Josh Comeau's blog
Springs and Bounces in Native CSS
The “linear()” timing function is a game-changer; it allows us to model physics-based motion right...
28th Oct 2025
The “linear()” timing function is a game-changer; it allows us to model physics-based motion right in vanilla CSS! That said, there are some limitations and quirks to be aware of. I’ve been experimenting with this API for a while now, and in this post, I’ll share all of the tips...
blag
Rickrolling Turso DB (SQLite rewrite in Rust)
This is a beginner’s guide to hacking into Turso DB (formerly known as Limbo), the SQLite rewrite in...
20th Jul 2025
This is a beginner’s guide to hacking into Turso DB (formerly known as Limbo), the SQLite rewrite in Rust. I will explore how to get familiar with Turso’s codebase, tooling and tests
Nelson's Weblog
No more talking to politicians
I am no longer talking to politicians. I have been
aggressively filtering my email, a constant...
1st Nov 2023
I am no longer talking to politicians. I have been
aggressively filtering my email, a constant battle. Now I will no longer
accept their calls. Unfortunately my home phone number is ruined.
Between scams and politicians I never answer my phone unless I recognize
the caller...
Buttondown's blog
Embed your subscribe form in the middle of your writing
Use {{ subscribe_form }} to let folks subscribe faster!
8th Mar 2022
Use {{ subscribe_form }} to let folks subscribe faster!
Eric Bailey
Swearing and automatic captions
Swearing is the spice of language. Throw in a little to make that fucking point you want to make...
5th Dec 2022
Swearing is the spice of language. Throw in a little to make that fucking point you want to make pop. Throw in a shitload to create a motherfucking verbal curry, layers of delicious goddamn meaning to unpack.
Swearing is also present in every culture I can think of, with culture...
ntietz.com blog -...
Don't Disrupt Things; Fix Them
People talk about disrupting industries when those industries appear to be in a stable but...
7th Sep 2018
People talk about disrupting industries when those industries appear to be in a stable but inefficient state. For example, the taxicab industry: there was little innovation going on in it, and it was stable, but it seemed like it was far from ideal. Along came Uber, intent to...
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How To Google Your Errors
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4th Jan 2018
Seldo.com
Nobody pays for open source. We can force them to.
5 days ago
A Beautiful Site
Component Machines
Components are like little machines. You build them once. Use them whenever you need them.
Every now...
5th Sep 2024
Components are like little machines. You build them once. Use them whenever you need them.
Every now and then you open them up to oil them or replace a part, then you send them back to work.
And work, they do.
Little component machines just chugging along so you never have to...
Civic Hax
Chicago Parking Ticket Visualization
Intro
Hi there! In this post, I want to show off a fun little web app I made for visualizing parking...
27th Mar 2019
Intro
Hi there! In this post, I want to show off a fun little web app I made for visualizing parking tickets in Chicago, but because I've spent so much time on the overall project, I figured I'd share the story that got me to this point. In many ways, this work is the foundation...
Alex Meub
Use the Natural CSS Box Model
The CSS Box Model is used to describe how items are rendered (in boxes) from elements in the...
27th Oct 2013
The CSS Box Model is used to describe how items are rendered (in boxes) from elements in the document tree. It determines how the content area, padding, border and margin of an element will be displayed. There are two types.
The W3C Box Model
x
...
The Codist
What I Miss And Don't From Working As A Programmer
I retired almost four years ago after nearly 40 years as a programmer. While I still write code...
25th Jan 2025
I retired almost four years ago after nearly 40 years as a programmer. While I still write code daily, I do so to support my generative art rather than get paid for it.
Most of my career was spent building new applications, and no matter what my title was, I
The Web Witch's Blog
Crash and Burnout
In the last year I have changed jobs, moved twice (one of those internationally) and traveled about...
10th Apr 2023
In the last year I have changed jobs, moved twice (one of those internationally) and traveled about 120,000 miles. I've been working on finishing my book, caught covid, and was diagnosed with bipolar depression and Hashimoto's disease.
Additionally, with so much travel, I've had...
The Codist
Why Is Xcode So Antagonistic To Reduced Vision?
My eyesight is generally OK, but I have trouble reading small text, especially medium gray on light...
17th Sep 2025
My eyesight is generally OK, but I have trouble reading small text, especially medium gray on light gray backgrounds. I usually code in 16 or even 18 point fonts, currently Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono. Every new release of Xcode makes seeing various UI elements harder, as if the...
On Test Automation
Building and improving Page Objects, one step at a time
A few weeks ago, I ran a pair programming / mentoring session with someone who reached out to me...
31st Mar 2025
A few weeks ago, I ran a pair programming / mentoring session with someone who reached out to me because they felt they could use some support. When I first saw the code they wrote, I was pretty impressed.
Sure, there were some things I would have done differently, but most of...
The Web Witch's Blog
Home Office Kit: Elgato Wave 3 Microphone
My desk setup in the UK is slowly coming together & Jhey picked out a microphone for me. I had a...
2nd Feb 2024
My desk setup in the UK is slowly coming together & Jhey picked out a microphone for me. I had a Blue Yeti microphone in the US...and I still do it's just in storage. It had issues with staying connected through a dongle after my work MacBook was upgraded and I didn't have the...
Confessions of a...
One Law to Rule All Code Optimizations
A systems-level reasoning model for understanding why optimizations succeed or fail.
8th Jun 2025
A systems-level reasoning model for understanding why optimizations succeed or fail.
ntietz.com blog -...
Great things about Rust that aren't just performance
Nearly every line of code I write for fun is in Rust.
It's not because I need great performance,...
6th Jan 2025
Nearly every line of code I write for fun is in Rust.
It's not because I need great performance, though that's a nice benefit.
I write a lot of Rust because it's a joy to write code in.
There is so much else to love about Rust beyond going fast without segfaults.
Here are a few...
A Beautiful Site
Office 2007 files downloading as ZIP files in Internet Explorer
Today I learned that Microsoft Office 2007 files (you know, the new ones that end in DOCX, XLSX, and...
18th Mar 2010
Today I learned that Microsoft Office 2007 files (you know, the new ones that end in DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX) don't always download properly in Internet Explorer. In fact, IE tends to see them as ZIP files and forces their extension to change to .zip when you select download. This...
Josh Collinsworth
My Essential Tools for WordPress Development
Some of these apps, resources and tools aren’t directly WordPress-related, or even necessarily...
25th Jun 2016
Some of these apps, resources and tools aren’t directly WordPress-related, or even necessarily development-related; some have to do with productivity or just make life a little easier. That’s by design. Part of being a developer is learning to work and use your tools as...
Eric Bailey
Here’s yet another metaphor about tech debt
The city next to the town I grew up in had a shopping center that was built atop a sanitary...
4th Aug 2026
The city next to the town I grew up in had a shopping center that was built atop a sanitary landfill.
For those unfamiliar, creating a sanitary landfill involves taking landfill waste, spreading it into thin layers, compacting it, then paving over it. It enjoyed popularity as a...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Using AWK like grep with envvars
This is a little tip that was impossible for me to DuckDuckGo (that’s
right, I use DuckDuckGo like a...
