut Extension Design Jam • Alex's Notes Alex Warth’s notes after experimenting with extensions to Crosscut
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Engineer’s Codex
How Google writes clean, maintainable code Google's SWE Book explains their readability process and style guides
a year ago
Florian Bellmann |...
Why I blog The reasons why I started blogging.
a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Getting localized month and day names in the browser JavaScript has a well-supported date/time formatting API called Intl.DateTimeFormat. Here's a tip —...
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over a year ago
JavaScript has a well-supported date/time formatting API called Intl.DateTimeFormat. Here's a tip — you can use it to generate localized month and day names without the need for a language pack! This is super useful if you're building, say, a date picker or a calendar app. I've...
Making software...
Sharing The Things We Use Sharing The Things We Use 2021-07-24 I always love stumbling across personal websites that include...
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over a year ago
Sharing The Things We Use 2021-07-24 I always love stumbling across personal websites that include some form of a "uses" page. A place where the author lists out all the tools they use on a regular basis - whether it be hardware, software or something else entirely. It allows...
David Heinemeier...
Hating Apple goes mainstream This isn't just about one awful ad. I mean, yes, the ad truly is awful. It symbolizes everything...
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This isn't just about one awful ad. I mean, yes, the ad truly is awful. It symbolizes everything everyone has ever hated about digitization. It celebrates a lossy, creative compression for the most flimsy reason: An iPad shedding an irrelevant millimeter or two. It's destruction...
Kagi Blog
Enhancements to the Kagi search experience We are pleased to announce newly enhanced search results across various search features.
over a year ago
Vladimir Klepov as a...
How to timeout a promise Timeouts are one of the key building blocks to make your app stable. In short, if you send a request...
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Timeouts are one of the key building blocks to make your app stable. In short, if you send a request to an endpoint and a response does not, for whatever reason, come soon, we act as if the request failed and fall back to plan B — try again, show an error message and let the user...
Patrick Kayongo
Disenchantment Three days had now passed since there was electricity. Refiloe had 10% battery life left on her...
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Three days had now passed since there was electricity. Refiloe had 10% battery life left on her phone after recharging at her parents’ home earlier in the day. In addition to that, there had been no water since the morning. Joburg Water had promised restoration by 2pm, but 48...
Epic Web Dev
Your code style does matter actually (article) You may be babysitting JavaScript syntax. It's annoying and you don't have to. Fix your formatter!
a year ago
Eric Bailey
Let’s Talk About Speech CSS
over a year ago
Remains of the Day
Revisionist commentary I don't know that I'm aware of enough entries in this category to even consider it one, but I'm a...
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I don't know that I'm aware of enough entries in this category to even consider it one, but I'm a sucker for the union of political and film satire as embodied in alternate film commentaries. I was reminded of it when seeing The People's History of Tattooine which was first one...
Yale e360
Estimates are about time, so let's cut to the chase As software engineers, we routinely estimate our work. Our most common brush with estimates is when...
a year ago
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a year ago
As software engineers, we routinely estimate our work. Our most common brush with estimates is when we estimate individual tasks within a sprint. Usually, we do that with abstract points, and that's the wrong way about it. We should be cutting to the chase and estimating directly...
Sometimes It Works...
A-A-Ron! Aaron Francis is a rising star in the Laravel community. Over the past couple of years he's rocketed...
a year ago
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a year ago
Aaron Francis is a rising star in the Laravel community. Over the past couple of years he's rocketed up because he's a genuinely thoughtful, intelligent and funny guy. I like him. I met him very briefly at Laracon US this year and I've had some great public and private...
Josh Collinsworth
Five Ways to Become a Better Designer (That Aren't Design) There’s vast world of design learning and opportunity right in front of us constantly. All we need...
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There’s vast world of design learning and opportunity right in front of us constantly. All we need to do is take the time to notice it and learn from it.
On Test Automation
2024 - A year in review Well, I guess it’s true: time does fly when you’re having fun! 2024 is coming towards an end soon,...
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Well, I guess it’s true: time does fly when you’re having fun! 2024 is coming towards an end soon, and since I’m deliberately slowing down this week and will be away from work for two weeks after that, this to me is a great time to look back on 2024 and what it has brought me...
Joel Gascoigne
What it&#x27;s really like to grow a team when you&#x27;re focused on culture-fit * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s often...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s often interesting to look back and think about how much I’ve learned in the past year or two. Especially areas where I almost had no understanding at all. Company culture is one of those...
Maggie Appleton
Interoperable Personal Libraries and Ad Hoc Reading Groups Exploring ways to build social infrastructure around books and reading on the open web
over a year ago
A Smart Bear
In its emptiness, there is the function of a startup Everything about a startup changes over time. The few things that don't, are its essence. The voyage...
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Everything about a startup changes over time. The few things that don't, are its essence. The voyage is meaningless, unless you decide what those things are.
Irrational...
Is engineering strategy useful? While I frequently hear engineers bemoan a missing strategy, they rarely complete the thought by...
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5 months ago
While I frequently hear engineers bemoan a missing strategy, they rarely complete the thought by articulating why the missing strategy matters. Instead, it serves as more of a truism: the economy used to be better, children used to respect their parents, and engineering...
Liz Denys
A very MIT signals problem I've always found signals and systems interesting, as it is one of the most power tools out there....
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over a year ago
I've always found signals and systems interesting, as it is one of the most power tools out there. Signals and systems can be used to describe many different problems because it is simply an abstraction which describes a physical, mathematical, or computational system by the way...
Ferd.ca
Carrots, sticks, and making things worse This blog post originally appeared on the LFI blog but I decided to post it on my own as well. Every...
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9 months ago
This blog post originally appeared on the LFI blog but I decided to post it on my own as well. Every organization has to contend with limits: scarcity of resources, people, attention, or funding, friction from scaling, inertia from previous code bases, or a quickly shifting...
The Codist
I Learned How To Program 50 Years Ago In the fall of the 1973-1974 school year, my public high school offered a class in computer...