6th May 2018
This is a little tip that was impossible for me to DuckDuckGo (that’s
right, I use DuckDuckGo like a verb). Like everyone who lives the daily
joy (and, frequently, deep frustration) of using the command line to
accomplish day-to-day tasks I am a fairly deft manipulator of...
home automation -...
Auditing User Intent in Closed Source IoT Applications
(Header image under CC-BY by Gregory Varnum)Hardware-backed voice assistants like Amazon Alexa and...
25th Oct 2019
(Header image under CC-BY by Gregory Varnum)Hardware-backed voice assistants like Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant have received some criticism for their handling of voice data behind the scenes. The companies had outsourced quality control/machine learning feedback to external...
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Svelte as an Eleventy Template Engine
Svelte is a really nice authoring format for HTML components. I wanted to explore if I could extend...
1st Feb 2020
Svelte is a really nice authoring format for HTML components. I wanted to explore if I could extend Eleventy to use it.
On Test Automation
On working and contributing to conferences abroad
This blog post is another one in the ‘writing things down to structure my thinking on where I want...
6th Feb 2025
This blog post is another one in the ‘writing things down to structure my thinking on where I want my career to go’ series. I will get back to writing technical and automation blog posts soon, but I need to finish my contract testing course first.
One of the things I like to do...
Charles Chen
MCP is Dead; Long Live MCP! - Revisited
6 months later, where does MCP stand today?
8th Aug 2026
6 months later, where does MCP stand today?
charity.wtf
Deploys Are The ✨WRONG✨ Way To Change User Experience
This piece was first published on the honeycomb.io blog on 2023-03-08. …. I’m...
8th Mar 2023
This piece was first published on the honeycomb.io blog on 2023-03-08. …. I’m no stranger to ranting about deploys. But there’s one thing I haven’t sufficiently ranted about yet, which is this: Deploying software is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad way to go about the...
Elad Blog
AI Regulation
There have been multiple call to regulate AI. It is too early to do so.
18th Sep 2023
There have been multiple call to regulate AI. It is too early to do so.
A small freedom area...
Fast calculation of the distance to cubic Bezier curves on the GPU
Bézier curves are a core building block of text and 2D shapes rendering.
There are several...
18th Oct 2025
Bézier curves are a core building block of text and 2D shapes rendering.
There are several approaches to rendering them, but one especially challenging
problem, both mathematically and technically, is computing the distance to
a Bézier curve. For quadratic curves (one control...
Oxide Computer...
The Cloud Computer
Today we are announcing the general availability of the world’s first
commercial cloud computer —...
26th Oct 2023
Today we are announcing the general availability of the world’s first
commercial cloud computer — along with
our $44M Series A financing.
From the outset at Oxide, and as I outlined in
my 2020 Stanford talk,
we have had three core beliefs as a company:
Cloud computing is the...
Vadim Kravcenko
Code Reviews
Let me tell you a story. I worked with a client in the early days of my career. It was […]
The post...
14th Jan 2024
Let me tell you a story. I worked with a client in the early days of my career. It was […]
The post Code Reviews appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Daylight confusion week
Time is a river. A violent current of events.
– Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Here we are again:...
29th Oct 2023
Time is a river. A violent current of events.
– Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Here we are again: Daylight Confusion Week.
Much of Europe ends Daylight Savings Time today.
But North America will neglect their clocks for another week. And for
us remoties, that means next week’s...
Boot.dev Blog
Golang vs Java: 6 Key Comparisons
Golang (or Go) and Java offer an interesting comparison because despite their wide differences,...
4th Aug 2021
Golang (or Go) and Java offer an interesting comparison because despite their wide differences, there are also key similarities in how and where they’re used by programmers.
The Web Witch's Blog
The Web Witch's Grimoire // Week of 18 October 2021
22 October 2021
We're going to pretend like it's not been 10 months since I blogged. Pandemic life,...
22nd Oct 2021
22 October 2021
We're going to pretend like it's not been 10 months since I blogged. Pandemic life, writing a book on design for developers, and everything else that comes with existing right now has me worn out. When I've got free time, it's usually running off to go bike, get...
Hixie's Natural Log
Power dynamics in web specifications
My involvement in web standards started with the CSS working group. One of the things that we...
19th Apr 2024
My involvement in web standards started with the CSS working group. One of the things that we struggled with as a working group was that we would specify how the technology should work, but the browser vendors' implementations weren't exactly what we intended, and web authors...
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - May 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did...
1st May 2024
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in April - Cat's out of the bag - the "Shenanigans" I referenced in March and April are revealed. I...
alexwlchan
Upward assignment in Ruby
Ruby has had leftward assignment (x = 4) since its first public release, and a few years ago it...
13th Jan 2023
Ruby has had leftward assignment (x = 4) since its first public release, and a few years ago it added rightward assignment (4 => x).
Then at RubyConf 2021, Kevin Kuchta explained how to abuse Ruby features to build a downward assignment operator (yes, this really...
Copper • A blog...
How good is Claude, really?
At the beginning of 2026, I didn’t even know what vibe coding meant.
So much has happened in the...
4th Mar 2026
At the beginning of 2026, I didn’t even know what vibe coding meant.
So much has happened in the time I was busy carving wooden spoons, that I felt it simpler to just ignore the hype.
One morning, in this seemingly never ending winter, a friend told me excitedly how his employer...
home automation -...
KY-040 Rotary Encoder with Linux on the Raspberry Pi
For a project I with a Raspberry Pi (Zero W) needed a simple and easy input device to change a...
1st May 2018
For a project I with a Raspberry Pi (Zero W) needed a simple and easy input device to change a numerical value. So I bought some rotary encoders off Amazon.If you search the Internet for information/tutorials on how to use a “KY-040” rotary encoder with Linux and the Raspberry...
Maggie Appleton
Fetishism & Mechanical Keyboards
Developer self-expression through coloured switches, keystroke actuation, and LED light displays
19th Feb 2021
Developer self-expression through coloured switches, keystroke actuation, and LED light displays
Miguel Carranza
The Dopamine Problem Every New Manager Face
I recently wrote an internal Management 101 guide for new RevenueCat managers. It is not meant to be...
10th Jul 2026
I recently wrote an internal Management 101 guide for new RevenueCat managers. It is not meant to be a universal management guide. Most universal management advice is either too vague to be useful or too generic to survive contact with a real company.
My goal was simpler: explain...
Jordan Eldredge's...
Why I switched from Vundle to Plug
I've found Plug to be superior to Vundle in several regards.
10th Sep 2014
I've found Plug to be superior to Vundle in several regards.
A Beautiful Site
Rebuilding your Spotlight index in macOS
I use Spotlight more than I like to admit, usually for launching apps. Recently, some of my apps and...
14th Jul 2017
I use Spotlight more than I like to admit, usually for launching apps. Recently, some of my apps and files stopped appearing — even ones I access frequently.
After sifting through numerous posts online, I finally discovered one that seems to work. Running this command in the...
Patrick Kayongo
Use Local Technology Services
On 18 September 2022, the Competition Tribunal of South Africa ordered that bank accounts of the...
27th Oct 2022
On 18 September 2022, the Competition Tribunal of South Africa ordered that bank accounts of the Sekunjalo Group of Companies should remain open after closure by some banks, and imminent closure by others. The reason the various banks were closing the accounts of Sekunjalo was...
ntietz.com blog -...
Where I've been, and the future of this blog
Recently, I got an email from a reader who noted that I hadn't published anything in a little while,...
17th Jun 2026
Recently, I got an email from a reader who noted that I hadn't published anything in a little while, and he said he hopes I'm doing well.
The truth is, some days I am and some days I'm not.
I want to share a little bit about what's been going on, and what the future looks...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Chartjunk: What I've learned about data visualization
For many people the first word that comes to mind when they think
about statistical charts is...
18th May 2023
For many people the first word that comes to mind when they think
about statistical charts is “lie.”
– Edward R. Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
I wish we could all agree: pie charts should die.
I know this is unreasonable. And pie charts are only part of...
Eric Bailey
Truths about digital accessibility
Creating, maintaining, or evaluating accessible technology? Here are some things to keep in mind...
29th Jul 2019
Creating, maintaining, or evaluating accessible technology? Here are some things to keep in mind (note that identity-first language is intentional):
Each screen reader behaves differently
This is by design. Behavior is a balancing act between a screen reader’s features, the...
Basta’s Notes
AI Homelab Part 1: I keep Daddy in the basement
My AI homelab named Daddy
27th Apr 2026
My AI homelab named Daddy
Blog System/5
How "new type" helps avoid production outages
My January links recap included the “Phantom Types” article by David Soria Parra. In it, the author...
9th Mar 2024
My January links recap included the “Phantom Types” article by David Soria Parra. In it, the author briefly touches upon the “new type” idiom, its typical implementation in Rust, and then proceeds to propose a better alternative. But the question arises: why should you care?
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Moving in Big Cities: Lugg vs Clutter
i recently had to move (from smolhaus 1.5 to a temporary place) and so had to evaluate some choices...
1st Nov 2024
i recently had to move (from smolhaus 1.5 to a temporary place) and so had to evaluate some choices in moving options. TLDR: I made a huge mistake not choosing Clutter.
bt RSS Feed
The Lazy Developer's Dark Mode
The Lazy Developer’s Dark Mode
2021-04-12
After recently jumping back to Jekyll for my personal...
12th Apr 2021
The Lazy Developer’s Dark Mode
2021-04-12
After recently jumping back to Jekyll for my personal blog, I decided to take a closer look at how I was supporting dark mode for my visitors. I was using the proper CSS query to target those who had system-wide dark mode enabled, but I...
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How To Google Your Errors
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4th Jan 2018
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...
13th Feb 2021
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...
Grant Slatton
How to write complex software
A general method
1st Jan 2025
Alex Meub
Building Wi-Fi Buttons with ESP8266
Four years ago, I wrote about using Amazon Dash buttons as simple hackable Wi-Fi buttons. It’s...
1st Aug 2020
Four years ago, I wrote about using Amazon Dash buttons as simple hackable Wi-Fi buttons. It’s pretty cool to order pizza, turn on a light, send a tweet, or even run a custom script at the press of a physical button. But I recently tried to use one of my dash buttons and couldn’t...
Alex MacCaw
The Manager's Handbook
I've been writing a book on management for the last two years. Today it's getting released! The...
9th Sep 2021
I've been writing a book on management for the last two years. Today it's getting released! The paperback and Kindle versions are now available on Amazon (along with the free web version).
If you've read and enjoyed it, please Tweet about how it'
Joel Gascoigne
The evening walk
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3rd Feb 2013
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A few weeks ago I restarted one of my favorite habits: a daily evening walk. I
want to share a couple of reasons why I love this habit so much, and how I
recommend starting it if you find that
Boot.dev Blog
The Boot.dev Beat. June 2024
ThePrimeagen’s Git course is live. A new boss battle is on the horizon, and we’ve made massive speed...
5th Jun 2024
ThePrimeagen’s Git course is live. A new boss battle is on the horizon, and we’ve made massive speed improvements to the site. Hope you enjoy!
37signals Dev
Mission Control — Web
You might have noticed that Mission Control — Jobs, isn’t simply titled “Mission Control”. That’s...
9th May 2024
You might have noticed that Mission Control — Jobs, isn’t simply titled “Mission Control”. That’s because it was developed alongside another useful tool, Mission Control — Web.
Today I’m pleased to announce that we are open sourcing Mission Control — Web and you can find it on...
Vadim Kravcenko
What I learned building a $1K MRR SaaS in 6 weeks
Question:
Answer:
The post What I learned building a $1K MRR SaaS in 6 weeks appeared first on...
9th Jul 2024
Question:
Answer:
The post What I learned building a $1K MRR SaaS in 6 weeks appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - September 2023
I'm Philip, and this is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social...
1st Sep 2023
I'm Philip, and this is my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. ✨ What I was up to in August - Launched FRCTNL, a community of fractional tech workers. - Co...
Alex MacCaw
Advice to my younger self
I had the privilege of speaking to some Berkeley students last week. Below is the talk reprinted in...
31st Oct 2019
I had the privilege of speaking to some Berkeley students last week. Below is the talk reprinted in full:
If you could call yourself 10 years ago and speak for a minute, what would you say?
That's the thought that was going through my mind when I got
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The Absolute Best Way to Run Multiple npm Scripts in Parallel in 2022
Just a quick tutorial and explanation of how best to set up concurrently with named and colored log...
11th Oct 2022
Just a quick tutorial and explanation of how best to set up concurrently with named and colored log output since I had to look it up today.
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - November 2022
✨ Highlights of last month - Enjoyed my time in NYC catching up with many people - Released some new...
1st Nov 2022
✨ Highlights of last month - Enjoyed my time in NYC catching up with many people - Released some new features for Postcard - Got a new photo 🤔 Things worth sharing - Reading How to make great coffee ...
Neil Panchal
Baremetal vs. Proxmox vs. ESXi Performance Geekbench Scores
I have always wondered about the performance characteristics of virtualization. Despite the caveats...
17th May 2026
I have always wondered about the performance characteristics of virtualization. Despite the caveats in testing methodology, workloads, etc., it'd be nice to see what the performance penalty is for using Baremetal vs. Proxmox vs. ESXi. Googling for answers results in some ancient...
Making software...
Poor Man's CSS Full-Bleed Layout
Poor Man's CSS Full-Bleed Layout
2020-10-07
I recently came across the very well written and...
7th Oct 2020
Poor Man's CSS Full-Bleed Layout
2020-10-07
I recently came across the very well written and interesting article, Full-Bleed Layout Using CSS Grid, while browsing my daily designer feeds. I won't go into the post's specifics here (I recommend you read the article for yourself)...
A Beautiful Site
Cory's amazing dot paper
In a world where designers use Sketch, Photoshop, and other apps to create wireframes, I'm here in...
3rd Jun 2019
In a world where designers use Sketch, Photoshop, and other apps to create wireframes, I'm here in my corner holding this old fashioned pencil and a stack of dot paper.
Sorry, but for me, these primitive tools do the same thing and I find them easier to use.
I don't know. I guess...
Eric Migicovsky's...
Introducing HogQL: Direct SQL access for PostHog
Today, we're releasing a major new feature as a public beta: the ability to directly query your...
8th Jun 2023
Today, we're releasing a major new feature as a public beta: the ability to directly query your PostHog data using SQL . We call this HogQL because…
the singularity is...