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In the fall of the 1973-1974 school year, my public high school offered a class in computer programming. This class was rare for its time, as there were few computers in the world accessible for students, and most people had no idea what they could do other than seeing HAL
Making software...
Prescription Form UI Improvements Prescription Form UI Improvements 2019-03-13 I was browsing the Clearly website a few days ago and...
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over a year ago
Prescription Form UI Improvements 2019-03-13 I was browsing the Clearly website a few days ago and ended up using their prescription form to update my worsening eyesight. The design of this form wasn't bad per se, but it could certainly be improved. Current design of the...
HTMHell
datalists are more powerful than you think by Alexis Degryse I think we all know the <datalist> element (and if you don’t, it’s ok). It holds a...
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by Alexis Degryse I think we all know the <datalist> element (and if you don’t, it’s ok). It holds a list of <option> elements, offering suggested choices for its associated input field. It’s not an alternative for the <select> element. A field associated to a <datalist> can...
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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over a year ago
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...
Evan Jones -...
Setenv is not Thread Safe and C Doesn't Want to Fix It You can't safely use the C setenv() or unsetenv() functions in a program that uses threads. Those...
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a year ago
You can't safely use the C setenv() or unsetenv() functions in a program that uses threads. Those functions modify global state, and can cause other threads calling getenv() to crash. This also causes crashes in other languages that use those C standard library functions, such as...
Liz Denys
New Loose Leaf Security episode: More security stories! The latest Loose Leaf Security is out, a handful of Geoffrey and my own security adventures,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The latest Loose Leaf Security is out, a handful of Geoffrey and my own security adventures, including concerns about Twitter's "favorites" evolved into "likes," and some juicier news stories: Security stories: surveillance databases, unlocking apps, unexpected photo booths, and...
Don Melton
That bleeping kerfuffle After I posted that link to my latest podcast with Rene Ritchie, several folks alerted me via...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
After I posted that link to my latest podcast with Rene Ritchie, several folks alerted me via Twitter that all my colorful metaphors had been “bleeped” on the audio. I didn’t realize that because I hadn’t listened to the recording myself. And I don’t normally listen to my own...
Daniel Marino
My GIF Workflow Using Eleventy, Netlify, and Alfred I used to keep my GIFs on Dropbox in the /public directory. There was a time when Dropbox would...
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over a year ago
I used to keep my GIFs on Dropbox in the /public directory. There was a time when Dropbox would serve content as HTML from this directory. This was a simple way to share my GIFs with the world. I even adopted an Alfred workflow for quickly searching and copying my GIFs URL to the...
macwright.com
Hiding Peloton and Zwift workouts on Strava by () I love Strava, and a lot of my friends do too. And some of them do most of their workouts with...
a year ago
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a year ago
I love Strava, and a lot of my friends do too. And some of them do most of their workouts with Peloton, Swift, and other “integrations.” It’s great for them, but the activities just look like ads for Peloton and don’t have any of the things that I like about Strava’s...
A Beautiful Site
A user interface is like a joke When I hear a simile like this, it's hard to not share. It's not so much an analogy as it is a good...
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over a year ago
When I hear a simile like this, it's hard to not share. It's not so much an analogy as it is a good rule of thumb: A user interface is like a joke. If you have to explain it, it's not that good. And I've heard some websites tell pretty bad jokes...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Your Site's Calling Card > Note: this tutorial is now out of date - I don't pre-generate og:image cards anymore as it added...
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over a year ago
> Note: this tutorial is now out of date - I don't pre-generate og:image cards anymore as it added too much time to my builds
PostHog's RSS Feed
Our simpler goal: Help engineers to be better at product One of the things I've learned at PostHog is the simpler a strategy, the more likely it's right. We...
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over a year ago
One of the things I've learned at PostHog is the simpler a strategy, the more likely it's right. We simplified our strategy recently. This post…
Maggie Appleton
Immutable Data with Immer and Personal Assistant Bots Illustrated notes on how work with immutable data in the Immer state library
over a year ago
Writing - Andreas...
Summer reading list 2024 Books have a nice kind of survivorship bias: If something is still being read after decades or...
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Books have a nice kind of survivorship bias: If something is still being read after decades or centuries, it must contain some universal truths or be useful at a fundamental level.
Engineer’s Codex
How Apple built iCloud to store billions of databases Apple uses Cassandra and FoundationDB for CloudKit, their cloud backend service. We take a look into...
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Apple uses Cassandra and FoundationDB for CloudKit, their cloud backend service. We take a look into how exactly each is used within their cloud and the problems they've solved.
Marco.org
Retreating to Safety Ten years ago, Apple’s Phil Schiller surprised Apple enthusiasts and developers by walking out on...
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a month ago
Ten years ago, Apple’s Phil Schiller surprised Apple enthusiasts and developers by walking out on stage at John Gruber’s The Talk Show Live WWDC event and giving an open, human, honest interview to a somewhat jaded community. I wrote this in response: Both Apple and Phil Schiller...
Ink & Switch
Ink Note April 2023: Ploma Rendering Experiments Prototyping a few uses of dynamic ink using Dan Amelang and Evelyn Eastmond’s Ploma as the renderer.
over a year ago
Blog of Simple...
Why is my Simple Analytics data different from Google Analytics?
over a year ago
Kagi Blog
Introducing Privacy Pass authentication for Kagi Search Today we are announcing a new privacy feature coming to Kagi Search.
4 months ago
Coding Horror
Thunderbolting Your Video Card When I wrote about The Golden Age of x86 Gaming, I implied that, in the future, it might be an...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When I wrote about The Golden Age of x86 Gaming, I implied that, in the future, it might be an interesting, albeit expensive, idea to upgrade your video card via an external Thunderbolt 3 enclosure. I'm here to report that the future is now. Yes, that's
Ferd.ca
AI: Where in the Loop Should Humans Go? This is a re-publishing of a blog post I originally wrote for work, but wanted on my own blog as...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
This is a re-publishing of a blog post I originally wrote for work, but wanted on my own blog as well. AI is everywhere, and its impressive claims are leading to rapid adoption. At this stage, I’d qualify it as charismatic technology—something that under-delivers on what it...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Svelte Zen Garden reigniting the Zen Garden era with modern technology
over a year ago
Vladimir Klepov as a...