Computer Use Models
Turns out the idea wasn’t a desktop emulator with a keyboard and mouse, it was just a command...
18th Dec 2025
Turns out the idea wasn’t a desktop emulator with a keyboard and mouse, it was just a command line.
I’m blown away with how good Claude Code is. I assume it was long context RLed in similar environments. I’m excited for open models to get this good, I tried GLM, Qwen3, and...
Jordan Eldredge's...
Speed up Laravel tests with database transactions
How I used transactions to make my tests run eight times faster.
30th May 2014
How I used transactions to make my tests run eight times faster.
Remains of the Day
Veblen values
NOTE: I'm going to start cross-posting individual stories sent out in my newsletter over here on my...
12th Mar 2020
NOTE: I'm going to start cross-posting individual stories sent out in my newsletter over here on my blog. The versions here may contain additional side notes, and often as I bring them over I'll do some light word-smithing or additional copy-editing because I can never stop...
alexwlchan
Finding a tricky bug in Elasticsearch 8.4.2
A few weeks ago, I helped to find a bug in Elasticsearch 8.4.2.
We’d started seeing issues in our...
5th Oct 2022
A few weeks ago, I helped to find a bug in Elasticsearch 8.4.2.
We’d started seeing issues in our Elastic cluster at work, and I was able to isolate the issue in a small, reproducible test case.
I shared my code with Elastic engineers, and that helped them identify and fix the...
Jake Zimmerman
Old vs new case statement in Ruby
31st May 2024
The Web Witch's Blog
Recomposed: Spring 1
A few weeks ago, I was sat in a conference room with two of my engineering managers talking about...
1st May 2023
A few weeks ago, I was sat in a conference room with two of my engineering managers talking about JWT tokens, session IDs and OAuth.
I am not an engineer and I don't pretend to be one. I have web development chops, but I loathe JavaScript and lean into my design background (CSS...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
How to run msvc cl.exe from command-line (powershell)
So you’ve installed Visual Studio and you want to run the compiler cl.exe from command-line....
16th Jan 2026
So you’ve installed Visual Studio and you want to run the compiler cl.exe from command-line. Microsoft makes it surprisingly hard.
They give you a shortcut which opens a terminal window with cmd.exe setup for compilation. But I don’t want a separate window, I want to use the...
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My 2021 New Mac Setup
I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
5th Jul 2021
I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
bt RSS Feed
Perspective
Perspective
2024-08-06
I recently read both Starting Hospice and No Salt posted on Jake’s blog and...
6th Aug 2024
Perspective
2024-08-06
I recently read both Starting Hospice and No Salt posted on Jake’s blog and was quite moved. I don’t know Jake and have never met him - but his writing and shared experiences give a very real look into his mind and perspective. If you haven’t yet, I...
Philip Ilic Thomas
What I'm up to - June 2025
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I...
1st Jun 2025
Here's my monthly newsletter about what I'm up to, which I send in place of social media. What I did in last month - On Contraption Company, I published An app of one's own about building a personal ...
ntietz.com blog -...
Books I Read in 2018
Every year, GoodReads has a Reading Challenge, where you set how many books you want to read and...
31st Dec 2018
Every year, GoodReads has a Reading Challenge, where you set how many books you want to read and record them as you go. This year, I got serious about it, and it was a wonderful motivational device. I set a goal of two books per month, and I just eked it out over the finish line,...
Basta’s Notes
The imminent risk of vibe coding
Negative feedback loops caused by vibe coded change sets
30th Jan 2026
Negative feedback loops caused by vibe coded change sets
Marco.org
In-App Purchase Rules
A summary of today’s changes to 3.1.3 Other Purchase Methods:
Your app must use Apple’s...
11th Sep 2020
A summary of today’s changes to 3.1.3 Other Purchase Methods:
Your app must use Apple’s in-app-purchase (IAP) system for all purchases made in the app.
Unless they’re purchases for goods or services that are consumed outside the app, in which case you are prohibited from using...
A Smart Bear
Your customers hate MVPs. Make a SLC instead.
"MVP" is a selfish process, abusing customers so you can "learn." SLC is an alternate philosophy...
3rd Sep 2023
"MVP" is a selfish process, abusing customers so you can "learn." SLC is an alternate philosophy that results in fast, validated learning, that customers love.
Quentin Santos
Linux Pipes are Slow
Errata: Some significant mistakes were pointed out to me by email by Brendan MacDonell. I have...
25th Aug 2024
Errata: Some significant mistakes were pointed out to me by email by Brendan MacDonell. I have included errata, but the results might not be reliable, so take this with pinch of salt! vmsplice is too fast Some programs use a particular system call “vmsplice” to move data faster...
Eric Migicovsky's...
How to build a PostHog integration with the provisioning API
I live on a little farm and recently built a website to sell shares of hogs. My fellow farmers are...
6th Jul 2026
I live on a little farm and recently built a website to sell shares of hogs. My fellow farmers are better versed in the subtle arts of soil, plants…
wingolog
whippet hacklog: adding freelists to the no-freelist space
August greetings, comrades! Today I want to bookend some recent work on
:
firstly, an idea with...
7th Aug 2025
August greetings, comrades! Today I want to bookend some recent work on
:
firstly, an idea with muddled results, then a slog through heuristics.my Immix-inspired garbage
collector
My mostly-marking collector’s main space is called the .
Its name comes from its historical...
Eric Migicovsky's...
Array 1.38.0: Exports, subscriptions and session analysis
PostHog 1.38.0 introduces exports and subscriptions for dashboards and insights, plus improved...
1st Aug 2022
PostHog 1.38.0 introduces exports and subscriptions for dashboards and insights, plus improved feature flag persistence and much more!
ntietz.com blog -...
Paper Review: Architecture of a Database System
Last week, I read "Architecture of a Database System" for a Red Book reading group.
This is as...
1st Oct 2022
Last week, I read "Architecture of a Database System" for a Red Book reading group.
This is as massive paper: 119 pages.
What surprised me is how approachable it is.
I have relatively little background building database systems and more experience using them.
Despite this, the...
A Beautiful Site
I switched from tabs to spaces and haven't looked back
Last week I started using spaces to indent code instead of tabs. It's something I swore I would...
25th Nov 2014
Last week I started using spaces to indent code instead of tabs. It's something I swore I would never do, but I'm glad I finally did.
Why I always preferred tabs #
Tabs are sensible. They were made to indent things, and code needs to be indented, so it was a good relationship....
Words and Buttons...
[Renovated] NURBS is just an acronym
NURBS stands for the non-uniform rational basis spline. There are three separate concepts. This...
14th Aug 2020
NURBS stands for the non-uniform rational basis spline. There are three separate concepts. This guide walks you through these concepts one by one.
A Smart Bear
Ballad of The Lean Startup
An ode to validated learning.
26th Sep 2011
An ode to validated learning.
Eliran Turgeman
I am a junior, and can't find a job - now what?
“The market is tough” is something many juniors hear today. people are frustrated. graduating after...
25th Jul 2024
“The market is tough” is something many juniors hear today. people are frustrated. graduating after 3-4 years with a CS degree is not easy. They graduate only to find out nobody wants to hire them or even move forward beyond the initial screening.
I’ll be real with you. there’s...
Remains of the Day
Seeing Like an Algorithm
In my previous post on TikTok I discussed why its For You Page algorithm is the connective tissue...
21st Sep 2020
In my previous post on TikTok I discussed why its For You Page algorithm is the connective tissue that makes TikTok work. It is the bus on its motherboard that connects and closes all its feedback loops.
But in the breathless rush to understand why companies might want to acquire...
Engineer’s Codex
Tokenmaxxing, Promomaxxing, and Misaligned Incentives in Tech
When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
7th May 2026
When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
37signals Dev
Modern CSS patterns in Campfire
Recently, customers who have purchased a copy of ONCE/Campfire were invited to participate in a live...
4th Apr 2024
Recently, customers who have purchased a copy of ONCE/Campfire were invited to participate in a live walk through the app’s CSS code. Campfire was built with vanilla CSS, fully #nobuild without compiling or preprocessors, and uses the latest web platform features available in...
Stephen Wolfram...
How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics
This is part 3 in a 3-part series about the Second Law: 1. Computational Foundations for the Second...
1st Feb 2023
This is part 3 in a 3-part series about the Second Law: 1. Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics (forthcoming) 2. A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics (forthcoming) 3. How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the...
Ink & Switch
Ink Note Feb 2023: Crosscut Extension Design Jam • Marcel's Notes
Marcel Goethals’ notes on Crosscut extensions
21st Feb 2023
Marcel Goethals’ notes on Crosscut extensions
Acko.net
Use.GPU Goes Trad
Old is new again
I've released a new version of Use.GPU, my experimental reactive/declarative...
13th Jan 2023
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...
ntietz.com blog -...
Growing Teams and Baking Bread
One of the keys in baking bread is getting the dough to rise well. As the yeast does its work, it...
21st Jan 2017
One of the keys in baking bread is getting the dough to rise well. As the yeast does its work, it ferments some of the sugars in the dough into alcohol and carbon dioxide, resulting in a growing, bubbly mass of dough.
There are some tricks to making dough rise quickly, like using...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Best Thing(s) of All Time Ever.
3♠25♠2007
Steve Kerr during the 1997 NBA
Championships.
Cinema Insomnia with...
25th Mar 2007
3♠25♠2007
Steve Kerr during the 1997 NBA
Championships.
Cinema Insomnia with Mr. Lobo
Firefox’s
custom keyword searches.
SuckUK’s Villain Chair.
The Music video for This
is Hardcore by Pulp
I recovered this article from my old blog via the Internet Archive. If you found...
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...
7th Mar 2025
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...
elementary Blog
Who Monitors The Monitor?
Monitor
The first release of Monitor as an elementary OS default app is here! Monitor is an app for...
5th Nov 2025
Monitor
The first release of Monitor as an elementary OS default app is here! Monitor is an app for monitoring your system resources and running processes, including with optional panel indicators. Since its last release, we’ve completed the port to GTK4, rewrote the settings...
swyx's site RSS Feed
A Walkthrough of *that* React Suspense Demo
Annotated commentary on the code behind the Movie search demo featuring React Suspense
2nd Mar 2018
Annotated commentary on the code behind the Movie search demo featuring React Suspense
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, October 2025
The Ware for October 2025 is shown below. Thanks to Juan C. for contributing this curious ware! I...
30th Oct 2025
The Ware for October 2025 is shown below. Thanks to Juan C. for contributing this curious ware! I really can’t get enough of how the whole device is integrated with a multi-layer stacked PCB. I imagine that inside the middle of the stack there could be some interesting circuitry...
sancho.dev
Learnings after 4 years at ahrefs
TBD
12th Oct 2024
Eric Migicovsky's...
What we've learned about multi-product pricing (so far)
PostHog started as a single product company. We just sold product analytics with a bunch of large...
17th Apr 2023
PostHog started as a single product company. We just sold product analytics with a bunch of large extra features thrown in – session replay, feature…
Eric Bailey
You probably shouldn’t be annotating focus order
Hey there, fellow designer! Chances are good you’ve been linked to this after doing some annotation...
4th Feb 2026
Hey there, fellow designer! Chances are good you’ve been linked to this after doing some annotation work on a design you've been creating.
First off, I want to thank you for taking the time to address accessibility considerations in your work. No, seriously. I mean...
Lee A Johnson
A Thousand Tiny Optimisations
This is a sort-of-transcript of a talk i gave a couple of years ago, and planned to give at FOSDEM...
8th Jun 2025
This is a sort-of-transcript of a talk i gave a couple of years ago, and planned to give at FOSDEM but it wasn't accepted. There is also a companion playthrough video that goes into much more detail. Note that the post was written well over a year ago, as usual it just didn't...
TokyoDev
Grad school in Japan: my experience doing a Master of Sciences in Computer Science
My journey in Japan began with an unconventional scholarship program called Vulcanus in Japan, which...
5th Mar 2024
My journey in Japan began with an unconventional scholarship program called Vulcanus in Japan, which allowed me to take a Japanese language course and intern at a major Japanese company. I wrote all about it in [my previous TokyoDev...
Ink & Switch
Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud
A new generation of collaborative software that allows users to retain ownership of their data.
1st Apr 2019
A new generation of collaborative software that allows users to retain ownership of their data.
A Beautiful Site
Finding the Closest Element Through Shadow Roots
A great trick to find the closest element in the DOM that matches an arbitrary selector is...
13th Sep 2021
A great trick to find the closest element in the DOM that matches an arbitrary selector is Element.closest().
// Starts at el and walks the DOM until it finds a parent element
// that matches the selector. In this case, it will return the
// <body>...
Eric Bailey
Paint the Picture, Not the Frame: How Browsers Provide Everything Users Need
7th Feb 2019
A Smart Bear
Jason Cohen: About the author
Thanks for visiting. As a four-time entrepreneur, both bootstrapped and fundraised, resulting in two...
6th Feb 2023
Thanks for visiting. As a four-time entrepreneur, both bootstrapped and fundraised, resulting in two exits and two unicorns, I’ve been writing about startups for 16 years. I hope you’ll find it useful!
As founder # Currently I’m the Chief Innovation Officer of WP Engine, which I...
Blog of Simple...
Google loses key antitrust case
9th Sep 2024
Engineer’s Codex
Metric-Driven Development and The Claude Effect
Sometimes, feels have to be trusted over figures
9th Mar 2025
Sometimes, feels have to be trusted over figures
Josh Comeau's blog
Let's Bring Spacer GIFs Back!
The 90s web gave us many delightful things: web rings, guestbooks, “under construction” animations,...
11th Jan 2021
The 90s web gave us many delightful things: web rings, guestbooks, “under construction” animations, and spacer GIFs. In this article, we'll see how I use a Spacer component to solve common layout problems, and why it's often a great tool for the job in the modern web.
MMapped blog
The off-chain reporting protocol
30th Jan 2024
Daniel Immke
Handling advanced product imports in WooCommerce
Learn how to handle advanced things like core fees when importing products into WooCommerce.
9th Dec 2017
Learn how to handle advanced things like core fees when importing products into WooCommerce.