OOP for FP lovers: Simplistic Dependency Injection With all the enthusiasm around functional design in javascript community, we've come to reject the...
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over a year ago
With all the enthusiasm around functional design in javascript community, we've come to reject the concepts whose names remind us of object-orientation. We throw constructors, methods and classes out of the window because they seem to smell of bank cubicles, water coolers and...
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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a year ago
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.
Irrational...
Developing leadership styles For a long time, I found the micromanager CEO archetype very frustrating to work with. They would...
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a year ago
For a long time, I found the micromanager CEO archetype very frustrating to work with. They would often pop out of nowhere, jab holes in the work I had done without understanding the tradeoffs, and then disappear when I wanted to explain my decisions. In those moments, I wished...
Making software...
Very Basic Form Styling Very Basic Form Styling 2019-11-13 Web forms can be great - I'm borderline obsessed with them. I...
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Very Basic Form Styling 2019-11-13 Web forms can be great - I'm borderline obsessed with them. I love tinkering with pre-existing logins / sign up pages and I've also open sourced a minimal CSS form-styling plugin: Normform. While simple CSS plugins like these can be helpful, I...
Ink & Switch
Patchwork 01 · Universal version control We believe that simple, powerful, universal version control tools could help all kinds of creators...
a year ago
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a year ago
We believe that simple, powerful, universal version control tools could help all kinds of creators produce better work.
the jsomers.net blog
The best general advice on earth These are excerpts (emphasis mine) from William James's 1890 classic, Principles of Psychology,...
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over a year ago
These are excerpts (emphasis mine) from William James's 1890 classic, Principles of Psychology, Chapter IV, "Habit": The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy. It is to fund and capitalize our acquisitions, and live at...
Making software...
Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0 Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0 2020-09-29 I have found that there is a lot of information...
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over a year ago
Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0 2020-09-29 I have found that there is a lot of information on the internet in regards to setting up "dynamic" navigation in Jekyll. The problem I've noticed is that a good amount of these implementations are overly complex. Here is the...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Extreme #include discipline for C++ code C++ takes long to compile There is more than one reason for it but one of the reasons is excessive...
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C++ takes long to compile There is more than one reason for it but one of the reasons is excessive re-parsing of the same .h header files. In SumatraPDF I’m using an extreme #include discipline to keep compilation times in check. The rule is simple: a .h file cannot #include...
Irrational...
Interviewing engineering executives. Earlier I wrote about getting hired as an Engineering executive, and it’s perhaps even more...
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Earlier I wrote about getting hired as an Engineering executive, and it’s perhaps even more important to discuss the opposite question: how should you interview and evaluate Engineering executives? As an Engineering executive, you may not directly run one of these searches, but...
Irrational...
Running your engineering onboarding program. Most companies say that it takes three to six months for newly hired engineers to fully ramp...
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over a year ago
Most companies say that it takes three to six months for newly hired engineers to fully ramp up. Engineering leaders know it’s impolitic to admit that it takes their team longer than three to six months to onboard new engineers, so that’s what they say out loud, but they...
Confused bit
Birth of a new blog What is the best programming language? Why is Vim better than Emacs? Tabs or spaces? Static or...
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What is the best programming language? Why is Vim better than Emacs? Tabs or spaces? Static or dynamic typing? The answer to all these questions and more on “Confused bit”. This blog is a place to host and share my thoughts on software, crafting, and my experience with various...
TokyoDev
Getting a job at a Japanese startup At the last [Hacker News Tokyo Meetup](http://hntokyo.doorkeeper.jp/), I met Paulo, who is the lead...
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At the last [Hacker News Tokyo Meetup](http://hntokyo.doorkeeper.jp/), I met Paulo, who is the lead software developer at [Crowdcast](http://crowdcast.jp/), a Japanese startup with a product, [bizNote](https://secure.biznote.jp/) that makes small business accounting easier. As it...
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Adverse Status Updates and Trust I noticed an asymmetry between adverse status updates and trust that I figured it would be worth a...
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I noticed an asymmetry between adverse status updates and trust that I figured it would be worth a quick comment on.
Blog - Bitfield...
Best Go books for 2024 What are the best Go books for 2024? Read my (relatively) unbiased recommendations for the Go...
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What are the best Go books for 2024? Read my (relatively) unbiased recommendations for the Go books you should absolutely buy and read right now, whether you’re a beginner or expert Gopher.
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Campfire is SaaS without the aaS It hasn’t even been a week since we started selling Campfire under the new ONCE model, but we’ve...
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It hasn’t even been a week since we started selling Campfire under the new ONCE model, but we’ve already sold more than quarter of a million dollars worth of this beautifully simple installable chat system. People are using it to replace existing systems costing tens of thousands...
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.
Maggie Appleton
What the Fork is React Suspense? Illustrated notes on how React suspense works
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Steve Klabnik
"C is how the computer works" is a dangerous mindset for C programmers
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Writing Hurl's grammar, twice Recently I started working on a programming language, Hurl. Writing the initial code samples and...
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Recently I started working on a programming language, Hurl. Writing the initial code samples and developing the concept is all fine and good, but the next step is to actually make it work. The steps I outlined for developing Hurl in the last post were: Write out code samples to...
Computer Things
Solving a math problem with planner programming The deadline for the logic book is coming up! I'm hoping to have it ready for early access by either...
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The deadline for the logic book is coming up! I'm hoping to have it ready for early access by either the end of this week or early next week. During a break on Monday I saw this interesting problem on Math Stack Exchange: Suppose that at the beginning there is a blank document,...