Boot.dev Blog
Systems and Processes that Aren't in Code are Terrifying
My worst enemy is processes that a developer spun up years ago on a server everyone has forgotten...
3rd Oct 2019
My worst enemy is processes that a developer spun up years ago on a server everyone has forgotten about. I don’t know how to find these systems reliably, I don’t know where they came from, what depends on them, and if they are safe to delete. For example, the dreaded 15 6 2 1 *...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Source Code for Life v0.1
Compiled Insights for Infinite Learners
1st Apr 2018
Compiled Insights for Infinite Learners
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Absolute Best Way to Run Multiple npm Scripts in Parallel in 2022
Just a quick tutorial and explanation of how best to set up concurrently with named and colored log...
11th Oct 2022
Just a quick tutorial and explanation of how best to set up concurrently with named and colored log output since I had to look it up today.
Tinloof - Blog
Yeah hooks are good, but have you tried faster React Components?
This article is not meant to perf-shame you. If you’re a beginner in React, don’t focus on...
1st Feb 2019
This article is not meant to perf-shame you. If you’re a beginner in React, don’t focus on performance issues but rather on getting comfortable and productive with it.
The performance of a React application can be defined by how long the user should wait before seeing the UI...
Eric Bailey
The Importance of Heading Levels for Assistive Technology
22nd Oct 2018
Alice GG
Thoughts on releasing our first indie game
Two weeks ago we released Dice’n Goblins, our first game on Steam.
This project allowed me to...
15th Apr 2025
Two weeks ago we released Dice’n Goblins, our first game on Steam.
This project allowed me to discover and learn a lot of new things about game development and the industry.
I will use this blog post to write down what I consider to be the most important lessons from the months...
wingolog
pre-tenuring in v8
Hey hey happy new year, friends! Today I was going over some V8 code
that touched : allocating...
5th Jan 2026
Hey hey happy new year, friends! Today I was going over some V8 code
that touched : allocating objects directly in the old
space instead of the nursery. I knew the theory here but I had never
looked into the mechanism. Today’s post is a quick overview of how...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Switching Blot sync from Google Drive to Git
<![CDATA[In 2023 I migrated my personal website from Squarespace to Blot. Blot is a static site...
2nd Feb 2025
<![CDATA[In 2023 I migrated my personal website from Squarespace to Blot. Blot is a static site generator that publishes as a website a folder stored on Google Drive, Dropbox, or a Git repository.
Back then I set up Blot to publish a Google Drive folder but I recently switched...
Boot.dev Blog
Qvault is moving to Boot.dev
We’ll keep this announcement short – we’ve moved Qvault.io to Boot.dev! As you know, we’ve been hard...
7th Apr 2022
We’ll keep this announcement short – we’ve moved Qvault.io to Boot.dev! As you know, we’ve been hard at work bootstrapping on online computer science bootcamp. Qvault (now Boot.dev) is a simple CS curriculum where our students build real projects using modern programming...
The Changelog
For the First Time In Years, I’m Excited By My Computer Purchase
Some decades back, when I’d buy a new PC, it would unlock new capabilities. Maybe AGP video, or a...
11th Sep 2023
Some decades back, when I’d buy a new PC, it would unlock new capabilities. Maybe AGP video, or a PCMCIA slot, or, heck, sound. Nowadays, mostly new hardware means things get a bit faster or less crashy, or I have some more space for files. It’s good and useful, but sorta… meh....
Philip I. Thomas
What I'm up to - September 2022
This is a monthly email about what I'm up to! ✨ Highlights of last month - Had a relaxing,...
1st Sep 2022
This is a monthly email about what I'm up to! ✨ Highlights of last month - Had a relaxing, Walden-esque week in Mexico City, spent mostly in Parque México. I spent a lot of time reading - includi...
Josh Collinsworth
WordPress Child Theme Explanation and Walkthrough
When you’re just starting out with WordPress, it’s easy to think that you can just open up the...
31st Dec 2015
When you’re just starting out with WordPress, it’s easy to think that you can just open up the style.css file included with your theme and begin making alterations. And that will work—at least for a while—but it won’t be a good idea…
ntietz.com blog -...
Parsing arguments in Rust with no dependencies
When pairing with my friend Emily, we had a choice of what to implement in her project:
start a new...
4th Nov 2024
When pairing with my friend Emily, we had a choice of what to implement in her project:
start a new feature, or add a command line argument parser?
We opted for the latter, because it had to happen eventually and it was more well bounded.
It ended up having a lot of depth!
We...
Sebastian Witowski
My Favorite Macbook Tools
This list is outdated. For a list of macOS apps that I'm currently using, click here.
I could spend...
9th Jan 2020
This list is outdated. For a list of macOS apps that I'm currently using, click here.
I could spend days just tweaking things on my computer. Actually, I do. Whenever I see something annoying, I want to drop everything and try to fix it right away. It can be anything. From a...
Marco Bambini
Rethinking Databases for Humans and AI Agents
Databases Were Built for Engines. It’s Time to Build Them for Humans.
1st Jul 2026
Databases Were Built for Engines. It’s Time to Build Them for Humans.
Jordan Eldredge's...
Speeding Up Webamp's Music Visualizer with WebAssembly
Writing an in-browser compiler to compile untrusted user-supplied code to fast and secure Wasm at...
1st Apr 2021
Writing an in-browser compiler to compile untrusted user-supplied code to fast and secure Wasm at runtime.
TokyoDev
How (and Why) to Get a Bank Account in Japan
You can technically get by in Japan without a Japanese bank account. For those who are here on...
11th May 2025
You can technically get by in Japan without a Japanese bank account. For those who are here on short-term visas, or who plan to move frequently from city to city, it’s perfectly possible to live and work in Japan without one.
However, if you want to work a full-time job, rent an...
Sometimes It Works...
Why do many web developers hate jQuery?
Why do many web developers hate jQuery?
¶Why do many web developers hate jQuery?
The following is an...
22nd Nov 2016
Why do many web developers hate jQuery?
¶Why do many web developers hate jQuery?
The following is an answer I originally posted to the above question posed over on Hashnode, the developer community. Thought it was worth sharing :)
When jQuery was the new thing, people loved it....
ntietz.com blog -...
I'm taking a sabbatical and attending Recurse Center!
It's been almost a decade since I graduated from college.
In that time, I've worked at three...
11th Sep 2022
It's been almost a decade since I graduated from college.
In that time, I've worked at three startups, co-founded a non-profit immigration tech company, consulted for the United Nations, and noped out of grad school after one semester (twice!).
I've also struggled with depression...
charity.wtf
Questionable Advice: Premature Senior Followup Q’s
Some interesting followup questions arose from my recent post on the trap of the premature senior: I...
12th Feb 2021
Some interesting followup questions arose from my recent post on the trap of the premature senior: I found your blog (from Hacker News, I think) and your “Questionable Advice: The Trap of the Premature Senior” spoke to me, but I was wondering, do you have any followup advice on...
David Gerrells
how fast is javascript? Simulating 20,000,000 particles
The challenge, simulate 1,000,000 particles in plain javascript at 60 fps on a phone using only the...
6th Jul 2024
The challenge, simulate 1,000,000 particles in plain javascript at 60 fps on a phone using only the cpu. Let’s go.
Maggie Appleton
Empty Pointers and Constellations of AI
On the fuzziness of calling things “artificial intelligence” and moving the goalposts
17th Dec 2022
On the fuzziness of calling things “artificial intelligence” and moving the goalposts
Ferd.ca
Ongoing Tradeoffs, and Incidents as Landmarks
One of the really valuable things you can get out of in-depth incident investigations is a better...
20th Sep 2025
One of the really valuable things you can get out of in-depth incident investigations is a better understanding of how work is actually done, as opposed to how we think work is done, or how it is specified. A solid approach to do this is to get people back into what things felt...
A Smart Bear
Why startup biz dev deals almost never get done
Startups fail at biz dev because their proposals don't make sense to bigger companies. Here's how to...
6th Oct 2024
Startups fail at biz dev because their proposals don't make sense to bigger companies. Here's how to adjust your approach.
Renegade Otter
AI - SkyNet Is Not Coming to Kill You
.highlight pre {
background-color: #efecec;
border-color:...
22nd Apr 2024
.highlight pre {
background-color: #efecec;
border-color: var(--theme-secondary-background-color);
border-radius: 10px;
}
The firehose of data is turned on
In the beginning, the Internet was a small, cozy place. Most people weren’t online, and most businesses...
Steve Klabnik
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
1st May 2010
Joel Gascoigne
The Heartbeat Podcast with Claire Lew
I recently the pleasure of being interviewed on the Heartbeat Podcast by Claire Lew. Listen above,...
17th Jan 2019
I recently the pleasure of being interviewed on the Heartbeat Podcast by Claire Lew. Listen above, and check out the full transcript.
Brendan Gregg's Blog
Leaving Intel
InnovatiON 2022
AI Flame Graphs
GPU Flame Scope
Harshad Sane
SREcon APAC
Cloud strategy
Last...
4th Dec 2025
InnovatiON 2022
AI Flame Graphs
GPU Flame Scope
Harshad Sane
SREcon APAC
Cloud strategy
Last day
I've resigned from Intel and accepted a new opportunity. If you are an Intel employee, you might have seen my fairly long email that summarized what I did in my 3.5 years. Much...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware October 2024
Last month’s ware were boards from a Sony HCD-T1. Thanks again to spida for contributing the ware,...
30th Nov 2024
Last month’s ware were boards from a Sony HCD-T1. Thanks again to spida for contributing the ware, and congratulations to marcan for nailing it. Ping me if you want a prize!
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Treating the Symptoms
If you haven’t seen it yet, the folks behind The Browser Company recently introduced a new app...
1st Feb 2024
If you haven’t seen it yet, the folks behind The Browser Company recently introduced a new app called “Arc Search”. Its key feature? It’ll browse the web for you.
What happened? “Surfing the web” used to be — and still can be — the funnest part about being on the web!
How did...
Sedimental
Awesome Python Applications
What we can learn from 180+ case studies on successfully shipping Python software.
If you're reading...
20th Dec 2018
What we can learn from 180+ case studies on successfully shipping Python software.
If you're reading this (or hearing
this), you read and write code, probably
Python. And for all the code you've shipped, you've probably had your
share of missed requirements. Somehere in the...
bt RSS Feed
Web Development on a $200 Chromebook
Web Development on a $200 Chromebook
2020-01-07
This blog post was written, edited and tested...
7th Jan 2020
Web Development on a $200 Chromebook
2020-01-07
This blog post was written, edited and tested locally on a cheap $200 Chromebook. The article draft was composed in Sublime Text. Jekyll (the SSG this website uses) was generated via the Linux Beta Terminal running alongside Chrome...
Alex Meub
Vibe Coding Tools are a BattleMech
Using modern AI coding tools feels like jumping into the cockpit of a BattleMech. My co-worker used...
7th Apr 2026
Using modern AI coding tools feels like jumping into the cockpit of a BattleMech. My co-worker used this analogy recently and I love it. It perfectly sums up the feeling of vibe coding for me. I can move faster, jump higher and it feels like a there is a whole new world of...
James Vaughan's blog
Putting the Casio F-91W band on an Apple Watch
31st Dec 2020
Liz Denys
Bottle glass planter and drip tray, 2024
Algae in pond water / crests and troughs / sea glass
1st Mar 2024
Algae in pond water / crests and troughs / sea glass
SOS
Using Bun.js as a bundler
Bun.js is a new (as of 2023) JavaScript runtime that is still very much in development, with it’s...
17th May 2023
Bun.js is a new (as of 2023) JavaScript runtime that is still very much in development, with it’s primary focus being on extreme speed. I’ve been following it for a while but until today haven’t had a good excuse to use it.
(Edit: There’s some good conversation about this post...
charity.wtf
Why Should You (Or Anyone) Become An Engineering Manager?
The first piece I ever wrote about engineering management, The Engineer/Manager Pendulum, was...
15th Dec 2023
The first piece I ever wrote about engineering management, The Engineer/Manager Pendulum, was written as a love letter to a friend of mine who was unhappy at work. He was an engineering director at a large and fast-growing startup, where he had substantially built out the entire...
Josh Comeau's blog
Introducing “Shadow Palette Generator”
In order to create lush, realistic shadows in CSS, we need to use multiple layers and colors. How do...
16th Nov 2021
In order to create lush, realistic shadows in CSS, we need to use multiple layers and colors. How do we come up with all of the parameters, though? I've built a tool that'll help.
Basta’s Notes
Code reviews
And why they're probably the most important software engineering skill
5th Dec 2025
And why they're probably the most important software engineering skill
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Offline spellcheck
In which I futilely attempt to use aspell to stop using
Google as spellcheck.
I am embarrassingly...
14th Aug 2017
In which I futilely attempt to use aspell to stop using
Google as spellcheck.
I am embarrassingly atrocious at spelling. In Vim, which I use for
email via Mutt, I can use :set spell. In Emacs I can use
flyspell-mode. Browsers all have spellcheck now, seemingly.
Still… sometimes I...
Buttondown's blog
What the hell is a Webmention?
If you're mentioned on the internet and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
1st Aug 2025
If you're mentioned on the internet and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
bunnie's blog
Regarding Proposed US Restrictions on RISC-V
A bipartisan group of 18 lawmakers in the US Congress have recently amplified a request to the White...
6th Nov 2023
A bipartisan group of 18 lawmakers in the US Congress have recently amplified a request to the White House and the Secretary of Commerce to place restrictions on Americans working with RISC-V (see also the initial request from the Senate) in order to prevent China from gaining...
Max Schmitt
How to fix Sanity Error: Uncaught error - Could not resolve jsonType of undefined. No parent type...
Read the post here.
25th Oct 2023
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...
1st May 2024
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...
Eric Migicovsky's...
In-depth: PostHog vs Matomo
PostHog and Matomo are both open-source analytics platforms you can self-host on your own...
1st Jun 2022
PostHog and Matomo are both open-source analytics platforms you can self-host on your own infrastructure, giving you complete control over your data…
bt RSS Feed
Using Parent Selectors in CSS
Using Parent Selectors in CSS
2018-12-19
I recently saw a Twitter thread posted by Tommy Hodgins on...
19th Dec 2018
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...
Greg Brockman
Leaving Stripe
I originally got hooked on programming because I loved the act of creating something from nothing. I...