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Slowmad Q&A The other thing about [Netlify Year One](https://www.swyx.io/writing/netlify-year-one) that people...
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The other thing about [Netlify Year One](https://www.swyx.io/writing/netlify-year-one) that people are generally interested in is my experience of remote work. As I put it [recently](https://mobile.twitter.com/swyx/status/1154916667606130689):
Words and Buttons...
Partial order and non-Boolean logic Non-Boolean logics are rare but not extinct. Interval logic is one example. Sometimes, you can...
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Non-Boolean logics are rare but not extinct. Interval logic is one example. Sometimes, you can implement a logic you want within total order or partial order but sometimes even that isn't enough and you need an even more general relation. With operator overloading, you have the...
Patrick Kayongo
A New Dog “What are you doing now?” Sabelo asked Zoleka as she was taking a video of every part of their...
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“What are you doing now?” Sabelo asked Zoleka as she was taking a video of every part of their living room with her phone. He was growing tired of her ever-new discoveries and project ideas, and he didn’t know if he had the energy to stomach this new one. But she was too busy...
blag
Installing Transmission (remote and CLI) client on Raspberry Pi This tutorial will explain you how to install Transmission client on Raspberry Pi running Raspbian.
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Security of the Infinity Ergodox on Mac OS A friend of mine is very into keyboards and, after seeing his keyboards at work and admiring his...
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A friend of mine is very into keyboards and, after seeing his keyboards at work and admiring his Ergodox many times, I took the plunge and built my own. 152 solder joints later, I have this beauty: It took a few days to get used to it and in the process, I found a bug in layer...
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HogMail #14 Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product...
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Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product guides, and curated articles on building great products…
Maggie Appleton
Silent Synchronous Reading Sessions Notes on how to run silent meetings and reading sessions
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Copper • A blog...
Why aren't the most useful Mac apps on the App Store? Let’s set the stage first. So, it’s Tuesday night and I’m Command Tab-ing my way through 10...
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Let’s set the stage first. So, it’s Tuesday night and I’m Command Tab-ing my way through 10 different apps, some with 3-4 windows, while trying to patch bugs in Lunar faster than the users can submit the reports. I’m definitely failing. I feel my brain pulsing and my ring...
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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...
On Life and Lisp
Fun and Games with Exposure Notifications Exposure Notifications is a protocol developed by Apple and Google for facilitating COVID-19 contact...
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Exposure Notifications is a protocol developed by Apple and Google for facilitating COVID-19 contact tracing on mobile phones by exchanging codes with nearby phones over Bluetooth, implemented within the Android and iOS operating systems, now available here in Toronto. Wait –...
Steve Klabnik
Contributing to Ruby's documentation
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Game: Causality Couriers
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100 Bytes of CSS to look great everywhere Simple grab and go upgrade to the base user agent stylesheet to make for readable sites
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How to speed up ClickHouse queries using materialized columns ClickHouse supports speeding up queries using materialized columns to create new columns on the fly...
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ClickHouse supports speeding up queries using materialized columns to create new columns on the fly from existing data. In this post, I’ll walk…
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Isomatic Typeface Rev 6 WIP This is a ton of work. But not many things in the world could be more satisfying. Isomatic Type Rev...
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This is a ton of work. But not many things in the world could be more satisfying. Isomatic Type Rev 6 WIP Also added Western and Central European language support. Stay tuned. This concept has been brewing for a few years now. I'll post some lower case specimens
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Living with Linux and Android after two decades of Apple It now seems laughable that only a few months ago, I was questioning whether I'd actually be able to...
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It now seems laughable that only a few months ago, I was questioning whether I'd actually be able to switch off the Apple stack and stick to my choice. That's what two decades worth of entrenched habits will do to your belief in change! But not only was it possible, it's been...
Grant Slatton
All the way down Very short story about simulation
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SumatraPDF 2.5.2 released We, the SumatraPDF developers have released a version 2.5.2 of Sumatra, a PDF and ebook reader for...
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We, the SumatraPDF developers have released a version 2.5.2 of Sumatra, a PDF and ebook reader for Windows. Changes in this release: 2 page view for ebooks new keybindings: Ctrl+PgDn, Ctrl+Right : go to next page Ctrl+PgUp, Ctrl+Left : go to previous page 10x faster ebook...
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Set Up Remote Desktop in Windows Here’s a quick guide to setting up Remote Desktop on Windows: 1. Allow Remote Connections Right...
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Here’s a quick guide to setting up Remote Desktop on Windows: 1. Allow Remote Connections Right click on the My Computer icon > Click Properties > Click on the Remote tab Check the box that says “Allow Users to Connect Remotely to this Computer” Add your username to the list of...
Steve Klabnik
A blip in time
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alexwlchan
Redacting sensitive query parameters with koa and koa-logger At work, we use the Koa framework and koa-logger middleware as part of our website. Together, they...
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At work, we use the Koa framework and koa-logger middleware as part of our website. Together, they give us nice request-response logs for all our traffic: <-- GET / --> GET / 200 754ms 57.28kb <-- GET /stories --> GET /stories 200 374ms 71.29kb <-- GET /works?query=trees -->...
Josh Collinsworth
A response to "Defending Open Source: Protecting the Future of WordPress" I feel it's important to issue a critical reading of Automattic's post, as it doesn't seem to offer...
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I feel it's important to issue a critical reading of Automattic's post, as it doesn't seem to offer much of a serious or objective examination of the issues at hand. Rather, the post unfortunately reads as something more akin to a puff piece, or corporate propaganda.
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Static Svelte: JavaScript Blogging with 93% less JavaScript This blog now uses [Svelte & Sapper](https://sapper.svelte.dev/) as a static site generator, where...
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This blog now uses [Svelte & Sapper](https://sapper.svelte.dev/) as a static site generator, where it [previously used React & Gatsby](https://5d7699e172ae430007210374--scout-videos-51664.netlify.com/writing/moving-to-novela). This is achieved through [Sapper's `sapper export`...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Svelte stores: the curious parts We've already learnt a lot about svelte's reactivity system — the primary way to work with state in...