6th May 2015
I originally got hooked on programming because I loved the act of creating something from nothing. I soon discovered the deep satisfaction of having others actually use my creations. It didn’t take me long to realize I wanted to build a startup.
Startups #
Throughout college, I...
Boot.dev Blog
The 8 Most Popular Coding Languages of 2026
And more importantly, how to choose the most popular coding language you should learn. 🔗
How can...
4th Jan 2021
And more importantly, how to choose the most popular coding language you should learn. 🔗
How can you decide what the most popular coding language is? It’s like trying to pick the most popular ice cream flavor - everyone has a favorite. The truth is that different coders prefer...
These Yaks Ain't...
How to Actually Integrate Angular and Nestjs
I don’t know who needs to hear this. But your frontend and backend systems don’t need to be...
15th Sep 2023
I don’t know who needs to hear this. But your frontend and backend systems don’t need to be completely separate.
I started anew side project recently. You know, one of things that allows me to tinker with new technology but will probably never be finished.
I’m using Angular for...
Nelson's Weblog
APIs for content sites must be free
Social media businesses should not charge* for APIs. If a company
like Reddit or Twitter derives...
14th Jun 2023
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...
Engineer’s Codex
How Pinterest scaled to 11 million users with only 6 engineers
Pinterest's tech stack explained simply (5 minute read)
2nd Oct 2023
Pinterest's tech stack explained simply (5 minute read)
Boot.dev Blog
Singletons in ES6 - The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
Singletons are fairly controversial as far as I can tell, especially in JavaScript programming....
4th Nov 2019
Singletons are fairly controversial as far as I can tell, especially in JavaScript programming. Let’s take a look at what they are, when to (maybe) use them, and when not to.
TokyoDev
The English Paradox: Four Decades of Life and Language in Japan
For more than forty years, I have been trying to understand the role of English in Japan. Over my...
7th Nov 2024
For more than forty years, I have been trying to understand the role of English in Japan. Over my first two decades in this country, I went from one extreme to the other: from seeing English as important here, to regarding it as a niche, inessential aspect of Japanese life.
My...
Eric Migicovsky's...
A software engineer's guide to A/B testing
As a software engineer, you have two options: YOLO every change and hope they have the desired...
13th Jul 2023
As a software engineer, you have two options: YOLO every change and hope they have the desired impact. Track user metrics and run A/B tests to verify…
Lennart Koopmann...
Documentation Belongs in Engineering
Many product companies start out with a very heavy focus on their engineering teams. At some point,...
29th Aug 2023
Many product companies start out with a very heavy focus on their engineering teams. At some point, many companies move the hosting and writing of documentation out of engineering and into a separate part of the company. It could be marketing, it could be customer success. This...
Basta’s Notes
No sacred masterpieces
Or "that time I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it like a week after launch"
15th Sep 2023
Or "that time I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it like a week after launch"
bt RSS Feed
Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator
Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator
2021-10-15
A great deal of my time working as a...
15th Oct 2021
Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator
2021-10-15
A great deal of my time working as a web/UI designer is spent exporting and/or converting images for software products and websites. Although a lot of modern applications can render image conversions at build time, a...
David Gerrells
content slop
AI slop is everywhere. But what even is slop and is AI really to blame?
5th Feb 2025
AI slop is everywhere. But what even is slop and is AI really to blame?
Mahmoud Felfel's...
Abstract Syntax Trees by example
Babel is a very powerful code generator and parser, but the documentation doesn't have many examples...
5th Jan 2021
Babel is a very powerful code generator and parser, but the documentation doesn't have many examples of how to use it for parsing, generating, and manipulating abstract syntax trees, I'm collecting some here from my own usage of it.
HTMHell
#23 A card pattern
Bad code
<article>
<div>
<div class="sr-only">Image</div>
<img src="/feature-teaser.png"...
12th Nov 2020
Bad code
<article>
<div>
<div class="sr-only">Image</div>
<img src="/feature-teaser.png" alt="Feature teaser" />
</div>
</article>
<div>
<span>
<span>Exciting feature!</span>
</span>
<div> This text describes what the feature does! </div>
<a...
Ink & Switch
Ink Note Fall 2023: Informal ink augmentation
Thinking about various ways that drawing environments offer “augmentations”, like cards and arrows,...
1st Jun 2023
Thinking about various ways that drawing environments offer “augmentations”, like cards and arrows, and how we might be able to make these more dynamic.
Eric Migicovsky's...
Array 1.16.0
Following our largest release to date, we are now back on a more regular release schedule. And,...
4th Nov 2020
Following our largest release to date, we are now back on a more regular release schedule. And, given that scalability was the focus of the previous…
A Beautiful Site
Empowering Design System Users
The question of whether or not component APIs should be locked down at the code level comes up quite...
1st Nov 2021
The question of whether or not component APIs should be locked down at the code level comes up quite a bit. For example, if a button spec only calls for primary, secondary, and tertiary variants, should we still expose parts and custom properties so users can make further...
Code Of Honor
Tough times on the road to Starcraft
I’ve been writing about the early development of Warcraft, but a recent blog post I read prompted me...
7th Sep 2012
I’ve been writing about the early development of Warcraft, but a recent blog post I read prompted me to start scribbling furiously, and the result is this three-part, twenty-plus page article about the development of StarCraft, along with my thoughts about writing more reliable...
Jordan Eldredge's...
Grats: A More Pleasant Way to Build TypeScript GraphQL Servers
Bringing Implementation-First GraphQL to TypeScript via a novel static analysis approach.
5th Mar 2024
Bringing Implementation-First GraphQL to TypeScript via a novel static analysis approach.
ntietz.com blog -...
Kill the crunch time heroics
Crunch time has an allure: it feels like if you just push hard enough, you can get more done. You...
2nd Nov 2018
Crunch time has an allure: it feels like if you just push hard enough, you can get more done. You can push hard and get that next release done on time, get those new features out, earn more revenue for your company. Engineers are under immense pressure to deliver more and do it...
A Day In The Life...
Posting on the internet freightens me
Posting on the internet freightens me
16th Apr 2026
Posting on the internet freightens me
Joel Gascoigne
5 things that seem essential that we launched Buffer without
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
*
It’s a long time...
1st Apr 2013
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share]
*
* Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add]
*
It’s a long time ago now, however I still remember it very well. When I first
went about creating the Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_product] for Buffer,...
Buttondown's blog
Cross-post to Bluesky
Cross-post to Bluesky
1st Sep 2024
Neil Panchal
Coming soon
This is Neil Panchal's Blog, a brand new site by Neil Panchal that's just getting started. Things...
25th May 2024
This is Neil Panchal's Blog, a brand new site by Neil Panchal that's just getting started. Things will be up and running here shortly, but you can subscribe in the meantime if you'd like to stay up to date and receive emails when new
MMapped blog
ckBTC internals: event log
1st May 2023
Code Of Honor
Twenty Years of Guild Wars
So many folks have reached out to me to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the launch of Guild Wars...
30th Apr 2025
So many folks have reached out to me to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the launch of Guild Wars on April 28, 2005, that it encouraged me to write this little bitty. I was heartened to see an article about Guild Wars in GameRant, which talked about the server infrastructure...
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