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We've already learnt a lot about svelte's reactivity system — the primary way to work with state in svelte components. But not all state belongs in components — sometimes we want app-global state (think state manager), sometimes we just want to reuse logic between components....
Maggie Appleton
March 2025
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APIs for content sites must be free Social media businesses should not charge* for APIs. If a company like Reddit or Twitter derives...
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Social media businesses should not charge* for APIs. If a company like Reddit or Twitter derives most of its value from content that users write for free then it must provide APIs for anyone to download and manipulate that content. While an interactive API that enables...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Cool URIs Don’t Change — But Humans Do Here are two ideas at odds with each other: You should have human-friendly URIs Cool URIs don’t...
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Here are two ideas at odds with each other: You should have human-friendly URIs Cool URIs don’t change If a slug is going to be human-friendly, i.e. human-readable, then it's going to contain information that is subject to change because humans make errors. If “to err is human”...
Computer Things
Finding hard 24 puzzles with planner programming Planner programming is a programming technique where you solve problems by providing a goal and...
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Planner programming is a programming technique where you solve problems by providing a goal and actions, and letting the planner find actions that reach the goal. In a previous edition of Logic for Programmers, I demonstrated how this worked by solving the 24 puzzle with...
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What we built at our sun-kissed Aruba hackathon Every year, Team PostHog congregates for our annual all-company offsite . In previous years we've...
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Every year, Team PostHog congregates for our annual all-company offsite . In previous years we've been to Italy, Portugal and Iceland. This year, we…
Maggie Appleton
The JAMStack, Gatsby & Contentful Illustrated notes on the JAMstack, Gatsby & Contentful
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Irrational...
Wardley mapping of Gitlab Strategy. Gitlab is an integrated developer productivity, infrastructure operations, and security...
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Gitlab is an integrated developer productivity, infrastructure operations, and security platform. This Wardley map explores the evolution of Gitlab’s users’ needs, as one component in understanding the company’s strategy. In particular, we look at how Gitlab’s strategy of a...
Vadim Kravcenko
💀 Every app has its skeletons You need to accept one truth – every shop is messy and every app has its skeletons. Period.💀 🦄 You...
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You need to accept one truth – every shop is messy and every app has its skeletons. Period.💀 🦄 You […] The post 💀 Every app has its skeletons appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Blogpost Annealing Letting my writing improve under the heat of feedback
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How to turn your engineers into product people Great engineers will either get autonomy at your company, or they'll get it somewhere else. Our...
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Great engineers will either get autonomy at your company, or they'll get it somewhere else. Our engineers are encouraged to think about the what and…
Elad Blog
Changing times (or, why is every layoff 10-15%?) Changing economic markets suggests a shift in how some companies should operate, as well as what...
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Changing economic markets suggests a shift in how some companies should operate, as well as what risks to assume for 2023
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How To Google Your Errors ---
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Walkthrough: Causality Couriers
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Recurse Center Day 15: B Tree Algorithms I translated B Tree Algorithms from CLRS to Python
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Faster Connectivity !== Faster Websites This post from Dan Luu discussing how web bloat impacts users with slow devices caused me to reflect...
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This post from Dan Luu discussing how web bloat impacts users with slow devices caused me to reflect on the supposition that faster connectivity means faster websites. I grew up in an era when slow internet was the primary limiting factor to a great experience on the web. I was...
Blog - Bitfield...
Programming is fun I was a guest on the Cup o’ Go podcast recently, talking with Shay Nehmad and Jonathan Hall about...
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I was a guest on the Cup o’ Go podcast recently, talking with Shay Nehmad and Jonathan Hall about writing and teaching Go. Here’s a transcript of our chat.
The Codist
Using Xcode's AI Is Like Pair Programming With A Monkey I've never used any other AI "assistant," although I've talked with those who have, most of whom are...
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I've never used any other AI "assistant," although I've talked with those who have, most of whom are not very positive. My experience using Xcode's AI is that it occasionally offers a line of code that works, but you mostly get junk
Making software...
Designers Need Thicker Skin Designers Need Thicker Skin 2017-07-10 I'm not normally one to comment or even really care about...
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Designers Need Thicker Skin 2017-07-10 I'm not normally one to comment or even really care about "drama" within our design industry. Opinions are just that and should just be consumed at face value. But this week I was moderately annoyed with a subset of designers in...
wingolog
whippet update: faster evacuation, eager sweeping of empty blocks Good evening. Tonight, notes on things I have learned recently while hacking on the .Whippet...
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Good evening. Tonight, notes on things I have learned recently while hacking on the .Whippet GC library For some time now, the name Whippet has referred to three things. Firstly, it is the , consisting of an include-only garbage collection library containing a compile-time...
Liz Denys
Building confidence in the face of impostor syndrome When I'm plowing away at a project, I almost always feel confident in my abilities. Sometimes, I...
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When I'm plowing away at a project, I almost always feel confident in my abilities. Sometimes, I question if I am a good enough engineer, designer, or statistician, but once I get started, my excitement transforms those doubts into motivation. But all bets are off as soon as I...
Dan Slimmon
Huh! as a signal We can never predict with certainty what the next system failure will be. But we can predict,...
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We can never predict with certainty what the next system failure will be. But we can predict, because painful experience has taught us, that some or all of the causes of that failure will be surprising. We can use that!
Yale e360
What I tell people new to on-call The first time I went on call as a software engineer, it was exciting—and ultimately...
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The first time I went on call as a software engineer, it was exciting—and ultimately traumatic. Since then, I've had on-call experiences at multiple other jobs and have grown to really appreciate it as part of the role. As I've progressed through my career, I've gotten to help...
bt RSS Feed
Very Basic Form Styling Very Basic Form Styling 2019-11-13 Web forms can be great - I’m borderline obsessed with them. I...
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Very Basic Form Styling 2019-11-13 Web forms can be great - I’m borderline obsessed with them. I love tinkering with pre-existing logins / sign up pages and I’ve also open sourced a minimal CSS form-styling plugin: Normform. While simple CSS plugins like these can be helpful, I...
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...
Dan Slimmon
Is ops a bullshit job? I recently had the pleasure of reading anthropologist David Graeber’s 2018 book, Bullshit Jobs: A...
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I recently had the pleasure of reading anthropologist David Graeber’s 2018 book, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory. Graeber defines a bullshit job as, a form of paid employment that is so completely pointless, unnecessary, or pernicious that even the employee cannot justify its existence...
Yale e360
On Estimates, Time, and Evidence Here's an exchange that's pretty common: "How long will that take?" "A few days." I run into this...
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Here's an exchange that's pretty common: "How long will that take?" "A few days." I run into this all the time with clients - they have real business needs to know how long something will take and what the risks are with any given project. So, we are asked to give estimates of...
Joel Gascoigne
Enjoying the moment * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * When I look back...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * When I look back on the times I’ve done the most productive work on my startup [http://bufferapp.com], it has always been when I’ve had a great balance of work and rest...
Computer Things
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...
Sometimes It Works...
You Don’t Need a Website You Don’t Need a Website ¶You Don’t Need a Website I came across this Reddit post the other day. The...
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You Don’t Need a Website ¶You Don’t Need a Website I came across this Reddit post the other day. The gist of it is: Websites are an expensive necessity that companies hate paying for And you can understand why sometimes. Some organisations just have a completely absurd view of...
Patrick Kayongo
Of Coups, Wars, and Corporate Digital Transformations In mid-April 2023, Sudan was plunged into civil war. The para-military group Rapid Support Forces...
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In mid-April 2023, Sudan was plunged into civil war. The para-military group Rapid Support Forces (RSF) was formed during the war in Darfur, outside the control of the national army for “special operations”. Because they weren’t under the leadership of the army, normal war...
Tinloof - Blog
Explain Like I'm Five: Website speed This post is part of the series Explain Like I'm Five (#eli5), which aims to make tech concepts and...
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This post is part of the series Explain Like I'm Five (#eli5), which aims to make tech concepts and terms easy to understand. In this two minutes read, we'll explain why website speed matters, how to measure it, and how to improve it. Why website speed matters
blag
Recurse Center Day 6: B Tree Root B Tree Root: how would you design it?
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Vadim Kravcenko
Contracts you should never sign When it comes to software engineering and the IT industry in general, contracts are a necessary part...
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When it comes to software engineering and the IT industry in general, contracts are a necessary part of doing business. […] The post Contracts you should never sign appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
bt RSS Feed
Over-Engineering an Oil Tank Gauge Over-Engineering an Oil Tank Gauge 2020-09-09 I almost went down the path of investing a huge amount...
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Over-Engineering an Oil Tank Gauge 2020-09-09 I almost went down the path of investing a huge amount of time and effort into fixing a stuck oil fuel tank float-gauge in my house. Recently, the float mechanism became stuck and permanently displayed empty regardless of how much...
Elad Blog
Unicorn Market Cap & Industry Towns, 2020 In 2019 I wrote about how "industry towns" emerge in every market. These clusters of people, ideas,...
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In 2019 I wrote about how "industry towns" emerge in every market. These clusters of people, ideas, capital, service providers, and companies tend to have strong network effects that support startup formation and success in a given industry. For example, Silicon Valley, London,...
Irrational...
Making engineering strategies more readable As discussed in Components of engineering strategy, a complete engineering strategy has five...
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As discussed in Components of engineering strategy, a complete engineering strategy has five components: explore, diagnose, refine (map & model), policy, and operation. However, it’s actually quite challenging to read a strategy document written that way. That’s an effective...
Josh Collinsworth
Follow-up: the Glove80 after six months A followup on my previous first impressions post, with an update on how the Glove80 ergonomic split...
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A followup on my previous first impressions post, with an update on how the Glove80 ergonomic split keyboard has been after about six months of daily use.
Words and Buttons...
Image darning It's about a feature that cleans up dirt stains from aged newspapers. I called it darning because of...
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It's about a feature that cleans up dirt stains from aged newspapers. I called it darning because of how it works.
Yale e360
Tech salaries probably aren't dropping from remote work Not even a year ago, most software companies and software engineers were some form of remote work...
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Not even a year ago, most software companies and software engineers were some form of remote work skeptical. Remote work existed (I've been working remote for most of my admittedly short career!) but it was not widespread. When I talked to recruiters at big tech companies they...
David Crawshaw
2015-05-08 docs.google.com/document/d/1iNSQIyNpVGHeak6isbP6AHdHD50gs8MNXF1GCf08efg/pub
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Eric Bailey
CSS is a Strongly Typed Language
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A Beautiful Site
Semantic version numbers Gone are the days of arbitrarily assigning version numbers to every new software release. With...
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Gone are the days of arbitrarily assigning version numbers to every new software release. With semantic versioning, the question of how and when to bump versions is made simple. According to semver.org, the syntax for version numbers should go like this: MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH When...
Contraption Co.
Having a TJ The importance of a passionate first customer
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Irrational...
Stuff I learned at Carta. Today’s my last day at Carta, where I got the chance to serve as their CTO for the past two years....
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Today’s my last day at Carta, where I got the chance to serve as their CTO for the past two years. I’ve learned so much working there, and I wanted to end my chapter there by collecting my thoughts on what I learned. (I am heading somewhere, and will share news in a week or two...
Daniel Immke's Blog...
2019: Lessons learned It’s the end of the year — and the decade — as endless listicles remind me every day. I wrote an end...
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It’s the end of the year — and the decade — as endless listicles remind me every day. I wrote an end of year blog post last year so I…
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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…
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The “je ne sais quoi” of TikTok Note: When I originally wrote this post, TikTok oEmbeds did not auto-play. I recommend pausing them...
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Note: When I originally wrote this post, TikTok oEmbeds did not auto-play. I recommend pausing them and pressing play when ready to view…
Josh Collinsworth
Converting from Gridsome to SvelteKit I've been a fan of Svelte for years, but never had the opportunity to use it on a serious project...
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I've been a fan of Svelte for years, but never had the opportunity to use it on a serious project before. So when I found myself looking for a new platform for this site as SvelteKit entered open beta, it seemed like perfect timing.
Making software...
HTML Dark Mode HTML Dark Mode 2023-04-11 I wrote an article back in 2021 called The Lazy Developer's Dark Mode...
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HTML Dark Mode 2023-04-11 I wrote an article back in 2021 called The Lazy Developer's Dark Mode where I explained how to implement a very basic "dark mode" by using the prefers-color-scheme CSS attribute. This stills works perfectly fine, and in fact there is a cleaner variation...
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VC is a tool, not a religion We raised over $27,000,000 then realized we should be growing out of our own revenue instead. Day 1...
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We raised over $27,000,000 then realized we should be growing out of our own revenue instead. Day 1 – We started bootstrapping, then changed our minds…
Grant Slatton
Things I wish I knew earlier Collection of stuff I would tell my younger self if I could
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OCaml Speedrun! 🐫🐪 a guided walk through Jane Street's OCaml workshop
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General Robots
Dimension Hopper Part 1 2D Platformer using Stable Diffusion for live level art creation
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ByteofDev
JavaScript Benchmarking Is a Mess Design decisions core to JavaScript have caused a multitude of problems for benchmarking. Is there a...
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Design decisions core to JavaScript have caused a multitude of problems for benchmarking. Is there a solution to this?
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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...
David Crawshaw
2015-08-07 "The sinkhole attack is is used to drop a rootkit into SMRAM. Rootkit now invisible to the OS, ring...
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"The sinkhole attack is is used to drop a rootkit into SMRAM. Rootkit now invisible to the OS, ring 0, hypervisor, AV, and everything else." "A forgotten patch to fix a forgotten problem on a tiny number of legacy systems 20 years ago… That opens up an incredible vulnerability on...
HTMHell
Never underestimate HTML by Lara Aigmüller “HTML is easy.”, “Frontend development is easier than backend development.”,...
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by Lara Aigmüller “HTML is easy.”, “Frontend development is easier than backend development.”, “Updating the UI should be a simple task once the backend is ready.”—these and other similar statements reached my ears time and again during my career as a web developer. Very often,...
The Pragmatic...
The Scoop: Tech Layoffs in 2022 I get a lot of scoop sent by readers (thank you!). Sadly, in 2022, a good part of the scoop is about...
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I get a lot of scoop sent by readers (thank you!). Sadly, in 2022, a good part of the scoop is about companies laying off people. Some of this scoop has not been reported before. I don't want to broadcast layoffs on Twitter or LinkedIn continuously, but also
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
I Don’t Like The Term “IC” Either I really liked Robin’s piece, “Stop calling yourself an IC”. I still remember the way I felt the...
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I really liked Robin’s piece, “Stop calling yourself an IC”. I still remember the way I felt the first time I heard that term. It was used in a way where its connotations conveyed a kind of laziness via lack of ambition. And I thought, “But wait, I am an individual contributor —...
Julia Evans
Using less memory to look up IP addresses in Mess With DNS I’ve been having problems for the last 3 years or so where Mess With DNS periodically runs out of...
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I’ve been having problems for the last 3 years or so where Mess With DNS periodically runs out of memory and gets OOM killed. This hasn’t been a big priority for me: usually it just goes down for a few minutes while it restarts, and it only happens once a day at most, so I’ve...
Stephen Wolfram...
LLM Tech and a Lot More: Version 13.3 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica The Leading Edge of 2023 Technology … and Beyond Today we’re launching Version 13.3 of Wolfram...
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The Leading Edge of 2023 Technology … and Beyond Today we’re launching Version 13.3 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica—both available immediately on desktop and cloud. It’s only been 196 days since we released Version 13.2, but there’s a lot that’s new, not least a whole...
the singularity is...
Money is the Map A lot of smooth brains on Hacker News about the last post. I’m sorry if you spent your whole life...
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A lot of smooth brains on Hacker News about the last post. I’m sorry if you spent your whole life worshipping money, but hey, the Bible warned you about false idols, don’t shoot the messenger. “It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism” – Mark...
Vadim Kravcenko
How to build remote teams properly This article is part of the Technical Manager Guide that I’m writing for technical leads to scale...
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This article is part of the Technical Manager Guide that I’m writing for technical leads to scale their development and […] The post How to build remote teams properly appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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...
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...
Irrational...
Wardley mapping the service orchestration ecosystem (2014). In Uber’s 2014 service migration strategy, we explore how to navigate the move from a Python...
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In Uber’s 2014 service migration strategy, we explore how to navigate the move from a Python monolith to a services-oriented architecture while also scaling with user traffic that doubled every six months. This Wardley map explores how orchestration frameworks were...
Making software...
Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll 2019-06-20 When thinking about writing, designing and ultimately...
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Publishing Simple Books With Jekyll 2019-06-20 When thinking about writing, designing and ultimately publishing an ebook, most people don't think of using a static site generator. Having products like Amazon Publishing, LaTeX or even Microsoft Word available, why should you use...
Making software...
Improving Receipt UX Improving Receipt UX 2019-05-15 There was a pretty interesting article posted a couple days ago...
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Improving Receipt UX 2019-05-15 There was a pretty interesting article posted a couple days ago about rethinking the standard receipt design that I found quite compelling. Although, as good as the concept is, I think it can be improved (simplified) even further. What was the...
bt RSS Feed
Embracing Slow Tech Embracing Slow Tech 2022-11-22 I’m writing this post on my “new” X260 ThinkPad running Garuda Linux...
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Embracing Slow Tech 2022-11-22 I’m writing this post on my “new” X260 ThinkPad running Garuda Linux through Wayland/Sway and it is going well so far. Setting things up was much easier than I initially expected. There were only a few minor tweaks I had to make, such as setting vim...
TokyoDev
Venture Cafe ![Venture...
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![Venture Cafe](https://www.tokyodev.com/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBZzRsIiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--ba1e65f25bf034abe1e412b48d5578aafd57c2af/venture_cafe.jpg) [Venture Cafe] had its first event, はたらくモチベーション...
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.
Blog - Bitfield...
Cryptography in Go: AES implementation The AES cipher is complicated in principle, but the code isn’t all that scary in practice. Let’s...
a year ago
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The AES cipher is complicated in principle, but the code isn’t all that scary in practice. Let’s take a look at the implementation in the Go standard library. Even I can understand it!
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Why I always wrap Context.Provider and useContext React context is a cool feature, and I use it a lot for injecting configuration and making container...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
React context is a cool feature, and I use it a lot for injecting configuration and making container / child component APIs (think <RadioGroup /> + <RadioButton />). Unfortunately, out of the box Context comes with a limiting and not very convenient API. In most cases, I choose...
Vadim Kravcenko
Fundraising for SaaS Startups This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help...
over a year ago
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This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help early-stage founders tackle the […] The post Fundraising for SaaS Startups appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
samwho.dev
Load Balancing .simulation { width: 100%; display: flex; justify-content: center; align-items:...
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.simulation { width: 100%; display: flex; justify-content: center; align-items: center; margin-bottom: 2.5em; } .load-balancer { color: black; font-weight: bold; } .request { color: #04BF8A; font-weight: bold; } .server { color:...
bunnie's blog
A Kinematically Coupled, Nanometer-Resolution Piezo Focus Stage This post is part of a series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their hardware through...
a year ago
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This post is part of a series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their hardware through my IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) technique for the non-destructive inspection of chips. Previously, I discussed the process of designing the IRIS light source in some detail, as well as...
Vadim Kravcenko
How to promote your SaaS without being an ass? There’s several things to remember when promoting your SaaS without coming off as an ass: Always...
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There’s several things to remember when promoting your SaaS without coming off as an ass: Always provide value when promoting. […] The post How to promote your SaaS without being an ass? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Trade offs in designing versatile log format This article shows that when designing software even seemingly simple things are complicated and...
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This article shows that when designing software even seemingly simple things are complicated and trade offs abound. I wanted to log events to a file. I had several requirements for my design: it should be simple and therefore easy to implement it should be human-readable it...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
My Guest Appearance on ShopTalk Show #605 Here’s the link: https://shoptalkshow.com/605/ I sat down (again) with Chris and Dave to talk all...
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Here’s the link: https://shoptalkshow.com/605/ I sat down (again) with Chris and Dave to talk all things web. The conversation was fun and casual, mostly around topics I’ve written about recently — which is good, since those are topics I should (presumably) be able to speak on at...
Julia Evans
Popular git config options Hello! I always wish that command line tools came with data about how popular their various options...
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Hello! I always wish that command line tools came with data about how popular their various options are, like: “basically nobody uses this one” “80% of people use this, probably take a look” “this one has 6 possible values but people only really use these 2 in practice” So I...
David Heinemeier...
What you know that just ain't so The fun bit about business is in all the answers you don't have. Should we be priced higher or lower...
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The fun bit about business is in all the answers you don't have. Should we be priced higher or lower or leave it alone? Should we chase these customers over here or those customers over there? Should we add more features or polish the ones we have? There's endless variation in...
Yale e360
Great management and leadership books for the technical track In tech, we're fortunate to have separate management and technical tracks, though it's still...
a year ago
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a year ago
In tech, we're fortunate to have separate management and technical tracks, though it's still underdeveloped1. However, the path you take isn't very clear, it's not broadly understood what the responsibilities are, and there aren't as many resources out there as there are for...
bt RSS Feed
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...
Confessions of a...
Making System Calls in x86-64 Assembly Watch now | Privilege levels, syscall conventions, and how assembly code talks to the Linux kernel
2 weeks ago
Julia Evans
Some possible reasons for 8-bit bytes I’ve been working on a zine about how computers represent thing in binary, and one question I’ve...
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I’ve been working on a zine about how computers represent thing in binary, and one question I’ve gotten a few times is – why does the x86 architecture use 8-bit bytes? Why not some other size? With any question like this, I think there are two options: It’s a historical accident,...
Tony Finch's blog
Where does "where does my computer get the time from?" come from? I am pleased that so many people enjoyed my talk about time at RIPE86. I thought I would write a few...
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I am pleased that so many people enjoyed my talk about time at RIPE86. I thought I would write a few notes on some of the things I left out. genesis Essen & Markowitz Galileo zones BIH irony genesis There were a couple of things that I thought would make a fun talk: Just how many...
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The 7 best free and open-source feature flag tools Feature flags, aka feature toggles, turn specific functions on and off during runtime. Rather than...
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Feature flags, aka feature toggles, turn specific functions on and off during runtime. Rather than maintaining multiple feature branches in your…
Engineer’s Codex
How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers Instagram's guiding principles and tech stack explained simply
a year ago
A Beautiful Site
A Beautiful Site becomes "A Beautiful Site, LLC" Today has been an exciting day. I received documentation from the State of Florida stating that A...
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Today has been an exciting day. I received documentation from the State of Florida stating that A Beautiful Site, LLC. is officially a limited liability company. This marks the new beginning of a period of growth for ABS, which has been, until now, a sole proprietorship. In the...
charity.wtf
Choose Boring Technology Culture Honeycomb recently announced our $50M Series D funding round. We aren’t the type to hype this a lot;...
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Honeycomb recently announced our $50M Series D funding round. We aren’t the type to hype this a lot; Emily summed it up crisply as, “Living another day on someone else’s money isn’t business success, even though it is a lovely vote of confidence.” Agreed. The vote of confidence...